Archive for April, 2006

Net Neutrality Video

Filed under Tech

If you haven’t heard the term “net neutrality” you soon will. It’s a complicated issue involving property rights, economic incentives, and good customer internet experiences. Public Knowledge created a video to help understand the issue. I haven’t decided where I stand yet, but the video explains part of the issue.
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Good Wisconsin Sports Weekend

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The Packers didn’t screw up the draft, the Bucks showed they still had some life by smacking the Detroit Pistons, and the Brewers decided it was baby seal hunting season by clubbing the Chicago Cubs today and yesterday.

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I’m Just Happy to Be Here. Can’t You Tell

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“Hi, I’m Jason Spitz, third round draft pick for the Green Bay Packers. Ever since my parents put a few thousand dollars in orthodonture work I can’t help but show it off to every camera that comes near me.
“I want to succeed and help my new team win lots of games, but if I get […]

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United 93 Takes Second at Box Office

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Robin Williams’ comedy RV beat United 93 this weekend at the box office. Some of that I understand. Most of us usually go to the movies to be entertained, to get away from the stress of the week. I also think some are too afraid to remember those horrible images and feelings of Sep. 11, […]

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McCain Proud to Limit Free Speech

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What will I do should Sen. John McCain get the 2008 GOP Presidential nomination? He told Don Imus:
I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I’d rather have the clean government.
Think he was taken out of context? […]

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Bin Laden Sightings

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JB Van Hollen was right. There are terrorists running around Wisconsin.

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Vlogs as The Future

Filed under Weblogging

Pamela AKA Atlas vlogs [and here] (UGH! A word uglier than “blog!”). Two observations:

She sounds a little like Michael Savage only slightly saner.
She’s hot so who cares what she sounds like.

Seriously, it’s sort of interesting that people are playing around with video, but don’t view the blogosphere as a place kick back and veg out […]

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More Spice Boys Slapping

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Folkbum delivered a solid smacking of the Spice Boys:
Maybe covering the blogs (so you don’t have to!) just isn’t as much fun as trafficking in political gossip. Maybe they just don’t have any respect for people like me (and Althouse) who don’t get (or want) a paycheck for writing every day. Either way, their scorn […]

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Davis Might Be Green Bay’s Man

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In the final hours before the NFL Draft the Journal Sentinel reports the Green Bay Packers will probably draft Maryland tight end Vernon Davis.
“Draft is a Tight Fit”

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Upcoming United 93 Review

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I saw United 93 last night. It’s too late for me to finish the full review I’m working on. I will tell you I lasted until the plane went down into that Pennsylvania field. Only then did the tears well up in my eyes. That was when I was reminded those freedom fighters were the […]

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What is Paul Gigot Smoking?

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Pamela Anderson has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. With the rise of the blogosphere there are thousands of capable writers to offer unique insights and perspectives. So the paper picks someone known for being a busty, blond boob who has her private, home made porn video floating all over the internet.
Has Hell froze […]

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Show Prep

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For once, I might actually be a trendsetter.
“Hewitt Show Prep”

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Attacking Weblogs

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All the “cool kids” use Hosting Matters to house their weblogs. And every few months the company gets hit by DoS attacks. Thus I’ll never move TAM to their servers. Big-name weblogs are targets for crackers or politicaly-motivated script kiddies. I don’t want to be collateral damage. I’m sticking to DreamHost. I’ve been with them […]

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Clueless

Filed under Weblogging

The Spice boys are weblogging goofs. The Journal Sentinel should just shut them down for being such an embarassment. How long have then been zipping around the blogosphere? It must not have been long since they’re surprised Ann Althouse would be posting on a weblogging conference she’s attending at Harvard. Hello! Webloggers do navel gazing […]

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Update on Kos Book Sales

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Glenn Greenwald in his obnoxious manner examines the sales numbers of Markos Moulitsas’ and Jerome Armstrong’s Crashing the Gate. I mentioned them previously. Even little old me who is in the bookselling business can’t tell you how many sales qualifies as a “hit.” (I do know fiction has to sell better than non-fiction.) Sources gave […]

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