the art of writing is discovering what you believe
Obama: The system sucks, but I’m so awesome that it’ll melt away before me.
Edwards: The system sucks, and we’re gonna have to fight like hell to destroy it.
Obama: The system sucks, but I’m so awesome that it’ll melt away before me.
Edwards: The system sucks, and we’re gonna have to fight like hell to destroy it.
Clinton: The system sucks, and I know how to work within it more than anyone.
[From Shorter Candidates]
We may need Gore, but we don’t deserve him.
We may need Gore, but we don’t deserve him. [From Father Sgt. Christmas Card]
How can AT&T be smart enough to offer a revolutionary device like the iPhone, which is all about delightful user experience, and yet let their own customer communications be a chilling reminder how little phone companies care about their users?
…AT&T doesn’t offer the iPhone, in the sense of having any input into it’s design.
How can AT&T be smart enough to offer a revolutionary device like the iPhone, which is all about delightful user experience, and yet let their own customer communications be a chilling reminder how little phone companies care about their users? There, in a nutshell, is the case for the unlocked iPhone. [From Q: what’s The worst thing you can do with an iphone?]
AT&T doesn’t offer the iPhone, in the sense of having any input into it’s design. Apple did all that.
Remember, never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
The idea of eating fresh huckleberries more than 100 feet up in the crown of a redwood tree boggles the mind. But the canopies of those western giants are as rich in diversity as those in the tropical rain forests.
This book is well worth your time if you think the world still has some unexplored or undiscovered wonders.
The idea of eating fresh huckleberries more than 300 feet up in the crown of a redwood tree boggles the mind. But the canopies of those western giants are as rich in diversity as those in the tropical rain forests. And 97% of them are gone.
Almost halfway through it in one sitting. Some odd characters but it’s an unusual pursuit: it makes sense.
Just finished it. Amazing book. The idea of climbing into a tree that is taller than a football field is long and sleeping in it, let alone getting married or spending a wedding night in one, is too much for me.
It has seemed for some time that all the big records were set, all the mountains climbed, but here as some people discovering new things, new ecosystems, that we never imagined. Trees, gardens, small animals, all them being born and living their lives in the redwood canopy, with water, soil, and all their nutritional needs covered. And the adaptive cunning of the red vole, chief food source of the northern spotted owl, making its home in a redwood where owls wouldn’t look for it, but making trips across to Douglas firs for food.
When some people want to go into orbit, undiscovered worlds exist within 400 feet of the ground.
Interview with the Daily Grail’s Greg Taylor: “I think the real question about modern secret societies is their influence on politics. It still bewilders me that more was not made in the last U.S. presidential election about the fact that both Dubya Bush and John Kerry were members of the same secret society, Skull and Bones. A society with only (roughly) 800 living members, who refuse to reveal anything about the society and their relationship with it, manage to have ‘control’ of the two candidates to lead 300 million people and the world’s most powerful nation? That doesn’t sound like democratic choice to me. “
I don’t know what to make of this: is there anything to Skull and Bones? Is it more than just a glorified fraternity with a mystique? Do they really control anything beyond the perceptions of the credulous?
(Via Boing Boing.)
Firedoglake – Firedoglake weblog » ABC’s “Man in the Middle” isn’t.: “the nice thing about fungible virtue is that you can always get it back if the people you sell it to can’t make the payments”
Currently playing in iTunes: Cass McCombs – That’s That by Cass McCombs
This is posted with MarsEdit. If I was using Firefox, I would use ScribeFire (lower footprint, and it worked just fine). Safari lacks the community support of Mozilla’s offspring.
So far, so easy. Not sure what the differences between the apps might be. More as I use it.
Setup is minimal, but they both do that well enough. You can add categories from the desktop which is useful.
Currently playing in iTunes: Sleigh Ride by Los Straitjackets
when you get invited to the annual Lenin Lighting event .
“I don’t have to follow my own rules, and I don’t have to tell you when I’m breaking them.”
…”The Department of Justice doesn’t tell me what the law is, I tell the Department of Justice what the law is.”
In a nutshell, these three Bush administration legal propositions boil down to this:
- “I don’t have to follow my own rules, and I don’t have to tell you when I’m breaking them.”
- “I get to determine what my own powers are.”
- “The Department of Justice doesn’t tell me what the law is, I tell the Department of Justice what the law is.”
[From Emptywheel – >> Whitehouse Reveals Smoking Gun of White House Claiming Not to Be Bound by Any Law ]
Can you say impeachment? Read the whole speech. It flows with the passion of a sermon, but grounded in a purely human context.
