November 2011
2 posts
Why Kids with Same-Sex Parents Need Legal... →
(via Instapaper)
The Heritage Foundation and Romneycare, Cont'd →
(via Instapaper)
April 2011
1 post
barry (dot) pousman (dot) com: National... →
Louis J. Marinelli, the National Organization for Marriage’s former tour organizer, social-media guru, and outspoken advocate, has spent “the last five years putting all of [his] interest and energy into fighting the spread of same-sex marriage, as if it were a disease,” by his own account….
January 2011
1 post
November 2010
0 posts
“The point, it seemed to me, was that politics isn’t all there is to life, there...”
– Sullivan on the Stewart/Colbert rally (via aatombomb)
October 2010
4 posts
WatchDamn, this is some dark shit.
scattered brilliance: Google Mixx Keynote... →
tdaloisio:
As I watch the Google Keynote on the future of display advertising that I posted yesterday for the first time, I’ll use this post to record my thoughts and reactions — a “tape delayed not so live blog” if you will.
Google’s Watch this Space campaign is well done, well articulated and well…
Nice.
the blip.tv blog: A fierce embrace of HTML5 →
bliptv:
We’re embracing HTML5, starting today, with a brand new HTML5 player that supports advertising.
Blip has been built, from the ground up, as an open platform. We were the first major video host to offer direct links to uploaded video files. We were the first to offer RSS with enclosures. We were…
August 2010
1 post
1 tag
Misunderstandings and Misstatements on Net...
This is in reference to a post I saw on RedState: http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2010/08/07/tech-at-night-net-neutrality-free-press-fcc-google-verizon/ Watching and listening to this debate unfold in the mainstream media and in the blogsophere has been incredibly disheartening to a technologist. There is so much misinformation and misunderstanding about the proposals laid out that it...
June 2010
3 posts
“For most new high school and college grads finding a job is harder than ever....”
– Robert Reich (via caro)
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs (via ranajune, youmightfindyourself)
May 2010
2 posts
1 tag
notes and snapshots: so my mom met john mccain at... →
she told me that she shook his hand and let him know she voted for him in 2008. i told her she should have shaken her finger at him and pointed out the idiocy of arizona’s new law.
also, i’m sending this article to my mom and dad. i think it pretty clearly illustrates some of the issues…
April 2010
3 posts
3 tags
If you’re going to write a drama about ordinary problems, you better have extraordinary answers. The converse could be true, but you can always have extraordinary answers.
“W: Sorry, I stepped away.
W: This time for r*unch.
K: you’re a lacist”
6 tags
iPhone OS 4.0: A feature wish list
Before many tech journalists even had a moment to sleep from the nonstop iPad coverage, Apple sent out a notice that it would be updating the world on iPhone OS 4.0.
One anticipated feature is an option for a global in-box. You’re probably going to see a lot of predictions for the upcoming release. In the meantime, here are the features I feel iPhone OS 4.0 should have.
First,...
March 2010
2 posts
Google's Nexus One is play on 'Blade Runner'
So I was reading TechCrunch, and Google has apparently been denied the right to trademark “Nexus One” based on another competing product from Integra Communications. It’s really no problem, considering that Google will probably throw the company a couple of million bucks to drop the matter.
I just found it amusing that the comment devolved rather quickly into an escalating and...
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
5 posts
3 tags
iPad = Paper 2.0 Beta
It’s been a little more than a day since Apple launched it’s ill-named iPad (more on the name in just a moment). The reaction amongst the tech crowd has been pretty vitriolic. I won’t recount all the arguments, but it’s worth talking about some of them because I believe the iPad will be a huge success… eventually, but very soon.
Baby Steps
First and foremost,...
WatchOn ABC’s Modern Family, they make a reference to CNET.com. It’s pretty funny. Let’s throw a nerd party! CBS, I’m looking to you to throw in a 404 reference in the next CSI or Ghost Whisperer.
December 2009
8 posts
I'm ranked #51 on the Silicon Alley Insider list... →
(via ranajune)
Congrats!
2 tags
Avatar is Too Obvious
James Cameron’s new movie Avatar is suppose to be the big hit of the holiday season. Now, I’m sure it’s going to make a lot of money. It’s coming from the writer and director of The Abyss, Terminator, True Lies and Titanic. Whether it makes enough to break even or even be considered a success is a whole different question.
What bothers me so far besides the blue cat...
November 2009
15 posts
Customer service
j: so what happened with the certificate [of authenticity]
d: we dont have any
d: it's fucking swarvoski crystals
d: not african blood diamonds
Deficit Commision, Not a bad idea →
I was reading the HuffPo yesterday, and I saw this story about how “crazy” it is to have a bipartisan commission to reduce deficit spending and whatnot. Most of it was a diatribe about how politicians are outsourcing their jobs and that this commission was just another bureaucracy. I disagree.
Why do we have deficit spending in the first place? Two real reason: 1) People...
The case for or against affirmative action? →
I’ve been a lot more blogging about political topics lately especially because of some ugly racial politics over the last couple of days. I came across this little tidbit of an article about admissions practices at elite schools. I’ve excerpted the most relevant part:
Translating the advantages into SAT scores, study author Thomas Espenshade, a Princeton sociologist, calculated...
Wow... East Asians are conspiring to end white... →
So I was doing a little bit of research on Rep. Joseph Cao (R). He was the lone Republican to vote for health care reform in the U.S. House of Representatives. The second article I found in Google after querying “joseph cao conservative” had this:
I will be totally honest with you. I am seriously starting to distrust those of eastern decent. I mean, first we had John Yoo, who gave...
Safe harbor for net neutrality
Lately, I’ve been having a number of conversations about net neutrality with libertarians and conservatives, who align themselves with total anti-regulation philosophy. Not to get to get into too much caricature, but most of the arguments seem to be that net neutrality is either the new “fairness doctrine” or just another attempt at more government intervention in our lives. ...
October 2009
18 posts
