Monday, August 04, 2003

Repentant Nader Voter: But as time has passed, it is clear to us--as people who voted for you--that your campaign was a mistake, and it's time for us to switch from being "unrepentant" Nader voters to being "repentant" ones. Why? Tweedle dee is still tweedle dee, but tweedle dum has turned into a global tyrant. 11:12:14 PM    comment []

Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk?. An effort to convert a platform in the English Channel into a "safe haven" for controversial Web ventures has failed due to political and other problems, one of the company's founders says. [CNET News.com] 10:07:18 PM    comment []

From a Speeding Bicycle, a Look at the Brain. Tyler Hamilton's experiences at the Tour de France were filmed to create an IMAX movie about the working of the human brain. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Science] 10:04:14 PM    comment []

Hippie, hacker, poet, editor, cypherpunk: St. Jude Memorial and Virtual Wake at The Well's Inkwell. We're dedicating this space within inkwell.vue for those who knew Jude to post their thoughts and memories. If you're not a member of the WELL, you can email your post to inkwell-hosts@well.com, and we'll drop it in. 5:10:33 PM    comment []

Cut Down Web For Digitally Deprived -- Ivan Noble, BBC News. Demo of Aidbase software described in the article. 5:10:30 PM    comment []

NBC Hopes Short Movies Will Keep Viewers From Flipping. NBC thinks it has come up with a new way to get people to sit through blocks of commercials: Break up the ads with minimovies. By Bill Carter. [New York Times: Business] 7:36:41 AM    comment []

Board Members Quit Over Opera Troupe's Virtual Orchestra. The Opera Company of Brooklyn's decision to use a virtual orchestra has prompted the opera singers Marilyn Horne and Deborah Voigt to resign from the company's board. By Robin Pogrebin. [New York Times: Technology] 7:35:09 AM    comment []

Doc's Quote of the day. Andrew Sullivan: The difference between Republicans and Democrats right now is not between big and small government. It's between the Democrats' Big, Solvent Government and the Republicans' Big Insolvent Government. Here's the direct link. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 7:33:30 AM    comment []

Bush Impeached? Wanna Bet?. Outraged by the Pentagon's plan to create a futures market for terrorist attacks, a group of academics is setting up a futures market for predicting what the White House is up to. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 7:31:17 AM    comment []

How to Defeat the Right in Three Minutes. [Y]ou need a really good slogan – a "counter-slogan" really, to "deprogram" the brainwashed. You need a "magic bullet" that quickly and efficiently destroys the effectiveness of their "drum beat". You need your own "drum beat" that sums up the right's position. Only your "drum beat" exposes the ugly reality of right- wing philosophy – the reality their slogans are meant to hide. Our slogan contains the governing concept that explains the entire right- wing agenda. That's why it works. You can see it in every policy, and virtually all of Republican rhetoric. And it's so easy to remember, and captures the essence of the Republican Right so well, we can pin it on them like a "scarlet letter". Is there really a catch phrase – a "magic bullet" – that sums up the Republican Right in such a nice easy-to-grasp package. You better believe it, and it's downright elegant in its simplicity. From Conceptual Guerilla, by way of Daypop. 7:27:02 AM    comment []

(I'm back.) 7:23:24 AM    comment []