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| Live Apple updates from Stuff website.
CNBC just reported new iMac and Video iPods (official announcement)
EDIT: Here is a repost from macrumors.com
Apple's managed to block most of the Mac web from updating live. We tip a hat to Apple for finding a
location without cellphone or wireless access. Here's information gathered thus far.
New iMac, new Video iPod, new Apps.
- iMac: faster, larger disk, built in iSight. Includes FrontRow (app)
- iPod: 30GB/60GB with Video - realtime decoding of MPEG4 and H.264. 260,000 colors. Video out.
- FrontRow and PhotoBooth Apps.
- 30GB iPod: $299 - 31% thinner than current 20GB;
- 60GB iPod: $399.
- New iPods avail next week. Comes with case
- iMac: $1299 for 17" model with 1.5GHz, $1799 for 20" model with 2.1GHz
- iTunes 6 to be released
- Front Row - comes with new iMacs. Lets you enjoy video/music/pictures from sofa. Everything still
displayed on iMac screen. iPod-like remote. 6 button remote.
- Photobooth - appears to be slide show application.
- Music Videos. 2000 available to buy. $1.99 each.
- Can "gift" music to other people. Peer reviews and recommendation service.
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| Aborting All Black Babies OK If It Lowers Crime Rate?
Absolutely unbelievable. Former Education Secretary
William Bennett (R) under the Reagan and Drug Czar under the Bush
Administration made the comment that aborting "every black baby in this
country" would reduce the crime rate. Republicans who are the
so-called champions of the "right-to-life" have been slow to denounce
the comments of Bennett. I guess the Republicans think that
aborting a whole race of babies is OK as long as they are not white
babies. (Can you say "Genocide"?) Bennett himself stood by
his comments and remains unapologetic.
Read more:
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| Back in Eugene
I hate jet lag. I just got back from a week-long trip to
Hong Kong to visit some family on my dad's side. My internal
clock is totally messed up. It is 2:35 AM here, but I'm still on
Hong Kong time. I'll blog some more later...gonna try to get some
sleep.
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| "Looting" or "Finding"?
I can't seem to drag myself away from the gut-wrenching images
on the cable news channels of helpless people fighting for their
lives. Flipping through newschannels last night I even watched
some Faux News Channel. The O'Reilly Factor was on and good 'ol
Bill was going off about those criminal black people looting and
plundering poor Wal-Mart. Fucking neo-conservatives care more
about goods that will never be sold than people who are starving,
dehydrated, desparate, and have lost almost everything. Must be
that compassionate conservatism they keep talking about. I bet
they expect people to line up at their flooded local grocery store in
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middle of New Orleans and wait for it to open. Hmmm...wonder when
they're gonna open? Who's working today?
Zero tolerance is
the official Bush Administration line for "looting"...does that mean shoot the poor black guy trying to get water and diapers for his family?
Also what is interesting is the news media keep showing footage of
suffering black people and comment that it looks like a third world
country...they show white people as people who have lost their homes
and intercut it with footage of wreckage with an American flag.
Hmmmm...I wonder what they are trying to say? I also noticed that
the footage shown on the news depicts relief efforts focused on areas
where white people live and there are close to no footage of help for
black people. Makes me fucking angry and depressed. I guess
Amerikkka has shown its true colors.
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/01/photo_controversy/print.html
"Looting" or "finding"?
Bloggers are outraged over the different captions on photos of blacks and whites in New Orleans.
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By Aaron Kinney
Sept. 1, 2005 | Two photographs of New Orleans
residents wading through chest-deep water unleashed a wave of chatter
among bloggers Wednesday about whether black people are being treated
unfairly in media coverage of post-hurricane looting.
One of the images, shot by photographer Dave Martin for the Associated
Press, shows a young black man wading through chest-deep waters after
"looting" a grocery store, according to the caption. The young man
appears to have a case of Pepsi under one arm and a full garbage bag in
tow. In the other, similar shot, taken by photographer Chris Graythen
for AFP/Getty Images, a white man and a light-skinned woman are shown
wading through chest-deep water after "finding" goods including bread
and soda, according to the caption, in a local grocery store.
The images were both published on Tuesday by Yahoo News. "We don't edit
photo captions," Yahoo P.R. manager Brian Nelson told Salon. "Sometimes
we take a look at the photos and we'll choose to pull photos, but the
captions run as is." A search of AP and Getty's image databases
confirms that Yahoo News did not alter either of the photo captions
before posting them online.
Looting has become a serious problem in the aftermath of Katrina,
and conditions in the area continue to be extremely challenging for
everyone, journalists included. Bloggers were quick to raise
allegations of insensitivity and racism regarding the disparity in the
two captions -- but did they pass judgment too quickly? Not only did
the photos come from separate outlets, bloggers had no knowledge of the
circumstances in which the shots were taken, beyond what appeared in
the published captions.
On Wednesday, D.C. Web gossip Wonkette suggested the Associated Press
should apologize, while a blogger at Daily Kos commented alongside the
juxtaposed images, "And don't forget. It's not looting if you're white."
"I am curious how one photographer knew the food was looted by one but
not the other," wrote Boston Globe correspondent Christina Pazzanese,
in a letter posted on media commentator Jim Romenesko's blog. "Were
interviews conducted as they swam by? Should editors, in a rush to
publish poignant or startling images, relax their standards or allow
personal or regional biases creep into captions and stories?"
The AP database includes two other images from the same scene by
photographer Dave Martin that refer to looters in the captions, though
neither actually shows an explicit act of looting. Jack Stokes, AP's
director of media relations, confirmed today that Martin says he
witnessed the people in his images looting a grocery store. "He saw the
person go into the shop and take the goods," Stokes said, "and that's
why he wrote 'looting' in the caption."
Santiago Lyon, AP's director of photography, told Salon that all
captions are vetted by editors and are the result of a dialogue between
editor and photographer. Lyon said AP's policy is that each
photographer can describe only what he or she actually sees. He added,
"When we see people go into businesses and come out with goods, we call
it 'looting.'" On the other hand, he said, "When we just see them
carrying things down the road, we call it 'carrying items.'"
Regarding the AFP/Getty "finding" photo by Graythen, Getty
spokeswoman Bridget Russel said, "This is obviously a big tragedy down
there, so we're being careful with how we credit these photos." Russel
said that Graythen had discussed the image in question with his editor
and that if Graythen didn't witness the two people in the image in the
act of looting, then he couldn't say they were looting.
But if he didn't witness an act of looting, how did Graythen determine
where the items came from, or if they were "found"? "I wish I could
tell you," Russel said. "I haven't been able to talk to Chris."
"The only thing I can tell you is they don't assume one way or another," she added.
Yahoo News published another photo Tuesday of a looting scene
that caught bloggers' attention. This one, by AP photographer Bill
Feig, shows a white man walking away from a looted convenience store,
looking in a grocery bag, while a black man jumps out of the store's
broken front window. The caption reads, "As one person looks through
their shopping bag, left, another jumps through a broken window, while
leaving a convenience store ... in Metairie, La." According to the
caption, Feig shot the image while on a helicopter tour of Louisiana
with Gov. Kathleen Blanco.
"I think it's fair to say that he described what he saw ... which is
somebody going through their bag," Stokes said, affirming that Feig
must not have seen the man with the grocery bag actually leaving the
looted store.
Both Stokes and Russel said their photographers would be unable
to comment further on the images for now, because of the chaos and poor
communications conditions prevailing in New Orleans and the surrounding
region.
The stakes remain high in the aftermath of this disaster, says
Pazzanese. "Seems to me the national 'crisis mode' coverage of Katrina
in a predominantly black, poor part of the country presents a number of
professional challenges for everyone in the media around the subject of
racial and economic sensitivity," she wrote on Romenesko. "Perhaps
these photos will stimulate a media 'gut check' as we race to tell the
stories of the thousands who lost their lives and livelihoods."
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About the writer
Aaron Kinney is an editorial fellow at Salon. | | |
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