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Sunday, January 25, 2004


Best Remix

I was checking out the Dean Goes Nuts site. I really liked this remix. A lot of work here.  12:35:14 PM    


Sometimes I Think I Write Okay

"Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)" [Daypop Top 40]

I sometimes think I could write something. But then something comes up causing me to sometimes think. Actually, sometimes I totally get it. Hopefully, I do. I sometimes look at myself in the mirror and say, "Richard, what do you think?" I often reply hopefully, "Hopefully, I do!"

But, the obtuseness, the shallowness of that reply, like a car moving careeningly down a crevasse, sometimes makes me think I should just say, "I am." "I am." "I AM!!" There is no better place to reflect on these things than in my garden, surrounded, fittingly, with daffodils, irises, willows, grass, dandelions, very small rocks, leaves, cedars and pink flamingoes. It is a shockingly beautiful garden filled with pretty flowers carrying scents that are unbelieveable to my nose whose hairs virtually shiver with the anticipation as I contemplate the deep questions that filter through my brain into those parts that are "I".

Gadzooks. I am late. I must move away from my garden full of daffodils, irises, willows, grass, dandelions, very small rocks, leaves, cedars and pink flamingoes so that I may provide some sustenance for my young son. He is brilliant, as well as handsome, I sometimes think. Perhaps, hopefully and literally, our hunger is but a treadmill for our life. I think, sometimes.  12:30:29 PM    



"Dean Goes Nuts" [Daypop Top 40]

This site has lots of the remixes of Dean's speech. What I find fascinating is the rapidity with which these appeared. And many of them are much more interesting and positive than the spin the major media have used. Many of these people are actually proud of the speech Dean gave. Someone should be investigating why that is, why so many people took time to create a audio remix, sometimes with video, of something that the major powers would like to point to as the pivotal moment Dean lost it. Instead of scurrying away, these people embraced it. Perhaps something interesting is going on.  12:11:01 PM    



Bush vs. Dean

Another view of Dean from the angle of those listening to him. While the film is hardly fair and balanced, it demonstrates once again how easy TV can be manipulated to make someone look like an idiot. Kennedy was the first to accidentally discover this. Every campaign since has learned new ways to accomplish this. TV campaigns before Kenedy were less manipulative, simply because those in power had not quite figured out how to distort the medium for their own purposes. That has not yet occurred with the Internet (although it may surely come to that). So, it is interesting to see how people respond to the manipulation of Dean on TV versus the Internet. I am not sure the Internet will be a tipping point yet for this campaign but it surely frightens the power brokers of ether political power.  12:05:30 PM    


Dan Gillmor: Wikipedia Shows Power of Cooperation. [Scripting News]

Wikipedia is such a wonder. It demonstrates the weird power of wikis which, on first blush, should not exist. Why does a tragedy of the commons not develop? Because the community has ways to protect itself.  11:30:23 AM    



Imagine the last 20 years without the Mac. For all of its arrogance, Apple did the world a huge favor by unveiling the Mac 20 years ago. [Mac Net Journal]

I know exactly where we would have been. The commercial showed us, 20 years ago. A mix of Brazil and 1984. Dull gray and no babes in shorts.  12:12:36 AM    



Killing the Village Revisited. Tacitus today: Via Drum, I see that the British occupation authorities are breaking ranks with the CPA and essentially endorsing... [The Poor Man]

Somehow saying that the only way we can now succeed in Iraq is to clamp down with extremely violent measures suggests that things were not well planned out, not that we were insufficiently strong. Nothing like fascist procedures to accomplish democracy. Sounds very Orwellian.  12:00:36 AM    



 
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