via Billboard Ads – Controversial Billboard Ads at WomansDay.com.

via Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War – PowerPoint – NYTimes.com.

And after McCain’s campaign released a Web video on primary opponent J.D. Hayworth, including references to “birthers,” horse marriages and vampires, Democratic treasurer hopeful Andrei Cherny tweeted that it offers “more proof you can’t spell CRAZY without (R-AZ.)”

John Gruber – The iPad

Ars Technica reviews the iPad

David Fitzsimmons (AZ Star) – E-piphany

via ‘Parkinson’s Law’ in reverse now seen in many workplaces.

via World Wide Words E-magazine: 13 Mar 2010.

I’ve been mononymous since 1970

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via Five Ways Apple’s Tablet May Change the World – BusinessWeek.

via Op-Ed Contributor – Search, but You May Not Find – NYTimes.com.

Who is John Galt? Didn’t he rail against legislating to favor one company over another in a competitive market? Hmmm.

Took me a few paragraphs before I realized the editorial was coming from a “wronged” competitor.

I can haz the #31?

can we git sumfing frum petsmart?

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via I can haz the #31?:

via Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web – Waxy.org.

I really do have to learn how to harness this thing, but I think my modem speed is too fast. Will it work at 28.8?

I hope I can find some more of these videos. Might be a really good thing to become an expert at this highway thing.

If you have Silverlight you can wander over to Microsoft’s History of the Internet

otherwise YouTube has most of the clips, just have to look around. Sort of like looking for discreet hair removal products.

Full-length version

The comments suggest that the instruments are “real” and the music is actually played on it.

Entertaining. Not all commercials are obnoxious.

For more like this wander off to see more of Artzybasheff’s work.

Nine years ago, Mr. Ellison sued Internet service providers for failing to stop a user from posting four of his stories to an online newsgroup. Since settling that suit, he has pursued more than 240 people who have posted his work to the Internet without permission. “If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump,” he said.

via With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books – NYTimes.com:

Whenever I hear Harlan Ellison’s name I see Hunter Thompson’s image. What’s up with that?

The title of the article when you read it is Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web.

The title of the web page is With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books

In either case, I have a problem with the headline implications. People who shell out the money for an e-reader are unlikely to be “avoiding the cost” of buying electronic editions.

Petty theft? Probably. Piracy (for a profit)? Unlikely.

What really annoys me is the blurb from the email news from the NY Times

E-reader technology is making it easier to obtain and distribute copyrighted material on the Web for free.

This is more than a little hypocritical of me, because I’m lousy about checking other people’s blogs. I’m told there’s a way to have blogs you like emailed directly to your Inbox so that you don’t have to go look every day to see if something new has been posted. Perhaps one of you know how to do that and could share the trick with the rest of us in a reply comment to this post?

(Via Musings.)

I’ll be helping Monique figure out how to cope in the land of feeds.

Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will only get Sarah Palin.

The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla – Dick Cavett Blog – NYTimes.com.

With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won’t save it.

Blu-ray is dead – heckuva job, Sony! | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com.

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The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches.

Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish — on the Web, at least — free. Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high subscription costs.

1. Create a draft post (on the server) with MarsEdit
2. In the WordPress manage posts click on the convert link

Voila

I know – it is 2 steps, but it isn’t that hard at all

P2P Converter – convert posts to pages

You don’t have to make it a draft – publishing for a brief moment isn’t that big a deal, is it?

It’s kind of a pain if you want to keep track of pages and/or edit them once they are created, since MarsEdit is only dealing with “posts”.

The connection between MarsEdit and a WordPress blog is the MetaWeblog API. That doesn’t give any kind of fine-grained control.

Now if we could convince Red Sweater Software that “enhancing” MarsEdit to take advantage of the WordPress XML-RPC API would provide enough control to be able to use ME as a full “controller” application for WordPress blogs.

I already bought my copy of ME, but I would be willing to buy a new copy if it could do the full control of my WordPress blogs (posts and pages)

Write from a persona – Lend your voice to a writing personality who isn’t you. Doesn’t have to be a pirate or anything—just try seeing your topic from someone else’s perspective, style, and interest.

number 16 is not for Christine ;-)

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The hot-selling item for Christmas 2005 is the remarkably fascinating “Bonsai Crop Circle”.

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