Archive for June, 2006
The Dark Side
If you didn’t get to watch the Frontline documentary, The Dark Side, on PBS, then you’ll have another shot after 5pm Thursday when they’re apparently posting the entire episode on-line. That’s excellent. The link should be a click from here: FRONTLINE: the dark side | PBS
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Presentation of Competation(sic) for the Architecture Design of National Stadium (via Digg)
I don’t think this was the winning design, but it has a certain allure to it, depending on the orientation. Considering it comes from a communist country, I’d say it has a lot to do with the labor movement. But I just can’t place [...]
My Fellow F***ing Americans
[The following is an excerpt from the 2019 State of the Union address by President SAMUEL L. JACKSON.. President Jackson enters the House chamber alone, dressed in a black jacket and dark sunglasses, with a shotgun at his side. He nods casually to friends as he reaches the podium, all to a thunderous standing ovation.]
Thank [...]
And Lo, the Fifth Seal was Broken
I never thought I’d see the day when a conservative site promoting Bob "Leaky" Novak and Ann "Widow-Witch" Coulter would rally the troops against a sitting Republican President in a Time of War for quietly scheming to build a 10-lane super-highway/pipeline across America that will hurt Union dockworkers and increase profits for corporations…
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE [...]
A Streaming Pile of Patent
Here’s a very interesting read for those of you interested in or affected by software patents (the latter group includes anyone who uses a computer, a MMO, or just Google Earth): The Technology Liberation Front: Software Patent of the Week: Google Earth vs. Skyline (via OgleEarth).
It gets technical very quickly, so I’ll try stick [...]
Yahoo ‘Strictest’ Censor in China
Yahoo ‘Strictest’ Censor in China (Wired News)
I don’t understand people who complain about Google’s efforts to serve the Chinese market and then all but ignore more serious issues like this. Here we have a company (a subsidiary) that is caught enthusiastically censoring, above and beyond Chinese law, and also actively helping the Gov’t imprison people [...]
TV = Time Vacuum
That’s it. We’ve finally cancelled our cable TV service. I’m tired of losing whole days of my life to TV mass suckage. I’ve got way too much work to do, wasting time writing stories and blog entries and new software.
You’d think I would have learned my lesson. I chucked my TV in 1997 and [...]
Backs to the Future
Backs to the Future (University of California Press Release — yes PR is looking a lot like articles these days…)
I don’t know about you, but I find this stuff fascinating. It’s true that language and culture go hand in hand and many of the differences we stereotype about others may be more a function of [...]
Storms Surge
As another hurricane season sets in, I’d like to make our coastal readers aware of the fun fact that New Orleans is not alone in being at risk from high water. Whether the increased heavy weather is due to global warming more than natural long cycles is not as important as the fact that flooding [...]
Read More..>>Microsoft, meet NSA
Following a series of articles on GROKLAW and others, all users of Microsoft Windows operatings systems should be aware that Microsoft "Windows Genuine Advantage" is actuallly spyware, and it can’t be removed. The software was ostensibly designed to improve your "user experience," you know, by dialing home to Redmond every day to report on details [...]
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