The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he said, should be solved by the creation of a single state, which Mr. Qaddafi called Isratine, but Mr. Qaddafi stressed it was wrong to infer that Arabs hate the Jews. “You are the ones who burned them, not us. You expelled them,” he said, referring apparently to European nations. —“Qaddafi Delivers a Rambling Diatribe,” Sharon Otterman, the New York Times
New York Times focuses on mayor’s eating habits, barely hinting at his sham “campaign”;
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Muslims love Chuck E. Cheese;
horrifying photos of German food
Among the data in its archive, the NSAC houses more than 55,000 entries on customers of the Cendant Hotel chain, now known as Wyndham Worldwide, which includes Ramada Inn, Days Inn, Super 8, Howard Johnson and Hawthorn Suites. The entries are for hotel customers whose names matched those on a long list the FBI provided to the company. —“Newly Declassified Files Detail Massive FBI Data-Mining Project,” Ryan Singel, Wired
Tomorrow: Nat’l Punct. Day;
Marilyn Manson has swine flu; insists it’s not from “fucking a pig”;
awkward moments with a mermaid
ACL: Did you ever see any other company archivists for businesses like Levi’s? I’m sure there has to be a formal organization, but are you friends with someone like the Coca-Cola archivist or people like that?
LD: Oh yeah, The Society of American Archivists. One of my very good friends is a gentleman named Bob Chandler and he is the historian for Wells Fargo bank in San Francisco. Wells Fargo was founded a year before Levi’s and he has been there for thirty years. I also know the Disney archivist, know the Coca-Cola archivist, there are a lot of business archives in the United States. However, our collection is the only clothing company that is out there. I know that there are a lot of Brooks Brothers materials out there — Brooks Brothers dates back to 1818 — I don’t know if they have formal archives but I think they did at one point. —“Levi Strauss & Co. Part II,” interview with Levi Strauss archivist Lynn Downey, A Continuous Lean. (via)
