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I pretty much agree with everything Mark Evanier said here:

"And you've got to wonder: If Congress will bend over backwards to overlook the excesses of a spectacularly unpopular administration, what are they going to do for one that America actually trusts?"

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_06_20.html#015429

George Carlin died.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021649.html

These are one day behind. I don't know why.

• 13:09 New books received at work: Followship, Followship, Hello Kitty. #
• 15:09 @Team_Edwards The History of Sanrio, the company behind Hello Kitty. Thought it was funny after seeing 2 "Followship" titles. Cults R US! #
• 17:46 Yeah! Habeus corpus restored. Let's get America back from the fear-mongers. tinyurl.com/5jdxon #

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I'm still playing around with all these Web 2.0 sites.

The 3 (make that 4) that have made the best and most lasting differences for me so far are Netvibes, pbwiki and Twitter (Along with LoudTwitter).


Most of that is due to RSS feeds finally becoming much simpler and easier to use, so the learning curve is nowhere near as steep as it was in 2004 when I was first trying to understand them.

But I keep coming back to LJ for the best social interaction. The other sites are more useful for other things. Twitter for random thoughts or heat of the moment stuff, pbwiki for my online life conolidation, netvibes for RSS aggregation.

Input.
Consolidation.
Output.

Amazing how much of my life can be sorted so easily into those 3 overarching containers.

Here's the paradox. I want centralization for me. Just not anyone else to centralize me too much (Google's a little _too_ good at that for my taste).

I want my own portal, without being limited to using only one portal.

Server down on one, I hop to the next. Ideally.

Probably not going to happen.

/Random ramblings off.

Surveill the Surveillance. Let's take back the Constitution's hijacked 4th amendment as soon as we can.




http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/surveillancesocietyclock2.html

These are one day behind. I don't know why.

• 08:52 Today (May 15th,2008) is Bike-to-Work Day. If you have a bike and can manage it, try it. #
• 12:02 Reading about corrupt politics in Alabama. Most of it commited by Karl Rove and his horrible prosecutors. #

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• 15:47 The pundit class-"Like Holocaust deniers as it's happening all around them." #

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• 17:57 Have to go to sleep clinic June 5th. GP referred me to a sleep doctor because I get sleepy, not so much tired, when exercising hard. #
• 18:06 Really wish I could use vlc or mplayer on our local news video streams. Windows media player bites. #

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• 00:59 Glad the tornado siren stopped after the second round. NE Huntsville good area to be in right now. #

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• 20:12 Marvelling at how genuinely bad that ABC debate was (yes, I'm late to the party.) The moderators seemed more elitist than anyone else there #
• 21:32 For many creators, inventors, etc. Their "one-off" quick idea often gets them more money and/or success than any thing they've labored over. #

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• 16:25 Reading this book: _Creative Destruction_ by Tyler Cowen. Started halfway through lunch and couldn't put down. on page 89 now, 33 min in. #
• 21:36 installing a color cardtridge and black cartridge for my HP All-In-One printer. Alignment Neutral Good. #

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• 10:52 readin
  stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/09/we-told-you-so.htmltinyurl.com/2vqo39 #

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• 11:37 Just finished watching _23_. Pretty good little movie. #
• 17:42 Wow, I'd forgotten how much Michael Chertoff looks like the Supervillian Sinestro. Sinestro went to far on the side of order. His order. #

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• 13:31 Singing Pogues songs to myself in my head. #
• 17:31 Wondering if the report of Arthur C. Clarke's death today is true:
  tinyurl.com/2rs7c3 #

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• 11:48 Looking into the Lakota Nation. Looks like the UN indigenous people's thing they passed in 2006 may work for them. #

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Netvibes has released its "Ginger" version, which means I can finally share all my RSS feeds easily with the public page.

http://www.netvibes.com/cainmark

Emily Chang has a great post about her Data Stream here:

http://www.emilychang.com/go/weblog/comments/my-data-stream/

Gary Gygax died.

I loved D&D when I had time for it.

And all you warcrack addicts probably owe a lot to the guy as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax

The last seemingly sane true conservative died.

http://campusprogress.org/tools/953/know-your-right-wing-speakers-william-f-buckley-jr


http://blogs.laweekly.com/fish/2008/02/f_buckley.php

http://www.fightingwordscomics.com/newest.html


When I was a kid, I always got him and George Plimpton mixed up. But then, I wasn't even in elementary school yet, so I think I can be forgiven that.

I always liked that William F. Buckley Jr. had a sense of humor about his own arrogance, long before The Shatner re-made himself doing the same thing.

And his kid does write some damn good books.

The Internet Archive rocks my world.

http://www.archive.org/details/election_2008