I guess some people might find it easier to read (and write) if it weren’t for all of the spew around a posting. Postings aren’t supposed to be that big of a deal.
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What if the scoring sheets for a squash match used this technology? You could record the progress of the game along with all of the interaction between referee and players. This could be cool!.
The Pulse smartpen captures handwriting and simultaneously records audio and synchronizes it to the writing, so users never miss a word. Pulse is available in two models. Priced at $149, the 1GB model provides storage for over 100 hours of recorded audio. At $199, the 2GB model doubles the storage capacity and provides more flexibility for downloading future applications. In addition to the Pulse smartpen, consumers may also buy Livescribe dot paper and the latest accessories, such as the Premium Leather Case $24.95, 2-Pack of Journals $24.95, 4-Pack of College-Ruled Notebooks $19.95 or 5-Pack of Ink Cartridges $5.95. The Pulse smartpen, dot paper and accessories are also available for purchase at www.livescribe.com. Livescribe :: Press Center.
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now. Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant data, don’t have to settle for wrong models. Indeed, they don’t have to settle for models at all.
Martian Headsets - Joel on Software Until you decide to make a new version, the Qxyzrhjjjjukltk 2.0.
Harvard Proposal to Publish Scholarly Research Free on the Internet - New York Times
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.
From The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint
Metaphors for Presentations
Years before today’s slideware, presentations at companies such as IBM and in the military used bullet lists shown by overhead projectors. Then, in 1984, a software house developed a presentation package, “Presenter,” which was eventually acquired by Microsoft and turned into PowerPoint.
This history is revealing, for the metaphor behind the PP cognitive style is the software corporation itself. That is, a big bureaucracy engaged in computer programming (deeply hierarchical, nested, highly structured, relentlessly sequential, one-short-line-at-a-time) and in marketing (fast pace, misdirection, advocacy not analysis, slogan thinking, branding, exaggerated claims, marketplace ethics). To describe a software house is to describe the PowerPoint cognitive style. Why should the structure, activities, and values of a large commercial bureaucracy be a useful metaphor for our presentations? Could any metaphor be worse? Voice-mail menu systems? Billboards? Television? Stalin?
A better metaphor for presentations is good teaching. Teachers seek to explain something with credibility, which is what many presentations are trying to do. The core ideas of teaching—explanation, reasoning, finding things out, questioning, content, evidence, credible authority not patronizing authoritarianism—are contrary to the hierarchical market-pitch approach.
Especially disturbing is the introduction of the PowerPoint cognitive style into schools. Instead of writing a report using sentences, children learn how to make client pitches and info-mercials, which is better than encouraging children to smoke. Elementary school PP exercises (as seen in teacher’s guides, and in student work posted on the internet) typically show 10 to 20 words and a piece of clip art on each slide in a presentation consisting of 3 to 6 slides—a total of perhaps 80 words (15 seconds of silent reading) for a week of work. Rather than being trained as mini-bureaucrats in PPPhluff and foreshortening of thought, students would be better off if the schools simply closed down on those days and everyone went to The Exploratorium. Or wrote an illustrated essay explaining something.
– Edward Tufte, October 16, 2003 Read the rest of this entry »
» Here’s what fake HD video looks like | George Ou | ZDNet.com
Apparently, DIRECTV switched from 1920×1080 resolution HD video to highly compressed 1280×1080 so they can shove a lot more channels on to their service which users not-so-lovingly named “HD Lite“. As you can see above, the DIRECTV image to the left absolutely stinks compared to the not-so-great sample from Dish on the right. This apparently angered a lot of DIRECTV customers and one such customer Peter Cohen actually filed a class action lawsuit.
Chicken of the Sea - New York Times:
“Why take any risk?” they ask. The medical establishment and the culture at large have twisted logic around to the point where any risk, no matter how infinitesimal, is too much. So powerful is this Puritanical impulse that, once a health objection is raised, however irrational the recommended behavior, it’s considered irresponsible to behave any other way.
11 Ways to Optimize Your Mac’s Performance:
9. Keep an Eye on Activity Monitor There may be other things hogging your processor’s attention or sucking up RAM. How will you know about them? By using Apple’s Activity Monitor, which comes with OS X. Activity Monitor will tell you about CPU usage, RAM requirements, virtual memory usage, and whether a given application is a PowerPC or Intel (Universal) build. Check it occasionally to see if there are any red flags - or keep it running for a few days (with one of the useful Dock icons or floating windows enabled) to keep an eye on when things are spiking.
It’s a fine idea, but could be part of the problem.
I have been running Activity Monitor quite constantly since late January.
the underlying “pmtool” loses memory. a lot of memory. It starts off consuming just over 1MB of “real memory” (1.4MB).
After 18 hours that will be about 80MB of real memory. So if limited memory is the problem, and you keep it running for a few days, well…
This is what I’m talking about:
The most inspiring thing I saw all day. This is why I do what I do:
Captivating and provocative.
(Via The Long Tail.)
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is the most widely read of the five Chinese Classics. The book was traditionally written by the legendary Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi (2953-2838 B.C.). It is possible that the the I Ching originated from a prehistoric divination technique which dates back as far as 5000 B.C. Thus it may be the oldest text at this site. Futher commentaries were added by King Wen and the Duke of Chou in the eleventh century B.C.
Being well-respected within one’s area of specialist concern is not quite the same as being able to hold one’s own in what the maverick American cultural theorist Kenneth Burke called “the parlor.”
Here’s how Burke explained the image, back in 1941:
“Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress.”
The ability to orient oneself in that sort of free-for-all requires a kind of discursive finesse that probably cannot be certified (let alone quantified). For that matter, there is no particular reason to equate success in this endeavor with reaching a vast audience. For some topics, 15 people is a lot. Just this morning, for example, I saw a blog post that started by asking, “What is the future of phenomenological geography, and why is this question even important?”
Well, it’s a big parlor. It contains multitudes. And even if some administrators fail to grasp the fact, the existence of such a space provides a necessary — if at wildly unregulated — supplement to the standard venues of publication and formal scholarly gathering. Whenever the phenomenological geographers do get together face-to-face, for example, it has to make some difference that they have already had a chance to talk in a forum that is also potentially open to objections from structuralist geographers who don’t wish them well. (Please consider that a hypothetical: I don’t actually know if there is such a rumble now underway.)
I saw a reference to this over at Dave’s Scripting News
Make sure that you scroll down beyond the camera lists to see the charts.
These graphs show the number of Flickr members who have uploaded at least one photo with a particular camera on a given day over the last year.
What a wonderful example of doing something interesting with unintended data. They mine the images and use it to create useful information for consumers, and probably producers as well.
I wonder if they sell custom intelligence to the camera makers?
An Avatar Is Born - Electronic House Magazine
What can you expect from an Electronic House Home of the Year grand prize winner? For starters, it has to be a great house—one whose occupants don’t like leaving and always look forward to returning. It must have innovative home technology.
OK. I admit it. I don’t run a stock browser (Safari) on my Mac.
Back a while ago I started to experience “loss of minimize” on my system (after update to 10.4.6). The Minimize button, keyboard shortcut, menu item - all disabled. Mostly only happened with Safari left running a long time. Sometimes (most) it would cause all the other applications to lose Minimize as well.
I switched to Firefox for a while. Decided to try and “fix” Safari. Spent a week finding a “culprit” and finally switched back to Safari full time.
Now comes 10.4.7 - back comes the death of Minimize - with a vengance.
I couldn’t remember any web thing that Firefox wouldn’t do, but I still don’t like the lack of a left-hand margin of sufficient size on the toolbars. It just doesn’t look great. But you know? It works! More things work better/differently than with Safari (read that Wordpress editing, phpMyAdmin)
- Safari Bookmark Exporter
- Schubert PDF plugin
- Web Developer add-on
- Sage (RSS)
Forward Looking Statements: More on Haystack
Haystack powers allyoucanupload and will soon power all of Webshots (Webshots is a photo sharing community with 19,000,000 members who have uploaded over 375,000,000 photos). Allyoucanupload is an image hosting service that we built to run alongside Webshots.
by way of Scripting News
I went to look at both allyoucanupload and Webshots.
So how far does my picture actually travel?
Click here to actually see some detail 
When would I decide to “throw” my picture into the cloud? The only reference that I have is the URL I get back. I already “lost” a couple of GIF files into the object store.
Interesting.
Dealing_with_Darwin: Top Ten Truths About the Digital Ecosystem
8. There is no place to hide.
What is it?
Central Desktop: Easy to use collaboration software. It can be used it to create custom "extranet" workspaces. It includes tools to manage software deployments, assign tasks, track progress against milestones, document versioning, and more. It just does a whole bunch of stuff pretty darn well.
Reviewed by Doug MitchellLooks interesting, wonder if this will help Face??
(Via Sam’s random musings.)
Yes, Sam. This might be exactly what would make a good start. Lots of questions about “getting the data back out”, and about the utility for the novice.
At $99/month it might be easily justified as a “funding a project” cost and run a 6 month experiment.
BBEdit Gems | All BBEdit, all the time. If you write webpages, you probably use CSS. (if you don’t use CSS yet, it’s the best thing to happen since HTML itself: it simplifies the whole webpage-styling issue enormously: see The CSS Garden.)
A Relational Database as the File System?
In the immortal words of nobody I know, “Give me a large enough database, and I can store the world.”
Have you looked at iTunes?
by François Joseph de Kermadec — iTunes is turning into a slow, ineffective mess of an application. Surprisingly, nobody seems to notice these discrepancies, focusing instead on the brilliant iPod and the Music Store. Let’s not forget iTunes is the center of the puzzle.
Some of us “abuse” our tools.
I just recently created a single frame movie (using iMovie) that has an image in it.
I have copied this movie into iTunes any number of times.
What I do is add metadata that helps me track and find my home-brewed DVD recordings. Each copy of the movie gets the metadata for the movie(s) contained on my DVD.
I have Smart Playlists (in a playlist folder) that allow me to track and catalog my movies.
Yes, my simple list that might be 2K bytes of information has grown (4KB per movie) but what the heck, that’s only 1MB for tracking 250 movies. A small price to pay for the convenience.
If I was really insistent about it I could track down an image for the film (IMDb?) and use that as the single frame.
Import image into iPhoto, create a “slideshow” movie, put the movie into iTunes. That takes about 400K, so it isn’t really an option.
Now if iMovie had some Automator controls…or was AppleScriptable
- Chris’s Post-Game Analysis
- None dare call it: Empire. I was biting my tongue through most of that gab, but I can’t go home without saying that most of it — till Josh Marshall showed up — missed the obvious points (like the Iraq fiasco) as I think most thinking Americans understand them. We have staggered into our own version of Late Rome: absurdly expensive bullying adventures abroad, cruel social division and decadence at home.
…
Pat Buchanan knows what’s happening. Susan Sontag knew, too. And their common-sense analyses from right and left agreed quite precisely, as I blogged last year during Little Caesar’s convention. See: The Issue is Empire.
(Via Open Source.)
Paul Thurrott’s Internet Nexus:
Needless to say, the Apple Web isn’t going to put up with that kind of abuse. One of the more friendly responses was from Les Posen, who actually took the time to answer each of Winer’s somewhat rhetorical questions about iTunes. The fact that Posen’s post is so long should alarm people. I think it proves that Winer has a point.
Some would suggest that the terseness of my response to Dave’s questions is a bad thing (see The iPod is too fancy for its own good post on my blog). Length of a response shouldn’t alarm people, except that they might actually have to read something. Here’s a terse answer.
- You can tell if a “tune” is on the iPod by looking in the iTunes. The iPod is listed in the Source panel. Highlight the iPod and the list of tunes shows up on the right. You can tell if a tune is on your computer by looking in the “Library”.
- If you have copied a tune to the iPod you have 2 copies. One on the computer, one on the iPod.
- If you do a “Get Info” on a tune in the Library you are shown where the corresponding file is. You can also use the menu command “Show Song File” to open a Finder window at the location of the file. When tunes are on the iPod the “Show Song File” is disabled, and a “Get Info” does not show the location of the file.
- To delete - highlight the tune and use the delete key, or the menu option “Clear”.
Turns out that the iTunes help covers most of the issues raised. Typing in simple questions in the help system’s “Ask a question” box locates answers quickly, within 1 or 2 entries by rank.
The Catholic Insider is a podcast by father Roderick Vonhogen, catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
The direct link to the keynote speech is here. Some of you may recognize the under-current of humor. I certainly did.
Interesting site. Like the Praystation Portable
With this podcast, you can turn any portable mediaplayer into a ‘Praystation Portable ‘. When you subscribe to the feed, you’ll be able to download a daily morning and evening prayer that you can take with you on the road. The prayers are taken from the catholic Liturgy of the Hours.
Open Source - Blog Archive - Cursing, and Lighting Candles
Never was a humble footnote happier than I am to be attached to the record of a cultural revolution — and in my case, to the “word of the year,” which turns out to be: podcast.
Radio for today. Radio for Christine.
Let’s say I bought an audiobook, it comes on eight CDs, I rip it into eight folders, write a script to name the files 001.mp3, 002.mp3, 003.mp3, etc. From there, if I copy the files to the Archos, it does the right thing when I start playing the first file, it goes to the second, then to the third. But the iPod can’t be made to care what the filename is, so it plays them in the order of the ID3 info, which is almost completely random because the ripper has no idea that the eight CDs are actually one big document. So the Archos wins, I can use it to listen to this book because it’s a Really Simple MP3 player. The iPod which adds a layer on top of the filesystem, manages to remove just enough functionality as to make it completely useless for this task.
Scott Rosenberg’s Links & Comment
Today, the Bush administration has been steered into dangerous waters by veterans of the Nixon/Ford era, like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who have pursued a decades-long quest to reassert the glories of the imperial presidency they cherished as young men and then saw shamed and dismantled in the aftermath of Watergate.
Howtoons are cartoons showing kids of all ages “How To” build things. Each illustrated episode is a stand-alone fun adventure accessible to all. Our Howtoons are designed to encourage children to be active participants in discovering the world through Play-that-Matters — fun, creative, and inventive — and to rely a lot less on mass-consumable entertainment.
This pointer is for Christine
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Weil, the author of “Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being.” You know him best from his numerous bestsellers on healthy living and his public television specials. They talk about the science of Healthy Aging. [TechNation audio from IT Conversations]
(Via IT Conversations.)
Most interesting. Most interesting.
Making Light: Folksongs Are Your Friends
Don%u2019t ignore warnings. If someone tells you to beware of Long Lankin, friggin%u2019 beware of him. If someone tells you not to go by Carterhaugh, stay away. Same goes for your mother asking you not to go out hunting on a particular day. Portents about weather, particularly when delivered by an old sailor who is not currently chatting up a country maid, are always worth heeding.
for Christine
43F Podcast: The ‘to have done list’:
43 Folders: The ‘to have done list’ (mp3)
Don’t get freaked out by the items on your to-do list; think of your tasks in terms of what they’ll mean to you once they’re done. (07:36)
Related
- 43F Post: Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I
- 43F Post: Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part II
- Book: The Now Habit by Neil Fiore
- Book: Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Subscribe to the 43 Folders podcast
- More info on the 43 Folders podcast
(Via 43 Folders.)
Tumbleweed Tiny House Company | Houses
6 x 8 FRONT GABLE
These things are cool. Need one of those smart cars out front
Niall Kennedy’s Weblog: Whose voice is it anyway?
Whose voice is it anyway? Last Friday night I posted a modified poster originally created by Albert Dome in 1942 for the U.S. government’s Office of Facts and Figures. The struggle of corporations to come to terms with a printing press at the fingertips of every employee is very interesting to me and as a history enthusiast I decided to express these curiosities through visual imagery from another era, an era of fear that the consequences of any action might be more than any individual would like to bear.
The shift from hits to niches is a rich seam, manifest in all sorts of surprising places. This blog is where I’m going to collect everything I can about it.
10,000 subscribers at 25 cents per week. That would be a reasonably well paid writer.
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Molly Ivins: Bush giveth, then quickly taketh away | Arizona Daily Star ®:
I feel snakebite about praising any proposal by George W. Bush. Every time I write a column saying, “Look, he’s done something good!” he does something else that makes it either not so good or just plain bad.
Probably only lasts 7 days before it vanishes again. We’ll see - need to remind myself to look next week.
I found the same editorial with multiple “titles” - only one of which can actually be attributed to words in the posted material
- AZ Daily Star
- “Bush giveth, then quickly taketh away” - not in the editorial
- Sacramento Bee
- “This budget is a rotten, phony sham” - almost literally from the editorial
- Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
- “Can the tax cuts, cure the country”
The last one doesn’t even read “right” unless you think hard
What happened to Go Daddy’s second Super Bowl ad spot? - Hot Points:
What happened to Go Daddy’s second Super Bowl ad spot? As you may have noticed our Super Bowl ad only appeared during the scheduled first quarter spot. It was scheduled to run also in the second ad position during the final two minute warning. Our ad never ran a second time. Instead, in its place, we saw an advertisement promoting “The Simpsons.” The NFL persuaded FOX to pull our ad.
only for time to be told with an edit to boot.
Russell Beattie: “Many of us are too busy to read classic books out there, instead choosing ‘page turners’ or books that are more applicable to our every day lives (like a some new marketing book). But we do have time to zip through our aggregator daily, right? So by taking a 500 page novel and distributing it, a few pages at a time, via RSS, we could read a new book in a month or so without even trying.”
(Via Ranchero.com.)
Wording for the first disclaimer is taken verbatim from the sticker designed by the Cobb County School District in Georgia (see original). To print the above disclaimers onto a sticker page, download the PDF version and shrink it to fit a normal page. To print a full page of a single sticker, crop the PDF version and duplicate the desired image within a word processing program. If you really want to get other parents’ attention, transfer the stickers onto a t-shirt with an inkjet iron-on kit and wear it to school board meetings, especially if they are filmed — school boards just hate national scrutiny. Read “15 answers to Creationist nonsense” (by John Rennie, PDF) before you go. If you want to give somebody a t-shirt for Christmas (if you’re into that holiday), but just hate to iron, CafePress will make one for you (proceeds will help defray the cost of future projects). You can also crop the PDF (or ask me for a PNG) and use it to design mouse pads, mugs, and other ite
Six million of us could be wrong:
Lake Superior State University (slogan: “Our lake’s better than yours”) has banished the word “blog”.
(Via Doc Searls.)
My favorite “good” one is
CARBS – low carbs, high carbs, no carbs, carb-friendly… Meant ‘carburetor’ in a previous life. Needs to be purged from our system. “You’re not fat because you eat bread; you’re fat because you eat too much!” – Emily Price, Norfolk, Va. “What’s the point of low-carb beer? A person that concerned about ‘carbs’ shouldn’t even be drinking beer.” Roger Briskey, Orlando, Fla.
ols-master Flash - watch and listen
TomPaine.com - The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal:
12 | 21 | 04 Return to: Opinions The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal Bill Moyers December 10, 2004 The news about the environment is not good these days. With an administration that wants to rewrite the Clean Air and Endangered Species acts and millions of Americans who literally believe that environmental destruction will hearken the second coming of Christ, esteemed journalism Bill Moyers understands the despair many of us feel. But in this speech, given as he accepted Harvard Medical’s Global Environment Citizen award on Dec. 1, he says the cure for cynicism is the will to fight so the next generation will not have to, and the conviction that the future does indeed depend on our actions. Bill Moyers is a broadcast journalist currently hosting the PBS program Now With Bill Moyers. Moyers also serves as president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, which gives financial support to TomPaine.com.
4 November 2004
Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html
[Federal Register: November 4, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 213)] [Notices] [Page 64353] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr04no04-86]
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
Computer Matching Between the Selective Service System and the Department of Education
AGENCY: Selective Service System.
ACTION: Notice.
I had to look - now I had to post
X’s Prismatic Ponderings… » MacCentral: Parsnips organizes text culled from any application:
MacCentral: Parsnips organizes text culled from any application Parsnips enables you to drag and drop text from various locations – including Web pages, files, e-mails and instant messaging sessions – to the application, where you can give it a title, an associated URL and keywords. Later, you can use Parsnips’ search engine to find retrieve items based on keywords, specific words or Boolean combinations of them, or a range of dates
Are you hunting for a “text snippet” organizer? Are you impatient and can’t wait for the “Tiger” release of Mac OS X? Have you looked at DevonThink? Their “professional” price of $70 is less than I thought it was.
Devon Technologies - DEVONthink
DEVONthink is the Mac incarnation of the real paperless office. It’s a notepad, outliner, scrapbook manager, information manager, freeform database, archive, bookmark manager and image database. Your personal »supplementary brain«.
Salon.com News | Bush’s mystery bulge:
Oct. 8, 2004 | Was President Bush literally channeling Karl Rove in his first debate with John Kerry? That’s the latest rumor flooding the Internet, unleashed last week in the wake of an image caught by a television camera during the Miami debate. The image shows a large solid object between Bush’s shoulder blades as he leans over the lectern and faces moderator Jim Lehrer.
Joel on Software - It’s Not Just Usability an application that does something really great that people really want to do can be pathetically unusable, and it will still be a hit. And an application can be the easiest thing in the world to use, but if it doesn’t do anything anybody wants, it will flop
when you read this, look at the categories (where they are depends on which style is being used).
From what I can tell the categories still need to have unique names. The first attempt was set a subcategory.
This attempt adds the parent.
I’m about to lead another sortie of dancing fools out into the streets of Manhattan, so I don’t have time to provide a full report. But I want to dispatch some news from the field in media res.
Nanotech and Kabbalah: “David Pescovitz:
At the NanoBot, Howard Lovy writes about the philosophical connection between nanotechnology and the Jewish mysticism of Kabbalah. This is not newage (rhymes with “sewage”) mumbo-jumbo, but rather an informed, passionate, and moving thought-exercise about the “spirit” of science:
“…the most brilliant men of Medieval Jewry, shut out of any other profession in which their intellect could be used, spent what I used to think was a complete waste of mind power, reflecting on the minutia of Jewish law – taking the Torah and extrapolating a complex system of laws. Creating, codifying, obsessively ordering and numbering a spiritual system into a logical system.
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But the smaller you get, the more you see the logic and order break down. The laws of physics seem to change. The smaller the size, the deeper the mystery and the more the orderly turns chaotic. It all meets on the nanoscale and below, where spirit/spirituality meets the individual components of organisms, where sand meets wave, where analog meets digital, where spirit meets matter.”
(Via Boing Boing Blog.)
Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth: “This site is dedicated to those who drank the last full measure of tequila and didn’t pass out.”
Those of you who often read this blog will recall that, in my last post, I hatched a plan to (very mildly) disrupt the Republican Convention here in New York next week.
Along with fifty or sixty others, I’m going to dance at them. Dividing ourselves into several platoons of guerrilla dancers disguised as ordinary pedestrians, we are going to roam the sidewalks in Republican rich zones, periodically erupting into wild and inexplicable explosions of dancing. We will sustain these for a few minutes before melting back into the crowd and heading off to strike someplace else. I believe this will throw them off their game just slightly, since most of them don’t or won’t dance and are unsettled by those who do. (Q: Do you know why Southern Baptists don’t make love standing up? A: Because someone might think they were dancing.) In addition to being the most genial form of protest I can think of, I’m also convinced that when you’re dancing, you’re at least not part of the problem… (This paragraph is for those of you who have not been reading this blog.)
I hadn’t read this until today.
I think I’ll save a copy.
Independence? What a concept.
Will Ferrell - A message from White House West Join ACT and our friend Will Ferrell for a behind-the-scenes look at “White House West.” We promise it’s the best commerical you’ll see this election.
Software That Lasts 200 Years Many things in society are long-term
In many human endeavors, we create infrastructure to support our lives which we then rely upon for a long period of time. We have always built shelter. Throughout most of recorded history, building or buying a home was a major starting step to growing up. This building would be maintained and used after that, often for the remainder of the builder’s life span and in many instances beyond. Components would be replaced as they wore out, and the design often took the wear and tear of normal living into account. As needs changed, the house might be modified. In general, though, you thought of a house as having changes measured in decades
Clarity Process Talks Truth is not in memory
This morning I would like to review the basic principles that we are trying to get acquainted with. I know at this stage in your process, it’s very easy for you to get totally wrapped up in working on your movie.
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At a special meeting scheduled for June 3, 2004, the Arizona Board of Regents will discuss the desirability of restructuring Arizona’s system of public universities. [UANews.org | Top Stories]
I think this could be a very good step forward.
Janton, Anne 73 of Tucson, Arizona was born May 9th, 1930. She passed away peacefully April 14th 2004.
Anne was a loving wife to William, an incredible mother to Mark (Kathy) Boonton NJ; Chris, Tucson; Greg (Christine) Tucson; Renee (Shanawo) Maui, HI; Annette, Tucson; Matt (Jackie) Tucson, Maura (Christopher) Valparaiso, IN. Anne was a loving Nana to 12 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren (with 4 expected soon, shes probably giving pre-arrival instructions to them now) and part of the lives of many others.
Anne is music.
Services are Thursday April 22, 2004 at 9:00 am at East Lawn Palms Mortuary 5801 East Grant Road. Colorful attire is requested. Donations in lieu of flowers to the University of Arizona Cancer Center.
Armed with brain scans, doctors are trying to solve the puzzle of why some people feel better after taking a sugar pill while thinking they’re taking a real drug — the so-called placebo effect. They’re finding some strange things. By Randy Dotinga. [Wired News]
Wired 12.01: 101 Ways to Save the Internet
2 Slash song prices charge 29 cents per download. You”ll make it up in volume.
yourDictionary.com Top Ten Words of 2003
Top Ten Word Lists of 2003 Announced by yourDictionary.com
Lists include top 10 words, top 10 names, the latest in YouthSpeak, top phrases, best and worst product names, and more.
“Fair Witness” Wearable Escrow Video
A couple of years ago I fell to musing about video as a medium, and how it might be put to new social uses. I tried to think of video as NOT television — not as highly produced centrally distributed streams of visual and audio narrative content. So what is the structural inversion of television?
Rob Tow thought of an interesting idea a few years back, similar to Steve Mann’s notion of sousveillance: a wearable video camera that sends images via high-speed connection to an “escrow server.” Tow calls the device a Fair Witness. Tow proposed the idea when he was at ATT Labs, but the project became “shelfware.” Time to take that idea off the shelf?
Tim Maroney @ The Book of Dzyan
Tim Maroney is a software architect, occult scholar, spiritual practitioner, and bon vivant living in Berkeley, California. His studies in the sciences bring a unique perspective to his intimate treatment of mysticism and the occult. The Book of Dzyan is his first book.
If I had found this sooner…
Digital-rights management sounds fine on paper, but Wired magazine’s David Weinberger explains why it’s not just pirates who should balk at the idea. [Wired News]
American Family Association - AgapePress news
People perform a number of so-called “good works” for all sorts of reasons. But unless the act is done out of a heart purified by faith and solely for the glory of God, it doesn’t pass the test for what is good. This is why the great cry of the Protestant Reformation was soli deo gloria — solely for the glory of God. The motive makes all the difference, and the non-Christian doesn’t have the spiritual capacity to meet this standard.
Therefore, the reason unsaved people can’t get into heaven by their good works is not because they don’t have enough, but because they don’t have any!!! They are spiritually and morally bankrupt!!!