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June 15, 2006

Dixie Chicks London gig webcast tonight; Real old trucks; World radio stations portal; Netscape recast as mishmash; Reporting from Guantanamo

The Dixie Chicks play London again tonight -- where the whole flap started -- and the show will be webcast live on a MSN Dixie Chicks site at 7 p.m.

Thuckster???

1913 Ford Model T Thuckster
John's PICKUP TRUCKS: Pictures from 1910 to 1973

Thuckster? That's a combination of "truck" and what?

Radio Gambia is missing: Live radio.net is a UK site that hosts thousands of radio stations from around the world -- no streaming playlists, just real, live stations. Windows Media, Real and MP3.

If you're still using IE, note this from the FAQ:

Question: Why does Internet Explorer show "This page cannot be displayed" when I click on some of the "Live Feed" links?
Answer:
This is a problem with Internet Explorer -- to solve it go to Tools -> Internet Options, click on the Advanced tab, and then un-check (remove the tick from beside) "Show friendly HTTP error messages".

Remember Netscape? Owner AOL has launched it as a news portal (beta) that's more like Digg than Google News. (Obscure stories rise on Digg as a result of prominently displayed "number of votes" by readers.) But while Digg is currently telling us Why breeding White Tigers is wrong (With PICS) and that Scientists Produce Flatulence-Free Beans, Netscape's serving up Paris Hilton, David Hasselhoff and Coverage of Us. The second lead story is a video of Matt Lauer's confrontation with Ann Coulter eight days ago.

This hodgepodge is a bizarre "Web 2.0" demo, unfortunately, and confusing to boot, as what's leading changes as you're reading it. There are also tabs, a cool "beta.netscape.com" URL and a "cloud" of tags (the bigger the type, the more popular the topic). Maybe this is what happens when you hire a programmer but no bloggers.

Somewhere, original Netscape wunderkind Marc Andreesen must be shaking his head.

No way to hide: Military probes release of Guantanamo info: The Charlotte Observer had the only reporter at Guantanamo when the three detainees committed suicide Saturday. He was there to profile the jail's commander, Col. Mike Bumgarner of Kings Mountain, N.C., but his topic quickly changed to the hangings, and other reporters joined him there.

The headline link above is the latest from the Observer. Yesterday's story, Two journalists ordered to leave Guantanamo Bay, includes links to Michael Gordon's original reports, and details the aftermath.

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Comments

Thanks for a great tip on the Dixie Chicks! One of the songs that hasn't been getting a great deal of attention as there's nothing incendiary about it is "Silent House." The song is about losing your mother to Alzheimer's and it is a heartbreaker but it's not whiny-style country at all. It's a singularly beautiful song.

Posted by: Alan Fraser on June 15, 2006 2:48 PM

Gambia is on the air you used the wrong service, try www.comfm.fr. It's got webcams, TV and radio. Another good backup is Penguin Radio which pings the streaming sites and has a quality of service metric runnning.

And I like my lobsters freshly killed..won't be shopping at Fresh Fields...

Posted by: lou josephs on June 16, 2006 4:19 PM