In the past, I’ve found myself agreeing with Sen. Rick Santorum quite a bit on gay marriage (though reaching entirely different conclusions about marriage than Santorum and gay marriage supporters). Santorum of course, voted for a proposed Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. That amendment failed to garner the 2/3rds necessary to move on, but…
July, 2004
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Extensis‘ web site says “We call it digital asset managment.” Funny, I call it dumbass design. I’m really sick of using Adobe’s latest dumbed down version of Photoshop Album, so I downloaded Extensis Portfolio 7 to evaluate it. The program is great — it has a much better interface for cataloging photographs (which is what…
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USA Today has an interview today with Anonymous, the CIA terrorism expert whose written a book, Imperial Hubris, taking to task the Clinton and Bush administrations for the way the United States has fought Al Qaeda. So what does Anonymous think we should do? Surrender. Q: So how should we attack it [Al Qaeda]? A:…
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Salon.Com displays an inexcusable ethics lapse in this story about Ambassador Joe Wilson. Wilson’s taken a beating the past few days after the 9/11 Commission’s report on intelligence failings suggests that Wilson lied on a number of key points about his mission to Niger to investigate whether or not Iraq had attempted to buy uranium…
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The other day Boing! Boing! pointed to these awesome screenshots of the results of numerous Second Life players turning a private island in the game into a Wizard of Oz theme park for a few days. Awesome. I keep trying to convince my wife that I need my own private Second Life island (“as if…
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My hometown paper, the Kalamazoo Gazette, has an editorial today about the controversy over whether or not the Nov. 2 election should be rescheduled if there is a major terrorist attack immediately before the election. But the editorial makes no sense since it is based on a ridiculous misunderstanding and rewriting of the controversy. In…
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On September 17, Electronic Arts will finally release The Sims 2. I’m going to buy a new desktop later this month specifically so I can run it when it comes out (my laptop doesn’t have the requisite 3D hardware needed to run the game). One of the things that made The Sims such a great…
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Dan Gillmor has some interesting comments about the new anti-Fox News documentary, “Outfoxed,” There are rumors that Fox is preparing to launch some grenades at competing news organizations, showing alleged liberal bias. Fine. That would be fair turnaround, if provable. (It might also reinforce Fox’s standing as a Republican sock puppet, a separate issue.) The…
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As my wife notes, my neighborhood is currently suffering through filming of a movie called “Kalamazoo.” At first this was interesting since Bruce Campbell is one of the actors in the film, but it got less interesting after we learned he’s not involved in any of the scenes they’re shooting in my neighborhood. The chick…
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Henry Hanks points out that Cynthia McKinney is trying to make a political comeback after the woman who ouster her in the Democratc Primary last time around decided to run for the Senate this year. On her web site, McKinney uses the slogan, “Cynthia McKinney: The Voices for the Voiceless” and includes claims like this,…