Apparently Slashdot is now accepting submissions of fourth graders’ book reports. This is one of those, “it’s so bad, it’s almost good” especially once the comments start piling on featuring reviews of other popular books in the same style. Now just wait 15 minutes for SCO to claim that the book review illegally incorporates its…
July, 2003
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Back when the war against Iraq was going full bore and we had the occasional “we’re sure we got Hussein this time” followed later by the “well, now it looks like Saddam got away,” I’m sure a lot of people were as curious as I was to know what was going on behind the scenes.…
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TheForce.Net has a QuickTime version of the Batman short film, Batman: Dead End, that generated quite a buzz at the San Diego Comic Con. And after seeing it, no wonder. Amazing what someone with on a very low budget can turn out these days — and with an excellent twist that features another film project…
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Greg Pierce catches ESPN running an obviously manipulated photograph. Ugh. I feel guilty when I adjust the contrast and brightness on photos for my weblog, but ESPN just willy nilly flips reality around. Update: Seth Dillingham points out ESPN could have just scanned the photo incorrectly.
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Over the past couple weeks I’ve written a few posts about the lack of accountability that is created when someone like Dave Winer posts something to his weblog, and then goes back and edits it in a way that changes its meaning or simply deletes it. It makes it difficult to have any sort of…
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John Robb returns a little bit wiser, Thanks for all the e-mails (there have been a huge number) of support for me as I recover from the outage at UserLand. The good news: lots of great things to come and this new location offers lots of new flexibility. The bad news: a huge number (probably…
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So Dick Gephardt has finally found the multilateralist religion. Today he was out trying to revive his flagging run for the president by characterizing the Bush administration’s foreign policy as “arrogant unilateralism” that treats American allies “like so many flies on America’s windshield.” Well, Gephardt should know since the last time he ran for president…
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According to Gareth Branwyn, Jude Milhon AKA St. Jude, has died after a battle with cancer.
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Debate still continues about Mark Pilgrim’s Winer Watch. I don’t mean to be snarky, but I honestly don’t understand this sort of comment posted to Mark’s site by Watts Martin (emphasis added), The “revision history” concept is worthwhile, but the flap about the “Winer Watcher” wasnÂ’t about the technical merits of revision tracking. Looking at…
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Mr. Speaker and Mr. Vice President, honorable members of Congress, I’m deeply touched by that warm and generous welcome. That’s more than I deserve and more than I’m used to, quite frankly. And let me begin by thanking you most sincerely for voting to award me the Congressional Gold Medal. But you, like me, know…