Another Blogjam is up at SMH. Between Blogjam and a course, poor Barista is waiting for my care. Any suggestions on good sites to understand the Israel Palestine conflict? Just add a comment. And thanks to those people to contributed small treasures for last week. I think I have put them all on Blogjam.

Portland, Oregan.
Blind and 71 years old, “Eunice was uncooperative. Worried a city employee was hauling away a family heirloom, a 90-year-old red toy wagon, she had the nerve to feel her way toward the trailer in which her yard debris was being tossed.
Enter the police. Eunice, who is hard of hearing, ignored the [...]

Speaking of censorship – Kick and Scream has discovered that the official L-Word site, run as a commercial venture by Showtime, does not allow entry from outside the United States. Neither does any other subsite run by Showtime.
Why? That really bothers me. The free exchange of ideas. The borderless internet.
“We at Showtime Online [...]

Blogger on a Cast Iron Balcony has posted about the seabed boundary between Australia and East Timor.
Armadillo Ken Parish puts a similar position, and provides the technical detail, particularly on the Howard government’s “diplomatic hardball”.
Our position on this enrages me personally for two reasons. We badly need East Timor to be stable, autonomous [...]

CHUD.com is a U.S. oriented film review and comment site with a bit of taste. They have found a “Hundred Movies that Deserve More Love” – a compendium of sleepers that never really woke from the living sludge of distributor indifference, pure bad luck, and straight to video deals.
Watching all of them is probably better [...]

Google doesn’t censor, right? Position is based entirely on the number of links. This means that the infamous Jew Watch site (note the lack of link) could be displaced from top spot on the “jew” searchpage for google in favour of Wikipedia, as per the concerted campaign.
The fact that Google uses a purely automated system [...]

Over this Anzac weekend, if you just feel the urge for some uplifting images, a spot of pride perhaps, a quickening of the heart as some patriot speaks of glory and sacrifice, if you should just feel for one single second that this whole thing makes us special –
read this. I know we [...]

It is done. The beast Blogjam is up on SMH. I’ve asked for this:
“small treasures. Use the comments at Barista to tell me those exquisite blogs that seem to be ignored.. you all know some.” This is the place.
UPDATE: The next one will read less like a community newspaper. Barista will be quiet until [...]

Eek. Tim Dunlop has made it official. I am acting as his thick twin for the next four weeks and doing Blogjam. Having started this blog because I can say exactly what I want, I now find myself worrying about fairness and justice and being sensible…
Anyway, I am putting together the first one as [...]

Lcpl Boudreaux has been in trouble ever since his photograph appeared all over the internet, with two Iraqi children holding a sign which says he “killed my Dad then he Knocked up my Sister”.
It is a serious propaganda coup for the anti-US side, such as Islam Online. But is it a hoax?
Learned photoshoppers duelled politely [...]