that will be the next one... I have to post this on a few myspace pages and then do a #MotrinMoms cartoon and then we hang Loren on the tree.... and throw the jew down the well
- NoahDavidSimon
oh... and I'm going to do a bunch of aMANdaCHAPel ones. these will be awesome
- NoahDavidSimon
Since I have been getting the news through the Internet for a decade and a half, I have long broken the paper habit. Paper-housed information is dreadfully inefficient, Information does not need to be wedded to material...unless it is going to considered art. A living system will survive to the extent that it processes information over matter/energy. Dinosaurs are obsolescent. Wood and...
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- david beckwith
David - I've shared your experience. I used to buy and read five newspapers a day, and dropped the habit entirely in the 1990s when I figured out how to use the Internet to grab most of the news that mattered. What a wonderful relief it was to get rid of all the paper. I am also consuming more ebooks than traditional hardcopy books these days.
- Sean McBride
In my adult life, I think I only subscribed to one newspaper for one year --- about 20 years ago. So I won't miss them.
- Mike Reynolds
I will. I need something to place my tea cup on. My desk is too precious to be sullied with sticky circles.
- vimoh
One of our local papers, the morning one, went to tab format years ago, they have increasingly moved into an "enquirer wanna be" state; the other, afternoon paper (which is owned by the same company), seems to always publish the previous days major newswire stories rather than using the delay to given thoughtful insight and/or alternative views. Neither remains a good news source. Neither is a good entertainment source. Neither is a good community builder.... so only read at coffee shop etc.
- David HC Soul
Well, McCain needed a terrorist endorsement to counter Castro, Qaddafi and Hammas who have all come out for Obama. Add in Chosun Sinbo (who often speaks for the North Korean leadership) and things were looking grim!
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
@Soulhuntre I can't imagine how bitter you're going to be on Nov 5th
- Jason Carreira
Which terrorist attacks is Castro responsible for?
- Jesse Hattabaugh
@Jason - not at all, frankly. The US is a cyclical system, the same party almost never holds office past two elections in recent history. An Obama win doesn't say bad things about us as a nation in my mind, nor does it bring impending doom, nor is it a personal judgment on me :) I would prefer a McCain win, but "bitter" isn't anything I'll be.
- Soulhuntre
@Jason - part of the thing is I don't really expect the government to solve my problems, nor do I believe the government can ruin my life. Yes, they can make it harder or easier to make a profit, but the President certainly doesn't control my ability to be happy or live my life as I choose.
- Soulhuntre
Well said Soulhuntre. Bitter is for those who don't control their own destinies.
- Craig Eddy
@Jesse - well, I would simply point to what he's done to his own citizens as an example of Castro and terror but if that isn't self evident then you won't agree. That's fine :)
- Soulhuntre
@Craig - hell, I've even blogged about the good things that will come of an Obama presidency ( http://is.gd/3GQv ) and even at my most contentious ( http://is.gd/3RWL ) I end on a high note :)
- Soulhuntre
well, Al Qaeda is a CIA construct anyway.. created to help in the fight against communism back int he cold war and then dumped once there was no longer a use for them.
- alphaxion
"a CIA construct". Like in the Matrix? I'm not sure I'd call it a construct as much as a tightly interwoven reaction to action that the U.S. Government took to fight communism/USSR in Afghanistan. That the powers that were used these people and then left them certainly has contributed to our troubles in the Middle East. That the US entered Saudi Arabia to defend Kuwait, promising no permanent bases, and then stayed on for good also contributed to the negative perspective that locals have had on the US.
- Chris Messina
"Young Frankenstein is a 1974 comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder as the title character. Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, and Gene Hackman also star. The screenplay was written by Brooks and Wilder. The film is an affectionate parody of the classical horror film genre, in particular the various film adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein produced by Universal in the 1930s. This is reflected by the fact that most of the pieces of lab equipment used as props are the same ones created by Kenneth Strickfaden for the 1931 film Frankenstein. To further reflect the atmosphere of the earlier films, Brooks shot the picture entirely in black-and-white, a rare choice at the time, and employed 1930s-style opening credits and period scene transitions such as iris outs, wipes, and fades to black. The film also features a notable period score by Brooks' longtime composer John Morris."
- Steve Isaacs
from Bookmarklet
Todd - I am making the assumption that if a messaging and commenting system like Friendfeed were able to process semantic markup, and specifically a markup language like NML, that a period at the beginning of a message or comment would indicate that the entire message or comment was a semantic assertion. To embed an assertion within a message or comment, one needs to enclose it with...
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- Sean McBride
The processor for this kind of semantic markup should automatically be able to link to various URLs at Amazon.com, Google Book Search, local libraries, etc.
- Sean McBride
Thanks. Makes sense. .activity might be an interesting assertion as well
- Todd Hoff
Hmm -- what would be the most efficient way to represent activities in general, in a brief line of markup?
- Sean McBride
Corie - wonderful book - I highly recommend it. It also has quite a bit of relevance to current efforts to build large-scale AI-based knowledge systems.
- Sean McBride
.book; Simon Winchester; The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary; 1998+ // I just declared in NML that I like this particular book
- Sean McBride
"anti-Semitic and anti-Israel views" me arse. I was born an Israeli Jew. What they mean is "views that oppose corrupt real-estate sharks who happen to wear a yarmulke". Views against the occupation are pro-Israeli [pro-Palestinian as well, but that doesn't make them anti-*semitic* :) ], just like views against the occupation of Algiers weren't "anti-French" [as we all know now, with hindsight]
- ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod
The Dod - your views are pro-Jewish and pro-human (like Phil Weiss's), and just plain sensible, and I think many Jews share those views.
- Sean McBride
@Forrest - exactly. Now, if McCain can just stick to one economic plan (he's on v4.0 now)
- Dave Hodson
@Dave: I saw a headline just yesterday: "Obama Puts Forth Fresh Economic Plan" ... so....???
- Craig Eddy
Obama wants to "spread the wealth" to people who haven't EARNED any wealth. You're not entitled to wealth just because you breath. You're not entitled to a piece of my productivity just because you breed. You have no right to use the government as a proxy to mug me.
- Craig Eddy
@Craig - you are just recycling bogus Republican Talking Points now
- Dave Hodson
@Dave - Obama hasn't been any better, but unfortunately for us (and I'm talking Americans in general) this campaign - as with so much politics these days - is a warp-speed race to the bottom of the competence barrel. These people are embarrassingly bad...
- Forrest Cox
@Dave - I'll also add that, and somewhat to your point, this is what happens when a public that understands comparatively little about money and its role in the world elects as its nominees for public office people who themselves know next to nothing about the topic. Both sides are woefully guilty in this.
- Forrest Cox
#Forrest Cox, you are mistaken if you think that Obama doesn't understand exactly the implications of his plan to redistribute wealth. He knows perfectly well. His whole career is Marxist in its outlook and agenda. Full stop.
- eggsy
@eggsy - I think you're seriously overestimating Obama's overall competence. For starters, the concept of wealth redistribution is very simple, and its mechanisms equally so. Capitalism is much harder. Is he radically leftist? Yes. Is he capable of coherently discussing economic issues? No.
- Forrest Cox