I haven't seen it yet, but I hear Blogger is in the Street Cred section of the latest (January) issue of Wired. That's so cool. Update: matt has a photo.
Show them all the beauty they possess inside. Give them a sense of pride to make it easier.
I believe that robots are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice." - Noam Chomsky. Sometimes that's not an easy choice.
today I took part in a day without weblogs to shift some attention to the AIDS epidemic. It's amazing that last year there were 50 participants, and this year there were 100 times that.
is it just me, or is blogger.com really fast all of a sudden? ;)
I've been keeping my books page fairly up to date. I notice I've been reading lots of history lately. I picked up a few used books this weekend, and they were mostly history. I'm looking forward to A History of Private Life edited by Georges Duby. Though I won't be able to read it all at once. I've already started bouncing around in it. I wonder if hypertext and the linking nature of the Internet has changed the way I read...or if I've always read this way. Some books I do read in a linear way. I'm blazing straight through The Federalist Papers Reader (trying to better understand this crazy republican not democratic form of government). I know I can read them free on the Internet, but this book distills them down to key sections...and provides groovy commentary. It's interesting when you read them as "constitutional propoganda" (they were written to pursuade people to ratify the constitution) instead of sacred texts. Federalist No. 10 has some great stuff about the value of keeping the electorate a certain distance from the government. It's especially relevant with all of this electoral college and process and "fair" and "accurate" stuff in the news. shew, I'm rambling. It was a good break...back to work tomorrow. and so on.
TNI Books Online: Postcards and Audio Letters compiled by Damien Jurado sounds like an interesting CD: "he's built a small library of audio letters, phone conversation snippets and random conversations documented on tape with boom boxes and answering machine recorders. You heard (and will probably continue to hear) bits and pieces of these recordings in some of Damien's songs. When he told us about the project, he looked convincing and said: 'It's real life.'" This publisher has several blogs.
honk if you demand satisfaction.