Year: 2007

  • “Enemy Combatant” vs. “Unlawful Enemy Combatant”–A Technicality?

    The Guantanamo prisoners were found by pre-trial tribunals to be “enemy combatants,” but not necessarily “unlawful enemy combatants.” US officials have characterized this as a “technicality,” and the press has bought in to that. Shockingly, even Sen. Levin’s proposed revamp “would make the commissions act’s definition of ‘unlawful enemy combatant’ the same as it is…

  • Apocalypse from the Moment of Conception

    US charges 4 men in plot to blow up JFK airport, Boston Globe, 6/3/07 “[T]he alleged plot was never close to fruition. The FBI had been tracking the alleged plot since 2006, and a member of the group was an FBI informant. In addition, the suspects lacked both the expertise and equipment [explosives, for example]…

  • links for 2007-05-31

    Sender 11: Case Study and discussion (tags: mobile patterns casestudy design interface interaction)

  • Seaside Jazz Fest 2007

    Seaside Jazz Fest 2007 Originally uploaded by andytnisbet. B’s brother Andy took this really nice picture of my sweetie and me. We spent Sunday down in Seaside (right next door to Monterey). Good food, great people, fantastic music (with a rotating cast of players), not too many speeches, birthday wishes to B’s sister Peg, anniversary…

  • links for 2007-05-26

    Peter Viney on “The Weight” exegesis of the lyrics of the weight, or at least one man’s take on them, synthesizing much rumor and innuendo (tags: music reference lyrics rock theband history) bent spoon — cultural opinion e-zine and blog showing art and literature creative blogsite by friend (tags: art blog culture literature) Information Architecture…

  • links for 2007-05-25

    blog.myspace.com/athlin write up of the ’96-’97 Barbie censorship battle, in which I played a minor part (tags: barbie mattel censorship memes napier distortedbarbie detritus enterzone ezone)

  • links for 2007-05-24

    Stuck Between Stations » Global Warming Threatens Arctic Monkeys the sun never sets on England now (tags: music writing humor climatechange)

  • Fraidy is a lolcat now

    Fraidy is a lolcat now

  • links for 2007-05-23

    cecil vortex: An Interview with Ze Frank one of a great series of interviews (tags: article creativity ideas inspiration interesting interview music zefrank)

  • Technorati launches new design

    Looks like Technorati has reconfigured itself to be less blog-centric and to take a more multimedia look at what they call over there the Live Web (Technorati Weblog: Come check out the refreshed www.technorati.com!): > First, we’ve eliminated search silos on Technorati. In the past, you had to know the difference between keyword search, tag…

  • Why Should Halliburton Have to Suffer?

    “Democrats accepted a GOP plan to establish 18 benchmarks….If Iraqis fall short, they could forfeit U.S. reconstruction aid.” Washington Post ———————- DKo: Forfeit U.S. reconstruction aid! Why should Halliburton have to suffer for Iraqi failures? We know that $16 billion in US reconstruction aid has provided negligible benefit to Iraqis. This won’t hurt them. But…

  • links for 2007-05-17

    Game design patterns ya pattern library (tags: designpatterns design development game games patterns programming gamedesign)

  • “The Constant Gardener”

    I have just seen a beautiful film, “The Constant Gardener.” (Based on a John LeCarre novel, it is both a thriller and a love story. Rachel Weisz won the Oscar for her role.) I remember years ago seeing the definitive James Bond farce “Our Man Flint,” and laughing myself silly at the punch-line of the…

  • Two year olds!

    Despite warnings, most U.S. babies watch TV Reuters, 5/7/07 About 90 percent of U.S. children under age 2…are regular watchers of television… —- Two year olds! It’s like talking to a wall. You warn them and warn them, but they just won’t listen!

  • links for 2007-05-08

    Everything Yahoo! Most Yahoo properties (although Teachers isn’t there) (tags: internet lists yahoo tools services reference web list)

  • Twitterific weirdness

    Most of the time when I post a tweet using Twitterific (which I mostly love), I get this strange window popping up: Why does Twitterific want to talk to Skype anyway? Bueller?

  • Economics Joke

    Here’s a tip. It won’t make you a fortune, but it’ll be well worth your while. Take a look at the dollar bills in your wallet. To the right of George Washington (the first President of the United Sates), and downward and leftward of the round green seal, you will see a date. Most of…

  • links for 2007-05-05

    Ajax Patterns ya pattern library (tags: ajax patterns programming web2.0 reference web interaction design) patterns blog: Anti-patterns blog entry on antipatterns (tags: patterns antipatterns blog)

  • Answering danah's twitter questions

    In reply to apophenia: Twitter questions (curiosity is killing me…): > **First, the practical question. Can i quote you?** >[ ] Yes, and you *must* use my real name. >[ ] Yes, but please use a pseudonym and don’t use any identifying information. >[ ] No, please just use this for your own weird thoughts.…

  • links for 2007-05-04

    Thinking About The Strategy Behind Microsoft Silverlight (by Jeremy Zawodny) The browser is the new desktop and Microsoft is hoping that the CLR and Silverlight in general will be the new Win32 API and/or virtual machine…. Say what you will about the company, but they know how to roll out software to developers. (tags: microsoft…

  • Bush’s “Loyalty” to Wolfowitz and Gonzales

    It’s the people who have done the most dirt for you, who can do the most damage, if they should feel betrayed. Washington Post Wolfowitz Says He Is Target of ‘Smear’ Tactics