July 2010
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June 2010
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March 2010
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Scary stuff →
Wisdom of the Morning: Daniel Ellsberg on the... →
February 2010
25 posts
Come to think of it...
There was no cross talk or conversation in any of the panels I saw, at all.
John Boehner has the scariest microexpressions
Another difference between progressive conferences...
Way more spokesmodels at CPAC.
No comment yet at CPAC about the possible Tea...
Why am I not surprised that this particular airplane-flown-into-a-federal-building isn’t getting a lot of traction here?
Mitt Romney is still smarmy and boring
Not that that’s news. Liz Cheney, on the other hand, is terrifying.
Romney’s charicature of Obama: condescending, pedantic, aloof.
Bigger applause for Scott Brown than for Romney, who Brown introduced.
“The only way to make an impact in media is to be interesting. You can’t...”
– Tucker Carlston paraphrase
Progressive vs Conservative conferences
CPAC has way more plenary panels with the whole conference in one room. Very few breakout sessions. As you’d expect, it’s a bit whiter. But CPAC is actually younger than, say, Take Back America.
Dick!
Liz introduces Dick Cheney. Huge, huge standing ovation —90 seconds or more.
An oldie but goodie: this Netflix presentation is... →
Introducing Google Buzz: Filter bubbles in your inbox. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/introducing-google-buzz.html
Filter Bubble Alert: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/search-is-getting-more-social.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/MKuf+(Official+Google+Blog)
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/corporation-says-it-will-run-for-congress/
January 2010
87 posts
Elliott Spitzer on the bailout: Never have so many done so much for so few who needed so little.
This Obama profile is worth rereading (from the... →
G. Michael Flores of the financial services consulting firm Bretton Woods estimates that the average customer paid 12 overdraft or other insufficient-fund charges in 2009, often at $25 or $30 per transgression.
Apple Sees New Money in Old Media →
As suspected, looks like the iTablet will come with TV download subscriptions.
“‘Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,” says...”
– New York Times
Published: November 30, 2003
(via spencerfry)
“If the Democrats run for cover, if we become pale carbon copies of the...”
– Ted Kennedy
New York Times to Charge Frequent Readers of Web... →
This oughta be interesting.
“Though Google is driving some traffic to newspapers, it’s also taking a...”
– TechCrunch
Lieberman unelectable?
“The new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Connecticut provides a further data point that independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, who is next up for reelection in 2012, may be unelectable. In a two-way race with second-term Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy, Lieberman trails Murphy by a 45%-26% margin. In a three-way race with Gov. Jodi Rell, who is retiring this year, Rell comes in first with 47%, with...
GhostNet for everyone →
How long before someone uses the same Trojan horse techniques but publishes all of the data publicly?
Wonder if the new all-HTTPS-all-the-time Gmail has anything to do with the Chinese hacking attacks.
Here's a big fun project
Make good more scalable than evil.
“In a watershed 1909 story, published when science fiction was known still as...”
– http://www.newsweek.com/id/229664
