Seesmic, Friendfeed and Twitter next to each other in a test version of Twhirl. Adding tons of Friendfeed experience improvements in there, Marco rocks.
Is twitter's api actually back up at 50 req/hr?
- Shawn Farner
The old Twhirl works for me in linux for me, it just won't remember my password.
- Daniel E. Renfer
from twhirl
Yes Marco does. Twhirl is becoming my info hub. And if Twitter dies, who cares I'm sure Pownce, Jaiku or whatever could be swapped in
- Tris Hussey
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Mad Dog Palin--The scariest thing about John McCain's running mate isn't how unqualified she is - it's what her candidacy says about America : Rolling Stone - http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...
WOW...This is not just another article digging at palin - it is THE article digging at palin and her 'cultural' significance.
- Anna Haro
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"The great insight of the Palin VP choice is that huge chunks of American voters no longer even demand that their candidates actually have policy positions; they simply consume them as media entertainment, rooting for or against them according to the reflexive prejudices of their demographic, as they would for reality-show contestants or sitcom characters. Hicks root for hicks, moms for moms, born-agains for born-agains."
- Anna Haro
The truly disgusting thing about Sarah Palin isn't that she's totally unqualified, or a religious zealot, or married to a secessionist, or unable to educate her own daughter about sex, or a fake conservative who raised taxes and horked up earmark millions every chance she got. No, the most disgusting thing about her is what she says about us: that you can ram us in the ass for eight...
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- Anna Haro
"Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are."
- Anna Haro
See, I believe that as a citizen you have the responsibility to pay attention to the people who will represent you and the laws they enact in your name. But with poor reporting and politicians doing so much behind closed doors, there's a dumbing down of American culture that's acceptable. How many people have you talked to who seem to have an opinion they want to spout on politics and in the same breath state proudly, "Politics bores me." or even worse, "All politicians are the same."?
- Admiral Anika
"And none of it matters, so long as you remember a few months before Election Day to offer them a two-bit caricature culled from some cutting-room-floor episode of Roseanne as part of your presidential ticket. And if she's a good enough likeness of a loudmouthed Middle American archetype, as Sarah Palin is, John Q. Public will drop his giant-size bag of Doritos in gratitude, wipe the Sizzlin' Picante dust from his lips and rush to the booth to vote for her."
- Trish R
And unfortunately, most of it is true (or at least I agree with it).
- Trish R
Wow, that's a hell of a picture. After reading the first two paragraphs, all I could think was how badly Matt Taibbi wants to be Hunter S. Thompson.
- Carla Thompson
Personally, I like Rolling Stone articles. But a word of caution.. they are always unapologetically extremely left-leaning.
- Phil G
hahaha...Carla, I thought the same thing.
- Anna Haro
The ironic thing is that the media is the primary cause of all this. Reducing politicians statements to sound bites where a few words from a larger speach can be spun one way or another. Politicians don't have to have grand ideas or positions, they just stick to hot button issues that play well on TV. Couple that with lobbyists and special interest groups to give them butt loads of...
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- Jason Shultz
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Of course J Phil. It's one perspective, one article, out of MANY.
- Anna Haro
I honestly don't know what the terms "left" and "right" mean anymore in American politics. I try to figure out who has the best command of the facts and who is making the most sense. This article makes a great deal of sense. (If I must define myself politically with a label, it would be "progressive libertarian.")
- Sean McBride
"Here's what Sarah Palin represents: being a fat fucking pig who pins "Country First" buttons on his man titties and chants "U-S-A! U-S-A!" at the top of his lungs while his kids live off credit cards and Saudis buy up all the mortgages in Kansas." - wow...harsh.
- Chris Hollander
Very interesting read, though disturbing. I put my money on McCain/Palin winning the election.
- Peter
I don't think I'd talk with him too much at a party. ;)
- Yolanda
Classic: "After eight years of unprecedented corruption, incompetence, waste and greed, the party of Karl Rove understood that 50 million Americans would not demand solutions to any of these problems so long as they were given a new, new thing to beat their meat over."
- Raoul Pop
Oh wow, a coworker informed me about this article a few days ago!!
- Terence
Taibbi *nails it* w/ the consumption of candidates as media entertainment. Infotainment has utterly corrupted news such that they are largely indistinguishable now. A huge disservice to the populace. And, of course, it results in this insane Reality TV show in front of us.
- Ayşe E.
wow..such poignant words. The article still resonating even after reading it through.
- Alan Le
Why is the entire country not going, "WTF? You can't find a person more qualified in the entire Republican party? REALLY?!?!" Her selection was condescending to our entire citizenry, and everyone seems to be rolling with it.
- Robert Fischer
Why aren't more Republican women outraged that the party thinks so little of women that when they feel the need to add a vagina to the ticket, they don't give a damn about whether she's actually qualified?
- Trish R
why aren't they more outraged? because they're living vicariously via the pit bull. they see her and say, 'she's just like me'. but prettier and i bet you they aren't willing to admit that. so they over-identify with her and i'm left saying, 'yea, but i wouldn't vote you president of a committee of 2.'
- Admiral Anika
Liked only because of the picture, not because I have any interest in US politics. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"But watching Palin's speech, I had no doubt that I was witnessing a historic, iconic performance. The candidate sauntered to the lectern with the assurance of a sleepwalker — and immediately launched into a symphony of snorting and sneering remarks, taking time out in between the superior invective to present herself as just a humble gal with a beefcake husband and a brood of healthy,...
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- Roberto Bonini
"The rest of Palin's speech was the same dog-whistle crap Republicans have been railing about for decades. Palin's crack about a mayor being "like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities" testified to the Republicans' apparent belief that they can win elections till the end of time running against the Sixties. (They're probably right.)"
- Roberto Bonini
dear god, if you exist and hear prayers, please please, let there be some notion of civility return to this country in my lifetime. a man.
- Nathan Eckenrode
When Gmail stopped working, I just assumed the internet was down. I couldn't understand why I could still load the NYTimes. Figured it must have been some sort of cached version. Never ever occurred to me that it was Gmail that was down.
right there with you. I actually went upstairs to reboot the wireless router figuring that would fix it.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I read about gmail not working this afternoon (that is a few hours ago for me). No problems here, i was mailing all over the place, but now, the world stopped spinning, unable to connect!
- Nik
And I thought this had to be my fault in some way... never thought this could happen. :)
- Mark Evans
Same here! I went straight to my modem's settings to see if my internet connection was working or not.
- Dee S.
I didn't care because my internet is always down :D
- Viva Vida
I suffered from gmail LOS today as well. Did an asteroid take out part of Earth to cause this failure? Outlook is sketchy. Don't ever autoarchive!
- David Smith
it feels like the rest of the internet is broken for still being up
- ௸ (k2g)
David: you made me shoot apple juice out my nose as I read your comment. I never thought I'd see this in my lifetime; we'll need a support group when all this is said and done. :)
- Mark Evans
Yeah, same here Ana. Checked my internet connection first...
- Brian Remmel
"1. Everything but the Girl 2. sally rides 3. Imogen Heap 4. Belle and Sebastian 5. Françoise Hardy "
- RAPatton
Everything But The Girl's Amplified Heart has recently found a special place, every track, a couple in particular. sally rides is almost all the b-side of a double a 7" that a founding member was kind enough to provide me. Needless to say, I have played the shit out of it. I wish you all could hear it. Immi's is the new release, a couple great tracks, the rest all good, but I'm unsure of its overall stayability as of yet. I might be trying to hard to love it. B&S and Françoise Hardy are old favs.
- Michael W. May
I just got the new Imogen Heap album. I don't think it is as good as her previous ones, maybe the tracks will take sometime to grow on me.
- Faraz Mullick
"We have started our european festival run. If the first day is any indication of the rest of the week this is going to be really fun. Here is a quick peek at our day at Pukkelpop, a fantastic festival in Belgium."
- Michael W. May
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YouTube need to fix their regression problems with caching, too. Last time I used it, it was possible to let a video buffer whilst it was paused, after playing the first few seconds, and now, it stops buffering when the video is paused. Useless piece of junk...
- Tyson Key
Aah, it appears that it still works, barely.
- Tyson Key
Beautiful set and even ickle butterflies! awwww....I love them!!! :D Nice photo of Peter Andre, btw!! <333
- Emma
Thank you baby and YES, even and ickle butterfly thrown in! :-D ........ and HONESTLY, had NO CLUE that who that was or that he was a celeb until you mentioned it! I just thought it was a cool pic! ;-) <333
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I moved away from the random; I had to hear my albums as albums were meant to be heard again. That and the need to act on my musical schizophrenia/ADHD when I need to and to repeat certain tracks a few times as called for. CéU is the only new artist in this list (very good). The rest are reoccuring favs.
- Michael W. May
Brand New Heavies!!! I don't think I've ever met another Heavies fan!
- Andrew C
And if you like CeU, you might like Bebel Gilberto, Mindel, Smokey & Miho, and Esperanza Spalding. (The last three acts are not that close to CeU - there's some Brazilian music influence, but they're not really squarely in the same genre as her.)
- Andrew C
I've got and like some Jamiroquai stuff; keep forgetting I do, though. I'm a big Esperanza fan, to include her early indie band stuff with Noise For Pretend. Thanks for the others. More music to check out, just what I needed! :P
- Michael W. May