(Untitled)- October 11, 2004 The thing that scares me about the adminstration's policies and Condoleeza Rice's statements on Iraq is the similarity they bear to Ashcroft's approach to crime - that we need to pre-empt any crime by arresting or eliminating anyone who has the potential to commit a crime, or intent alone. Holy moley.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107406/2004/10/10.html#a448 (Untitled)- October 11, 2004 A really interesting piece of social software would be on online Etch a Sketch, were the drawing result would be determined by consensus. You could even set up private rooms for collaborative exercises.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107406/2004/10/10.html#a447 (Untitled)- October 10, 2004 I guess the one thing about the Farmer ad that may be smart is that it's so corny that it may actually generate some free press. And hence get the message out and repeated without having to buy the air time. But still... Still boggles my mind that they so missed the boat, so completely and utterly missed the boat on her potential use of the web. I wish I hadn't worried as much about which of Farmer and Russ could most benefit from the web, and focused on both of them, or some of my more direct..http://radio.weblogs.com/0107406/2004/10/10.html#a446 (Untitled)- October 10, 2004 I wonder if the Farmer campaign accidentally hired The Daily Show to write and produce her first campaign commercial. Oh my.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107406/2004/10/10.html#a445 (Untitled)- October 10, 2004 My first reaction to this was that I was surprised it hadn't happened before. My second was how grisly and sad, the whole sordid story - that people are dead because they wanted to go someplace else to gamble money, as if that is a different experience elsewhere, qualitatively - you may be able to win more or have better odds, but qualitatively, the experience varies little, like the varying terrain one might experience hiking various places within a twenty mile radius, but not mountains...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107406/2004/10/10.html#a444 (Untitled)- October 10, 2004 I lost my precious tonight - the very, very last of my stainless steel crumbers, that 59 cent Excalibur. Money is just one measure of scarcity, but not complete. It was cheap, quantities are high, utility is low, but while I wouldn't pay much more than 59 cents for one - I won't create a black market for the item here, or create a crumber crisis ala the Dutch bulb phenomenon, but the fact that I know of no place to reliably replace the sturdy stainless steel ones, cheaper than the anondized...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107406/2004/10/10.html#a443 (Untitled)- October 10, 2004 Another thing just dawned on me regarding the fear driven, the limbic brain reaction of people to this potential stage in human development., when I was trying to ponder the immediate significance of the stupidity factor at work in people not getting how idiotic their president is compared to Bush. That when Kerry makes Bush look stupid, he makes THEM look stupid too, or feel stupid, so they react to Kerry with hostility, the way a grade school class who has long looked up to their golden...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107406/2004/10/10.html#a442 (Untitled)- October 9, 2004 The one clear loser in the debates are the American public, who demonstrate with each passing poll just how stupid we are. I can't imagine anyone thinking that Bush is competent. Certainly, he gives easy answers, the angry father, but holy crap, he just isn't on the ball, not at all. Insane. And it feels like our so called liberal media is too cowed to jump on this, insane. If Bush is elected in 2004, the population of Canada will grow, not as significantly as if we had a draft, but close to...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107406/2004/10/09.html#a441 |