This is exactly how it's supposed to work, and being in the Carolinas myself, this is great news.
- Dave Roth
Yup. It amazes me that states (hell, even on the national level) folks keep thinking they can just continue to try to mug the wealth generators and they will just sit still and be slaughtered for the benefit of parasites. Bullsh*t :)
- Soulhuntre
from email
Business climate was just one element of this decision. The main element is spelled u.n.i.o.n.
- Rob McNair-Huff
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
from twhirl
"I agree with this - it is critical that biggovernment.com maintain itself above the little stuff and the innuendo. Stick to the big, serious, impeccably documented first source content."
- Soulhuntre
Praise is a little strong. They're just singing about the president. They're not even being instructed about him, just memorizing some random song.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Is everyone sure this is real/not a set up? "Barack Hussein Obama"...
- Johnny Worthington
The person who taped the video is an Obama "supporter" who writes books and is known for stuff like this. Random? Not a chance in hell.
- Spencer
I think it is ridicALL GLORY TO OBAMA!
- Jemm
from fftogo
I can't understand the individual words, but as a concept, I don't have a problem with kids in school learning/singing a song about their country's president.
- Rochelle
I am constantly amazed at the extent of Obama Derangement Syndrome in the wing-o-sphere.
- Kevin Pedraja
Wait, let's be clear. By "random" I mean they are just reciting basic facts about the president. There is nothing saying "Obama is the greatest" or "All praise be to Obama." It's just a song about the President. The only reason this is even an issue now is because it's Obama. If school kids had done a song about GW or Clinton, nobody would have cared.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I find it interesting that people with their political leanings will post stuff as if it's up for debate. We get it. You don't like Obama. You've hammered it home, your point is perfectly clear, there's nothing that he could ever say or do to get you to think otherwise, so I'm curious as to why you feel the need to go and and on with such fervor. Conversely, those who love Obama, feel...
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- Derrick
So who shot the video... The account is alteredbeat and the other two videos are "Twin Cities Tax Day Tea Party" and "Mark Levin on exploiting imperfections and Obama's health care speech"...
- Johnny Worthington
Comrades, I certainly hope you've all by now received Dear Leader's little Red Book which you must keep in your hand at all time. Cultural purity warriors will be marching through your town soon to burn at the stake all non-committed party members and non-members. Glory to Dear and Magnificent Leader Obama!! May His reign last ten thousand years!!!
- Tad
from fftogo
I would not want my kid learning and singing a song like this about Bush, Obama or any president. It's bizarre.
- Kurt Starnes
Definitely seems fishy and I also agree with Derrick. Things like this are simply distractions. The actual discussion probably won't amount to anything. On the other hand, Glory to Dear and Magnificent Leader Obama!!! (LMFAO)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Distractions? From what? If your not concerned about your government intruding on society - then what are you concerned with? This is part of a pattern... * The NEA oversteppign its bounds and turnign into a propoganda machine * The ill handled and badly misguided "course material" for Obama's school speech * The efforts to use legislative muscle to muzzle dissent of the health care...
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- Soulhuntre
from email
government have always pulled this crap. Why do you think it has allowed the pledge to be spoken in school all these years? How about making migrants pledge an allegiance that actively demands they be loyal only to the US instead of moving with the times and realising the world is becoming much more globalised and the workforce more fluid? The only thing that changes are the faces.. policies and puppet masters behind the scenes remain the same as it ever was.
- alphaxion
Rah, didn't you know that LMFAO now means "Leader, Most Fiercely Almighty, Obama"?!
- Rochelle
Soulhuntre, where were you when the so-called "Patriot Act" was passed, and ALL of your rights were trampled on in the name of "Security". Where were you when the President's peeps decided that PBS's and NPR's content was "too liberal" and took steps to make it "more in line" with their way of thinking? Where were you when all these peeps who spoke out against Bush/Cheney were met with...
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- Helen Sventitsky
And then there's that school district in TX that refused to show the Obama address but ALMOST shipped their kids to see FORMER president George Bush in a stadium. Where's your outrage in that? Or is that different because it's NOT Obama?
- Helen Sventitsky
I'd like to hear a song about Bill Clinton from the kids... can we do requests?
- Gus
@Derrick - getting the country "back on track" is a good goal - but not at the expense of bad policy. For instance if you disagree witht he shape of health care legislation you should speak up - and not simply shut up so we can get "on track". Policy matters - policy beomes law. In this instance there is also a social issue at work - how much indoctrination we are willing to tolerate. I...
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- Soulhuntre
@Muse - my issue with the Obama school speech wasn't the speech itself, but the related course material that was only changed because it became a public issue. Similarly, letting them go see a president in a stadium wouldn't have been a problem for me either... as long as there was no related forced cirriculum. I also support allowing parents opt out of such things for their kids - on either side.
- Soulhuntre
as it always has been, the track of whoever can pay the most.
- alphaxion
@Muse - by the way, I am no big fan of "The Patriot Act" either :)
- Soulhuntre
I see a bunch of kids singing about their country's first black president. What's the problem?
- Steven Perez
I'm sure I don't know the whole story, but maybe this whole "curriculum" thing only happened in certain areas cuz there was no such thing here. Also, teaching the kids a song about the president is not the same as sitting them down in class and telling them that opposing Obama is wrong. Aren't there a plethora of songs out there about various presidents?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Although this does speak to a larger issue: why is it OK to indoctrinate kids with ideas of patriotism and "follow the commander-in-chief" when the president in question is a Republican, but not such a good idea to do the same when the president is a Democrat?
- Steven Perez
from IM
"Clothing styles change, games change (in detail, rarely in form of course) codes of behaviour change of course - but not a single bit of any of that leads to the idea that the fundemental differences in gender are also social constructions. Maybe the point is too subtle for you :: shrugs :: thats not really my problem. Thanks for your input :)"
- Soulhuntre
Where is the example of dems disrupting Republican town hall meetings with corporate directed talking points? I'm all for protesting things you disagree with, but if you ask a question because you want discourse, it helps to listen to the answer...
- Bren -- feeling merry
from iPhone
Check out every action a group named "Code Pink" has taken. They are funded by George Soros and a bunch of prominent ems and are much more disruptive. Ken
- Soulhuntre
from email
that's always the problem with making definitive statements ("check out *every* action a group named Code Pink has taken.") ... it only takes one example that doesn't fit to discredit the argument. In any case, from what I can see, it looks like Code Pink takes shots at everyone that doesn't agree with their agenda (which is largely anti-war and anti-corporate), and I was unable to find...
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- Bren -- feeling merry
also, because I think your initial point was about the way the media treats the left and right differently, I found this: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily... ... the headline is "The Battle in Seattle: A Misguided *Mob* Blinded by Arrogance." Business Week was not the only publication to characterize the protests of the WTO in Seattle as a "mob."
- Bren -- feeling merry
Souhuntre - I would argue that Code Pink, which isn't Dem so much as leftist, is also not nearly as disruptive as what you see now. They are shutting down meetings. Code Pink acts a fool and is kicked out pretty quick. Also, where is any proof that Soros funds Code Pink? It doesn't strike me as likely since Soros is a major capitalist and Code Pink is anti-corporate.
- Andrew
"This is an interesting comment to look back on. * Obama's poll numbes are falling like rocks * The "marginalized" Republican party is now more trusted by the american voters than the Dmeocrats are on economic issues * Even with majority control of the House and the Senate, Obama cannot muster the political support to pass his own health care bill yet. He needs more time (long past his own deadline) to cut the deals and pay the pork You're right - there are reactions. As the Hopium wears off the voters are seeing what they actually bought and they are getting pissed."
- Soulhuntre
"Ok... lets try democratic anti-dissent bingo with rocky up there. * Imply that your opponent is some sort of maginalized, potentially violent Jesus freak. Check. * Accuse them of racism for daring to speak out against Obama. Check. * Deny facts, but continue to demand them. Check (apparently we need the approved facts!) . Ckeck. * Appeal to authority - claim that the dissenter is not qualified to comment ("un-scholarly"). Check. Bingo!"
- Soulhuntre
Precision of software construction time estimation is directly proportional to the completeness/wordiness of the specs: the wordier the specs, the less ambiguity there is, the less we argue over what was meant by terms used, etc.
- Craig Eddy
There should be t-shirts that say this.
- Brett Kelly
You know, since FriendFeed isn't integrated into Tweetdeck, I dont always get over here to respond to comments but I wanted to say Hi!
- Soulhuntre
I have tried the wordy spec thing - it still fails utterly. The reality is that until a client gets a look at a tool they have no idea what it will do or look like, and if they will love it or hate it. As you start delivering, they make changes and you make changes as you both discover who the tool is shaping up.This seems to go well till they lose their minds and start complaining :)
- Soulhuntre
Tender Is The Night / Fitzgerald, and The Secret History / Donna Tart
- Patrick Jordan
Anything by Neal Stephenson. Was just watching a special on PBS on Isaac newton and it was right out of his recent series.
- Victor Ryden
I'll give you three: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon; if on winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino; A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card and Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
- Alan Le
Walden by Henry David Thoreau and Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- Pete Delucchi
I see Tad and I share one favorite (even though RAW wrote my other fav book, just not the one you mention) and Akiva and I share another. In fact Akiva is the only other person I know who has read that Calvino classic. Has to be the one book that screwed with my mind worse than acid.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
@Alan - I just read 'A Feast for Crows' and 'Ender's Game' last week/end. cool.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Ooh - that sounds good Jack! Will have to look it up. :)
- Tad
Jack, I absolutely love Calvino and that book in particular.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I don't think I can name only two, it would just be unfair
- Justin Yost
True that, Justin. But you know if someone asked our favorite hundred books, alphabetically arranged by author, some of us would stay up for hours putting our list together. I think 2 is a reasonable limit for a quick-post medium like Friendfeed.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Armor by John Steakley
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Stranger in a Strange Land .... Shockwave Rider
- Steven Hodson
Women & Post Office by Charles Bukowski
- Mark Krynsky
'Gravity's Rainbow' by T. Pynchon and... perhaps... wait, no... a lot of others. I'm especially partial to H. S. Thompson (both fiction and non-fiction) and P. K. Dick.
- Goran Zec
Our Lady of the Flowers and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy
- Rick Powell
A Prayer for Owen Meany and Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Bill Bittner
Most recently: the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde (fiction) and Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by Daniel Headrick (nonfiction)
- Steve Lowe
from NoiseRiver
theodore rex and andrew carnegie. Both epic biograhies about larger-than-life personalities.
- Morgan
I can probably name authors, not books. Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Italo Calvino. It would be sacrilege for me to judge between any of the splendid works of these two geniuses.
- Parth Awasthi
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut and Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Glad to see Stranger in a Strange Land, Bukowski, Stephenson, PKD and Fforde. @Akiva: Ignatius Reilly, unforgettable! And Pynchon is brilliant, I'd go with V myself.
- AJ Kohn
BTW - couldn't we do top 10 or top 100? So many to choose from. I mean, A Canticle for Leibowitz needs to be on a list.
- AJ Kohn
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card and The Stag - Stephen King
- Christian Farley
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley and White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Jason Toney
Don Delillo's Underworld and The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
- Kyle Hebert
blood meridian by cormac mccarthy and sound as thought by clark coolidge
- Tracy Ruggles
I am sure this doesn't count as "2", but I'll have to go with anything by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Carlo Zottmann
"Encore Provence" by Peter Mayle and "Green Witchcraft" by Ann Moura.
- Nia
Bloodsuckng Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore and The Stand by Stephen KIng
- Alan Simpson
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, The Stranger, Camus
- pea
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell and "The Birth of Venus" by Sarah Dunant
- Justin Yost
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein
- Robert Higgins
Fiction: The Unbearable Lightness of Being & The Old Man and the Sea
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Fiction: "The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson, Non-Fiction: "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris.
- cdogzilla
"As expect the moderator of the group in question deleted my post, without comment. Too funny. I love the little yappy dogs so convinced they are the tough ones. I look forward to the chance to hang out man and thanks for the comment :)"
- Soulhuntre
it's not desktop tool for me. It is webtool called diigo. It's integrated with browser both for taking notes on a web page(annotation) and retrieve them as bookmarks. Yes evernote has a nice OCR technology.
- pankaj
Adrienne: that's because you haven't seen what Evernote can do.
- Robert Scoble
Notepad. Viva la Old School! Yes. I'm serious.
- Art Lindsey III
Onenote most often, but Evernote is a good clip capture tool.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Evernote - use it every day. Notebooks need to have sections or chapters, and the Mac version needs to add audio recording, but otherwise it's great.
- Dean Terry
best notetaking for me is my moleskine for on hand, and jott when behind the wheel.
- sean808080
Notepad++ largely, but increasingly using Google Notebook.
- Derrick Burns
Evernote. mostly use it to keep track of real estate listings. (used to use OneNote--haven't opened it in months!)
- Jasmin Smith
Franklin organizer. Paper is the best.
- Victor Ryden
Jott for voice notes, Evernote for pictures and text but iPhone produces very blurry and unusable business cards with Evernote so far, needs a focus-adjuster app to be effective.
- Sally Church
Google Notebook. Trying to find practical uses of Evernote. It still doesn't seem to have a collaborating notebooks feature.
- Chris Chua
Evernote, has more flexibilty then Google Notebook. There are a few fearures I would like to added but it does the trick for me.
- Paul
from twhirl
evernote all the way. rich internet app with clients for most major PC and mobile platforms, and sync to cloud is quick and reliable. text deco of images is a nice bonus. they do need to spend some time observing the list features of OneNote and the search search ux of Spotlight - even the best apps can always improve.
- Jon Price
Right now it's Gmail and IMAP but I am playing with Evernote. I do have concerns though about trusting my info with your cloud. You're doing all the right things. It's just that you're new and I need to get to know you. I trust Gmail.
- Steve Rubel
Vim! In second place comes Mousepad. Third place is "cat - > note.txt".
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Evernote is a great service/app, but I still find I can write faster in OneNote.
- Rafe Needleman
Rafe: I'd be convinced if you could get me OneNote on my iPhone.
- Robert Scoble
Evernote + Reqall is a killer combo on the iPhone/Web/Everywhere
- Nicholas Molnar
Google Notebook on computer, Jott when mobile.
- Ian May
I love Google Notebook, need to find a good mobile alternative.
- Rahaf Harfoush
Honestly, a moleskine notebook and a decent pen. A recent development for me, but it's working great. I get WAY too distracted taking notes on a computer where there are so many fun things I could be doing with my spare seconds! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
I have a voice recorder on my mp3 player and on my phone, but I still mainly use a moleskine and a box of mechanical pencils. Old school, that's me.
- Steven Perez
While on foot, it's either my Nokia N95 8GB or my Moleskine, but with computer access it's either Evernote or Google Docs.
- Niklas Pivic
from Alert Thingy
Mail.app. Comes pre-installed. Easy to use. Notes are synchronised across all of my devices (Mac Mini, MacBook and iPhone). Notes are also available online via MobileMe. I don't need to wait for any app to launch since I always have Mail.app running anyway.
- Paul Grav
Evernote is great but needs a printer driver and better inking. OneNote is king on TabletPC's for inking. Evernote is king for syncing.
- Andrew Forde
from twhirl
Evernote has great features, but I still find the desktop client a bit hard to use at times. Would like it a lot more if there was a proper app for my Symbian phone.
- Sam
from twhirl
/agree with @Dukeswharf. An S60 client would be awesome. I've been trying to get the imap setup to work but it doesn't seem to want to cooperate.
- patrick