Jonah Raskin reviews Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen by Mark Rudd. A way to sum up not just the former member of Weatherman, but the radical New Left of the 60s and 70s is simple narcissism:
In 1980, when Abbie Hoffman turned himself in to the authorities in New York, I had a [...]
Redlasso comes back from the grave to offer web publishers the ability to clip and embed local Fox affiliate content. It could be a trial run to see if sharing of ad revenue between Redlasso and Fox News can work on a larger stage.
“Redlasso Rises from the Ashes, Set to Offer TV Clips from Fox”
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Philosophy professor A. C. Grayling is pleased philosophy has returned to the public mind in a form that doesn’t require a “studious philosophical apprenticeship” in order to approach it. He goes on in his essay on recent popular philosophy books to describe the raw intellectual fury of Rousseau:
He was a Romantic, and a full-blooded one. [...]
Here’s a darn good picture by my Pennsylvania friend Skye.
[Inside joke] I washed my hands before touching my keyboard. [/Inside joke]
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What did you think about the Battlestar Galactica series finale? In a rare moment for television a show was allowed to end in a way that was satisfying for viewers. Did BSG guru Ron Moore successfully tie up every plot thread successfully? Of course not. The most glaring problem I’ve read from BSG die hards [...]
Today, Microsoft releases their latest version of Internet Explorer. Walt Mossberg reviewed it. IE 8 has color-coded tabs and “Accelerators” that let you quickly do things (translate, e-mail, weblog) with highlighted text. The downside is Mossberg found IE 8 is rather slow in loading web pages. Since I leave and breathe the web this would [...]
Tim Cuprisin’s headline to his story on the new name for the Sci Fi Channel is hoo-larious!
“Sci Fi becoming Syfy is a Big Deal for Its Owner, Enn Bee See”
What more needs to be said about this silliness? NBC Universal wants a name they can own. Ignore the blabber about broadening perceptions and embracing a [...]
Chris at the Badger Blog Alliance knows a little about linkbait.
“Friday Grumps Gun Porn Sigarms SHR970 Addition”
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Patrick Ruffini makes a case against political organizations sending out “weekly updates.” When anyone asks I tell them the key to getting the maximum out of a organization’s e-mail list is to only send out compelling content. That means not blasting out an e-mail for the sake of blasting it out. Realize that by giving [...]
Do you remember where you were in 1994? I was in college dabbling with this thing called the “World Wide Web.” According to this Economist article from that year,
The web employs a technology known in the trade as hypermedia. Hypermedia makes it easy to combine text, graphics, sound and even video into a single electronic [...]
I had no doubt accountants were really smart. My mother’s one.
[And yes, I have to be extra nice until my mom gets my taxes done.]
“Proving Once Again that Accountants Really are Smart”
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I’ve lived in Washington, D.C. for about 1 1/2 years. People tell me I’ll get cynical. It hasn’t happened yet, and after reading how stalwart conservative Sen. Tom Coburn and liberal President Barack Obama remain good friends despite their politics I have more ammunition to fight off the cyncism.
“U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, Barack Obama Form [...]
Is it time to put away Twitter? For a day Skittles turned it into the star of skittles.com. Then Jon Stewart decided to make it the butt of a Daily Show joke. Tonight, my mother asked me if I was twittering. Help!
If I cared about how hip I was due to what web gizmo I [...]
