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« Friday « December 31, 2004
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  1. My Favorite Web Tools of 2004
  2. These are some of my favorite web "tools" of 2004. Many of them came into existence before January 2004, but it wasn't until the year was well underway that I really started using them on a regular basis. None of them are websites per se, but rather entry points into useful and semi-useful services for the well-wired.
    
    Bloglines - No self-important blogger, or blog consumer, should be without an account on Bloglines. This service -- even though it failed me once -- is one I'd pay for if it wasn't free. Seriously.
    Gmail - Slap a search engine over your E-mail client, and create a sea-change in how cool kids think about electronic communication.
    Flickr - My digital camera chews batteries too quickly for me to be much of a photo-guy, and my Treo takes crappy pictures, but what I've seen of Flickr, I really like. And, like all great web tools that aspire to bigger things, it comes with a rich API for building your own applications (and business propositions?) on top of it.
    Pingomatic - The best way to announce the blogosphere -- the whole, stinkin' wide world of weblogs -- that you've just posted another story about your TiVo, your iPod, your dog, or why you think that it's Nader's fault that Dubya is still running the horror show.
    del.icio.us - I jumped on this bandwagon a long time ago. It's such a great concept for webheads: social bookmarks, shared globally and available in the cloud, complete with a great API for building applications, if you hack like that.
    iTunes Music Store - Volumes have been written about the revolution that iTunes represents. I concur.
    Feedburner - I'm just waiting for these folks to come up with a pricing strategy, because I'll pay for all of the syndication and aggregation tools this service provides.
    PayPal - The most sensible way to pay for things online, in my opinion.
    PubSub - This one is too new to me to really comment on, but I found it to be very slick and full of potential going forward. Basically, you use PubSub to create "search agents" which will scour the blogosphere for you and return the results in neat little packages.
    Technorati - The definitive way to find out exactly how few people even know that your weblog exists. Echo chamber? Indeed. Of course, this one but has a nice API, just like all the other web services that aspire to become big businesses one day.
    Blogrolling.com - Honorable mention.
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  3. These are some of my favorite web "tools" of 2004. Many of them came into existence before January 2004, but it wasn't until the year was well underway that I really started using them on a regular basis. None of them are websites per se, but rather ent..."
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  3. internet
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  1. {12312004}
  2. {01:30:33 PM}
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  1. Callgirl of Cthulhu, fiberglass statue
  2. This piece was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft with an extra healthy dose of squid and crab thrown in for good measure. She is painted with an iridescent 3 tone paint job, with clear urethane tentacles and spines.
    
    Unique sculpture, to say the least.
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  3. This piece was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft with an extra healthy dose of squid and crab thrown in for good measure. She is painted with an iridescent 3 tone paint job, with clear urethane tentacles and spines...."
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  2. artists
  3. arts
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  1. {12312004}
  2. {12:52:14 PM}
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  1. Bleary Days for Eyes on the Prize
    
    (Wired News)
  2. The 14-part series highlights key events in Black Americans' struggle for equality and is considered an essential resource by educators and historians, but the filmmakers no longer have clearance rights to much of the archival footage used in the documentary. It cannot be rebroadcast on PBS (where it originally aired) or any other channels, and cannot be released on DVD until the rights are cleared again and paid for.
    
    If copyright law can deny access to contemporary information like this documentary, information critical to understanding what this country is really all about, then it makes me wonder how much historic (and important) information has been hidden from the public eye, never to be seen again, because of "the law," effectively a man-made barrier to enlightenment. In a propaganda culture lke ours, control of information is the whip lashing down across our collective back. Thanks Laosan.
    
    b/w: Na Han
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  3. The 14-part series highlights key events in Black Americans' struggle for equality and is considered an essential resource by educators and historians, but the filmmakers no longer have clearance rights to much of the archival footage used in the document..."
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  2. law
  3. racism
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« Thursday « December 30, 2004
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  1. {12302004}
  2. {03:26:11 AM}
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  1. My Favorite Blogs of 2004
  2. My blogroll represents my all-time favorites. The dozen or so blogs I list below as my "Favorites of 2004" are the weblogs that I seemed to check nearly every day, or at least several times week, over the course of the last year. Some are already in my blogroll, and some may be added later, but all of them meet two important criteria: they are well-written and they are consistently interesting.
    
    In no particular order...
    The Top Ten
    
    Infectious Greed (rss) - I'm infected. I stumbled across this one while cleaning up my long-defunct Blogger account, and what can I say: everything you need to know about it is in the title. A sharp-tongued economics professor slash writer named Kedrosky breaks down the financial mathematics behind business, mostly technology and the Internet, and it's a bit of a horror show: self-important white guys with lots of money, few morals, and nothing but profit motives. Just show them the money.
    
    An Architect's View (rss) - It is a geek blog, alright, but to pay the rent I play the role a ColdFusion/Java developer on TV, so it's a kinda-sorta natural fit. Trust me, you won't see me over at /. anytime soon. Blogger and Macromedia employee Sean Corfield constantly points out key bits of news, information, software tools, and programming tips that help keep my chops from going obsolete.
    
    Lulu Loves Manhattan (rss) - Bombay, ooops, sorry -- Mumbai -- expatriate, brand strategist and my office buddy Lools relocated from San Francisco to New York City this summer, and her commentary on restaurants, and all other things Gotham -- from the discovery of awesome little shops on obscure Manhattan sidestreets, to the dread of being caught in a high-rise elevator during a power failure -- are just sensual and delicious, even when the news is bad, which is hardly ever.
    
    Marc's Voice (rss) - this voice is loud, sharp and provocative, and often overstates the importance of digital technology to those who aren't uber-hackers (i.e. most of us), but that's to be expected from the grandfather of multimedia: passion, great ideas, a lot of sound and fury amounting to a lot. Plus, he's a cool dude, who invites me to his parties and I never go, who digs Bob Marley, and who rolls in a jet-black Checker Cab as his main ride. Sweet.
    
    gigaom (rss) - business writer Om Malik provides the lowdown on broadband, wireless, VOIP, gadgets, and all of the greedy businessmen behind the headlines. This blog is the place to get a topline on who's moving and shaking the world of connecting people via technology. My only complaint about this blog is it's starting to morph into a quasi-magazine replete with ads and assorted crap like that. I guess you can't write forever about greedy businessmen without taking on some of their characteristics. Oh brother.
    
    Speaking of brothers, the black China hand (rss) / Na Han (rss) - it's not just because the blogger Laosan is my real-life little brother, it's because a lot of times I think that we truly see things the same way, only he's looking at the world as a Black man living on the other side of the Great Wall of China. His two blogs are really the yin and yang sides of one blog.
    
    Abstract Dynamics (rss) - the blogger with the nom-de-plume William Blaze (or is that his real name) is just cool, and things he blogs make you realize that there's a lot of interesting music, art, usable technology, and other hip stuff out there, and that by seeking this material out, you might avoid the numbing conformity that's intertwined in the fabric of our Red State/Blue State, hyper-polarized socio-economo-political American reality tour. Or something like that. If this was The Matrix, this guy could be Neo, or at least, Morpheus.
    
    Joel on Software (rss) - This software developer, Joel, although his RSS feed is kind of whack, what with just dates for post titles, is flat-out one of the best writers in the so-called blogosphere. He writes exclusively about software development and the business of software development, but he does it so lucidly that almost everything he posts becomes a virtual must-read for people who create software applications for a living.
    
    I, Cringely (rss) - not actually a blog, but pro journalist Cringely does have an RSS feed. I think Cringely is simply an eye-opening spotter of trends that will eventually effect all of our lives, whether you like it or not.
    
    Seth's Blog (rss) - his posts are often pitifully short, and he often plugs his books and coined catchphrases -- hey, that's a "purple cow" -- probably so you'll go out and buy his books, but his jargon-free, brand-focused stuff always makes this particular branding firm associate think twice. And hey, if you can't promote your product on your own blog, where can you?
    
    Honorable Mentions
    
    Negrophile. (rss) - quite simply one of the most intellectual collections of bloggery on the state and art of being and living Black, for a population that could probably use a few more thinkers, strategists, and builders, and a few less point guards, ministers, and hip-hop emcees. But, that's just me. Much thanks go to editor George Kelly for maintaining this valuable resource.
    
    Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting (rss) - after the letdown of Gibson's Pattern Recognition, I thought I'd seen enough of cool hunting, but this blog proves that it's still fun to look for cool stuff that you can't really afford to buy, but at least you can ogle ... we live in a consumer society after all. But as long as you're not over your credit limit, why not just spend yourself into more debt. Just do it.
    
    Blog Maverick (rss) - Mark Cuban's reality TV show, "The Benefactor," was a serious dog with fleas that had no bark or bite and failed to challenge to "The Apprentice 2" in the TV ratings. His blog, on the other hand, while at times puerile (which I have no problem with), is often a frank, fun and informative read on entrepreneurship, on emerging trends in HDTV, and on the general state of the National Basketball Association, from one of its ~~most outspoken~~ blowhard team owners.
    Coming up next, some of my favorite Web Tools of 2004, and my Links of 2004.
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  3. My blogroll represents my all-time favorites. The dozen or so blogs I list below as my "Favorites of 2004" are the weblogs that I seemed to check nearly every day, or at least several times week, over the course of the last year. Some are already in m..."
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« Monday « December 20, 2004
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  1. {12202004}
  2. {09:56:39 AM}
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  1. Colts QB one away from Marino's record
    
    (ESPN.com)
  2. [A]fter kneeling twice in the final minute to run out the clock and passing up a chance at tying Marino's record, the Colts' franchise player drew an unexpected reaction from the crowd - boos. "I can't get over the crowd booing like that," said Manning, last season's league co-MVP. "I hope those were Baltimore fans, because that's what you're supposed to do."
    
    See, these pro athletes still don't get it: the fans want their teams to win, but even more importantly, they want to be entertained. Let's be honest: if you take most sports, and play them by the textbook, there's really nothing that exciting. Go watch a pro team practice. Wow! What fun. Having a crowd of tens of thousands of people screaming their heads off manufactures most of the excitement. The things that excite the fans are the record-breaking performances. Manning doesn't understand why his fans booed when he didn't even try for the record; well, there's a reason why they're called dumb jocks. (UPDATE: 12/21/2004 - A clarification is needed here. I'm not arguing that Manning should have actually tried to break the record. If he had, then he would have been stepping on the pride of his opponents, and what goes around comes around. What I'm arguing about is Manning's lack of understanding of the fans' motivations for their boos. If you don't understand why people pay good money to see you, then you just don't get it.)
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  3. [A]fter kneeling twice in the final minute to run out the clock and passing up a chance at tying Marino's record, the Colts' franchise player drew an unexpected reaction from the crowd - boos. "I can't get over the crowd booing like that," said Manning,..."
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« Sunday « December 19, 2004
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  1. {12192004}
  2. {01:13:56 PM}
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  1. There She Is: China's First Miss Plastic Surgery
    
    (Yahoo! News)
  2. When the result was announced, it was a buoyant Feng Qian who had doctors to thank for four procedures that added a fold to her eyelids, liposuctioned fat from her belly, reshaped her cheeks, and injected botox to alter facial muscles.
    
    At least in China, they can admit being phony. In America, you have people like here-today-gone-later-today actress Sharon Stone suing doctors for allegedly claiming to have done work on her unnaturally tight-stretched mug. In Hollywood, that's like people in glass houses throwing (sharon) stones. Thanks, I'll be here all this year.
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  3. When the result was announced, it was a buoyant Feng Qian who had doctors to thank for four procedures that added a fold to her eyelids, liposuctioned fat from her belly, reshaped her cheeks, and injected botox to alter facial muscles...."
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  3. entertainment
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  1. {12192004}
  2. {10:39:53 PM}
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  1. Cartoon Skeletons
    
    (Michael Paulus)
  2. A character study of 22 present and past cartoon characters.
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  3. A character study of 22 present and past cartoon characters...."
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  2. comics and animation
  3. arts
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« Saturday « December 18, 2004
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  1. {12182004}
  2. {10:34:41 AM}
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  1. Bush Monkeys
    
    (Yahoo! News)
  2. Pictures=1000 Words
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  3. Pictures=1000 Words..."
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  2. propaganda
  3. politics
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« Friday « December 17, 2004
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  1. {12172004}
  2. {09:57:22 AM}
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  1. The DNA of Literature
    
    (Paris Review)
  2. Over 50 years of literary wisdom rolled up in 300+ Writers-at-Work interviews, now available online - free.
    
    Very impressive. Stuff like this is what makes the Internet worth all the hassle.
    
    b/w: Lockergnome
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  3. Over 50 years of literary wisdom rolled up in 300+ Writers-at-Work interviews, now available online - free...."
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  2. writers
  3. reference
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  1. {12172004}
  2. {07:43:28 AM}
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  1. Facial Expression Test
    
    (CIO.com)
  2. Here is a brief quiz to test your ability to correctly identify the emotion behind facial expressions.
    
    I went 7-for-10 on this test. I struck out on faces were either happy, sad, and full of contempt. Clearly I have to start paying closer attention. (Flash required.)
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  3. Here is a brief quiz to test your ability to correctly identify the emotion behind facial expressions...."
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  2. psychology
  3. reference
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« Thursday « December 16, 2004
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  1. {12162004}
  2. {11:43:52 PM}
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  1. Yankees closing on 3-way trade for Unit
    
    (ESPN.com)
  2. Randy Johnson wants out of Arizona and wants in with the Yankees.
    
    The Red Sox know that if the Yanks get the Big Unit, that will be the beginning of the Second Curse. I'd bet that they're making behind-the-scenes phone calls to blow this deal. The arms race is on.
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  3. Randy Johnson wants out of Arizona and wants in with the Yankees...."
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  2. sports
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  1. {12162004}
  2. {10:41:40 PM}
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  1. War of the Worlds: How Orson Welles Drew the Nation into a Shared IIlusion
    
    (Transparency)
  2. It happened the day before Halloween, on Oct. 30, 1938, when millions of Americans tuned in to a popular radio program that featured plays directed by, and often starring, Orson Welles. The performance that evening was an adaptation of the science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, about a Martian invasion of the earth... in a prescient column, in the New York Tribune, Dorothy Thompson foresaw that the broadcast revealed the way politicians could use the power of mass communications to create theatrical illusions, to manipulate the public.
    
    Something to consider, at a time when our broadcast channels are saturated with talk of "weapons of mass destruction" and "axes of evil." How much of it is real, and how much of it is theater, meant to manipulate people who refuse to think for themselves, which is the say the majority of people?
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  3. It happened the day before Halloween, on Oct. 30, 1938, when millions of Americans tuned in to a popular radio program that featured plays directed by, and often starring, Orson Welles. The performance that evening was an adaptation of the science fiction..."
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  3. politics
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« Tuesday « December 14, 2004
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  1. {12142004}
  2. {01:35:53 PM}
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  1. Huge games by Titans' Volek, Bennett not enough
    
    (ESPN.com)
  2. The teams combined for 925 yards, 233 by Titans receiver Drew Bennett, a career high and the most in the league this season. Bennett, a converted quarterback, caught three touchdown passes.
    
    All I can say is: Thank You, Drew Bennett! My fantasy team was dead, and on its way out of the playoffs in the first round. All that loomed ahead was water-cooler smack talk, and I'd be on the short-end. T.O. let me down. Dante let me down. Ahman let me down, again. Stokley too. All my studs came up limp this weekend. So Monday night, I went out to dinner at The Cheesecake Factory in Paly, resigned to a brutal loss. But when I came back three hours later, miraculously, I had won by a mere 3 points. Look at this line:
    Snoop Joisey Doggs Week 14 D. Culpepper 17 T. Owens 2 B. Stokley 5 N. Goings 16 A. Green 9 M. Pollard 4 S. Janikowski 6 Carolina 28 D. Bennett 41 ------------------- Total 128
    Amazing! I love when fantasy football works out like, well, a fantasy. A receiver with 41 points! And now it's on to the real money round. Cut that meat! Cut that meat!
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  3. The teams combined for 925 yards, 233 by Titans receiver Drew Bennett, a career high and the most in the league this season. Bennett, a converted quarterback, caught three touchdown passes...."
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« Monday « December 13, 2004
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  1. {12132004}
  2. {05:43:12 AM}
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  1. The Evolution of Mario
  2. In bad times, look to silly things.
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  3. In bad times, look to silly things...."
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  2. games
  3. technology
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« Sunday « December 12, 2004
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  1. {12122004}
  2. {08:02:03 PM}
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  1. Harris hired as Stanford's new football coach
    
    (SFGate.com)
  2. Pittsburgh's Walt Harris was hired as Stanford's new football coach Sunday, giving the Cardinal the offensive-minded leader they sought to replace Buddy Teevens.
    
    I would have preferred Norm Chow -- mostly because I've seen what he's done with SC's offense on a regular basis out here on the Coast -- but this Harris guy has done a pretty impressive job at Pitt on paper. We know that The Farm isn't a football factory; but what we expect from our team is competitive, entertaining football, a few major upsets each season, and two or three bowl appearances every four years ... and, of course, no more losses to Cal.
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  3. Pittsburgh's Walt Harris was hired as Stanford's new football coach Sunday, giving the Cardinal the offensive-minded leader they sought to replace Buddy Teevens...."
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  2. sports
  3. sports
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2. datetime
  1. {12122004}
  2. {07:44:47 PM}
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  1. The Five Stages of Democratic Grief
    
    (AlterNet)
  2. The economy is going to tank so deep Lou Dobbs is going to need a deep water submersible just to report on it, and to call Iraq a quagmire is like saying Scott Peterson might not receive a slew of Christmas party invites.
    
    There's an old saying: 'In bad times, prepare for the good.' We may be preparing until about 2012.
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  3. The economy is going to tank so deep Lou Dobbs is going to need a deep water submersible just to report on it, and to call Iraq a quagmire is like saying Scott Peterson might not receive a slew of Christmas party invites...."
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  3. politics
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  1. {12122004}
  2. {07:12:45 PM}
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  1. Iraq Blowback Is Global and Growing
    
    (AntiWar.com)
  2. The real danger to America today comes from its ideological rigidity, and the blowback it is producing around the globe. The problems facing the United States -- and the world -- today are radically different from those faced in 2001, in large part due to the foreign policy of the Bush administration.
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  3. The real danger to America today comes from its ideological rigidity, and the blowback it is producing around the globe. The problems facing the United States — and the world — today are radically different from those faced in 2001, in large par..."
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« Sunday « December 5, 2004
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  1. {12052004}
  2. {01:17:22 PM}
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  1. Aaron on Bonds: No matter what, 'It's wrong'
    
    (ESPN.com)
  2. Hammerin' Hank Aaron: "First, since I played the game myself, I know that you can't put something in your body to make you hit a fastball, changeup or curveball," Aaron told the Journal-Constitution on Saturday. "Drugs won't help you hit the ball. But can they make you recuperate consistently enough to hit the kind of home runs that these guys are hitting?" Aaron paused, sighed and added, "Let me say this. Any way you look at it, it's wrong."
    
    This whole situation, BALCO, should be filed under "tempest in a teapot." At the end of the day, who really cares if athletes try to enhance their performance through chemicals? Isn't that what people pay to see: freakish performances beyond human limit? And aren't there more important problems in the world that need our attention, that are matters of life and death to millions upon millions?
    That being said, Hank Aaron's comments hit upon what I've believed all along: steroids or not, hitting major-league pitching is a skill that doesn't depend on sheer muscular strength alone. Only a tiny fraction of humans can do it well on a consistent basis. All his career, Bonds has done it better than the best. How much of a boost could he, allegedly, have received? The MLB has a lax drug policy, so if Bonds, allegedly took steroids, he's certainly not alone.
    The more troubling thing about this whole situation, and I've not heard or read a single journalist in our echo-chambered sports media bring this up: but how in the world is grand jury testimony being leaked to the media? And why isn't the media questioning the source of those leaks, and the motives of whoever is behind it? It's like the media has an axe to grind, and they're taking leaked testimony to be so-called smoking gun evidence. The MLB has a history of pitchers who doctored baseballs with grease and other substances, and batters who "modified" their bats with cork, rubberbands, and super-balls -- that is, people who actually cheated in the course of real gameplay -- so what's the big deal with someone, allegedly, polluting their body to get an edge? And if an asterisk (*) is put next to Bonds' name when he breaks Aaron's record, so what. In 10 years, no one will remember anything but the fact that he hit all those bombs.
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  3. Hammerin' Hank Aaron: "First, since I played the game myself, I know that you can't put something in your body to make you hit a fastball, changeup or curveball," Aaron told the Journal-Constitution on Saturday. "Drugs won't help you hit the ball. But ca..."
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  1. {12052004}
  2. {12:13:36 PM}
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  1. Bloglines ... ain't working for me today!
  2. Bloglines is a free service that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and news feeds.
    
    Well, for the last three days, for whatever the reason, I haven't been able to login to my account. I'm going back to NetNewsWire for the time being. This points out the (recurring) problem I've had with "hosted" services, why I left Blogger after about 3 months in 2000, and why I'll never do much with Gmail except play with it: when these services fail -- which is inevitable -- you're completely at their mercy. Why entrust all of your information, and your ability to control and access that information, to third parties? I think that everyone should own their personal data as much as possible.
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  3. Bloglines is a free service that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and news feeds...."
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  3. internet
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« Wednesday « December 1, 2004
1. datetime
  1. {12012004}
  2. {07:13:19 PM}
  content
  1. World AIDS Day 2004
  2. This disease is the most relentless killer of Black people on the planet. On the continent of Africa and here in the United States education is needed and behaviors have to be modified or there will be no future. No future. I'll leave the conspiracy theories to the real crackpots, but statistics paint a bleak picture, and it's not getting better. One "day" to think about this problem is not enough.
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  3. This disease is the most relentless killer of Black people on the planet. On the continent of Africa and here in the United States education is needed and behaviors have to be modified or there will be no future. No future. I'll leave the conspiracy th..."
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  2. diseases
  3. health
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2. datetime
  1. {12012004}
  2. {09:40:22 AM}
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  1. Target B.J.?
  2. Something's wrong with this picture, er, webpage...
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  3. Something's wrong with this picture, er, webpage......"
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  2. humor
  3. internet
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3. datetime
  1. {12012004}
  2. {09:24:12 AM}
  content
  1. Why Do We Blog?
    
    (Sandhill Trek blog)
  2. "Why do you blog?" I asked. I like easy answers, and by asking others perhaps I hoped to find the easy answers for myself. Certainly, I thought, it would be valuable to compile insights from some of the articulate digital self publishers known as "bloggers." Little did I know it would turn into a hobby. Here are reflections from thirty-five bloggers.
    
    Interesting comments, especially from the ClueTrain guy who blogs because his editors never allowed him to write "F*ck!" in print. For me, I call this a "noteblog" ... because that's what it is: a public notepad where I write down my thoughts, reactions, rants and other assorted mindstorms. These thoughts are going to come out of me one way or another, and for me it's probably better to play the role of self-proclaimed guru/genius -- or village idiot -- on the Internet than it is to play that role with family, friends and associates, after all I have to live with those people.
    I spend a great deal of time working on a computer each day so it's also easier this way than to scribble those notes down in a Moleskine journal, which I do keep as well. But the more I blog, the more I realize how useful this might be in 10-15 years (I'm not new to blogging, been doing it since 1999): using web technology, I'll be able to look back and see where my head was at during a particular moment in time. One day, if my kid (who's yet to be born) says, "But you just don't understand Pops, it's different than in olden times when you were my age!" I can say, "Hey, I blogged about that stuff, like that 17 years ago, kid! Now give me that PlayStation12 controller so I can beat you down in Madden 2016!" For me, the act of blogging, online, actually helps clarify my thinking in the real world.
    The other thing is, I have this need to write frequently, and blogging alleviates some of that pressure. It's much more fun than writing proposals and memos at the office. I strongly believe that any kind of writing makes you a better thinker, and the side benefit of blogging (sometimes) is that you potentially have millions of people out there who can tell you if what your saying makes sense ... or not.
    But at the end of the day the answer to this question is the same as it is to almost any question: why do I blog? Because I can.
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