Archive for September, 2002
Monday, September 23rd, 2002
There's a compelling story on Nando about last week's Sacramento rally in support of the medical marijuana laws in California.
Williams wishes all the naysayers and disbelievers had shown up. "Their hearts and minds would have been changed." They would have seen that no one there was faking a terminal illness ...
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Monday, September 23rd, 2002
As expected, The Director's Guild of America has countersued Clean Flicks, mentioned here last week. The DGA is asserting what appears to be it's rights as copyright holders in defending the integrity of its work. Clean Flicks is asserting the rights of consumers. There's an interesting take on this at ...
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Sunday, September 22nd, 2002
The New York Times is on the record as recognizing Linux's viability as a contender to Microsoft. Of course the following day conservative think-tank CEI published a rebuttal of sorts. Weak thinking, but a rebuttal nonetheless.
Software is a complicated industrial product requiring continuing re-creation and support, and money to support ...
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Sunday, September 22nd, 2002
Ernie the Attorney has an interesting new blog set up to preview the upcoming PopTech. In the first installment of a series of interviews with the PopTech speakers, journalist J.D. Lasica interviews Howard Rheingold on his new book Smart Mobs and his views on "New Human Societies in Cyberspace." Some ...
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Sunday, September 22nd, 2002
Taegan Goddard picked up this piece from the Washington Post about our president's ability to bypass the Democrats on the big issues. It's an interesting read that seems to further a suspicion I've held for awhile; that Dubya has a tough time focusing on more than issue at a time.
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Saturday, September 21st, 2002
It's all over today. My Cardinals clinched the National League Central last night with a big win over the Astros. That they got to clinch it at home is even better.
There's no other baseball city in America like St. Louis. Yes, they love their Rams and Blues, but the ...
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Friday, September 20th, 2002
It really comes as no surprise to read this on ZDNet:
Several risks are associated with using application software developed by others, such as copyrights and patents, liability, security, and quality. Commercial software brings a certain sense of safety by assigning specific rights, defining legal limits, and providing a named commercial ...
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Friday, September 20th, 2002
I've been a reader for years. But if you haven't yet gotten a taste of the tattletale, you should get over there right now. Nita writes thought-provoking vignettes rich with very pliable imagery. This is what "blogs" started out as - traditional journals that happened to live online. While I ...
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Thursday, September 19th, 2002
Nine hours after this post, I'm hoping Dean's calmed down a bit. Let me see. Five in the morning in France. He's probably having a nightmare about now ...
... and loving it.
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Thursday, September 19th, 2002
Now, I'm just pissed.
Listening to Warren Zevon's Mohammed's Radio, I can appreciate how well, throughout his career, he's been able to couch in your face politics in cheeky catchy hooks. It's a terribly difficult craft to make someone grin and think at the same time. He's always done it well. ...
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