National Review points to this Bill Moyers op-ed which includes this line, Remember James Watt, President Ronald Reagan’s first secretary of the interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of…
January, 2005
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Here’s the thing — I love roleplaying games. I never have time anymore to actually play one, but when I’m in the comic shop I just can’t resist the damn things. The problem is that RPGs are such a niche market that they can be very expensive. The Buffy RPG core book cost me $40…
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More than three years ago, Macrobyte added custom fields option to Conversant, the software I use to manage this and the rest of my web sites. That was like a revelation and I think I’ve exploit the feature more than anyone else using the software — I have some sites that have a couple dozen…
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This post in combination with this post certainly should win Dave Winer some sort of award. I’m thinking, though, that it would be the Internet equivalent of the razzies. Derek Powazek mentioned on his weblog that in 2000 Winer referred to him as “brain dead.” Winer took umbrage at that on Scripting.Com, saying, Anyway, I’d…
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Hungry Tiger Press has a lot of excellent Wizard of Oz products, including novels, comics, and recordings, and a lot of cool freebies like this Map of Oz downloadable in a variety of sizes suitable for using as desktop wallpaper.
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The New York Times had a story earlier this month about the problems faced by high level players in the computer age. This story wasn’t about computers beating humans at chess, however, but rather about whether or not lesser human players are obtaining unfair advantages because of the proliferation of databases of chess games that…
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami recently took umbrage at the U.S. State Department’s complaints about Iran’s persecution of Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. Ebadi won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. She was recently issued a summons to appear in court, but the Iranian government refused to tell her what sort of charges she was facing.…
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Seth Dillingham recently created a nice, long summary in outline form to answer the question he hears from clients — What Is Conversant? Its pretty exhaustive, and I don’t really have anything to add to the specifics. To Seth, Conversant is groupware. To me its a sophisticated toolbox for categorizing, arranging, ordering and indexing information…
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Creative Commons has released the 1.0 version of its ccPublisher app which makes it easy for users to tag files with CC licenses and upload the files to the Internet Archive.
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The Register recently reported that the man who invented the blue LED, Shuji Nakamura, reached an $8.1 million settlement with his former employer, Japanese chemical company Nichia. Its still a lot less than the $189 million Nakamura was initially awarded, but a decent deal considering. Second, the headline the Register uses for this story is,…