April 2008
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This I know: Every time I say “the perfect storm” or “the tipping point,” I’m also saying, “I’m a complete idiot.”
Bicycling On Acid →
The chemist who discovered LSD dies aged 102
New Bush Push to Drill ANWR: Same Old Bullshit →
Reuters analysis explains why destroying the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would not have prevented oil price hikes
Saturday night in Santa Fe. Live music drifting over from party at the Dance Barns.
“As members of … perhaps the most unsustainable culture ever, we can assume...”
– “E-Primitive: Rewilding the English Language,” by Willem Larsen
(via the Anthropik Network)
Learning HTML and CSS at my advanced age is turning out to be big fun. The difference between riding the bike and being the DIY mechanic…
Hillary Clinton's Michigan Putsch →
This really is starting to become a horror movie, with the nightmare coming closer and closer, inexorably, in slow motion….
(via The Daily Dish)
"The most complete and powerful argument I have... →
“…cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again, and to repeat this throughout eternity.”
In the thick fog of unknowing before the votes are in, time to reflect on how the prescient and the stupid will soon be revealed.
Headline of the day (in a story about UK open-source software): “Is This the Season of Porcine Aerobatics?” http://tinyurl.com/3kmws7
“The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality....”
– Chris Jordan
Nailing Rove-style deluge of hot-button attacks on “un-American” Obama: truthiness + McCarthyism = McTruthyism http://tinyurl.com/54vfoh
BBC NEWS | Captive tigers 'may save species' →
Tigers in the wild, A.D. 1900: 100,000
In 2008: 3,000
“At the same time, lower down the food chain, the campaign continues to suffer...”
– Voices in Her Head
“The future is there … looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the...”
– from Pattern Recognition, a novel by William Gibson (2003)
“But internal documents show that Pentagon officials also viewed the military...”
– Q & A With David Barstow - New York Times
WatchHow many Americans know that the secretive and fantastically elegant jaguar is native to the Southwest—and has a chance to return? Michael Chertoff and the Bush Administration, hyping Code Orange fears of the (non-existent) Al Queda infiltration across our desert border, are suspending environmental laws in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and doing all they can to doom the jaguar renaissance in...
Back home after electing 4 Obama DNC delegates at the 3rd Congr. District Dem convention in Taos. The HRC folks got 3. No fistfights.
Bill Maher: “You know who’s bitter? I’m bitter. ‘Cause shitkickers voted twice for a retarded guy they’d like to have a beer with.”
Macbreak Tech podcast, "Making Mac Your Business"
Anybody starting or kick-restarting a business with a tech or web or creativity-at-the-keyboard component will benefit from these battle-scarred veterans swapping lessons, warnings, and stupidity-avoidance edicts. Featuring horror-inflected pleas to not quit your dayjob, how to deal with taxes and cheats, firing clients, exploding ink cartridges, and many tech-ronin koans. John Foster’s...
Where we're heading: PowerPoint rave mashup →
Working late, tired, so TiVo’d the debate. Blogosphere makes it sound like I missed having my eyeballs melt in my head.
CQ (via Daily Dish) predicts the delegate outcome in Penn: 53 for Clinton and 50 for Obama http://tinyurl.com/6yy9wf She’s toast.
Colbert on Obama: “He’s passing his Hope Bong around the drum circle of Young America.”
Memo from dean of Berkeley law on John Yoo’s tenure: http://tinyurl.com/5oekgh “Intellectual disgrace stares from every human face.”
