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« Tuesday « November 30, 2004
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  1. {11302004}
  2. {11:01:45 PM}
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  1. Audio of Ken Jennings' loss
    
    (kottke.org)
  2. Kottke: "I've been contacted by a lawyer representing Sony and they have asked me to remove the audio clip. Sorry."
    
    I'm not a big Jeopardy fan; the only "game show" I watch semi-regularly is Survivor, but I was aware of the winning streak this Jennings dude was rolling. It just seems like Sony had a bunch of lawyers with a lot of billable time on their hands. I don't see how a blog scoop could have any real effect on the show's audience or ratings. How many of the show's core audience reads weblogs? Just let it go. Boykottke Sony, I say!
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  2. 11:01:45 PM
  3. Kottke: "I've been contacted by a lawyer representing Sony and they have asked me to remove the audio clip. Sorry."..."
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  2. television
  3. entertainment
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2. datetime
  1. {11302004}
  2. {10:39:54 PM}
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  1. Willingham fired by Notre Dame after (just) three years
    
    (ESPN.com)
  2. Coach Tyrone Willingham was fired by Notre Dame on Tuesday after three seasons in which he failed to return one of the nation's most storied football programs to prominence.
    
    Here's what I think: F*ck Notre Dame. Every other coach ND has ever had was allowed to serve the term of his contract. So why not Tyrone? He had big wins this year against Michigan and Tennessee. They're bowl-bound. He had a winning record. I guess the Golden Domers aren't holier than anyone else after all: they don't make the Top 10 for a year or two and panic sets in... because football is all that they have to give their school any sort of credibility. Pathetic. And isn't it ironic, in a Jim Crow kind of way, that the ND athletic director's name is Kevin White. Of course, race played nothing in this, but the Black guy gets his contract clipped short by two full years. Funny how that equal opportunity stuff works. Enough said.
    
    As a diehard Stanford alum, I say: let's bring Tyrone back to The Farm. We brought Bill Walsh back, and he never had the same kind of success. Willingham was the most successful recruiter we had in the last 25 years and at least half-a-dozen of his guys now play on Sundays. All of his kids graduated on time. He beat Notre Dame. He got us to a Rose Bowl once. He can do it again. But at least we understand that these kids are student-athletes, and that some years will be great and some will be average or below. We're not a football factory, we're a top-tier school, but we still compete with the best on the field too. Paging Stanford Athletic Dept.: you better call Tyrone.
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  2. 10:39:54 PM
  3. Coach Tyrone Willingham was fired by Notre Dame on Tuesday after three seasons in which he failed to return one of the nation's most storied football programs to prominence...."
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  2. racism
  3. sports
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3. datetime
  1. {11302004}
  2. {12:35:54 AM}
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  1. Top 10 most overrated stars
    
    (MSNBC.com)
  2. Who puts the "suck" in success?
    
    It's a pretty good list. Generally, all of these so-called "stars" are one-note kinds of performers. They have no range, so whenever they show up in a movie or a show, or on someone's record, they just do the same thing they've always done. They take "keep it simple" and turn it into fame and fortune. In other words, they're all just gimmicks. On the other hand, perhaps it's the general public who create these monsters by continuing to patronize their productions; once someone has established their name in a certain entertainment genre, take Schwarzenegger (#2), it's hard for fans to accept them in other roles. Sure, Ahnuld did comedies like "Kindergarten Cop" and "Twins," but besides the fact that neither film was very funny, I think most people simply saw those flicks as the Terminator hanging out in street clothes. Limited talent is only partially to blame. Customer preference is a much bigger factor in determining who ultimately becomes a star. Want better talent? Demand it by voting with your pocketbook.
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  3. Who puts the "suck" in success?..."
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  3. culture
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« Monday « November 29, 2004
1. datetime
  1. {11292004}
  2. {01:33:10 PM}
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  1. History's Actors
    
    (Abstract Dynamics blog)
  2. The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore,"" he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors."
    
    I do this a lot, but doesn't this unnamed Bush aide sound a lot like Agent Smith from "The Matrix"? If Dubya's administration is the empire, bent on creating their own reality, then perhaps the Democrats need to create their own Neo myth in order to fight back effectively.
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  2. 01:33:10 PM
  3. The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment princi..."
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  2. politics
  3. propaganda
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2. datetime
  1. {11292004}
  2. {12:57:17 PM}
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  1. Buy Nothing Christmas
    
    (Adbusters)
  2. Gather family and friends, let's rise above the consumer binge and celebrate a Buy Nothing Christmas. But wait. Without the plastic gifts, how will you show you care?
    
    It is possible to show you care without running up your credit card balances. Unfortunately, I think that for most people, that kind of creativity takes too much effort. I mean, come on, drop an iPod on your kids, give your girl diamond jewelry, or your guy a plasma screen, and they'll lurv you forever!
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  3. Gather family and friends, let's rise above the consumer binge and celebrate a Buy Nothing Christmas. But wait. Without the plastic gifts, how will you show you care?..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. consumerism
  3. culture
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3. datetime
  1. {11292004}
  2. {11:10:41 AM}
  content
  1. Half Empty? Half Full?
  2. I was thinking about this on the train the other day: It's not that I see the glass of water half-empty or half-full. Most see the glass. I see the water, on which most living things depend. Most see the limitations. I see the potentials.
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  3. I was thinking about this on the train the other day: It's not that I see the glass of water half-empty or half-full. Most see the glass. I see the water, on which most living things depend. Most see the limitations. I see the potentials...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. psychology
  3. humanities
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« Sunday « November 28, 2004
1. datetime
  1. {11282004}
  2. {10:35:01 AM}
  content
  1. Blogdigger Groups - Beta
  2. Blogdigger Groups allows you to combine the contents of two or more blogs making the combined content easily accessible all at once.
    
    Welcome to the cut-and-paste blogosphere.
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  2. 10:35:01 AM
  3. Blogdigger Groups allows you to combine the contents of two or more blogs making the combined content easily accessible all at once...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. weblogs
  3. internet
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2. datetime
  1. {11282004}
  2. {02:22:53 AM}
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  1. Exploding Cell Phones a Growing Problem
    
    (EWeek)
  2. U.S. phone makers and carriers say most fires and explosions are caused by counterfeit batteries and note that in a country with some 170 million cell phone users, the number of accidents is extremely low. "If you're cramming more and more power in a small space, what you're making is a small bomb."
    
    Discounting the hyperbole for a minute, with all the things you can do with cellphones these days, we may be reaching the point of diminishing returns. There's only so much you can do with your thumb and the palm of your hand, and it's not worth losing a hand to do it. But then, didn't they also used to tell us that cellphones would cause brain tumors?
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  3. U.S. phone makers and carriers say most fires and explosions are caused by counterfeit batteries and note that in a country with some 170 million cell phone users, the number of accidents is extremely low. "If you're cramming more and more power in a sma..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. telecommunications
  3. technology
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3. datetime
  1. {11282004}
  2. {01:52:52 AM}
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  1. "No Credibility" With Muslims
    
    (Spin of the Day)
  2. Al-Qaeda and radical Islamists are winning the propaganda war against the United States, according to a new report by the Defense Science Board, a high-level Pentagon panel. "American direct intervention in the Muslim World has paradoxically elevated the stature of and support for radical Islamists, while diminishing support for the United States to single-digits in some Arab societies.
    
    It makes one ponder this thought: exactly who believes that the United States, under its current regime, has any credibility...anywhere?
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  3. Al-Qaeda and radical Islamists are winning the propaganda war against the United States, according to a new report by the Defense Science Board, a high-level Pentagon panel. "American direct intervention in the Muslim World has paradoxically elevated the..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. military
  3. politics
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« Saturday « November 27, 2004
1. datetime
  1. {11272004}
  2. {07:44:31 PM}
  content
  1. The Kitchen: How to Cook a Weblog
  2. A community-based online book about weblogging.
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  2. 07:44:31 PM
  3. A community-based online book about weblogging...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. weblogs
  3. reference
  type
2. datetime
  1. {11272004}
  2. {02:29:34 AM}
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  1. GOP embarrassed by tax returns measure
    
    (CNN.com)
  2. Congress passed legislation Saturday giving two committee chairman and their assistants access to income tax returns without regard to privacy protections, but not before red-faced Republicans said the measure was a mistake and would be swiftly repealed.
    
    This one's a week old -- I'm just getting back to blogging on a semi-regular schedule again -- but I fear this is how politics will be played with the Republicans in power: dirty, secretive, and one-sided. Power corrupts absolutely.
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  2. 02:29:34 AM
  3. Congress passed legislation Saturday giving two committee chairman and their assistants access to income tax returns without regard to privacy protections, but not before red-faced Republicans said the measure was a mistake and would be swiftly repealed...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. politics
  3. government
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« Tuesday « November 23, 2004
1. datetime
  1. {11232004}
  2. {10:20:40 PM}
  content
  1. The Blogosphere By the Numbers
    
    (ClickZ)
  2. [D]ata charting the blog phenomenon have been vigorously consumed, and in some cases contradictory.
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  2. 10:20:40 PM
  3. [D]ata charting the blog phenomenon have been vigorously consumed, and in some cases contradictory...."
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  2. weblogs
  3. reference
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« Saturday « November 20, 2004
1. datetime
  1. {11202004}
  2. {10:07:57 AM}
  content
  1. Keyhole
  2. Fly from space to your home town. Visit exotic locales such as Maui, Tokyo, Rome and Paris. Satellite imagery makes it real. Explore restaurants, hotels, parks and schools. Think magic carpet ride!
    
    Sounds like a big eye in the sky ... watching you all the time. Convenience and surveillance at the same time.
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  2. 10:07:57 AM
  3. Fly from space to your home town. Visit exotic locales such as Maui, Tokyo, Rome and Paris. Satellite imagery makes it real. Explore restaurants, hotels, parks and schools. Think magic carpet ride!..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. intelligence
  3. technology
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« Friday « November 19, 2004
1. datetime
  1. {11192004}
  2. {11:00:58 AM}
  content
  1. Hardee's rolls out new 'Monster Thickburger'
    
    (CNN.com)
  2. [C]howing down on the 1,420-calorie burger, which contains 107 grams of fat, will cost around $7 with fries and a soda.
    
    In many parts of the world, there are people who are lucky if they can get 1,400 calories of nourishment in one day, let alone one "fast food" meal ... and then we wonder why other countries hate us (we're gluttons), why so many Americans are obese, and why so many Americans are in poor health. Fat-asses and fat-heads, have it your way, but please don't forget to sign up early for your massive coronary, because it's coming.
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  2. 11:00:58 AM
  3. [C]howing down on the 1,420-calorie burger, which contains 107 grams..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. food and drink
  3. culture
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2. datetime
  1. {11192004}
  2. {05:06:46 AM}
  content
  1. Thump
    
    (Oakley.com)
  2. OAKLEY THUMP is the world's first digital music eyewear.
    
    Very cool.
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  2. 05:06:46 AM
  3. OAKLEY THUMP is the world's first digital music eyewear...."
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  2. faqs
  3. technology
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« Tuesday « November 16, 2004
1. datetime
  1. {11162004}
  2. {02:30:53 PM}
  content
  1. red america, blue america
    
    (remembering rebecca('s pocket))
  2. The country's perceived polarity, he suggested, might be more accurately described as parity.
    
    Rebecca's hubby, JJG, well-known in IA circles as quite a serious mind when it comes to looking at and understanding information, shows, in a series of colorized maps, that America isn't just the coastal states blue, and the interior states red, but that the whole country is either mostly red or mostly blue, if you take into account the party-related information on a county-by-county basis.
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  2. 02:30:53 PM
  3. The country's perceived polarity, he suggested, might be more accurately described as parity...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. politics
  3. government
  type
2. datetime
  1. {11162004}
  2. {07:39:45 PM}
  content
  1. ABC apologizes for sexy Owens-Sheridan skit on MNF intro
    
    (SJ Mercury News)
  2. ABC says it went out of bounds with Terrell Owens and Nicollette Sheridan. She persuaded him to skip the game and play with her instead. (In real life, Owens caught three touchdown passes in the 49-21 victory over Dallas.)
    
    Posted just for effect, or is that affect ... as from the fever? Red America, hell all America, can't deal with this kind of stuff! It's 1954, er, 2004, after all. (Registration required, or just use the bugmenot code.)
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  2. 07:39:45 PM
  3. ABC says it went out of bounds with Terrell Owens and Nicollette Sheridan. She persuaded him to skip the game and play with her instead. (In real life, Owens caught three touchdown passes in the 49-21 victory over Dallas.)..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. racism
  3. propaganda
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« Wednesday « November 3, 2004
1. datetime
  1. {11032004}
  2. {10:23:20 PM}
  content
  1. Speaking Of: Where My Head Is At... Today?
    
    ( [ caught In between ] blog)
  2. This will be the first of a multi-part rant, to be recorded, here, over the next several days. Here are the current non-sequiturs bubbling from my brain to my tap-typing fingers:
    1) (Cliche alert) America gets the kind of government Amerikkka wants;
    2) To Dubya Administration 2.0: no longer will you have anyone to blame but yourselves for the inevitable national and international misfortunes that we'll all experience in the next four years, since your actions over the last few years have done nothing by magnify the targets on all our backs;
    3) Fear-mongering really works!
    4) The Washington Redskins thing was a hoax, and so is the "team";
    5) Jon Stewart was right when he critized our media on Crossfire: they didn't really do a good job of educating and preparing all of us "smart" voters for the actual voting performance. And of course, there were long lines, and long waits... wonder how many just gave up waiting, said, 'screw this!' and gave up without voting ... after having registered for the first time. As a result, it looks like we voted in ways that make the entire, dreadfully-long campaign seem like a segment lifted right out of a bad, Reality TV show. And it's true. This campaign was like a 9-month run of Survivor: lots of talking heads, a few staged challenges, that you can even bet on in Vegas, then more talking heads, yak, yak, yak... and then this abbreviated tribal council, and someone gets voted out from left field, and it wasn't even close;
    6) Same-sex partnerships are detrimental to the nation's 'moral fibre' (UK spelling, mine), and that's bahd for business;
    7) Multi-billon dollar deficits don't really matter, your grandkids aren't even close to being born yet, and since you'll never really get to know them, it's not that bad that you're screwing them tomorrow in order to get your's today!
    8) Geopolitical and military mistakes don't matter, only the consistent application of the same approach time and time again, regardless of outcome; also known as the --- Flip-Flop Corollary: i.e. even when armed with the facts, continue to do what you were going to do, even if what you were going to do has been proven to be a complete, unmitigated failure.
    My name's Dubya V. Moerohn, and Ah approved this message.
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  3. This will be the first of a multi-part rant, to be recorded, here, over the next several days. Here are the current non-sequiturs bubbling from my brain to my tap-typing fingers:
    1) (Cliche alert) America gets the kind of government Amerikkka wants;..."
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  2. humor
  3. politics
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2. datetime
  1. {11032004}
  2. {07:57:38 AM}
  content
  1. Beware the CEO blog
    
    (Seth's Blog)
  2. Here's the problem. Blogs work when they are based on: Candor, Urgency, Timeliness, Pithiness, and Controversy (maybe Utility if you want six). Does this sound like a CEO to you?
    
    Great point. Look, the world doesn't need a bunch of CEO blogs, written by the Marcom department. I guess Godin's list also explains my blog's miniscule -- if that much -- readership: I've got the "Candor" part, no problem... but the other four or five items, yeah, it's a little "iffy," youknowimsayin? That's why I look at blogging as creating a digital scrapbook of where my head was at during a particular timeframe; that will be fun to look back on someday.
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  2. 07:57:38 AM
  3. Here's the problem. Blogs work when they are based on: Candor, Urgency, Timeliness, Pithiness, and Controversy (maybe Utility if you want six). Does this sound like a CEO to you?..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. weblogs
  3. business
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« Tuesday « November 30, 2004

(kottke.org)

(ESPN.com)

(MSNBC.com)

« Monday « November 29, 2004

(Abstract Dynamics blog)

(Adbusters)

« Sunday « November 28, 2004

(EWeek)

(Spin of the Day)

« Saturday « November 27, 2004

(CNN.com)

« Tuesday « November 23, 2004

(ClickZ)

« Saturday « November 20, 2004

« Friday « November 19, 2004

(CNN.com)

(Oakley.com)

« Tuesday « November 16, 2004

(remembering rebecca('s pocket))

(SJ Mercury News)

« Wednesday « November 3, 2004

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(Seth's Blog)

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