2006

8 Posts, 63 Publications

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Memory and the Virtual World

Dec 25

Commentator Paul Ford tried to create a virtual world in his head. But it didn't work out very well.

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Weekly Review: November 14, 2006

By Paul Ford Nov 13 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , November 14, 2006 Midterm elections were held in the United States; the Republican Party lost its majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Six incumbent Republican senators, including Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, were defeated, and Santorum’s daughter cried.

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Weekly Review: August 15, 2006

By Paul Ford Aug 14 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , August 15, 2006 Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman lost the Democratic Senate primary election to anti- Iraq-war candidate Ned Lamont. Lieberman then announced that he would run as an independent candidate, and that “Team Connecticut” would “surge forward to victory.

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Weekly Review: July 18, 2006

By Paul Ford Jul 17 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , July 18, 2006 War erupted between Hezbollah and Israel after the Lebanese militia launched Operation Truthful Promise against Israel by crossing the border and capturing two Israeli soldiers. The operation was staged in response to Operation Summer Rains, in which Israel occupied Gaza and destroyed a large portion of the civilian infrastructure.

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Weekly Review: May 30, 2006

By Paul Ford May 29 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 30, 2006 In Iraq over 66 people were killed in attacks, including two CBS News employees when their convoy was struck by a car bomb; a CBS correspondent was seriously injured in the same attack. In Baghdad two tennis players and their coach were killed for wearing shorts , and a Marine helicopter was shot down over the Anbar province.

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Weekly Review: May 23, 2006

By Paul Ford May 22 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 23, 2006 Caught in the Web, 1860. The Iraqi Defense Ministry announced that on average one person per hour was being killed in Basra.

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Weekly Review: May 16, 2006

By Paul Ford May 15 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 16, 2006 It was revealed that the National Security Agency , with the assistance of AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth , has secretly stored the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans . “It’s the largest database ever assembled in the world” said an anonymous whistleblower.

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Weekly Review: May 9, 2006

By Paul Ford May 8 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 9, 2006 In Iraq car bombs killed 24 people, BBC News and a British helicopter was shot down over Basra , killing all five crew members. The Guardian In Anbar , at a ceremony for new Iraqi soldiers, the graduates were told that they would be sent outside of their home province to serve, leading several soldiers to tear off their clothes in protest.

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Weekly Review: May 2, 2006

By Paul Ford May 1 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , May 2, 2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq , released a video in which he showed his face and claimed that the Bush Administration had lied about its military victories. “America,” said Zarqawi, “will go out of Iraq, humiliated, defeated.

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Weekly Review: April 25, 2006

By Paul Ford Apr 24 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 25, 2006 Under the presumed influence of White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, who collects photographs of President George W. Bush’s hands, Karl Rove was relieved of his position as presidential policy adviser in order that he might focus his energies on the November midterm elections, and White House press secretary Scott McClellan resigned.

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Weekly Review: April 18, 2006

By Paul Ford Apr 17 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 18, 2006 Caught in the Web, 1860. Iran announced that it had successfully produced low-grade enriched uranium ; to celebrate, men in traditional dress danced with uranium samples.

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Lung

By Paul Ford Apr 16

As I began to walk down the stairs at the Brooklyn Union St. subway platform I felt the rush of air that comes when an express train hurries past on the inner platform.

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Weekly Review: April 11, 2006

By Paul Ford Apr 10 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , April 11, 2006 A Christian martyr. A car bomb killed 10 people at a Shiite shrine in Najaf, Iraq , and a suicide bombing killed 85 people at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.

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Weekly Review: March 28, 2006

By Paul Ford Mar 27 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 28, 2006 Thirty beheaded corpses were found in Baquba, Iraq , and 10 more bodies were found in Baghdad, where the homicide rate had reached 33 per day. Shiites were abducting Sunnis in bright daylight on crowded streets.

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Weekly Review: March 21, 2006

By Paul Ford Mar 20 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , March 21, 2006 Eighty-six corpses–most shot, some strangled–were found around Baghdad over a 30-hour period. CNN “We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more,” said Iyad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq .

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Weekly Review: February 21, 2006

By Paul Ford Feb 20 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , February 21, 2006 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called for the United States to increase its propaganda efforts in the Middle East, BBC News as riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world. In Nigeria 16 people were killed in rioting and 11 churches were burned; in Libya at least 10 people were killed; and in Pakistan at least 5 people were killed.

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Weekly Review: February 14, 2006

By Paul Ford Feb 13 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , February 14, 2006 A Christian martyr. Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India , Indonesia , Kashmir , Palestine , Thailand , the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan â??

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Weekly Review: January 31, 2006

By Paul Ford Jan 30 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 31, 2006 The Conservative Party won a plurality of seats in Canada’s federal election , making Stephen Harper Canada’s next prime minister. CBC.

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Weekly Review: January 24, 2006

By Paul Ford Jan 23 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 24, 2006 In Iraq 30 people were killed at makeshift checkpoints, 22 people died in suicide bombings, 9 people were killed in an ambush, 5 bodies were found in the Qaid River, 4 children were killed by rocket-propelled grenades, and 2 American civilians were killed in a roadside bombing. Suicide bombings killed at least 22 people in Afghanistan and injured 30 people in Tel Aviv .

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Privacy in Cyberspace: Is It Possible?

By Paul Ford Jan 19

Commentator Paul Ford is a computer programmer who has spent a lot of time looking at the ways to keep personal information private on the Internet. He says that privacy is technically possible -- but not very likely.

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Weekly Review: January 17, 2006

By Paul Ford Jan 16 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 17, 2006 Runaway Raft on the Tigris. In Baghdad at least 28 people were killed when two suicide bombers attacked the Interior Ministry.

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Weekly Review: January 10, 2006

By Paul Ford Jan 9 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 10, 2006 More than 170 people died in attacks in Iraq . They were: blown up at a Shiite shrine in Karbala; killed at a police recruiting center in Ramadi; and attacked with mortar, automatic weapons, and finally by a suicide bomber at a funeral near Baquba.

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The Truth About JT Leroy

By Paul Ford Jan 8

JT LeRoy has been a publishing sensation since his first novel came out in 2000. His stories are described as being autobiographical -- which may be a problem as it becomes clearer that LeRoy is a hoax.

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Weekly Review: January 3, 2006

By Paul Ford Jan 2 Weekly Review

[Weekly Review] Weekly Review Adjust by Paul Ford , January 3, 2006 Seven people died in a suicide car bombing in Iraq , The Guardian and a Norfolk, Virginia , man changed his name to Kentucky Fried Cruelty. com .