During some searching today, came across a site called Fine Waters, dedicated to bottled water connoisseurs. There’s a huge database of bottled water from around the world as well as articles such as Matching Bottled Water With Food and discussing water mouthfeel. Wacky. (hooray for the internet)
–> Let’s talk politics: I’m still a little in shock I guess but from here it doesn’t look all that bad. Our biggest pain in the ass, Dick Gephardt is dropping out. The left is going to have to consolidate around Dean or else a centrist like Edwards or Kerry or a Republican like Clark is going to drive this party over a cliff. Back when I first got into Dean, I didn’t think he’d be able to pull 3rd in Iowa. It looks like what happened between Gephardt and Dean in Iowa is going to happen to Kerry and Clark in NH. Dean’s in position to become the comeback kid. Kerry’ll gloat about his Mo’ and won’t be able to afford any other states. Howard’s at his best when he’s in the underdog slot. We’re at our best when we feel the media fucked us over. They’ve already done the studies, the results are in: the media has been fucking us over. Now on avoiding interstitials… The #1 reason that HTML pages render incorrectly in alternate browsers is because of differences in error handling and recovery. Well, this month has just flown by. Link-dumpy: This paper documents the use of pictorial images in social network analysis. It shows that such images are critical both in helping investigators to understand network data and to communicate that understanding to others. Locative Packets – debuting @ ETCON, coming up in… 3 weeks (!!!) The Locative Media Lab is co-sponsoring a Collaborative Mapping The workshop’s aggregator will offer a REST interface with a simple Being a public exposition of tricks, Clark’s new book, Winning Modern Wars, is 200 pages long, all about the Iraq war. Yet there is only one instance in the entire book in which he gives a physical description of the death of a human being, that being a mention of some Marines in Nasiriyah who were found with bullet holes in their heads. Everywhere else, human beings are described as “targets” or “objectives” or even “high-value targets,” and their deaths are rendered with sports/ football metaphors (“going ‘downtown’ with air power,” “Red Zone” attacks, “the Big Win,” etc.) and bloodless euphemisms for words like “kill” or “assassination” (“destroy,” “decapitating strike”). Moreover, he never mentions civilian casualties without qualifying his statements–the “alleged mistakes of the bombing campaign,” the “hapless women and children reported to be victims of the bombing.” If this kind of talk sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Clark doesn’t hide it. “I’m a product of that military-industrial complex General Eisenhower warned you about,” he said with a smile a few weeks ago, during a speech at the UNH campus in Manchester. The general assumed–correctly–that the term no longer inspired revulsion in young audiences. He says it’s something else, but maybe this is what Clark means by the New American Patriotism. New faces, no memories. Fresh recruits to replace the defeatists. A new base for Big Win thinking. [this is disturbing] So you are just going to change the subject?
Yeah. If we allow the Republicans to run the campaign based on divisive
Most people do not want to traffic in hate. And this election is going … A lot of people say that maybe we don’t have much economic
Balancing the budget would help that. I mean, this president has made See The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest: The most telling polling result from the 2000 election was from a Time magazine survey that asked people if they are in the top 1 percent of earners. Nineteen percent of Americans say they are in the richest 1 percent and a further 20 percent expect to be someday. So right away you have 39 percent of Americans who thought that when Mr. Gore savaged a plan that favored the top 1 percent, he was taking a direct shot at them. blogs: bIPlog – Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog, socialfiction.org – web/tech, Napsterization – P2P/social, Orcmid’s Lair – programming/tech TODO: put latest Midori image on GCTP, try out slimp3 server, netjuke cvs; or buy squeezebox OK, off to sleep. Still about 9 windows, 50 tabs open, but I’ll clear the rest tomorrow. More TODO: Thoughts on filing: Tools that exist: CVS, SBook, file system, WhereIsIt?, iCal, Tasks, ACDSee Tools that need to be worked on: blikiliner, mozdb (see andyed’s work, see bookie, del.icio.us), netjuke++, photo repos Server-side aggregators, blogroll tools, link managers: Calendaring… the final frontier. Not really, but probably my next next project. Seeing how far I can push iCal for pubsub, calendar sharing. Structure: ‘entry’ calendar which will talk to PHP webdav server connected to phpMyCal. This will then generate a ‘combined’ calendar which will be subscribed to. Now here’s the neat card trick. The combined calendar is what we really want, but it’s read only (thanks a lot iCal). So… run a script (AppleScript or shell script, either through cron or if possible, triggered by update) to move the output calendar and overwrite the input calendar (also, just leave it unchecked so you don’t ever get double display). Since we’re using a PHP webdav, we can do smart diffing supa-easily on the server-side. That and authorization, etc will all be handled courtesy of the phpMyCal (input and output will be via PHP). Events are tracked by UID. Does this work? Seems to be a 99% solution. That is, at the end of the day, you get completely synchronized, fully editable calendar. It’s about a 95% solution for group calendaring. You can set editing restrictions on the server side, but it won’t be enforcable on the client side, however, you can either make it visually locked (make a note, or put it in the title), or just send those to a second subscribe only calendar. Different privacy/control levels can be handled on a by calendar basis w/ a web config, or w/ keywords…
workshop
at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology 2004 conference in San
Diego, CA. We invite developers to join our experiment in collaborative
geoannotation by connecting their applications to the workshop
aggregation service.
RDF/XML format for geoannotations, ‘locative packets’, with, we hope,
the following aims:
secret ploys, ruses and techniques
employed by those that send many
scurrilous messages through the ether
using the mysteries of electronics and
other modern marvels to dazzle the eye,
lighten the wallet and clog the recipient.
issues — like prayer in school, gay marriage and gun control — then
we lose. The right wing will try to make a big issue of it, and they’ll
get some votes from some people who would have voted for them anyway.
to be about whether we cater to the worst in us or cater to the best in
us, and I intend to do the latter.
pressure against the Saudis. They hold billions in U.S. Treasury notes.
What if they responded by threatening to liquidate their investment in
our government? Wouldn’t we be screwed?
us much weaker than we were when we got here: $500 billion deficits as
far as the eye can see is a terribly weakening thing to the economy.
Both the Chinese and the Saudis, and others, hold enormous amounts of
T-bills. That’s a huge problem for us in an era with a declining dollar
and a huge deficit. If most Americans understood what you just said,
George Bush would be gone.