Alas:
See also: “McCain’s modest proposal.”
(salmon)
Daily Archives: 09-03-30
Chechenspace
under digital, international, military, network, security
Myspace page attributed to recently assassinated Chechen strongman Sulim Yamadayev, with six friends, comments going back to 31 Jul ’07 (most from “♥your angel ♥,” pictured above) and misc pix. The “about me” section:
My name is Sulim Yamadayev, i am from Gudermes and i belong the most powerful family in Chechnya.
I command the batalion “Vostok” with my 2000 men and our work is to kill mudjahids, wahabis and sheitans and to keep peace in Chechnya, we do our work very well!
I allready killed more than hundred men during the two wars in Chechnya and i personnaly killed mother fucker Abu Walid.
My brother Ruslan is deputy and one of my other brother Dzhabrail was killed, i will take my revenge upon his killer
My dream was to kill Basayev but he died before i got him, but i have one antoher dream, to kill the bastard Ramzan Kadyrov
Mr Sam T. Stewart (of Johnson City, TN; motto, “All Haters Report To The Ubliet !!!!”) commented on 12 Oct ’07:
Третье Поколение Гангстер Americian, Начните Вливание Новых Кадетов, поскольку главная цель Семьи защищают из моей российской Принцессы Мафии. Они должны хорошо обучаться прежде, чем она прибывает. Vlad должен помочь облегчать и отвечать на любой вопрос на этом местоположении.
Google translates this as:
The third generation gangster Americian, start pouring new cadets, because the main purpose of the Families defend my Russian Mafia Princess. They should be well trained before she arrives. Vlad should help facilitate and respond to any issue at this location.
The Paper of 404
The NYT unfurled a new banner: “Welcome to the new Global Edition of NYTimes.com. Learn More | Switch to U.S. Edition”—and, in the process, broke countless links accumulated over the last many years. The IHT’s publisher, Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, noted without a hint of irony: “I do hope you will enjoy exploring all that the new Global Edition has to offer.” As AT&T put it: You will—by spending countless hours performing necromantic rituals on dead links.
As we asked, when the NYT initially gave a Gmail address in soliciting images of the splash-landing in the Hudson, then later added an email address at nyt.com: “Since when does nyt.com redirect to nytimes.com?” syskill commented:
My guess is the Metro Desk editors asked, “Hey, can our mail system handle thousands of image files from thousands of senders over a few minutes?” And the IT department *RESPONDED*, “Hell no! Use Gmail for that.”
Another desk—one not slated for destruction within a few months—might have gotten a different response. The NYObserver reports (30 Mar ’09) that
[t]he New York Times plans to eliminate several weekly sections, including its stand-alone City Section, newsroom sources have told The Observer. There are also discussions to eliminate the regional weeklies in New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester and Connecticut, and the Friday Escapes section as well, a source said. The timeline is unclear for now, but another newsroom staffer told us that City has only four issues left.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the NYT’s real-estate coverage as the “paper” tries to go global.
See also: “Whiter shade of gray.”