Native people I know don't "celebrate" this country's history as is encompassed in the myth of "Thanksgiving" or it's twin, Columbus Day. They instead mourn for those whose lives were taken so long ago. The story as has been told in school rooms for decades is fallacy that doesn't hold water. It glosses over the horrors that people of the First Nations were subjected to in the Americas. By just focusing on Tisquantum (or Squanto) you get a glipse of what hundreds of thousands of more people would eventually be subjected to. A good television series that goes in depth on what the Wampanoag Nation experianced is "500 Nations", available on DVD at the usual places.
It would great if the geek brethren that assembled here on/. would take it upon themselves to dig beyond the official history and into reality's sad truths with as much zeal as we use in picking apart the latest FUD coming from the Micro$oft.
on last night's Smallville episode? It caught my eye, particularly since I'm accustomed to seeing Mac's left and right in movies and tv. I suspect Apple has to pay for some of it, but then again I'm sure lots of Hollywood folks swear by their powerbooks.
In any case I wonder how much Creative had to pay for their product placement.
Not only is the science, well, scientific, but the characters are also complex and grow through the length of the books. Kim Stanley Robinson manages to give us a glimpse of the near future in much the same depth as Clarke did in the Space Odyssey series.
Also Herbert's Dune series, at least the first 4 books.
Yeah, all we need now is for someone to create phototropic robots that can reproduce and *learn* then we're all screwed. Come to think of it 1999 was a good year and the economy has been getting worse lately... Oh, sh#t, this is the beginning of the end...
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Native people I know don't "celebrate" this country's history as is encompassed in the myth of "Thanksgiving" or it's twin, Columbus Day. They instead mourn for those whose lives were taken so long ago. The story as has been told in school rooms for decades is fallacy that doesn't hold water. It glosses over the horrors that people of the First Nations were subjected to in the Americas. By just focusing on Tisquantum (or Squanto) you get a glipse of what hundreds of thousands of more people would eventually be subjected to. A good television series that goes in depth on what the Wampanoag Nation experianced is "500 Nations", available on DVD at the usual places.
It would great if the geek brethren that assembled here on
More on Tisquantum:
http://members.aol.com/calebj/squanto.html
And here's a more personal account of how one Native person spends the day with her family:
http://www.purewatergazette.net/nativeamericantha
on last night's Smallville episode? It caught my eye, particularly since I'm accustomed to seeing Mac's left and right in movies and tv. I suspect Apple has to pay for some of it, but then again I'm sure lots of Hollywood folks swear by their powerbooks.
In any case I wonder how much Creative had to pay for their product placement.
Not only is the science, well, scientific, but the characters are also complex and grow through the length of the books. Kim Stanley Robinson manages to give us a glimpse of the near future in much the same depth as Clarke did in the Space Odyssey series.
Also Herbert's Dune series, at least the first 4 books.
Oh, come on now, does no one remember Worf's honey K'Ehleyr played by Suzie Plakson? Besides Troi, she was always my favorite.
Yeah, all we need now is for someone to create phototropic robots that can reproduce and *learn* then we're all screwed. Come to think of it 1999 was a good year and the economy has been getting worse lately... Oh, sh#t, this is the beginning of the end...