Arrrrrrrgggg!

Monday is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. I'm verrrry excited. Arrrg.
Visit www.talklikeapirate.com for more details.

Hit the Brass

On Saturday, September 10th, the Horse Brass will have beers from 6 breweries, and *all*, that is 100% of the proceeds will be given to the Katrina Relief Fund.

The beers are from kegs generously donated from the following breweries: Alameda, Deschutes, Caldera, Hair of the Dog, Rogue, Laurelwood and New Old Lompoc.

The Horse Brass is on 45th and Southeast Belmont.

Mental health study 'largest yet'

The largest ever study into the mental health of Northern Ireland is to be carried out by University of Ulster researchers. The survey is part of a global initiative launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Twenty-seven countries around the world are taking part.

NBA Players Hurricane Relief Game

Players scheduled to appear include NBA All-Stars LeBron James, Amare Stoudemire, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Garnett, Stephon Marbury, Jermaine O'Neal...and others. Each player will participate in the game, as well donate funds/supplies to aid hurricane victims.
The game airs Sunday at 8PM PST on TNT.

"Whats that you got there?"

Apple's Steve Jobs calls the new iPod nano "an entirely new ground-up design, that also has 1000 songs in your pocket." The white device features a color display and can support photos, uses a grey click wheel to navigate, and is 80 percent smaller in volume than the original iPod -- thinner than a number two pencil, said Jobs. The iPod nano weighs 1.5 ounces or 42 grams.

It features a 14-hour rechargeable battery. The iPod nano also features a new graphical clock, games, stopwatch and lap timer, and a screen lock that uses the click wheel like a combination lock.

Compared to the iPod mini, the iPod nano is half the thickness and 62 percent smaller by volume.

"White is our signature color for the iPod ... but we decided to so a second color, and we tried it because it looked so cool," said Jobs, "so we're doing a black model as well." Read more...

Piecing together the story of the weapons that weren't

A remarkable article from Charles J. Hanley, AP Special Correspondent, illustrates a clear timeline of the road to the Iraq War, and what UN inspector Hans Blix called Washington's "virtual reality".

Photo: AP Research

Open letter from Michael Moore to Bush

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with? Read on...