I’ll be following this one. San Francisco-based new media journalist JD Lasica has teamed up with Macromedia founder Marc Canter to create the Open Source Media Project. Media being, for the most part, audio and visual media.

It sounds like a very interesting project. JD explains more in his weblog, while Marc displays a diagram of the Open Media architecture in his.

They’ll have a dedicated website, www.open-media.org established for this shortly.

The evil Donkey John is laying claim to Timor Leste’s oil resources. Guide brave Xanana Gusmario up the oil rig using the arrow keys, jumping the stolen barrels of oil. Activate the International Crane of Justice and use it to bring greedy Donkey John down.

You need to have Flash installed on your computer, but this online parody of the classic computer games is great fun if you do!

(Never mind that Alexander Downer and Jose Ramos Horta are supposedly on the way to negotiating a settlement to the dispute which would have seen Australia steal billions of dollars in oil revenue away from Timor Leste, and indeed may yet do so.)

http://www.donkeyjohn.com/

An amazing story from the USA, of a couple in Charleston, West Virginia who wore T-shirts with anti-GW Bush slogans when they attended the President’s official Fourth of July appearance at the State Capitol.

Jeff and Nicole Rank were ejected from the rally, arrested, handcuffed, fingerprinted and remanded to appear in court at a later date. And Nicole then found herself sacked from her job in classical Kafkaesque fashion.

The original report in the Charleston Gazette appears to be no longer available online, but it’s the second of three items in Ralph R Reiland’s July 19 column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

And you thought Linda Ronstadt bringing politics into her Las Vegas show was disgusting!