deeje: PersonalStuff about me and my familyLive for the moment- March 22, 2004 Reflecting on a friend who has passed on, Jack Harrington writes about the importance of the here and now. Kids understand. They live for the moment. It's adults who learn to glide through the years. Driving Sideways Well said!http://www.muttmansion.com/ds/archives/000912.html Bush Reality- March 21, 2004 Talking about the Clarke interview that is airing on 60 minutes tonight, Josh makes some excellent points: Rather than adjust to this different reality, on September 12th, the Bush war cabinet set about using 911 -- exploiting it, really -- to advance an agenda which had, in fact, been largely discredited by 911. They shoe-horned everything they'd been trying to do before the attacks into the new boots of 911. And the fit was so bad they had to deceive the public and themselves to do it. ...http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_03_21.html#002737 fake news reports- March 18, 2004 Somehow I missed these over the last few days. Thank goodness for the Daily Show, which is, as usual, my most reliable source of news.Bush administration creates Medicare ads that look like news reports, complete with fake reporter:Karen Ryan isn't a reporter. But she plays one on TV.That's troublesome to stations like WTVQ in Lexington, Ky., which ran a report on the new Medicare prescription drug benefit that concluded with the voice-over, "In Washington, I'm Karen Ryan reporting."The...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100877/categories/personal/2004/03/18.html#a1383 How earphones are changing the way people behave- March 8, 2004 The BBC has an interesting article on Dr Michael Bull, one of the few academics, possibly the only one, to spend time researching what people do with music players, why they listen to them and what difference they make to their lives. "There's the visual domination of explaining urban experience," he says, "but if you look at it through sound you get different explanations."We live in a visually dominated culture and suffer constant bombardment by visible messages. Adverts, shop fascias,...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100877/categories/personal/2004/03/08.html#a1382 |