Posted in Humor on Jul 30th, 2004 2 Comments »
President Bush visits a primary school classroom. They are in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asks the President if he would like to lead the discussion of the word “tragedy.” So the illustrious leader asks the class for an example of a tragedy. One little boy stands [...]
Posted in Humor, Macintosh on Jul 30th, 2004 No Comments »
The Apple Product Cycle (tongue in cheek).
Posted in Apple, HyperCard, People, Photographers, Reading on Jul 29th, 2004 No Comments »
Bill Atkinson released a book of photographs that is outstanding. I’ve followed his career, both at Apple (one of the fathers of the Macintosh, and author of MacPaint, HyperCard, and more) and as a photographer. This latest work is some of his finest and is near and dear to my heart: in my earlier years [...]
Posted in Politics on Jul 29th, 2004 No Comments »
Barack Obama’s Democratic Convention Keynote Speech: Out of This Long Political Darkness a Brighter Day Will Come.
Posted in Politics on Jul 29th, 2004 No Comments »
Robert Greenwald and Moveon.org have posted tape of Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron interviewing then Governor George Bush. What you see in the link below is pre on air footage showing quite a bit of bias which Cameron has complained about in his reponse to OutFoxed, Greenwald’s scathing documentary on Fox News. This is amazing [...]
Posted in Reading on Jul 28th, 2004 No Comments »
Design for Community looks like a most interesting book, not just for webloggers but also for anyone putting a virtual community together with any tools.
Posted in Photography on Jul 28th, 2004 No Comments »
DP Review reports that Nikon has had 18 boxes of D70s Stolen at Schiphol Airport in The Netherlands. You can find the serial numbers at the above link. Help track down the cameras and certainly don’t buy them. These are low end but extremely popular digital SLRs although they’re worth well over $1000 apiece retail.
Posted in Politics on Jul 28th, 2004 No Comments »
“The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.” George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004
Posted in Social Software on Jul 28th, 2004 No Comments »
There was a recent conference called BlogOn on all aspects of weblogging and social software. Their web site has some nice lists of tools and resources: Weblog Resources.
Posted in Politics on Jul 28th, 2004 No Comments »
WIRED News has a piece on the history of MoveOn.org: MoveOn Moves Up in the World . For what it’s worth, I won 1st place in the After Dark Screen Saver Contest in 1994. Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, the founders of MoveOn.org were also the founders of Berkeley Systems, the publishers of After Dark. I [...]
Posted in Drumming on Jul 27th, 2004 No Comments »
I discovered Schlagwerk Percussion in my search for cajones. I didn’t buy one of theirs but they have great stuff: udus, cajones, and other great wooden instruments. Not sure how to buy in the US but it would be fun to find a source.
Posted in Joy Brown Sculpture, Our Place on Jul 27th, 2004 1 Comment »
Our friend Joy Brown was loading her big anagama kiln the other day and I went by to see where my clay “balls” were going to be in the kiln and just watch the action. Joy makes large ceramic sculpture of what seem to be large, round women sitting or kneeling. They’re wonderful and she’s [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Jul 27th, 2004 No Comments »
I found a useful user post at Apple’s online discussion area: AirPort Express FAQ. Here’s my theory, for what its worth: 1. The default and maybe only way to use an AirPort express to extend the range of an existing AirPort Extreme network is wirelessly (WDS); one cannot extend the range of an existing network [...]
Posted in Reading on Jul 27th, 2004 No Comments »
Mental_Floss looks like it might be a fun magazine to try. Anyone have any experience with it?
Posted in Politics on Jul 27th, 2004 No Comments »
First read the original Terror in the Skies, Again? Then read The hysterical skies. Then form opinion.
Posted in Politics on Jul 27th, 2004 No Comments »
Librarians Against Bush. Yes!
Posted in Music on Jul 25th, 2004 No Comments »
Here comes the MP3 revolution is a discussion of the future of CDs, online music distribution, the impact of iPods and Apple’s Music Store, and more. Well done and interesting.
Posted in Places on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
We were just in Evansville, Indiana and took a fieldtrip west 20 miles to a small town called New Harmony. New Harmony is a failed utopian-religious experimental town that has not only been preserved but has had substantial yet understated investment and rennovation done. This open-air church and courtyard, which I’m pretty sure was designed [...]
Posted in Music, Politics on Jul 21st, 2004 No Comments »
How Dare Linda Ronstadt have an Opinion! Linda Ronstadt had to be escorted from the stage at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas when she made a supportive comment about Michael Moore. The audience went wild and booed her, defaced her posters, and threw things at the stage. I am so embarrased to be an [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Jul 21st, 2004 1 Comment »
Apple recently introduced a new wireless access point (AirPort Express) and new wireless technology called “AirTunes” for playing digital music through wireless technology on a stereo system. We needed a second access point in our living room and this one is small and less expensive than the full-sized AirPort Extreme base station and since we [...]
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