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« Monday « January 31, 2005
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Racist Hot 97 Skit Mocking Tsunami Victims
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For the last week Hot 97 has been running a hideously unfunny and offensive skit named "Tsunami Song," that ridicules the victims of the Tsunami as "ch*nks" whose children will now be sold into child slavery.I'm not one who believes that blogging (in general) is journalism, but blogger Jay Smooth's blow-by-blow coverage of this ugly on-air garbage has all the elements of news reporting. His posts have generated thousands of comments. The song, btw, is horrible; some of the most mean-spirited sh*t I've heard on regular radio, made all the worst by the involvement of some Black on-air personalities. They should know better, you'd think.
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Record oil prices spur Exxon Mobil profit higher
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Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said Monday quarterly profit rose, driven by lofty crude oil and natural gas prices...net income in the fourth quarter rose to $8.42 billion.Let's see how my simple mind works: a war breaks out based on unconfirmed conclusions. As a result of this war, oil prices soar to record heights. A small cabal of oil businessmen profit wildly. Hmmm. They were right when they said it's not about the oil. It's all about the benjamins. A whole lot of benjamins.
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« Saturday « January 29, 2005
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Are You Generic?
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Our breathing room, our surfaces, and our airwaves are cluttered by undue advertising. Why sacrifice the one area suitable to protest, the only space we have left to claim - our body. We will not allow ourselves to be branded, categorized, and manufactured by a name.
This post could be career suicide for me. The ironic thing about this t-shirt and its makers, which prove an underlying truth that is illustrated in the (IMHO) groundbreaking book, A Nation of Rebels, is that by "selling" this t-shirt, these people actually expose themselves as false protesters. They are more pro-branding than any of my professional brand consulting coworkers could ever be. If they truly were against "branding" per se, shouldn't they just give the shirts away and tell everyone their message rather than paste it on apparel? Moreover, they want people to wear their "anti-brand" (which really is a brand) as much as Nike or the The Gap does. Everyone wants to be a revolutionary ...and they want to get paid too. Suckas. A revolution is just a different side of the same wheel, *ssholes! If you honestly want to change things, find a different wheel.
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Man auctions ad space on forehead (BBC)
b/w: put it on plastic
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Why you're still single
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I placed a personal ad (Looking for a committed, child-free relationship ? 34) for the first (and last) time on CL and was surprised about how many responses I received. And then, after a few weeks of reading, surprised at the sheer cluelessness of most of my respondents. Many guys were lacking in the common sense and good breeding departments. So, to help these guys out and, of course, for entertainment purposes, here?s my list as to why I didn?t want to meet you or why there wasn?t a second date...Hilarious. Of course, none of the reasons provided apply to yours bloggers truly, so w.t.f. I know why I'm still single: because I still haven't met a woman who can turn water into wine or, at least, beer.
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Bush's Unprecedented Attack on African Americans
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The only source of retirement for 40 percent of all African Americans is Social Security, according to Melvin Watt, a Democratic rep from North Carolina. Without it, poverty rates among blacks would double. The American Journal of Public Health reported in December that 886,000 more blacks died between 1991 and 2000 than would have died had equal health care been provided.But Dubya's got "Connie" Rice, and Armstrong Williams on his side ... he likes the bruthas and sistas. Clearly.
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Hiphop Turns 30
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Greg Tate: "Put another way, hiphop sucks because modern Black populist politics sucks....[c]ertainly it's easier to speak of hiphop hoop dreams than of structural racism and poverty, because for hiphop America to not just desire wealth but demand power with a capital P would require thinking way outside the idiot box."Scathing, but true. For the file.
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« Thursday « January 27, 2005
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UtiliTEA Kettle
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Green tea lovers no longer have to struggle to achieve the optimal steeping temperature, while darker tea drinkers can still expect impeccably boiling water.
I'm starting to appreciate a good tea more and more. And some teas, like green tea, are actually supposed to be health-promoting. I'm not so sure about that, perhaps the tea industry just has better propaganda. Tea tastes better to me than coffee ever did. But to drink tea properly, you need the right tools. This looks like a start.
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« Wednesday « January 26, 2005
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Best Films of 2004
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Now that the 2004 Academy Awards have been announced, I think it's time to put my top choices out there, well in advance of all the inevitable betting pools and, yeah, I'm saying it, Oscar "fantasy leagues."Without further ado:
Top 10 Films of 2004:Best Documentaries of 2004:
Overall, I don't really think 2004 was such a great year for film. It wasn't even a good year. But then, look at the bigger picture, and see what's going on in the world today. I think 2005 will be a great year, because it seems to me that when times really get bad, that's when the real artists come out and tell their tall tales. Our pathetic psyches, stretched to fatigue by the barrage of all the commercial and political spin-doctoring we must endure on the daily riddim, can only protest its totalitarian shackles by consuming mass-produced entertainments. But, of course, that's so much easier than getting off of our collective fat ass and doing or creating something. I expect to see more thoughtful Hollywood content and less fluff in the next twelve months. But then, what do I know? I'm just part of the movie-going public, who votes with my wallet. I'm just part of that demographic that gets aggregated and measured in the box office receipts, totally incapable of making an independent decision as to what mass-produced entertainment I should consume. Stay tuned. And of course, you will, because what t.f. else do you have to do tonight?
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« Friday « January 21, 2005
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If He Doesn't Like Bloglines, Why Does He Make a RSS Feed Available?
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Trademark blogger says: "To argue that the creation of a RSS feed impliedly allows this type of uncontrolled commercial re-use is to argue that RSS strips all content of effective copyright protection. I have not seen a compelling legal or policy argument as to why all RSS content should be public domain in this way. HTML content isn't automatically public content. The implied license is for the user's browser to make the copy necessary to read the content. You can't re-purpose HTML content without consent. As far as I can see, from a copyright point of view, the only thing different about RSS content is that the template formatting isn't part of the work."This guy's got a good point. You have all of these RSS entrepreneurs running around trying to create "business models" (cough, what a trite proposition, eh?) and they're all basing their hoped-for big payday on hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of "free content" sources served up by all the weblogs in the so-called blogosphere. If they tried to aggregate all the big media and news sites they'd get sued out of existence. So what gives them the right to seek profit off of people who are publishing something for free? Nothing. I've said it before: I will happily pay to use a service like Bloglines; their profit should come from providing a service. But if an aggregator like Bloglines, or Feedburner, or Newsgator, to name a few, makes a dollar off of someone's weblog, by serving up contextual ads, for example, then don't they owe that blogger, say, a nickel?
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« Thursday « January 20, 2005
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Mini Me
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Cringely: "Here's my thinking, and it is just thinking - I have no insider knowledge of Apple's plans, I haven't been diving in any Cupertino dumpsters, and nobody who knows the truth has told me a darned thing. I think the Mac Mini is a fixed component in a system that will extend iTunes to selling and distributing movies."Just one guy's opinion, but an interesting one. If Apple could do for movies what it's done for music - in terms of making it so easy and elegant to find and (of course) buy legal content - it would be a colossal slam-dunk. Of course, there are tons of issues with DRM, and artists getting screwed. Of course, I still have lots of problems with iTunes, specifically, and Apple in general. But we know that some sort of sanctioned VOD/E-video distribution system is coming, once Hollywood is convinced that it's found a technological way to screw consumers out of every possible dime for the garbage and pabulum that passes for cinema these days, but for me, as long as it's not Microsoft, its virus-magnet OS, and that creepy dweeb Gates, then I'll be listening and looking.
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World fears new Bush era
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George Bush will be sworn in as president of the United States for a second term today in a lavish Washington ceremony, amid mounting international concern that his new administration will make the world a more dangerous place. A poll of 21 countries published yesterday - reflecting opinion in Africa, Latin America, North America, Asia and Europe - showed that a clear majority have grave fears about the next four years. Fifty-eight per cent of the 22,000 who took part in the poll, commissioned by the BBC World Service, said they expected Mr Bush to have a negative impact on peace and security, compared with only 26% who considered him a positive force. The survey also indicated for the first time that dislike of Mr Bush is translating into a dislike of Americans in general.These are the ramparts of the "new world order" that Bush the Senior dreamed about during his tenure: a so-called "democratic" superpower that answers to no one, especially not its citizens, steered by a 1,000 points of light: a tiny, racist, misogynist, imperialist network of craven, power-mad idealogues. The most problematic thing in all of this is that whether we like it or not, all of this stuff is just going to have to play out. We thought the vote could stop it. No. We thought protests could stop it. No. We thought sentient leadership from other respected countries would have an effect on this regime. Nope. So what are we left with? Not much. Except this thought: we are living in an "evil empire." Our so-called administration has risen to power on fraud and deception of the most sublime. But all of this must come to pass, because events have been set in motion that can't be undone. Please fasten your seatbelts and prepare for turbulence. It's going to be one rough flight.
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Apple's iPod Shuffle Stifles Podcasting
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"It's neither a boon nor a bust. It's just not useful for listening to podcasts," said Doc Searls, a respected blogger and co-author of the book Cluetrain Manifesto....Veteran podcaster and former MTV host Adam Curry said the iPod shuffle makes no sense at all -- and certainly not for podcasting.I strongly disagree with these assessments. Podcasting fundamentally revolves around listening to audio that will have a temporary lifespan on your listening device. Once you've listened to a podcast, you will throw it away pretty quickly. The iPod shuffle, combined with smart use of playlists in iTunes is perfect for managing this. If the argument is that podcasts are long and hard-to-navigate, a problem compounded by the iPod shuffle, well, people need to think about making their podcasts shorter and more to the point. A little audio editing can go a long way. In fact, this is my biggest problem with podcasts in general: they're long and boring. Just like using a Blackberry (or similar) makes you more economical and precise in your E-mail writing, perhaps a flash memory device like the iPod shuffle will make people more economical and precise in their podcasting. And finally, the shuffle is affordable, something that rich snobs and digerati like Searls and Adam Curry seem to overlook: by lowering the barrier to entry, more people have the potential to discover the art of podcasting. Maybe that's what these uber-nerds really don't want: more people crowding into their geek playpen.
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« Wednesday « January 19, 2005
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to give Commencement address
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Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, will be the 2005 Commencement speaker.What's he going to tell the new crop of graduates? Think different ... but good luck finding a job? Not that it really matters who speaks. We had Tip O'Neill at my Commencement. I remembered walking into Stanford Stadium, and then waking up at a graduation party hours later.
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« Tuesday « January 18, 2005
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iPod shuffle
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Time to mix things up. Meet iPod shuffle.
I don't want my blog to seem like an Apple ad ... trust me, I have plenty of problems with Apple, and I'm not a so-called "zealot" -- I just prefer to use equipment that makes me more productive, creative and/or is more fun to actually use. I admit that I'm not very good at creating my own music, so I buy it from so-called professionals, and I need a device that can help me enjoy the creative product of other people. Now the reason I just ordered an iPod shuffle is simple, and it boils down to one word: time. With the iPod, the idea of having 5,000 songs in my pocket never really appealed to me. First of all, are there really 5,000 songs in the world that I muhf*ckin' care about -- apologies to all the Juillard readers out there, who must think I'm some kind of music-deprived person because I can't rip 5,000 songs from my record collection? In my world, books get a much, much higher priority than music. Secondly, even if there really were that many songs that I wanted to hear, when would I find the time to burn, playlist, and finally, listen to 5,000 songs ... in this lifetime? It turns out that in, say, the course of a month, there's probably more like 100-150 songs that I might want to hear at any particular time. For this, a tiny-little device like the shuffle seems perfect. And this device seems tailor-made for blogging's next frontier: podcasting. Stay tuned.
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« Monday « January 17, 2005
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MLK 2005
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"We've got some difficult days ahead..."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 3, 1968Amen to that.
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« Thursday « January 13, 2005
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Backwards Bush
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BackwardsBush won't change the fact that Dubbya is our president, it reassures us that with each passing second, we are one step closer to the next election. It lets us view (literally) these next four years in a positive and entertaining way, while making light of the fact that W. is backwards in a myriad of ways.Too phunny!
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« Tuesday « January 11, 2005
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The Mac Mini
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My first reaction: I love it - an affordable, little, tiny Mac that can sit on my bookcase, wirelessly serving tunes, photos and messages. That's how I'd use it out of the box. What's not to like? More later.
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The Importance of Being Permanent
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The Guardian's Web guy: "Without permanence you slip off the search engines. Without permanence, bold ideas like 'news as conversation' fall away, because you're shutting down the conversation before it has barely started. Without permanence, you might be on the web, but you're certainly not part of it."Amen to that, although I know of dozens and dozens of cases where people, and organizations, just decided one day to yank pages, and even sites, from the Web completely. News organizations are notorius for this, and their actions will eventually create gaping holes in understanding of past events. On a personal level, I believe that you shouldn't publish on the web unless you can deal with your website being permanent to some extent. If you change your mind at a later date, and publish material that goes against what you published days, weeks, or years earlier, then so be it. That just shows that you're human. You are allowed to change. Think of it another way: if you published a book or a magazine, instead of a website, and then changed your mind later, would you be able to go out, find, and destroy all copies once you decided your earlier words no longer fit the contemporaneous incarnation of yourself? Probably not.
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« Monday « January 10, 2005
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Companies that have fired people for blogging
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Companies that have fired people for blogging.
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« Sunday « January 9, 2005
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Education Dept. paid commentator to promote law
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Seeking to build support among black families for its education reform law, the Bush administration paid a prominent black pundit $240,000 to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same. Williams, 45, a former aide to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is one of the top black conservative voices in the nation.
National Association of Black Journalists Blasts Armstrong Williams-White House Pay-Off (NABJ.org)
Tribune Severs Ties with Armstrong (Poynter Online)
A Criminal Pattern (Oliver Willis blog)I'm not naive enough to believe that most presidential administrations don't bend the truth at times, but this incident is an example of how the current administration has elevated shading to an artform. It uses audacious propaganda and disinformation techniques to further its agenda. Similar cases have previously been exposed relating to its health care and drug use policies. This is an administration based on fraud, going all the way back to hanging chads, and it clearly has no problems using corrupt methods to achieve its goals. Is this the model government of a democracy or a totalitarian state? Can you really believe anything these people tell you? Do you think the world can believe anything they say? The upcoming inauguration on January 20 will be like putting a cherry on top of a big, steaming turd.
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« Saturday « January 8, 2005
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Gates taking a seat in your den
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Bill Gates: "The Windows ecosystem provides variety... We're doing it the Windows way... So the variety story is an important one for us; it uses our rights management format and supports a subscription approach that we think can be a significant part..."The key word I see in Gates' vision of the future is "ecosystem." In his world, everything in your digital world -- your family photos, your entertainment, be it games, music, or movies, and even your personal communications -- will exist inside a Microsoft "ecosystem." And to be able to do anything, one way or another, you're going to have to pay them. Talk about a bleak future. Another thing: Gates really seems to view the typical consumer as not very intelligent, or is that just me?
Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Commies
Truth and Bill Gates
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Experiences Make People Happier Than Material Goods, Says University Of Colorado Prof
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"Experiences foster relationships because you tend to do things with other people, so there is a great social aspect to it," Van Boven said. "Furthermore, we often share stories about experiences because they're more fun to talk about than material possessions. They are simply more entertaining."Perhaps this study explains why there are so many people who love to shop just for shopping's sake: it's the experience they crave, and not really the products they purchase. Shopping, unless it's online, typically is a social activity. Going forward, it may be better to rent things than to buy them outright: get all the experiences of shopping without the burden of ownership.
b/w: Complexity Digest
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« Saturday « January 1, 2005
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2004: The Year in Links
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A blog is nothing without its links. Below, is a chronology of the 349 links I posted or cribbed in 2004. And speaking of "cribbed," I took this paragraph directly from the year-end reviews of the last two years. In 2004, my posting frequency rose slightly: I posted 339 links in 2003. Previously, my posting frequency was on a downward spiral, from an all-time high of 788 links in 2000, when blogging was still young and free of all the inevitable marketing and monetization hype, 589 links in 2001, and 473 links in 2002. Less linking, to better (and more uncommon) sources, and yet there still seems to be an awful lot of linkrot occuring. What's the deal? When something goes online it should stay there forever, or why bother posting it in the first place?
One trend that began in 2003, and gained a lot of momentum for me was posting directly to my RSS feed and not to the blog, a process I call "invisible blogging." The advent of easy-to-use news aggregators like Bloglines and Newsgator makes it easier to keep up-to-date with a large number of weblogs via their feeds rather than site visits, and my posting more links to my feed than to my actual blog is a recognition of this fact. It will be interesting to see how this trend continues, especially as syndication capabilities get baked into devices such as cellphones, DVRs and set-top boxes. I blog mainly to gain new programming skills for my job, and as blogging techniques get integrated into other publishing, collaboration, distribution, and even media systems, there will be a lot more to learn in 2005.
The links of 2004...
Friday, December, 31, 2004+ Bleary Days for Eyes on the Prize (Wired News)
+ Callgirl of Cthulhu, fiberglass statue
+ My Favorite Web Tools of 2004
Thursday, December, 30, 2004+ My Favorite Blogs of 2004
Monday, December, 20, 2004+ Colts QB one away from Marino's record (ESPN.com)
Sunday, December, 19, 2004+ There She Is: China's First Miss Plastic Surgery (Yahoo! News)
+ Cartoon Skeletons (Michael Paulus)
Saturday, December, 18, 2004+ Bush Monkeys (Yahoo! News)
Friday, December, 17, 2004+ Facial Expression Test (CIO.com)
+ The DNA of Literature (Paris Review)
Thursday, December, 16, 2004+ War of the Worlds: How Orson Welles Drew the Nation into a Shared IIlusion (Transparency)
+ Yankees closing on 3-way trade for Unit (ESPN.com)
Tuesday, December, 14, 2004+ Huge games by Titans' Volek, Bennett not enough (ESPN.com)
Monday, December, 13, 2004+ The Evolution of Mario
Sunday, December, 12, 2004+ Iraq Blowback Is Global and Growing (AntiWar.com)
+ The Five Stages of Democratic Grief (AlterNet)
+ Harris hired as Stanford's new football coach (SFGate.com)
Sunday, December, 5, 2004+ Bloglines ... ain't working for me today!
+ Aaron on Bonds: No matter what, 'It's wrong' (ESPN.com)
Wednesday, December, 1, 2004+ Why Do We Blog? (Sandhill Trek blog)
+ Target B.J.?
+ World AIDS Day 2004
Tuesday, November, 30, 2004+ Top 10 most overrated stars (MSNBC.com)
+ Willingham fired by Notre Dame after (just) three years (ESPN.com)
+ Audio of Ken Jennings' loss (kottke.org)
Monday, November, 29, 2004+ Half Empty? Half Full?
+ History's Actors (Abstract Dynamics blog)
+ Buy Nothing Christmas (Adbusters)
Sunday, November, 28, 2004+ "No Credibility" With Muslims (Spin of the Day)
+ Exploding Cell Phones a Growing Problem (EWeek)
+ Blogdigger Groups - Beta
Saturday, November, 27, 2004+ GOP embarrassed by tax returns measure (CNN.com)
+ The Kitchen: How to Cook a Weblog
Tuesday, November, 23, 2004+ The Blogosphere By the Numbers (ClickZ)
Saturday, November, 20, 2004+ Keyhole
Friday, November, 19, 2004+ Thump (Oakley.com)
+ Hardee's rolls out new 'Monster Thickburger' (CNN.com)
Tuesday, November, 16, 2004+ red america, blue america (emembering rebecca('s pocket))
+ ABC apologizes for sexy Owens-Sheridan skit on MNF intro (SJ Mercury News)
Wednesday, November, 3, 2004+ Beware the CEO blog (Seth's Blog)
+ Speaking Of: Where My Head Is At... Today? ( [ caught In between ] blog)
Tuesday, October, 26, 2004+ GQ Names the Twenty Best and Five Worst Pro Sports Uniforms of All Time (Yahoo! News)
Sunday, October, 24, 2004+ YouGrok.com
Wednesday, October, 20, 2004+ Yanks vs. Sawx, Game 6 (FOXSports.com)
+ Yankees vs. Sawx, Game 7 (CBS Sportsline)
Monday, October, 18, 2004+ Yanks vs. Sawx, Game 5 (MLB.com)
Saturday, October, 16, 2004+ Yankees vs. Red Sox (MLB.com)
Tuesday, October, 12, 2004+ del.icio.us redux (The Social Software Weblog)
Monday, October, 11, 2004+ RedLightGreen.com
+ Dream On - It's not a dream...we have the package art (TVShowsOnDVD.com)
+ Good To Be In DC (AlbinoBlacksheep.com)
Saturday, October, 9, 2004+ Google SMS
+ The Media Sucks, And It's Your Fault (apophenia blog)
+ Samarra Burning... (Baghdad Burning blog)
+ Big Fat Obnoxious Boss (Fox.com)
Friday, October, 8, 2004+ Comparison of life in Piscataway, New Jersey, Kochi, Japan, and Zhuzhou, China
+ 'White Power' music targets teens (Silver Rights blog)
+ Bootleg RSS: TV Edition
+ XMLTV
Thursday, October, 7, 2004+ iPodder, the cross-platform Podcast receiver (Sourceforge.net)
+ Last.FM
Tuesday, October, 5, 2004+ Open Laszlo
+ How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) (Engadget.com)
Monday, October, 4, 2004+ China strives for its own global mega-brands (Asia Times Online)
+ Sex is a simple equation (Independent UK)
+ Role Model at Bat? (PopMatters)
+ Rumsfeld: "No Al Qaeda-Saddam Link" (Sky News)
Thursday, September, 30, 2004+ Internet powers tonight's Presidential debate (CNN.com)
+ First Presidential Debate (2004) (Google News/Search)
Wednesday, September, 29, 2004+ Taxi
Tuesday, September, 28, 2004+ The Age of iPod Politics (Time.com)
+ Social Networking Map: Black Bloggers (Formica blog)
Monday, September, 27, 2004+ Guide to Springfield USA
+ If RSS ain't broke... (ZDNet)
Friday, September, 24, 2004+ Kilts
+ My Tuesday with the World Economy Forum (Joho the Blog)
Tuesday, September, 21, 2004+ The Benefactor (PopMatters)
+ Movie listings (kottke.org)
+ The Invisible Electorate (SFGate.com)
Monday, September, 20, 2004+ The Lynching of Dan Rather (GregPalast.com)
Sunday, September, 19, 2004+ BBEdit 8 (Daring Fireball)
+ Bloggers Declare War on Comment Spam, but Can They Win? (Online Journalism Review)
Friday, September, 17, 2004+ Opening up TV, a new API (counternotions blog)
Thursday, September, 16, 2004+ Klaatu barada nikto (The Day the Earth Stood Still Reference Library)
Wednesday, September, 15, 2004+ Chi Modu
+ fragmentation of fashion (gapingvoid blog)
+ The Fragmentation of Fashion II (Corante: Customer Intelligence)
Tuesday, September, 14, 2004+ Donald please? (Blog Maverick)
+ In Memoriam (UppityNegro blog)
Monday, September, 13, 2004+ British Comics
+ Marketers Chase Consumers Into The Bathroom (AdAge.com)
+ Long-Standing Tensions Fuel Darfur Conflict (NPR Morning Edition)
+ BugMeNot.com
+ People's Republic of Mac (Wired News)
Saturday, September, 11, 2004+ Gmail for cellphones (Engadget)
Friday, September, 10, 2004+ Bandwidth cost of RSS (Scripting News)
Thursday, September, 9, 2004+ What Bush means to African-Americans (WorldNetDaily)
+ UPN unveils 'America's Next Top Model 3' contestants (Reality TV World)
Wednesday, September, 8, 2004+ Black boys betrayed by racist school system, says UK report (Guardian)
+ NewsByName.co.uk
+ Why I'm Black, Not African American (LA Times)
Tuesday, September, 7, 2004+ Cannabis extract shrinks brain tumours (New Scientist)
+ Election 2004: Freedom, Liberty, Freedom (AlterNet)
+ Some People, They're Stupid On Purpose (Oliver Willis blog)
Monday, September, 6, 2004+ The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004 (Project Censored)
Sunday, September, 5, 2004+ The Banality of Google (Ftrain.com)
+ Stanford Tops San Jose St., 43-3 (GoStanford.com)
+ Powell and Rice cannot Overshadow Bush's Civil Rights Record (BlackPressUSA.com)
+ Voting: It Ain't Worth It, Homie! (The Boondocks (@ ucomics.com))
Saturday, September, 4, 2004+ Two-hitter adds to Yanks' woes (ESPN.com)
+ Horrors of the Beslan atrocity (Guardian UK)
+ Finding Formica (allaboutgeorge blog)
Friday, September, 3, 2004+ Unmitigated Gall (AlterNet)
+ Rove's Brain and Media Manipulation (AlterNet)
+ Kerry Takes Off Gloves (washingtonpost.com)
+ Political Victory: From Here to Maternity (washingtonpost.com)
Thursday, September, 2, 2004+ Bush=Ford. Kerry=BMW. (Landor)
Wednesday, September, 1, 2004+ Indians 22, Yankees 0 (ESPN.com)
+ Bush Daughters a Bust (TalkLeft blog)
+ Kobe case dismissed at request of prosecution (ESPN.com)
+ Immigrant Song. (Ghost in the Machine blog)
Tuesday, August, 31, 2004+ Some Bodies That Matter (Chickenbones)
+ Past Imperfect: The GOP Invention (Africana.com)
Monday, August, 30, 2004+ Hooters sets its eyes on India (MSNBC.com)
+ The Complex (Fox.com)
+ Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Vol. 01 (2004) (PopMatters)
Sunday, August, 29, 2004+ Hero (RottenTomatoes.com)
Saturday, August, 28, 2004+ Cancelled Elections, 2004? (Depression.tv)
+ The needed changes in (US Basketball) (ESPN.com)
+ Feed Search vs. Web Search (Zawodny's blog)
Friday, August, 27, 2004+ Advertising's New Wham-Bam! (reveries magazine)
+ Deion 'definitely coming back' (ESPN.com)
Thursday, August, 26, 2004+ Marbury Sparks U.S. Win Over Spain (Yahoo! Sports)
+ Cheney's comments on gay marriage... (rebecca's pocket blog)
+ The haters can't handle the truth (ESPN.com: Page 2)
+ huge cluetrain hole (gapingvoid blog)
Wednesday, August, 25, 2004+ QT's Diary
+ G.O.P.'s Southern Strategy? Cranking Up Lynyrd Skynyrd (NY Times)
Tuesday, August, 24, 2004+ Amazing Money Jar Bank (Discovery Channel Store)
+ Ghost Blogging (Fresh Perspectives blog)
+ Mel Gibson, leading the unwashed from the technological desert? (Canuckflack blog)
+ Organizr (Flickr.com)
+ It's In The Game (EA Sports)
Monday, August, 23, 2004+ 44,000 prison inmates to be RFID-chipped (silicon.com)
+ The Panopticon
+ HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future (Blog Maverick)
+ Swift Boat Veterans for Truth/Talk page archive (Disinfopedia)
Sunday, August, 22, 2004+ Election 2004: Jim Crow is Alive and Well (AlterNet)
+ Outsourcing and Patriotism (AlterNet: Election 2004)
+ Can it be fixed in seven days? (ESPN.com)
+ ESPN.com Fantasy Football
+ The Olympics through the eyes of Europe (Marc's Voice)
+ Gibson's Pattern Recognition - what did I miss? (Philip Greenspun's Weblog)
Friday, August, 20, 2004+ Discogs
+ The Name Game (ABCNEWS.com)
Thursday, August, 19, 2004+ ACLU Pizza (AdCritic Interactive)
+ Smart tiles add reality to virtual worlds (New Scientist)
+ DNA technique protects against 'evil' emails (New Scientist)
+ Israel and the American Elections (Counterpunch)
+ A Party of Cowards (AntiWar.com)
+ Tokyo Rats a Gnawing Problem (asahi.com)
Wednesday, August, 18, 2004+ The New Economic Reality Dictionary (UrbanSurvivial.com)
+ Was McGreevey 'sex scandal' an Israeli Intelligence operation?! (AlJazeera.com)
+ A Flunky By Any Other Name (The Black World Today)
+ Colin Powell meets feline doppelganger (Boston.com)
+ Survivor: Vanuatu (CBS.com)
+ M(i)Robot (robosapienonline.com)
Monday, August, 16, 2004+ del.icio.us
+ threetwoone.org
+ Comcast to carry NFL Network on digital cable (SI.com)
+ Wal-Mart=Bush. Costco=Kerry. (Slate.com)
+ Opensecrets.org
+ Hip Hop Minstrels (Afrikan.Net)
Thursday, August, 12, 2004+ itunes versus jazz preservation (harlem.org)
+ Slap that bass... (Ibanez.com)
+ Obama's Speech, plus... (iTunes Music Store)
Wednesday, August, 11, 2004+ Joe Schmo 2 (SpikeTV.com)
+ Red Menace (TV Guide Online)
+ Funniest Man on TV (TV Guide Online)
+ aids in africa/aids in the usa (grim amusements blog)
+ Picture What Matters (Yahoo! Mobile/Yahoo! Photos)
Sunday, August, 8, 2004+ Da Ali G Show: Sux (HBO.com)
Saturday, August, 7, 2004+ how to be creative (gapingvoid blog)
Friday, August, 6, 2004+ Dubya Does It Again! (Capitol Hill Blue)
+ Republicans Put a Racist on the Ballot in Tennessee (Capitol Hill Blue)
Wednesday, August, 4, 2004+ Deception Detection (Science News Online)
Tuesday, August, 3, 2004+ International exposure: Team USA loses to Italy (ESPN.com)
Friday, July, 30, 2004+ Identity Theft 911
+ Tyson knocked out in fourth round (FOXSports.com)
Thursday, July, 29, 2004+ 'Frozen Ark' to save animal DNA (BBC)
Wednesday, July, 28, 2004+ POLITICS.technorati.com (Technorati)
Saturday, July, 24, 2004+ Make The Pie Higher (Guardian UK)
Sunday, July, 4, 2004+ Dashboard vs. Konfabulator (Daring Fireball blog)
Monday, June, 28, 2004+ The Child and The Artist (NewsScan.com)
Friday, June, 25, 2004+ La Russa confronts Kline after reliever's obscene gesture (MSNBC.com)
Thursday, June, 24, 2004+ Hiatus
Sunday, June, 20, 2004+ The Vertical Farm Project
Tuesday, June, 15, 2004+ NBA Finals 2004 - BLOWOUT!!!! (NBA.com)
Wednesday, June, 9, 2004+ Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 (Steve Gilliard's News Blog)
+ Killer, coward, con-man: Good riddance, Gipper (The Smirking Chimp)
Monday, June, 7, 2004+ 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' saves defendant wrongly accused in murder case (CNN.com)
Sunday, June, 6, 2004+ Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow (Seattle Weekly)
+ Paleoclimatology
Saturday, June, 5, 2004+ Baseball-Reference.com
Monday, May, 31, 2004+ After the Mix Tape I Guess Comes The Tears: Mixtapes, Major Labels and the Song Flow (Abstract Dynamics blog)
+ Walnut Creek youth gets perfect score on math test (Contra Costa Times)
+ Purple Album
+ Trolley offers supermarket workout (BBC.com)
Thursday, May, 27, 2004+ Amazon (thumbs up), Apple iTunes (thumbs down)
+ dodgeball.com
+ [WWII] Black Soldiers Battled Fascism and Racism (washingtonpost.com)
Monday, May, 24, 2004+ U.S. Nearing Deal on Way to Track Foreign Visitors (NY Times)
Sunday, May, 23, 2004+ Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, Spain Launches Microchip Implantation for VIP Members (PrisonPlanet.com)
+ (Obey Your) Thirst! (MilesThirst.com)
Friday, May, 21, 2004+ Ice-T to produce Hasselhoff rap album (Ananova)
+ Magic Johnson joins NASCAR diversity committee (SI.com)
Wednesday, May, 19, 2004+ Army gunning for game players (CNET News.com)
+ Big Ticket's Big Bash (NBA.com)
Tuesday, May, 18, 2004+ Personas and plogs (Jon's Radio blog)
Tuesday, May, 11, 2004+ Surviving the Late Show (CBS.com/Late Show with David Letterman)
Thursday, May, 6, 2004+ Musicnotes.com
Wednesday, May, 5, 2004+ Too Many Fake Friends (PCMag)
+ Confronting the demons of urban warfare (Asia Times)
Tuesday, May, 4, 2004+ Faces of the Fallen (washingtonpost.com)
+ My World66
Thursday, April, 29, 2004+ Missouri tracks scofflaws via pizza-delivery databases (USATODAY.com)
+ Blog justice and its discontents. (allaboutgeorge.com blog)
+ (NBA) Trophy comes to Indy (Indy Star)
Wednesday, April, 28, 2004+ 18 months of phone cam photos (curiousLee blog)
+ Blog-Tracking May Gain Ground Among U.S. Intelligence Officials (Yahoo! News)
Thursday, April, 22, 2004+ Thank you, Donald (Blog Maverick)
+ Must-See TV Ads - Data Mining (CIO)
Tuesday, April, 20, 2004+ YASNS Meta List, Comments Please? (The Social Software Weblog)
+ New Jersey Nets (2) vs. New York Knicks (7) (NBA.com)
Monday, April, 19, 2004+ Men redundant? Now we don't need women either (The Observer)
+ Black abstraction in Lancaster (Philadelphia Inquirer)
+ Ectogenesis Web Space
Friday, April, 16, 2004+ The Apprentice: Bill Wins/Kwame Loses (NBC.com)
Thursday, April, 15, 2004+ Shells found in Africa dispel the theory that culture began in Europe (Telegraph UK)
+ Sony, Toppan develop optical disc made from paper (Forbes.com)
Wednesday, April, 14, 2004+ zoe
+ Remember the Alamo... (Silver Rights blog)
+ What business is the NBA in? (Blog Maverick)
Tuesday, April, 13, 2004+ Petophilia (Slate)
Monday, April, 12, 2004+ The Apprentice: Only Two Remain (NBC.com)
Sunday, April, 11, 2004+ August 6, 2001 (Abstract Dynamics blog)
Friday, April, 9, 2004+ Introduction to Photoblogs and MoBlogs (PhotographyBLOG)
+ EcoVisual
Thursday, April, 8, 2004+ Taglines Galore
+ Fundrace.org
Monday, April, 5, 2004+ Map: US Black Population by County (GIS Data Bank)
+ Seinfeld Blog
+ Children And TV (TurnOffYourTV.com)
+ If There Were No TV in America... (The Exile)
Thursday, April, 1, 2004+ Will 'moblogs' mean mo' money? (News.com)
+ NPG Music Club
+ Some General Basketball Thoughts (Blog Maverick)
Wednesday, March, 31, 2004+ Conscientious Objector (I, Cringely/PBS.com)
+ The 39 Steps: On Story Writing (USM Center for Writers)
Friday, March, 26, 2004+ Dawn of the Dead (2004) (metacritc)
Thursday, March, 25, 2004+ Commodity Music (Yahoo!)
Sunday, March, 21, 2004+ Stanford runs out of miracles (FoxSports.com)
+ TypeKey: The Patriot Act of Weblogging (BurningBird blog)
+ Doing a Job on the U.S.A. (washingtonpost.com)
Friday, March, 19, 2004+ Blog Survey: Summary of Findings
+ American Idol site reflects racism of society (Silver Rights blog)
Wednesday, March, 17, 2004+ Waiting to Exhale...
Monday, March, 15, 2004+ Bracketology (ESPN.com)
+ N * E * R * D
Saturday, March, 13, 2004+ What To Do If The RIAA Sues You
+ Resume Fraud Gets Slicker and Easier (Reuters.com)
+ High-Tech Background Checks Hit Stores (Excite)
+ Vikings? Such friendly folk, say textbooks (Guardian Unlimited)
+ Amid schadenfreude, sympathy for Martha (CSMonitor.com)
Friday, March, 12, 2004+ Tony Soprano on Management
Thursday, March, 11, 2004+ MovieRec (Infinityball.com)
+ RoboSapien
Wednesday, March, 10, 2004+ A Different Campaign for Nike (NY Times)
+ Wicked Wisdom
Sunday, March, 7, 2004+ QOTD: "Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things."
Saturday, March, 6, 2004+ How Not to Get Hooked by a 'Phishing' Scam (FTC.gov)
+ ID Theft (FTC.gov)
+ Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious (Wired News)
Thursday, March, 4, 2004+ Delivering Films to Fans (Cinequest Online)
+ Harrick Jr.'s 'easy' UGA final exam uncovered (SI.com)
+ engadget
Sunday, February, 29, 2004+ Oscar Winner's List (CNN.com)
Saturday, February, 28, 2004+ Mr. T vs. X (Yahoo!)
Friday, February, 27, 2004+ The truth about Orkut.com (Corante:Many-to-Many)
Tuesday, February, 24, 2004+ segusoLand
Thursday, February, 19, 2004+ How to do Social Network Analysis (orgnet.com)
Monday, February, 16, 2004+ A-Rod blockbuster almost done (MLB.com)
Sunday, February, 15, 2004+ Workplace data theft runs rampant (BBC)
Thursday, February, 12, 2004+ PeopleAggregator.com source code
+ Breast for Success (Slate)
+ One plus one equals a couple? (Independent UK)
+ blog, v. (Oxford English Dictionary)
Wednesday, February, 11, 2004+ Columbine-style attack averted (SF Gate)
Monday, February, 9, 2004+ GarageBand Kicks Out the Jams (Wired News)
+ NYC Hip-Hop mogul sounds off on politics (NY Daily News)
+ Race only skin deep (Mercury News)
Saturday, February, 7, 2004+ Report finds HPD frisks blacks 3 1/2 times more than whites (HoustonChronicle.com)
+ Snackster.net
Thursday, February, 5, 2004+ Treo-diction (gigaom blog)
+ It's Miss Jackson, if you're nasty...
+ Clarett wins lawsuit against NFL (ESPN.com)
Sunday, February, 1, 2004+ The Jargon Dictionary
Thursday, January, 29, 2004+ Producer on first all Black reality show (CNN)
+ Google vs. Booble, and a kid named orkut (Google Weblog)
Wednesday, January, 28, 2004+ My Hoopty, um, My Treo600!
Tuesday, January, 27, 2004+ Seniors taking to computer games (The Salt Lake Tribune)
+ A comparison (Hi. I'm Black!)
Monday, January, 26, 2004+ Khakee (HindustanTimes.com)
+ 'Monk' comes clean (New York Daily News)
+ WeaKnees.com
+ Don't bet against the Panthers & Patriots (Media Life)
+ Bird flu could be worse than SARS, UN warns (Guardian Unlimited)
+ Philips Creates Foldable Screens for E-Newspapers (Reuters)
Sunday, January, 25, 2004+ Content Deliverance (TheFeature)
Saturday, January, 24, 2004+ Hemp Honey
Thursday, January, 22, 2004+ iCalShare
+ iTunes Music Store RSS Generator
+ Does Mobile Telephony Disconnect People from City Life? (TheFeature)
+ Interactive Electoral Map
+ On comments and weblogs (megnut blog)
+ 100 Greatest Super Bowl Moments (ESPN.com/Page2)
Wednesday, January, 21, 2004+ My Treo600 has arrived...
Saturday, January, 17, 2004+ How to get rich slow
Friday, January, 16, 2004+ EFF Secures Protection for ReplayTV Clients (EFF)
+ Nobel Prize Winners Hate School (Learn in Freedom!)
Tuesday, January, 13, 2004+ Racist war of the loyalist street gangs (Guardian Unlimited UK)
Sunday, January, 11, 2004+ Profitless Prosperity? (GigaOm)
+ 75% of Net Users Connect Sans Browser (BigBlueBall)
+ My So-Called Blog (NY Times)
+ Law Enforcement Targets
+ Why I Hate Personal Weblogs
+ Everyday items illustrate legacy of racism in U.S. (SJ Merc)
Saturday, January, 10, 2004+ The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003 (Project Censored)
Thursday, January, 8, 2004+ Traffic, obsession and happiness (Joi Ito's Web)
Wednesday, January, 7, 2004+ A Big Garage (Daring Fireball blog)
+ Shrook
+ quickSub
+ Google Fight
+ US to overhaul immigration law (BBC)
+ Send Them Back!!
Monday, January, 5, 2004+ Curt Schilling, Media Theorist? (MIT Technology Review)
+ Art & Fear: Best advice on how to do art (CoolTools blog)
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