I can't say I'm wild about the changes. Too cartoony, XPy, for my tastes, and it seems like it takes me an extra click or two to get stuff I want (like Mozilla).
I use both browsers and like them both. Mozilla comes with an option to preload it in Windows, so it starts up faster. It has always seemed to me that Mozilla is a bit less buggy and unstable than Firefox, both in Windows and Linux, in part, at least because it is more configurable.
Also, I like having an integrated html editor and email client, particularly since the 1.8RCs have an option to dump multiple email accounts in to a single Inbox (Jeez, that was long overdue). No more Evolution or Kmail for me.
Your credibility can be further enhanced if
you can convince the sheeple that your point of view is the exact
opposite of what it actually is, hence the myth of a "liberal" media
>This
is not a myth. CNN, ABC, CBS, ABC are all quite liberal-left wing.
>Fox
is centrist. There is no "right wing" channel on TV. The right wing
only dominates in AM talk radio.
>(FM talk radio is, again, left wing.)
This assessment says more about your own reactionary ideology than it
does about the orientation of those media. Any media that doesn't
constantly slam Democrats and extol Repugnicans is by definition
liberal. As neocon William Kristol remarked in a rare moment of
candor "I admit it : The liberal media were never that powerful and the
whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for
conservative failures." But the right has repeated the
canard of liberal bias so much that some of its dimmer bulbs may
have actually begun to believe it. As Goebbels noted "Repetition is the lynchpin of propaganda."
So when a Venezuelan populist former
officer named Hugo Chavez
>You are referring to the current dictator of Venezuela. He is more
accurately called a Stalinist, not a populist.
Do you think a Stalinist would tolerate the existence of
Venevision & the rest of the anti-Bolivarian commercial
media, including rightist dailies like El Nacional and El
Universal? Uncle Joe would have stood them all up against the wall long ago,
instead of allowing them to constantly agitate to depose the democratically
elected ruling party by any means necessary. If the major media
in the U.S. acted the way the Globovision does in Venezuela, daily
calling for the government to be overthrown, the editors would find
themselves manacled to the floor at Camp X-Ray in
Guantanamo.
>The American media is rather
decentralized, and the diversity is increasing
I stand corrected. The constant waves of mergers between Time
& Warner & Turner & AOL & Viacom & 20th Century are
merely fig newtons of my imagination. As is right wing Clear
Channel gobbling up 1,240 radio stations (in the wake of media
deregulation in the 1996 Telecommunication Act, up from 500 stations 5
years ago). Clear Channel also owns SFX Entertainment, the dominant
concert venue owner and concert promoter. They are now telling
entertainers at "their" events that if they criticize the war or Bush
they will be banned from Clear Channel stations and venues. They
have already banned a wide range of songs for being "lyrically
questionable", including John Lennon's Imagine and Cat Stevens' Peace
Train. Thank you for CLEAR(CHANNEL)ing that issue up for
me.
...but its wide spread use did make it much more
difficult to set
one up, at least in Venezuela in the Spring of 2002.
Political-economy primer (mostly) for "my fellow Americans": The
dominent mass media, both in the USA and in Venezuela, is owned by a
relatively few large corporations and rich families. These owners &
influential corporate stockholders are members of a tiny class of
extremely wealthy people with all kinds of other financial interests
spread across the world. These altruistic folks are sometimes referred
to as the bourgeoisie. In the bourgeois press itself, of course, even
to identify the existence of this class is widely considered subversive
or conspiratorial, but recognition of this ruling class and its vast
power is
really mostly a matter of institutional analysis. Strangely enough, the
media owners select editors who will pursue journalistic policies that
will reinforce the power and wealth of the capital-owning class. As a
result, the point of view of most of the corporate media is remarkably
uniform, even without some secret cabal meeting in a smoke-filled room,
plotting to dominate the world (though I don't doubt that some of that
also takes place). However advocacy journalism (more honestly called
propaganda 'in Soviet Russia') is much more effective if you can
convince people that that you are honest & objective (or 'fair
& balanced(R)' as Faux News describes itself). Your credibility can
be further enhanced if you can convince the sheeple that your point of
view is the exact opposite of what it actually is, hence the myth of a
"liberal" media.
So when a Venezuelan populist former officer named Hugo Chavez won
elections in 1998 & 2000 & promised to improve the lot of the
poor majority (which might mean diverting power and resources away from
the extremely rich bourgeoisie) the bourgeois press promptly labeled
him "authoritarian" (and the "liberal" Washington Post characterized
Venezuela as a "Disguised Dictatorship"). The five commercial
Venezuelan TV chains transformed themselves into basically a network of
24 hour infomercials targeted against the "democratically" elected
government. Eventually the time came for members of the bourgeoisie
& armed forces to overthrow the government (with the direct
financial & military support of the Bush regime). The Venezuelan TV
stations ran free ads every 10 minutes urging people to demonstrate
against the government. On April 11th 50-150,000 complied and marched
towards the government Miraflores Place to "remove Chavez from office."
Shots were fired, killing between 10 & 30 people. Despite the fact
that it later turned out that the vast majority of these victims were
actually government supporters, the Western bourgeois press (the
corporate AP, CNN & NY Times, as well as the supposedly independent
government owned BBC & NPR) immediately reported that the shots
were from the Chavez government (without sourcing these claims) and
that Chavez had "resigned" from office in the subsequent wave of
righteous indignation. In actuality a military junta had captured
Chavez at gunpoint & anointed Pedro Carmona, the leader of the
Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce, as president. Carmona promptly
disbanded the country's legislature and Supreme Court, suspended the
constitution and initiated a country-wide roundup of Chavez supporters.
The 13th U.S. ambassador met with Carmona at Miraflores and referred to
him as "president." The bulk of the bourgeois press adopted the tone
that, while the coup was troubling, it was the inevitable result of
Chavez' authoritarian shennanigans and probably a step forward for
democracy. In the meantime, the Venezuelan oligarch-controlled TV
networks and newspapers essentially blacked out all news about the coup
and ongoing political developments, instead running non-stop Hollywood
movie reruns and sporting events. Members of the National Assembly and
government ministers tried to communicate with the country,
If you live in the Bay Area you can contribute your old hardware to Infomed USA, which will pick
up your refuse at your door and give you a receipt you can use for tax
purposes. We accept any working Pentium-class machine as well as
working monitors (14" VGA, post-1995) and send them to Cuba to be used
by medical workers. Our group has sent something like 3,000
machines to Infomed
Cuba, which provides on-line medical information to doctors from
all over the world and technical support to Cuban doctors. You
can read more about Infomed on the Stockholm Challenge award page
for innovative and beneficial uses of technology.
Cuba has more doctors per capita than the United States and sends more
physicians abroad to even poorer countries than the WHO (World Health
Organization). Everyone on the island has free access to high
quality health care (whereas in the U.S. where something like 40
million people have no access to medical care, including millions of
full time workers). Cuba has the best medical care in Latin
America, excellent life expectancies and infant mortality rates, and
was ranked as having medical care comparable to the U.S. (39th
world-wide vs. 37th) by the WHO in 2000, despite having a GNP per
capita that is a fraction of what Americans spend for health care
alone. Cuba also has a well developed medical technology industry
that exports low cost but high quality pharmaceuticals, etc. all over
the world.
Unfortunately, the United States State Department (along with Commerce
& Defense) must grant export licenses so we can send hardware to
Cuba and our licenses are not keeping up with Moore's "Law." Our
most recent license only allows us to send 266 MHz or slower
machines. Infomed-Cuba itself no longer wants our old crap, since
they can do better buying their own equipment on the international
market, so our next shipment will go to 5 Cuban hospitals, some
of whom are still using 286 machines, I understand. However
hopefully Bush won't be president forever, so we are stockpiling better
machines until we can get a license to ship them.
To schedule a pickup email Dave
if you live in the South Bay, Don
in San Francisco or Ed if
you
are in the East Bay or North Bay. Also, we can also use anyone who can
twirl a screwdriver to help us test and fix up the donated
boxes. We have regularly scheduled work days in both Oakland
and San Jose. Drop us a line if you'd like to pitch in...
The schools don't want it...What are they
going to use your Pentium 133 for, anyways?
In the SF Bay Area you can call Project
Infomed, which will send some poor schlemiel to collect your old
Pentium or better computer and even give you a receipt so you can
take a tax deduction. We send the donated machines to Cuba, where
they are used by healthcare workers to access medical databases and
research, locate supplies, communicate etc. Though we have a new
license application under review, for the moment the Departments of
Commerce, State and Defense won't let us send anything faster than a
Pentium 200, since putting that much raw computing power in the hands
of Cuban doctors could endanger the security of the Free World.
Right now I'd say that the average machine that we are sending is
about a Pentium 120 with 32 MB of RAM and a 850 MB hard drive. They
will probably continue using these old boxes for many years. So far I
believe we have sent about 2,500 computers to the island.
We can also use anyone who can volunteer a little time to twirl a
screwdriver or schlep hardware at our regularly scheduled work
sessions in San Jose and Oakland.
Innuit dogs live outside all the time and don't freeze to death. On stormy nights they just get covered up by a nice warm snow drift.
However the traditional northern Amerindians were not noted for their coddling of their canines. Traditionally after spring thaw when the dogs couldn't be used a drayage any more some Athabascan tribes paddled their faithful predators to large islands located on even larger lakes and just cut them loose for the summer to survive on rodents and washed up fish. Towards the end of the season they would retrieve the survivors for sled dogging service again. Luckily, at that latitude the unfrozen season only lasts 4-5 months.
Yesterday afternoon I experience the American counterpart to this situation. We took our 13 year old hound for a walk on the Bay where she found a stick and made it clear that she wanted to play fetch in the water (her favourite activity). So we threw sticks into the Bay for 15 minutes. It was a reasonably warm evening (I was comfortable in a T shirt) so we weren't worried that she would be uncomfortable when she got out. We left her leashed outside of a restaurant and had dinner.
I went out about a half hour later to give the old girl some table scraps and found myself confronted by 8-10 Oakland cops asking if I owned that poor dog. I said I did and they gruffly told me that they had received several calls complaining of a shivering wet dog and warning me that if I didn't put her in a car right away they would "confiscate" her. I'm sure she would have been much happier at the pound.
I can see why politicians are always calling for more cops. I mean, the city couldn't even scramble a dozen cruisers to deal with this deplorable situation. And there wasn't a donut shop in sight!
I bowed and scrapped and leashed my dog in a more out of the way place until my family could finish our meal and take her home. FWIW, the beast often shivers when she's dry and at home, too. She is 92 in dog years and only has stubs for teeth and has arthritis, so she is uncomfortable a chunk of the time (dogs shiver when they are in discomfort). But she is generally a happy animal and we are not ready to put her down as long as we are convinced she is still enjoying life, and we still enjoy her antics, tail wagging and constant affection.
Oh well at least the dog isn't trying to manipulate
me.
I wouldn't count on that either. I saw a nature show once where Innuit children kept laughingly throwing puppies out of their igloo into the snow and the pups kept trying to get back inside. Finally the pups just sat in the doorway and shivered pathetically. That is, they shivered until the kids stopped paying attention to them, then they stopped shivering.
I work with a Bay Area group called Infomed that fixes up donated Pentium class computers and sends them to Cuba, where they are distributed to medical clinics, allowing health care workers to access medical databases, journal abstracts, data on supplies and services, email, etc. And unlike the ACCRC we will even pick up working machines and won't charge you $5.
You can contact us at dave@cubasolidarity.net to arrange a pick up in the South Bay or biow@cubasolidarity.net if you are located in the East Bay, North Bay or San Francisco.
We can also use help fixing up the donated machines, if you are so inclined. However, unlike ACCRC, we don't put an operating system on the machines; we just make sure the boxes are posting (with sufficient RAM, drives and occasionally NICs and modems) and that the hard drives are formatted to protect the donors' privacy.
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When I first went to the Creative site a half hour ago they offered an option for two of the VoIP Blaster phones for $20, but when I went back to lower the hammer on the deal they no longer seem to have that option under Select Style. So I guess these suckers are now $15 a throw, call it the Slashdot effect.
"Getting back to the big rock thing for a sec - since when do we have geological records to 60 million years ago with a resolution to 50 years? (hey maybe there's been advances I don't know about)"
AFAIK our resolution at this remove is about 10,000 years.
"and I recall a theory that suggested Iceland was the result of a meteor strike (the rock dated to about 65 million y.a.)"
Hmmm, I understood that Iceland was caused by a crack in the mid-Atlantic ridge, the feature from whence the ocean floor is spreading, expanding the Atlantic ocean. However the Atlantic itself and the rift that created it is supposed to date from the K-T boundary 65 million years ago and some even adduce Atlantic sea floor spreading as a possible contributor to the extinction event.
There are plenty of iridium spike anomalies throughout the geological record and most of them don't correspond to any extinction event. Also, volcanic activity can account for a dramatic increase in iridium deposition. At about the same time as the Shiksa-Lube impact crater, there was a massive episode of volcanic activity in northern India that covered a huge chunk of the sub-continent with lava (the Deccan Traps). Volcanic activity can cause most of the effects attributed to a good meteor impact (climate change, depletion of the ozone layer, etc., not sure about the shocked glass), but can go on for much longer.
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I can't say I'm wild about the changes. Too cartoony, XPy, for my tastes, and it seems like it takes me an extra click or two to get stuff I want (like Mozilla). I use both browsers and like them both. Mozilla comes with an option to preload it in Windows, so it starts up faster. It has always seemed to me that Mozilla is a bit less buggy and unstable than Firefox, both in Windows and Linux, in part, at least because it is more configurable. Also, I like having an integrated html editor and email client, particularly since the 1.8RCs have an option to dump multiple email accounts in to a single Inbox (Jeez, that was long overdue). No more Evolution or Kmail for me.
Your credibility can be further enhanced if you can convince the sheeple that your point of view is the exact opposite of what it actually is, hence the myth of a "liberal" media
>This is not a myth. CNN, ABC, CBS, ABC are all quite liberal-left wing.
>Fox is centrist. There is no "right wing" channel on TV. The right wing only dominates in AM talk radio.
>(FM talk radio is, again, left wing.)
This assessment says more about your own reactionary ideology than it does about the orientation of those media. Any media that doesn't constantly slam Democrats and extol Repugnicans is by definition liberal. As neocon William Kristol remarked in a rare moment of candor "I admit it : The liberal media were never that powerful and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures." But the right has repeated the canard of liberal bias so much that some of its dimmer bulbs may have actually begun to believe it. As Goebbels noted "Repetition is the lynchpin of propaganda."
So when a Venezuelan populist former officer named Hugo Chavez
>You are referring to the current dictator of Venezuela. He is more accurately called a Stalinist, not a populist.
Do you think a Stalinist would tolerate the existence of Venevision & the rest of the anti-Bolivarian commercial media, including rightist dailies like El Nacional and El Universal? Uncle Joe would have stood them all up against the wall long ago, instead of allowing them to constantly agitate to depose the democratically elected ruling party by any means necessary. If the major media in the U.S. acted the way the Globovision does in Venezuela, daily calling for the government to be overthrown, the editors would find themselves manacled to the floor at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo.
>The American media is rather decentralized, and the diversity is increasing
I stand corrected. The constant waves of mergers between Time & Warner & Turner & AOL & Viacom & 20th Century are merely fig newtons of my imagination. As is right wing Clear Channel gobbling up 1,240 radio stations (in the wake of media deregulation in the 1996 Telecommunication Act, up from 500 stations 5 years ago). Clear Channel also owns SFX Entertainment, the dominant concert venue owner and concert promoter. They are now telling entertainers at "their" events that if they criticize the war or Bush they will be banned from Clear Channel stations and venues. They have already banned a wide range of songs for being "lyrically questionable", including John Lennon's Imagine and Cat Stevens' Peace Train. Thank you for CLEAR(CHANNEL)ing that issue up for me.
Political-economy primer (mostly) for "my fellow Americans": The dominent mass media, both in the USA and in Venezuela, is owned by a relatively few large corporations and rich families. These owners & influential corporate stockholders are members of a tiny class of extremely wealthy people with all kinds of other financial interests spread across the world. These altruistic folks are sometimes referred to as the bourgeoisie. In the bourgeois press itself, of course, even to identify the existence of this class is widely considered subversive or conspiratorial, but recognition of this ruling class and its vast power is really mostly a matter of institutional analysis. Strangely enough, the media owners select editors who will pursue journalistic policies that will reinforce the power and wealth of the capital-owning class. As a result, the point of view of most of the corporate media is remarkably uniform, even without some secret cabal meeting in a smoke-filled room, plotting to dominate the world (though I don't doubt that some of that also takes place). However advocacy journalism (more honestly called propaganda 'in Soviet Russia') is much more effective if you can convince people that that you are honest & objective (or 'fair & balanced(R)' as Faux News describes itself). Your credibility can be further enhanced if you can convince the sheeple that your point of view is the exact opposite of what it actually is, hence the myth of a "liberal" media.
So when a Venezuelan populist former officer named Hugo Chavez won elections in 1998 & 2000 & promised to improve the lot of the poor majority (which might mean diverting power and resources away from the extremely rich bourgeoisie) the bourgeois press promptly labeled him "authoritarian" (and the "liberal" Washington Post characterized Venezuela as a "Disguised Dictatorship"). The five commercial Venezuelan TV chains transformed themselves into basically a network of 24 hour infomercials targeted against the "democratically" elected government. Eventually the time came for members of the bourgeoisie & armed forces to overthrow the government (with the direct financial & military support of the Bush regime). The Venezuelan TV stations ran free ads every 10 minutes urging people to demonstrate against the government. On April 11th 50-150,000 complied and marched towards the government Miraflores Place to "remove Chavez from office." Shots were fired, killing between 10 & 30 people. Despite the fact that it later turned out that the vast majority of these victims were actually government supporters, the Western bourgeois press (the corporate AP, CNN & NY Times, as well as the supposedly independent government owned BBC & NPR) immediately reported that the shots were from the Chavez government (without sourcing these claims) and that Chavez had "resigned" from office in the subsequent wave of righteous indignation. In actuality a military junta had captured Chavez at gunpoint & anointed Pedro Carmona, the leader of the Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce, as president. Carmona promptly disbanded the country's legislature and Supreme Court, suspended the constitution and initiated a country-wide roundup of Chavez supporters. The 13th U.S. ambassador met with Carmona at Miraflores and referred to him as "president." The bulk of the bourgeois press adopted the tone that, while the coup was troubling, it was the inevitable result of Chavez' authoritarian shennanigans and probably a step forward for democracy. In the meantime, the Venezuelan oligarch-controlled TV networks and newspapers essentially blacked out all news about the coup and ongoing political developments, instead running non-stop Hollywood movie reruns and sporting events. Members of the National Assembly and government ministers tried to communicate with the country,
If you live in the Bay Area you can contribute your old hardware to Infomed USA, which will pick up your refuse at your door and give you a receipt you can use for tax purposes. We accept any working Pentium-class machine as well as working monitors (14" VGA, post-1995) and send them to Cuba to be used by medical workers. Our group has sent something like 3,000 machines to Infomed Cuba, which provides on-line medical information to doctors from all over the world and technical support to Cuban doctors. You can read more about Infomed on the Stockholm Challenge award page for innovative and beneficial uses of technology.
Cuba has more doctors per capita than the United States and sends more physicians abroad to even poorer countries than the WHO (World Health Organization). Everyone on the island has free access to high quality health care (whereas in the U.S. where something like 40 million people have no access to medical care, including millions of full time workers). Cuba has the best medical care in Latin America, excellent life expectancies and infant mortality rates, and was ranked as having medical care comparable to the U.S. (39th world-wide vs. 37th) by the WHO in 2000, despite having a GNP per capita that is a fraction of what Americans spend for health care alone. Cuba also has a well developed medical technology industry that exports low cost but high quality pharmaceuticals, etc. all over the world.
Unfortunately, the United States State Department (along with Commerce & Defense) must grant export licenses so we can send hardware to Cuba and our licenses are not keeping up with Moore's "Law." Our most recent license only allows us to send 266 MHz or slower machines. Infomed-Cuba itself no longer wants our old crap, since they can do better buying their own equipment on the international market, so our next shipment will go to 5 Cuban hospitals, some of whom are still using 286 machines, I understand. However hopefully Bush won't be president forever, so we are stockpiling better machines until we can get a license to ship them.
To schedule a pickup email Dave if you live in the South Bay, Don in San Francisco or Ed if you are in the East Bay or North Bay. Also, we can also use anyone who can twirl a screwdriver to help us test and fix up the donated boxes. We have regularly scheduled work days in both Oakland and San Jose. Drop us a line if you'd like to pitch in...
The schools don't want it...What are they going to use your Pentium 133 for, anyways?
In the SF Bay Area you can call Project Infomed, which will send some poor schlemiel to collect your old Pentium or better computer and even give you a receipt so you can take a tax deduction. We send the donated machines to Cuba, where they are used by healthcare workers to access medical databases and research, locate supplies, communicate etc. Though we have a new license application under review, for the moment the Departments of Commerce, State and Defense won't let us send anything faster than a Pentium 200, since putting that much raw computing power in the hands of Cuban doctors could endanger the security of the Free World. Right now I'd say that the average machine that we are sending is about a Pentium 120 with 32 MB of RAM and a 850 MB hard drive. They will probably continue using these old boxes for many years. So far I believe we have sent about 2,500 computers to the island.
We can also use anyone who can volunteer a little time to twirl a screwdriver or schlep hardware at our regularly scheduled work sessions in San Jose and Oakland.
Innuit dogs live outside all the time and don't freeze to death. On stormy nights they just get covered up by a nice warm snow drift. However the traditional northern Amerindians were not noted for their coddling of their canines. Traditionally after spring thaw when the dogs couldn't be used a drayage any more some Athabascan tribes paddled their faithful predators to large islands located on even larger lakes and just cut them loose for the summer to survive on rodents and washed up fish. Towards the end of the season they would retrieve the survivors for sled dogging service again. Luckily, at that latitude the unfrozen season only lasts 4-5 months. Yesterday afternoon I experience the American counterpart to this situation. We took our 13 year old hound for a walk on the Bay where she found a stick and made it clear that she wanted to play fetch in the water (her favourite activity). So we threw sticks into the Bay for 15 minutes. It was a reasonably warm evening (I was comfortable in a T shirt) so we weren't worried that she would be uncomfortable when she got out. We left her leashed outside of a restaurant and had dinner. I went out about a half hour later to give the old girl some table scraps and found myself confronted by 8-10 Oakland cops asking if I owned that poor dog. I said I did and they gruffly told me that they had received several calls complaining of a shivering wet dog and warning me that if I didn't put her in a car right away they would "confiscate" her. I'm sure she would have been much happier at the pound. I can see why politicians are always calling for more cops. I mean, the city couldn't even scramble a dozen cruisers to deal with this deplorable situation. And there wasn't a donut shop in sight! I bowed and scrapped and leashed my dog in a more out of the way place until my family could finish our meal and take her home. FWIW, the beast often shivers when she's dry and at home, too. She is 92 in dog years and only has stubs for teeth and has arthritis, so she is uncomfortable a chunk of the time (dogs shiver when they are in discomfort). But she is generally a happy animal and we are not ready to put her down as long as we are convinced she is still enjoying life, and we still enjoy her antics, tail wagging and constant affection.
Oh well at least the dog isn't trying to manipulate me.
I wouldn't count on that either. I saw a nature show once where Innuit children kept laughingly throwing puppies out of their igloo into the snow and the pups kept trying to get back inside. Finally the pups just sat in the doorway and shivered pathetically. That is, they shivered until the kids stopped paying attention to them, then they stopped shivering.
I work with a Bay Area group called
Infomed that fixes up donated Pentium class computers and sends them
to Cuba, where they are distributed to medical clinics, allowing health care
workers to access medical databases, journal abstracts, data on supplies and services, email, etc. And unlike the ACCRC we will even pick
up working machines and won't charge you $5.
You can contact us at dave@cubasolidarity.net to arrange a pick up in the
South Bay or biow@cubasolidarity.net if you are located in the East Bay,
North Bay or San Francisco.
We can also use help fixing up the donated machines, if you are so inclined.
However, unlike ACCRC, we don't put an operating system on the machines; we just make sure
the boxes are posting (with sufficient RAM, drives and occasionally NICs
and modems) and that the hard drives are formatted to protect the donors'
privacy.
When I first went to the Creative site a half hour ago they offered an option for two of the VoIP Blaster phones for $20, but when I went back to lower the hammer on the deal they no longer seem to have that option under Select Style. So I guess these suckers are now $15 a throw, call it the Slashdot effect.
"Getting back to the big rock thing for a sec - since when do we have geological records to 60 million years ago with a resolution to 50 years? (hey maybe there's been advances I don't know about)"
AFAIK our resolution at this remove is about 10,000 years.
"and I recall a theory that suggested Iceland was the result of a meteor strike (the rock dated to about 65 million y.a.)" Hmmm, I understood that Iceland was caused by a crack in the mid-Atlantic ridge, the feature from whence the ocean floor is spreading, expanding the Atlantic ocean. However the Atlantic itself and the rift that created it is supposed to date from the K-T boundary 65 million years ago and some even adduce Atlantic sea floor spreading as a possible contributor to the extinction event.
There are plenty of iridium spike anomalies throughout the geological record and most of them don't correspond to any extinction event. Also, volcanic activity can account for a dramatic increase in iridium deposition. At about the same time as the Shiksa-Lube impact crater, there was a massive episode of volcanic activity in northern India that covered a huge chunk of the sub-continent with lava (the Deccan Traps). Volcanic activity can cause most of the effects attributed to a good meteor impact (climate change, depletion of the ozone layer, etc., not sure about the shocked glass), but can go on for much longer.