Category — General

Nice one.. Impressed by the Bush administration's much-ballyhooed establishment of a national do-not-call registry for telemarketers? Longtime software developer Jeffrey Kay points… [Electrolite]

so there is no protection or security built into the system, who says that the government is supposed to protect and serve its citizens?

All GOP, All the Time. Interesting words via the “Skeptical Notion” blog about the US moving to a one-party system. I would say, judging by the last 4-5 years, we already have become a one-party system. It's been the story of our lives recently – monopoly, homoginization, assault on plurality and elimination of free competition. Oh yeah, elimination of quality too. – G.S.

One Party Rule. Krugman is good today. A forthcoming article in The Washington Monthly shows that the foundations for one-party rule are being laid right now.In “Welcome to the Machine,” Nicholas Confessore draws together stories usually reported in isolation — from [Skeptical Notion] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]

oh yes, we do have a governmental monoculture, and it is increasingly created through media effects combined with normalization, etc. everyone looks the same, everyone acts the same, there is little differences except at the periphery…. will that change, prolly not because current media doesn't really support it.

Digital “Shoplifting”?.

Young Japanese women might spot a new hairstyle or a new dress in a glossy fashion magazine and want to know what their friends think,so they take a quick snap with their mobile phone camera and send everybody a picture.But the Japanese Magazine Publishers Association says the practice is “information theft” and it wants it stopped.
Japan's 'digital shoplifting' plague

[Smart Mobs]
taking pictures of pictures used to be fair use, unless those pictures are used to replace the original, which in this case, i don't think it does.

Kucinich v. Dean

Where it is demonstrated that Kucinich is way more progressive than Dean. Not that Dean ever said he was progressive…

[Politics in the Zeros]

if it is time for a change in these united states, dean is not it.

What Is Your Animal Personality?
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i think these things are pretty much random for me because i could choose nearly any option and it would make sense for some part of my life.

You are Gambit!

You are a fierce fighter and a good friend to have.
Your preference for solitude and your
attractiveness make you very intriguing to
those you meet. Unfortunately, close
relationships are few and far between for you
because you often have trouble opening up to
others.

Which X-Men character are you most like?
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luckily gambit was always my favorite of the x-men, since i played the mavel superheroes game(its a role playing game like dnd) in high school

“RFC 1, “Host Software”, issued thirty years ago on April 7, 1969 outlined some thoughts and initial experiments. It was a modest and entirely forgettable memo, but it has significance because it was part of a broad initiative whose impact is still with us today.” (RFC stands for request for comments. I was wondering about that.)

[Poorbuthappy Guide to Ease]

next you should explore the internet drafts, and the drafts of the drafts.

The Complete Guide To Irony. Irony in a Nutshell. Not an O'Reilly publication, but you can use it to teach yourself Irony in 24 hours. For dummies. And a reference for the rest of us. [MetaFilter]

dissimulation…. interesting little concept for irony.

Reboot video is online [bOing bOing]

you might find these interesting.

What is Actor-Network Theory: various ANT definitions. The possibility of applying the actor-network theory and its methodology to different disciplines and fields of study is evident by the many senses in which it has been used. The What is Actor-Network Theory? site provides various definitions. These and many other colors and flavors of ANT represent a very… [infoSophy: Socio-technological Rendering of Information]

however, the fixation on the actor is still present. get rid of it, stop thinking about it, think about networks, only networks, and then think about how it constructs the actor, then i think you have a theoretically interesting actor-network theory.