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Watching the memorial service for Ted Kennedy.
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Me, too. I was born, in 1957, and raised in Boston, Mass. This is breaking my heart. You won't get it if you don't remember where you were on Nov. 22, 1963.
- Mitch Nauffts
some 6 year olds are more aware than others... I have 2 childen, and at 6, they were like chalk & cheese... However, yes, it would be a pretty switched on 6 year old to be moved by JFKs bad day out in Dallas...
- Simon Edhouse
David Wright hit in the head by a pitch - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Fastball to the head -- maybe the scariest thing in sports. It's why I stopped playing organized baseball at fifteen.
- Mitch Nauffts
RT @milesmparker: Bob Dylan picked up by 22 year old cop who never heard of him. http://origin.reddit.com/r... - Brilliant!
Brilliant? More like clueless.
- Mitch Nauffts
louisgray.com: Hi Facebook, It's Me, FriendFeed. This Relationship? It's Complicated. - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
So what's happening to this Valley? Is it as dire a situation as it sometimes seems? Are we really going to end up with four mega-companies: FaceBook, Google, Microsoft and Apple? Because if Google or Microsoft can weasel their way into acquiring Twitter, that's sure how it will seem. If the IPO market continues to be closed, and innovative companies can only knock on doors 1 through 4, that's not a good thing.
- Chris Heath
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This too shall pass. Remember, technology, by definition is disruptive. Might not happen as quickly as you'd like, but the four horseman of the moment eventually will be unseated.
- Mitch Nauffts
Golf weenie question: What did people think about Tiger/Harrington warned for slow play this weekend? I'm slowly warming to official.
It's about time. Watching Harrington play a round of golf is an excruciating experience. And Tiger's not much better. Hey, fellas, it's a simple game. Find your damn ball, pick a club, and hit it.
- Mitch Nauffts
Do the Microsoft Bing commercials resonate with you? Is there anyone who's converted from Google to Bing?
Don't think so. Bing has a long way to go to match Google's brilliance.
- Mitch Nauffts
Steve Jobs - Big Man on Campus ... Again (TMZ.com) - http://www.techmeme.com/090729...
interesting... ....not!
- Chris Heath
TMZ is now breaking tech news?
- Bret Taylor
This is tech news?
- Amit Patel
this is news?
- Chris Heath
Steve is not well. Skin and bones, skin and bones...
- Mitch Nauffts
@WBUR I heard a show this morning about a business leader know for turning arts organizations around. Where can I find more info?
Must have been talking about Michael Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center for the Perfoming Arts. We reviewed his recent book, "The Art of the Turnaround: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations," in October: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd...
- Mitch Nauffts
Treasonous Glenn Beck and Michael Scheuer WANT and WISH For Another Terrorist Attack in the U.S. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Scheuer is nauseating. Self-pitying narcissist who grows crazier by the day. And Beck is just stone-cold nuts.
- Mitch Nauffts
JS opened the daily show wednesday night with a bit of commentary about this glenn beck 'gem' - it was a bit funny but mostly with at WTF attitude
- Chris Heath
Going to Maine: Some photos - http://blog.chrisheath.us/2009...
I love Maine. Have fun, Chris.
- Mitch Nauffts
Besides the weather, it's been a great vacation. thanks Mitch
- Chris Heath
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Union Sq Ventures teambuilding on @albertwenger's sailboat in long island sound http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Hey, Brad. Where you been hiding?
- Mitch Nauffts
Fred, you're on a BOAT! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Chris Lamprecht
@josh_sternberg I certainly can't. I support Dave. Earlier I linked to a count that Conan & Leno did more jokes. Why's she whining now?
Come to think of it, Leno and Conan have been unfunny for twenty years. Wonder if Jimmy Fallon has gotten his shot?
- Mitch Nauffts
SupportDavidLetterman.net advertises on Facebook. http://www.supportdavidletterman.net/
Dave has been unfunny for twenty years. And I support his right to be unfunny for another twenty years, dammit!
- Mitch Nauffts
Am I crazy or is the headline completely wrong? "What’s The New York Times Worth? A Buck." http://www.paidcontent.org/entry...
Completely wrong. The "buck" referred to is what some analysts and bloggers think the Boston Globe is worth -- not the Times itself. Here's how Ken Doctor frames it: "Given the state of the world, the ad market, the newspaper market and vagaries of the online future, my best guesstimate of a price for the NYT: a buck. [He means what the Times legitimately should command...] "A buck...
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- Mitch Nauffts
Now changed to refer to the Globe.
- Jay Rosen
Because, @charlesarthur, I don't think @anamariecox should have 30 times as much authority as I do in a Google search of Twitter.
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Funny, this made me notice that I'm subscribed to AMC's Twitter but not Rosen's. It's probably because Rosen participates here as well, where AMC does not.
- Rob Haas
Rosen | AMC: apples and oranges. Different product offerings.
- Mitch Nauffts
Huh? You lost me. What does that have to do with the distorting influence of the suggsted users list?
- Jay Rosen
The ‘Coffin Corner’ and a ‘Mesoscale’ Maw - http://trueslant.com/milesob...
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"The doomed Airbus A-330-200 was flying ever so close to its maximum altitude – in a zone pilots call the “Coffin Corner”. It refers to the edge of so-called “flight envelope” of an aircraft. At this altitude, the air is much thinner and that significantly narrows the swath of speed at which the airplane can safely operate. They will stop flying (stall) at a much higher speed (true airspeed) than they would on approach to an airport at sea level. At the other end of the safe speed spectrum is the sound barrier. The wings on an airliner like the A-330 are not designed to break the speed of sound. So you see the squeeze play as a plane flies toward the Coffin Corner: the margin between the between the high and low speed limits gets thinner and thinner (along with the air). Matter of fact, given its estimated weight, altitude and the outside air temperature (which also affects air density), AF 447 was flying through the eye of a speed needle only about 25 knots (28 mph) wide."
- Paul Buchheit
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wow - great read there paul, thx!
- Chris Heath
such a puzzle. the thing is, the A330 flight computer should "know" when the aircraft is approaching the "Coffin Corner." it is designed to keep the plane from getting into trouble. though it looks like the last ACARS messages from the plane are basically the flight computers saying they are confused, could a human please drive now (autopilot off, autothrottle off, switch to Alternate Law).
- Karim
What a trip. What a tragedy.
- Brent - Loving Life
Just terrible. I can't stop thinking about the people on that doomed flight. God rest their souls.
- Mitch Nauffts
the "Coffin Corner" on a 747: http://digital-nomad.com/gallery... airspeed on the left, altitude on the right. the red/purple bricks starting at 288 knots airspeed & going up indicate the beginning of Mach Critical, where the airflow gets disrupted because the plane is moving too fast. the yellow line starting at 258 kts & going down is the stall speed, where the...
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- Karim
or rather the computer has to keep the airspeed between the two points. :-) if there's a small buffet margin of a few knots (difference between the Mach buffet speed and the stall buffet speed), the greater the chances that a manuever will get the plane into trouble. turning the plane can reduce the airspeed (thus causing it to stall), or pitching the nose down can increase the airspeed (thus causing a "Mach tuck" and pointing the nose down even more...)
- Karim
Karim, are you sure that photo is from a 747? Mach .86 at that altitude is 500kts, not 275. That's 275m/s, not knots, which makes the "coffin corner" 60kts, not 30.
- Gabe
Gabe, i was assuming the speed was CAS. (does an EFIS display meters/sec.?) the calculator here http://www.newbyte.co.il/calc... shows that, for an altitude of 38,000 ft., temp. of -38 C, and speed of Mach .86, that results in a Calibrated Air Speed (CAS) of 275.
- Karim
UAFlt 175 , an alleged 767, according to the video evidence, appeared to travel over 500 mph @ 700 ft., and was not dive-bombing. According to Boeing, that couldn't be. I'd like opinion of pilots on this photo http://www.thewebfairy.com/ the background is a still from a video allegedly taken from Battery Park by M. Hezarkhani, and promoted in various media.
- Marg Uerite
i am so relieved to find a thread full of savvy and tech interested pilots.
- Marg Uerite
Marg, at 700ft the speed of sound is 764mph, so a plane going Mach .86 could be going 660mph. Of course few jets have the thrust to sustain flight at that height and speed for very long, but you could dive from altitude to build up a speed of over 660mph (your wings probably wouldn't fall off until over 700mph) and go for quite a ways at level flight before drag slowed you down to 500mph.
- Gabe
I was not aware that a 767 was able to break the sound barrier. Thank you for your answer that is very helpful. The "plane" in the vids appear to come in level, from at least a mile out. Part of the problem is that different vids show different trajectories. One vid *does show a dive, but does not match the others. http://killtown.911review.org/2nd-hit...
- Marg Uerite
No, I never said a 767 could break the sound barrier. It can dive at 91% of the speed of sound, which near sea level is pretty fast. Once it comes out of that dive, it would cover a mile in maybe 10 seconds.
- Gabe
Thanks, Gabe.
- Marg Uerite
Kind of sad to see this http://twitter.com/Patrick... So long, @PatrickRuffini You've crossed over.
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What's your point, Jay? That the president is above criticism?
- Mitch Nauffts
What's your point, Mitch? That I am stupid enough and enough of an opinion tyrant to countenance no criticism of Obama? Ask a less trollish question and might have an answer for you.
- Jay Rosen
No, not that your stupid or a tyrant, Jay, but that you'd give the kiss off to someone who has the effrontery to suggest that the solution to massive indebtedness is even more indebtedness. At least, that's what I think @PatrickRuffini was suggesting...
- Mitch Nauffts
Ah, yes, I can see it now. It's that new interdisciplinary criticism. Economics + quantum mechanics.
- gnarlytrombone
Now that you have emerged from your troll phase, I can suggest that if one's criticism of Obama is that he's piling on too much debt one should criticize him for his policy of adding to the debt. That Obama is the opposite of reality deserves a dismissal and a farewell, yes. Ruffini soiled himself with that-- in public. That's sad in the way self-degradation is always sad. I no longer take him seriously. And, where did you get that he's talking about the debt? The Tweet has no such context.
- Jay Rosen
Well, yes, that is the problem with Twitter -- no context. To suggest that Patrick degraded himself by suggesting that the president is not "reality-based -- well, that seems a little harsh. Indeed, sounds like exactly the kind of thing that people have said about every president, from JFK to BHO, in my lifetime. Your question about where I got the debt thing from Patrick's tweet is a good one. I suppose I was attributing a concern to him that is on the minds of most everyone these days.
- Mitch Nauffts
Then I am a harsh judge. I accept your verdict. But if Ruffini can say that with a straight face, he has crossed over, and he should be written off as in the Erick Erickson category.
- Jay Rosen
Not to worry. I love reading your stuff. (Though you'll have to explain the Erick Erickson reference to me over a drink sometime.) Catch you later.
- Mitch Nauffts
sample of Mr. Erickson's thought http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi... Not Erik Erikson the sociologist, Erick Erickson is the managing editor of RedState.com.
- Jay Rosen
It's not really germane, but "Not Erik Erikson the sociologist, Erick Erickson is the managing editor" is my favourite quote fragment of the night - just for its poetry alone.
- Micah Wittman
Yeesh, not a letter you want in your inbox RT @BostonUpdate: Letter from Globe management on the vote - http://www.boston.com/news...
Guess contracts only matter if you're a bondholder or over-compensated exec who has driven your company off a cliff.
- Mitch Nauffts
Leo Laporte Blows up at Mike Arrington - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"yeah, arrington apologized because he had to - look at the second update on his techcrunch 'ouch' post - he's pleading for people to stop harassing him about this - and he's also being a baby about 'death threats'"
- Chris Heath
Death threats? Are people out of their minds? Are their lives that sad and impoverished that they need to threaten someone with physical harm because he exercised his right to free speech? Pathetic.
- Mitch Nauffts
why would you expect someone to STFU after you verbally accost them out of the blue? i know many people who would escalate the confrontation physically when attacked verbally out of the blue
- Chris Heath
Can't resist. Big shoutout and props to my little bro for the great review his play got in today's NYT! http://theater.nytimes.com/pages....
Sorry. Correct link here: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009...
- Mitch Nauffts
This is what should worry newspaper execs planning to charge: the final kiss off to youth: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Good riddance.
- Mitch Nauffts
"A liberal opinion magazine written by liberals who don't want to admit they're liberals?" No thanks! http://weeklystandard.com/Content... (via @ilenesmachine)
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Funniest thing I've read this week. Favorite part: "After working for Katie, [Nicolle Wallace] got a job preparing Sarah Palin for media interviews during last year's presidential campaign. She prepared Palin for her interview with Katie, in fact. The interview aired on CBS and confirmed everybody's assumption that Palin is a moron...."
- Mitch Nauffts
Trending topic among journos: Adam Lambert, runner-up on "Idol." But not the winner. Why? "Comfort the afflicted..." http://www.niemanlab.org/2009...
No mystery. Because he sucks. Listen to his performances without watching the video. Godawful.
- Mitch Nauffts
Hah yeah agreed!
- Zach Seward
All-American Boy Prays to Mecca - http://uncivilsociety.org/2009...
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Did you see the season-ending episode of "24"? Jack Bauer came close to doing same.
- Mitch Nauffts
Gesturing helps you think - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
I knew it!
- Mitch Nauffts
Having confessed to lifting Josh Marshall's copy, the Times' Maureen Dowd almost sets things right. - http://www.slate.com/id...
Reading some of the comments. Does nothing to restore one's faith in humanity.
- Mitch Nauffts
Andrew Rosenthal, Maureen Dowd's boss, speaks: Error was corrected. Obviously wasn't plagiarism. Episode's over. http://www.politico.com/blogs...
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"obviously wasn't plagiarism." taken from the bush administration dept. of pr tactics
- Cee Bee
I have to agree with all those who think Dowd was sandbagged by whomever edited her Sunday column. I think she's falling on her sword here (i.e., protecting colleagues and/or higher-ups), which, if accurate, is understandable and maybe even to be admired.
- Mitch Nauffts
who would she be protecting and why? i don't understand. if anything, she might be protecting some assistant of hers, but people above her?
- Cee Bee
Someone who "brushed up" her column and, in the process, added a little language to clarify a point, perhaps? Pure speculation on my part, mind you...
- Mitch Nauffts
possibly. adding an entire paragraph word for word could be someone else's attempt at sabotage or complete irresponsibility on her part. either way, she's ultimately responsible as the article carries her name. weird ocurrence
- Cee Bee
I don't know about y'all, but the mystery of how her columns are constructed are part of the allure. More so now than ever. Long live opacity.
- gnarlytrombone
BTW, I can't imagine Krugman going for this explanation.
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Totally not fair to drag Krugman into this, Dave. Clark Hoyt, okay, that's his job. Krugman is an innocent bystander....
- Mitch Nauffts
Whoa, I just stated my opinion. I was paying him a high compliment, he's a no-bullshit guy and a professor. I don't think he would have much tolerance for plagiarism. We'll find out. But you bet it's his job. This incident reflects on the integrity of the page he writes for. That's how this stuff works.
- Dave Winer
Yes, your opinion, but you've got to be careful. Krugman -- a no-BS guy, as you say -- files a column twice a week from Princeton. He has no say and nothing to do with the contents of the Times' op-ed page; that's Andrew Rosenthal's job. (And I was mistaken to drag Clark Hoyt into it; as the public editor, his job is to examine the paper's mistakes. I'm sure he'll weigh in sooner or later on this one.)
- Mitch Nauffts
I don't agree.
- Dave Winer
Krugman can say whatever he wants, and maybe he'd want to say something about this. Mitch, you're right that he isn't 'above' Dowd in the structure at NYT, but saying that Krugman has 'no say' in matters of his peers? That doesn't make sense
- Chris Heath
Chris, maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't. Point is, he should have a choice. Those of us on the "outside" shouldn't presume that he wants to be the arbiter of journalism ethics, at the Times or anywhere else.
- Mitch Nauffts
Mitch, you're doing the presuming - lay off
- Chris Heath
Really? You lost me there, Chris.
- Mitch Nauffts
maybe presuming isn't the right word.
- Chris Heath
dave wasn't saying that krugman should be the arbiter of journo ethics, but was just stating his opinion of what he thought krugman would think - is that more clear? - and now i'm putting words into dave's mouth - trying to explain what i though he was saying/meaning
- Chris Heath
Maybe that's a good place to leave it for tonight. Thanks for the conversation. And, Dave, I love your stuff. Keep up the good work.
- Mitch Nauffts
ok, we're cool?
- Chris Heath
Totally.
- Mitch Nauffts
About lynch mobs on the net: 1. I have been the victim of them. 2. I have stood between mobs and their victim, for people I dislike.
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And for that you are you to be commended. Sincerely.
- Mitch Nauffts
That is absolutely true. I haven't always agreed with Dave on this issue but he has been against them in the past.
- Robert Scoble
re: this issue - it was a verbatim lifting of a paragraph. There's no way that she heard someone else quote it (or that the other person quoted it verbatim). I don't buy the 'explanation'
- Chris Heath
Reminds me of The Crowd is Untruth by Soren Kierkegaard.
- Kevykev
Reminds me of Rene Girard's The Scapegoat. It's honorable to stand between lynch mobs and their victims. But I think Dowd kinda lynched herself if what is claimed is true.
- phil baumann
reminds me of SSDD (look it up)
- Chris Heath
It adds insult to injury coming a week after the story that a University of Dublin student added fake quotes to Maurice Jarre's Wikipedia page (and had it removed twice for lack of sources) but was copied verbatim from Wikipedia and published by many many news outlets.
- Adam Turetzky
All I know if I had gotten caught doing what she did in school, I would have gotten an F, her explanation doesn't hold water, but as usual it will not be the original act that gets her in trouble is will be the attempt to cover up that may lead to her downfall if the accusation prove true.
- Kim Landwehr
Is it just me or are all Republicans humorless self-important know-it-all nitpickers.
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No, it is not just you.
- Joe Kohli
Glenn Beck included?
- Majento
Kind of a sweeping generalization, Dave. Guess you didn't catch BHO's address at ND.
- Mitch Nauffts
You forgot to include Democrats who think they can lie to the American People. We need to throw all of the politicians out of office and start electing people who are looking out for We the People.
- Russ Jackson
its true Dave, they represent a dead culture
- Tweet Feeds
So true.
- John Hardy
Yes, we are.
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