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  • Book Fair & more (5#) -

    Florida Book Review's live blogging compilation page
    of the Miami Book Fair 2009, including the panel on
    Urban Noir, which was the main focus of my interest:

    -- Almost halfway down the page at the Sunday, Nov. 15, 12: 28 PM timestamp, the Urban Noir material begins with Jamie [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:35am EST

  • SoFlo: Buzzing & Biting (3#) -

    Cigar Buddies, The Dead Lady Lawyer &
    Something Gonna Bite You in the Butt . . .

    Sigmund Freud once said:
    "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

    True enough, but sometimes
    it isn't; and some folks live for that stuff.

    Sports columnist Dave Hyde shares his' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:43am EST

  • Mez: Dark Contingency (5#) -

    Meredith Kercher Case -

    Rudy Guede has begun his appeal. Summations which will include the other two defendants, Knox and Sollecito, will begin Friday. This is the first time Guede has shared his story on the public record.

    "there's a black man in the house" ::bbc::
    [rather [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:09pm EST

  • Fanciful News Alleged -

    Too Much Pistachio in Their Rose Water ?

    OFCOM is reportedly investigating Press TV, an overseas apparatus of Iran's current regime, which is based in an enchanted neighborhood of London, due to carping criticisms and finicky nitpicking by the British public about the channel "breaching accuracy and impartiality guidelines."
    [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:54am EST

  • SoFlo: Press Clips (5#) -

    True Crime & Samizdat . . .

    An Intriguing Swap: A crime reporter from London is exchanging crime beats with a crime reporter from Baltimore, home of the hit TV show The Wire, according to reporter Dominic Ponsford.

    In Cuban Samizdat this weekend, The Miami Herald [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:43am EST

  • SoFlo: When You Become Option Three (2#) -

    Scott Rothstein Case -

    A careful study of Special Agent Gillies' remarks at his press conference seems to suggest that there may have been some money laundering involved in this situation. That may not be what Gillies intended to imply; but that is what I have inferred, and it' [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:07pm EST

  • SoFlo: Nothing Left But The Sizzle (5#) -

    Scott Rothstein Case -

    The story that people here are buzzing about; but his law firm PA was shuttled into terminal Chapter 11 today.

    The gossip currently circulating is about the Morocco connection. A new resort opened there called Mazagan, and speculation is rife that was Rothstein's' [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:12pm EST

  • Iran: Net Control Squeeze (3#) -

    Recent Iranian state security agency message
    sent out in email to ISP internet providers in Iran:

    "Dear operator, you are currently operating illegally and against national interest in cyberspace and should you continue these activities you will be determined a criminal according to computer criminal laws and you will" [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:11am EST

  • Havana's Cyber Sea Wall -

    Ted Henken, a professor at Baruch College is engaged in an academic study of the Cuban Blogosphere's development and its potential social implications, according to a Tuesday article in The Miami Herald written by Juan O Tamayo.

    No link to the article here because the newspaper's management now requires [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:07am EST

  • Face Off in Tokyo -

    The Captured Creature . . .

    Japanese police have arrested the long-fugitive suspect, Tatsuya Ichihashi, in the murder of British language teacher Linsday Hawker whose naked body was found in a bathtub filled with sand two years ago.

    In the interim, he has undergone extensive cosmetic surgery to [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:03am EST

  • Champions For Chumps? -

    Are our local mainstream metro-regional newspapers really the defenders of Democracy and the only things that stand between us and Dictatorship?

    Or . . . are they:

    "threats to democracy, championing the overdog, misrepresenting democratic choices, defending business, the police and local elites from those who seek to" [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:46pm EST

  • SoFlo: Beaming Her Up -

    Scott Rothstein Case -

    COO Debra Villegas has been named in a lawsuit brought by William Scherer of Conrad & Scherer on behalf of client D3 Capital Club investors, alleging that she has been engaged in the scurrilous transfer of real estate properties for the purpose of shielding them [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:10am EST

  • The Destiny of 9 November (4#) -

    Feeling torn between the broken glass and
    the broken wall? You shouldn't have to . . .

    Another file for the Life Can Be Complicated folder -

    One can't help feeling appalled at the success this project has enjoyed: the replacement of a somber day of solemn commemoration [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:11pm EST

  • Bookish: Killing Our Stories? (9#) -

    Ben Macintyre tells us
    that the internet is killing storytelling.

    A provocative and worthwhile
    essay at the UK Times from Nov 5th.

    "The internet... does not really 'do' narrative."

    :: This link is iffy; or try this alternate.

    ******************************************
    # In an excerpt from [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:21am EST

  • SoFlo: The Maybe Hustle (3#) -

    Scott Rothstein & Alias "Regret" . . .

    The colorful lawyer who dressed in Damon Runyonesque style and talked like he thought of himself as a comic book character has been in seclusion and out of the public eye since he returned to Florida. Meanwhile, the TD Bank [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:26pm EST

  • Discovering Cuba -

    Our Neighbor, Yoani Sanchez . . .

    Word comes in today via our local 6-degrees community network that Cuban state security agents yesterday attempted to forcibly abduct our neighbor across the straits, Blogger Yoani Sanchez; and that when they couldn't push her into their vehicle, they beat her up.[...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:56pm EST

  • SoFlo: Rothstein Case Goes Noir (2#) -

    The bank that held the supposedly missing millions says they intend to cooperate with authorities who are investigating the matter. The lawyer, Scott Rothstein, was operating an investment business on the side. TD Bank maintained the account for it, according to a report at the Sentinel.

    There's also' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:10am EST

  • SoFlo: Law Firm Upheaval -

    A prominent law firm in Fort Lauderdale has been the subject of many rumors, allegations, and speculations since the beginning of this week while the senior partner has been out of town.

    The law firm entity has now divorced the senior partner who supposedly returned today from Casablanca, Morocco.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:49pm EST

  • Vanity Cult Magazine -

    Neal Ungerleider reports that
    the Al Qaeda Cult is publishing magazines:

    "Issue 11 of Sada al-Malahim... a dense little bastard of a magazine, clocking in at 73 pages of text, graphics and basic-Pagemaker design."

    He seems surprised, but the cult also produces videos and a variety of cult [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:40pm EST

  • Iran: Mind Swap -

    And only Atlas could perform such a feat . . .

    Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is planning to take control over all media, communications and information coming out of Iran. They expect to produce their own Alt-Universe version of News in the future.

    By spring, they intend to' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:31pm EST

  • Around The Net (4#) -

    Arab Bloggers from 19 countries
    are getting ready for a meetup in December.

    # Phantom town appearing on
    Google Maps and an explanation of sorts.

    # Megan Garber gives us the latest rundown on
    the WaPo Pundit Contest: it's in the Finalists phase.

    #' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:46pm EST

  • Mez: Two Years On (4#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    It's been two years since Meredith Kercher, a young university exchange student from south Metropolitan London, was savagely murdered in Perugia, Italy. And her family is hoping the case will come to an end soon.

    The trial often seemed to progress in a' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:43pm EST

  • Elusive Ghost Story (2#) -

    Remember the song Stella by Starlight ?

    Over the weekend, evidently, many people were disappointed to discover that they couldn't get a DVD version of the movie The Uninvited (1944) for Halloween.

    The movie is a classic ghost story and a real gem. Consequently, they are campaigning' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 3:08pm EST

  • SoFlo: Bookish Notes (4#) -

    It was a dark and stormy night . . .

    Got a juicy story or a cracking good yarn?

    All you need is a writing implement in good condition and the seat of your pants applied to the seat of your chair in front of it, because it's' [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 5:23pm EST

  • SoFlo: Peddling Phony Solutions -

    The Herald's Voodoo Employment Program . . .

    With an air of smarmy self-righteous arrogance, a Miami Herald columnist urges us to grant Haitians special permits to get jobs here, and if we don't, maligns us as racists.

    Florida is currently experiencing a grim economic downturn. Thousands of [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 11:41pm EDT

  • Mez: Doorstep Services -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    What are we to make of Rudy Guede
    and the story he tells? Is his story credible?

    According to Rudy Guede, he became intimate with Meredith and then went to the bathroom. But, I have my doubts about this order of events. [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:44am EDT

  • LOOSE LINKS (4#) -

    In a somewhat lengthy article, Omar, son of cult leader Osama bin Laden, describes how he grew up. He and his mother Najwa have written a book with the help of writer Jean Sasson, which will debut November 12th in the UK.

    # John le Carre has left [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 2:23am EDT

  • Iran: Still Roiling (3#) -

    Hostilities erupted between regime supporters
    and reform movement supporters during a
    News Media Expo in Tehran, WaPo reports.

    :: Leaked: gag order for November 4th [irnn]

    I tried to post the above entry last night, but . . .
    Blogger was performing strangely, so I had [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 2:08pm EDT

  • The Virtual Gary Problem -

    Iranian officials created a CGI-enhanced cartoon character version of Middle East Professor Gary Sick and cast the character in a sinister light.

    "The Gulf/2000 network is an Internet project that began 16 years ago to facilitate communication and information sharing... And it is not engaged in overthrowing governments."

    [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:31pm EDT

  • Bookish: Strange Environments (4#) -

    Florida Post-Modern, Scandinavian
    Detectives, A Fabulist's NYC, and BoucherCon . . .

    More Than Wallander: Zack O'Yeah drop in to the Swedish Book Fair in Gothenburg for a look around and discovers that Mystery novels have become almost a cottage industry there.

    # An interview' [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 8:49pm EDT

  • Cheshire Book Controversy (3#) -

    The book makes it worse?

    Some residents of Cheshire, Conn. want to banish
    a book from their town's public library which is
    about a murder that took place there.

    Why would residents want to do that?

    One of the rationalizations being used is that they want to [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 3:36pm EDT

  • Toxic Comment Clusters (2#) -

    Why are they found
    at one location, but not at others?

    Prof Greenslade devotes his column at the Standard this time to the topic of Freedom of Speech. It's unusual in that most articles on this topic which are published by the MSM are written by lawyers.

    [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 5:18pm EDT

  • SoFlo: Snow Bubbles Spiked (5#) -

    And Other Rambles in the New World . . .

    A cocaine kingpin was sentenced today in Miami Federal Court to 45 years in prison. He came from a wealthy family which owned successful coffee farming, cattle raising and bus line businesses in Columbia and helped inflate the cocaine-fueled [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 6:49pm EDT

  • Mez: Sonnenrad (2#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Charles Mudede has posted a commentary on the Slog pointing to the sun wheel tattoo on Amanda Knox's back pictured in the same First Post article by Tim Edwards I referred to in my previous entry earlier today. In the course of Mudede's informal [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 7:16pm EDT

  • Mez: Flying A Loose Noose -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    An American lawyer has been making
    frothy assertions about the case in the
    British Internet magazine The First Post.

    Normally, I understand, it is illegal for the Press in Britain to cover a trial in progress, but because this prosecution is being conducted [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 12:33pm EDT

  • Iran: City Scholar Condemned (3#) -

    Iranian-American academic Kian Tajbakhsh has been sentenced to "more than 12 years" in prison, according to his lawyer, Houshang Azhari. He holds a doctorate in Urban Planning from Columbia University.

    :: Reuters :: - - - :: Bloomberg ::

    A controversial pro-democracy program for
    Iran has [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 11:53am EDT

  • Weekend Snags (5#) -

    Some Bloggers these days write from Closed Societies; they are now beginning to get recognition and even honors from the Mainstream Media . . .

    Istanbul: Iranian journalist Delbar Tavakoli accepted the 2009 Mohamed Amin Award from Reuters Friday on behalf of Iranian Bloggers for their efforts to cover [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 8:53pm EDT

  • Iran & Hoder Updates (4#) -

    General Nur-Ali Shushtari, the deputy commander of the Iran Revolutionary Guards, and several senior officers were killed in an attack early Sunday in the south eastern region of the country.

    # Newsweek report Maziar Bahari
    has been released from prison after posting bail.

    # Hoder: "Blogger" [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 6:10am EDT

  • Skewed Spectacles (3#) -

    In a TV saga reminiscent of the OJ Simpson white SUV slow-speed chase, American TV obsessively followed a flying saucer balloon yesterday, which displaced other news. This type of spectacle is an increasingly frequent occurrence here, but is finally beginning to come under some criticism.

    # The untimely [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 3:24pm EDT

  • AFPK: New Phase Expected Soon (6#) -

    The Pakistani Army has been gathering a very large number of forces around South Waziristan in order to flush out militants, Al Qaeda cultists, assorted terrorists and their allies from the Pakistani tribal areas. Meanwhile, there's a lot of Trash Talkin' going on . . .

    :: What awaits[...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 10:54pm EDT

  • Writing: Brief Notes (3#) -

    It's that time of year again . . .

    Frankfurt Book Fair Opens:

    :: Spiegel - Good feature article:
    -- By Wolfgang Höbel and Andreas Lorenz --

    :: LIS News :: brief intro ::

    # New from Doha: Al Jazeera Blogs
    from its [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 9:33pm EDT

  • Hopping The Pond (6#) -

    Britain is facing a "winter of discontent"
    with strikes looming at the Royal Mail and
    at British Airways, which can impact SoFlo.

    # The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is back with Eoin Colfer's sequel, And Another Thing. I expect it will be a delightful stocking-stuffer for [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 6:53pm EDT

  • Bookish & Around The Bend (6#) -

    As we near Halloween,
    the weirdness quotient seems to be rising . . .

    An utterly bizarre - but real life - story about a black woman, Charisse Carney-Nunes, who writes children's books. The author was targeted by Michelle Malkin, a complete stranger, in a vitriolic mob Internet [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2009, 9:34pm EDT

  • SoFlo: Looking For Mr Crowbar (2#) -

    The scion of the Miami Fontainbleau Fortune was found dead over the summer under suspicious circumstances in Westchester County NY.

    Ben Novack Jr appeared to have been beaten to death only a few months after the death of his mother Bernice from a fractured skull at her Fort Lauderdale [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 7:11pm EDT

  • Mez: Indy Eyes Denied (2#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Presiding Judge Giancarlo Massei has denied requests
    for independent experts to review evidence in the case.

    Closing arguments are scheduled
    for Nov 20th; the deliberation process
    for a verdict is expected to begin Dec 4th.

    The suspect who was already convicted,
    Rudy [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 11:49pm EDT

  • Coventry & The Twin Towers (4#) -

    I may have thought of this because . . .

    recently, Vera Lynn published a new book of her
    memoirs, and she is part of the soundtrack of my life . . .

    "Coventry had a medieval city centre regarded at the time as the best preserved" [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 7:19pm EDT

  • Mez: The Chilled Labyrinth (2#) -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    Proceedings for this case have resumed. Various requests for further clarification on some aspects are being submitted to the court.

    Among them, Giulia Bongiorno and Luca Maori for the Defense are requesting more forensic experts to further clarify the Time of Death. I [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 3:51pm EDT

  • Iran: Nuke Jockey & Net (2#) -

    One of their nuclear scientists has gone missing, and the regime is accusing the USA of being behind it. Shahram Amiri vanished while he was visiting Saudi Arabia. Maybe he decided to take a vacation in Sweden for a while and get away from all that radioactive pressure.

    And [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 3:37pm EDT

  • Mez: Locked & Lurching -

    Meredith Kercher Murder Case -

    The Locked Room Mystery on Pergola St seems to have been designed like a genre of computer games, perhaps like the famous Castle Wolfenstein games. That's just my impression.

    So far, I have tentatively settled on a motive of Racism and Ethnic Cleansing, [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 3:19pm EDT

  • Crazed Trends: The Nico-Bubble

    You may experience strange dreams . . .
    you may have hostile feelings or suicidal thoughts . . .

    Well, as expected, it didn't take long for the pharmaceutical companies to begin offering their highly patented cigarette replacement goodies - and just in time for the heavy foot' [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 2:56pm EDT
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