I have read more commentary on the whole Falwell “Mohammed was a terrorist” statement and the ensuing riot in India than I probably should have, and I still don’t get it. Time out here for a second. Over my short adult life I’ve seen “Piss Christ” defended on national television, seen plays that depicted Jesus…
October, 2002
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In 1994 the Clinton administration reached an agreement with North Korea — we would give them billions of dollars and they would halt development of nuclear weapons. We gave the billions, but what do you know, the North Koreans proceeded fulls team ahead with their nuclear weapons program (in fact, the program apparently didn’t get…
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Here’s a cool twist on fantasy sports — a Fantasy Supreme Court League, In the Fantasy Supreme Court League, “players” will attempt to predict the outcome of 9 cases that will come before the Supreme Court in its 2002-2003″ season, which will run from October 2002 tghrough June 2003. . . . Players will receive…
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Henry Hanks sent me a link to a lengthy response from Salon.Com regarding freelance journalist Jason Leopold’s longwinded article claiming his story about Thomas White is indeed accurate that that he’s the subject of some New York Times/Salon.Com pro-Bush cabal. On the one hand, Salon.Com’s editors deserve some credit for being honest about their own…
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Robert Fisk has gotten so bizarre lately that even he seems to have trouble keeping track of what he believes in at any given moment (other that he despises anything having to do with the United States). On October 9, 2002, he dismissed Bush’s talk of the possibility of “holy nuclear warriors” by claiming that…
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Slashdot is making fun of an apparent Microsoft “switch” ad. Okay, the ad they link to is stupid, but the worst ad I have seen in a long time is the Apple Switch ad with the cop who explains that he went from a Wintel machine to a Mac because he couldn’t figure out which…
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According to this Washington Post story, the Senate has rules in place which forbid senators up for re-election from updating their Senate.Gov web sites within 60 days of an election. So senators who are up for re-election on Nov. 5 have been unable to update their web sites since Sept. 5. As Brad Fitch, deputy…
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This blogger suggests that maybe people like me have underestimated Jimmy Carter, Actually, I don’t think President Carter and his administration get enough credit for their pivotal roles in ending the Cold War. After all, his four years in office ensured Ronald Reagan’s landslide election in 1980. Point taken.
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Dave Winer issues a call for an RSS redirection module, Also, I realize there’s a need for a RSS module for redirection. . . . Not everyone can control their server enough to program an HTTP-level redirect. Okay, it may not be a particularly sexy feature, but Conversant has an excellent redirection page type. Recently,…
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And, in case anyone cares, this is how I do RSS feeds for my topical-oriented pages in Conversant. I should emphasize that there are a number of different ways to do multiple RSS feeds in Conversant, and this is probably the most complicated. But it offers a number of advantages, including the fact that the…