5.30.2004
5.29.2004
welp, its 1:43 saturday morning and no gold master. A couple more days. I've been leaving the office at 4 every day this week, but tonight I'm gonna go home a little early. well not home, ive been getting wht sleep I can on the floor of a coworker living near the office.
I drank 12 diet cokes in 24 hours yesterday, and a assload more today. i missed sasha's show at the derby, but chris and sasha were both excited about it so that's good. here around 9:30 am tomorrow. Hey, im getting credit as writer. that's actually what i've been doing for most of the 90 hours i've put in so far this week. a lot of enemy troops advancing on positions and bunkers peppering landscapes. good times.
5.27.2004
5.23.2004
Yahoo! News - Journalists Worried About News Quality
Yahoo! News - Journalists Worried About News Quality: "The number of national journalists who think bottom-line financial pressures are hurting coverage was 66 percent this year, compared with about 40 percent in a Pew survey from 1995.
Just under six in 10 local journalists were more worried about financial pressures hurting quality, compared with one-third in 1995.
More than half of the executives at national news organizations said increased business pressures are 'just changing the way news organizations do things.' "
5.22.2004
Dishonest, Moronic or Both?: "Meanwhile, New York Times White House correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller has admitted that asking tough questions of the President is just too scary, and we should get off her case about allowing him to mislead America and the world: 'I think we were very deferential,' she recently explained in an interview, 'because it's frightening to stand up there. Think about it, you're standing up on prime-time live TV asking the President of the United States a question when the country's about to go to war. There was a very serious, somber tone that evening, and no one wanted to get into an argument with the President at this very serious time.' "
Hawks Eating Crow
Hawks Eating Crow: "And how pathetic is it that the only cable network really grappling with the media's failure is Comedy Central? Let's give the last word to the Daily Show's incomparable Stephen Colbert: 'The journalists I know love America, but now all anybody wants to talk about is the bad journalists--the journalists that hurt America.... Who didn't uncover the flaws in our prewar intelligence? Who gave a free pass on the Saddam-Al Qaeda connection? Who dropped Afghanistan from the headlines at the first whiff of this Iraqi snipe hunt? The United States press corps, that's who.'"
5.21.2004
New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge (washingtonpost.com)
New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge)
I don't have any reason to be shocked, I've been hearing about these photos for over a week. But I am shocked.
5.19.2004
Childless couple told to try sex
Ananova
"A clinic spokesman said: "When we asked them how often they had had sex, they looked blank, and said: "What do you mean?"."
I'd laugh at the fools, if I didn't feel so sympathetic.
5.18.2004
I hit up the Daily Howler (link at the top of this page) looking for the dish on the Powell interview... It looks like I may have gotten this one spot on.
Colin Powell Interview With Russert Is Cut Off (washingtonpost.com):
"What happened was that both NBC and Fox News were using Jordanian television facilities for back-to-back Powell interviews. Russert was allotted 10 minutes and was asked to wrap when he went over by about two minutes. He said 'Finally, Mr. Secretary,' but abruptly lost his guest.
Russert was still puzzled afterward. 'A taxpayer-paid employee interrupted an interview,' he said. 'Not in the United States of America, that's not supposed to go on. This is attempted news management gone berserk. Secretary Powell was really stand-up. He was a general and took charge.' Powell later called the NBC anchor from his plane to apologize for the glitch.
State Department spokeswoman Julie Reside disputed Russert's characterization, saying that NBC 'went considerably beyond the agreed end time. Other networks were waiting for their interviews and had satellite time booked, and we didn't want to keep them waiting.'
Asked why he simply didn't edit out the awkward interlude from the taped interview, Russert said: 'It's part of the story.' "
Tim Russert is a goober.
from my brother, to ken wilbur n' co.
hello-
i had wanted to apply for a scholarship. but now that i sit down to write i am more inclined to ask for an explaination of the high cost of tuition, a cost so prohibitive the majority of people in the world could not afford it. this may seem somewhat confrontational or even hostile, and i suppose i do feel some hositility towards the integral institute. I'm a medical resident training in san francisco in the field of family medicine. i also have a strong interest and background in integrative medicine (network spinal analysis, for example). in addition, i have a deep personal connection to the exploration of consciousness, practicing yogs postures, doing meditation, breathwork, etc. i bring all this up to make the point that, i think, i would be a great candidate for your scholarship and be someone who could take what i experience and learn not only into my experience but hopefully into that of my colleagues and patients. but i can't get over why you are charging one of the highest fees i've seen for a weekend conference. i am open to an explaination, if anyone feels inclined to reply to this email. if not, at least i spoke.
sincerely,
spencer blackman
I was wrong… but you didn’t know it; and a promise
About a week ago a friend of mine emailed me and asked if I could put some perspective on the Iraq war for her. Like many of us, she and her friends have been struggling to deal with everything going on right now.
The truth is I was in no position to provide perspective. Overworked and under-informed, I’m really not the news-media go-to-guy I was a year ago. Still, I’m a sucker for people who actually want my opinion, so I gave it-- ill-formed and poorly expressed.
One of the things I wrote, somewhere mid-ramble, was that Nick Berg’s gruesome murder would overtake the prison abuse story. Judging from some recent exposés in The New Yorker and NewsWeek, this will not happen.
I hope the story sticks REAL hard. It's pretty unbelievable. In my defence, I did have some good reason for thinking it end up as an A16 newstory. The press has given Bush a free pass (or a very cheap pass) on everything from his sordid history, the 2000 election, pre 9/11 intelligence, 9/11 failures, post 9/11 failures, connections to the bin laden family and the Saudi royal family, the tax cuts, the prescription drug bill, the buildup to invading Iraq, etc… Hopefully with the election coming this trend, this bad dream, is coming to a close.
I was wrong, as often happens, and thanks god.
So here is a Jibblog promise, and hopefully not the last:
I promise to be wrong most of the time. By that I mean I know that my resources, intellectual, informational, and empathic, are pretty diminutive, so it’s only natural I’m at least partly wrong whenever I unleash my QWERTY happy fingers. This being something I am aware of, expect opinions to change in real-time.
The Two Cultures, Maybe Three
"We need educational programs that expose students to equal amounts of technology and art. They should learn to program even as they study Michelangelo, rhetoric and recursion, algorithms and architecture."
from MSNBC - Powell scolds aide after interview interrupted
Secretary of State Colin Powell chastised a press aide for trying to cut short the taping of a television interview Sunday.
Ok, I watched the replay and it doesn't really look like a big deal. It is not clear if Powell's press person stopped the interview because of the question that was about to be asked. In fact it seems like she had to have started her attempt before the question had even begun to be asked. If that is the case then it was not the content of the question that was at issue. Of course the overall tone of the interview could have bothered her, but Powell did ultimately decide for himself to answer the question and the interview continued. This looks as much as anything as a mere mistake, no?
Therefore...
5.17.2004
E3 image dump
this ass camera I got has a battery which dies with no warning so i didn't get a lot of things I planned on. In fact my approach was quantity not quality. I set the camera on low res and just started snapping everything. Here is a link dump to most of them. nothings been done to clean em, so deal.
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Eeeeh, that's enough clicking, more later if you care.
--edit-- more...
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enough for now again
5.16.2004
Well, that kinda sucked...
A lot has passed since last week. E3 came and went unexceptionally. I worked at the office on day 1 and RSVPed too late for the parties I had gotten invited too. This was all OK with me. I was happy to relax Wednesday evening. Thursday I went to the show to have a look around, and it was really pretty pathetic. Talk about the sound and the fury signifying nothing. It was so loud, so crowded, so full of girls in hot-shorts paid to smile, and so utterly empty of innovation, genuine excitement, or camaraderie.
Friday I worked the company station. Upstairs and "off the floor" we still had plenty of traffic and the game got a great reaction from people. I actually had a better time playing and showing off JO than looking at GTA6, Grand Turismo 4, Silent Hill 4, FF 13, or any of the other tired games getting all the attention. I'll post some crappy snaps I got off before my camera died.
In order to get to the show on time friday morning. I slept at Sasha's. That area of town is really superior to the west side.
Even so, Saturday I cut down to Santa Monica looking for trouble and I found it in the name of Chris Gonzales-- not really. We drank a not-too-small cup of some wonderful tea, then we hit the town. One beck CD later we were at Slash's Snake Pit in Melrose. Bushmills on the rocks and some girls (the record) were the highlights there. We had planned to catch up with Anise and her friend Lilly at a club called Bliss, but we were both haggard and sporting a hobo style, so we caught up instead at an after hours pizza parlor called Berri's. The place fronts like a club complete with a dude working a faux velvet rope. Inside one finds a euro DJ spinning terrificly loud middle eastern tinged club music, 20 inch pizzas, and drunk people with nowhere else to go. It was really nice to hang out with some friends.
5.10.2004
Integral Transformative Practice - Nov 29 - Dec 4, 2004
Integral Transformative Practice - Nov 29 - Dec 4, 2004
$3500 Ken? For what, 5 days?
50 people? That's 150k in less than a week Ken. Not bad.
I would say ripping people off is pretty not integral. Neither is creating programs only rich kids can afford.
5.09.2004
another ewok
5.08.2004
Salon.com News | More bad news may be on the way for Bush
Salon.com News | More bad news may be on the way for Bush
This is bad news for EVERYONE except Al Queda Inc... Are we safer with Saddam out of power? That's the question hawks keep hawking, I think the answer is no we are not. But people are afraid to say so. We will be safer with bush out of power.
5.07.2004
I need a snappier name than "Image Upload Sunday..."
Salon.com Politics: "Rumsfeld's responses to the questioning that followed should raise flags about just how 'effective' he is. Asked when he saw the photos from Abu Ghraib that have so disgusted the world, he said -- deadpan -- 'last night about 7:30.' "
Salon.com Politics: "'The main thing is that Arabs are deeply offended when the United States government tries to improve its image by better communication, and not by dropping less bombs and missiles on their heads. It's a common misassumption that Arabs need Al Jazeera to be anti-American. Arabs are already more anti-American than Al Jazeera.'
AbuKhalil points to the growing circulation on the Web of doctored photos depicting shocking acts of abuse by U.S. soldiers, as another measure of the gravity of the torture scandal. 'People are sending me pictures that are faked. The real pictures are so shocking already that any outrageous pornographic pictures are now believed to be real,' he says. 'Some militant groups are creating images to further inflame the situation. These pictures are circulating wildly in the Middle East. I put up a notice on my Web site saying that I don't want them. But they are being believed.' "
--Jeff Horwitz
5.06.2004
BartCop's most recent rants
"'This is no different than what happens at the skull and bones initiation and we're going to
ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are
going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are
being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people,
you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off? " --OUR MAN! RUSH LIMBAUGH
National Day of Prayer
National Day of Prayer
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Prayer is an opportunity to praise God for His mighty works. His gift of freedom. His mercy, and His boundless love." — United States president George W. Bush has issued the National Day of Prayer Proclamation for 2004
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This is a tool that will give you a simple, yet profound, way to practice the discipline of prayer.
This week's tip: Prayer Posture
5.02.2004
from the somethingawful forums
"Do you ever get pissed off when your big-shot friends start yammering on about Darwin? Don't you wish you had all the facts to prove to your friends about the TRUE ORIGIN OF MAN? Well, not all of us have the time to do all the needed research, so with help from The Institute for Creation Research, I put together a small "audio-book" tract:
creationfacts.mp3
I truely hope this brings enlightenment to you and your family."
MeaningofLife.tv - So many questions... so little time
MeaningofLife.tv - So many questions... so little time
This site is wonderful, i wish it were mine. I found it through TVCunningham.com, which is a new site put up by my friend Thomas, a fellow UCSD phil dude and Paris expat-compatriot. Check 'em.
5.01.2004
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