[sigh]
My 11 year old is going to buy one of these. With his own money.
Remember your first music player? Was it as cool as this?
I think this makes good sense for a lot of people (like me). I think it could replace a laptop for my purposes. But not anytime soon.
The old AdSense revenue trickle isn’t all that helpful (4¢ today! Woo hoo!). And my other paying work is pretty limited.
W’s legacy
It will be a fitting irony if George W Bush’s greatest legacy to the country is that he has so damaged the Republican party that it has permitted the (non-crazy) citizens of the US to elect their first non-white president. Not that he will ever see it that way.
[From TBogg » If you live in this world You’re feelin’ the change of the guard ]
I was thinking the same thing earlier today, that instead of a more entrenched hard-right Republican majority, he leaves an energized Democratic party, has created a political environment that has gotten millions of people to register and vote for the first time in their lives, and will see his agenda — tax cuts for the wealthy, wars in the mideast, politicization of everything — dismantled piece by piece over the next couple of years.
quote of the quadrennial election ritual
It is hard to think of a thing more out of time than nobility. Looked at plainly it seems false and dead and ugly. To look at it at all makes us realize sharply that in our present, in the presence of our reality, the past looks false and is, therefore, dead and is, therefore, ugly; and we turn away from it as from something repulsive and particularly from the characteristic that it has a way of assuming: something that was noble in its day, grandeur that was, the rhetorical once. But as a wave is a force and not the water of which it is composed, which is never the same, so nobility is a force and not the manifestations of which it is composed, which are never the same. Possibly this description of it as a force will do more than anything else I can have said about it to reconcile you to it. It is not an artifice that the mind has added to human nature. It is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without. It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.
— Wallace Stevens, “The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words”
No surprise Mr Ross was honored by the MacArthur Foundation, is it?
this doesn’t look right to me
iTunes 8 just came out, it is always free and I have yet to see it come from a site with a Chinese TLD. 
Gee, think this is legit?
but Macs run Windows . . .
The Apple / Microsoft ad war keeps escalating — while Apple continues to insist that John Hodgman is the human representation of all PCs, Microsoft is taking its populist approach to the streets. Very specific streets, actually — it’s placing “I’m a PC” recording booths outside of Apple stores
[From Microsoft placing “I’m a PC” recording booths outside Apple stores – Engadget]
So this is actually about protecting the hardware vendors and their own sweet pre-loaded arrangements, No one buys Windows, do they? They buy a new machine and that’s that.
short and sweet
Sarah Plain is a profoundly stupid woman.
I feel so spatial
Your result for Howard Gardner’s Eight Types of Intelligence Test…
Spatial
“This area has to do with vision and spatial judgment. People with strong visual-spatial intelligence are typically very good at visualizing and mentally manipulating objects. They have a strong visual memory and are often artistically inclined. Those with visual-spatial intelligence also generally have a very good sense of direction and may also have very good hand-eye coordination, although this is normally seen as a characteristic of the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence.
Careers which suit those with this intelligence include artists, engineers, and architects.” (Wikipedia)
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doesn’t matter how you did it, it’s how it came out
Some of the folks in the “Film is not dead, it just smells funny” Flickr group are down on cross-processing (processing E6 slide film in print or C-41 chemistry: you end up with negatives instead of positives and can get all kinds of wild color shifts and contrasty weirdness).
So I found it interesting that this image made it into the curated pool.
why does John McCain hate America?
Talk To Action | Reclaiming Citizenship, History, and Faith:
There is no statewide elected leader, either as governor or U.S. Senator, that has more extreme right wing, violence-prone associations that Sarah Palin. John McCain has asked us to endorse her, but even if the ticket fails this time, he has elevated her to a contending position for the 2012, energizing and empowering the extreme right in the process. No wonder that even some informed elements of the Republican Party are abandoning him.
Why else would he drag someone like this out from under rock into national prominence? Read the whole thing: I don’t know if I believe there are active secessionists in 30 states, but if half that number are more than committees of correspondence or groups of emotionally-stunted RISK addicts, that can’t be good.