Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
I wonder how technology is going to do now. I hear it’s going to get better, more prosperous, better nurtured, more flourishing. Now that we have that Texas cowboy outta there.
I don’t know. I really don’t.
As I say fairly often (moreso in technical circles than here, at The Blog That Nobody Reads)…it’s easy to forget that technology is the process of doing something other than what everybody else is already doing. You cannot con-form and per-form at the same time. And I remember what happened when Clinton got in. Yeah, yeah, e-mail, innernets, etc….you do realize, don’t you, that most of that was protocol, hook-ups, etc.? The technology came along in the years prior.
But I dunno. If there’s a line of people who’ve been disappointed at the state of technology during the Bush years, I’m surely at the head of it. I don’t wanna be an ingrate, but post-2001, we haven’t got squat. A bunch of stuff that hauls around your music collection. Vista. Miniaturization of what we had in the years before…on an impressive scale…and it runs much faster. But still. Oh, and don’t forget the social networking sites. FARK, eBay, eHarmony, Facebook, Myspace, etc. etc. etc. There’s a difference between mixing up stuff you’ve done before with the innernets, Reeses-chocolate-peanut-butter-style…and actually inventing something new.
I’m hungering like Dagny Taggart for the next tidal wave of Wozniak’s and Jobs’. Where’s the guy building an entire industry in his garage. Where’s the guy saying “hey, if you put out this kinda signal, you can make a gadget that does this”…and a zillion onlookers cursing themselves for having not thought of it first.
So we’ll see.
If we’re feelin’ all hopey-changey and hopeful and optimistic and setting new goals for ourselves because The One inspires us to do so — you know, we could start with that. Beats the hell out of unplugging our cell phones from the wall to save the planet from some carbon boogeyman.
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For a laugh: the nerds who might have brought about Barack Obama.
- JMK2008 | 11/09/2008 @ 02:53How about portable GPS units held in your hand or mounted in your vehicle? Nobody outside of the military had heard of this prior to a few years ago.
- cylarz | 11/11/2008 @ 03:54