Right. As everyone knows, Mexico is a great power that is poised to
take over the entire Southern tier of the United States. And those
damned Canadians have been quietly biding their time since the
American revolution, lying in wait for just the right moment to
arrive. And the European Union is so
I'm no twitter as http://twitter.com/dland Nick has been kind enough
to mention me several times in his musings on Twitter.
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Julia,
OK, that one looks somewhat more interesting than some of the Tweets I see
dumped to LiveJournal.
Thank you (if you're referring to my twitter feed). I try to remember
that the people who are following me (there are a little under a
hundred, with some falling off and new ones replacing
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the economic boom due to unregulated greed has turned into an exploded bomb -
no longer ticking...
I like what Tom Evslin had to say about this at http://budurl.com/ejfz:
This correction from excess has been violent
To give credit where it is due: Tim O'Reilly posted a reply on Twitter
(@timoreilly) to Tom Evslin's (@tevslin) piece.
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:52 PM, David Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the economic boom due
Subject: Please to Help
To; John Q. Public
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2008 22:22:22
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business
relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My
Folks,
We talk a lot -- some might say too much -- about the pernicious
effects of blind religious belief, especially as it prevents rational
thought about science. You might say that Science is sacred around
here. But secular belief can be just as blinding just as stupid
dangerous.
Consider
Folks,
It comes to my attention that the tinyurl in my previous post is
bogus. It works if you happen to be on the network at LiveWorld, but
not so much if you're out there in the wide-open interwebs.
This one should go to that overlong URL that you _could_ have
reconstructed by hand if you were
Doug Pensinger wrote:
But of course he's neither.
He's about as far right as I care to stomach.
Dave
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I think we all knew this, but:
The neurological basis for poor witness statements
and hallucinations has been found by scientists at
University College London. In over a fifth of cases,
people wrongly remembered whether they actually
witnessed an event or just imagined it,
Friends,
After carefully examining the evidence, I've become convinced
that the president's party mounted a massive, coordinated
campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004. Across the
country, Republican election officials and party stalwarts
employed a wide range of
Folks,
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/
This piece appeared in the Rolling Stone last Friday. It considers,
without immediately jumping to its conclusion, whether GWB may be what
the title suggests. (For our international readers, that's Worst US
President, of course
Folks,
From Craigslist:
01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural
things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way tha
hanging around tall people will make you tall.
03) Legalizing gay
Folks,
It's not lyrics from a song we love to hate.
It's not the latest political outrage.
It's not even a sci-fi or anime reference.
It's just toast: 2500 pieces of toast in various degrees of toastedness
arranged into the ginormous image of a toaster in Buenos Aires.
I read Le Guin at the same time in my life when I was listening to Baby
I'm-a Want You and Please, Mister, Please and thinking they were
really good stuff, so I'm reluctant to be too excited about this, but
Holy Flaming Snot may be right!
Dave That is what you meant, right? Land :-)
Damon
Folks,
I re-read the article and when I got to the part where the ads work
through a nano-technology brain implant, my skeptometer began ticking.
Then, at the very bottom of the article, there's a link to Ancestral
Advertising: Reaching an Untapped Demographic with a URL that looks
totally
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There was more to the original message, but I think Nick's server may
have gobbled it up. I'll talk to him tomorrow and see if that's the case.
In the meanwhile, talk (or sing
Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
And tuxedoed dolphins bring you breakfast
And even appropriate for the purported topic of the list!
I feel better than James Brown
I feel better now
I feel better than James Brown
I feel better now
I feel better than James Brown
I feel better now, how do you feel?
PAT MATHEWS wrote:
Someone on FourthTurning came up with a very sensible idea. It was
that the only time the federal government should interfere with state
law is if the state is violating the Bill of Rights. (This does not
restrict the power of the feds to regulate air traffic, public
Or, put briefly, Not tonight, honey. I have a PhD.
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Deborah Harrell wrote:
David Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or, put briefly, Not tonight, honey. I have a PhD.
scratching head - I mean *forehead* - in puzzlement
I must be rather thick today...care to elucidate
further?
Are you trying to say that you're promiscuous
Folks,
You might remember Doris Granny D Haddock as the 89-year-old who
walked 3,200 miles in 1999 to dramatize the issue of soft money
regulation. You might not remember her at all.
In any event, she delivered a speech at Orchard House in Concord, MA
on October 6 that I enjoyed a heck
Folks,
Politics is rife with cronyism. Nothing new there.
But I think it used to be kind of a dirty little secret, or at
least something that people didn't talk about, except as a way to
criticize the other guys.
The Bush administration turns that logic on its head... Here's the
Folks,
Some ideas are so stupid that they should be quietly killed before they
see the light of day. I think I found one: View-Once DVDs.
Reminds me of a very funny piece by Colin McEnroe: Why Gasoline Costs
So Much (http://tinyurl.com/czvfu).
The DVD story is below, with link to original.
Damon Agretto wrote:
The first unofficial MTG tourney to be held in NW AZ is less than 12
hours away.
Pass...
Damon, got trapped in collectable games, learned his lesson, and now has
deep philosophical opposition to the concept...
Hi. I'm Damon, and I am a cardaholic.
Hi, Damon,
George,
I'm sure this has come up before, but what software is there out there that
can help you manage versions. As I get further into my English program, I
find that I'm having a hard time keeping track of what's what and when I
wrote what when?
Low- and no-cost preferred but I am
Brazilian artist Icaro Doria interprets flags of various countries as
statistical graphs:
http://www.brazilianartists.net/home/flags/
Dave
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KZK wrote:
http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4915
Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips
Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail of controlling
copyright through the motherboard has moved a step closer with Intel
Corp. now embedding digital rights management within
Its one thing to put your faith in a religion founded by a real person
who claimed divine revelation, but its something else entirely to have,
as the scripture of your religion, a storyline that you know was made up
by a very nonprophetic human being.
Its a terrible thing, I suppose, for a
Folks,
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624944.600
http://tinyurl.com/6gf46
Dave
-
Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix
-
07 April 2005
Exclusive from New Scientist
Damon Agretto wrote:
So it wasn't that he had the bad luck to hit an uncharted undersea
mountain in an area that was supposed to be charted. Rather, he was
going at a reckless speed in uncharted waters?
Probably, or at least that's my interpretation. Really a combination of
both, though (bad
Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002172407_mars06.ht
ml
http://tinyurl.com/58hnw
Global warming may be a scourge on Earth, but injecting greenhouse
gases into the atmosphere of Mars might be just the thing to turn the
barren planet into a living,
Trent Shipley wrote:
I really do not get that angry with spammers. They are just rational
entrepreneurs.
I take from this it that you are some kind of extreme libertarian that
rejects both property and privacy.
What would you say to the overt act of stealing a speaker truck (with
the
Did you ever know that you're my hero?
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Blogger Sean Young hilariously misinterprets graphics from ready.gov:
http://www.msxnet.org/humour/terror_alert
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Gary Nunn wrote:
Occasionally I do a search on Google for my name and email address just to
see what pops up. Typically only the MCCMEDIA archives show up, but today I
ran across Brin-L archives at mail-archive.com.
Not a big deal, just surprised that we were being archived somewhere other
than
Alberto,
John Horn asked:
Some members of br military during the brazilian dictatorship
of 1964-(1980 or 1985 or 1989) had some similar plans - maybe
the source was the same. They would explode a huge gas reservoir
in Rio downtown, blame the commies, and start a pogrom to kill
them all.
The plan
Folks,
With the quadrennial American exercise in rhetorical excess well under
way to elect the Leader of the Free World[tm] (no apologies to so-called
free countries who don't get a vote), I thought this extract from the
1930 book Straight and Crooked Thinking might be worthwhile reading:
Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
Bryon Daly wrote:
(I'd even demand cell phone capability, but the largish displays on PDA
make them not very conducive, shape-wise, to being phone handsets.)
Use a headset instead of the holding the whole thing up to your ear?
My BlackBerry is a PDA/Cell phone,
The Fool wrote:
http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/000679.html
Compare the new BSA's mascot for propaganzing children to classic villian
comics (the chest numbers were prison numbers not gang numbers).
It's not a weasel. It's a rat.
Dave
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William T Goodall wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/international/middleeast/
26FTE_NOTE.html?8dpc
To those who hold the belief that there is a liberal bias in the media,
and the NYT in particular, what do you make of this sloppy assumption
that the story put forward by the
A thread drifted, then:
Got me, what is the difference between disease
organisms and parasites?
Delineating one from another is not always
straightforward.
My Steadman's definition of parasite is
1) an organism that lives on or in another and draws
its nourishment therefrom
The word comes from
David Hobby wrote:
I think the more common behavior is pushing back the
predicted date of the apocalypse. But I guess one can only do
this so many times.
Indeed: http://www.freeminds.org/history/list.htm
Amazing.
Especially for people who claim to speak with the authority of God,
Another take on drugging kids:
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/ritalin.htm
Dave
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While I was in the Bruderhof neighborhood...
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/Fight-or-Flight.htm
There /is/ an alternative to the kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out
mentality.
Dave
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Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/science/21dog.html
NPR's coverage of this story highlighted the fact that some very
different-looking dogs are actually fairly closely related, and among
the group of breeds most closely related to their wolf ancestors:
everything from
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Voice of the web server:
What do you mean it was out?
Golly, it's nice out. I think I'll leave it out.
Nick's server has been out of the server closet for a couple of years.
Aww come on, it was in by a mile!
Are you blind?
It's not mcenroemedia.com, you know.
Dave
Mike Lee wrote:
Gary Denton, putting me in Oh, Please! mode:
Cool! Gary found a switch. Is there one marked off nearby?
Dave
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The Fool wrote:
The world Orwell described does not require complete
control of the press, just a very large market share.
-Kuro5hin Poster
Does anybody remember Neil Postman's excellent Amusing Ourselves to
Death from the mid-80's (Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/2uvuo)?
Using 1984 and Brave New
Folks,
Ah, but it is so easy to whip mobs into a murderous frenzy.
At least in some parts of the world, including my own.
Sometimes, all it takes is the home team winning the SuperBowl.
A friend of mine -- then a videographer for KRON in San Francisco -- was
assigned to cover the crowds
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OTOH what religion does dance in the streets when innocents
are killed?
Don't forget hanging mutilated corpses on bridges and dancing around the
bridge chanting death to Americans...
Sorry, but I feel compelled to state that Islam didn't hang mutilated
corpses from
Folks,
The question, however, is whether our civilization will be undermined by:
...
3) permitting homosexual couples to adopt or to artificially create
children.
Thus the need for a constitutional amendment banning homosexual
couples from playing The Sims.
Dave
Folks,
That he didn't take 30 seconds to have some bright intern type
in a quick search, and go around spouting off about how certain
he is he never used that phrase, is just.. well, nutty.
I sincerely believe that he didn't have a bright intern type do that
simple search because he doesn't
Fool:
Don't use absolutes. Ever.
Allow me to say that Top-posting is no worse than bottom-only-posting.
In my brief sojourn here, I have observed that most people practice and
prefer a more sophisticated intralinear style of posting. Perhaps you'd
like to attack bottom-posters, too, for
Folks,
Gautam: Teddy was probably drunk off his ass, or too
busy drowning innocent young women to think
about what he was saying - something like that.
Reggie: Personal attacks make for good arguements since when?
Maybe you've been working such long hours that
President falls asleep, misses the whole thing:
http://tinyurl.com/2szso
Dave Land[EMAIL PROTECTED] 408-551-0427
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Folks,
With respect to the ongoing debate about Left vs. Right, the the current
administration's willingness to trade freedom for security, consider the
following quote, and try to guess who said it. The URL of a web page
with the answer is at the end of this email.
You and I are told
Folks,
The choice of email vs. voicemail seems to me to be a cultural thing
on several levels.
I've worked at big high-tech companies that were almost pure email
cultures -- pretty much the first thing any new group did was to set
up the email alias for the group.
Then again, it may be that a
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