BlogBites

November 19th, 2004

It’s a radical move, designed to control how we use digital media, mainly to prevent us from doing things with it that the copyright owners don’t specifically authorize. Dan Gillmor’s eJournal  

November 18th, 2004

To sum up: Fuck You, I Gots Mine. Pandagon  

And, really, we’re stunned that electing the guy from “Commando” as our governor didn’t make you reassess living here. Father Dan  

This country runs on two things: twinkies, Krispy Kreme donuts, and an almost fanatical devotion to George Bush. Sadly, No!  

Now Susan Crawford of the Cardozo Law School has discovered that in its brief supporting the Broadcast Flag, the FCC claims the authority over, well, the Internet. Joho the Blog  

Let’s start raising money for a truly open blogging network, out of which candidates for local office can emerge, and new journalists, and empowered voters, money-givers, an army of citizens ready to listen, to learn, and feed back to all of us what they learned. Scripting News  

November 17th, 2004

Already promoted beyond her level of competence, I take comfort in the fact that Condi probably can’t fuck up national security any more than she already did as National Security Advisor. Dohiyi Mir  

I’ve heard PHP is just a gateway drug for Python, so I’m not looking forward to how I’ll feel after reading about that. kottke.org  

Hopefully, the Times will manumit Brooks. That, or beat him to death. Roger Ailes  

I’m pretty sympathetic, I try hard, but I look at such guys and think “well, at least he’s not Zell Miller crazy”. craigblog  

If the Democrats raised George Patton from the dead and ran him, the Republicans would portray him as weak on defense. The Gadflyer (via The Daou Report)  

What’s interesting is that this theory is based on the hypothesis that politicians are only interested in divvying up the spoils of office - i.e. that they have no substantive interest in policy. Crooked Timber  

I always said it would be so much easier if I let myself get pulled in, drink the kool aid, think we’re changing the world. gravity always wins (via Scripting News)  

How many times have you found yourself in the mountains with your acoustic guitar, sitting around the campfire, trying to tune up so you can burst into a rendition of Kumbaya or On Top of Spaghetti and ensure perfect pitch, when — dammit! — you realize that you left your guitar tuner back in Hoboken? Gizmodo  

November 16th, 2004

…it’s like finding out your mother’s been having an affair with John Ashcroft. Pandagon