Archive for October, 2004
re: Media Spin
October 31st 2004 at 12:36 am
Scott Janssens writes:
I tried to post the following comment under “Whatch Media Spin in Action” and it was denied saying there was questionable content.
This looks like Hanlon’s Razor to me. For what it’s worth, your blog is the only place I’ve seen the Mac thingy mentioned.
Here’s another over the top feature, only this time […]
re: Global Idea Bank
October 30th 2004 at 12:34 am
Alex Wilson writes:
Couldn’t post this (even tried without the URL), but you might be interested
in my favorite charity:
Ashoka basically listens to people who have great ideas to deal with
specific problems all over the world. And then they fund them. Often it’s
just a matter of paying the person a living wage so he or she can […]
Comments
October 29th 2004 at 4:56 pm
Just so you get some idea of why the comments area can be wonky, but MT Blacklist, a comments spam filter, has detected and stopped 207 attempts to spam my comments section just today alone, and the day isn’t over yet. It’s worse than spam.
Eventually I might just kill the comments and ask people to […]
The Global Idea Bank
October 29th 2004 at 4:02 pm
The Global Ideas Bank is an online system of posting ‘ideas’ for the world (they seem to be social) that are rated. They’re looking for some submissions from blogs some day soon.
Clicking around, here are some of my favorites.
Cocooning Families sounds like a small co-op basically. From what I’ve talked to some co-ops can work […]
Group Rule
October 29th 2004 at 9:18 am
Yesterday the small hominids story spread all throughout the internet.
Already Wikipedia, an online group collaborative open source encylopedia, has an entry on it.
Eat your hear out Brittanica.
Rutan’s Vision
October 29th 2004 at 9:10 am
Burt Rutan talks about what the vision for his space program is:
I put out there that before I die I want to see affordable travel to the Moon, that’s essentially where I’m going. What I mean by affordable is not what Houston talks about affordable; I’m talking about where a third of the people in […]
re: Magical Negros
October 28th 2004 at 4:08 pm
Philip Brewer writes:
…magical negros don’t need to be black–you see Native American, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese characters in that role all the time. They also don’t need to be of a different ethnicity–you also see rural people (whose rustic ways give them an insight that more sophisticated characters don’t have), insane people, homeless […]
re: Singularity
October 28th 2004 at 8:56 am
Jed Hartman emailed:
Hi — I tried to post the following two paragraphs as a comment to your
Singularity posting, but it told me they contained “questionable content”
(though it gave no indication of what content here was questionable). So
figured I’d try email.
I loved the phrase “the rapture of the nerds” when I first encountered it,
and I […]
Press Freedom Throughout The World
October 28th 2004 at 8:43 am
The Press Freedom Throughout The World report ranks the US at #23, right next to Jamaica.
Other maverick countries ranking higher are the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, and Estonia, who seem to be getting into this whole democracy thing with 100% effort (Estonia in particular seems really neat).
So Ireland is #4.
Ireland is undergoing a great tech […]
