If you haven’t watched John Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire yet, you can watch it on ifilm. It’s being discussed in a lot of places including Slashdot, Lisa Rein’s Radar, and on Jason’s blog. BEGALA: And that CROSSFIRE reduces everything, as I said in the intro, to left, right, black, white. STEWART: Yes. BEGALA: Well, it’s […]
Just saw a commerical for Zoloft, which is supposed to help you deal with social anxiety disorder. I won’t mention how I think that’s one of the made up disorders that’s useful for driving demand for pharmaceautical products. One of the side effects mentioned amongs nausea is an almost throw away line about sexual side
At the annual retreat for work, one of the sessions involved presenting about organizations we found interesting or good models. Finally, all my knowledge and time spent on BigSoccer and MLSNet paid off. Not all of us were tagged to present, and I felt really bad for eveyone else who actually spent some time researching
I’ve had my PowerBook G4 12-inch lapop for two weeks now. Here are some of my experiences so far with it. I hope this doesn’t come across as any sort of advertisement or rabid fanaticism. Up until now I’ve been a PC guy and my desktop machine is an Athlon based self-built PC running Debian
There’s England, Australia, and … oh yeah YouForgotPoland.com – Politics Makes You Stupid
The nwe Paranoia role-playing game is out and here is anRPGnet: Review of Paranoia XP. This post is mostly for Jason who’s the only Paranoia player I’ve ever known. I stuck to more traditional fare like D&D and TMNT in middle school. The original PARANOIA is one of the best roleplaying games ever published, a
The Visionary For his birthday a couple years ago, I bit the bullet and bought Gabe a Tivo. I did this because, to a very large extent, the parameters of his life were defined by which shows came on at what times. Certainly being able to manage your stable of programs is a positive, humane
I figured I’d let all the real bloggers post their thoughts about the presidential debates last week. First of all, I think it’s a bit of stretch to call them debates – they really were more like simultaneous campaign commercials. I am glad though that people from both sides were able to listen to both
I finally broke down and bought myself a 12 inch Apple Powerbook laptop. I’m still in the honeymoon phase of my purchase so don’t expect this to be an entirely rational review of it. So far, I’m pretty impressed by how easy it was to get it setup, particularly the networking aspects of it. I
Comedy Central asked Nielsen Media Research to do a little audience research for them after Bill O’Reilly referred to their audience as “stoned slackers”. So who are the “stoned slackers” watching Jon Stewart? Viewers of Jon Stewart’s show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch “The O’Reilly Factor,”