Archive for October, 2004
Sinclair
I haven’t been blogging about Sinclair since so many other people have been doing it better. But I think it is exciting to report that the blogsphere has had a big impact already:
Sinclair Broadcast, as you may have heard, is planning to air an anti-Kerry movie on prime time just before the election, passing it […]
Lesbian vs. Bin Laden
From MediaMatters.org:
The media has devoted enormous attention to Senator John Kerry’s reference to Mary Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter, as a lesbian during the October 13 presidential debate. Yet President George W. Bush’s false claim from that same debate — “I just don’t think I ever said I’m not worried about Osama bin Laden” […]
Gerrymandering
I was listening to Weekend Edition on NPR and heard a pollster say “gerrymandering” with a hard “G,” as in “gate.” It turns out that such a pronunciation is a shibboleth which betrays someone as a true political junkie, because they know that the term derives from the name of Massachusetts Governor, Elbridge Gerry […]
Hate Crimes
Boy is David Neiwert mad!
I guess I must be horribly out of touch with the Republican version of reality, because I’m still not really certain what the hell impropriety John Kerry was supposed to have committed by pointing out in last week’s debate that Mary Cheney is gay. It was, by nearly any plain reading […]
Mac vs. Windows
I generally try to respect the fact that the vast majority of my users visit this site using a PC, but I liked this comment from Brent Simmons, developer of the amazing NetNews Wire, in a recent online discussion about RSS on the Mac. The moderator asked the developers why there are so many RSS […]
Yellow Peril
I can’t tell you how often I’ve spoken to American middle class liberals whose biggest worry in life seems to be the population explosion amongst the third world. Take, for example, this passage from Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb:
I have understood the population explosion intellectually for a long time. I came to understand it […]
Feedless
I’ve slowed down on posting regular updates about things you can do with RSS. This is partially because most people who are prone to trying out new technology are already familiar with RSS, and also because there are a host of good sites now devoted to the topic, such as the RSSWeblog. Most new things […]
Jon Stewart
If you haven’t seen the clip of Jon Stewart appearing on Crossfire, you can find links to download it here. I wanted to comment on something Jon Stewart said, which I think reveals a lot about the differences between him and other news sources (and even if he denies it, that is what he is):
The […]
Pirates
I’ve recently had some comments posted from a 13 year old in Georgia. I welcome all my younger readers and encourage them to feel free to leave comments! (I don’t know why, but I’d always assumed that my readers were slightly older.)
Here is a post suitable for all ages:
Pirates and Emporers is a pitch-perfect send-up […]
Li Tianbing
In 1946 Li Tianbing stole his grandmother’s cow and bought a camera with the proceeds. Some 300,000 photos later, he is being feted as one of his country’s most influential artists.
The story from the Guardian.
Some of Li’s pictures.
A picture of Li developing film using his “natural light” approach.
More on the Long March Project.
(via China Digital […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
