Random comments on technology, politics and fnord
Bush’s approval rating hit record low of of 37%..
All of the numbers in the poll are brutal. But the one I thought was funny was that American’s think Bill Clinton is more trustworthy and George Bush by a signficant margin:
A 53% majority say they trust what Bush says less than they trusted previous presidents while […]
Bill O’Reilly encouraged or baited terrorist organizations to attack San Francisco. This is what he actually said, and didn’t get fired:
You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it. We’re going to say, look, every […]
After the dismally pathetic and disappointing turnout in the past election, Ryan Teague Beckwith over at WakePol has four ideas to improve voter turnout. I’ve got a few ideas of my own…
Stop letting the General Assembly draw district lines to guarantee safe and non-competitive seats.
Stop making it so hard for candidates to get […]
I watched The God Who Wasn’t There last night.
I’ve never been a religious man. I was born without the “God Gene” — so much so that I dismiss most religous dogma and orthodoxy without wasting any time on it, no more than I do thinking about unicorns or leprachauns. It’s just completely off my radar, […]
A Wired article about “flailing away uselessly on the commercial gerbil wheel” illustrates a conflict endemic of the modern world. Our standard of living has been raised to such levels that we are working so hard to sustain it that we can’t actually enjoy it.
Mr. Long indirectly blames a number of factors — technology, corporatization, […]
So now that I’ve been trying to use an rss reader for the past few weeks, I’ve decided that Google Reader isn’t what it was cracked up to be. It looks nice and it does what I *thought* I wanted, but it turns out I really don’t. (Good thing I didn’t write the functional spec.) […]
Slash Rating is back up after about 18 months. It’s a cheesy little utility I wrote that calculates a user’s recent value to Slashdot, and compares that value against other recent users.
It broke a long time ago when /. changed the user pages, and I never got a around to fixing it until just this […]
