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Dan Gillmore: "The new company, AOL Time Warner, will have more power over the creation and distribution of news and entertainment than any entity on the planet. It will obviously spur other news/entertaiment companies toward mega-mergers, thereby continuing the consolidation of information providers. This is dangerous."

who will control just about everything you read/see/hear? AOL and Disney. when they merge, I'm moving to France.

AOL, PBS Forge Online, On-air Alliance: "America Online, which Monday announced a merger with Time Warner, also forged a cross-promotion and content-sharing alliance with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)." fuck.

overheard at the mall:

woman: my new mantra for this year is be here now, be here now, be here now.
man: [blank stare]
woman: you know, like instead of thinking about my vacation next month or things in the future I should be in this moment.
man: [silence]
woman: be here now.

you may have seen todd levin's your ad here before. It's not new. I'm linking to it now. You can mention things even though they're not new. This is one of my new mottos. (actually not new, but I can mention things even though they're not new. see motto.)

congratulations to Keith Dawson [of TBTF Log fame] for being named Internet Journalist of the Year by Internet Freedom.

merge, merge, merge in a burning ring of fire. It seems funny ("peculiar", not "ha-ha") to me that AOL could aquire Time/Warner. What a kooky, whacked-out economy we have.

Here are a few photos I took at the CamWorld get together a few days ago. I notice that Matt Haughey has some pictures up too.

I'm a little confused about what to do with these recruiters that send emails to me out of the blue. If I respond to them and politely mention that I'm happily employed and have no intention of leaving, they continue to send email. (eg. do you have any friends? the company is pre ipo. keep me in the loop. etc. etc. on and on.) But it feels rude to not respond to someone that sends me a personal email. So I've started sending emails that say: "I am happily employed with no intention of leaving. I have no friends. Money does not motivate me. I'll keep you in the loop. -pb"

Wow, Magnolia is a good film. If you have three hours to spare, you won't be disappointed. Someone called director Paul Thomas Anderson Altman on amphetamines. I agree. Also, the acting in this film is magical.

by the way, it's very precise.

I found the Intellimouse Explorer at outpost.com. I ordered it yesterday and it arrived today! Free shipping! Now that's service.