Now this is my kind of poster (click on the image for a PDF version): But there are a couple things I would change. The poster drastically underestimates the number of people murdered by governments in the 20th century, which is closer to 170 million than the paltry 58 million claimed here (the Soviet Union…
July 31, 2001
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TechTV producer David Roos was recently complaining that it was my fault that CNET had to lay off many of its staff members. See, I’m one of the people Roos complained about who don’t click on any of CNET’s ads. Frankly, like Jim Roepcke, I simply don’t visit CNET much anymore because, to put it…
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Broken Saints is an awesome example of using Flash to create a compelling hybrid between a graphic novel and a full-blown movie. This is one of those things you come across and think, “Damn! Why didn’t I think of that?” This is the kind of multimedia content I would pay for.
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This weekend I happened to run across ABC News doing a brief bit about Lance Armstrong winning his third straight Tour de France. Of course they couldn’t leave the topic without mentioning long-standing suspicions that Armstrong uses performance enhancing drugs. ABC falsely reported that Armstrong had flat-out said he doesn’t use such drugs. But they…
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For months now, California Gray Davis has been moaning about the evils of private power companies charging that state outrageous prices for electricity, and California Attorney General Bill Lockyer even went so far as to say that, “I would love to personally escort [Enron CEO Kenneth] Lay to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share…