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• « Monday « June 28, 2004

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     1. The Child and The Artist

         

        (NewsScan.com)

         
     2. QOTD: "The child and the artist are pilgrims of discovery. When you limit your life to the one frame of thinking, you close out the mystery. When you fence in the desires of your heart within fixed walls of belief, morality, and convention, you dishonour the call to discovery. You create grey fields of 'quiet desperation.'"
        -- from John O'Donohue's Eternal Echoes
        
        b/w: NewsScan

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• « Friday « June 25, 2004

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     1. La Russa confronts Kline after reliever's obscene gesture

         

        (MSNBC.com)

         
     2. Cardinals manager Tony La Russa didn?t want to talk Thursday about the actions of reliever Steve Kline, who made an obscene gesture and yelled toward his own dugout the previous night.
        Here's the point -- in my opinion, and the reason why people who hate sports are missing out on a valuable and instructive crucible, a methaphor if you will, of what eventually will become commonplace in society at large -- LaRussa didn't actually see the gesture when it happened; it was only after he saw the gesture on videotape long after the game ended that the furor arose. Are you kidding me? This is a template for acceptable workplace surveillance. (Oh come on now! How many times have you wanted to give your boss the finger, or worse?) What the spectacle that is organized sports does is introduce concepts and techniques of control over individuals that eventually work their way into the larger culture. People will blow this kind of thing off as just a baseball incident, but when ordinary workers in ordinary companies start getting disciplined because of recorded evidence, after the fact, they'll have sports to thank for entering and perfecting these types of control techniques into the vernacular of contemporary life. Organized sports is an activity created for a mass audience. In a propaganda society, everything that is targeted towards a mass audience is itself propaganda. Propaganda is always about control.

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     3. Cardinals manager Tony La Russa didn?t want to talk Thursday about the actions of reliever Steve Kline, who made an obscene gesture and yelled toward his own dugout the previous night...."
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• « Thursday « June 24, 2004

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     1. {06242004}
     2. {08:21:15 PM}

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     1. Hiatus

         
     2. Still on Hiatus...
        That NBA Finals post leaked through my self-imposed blog lockout, but I won't be back officially until my birthday, in the first week of August 2004! I'm building a new server. I'm moving my brother's blogs to my box. I'm writing my own Java-powered blogging system, code named Aubrey, so I don't have to deal with other people's funky pricing schemes, or generally accepted yet troubling personality quirks. I will be back with a vengeance ... for you, my two dozen (according to Technorati) loyal readers. Until then, be cool, and check out the great blogs in my blogroll, on the right-hand side.

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• « Sunday « June 20, 2004

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     1. {06202004}
     2. {06:03:03 PM}

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     1. The Vertical Farm Project

         
     2. It took humans 10,000 years to learn how to grow most of the crops we now take for granted. Along the way, we despoiled most of the land we worked, often turning verdant, natural ecozones into semi-arid deserts. Over 60% of the human population now lives vertically in cities. The time has arrived for us to learn how to grow our food that way, too.
        Interesting idea: hothouse meets skyscraper. But I thought they already figured out how to deal with both our viral population explosion and famine in the future: Soylent Green!

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• « Tuesday « June 15, 2004

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     1. {06152004}
     2. {07:13:36 PM}

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     1. NBA Finals 2004 - BLOWOUT!!!!

         

        (NBA.com)

         
     2. Pistons win game, going away, 100-87, and series 4-1 overall.
        It's true: in team sports, the best teams always win. The most surprising thing about the Lakers is how badly they were dominated by the Pistons in this series. Look, I'm a born-and-bred Knicks fan -- I come from East Orange, New Jersey, but when I was growing up there weren't any NJ Nets -- so, the point is: I have no love for the Pistons or the Lakers. But you have to give it to Detroit: they exposed every single weakness of Los Angeles, the dysfunctional ethic of their players, their stale coaching philosophy, their false bravado. The Lakers were paper tigers all season -- a bunch of pussycats -- and yet the entire sycophantic sports press anointed them as champs by the time the playoffs started. But as Chris Berman says, "That's why they play the games." And I couldn't be happier. Screw the Lakers. Bravo Pistons for putting a bunch of soft, overpaid, Hollywood *ssholes in their rightful place. Now, the question is: how can I get a job as a sportswriter? You can say anything you want -- like: the Lakers will win in five -- still take a paycheck, and never have to be held accountable.

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• « Wednesday « June 9, 2004

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     2. {04:17:10 AM}

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     1. Killer, coward, con-man: Good riddance, Gipper

         

        (The Smirking Chimp)

         
     2. You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer.
        As an actor, he played this role to the hilt.

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     3. You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer...."
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     1. Ronald Reagan 1911-2004

         

        (Steve Gilliard's News Blog)

         
     2. The hagiography started as soon as they announced Reagan's death. How he ended the cold war, how he was a decisive leader, all this nonsense about Reagan which is just ridiculous.
        Solid blogging.

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     3. The hagiography started as soon as they announced Reagan's death. How he ended the cold war, how he was a decisive leader, all this nonsense about Reagan which is just ridiculous...."
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• « Monday « June 7, 2004

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     2. {01:13:44 PM}

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     1. 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' saves defendant wrongly accused in murder case

         

        (CNN.com)

         
     2. Juan Catalan has never watched "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the HBO comedy series starring comedian Larry David. "I don't even have HBO," he says with an easy laugh. But now he's a devoted fan of the show that helped to free him from jail -- and a potential death row sentence.
        The whole thing is scary -- that someone could have a solid alibi and still be convicted of murder -- and amazing that the guy got caught on camera during the filming of this particular episode in the first place. And still, that wasn't enough: they still had to get a court order for his cellphone records. Frickin' amazing. Truth is stranger than fiction!

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• « Sunday « June 6, 2004

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     1. Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow

         

        (Seattle Weekly)

         
     2. By Jeff Reifman: "It had been years since I'd used a Macintosh. Until recently, I dismissed those who did as impractical, elitist hipsters, and I mocked the Mac 'switch' ads on TV. But in the first five minutes on my new Mac, I was surfing the Internet, sending e-mail, and ripping a CD. OS X has been a breath of badly needed fresh air after Windows. This made me wonder about Microsoft's willingness to innovate and compete. Why are Microsoft products still so difficult to use and so unreliable? Why is the company improving them so slowly? Is Microsoft losing its competitive edge?"
        (Thanks Maddog.)

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     1. Paleoclimatology

         
     2. Welcome to the Paleoclimatology Branch of the National Climatic Data Center. We provide the paleoclimatic data and information needed to understand the climate of the past, in order to assess the current and potential future climate in the context of natural climate variability.

        More, from Grist Magazine: "In an amusing case of life imitating art (to use the term loosely), Bush administration officials stalled the release of [this] website on abrupt climate change, which was developed by a team at NOAA's paleoclimate program to coincide with the release of the film [The Day After Tomorrow]."

        Sounds like par for the course. The Bush Administration has chronically mishandled enviromental issues. Can a government be any more careless about the environment than this one has been in just 3.5 years? (Thanks, WorldChanging)
        
        b/w: WorldChanging

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• « Saturday « June 5, 2004

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     2. {11:14:02 AM}

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     1. Baseball-Reference.com

         
     2. Major League Baseball Statistics and History
        Cool.

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