Category: Miscellany

  • Spamradio So Soothing

    I have these tapes of John Lennon reading the newspaper, making it sound like a blues or a Dylan tune. Listening to spamradio read the ads to ambient accompaniment puts me straight into an alpha state. Please specify shoe size and color … Now you can have hundreds of vendors compete for your loan ……

  • Statements by Company CEOs and CFOs

    Last night Gwen Ifill on The Lehrer News Hour mentioned how “we” (the newsmedia, I suppose) had been glued to the SEC website all day watching the CEO and CFO filings come in. These are the certifications required by the Sarbanes law, in which the company officers must swear that their balance sheets are accurate…

  • Get Your Exx On

    New Batch of ‘Get Your War On’ Up. Just go read ’em. [mediajunkie: junk mail]

  • Teardrop in Space

    An ex-coworker just sent me this site’s address by IM. Reading some of it I am reminded that not all idiosyncratic self-published writing on the Internet is in blog format. I know that’s obvious, but with blogs getting all the heat and light lately maybe I was tending to forget it. The blog is one…

  • X-Pollen: Think Halal

    Over on my mediajunkie blog: There’s More to the Muslim World than Palestine. think halal: the muslim group weblog has a provocative report of the attitude of an Indian Muslim who sees the Palestinian question sucking up all the media attention and aid while gujarat is largely ignored. [mediajunkie: junk mail]

  • Why Not Blog?

    A few good reasons not to blog on the weekend. [xian]