NY Times: “Top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page, but kept the matter secret.”
Newsweek has a lengthy excerpt from Bob Woodward’s new book on the war in Iraq. I bought a copy at Amazon for delivery next week.
Google News articles about Idiocracy.
Closing line from [...]
Archive for September, 2006
30 Sep
Scripting News for 9/30/2006
29 Sep
Scripting News for 9/29/2006
How Bush goes
I seriously think my country has lost its mind. We’re getting the best wakeup call possible with the torture bill. We’re getting the warning, if we re-elect the Republican Congress, we deserve what we get.
However, it’s not up to me, it’s up to the Republicans. That’s the basic truth. If you love [...]
28 Sep
Scripting News for 9/28/2006
Podshow raises another $15 million. Oy.
JC: “What on earth Podshow is going to do with almost $25M in funding is anyone’s guess, but it’s not going to end well I can tell you that.”
In other earth-shaking economic news, I bought a couple of chairs today. And a table.
New header graphic, taken in the [...]
27 Sep
Scripting News for 9/27/2006
Screen shot. Three days into the ad program at Techmeme, one of the advertisers, oDesk, has used their spot to announce something noteworthy, and it bought them more visibility, at least with me. The second just says Techmeme Sponsorship which seems a fair waste of the attention, why not say something about your company. The [...]
25 Sep
Scripting News for 9/26/2006
Jeremy Zawodny on Yahoo’s Hack Day.
Update on my restarting MacBook. It’s gotten much worse, to the point where the computer reboots every ten minutes. A few weeks ago I got some pointers from people saying that Apple is requesting people to bring their MacBooks into an Apple Store, so I called the store in [...]
25 Sep
Scripting News for 9/25/2006
Ray Ozzie named top Agenda Setter for 2006.
Where the fcuk is Gastonia? I asked my friend from Gastonia. She says I answered the question with the question.
Everyone’s writing about the new ads on Techmeme this morning, so I thought I’d come at it from a different angle. I’ve often wanted to buy a spot [...]
24 Sep
Scripting News for 9/24/2006
ConvergeSouth, Oct 13-14, Greensboro, NC.
Russell Shaw digs into Apple’s history with the USPTO on trademark applicaitons for iPod and (gulp) iPodcast. This may explain why they’re being so aggressive.
Check this out. Now Google is using my previous search results (and presumably choices) to find the results “most relevant to you.” Good move. Next step: [...]
23 Sep
Scripting News for 9/23/2006
Three years ago today: “Chris Lydon has been doing a series of audio interviews on his weblog at Harvard. There are already over 25 interviews, representing 40 separate MP3 files. The archive is nearly 300MB. It’s a perfect application for RSS enclosures.”
My two cents on “podcast”
Today is, in a sense, the three-year anniversary of podcasting. [...]
22 Sep
Scripting News for 9/22/2006
Paul Krugman on 9/21/04: “It’s hard to identify any major urban areas outside Kurdistan where the U.S. and its allies exercise effective control. Insurgents operate freely, even in the heart of Baghdad, while coalition forces, however many battles they win, rule only whatever ground they happen to stand on.”
The math of anonymous discourse on the [...]
21 Sep
Scripting News for 9/21/2006
Doc went to the Berkman Thursday meeting this evening.
Steve Williams, Digg: “If we could look in the head of the page to find the corresponding mobile-friendly page, we’d be ecstatic.”
Dan Farber: “Mary Jo Foley has been a persistent thorn in Microsoft’s side for more than 10 years.”
Mike Arrington says he knows who the anonymous [...]
