Category: long story short

teaching the machine – Nate Koechley’s Blog jim goldstein sent me this link too but nate connects it to the concept of the attention economy (tags: attention privacy learning web2.0) You are what you search (or so it appears) – fortunate discoveries by accident via george kelly (tags: attention privacy presence digitalid identity)

Surprised my dad this weekend by showing up on Friday, courtesy of JetBlue, to help celebrate his 70th birthday. It’s hard to believe he’s really 70 because aside from the white hair he seems just about the same as always. As much as he may complain about age or infirmity or his physical condition he…

What Emboldens the Enemy? Gates: “[The] proposed Senate resolution…would embolden the enemy” Gates: “Any indication of flagging will” would embolden the enemy. Then why stop there? Open debate emboldens the enemy. Free speech emboldens the enemy. Political opposition emboldens the enemy. And why stop even there? Elections? That’s just what they want us to do.…

Washington Post: Bush said he recognizes that “there is skepticism and pessimism” in Congress, but he added that “some are condemning the plan before it’s even had a chance to work.” ———————————– All we are saying is give war a chance. [The WP article]

Rodney Koeneke hears it came from Junglee, a Bollywood film from 1961.

“‘If the Iraqis are unhappy with our presence and they are willing to attack us, my view would be that it’s because the overall situation in Iraq has become so unsatisfactory,’ [Defense Secretary] Gates said. ‘And probably the fact that many of those Iraqis blame the United States for the mistakes that were made after…

In the Reuters report on the ruling against warrantless wiretapping, warrants are not mentioned until the eighth paragraph. Court rules secret wiretaps violate rights, Reuters, 8/17/06 Absent the issue of warrants, what was the judge so mad about? She is quoted: The wiretaps “violated…civil rights,” “freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable searches, and a constitutional…

I don’t know why they say Seattle is rainy because, like, I was there today and it was sunny and hot – over 90 degrees, so I hear. Also, the space needle? Totally pointy.

Note: I did do some “cherry-picking” for the data I liked best! Also: PIPA (Program on International Policy Attitudes), the source of this report, is well regarded as credible. –David Reported by WorldPublicOpinion.org (Publication of the Program on International Policy Attitudes) Near East Consulting (NEC) poll of Palestinians, Jan. 27-29, Hamas position calling for the…

Cecil filled me in on something cool and old friend of ours, Brendan Fletcher, is doing. I remember him hiking the Sierra Nevada (or some similar west-coast trail) years ago. Apparently now he and his partner Emma Nicholas are “attempting to walk the length of the Great Wall of China.” They are blogging the experience…

I haven’t lifted a finger to post here in so long, and so much been’s going on lately. (And just now I *tried* to post and somehow lost my window.) Like, for instance, we just got back from a week in New York. (I posted some pictures from the trip at Flickr.) And before that…

I would suggest that the press should just swear off of the use of “Squabbling” and “Bickering,” especially in headlines. For a while, I thought they were routinely applied only to political differences among foreigners, especially third-world foreigners. But I see they also appear fairly often applied to political differences–even convictions–that arise within the US.…

My sister emailed me the other day to say she hadn’t heard from me for a while. She reads my bloggingses, so that’s a sure sign that I’ve been radio silent for a while. I’m fine. I’ve been traveling a lot and working hard and I’ve had some computer troubles with my Mac laptop at…

So I’m slogging through Enterzone fixing vandalized pages from the last few rounds of hackery and I come across the abortive stub of what looks like an attempt to start a blog back in 1998 called unvironmental news. I’ve added the entry into this my modren online journal, as its own entry dated April 8,…

It’s been years since I’ve ridden the N-Judah muni streetcar on a regular basis but for a while there back in the late ’80s and early ’90s I practically lived on it. I rode it to get downtown, to get to BART, to get to the east bay, to get to Dead shows. It was…

Finally signed up for an account at Boxes and Arrows (the premier journal of information architecture on the web), so this makes yet another place where a rapidly ossifying bio of mine is bound to fall off my radar. If I ever get my comprehensive personal site organized, I may need a big list of…