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Saturday, August 03, 2002 |
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The NYT (registration, etc.) has an editorial from Al Gore: The economic debate, now as then, is fundamentally about principle. The problem is not that Mr. Bush and Dick Cheney picked the wrong advisers or misunderstood the technical arguments, but that their economic purpose was and is ideological: to provide $1.6 trillion in tax giveaways for the few while pretending they were for the many, and manipulating the numbers to make it appear that the budget surplus would be preserved. It was pre-Enron political accounting. |
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Watched Amelie again tonight. What a joy. If it wasn't already so late, I'd pop The Double Life of Veronique into the VCR. Perhaps tomorrow. 10:47:10 PM 
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The problem with Google and weblogs (also see Death by Blogging) is clearly illustrated in this search from my referrers log. I am the number one result of searches for don lerman pictures. First of all, and this is a sporadic problem, it doesn't link to the actual page where those posts were made. If it went to the cached version to see the correct date, you'd see the second problem: Don Lerman ate almost two pounds of butter in five minutes! The picture is from Roche Harbor.
What a disappointment it must have been when the lead-in text read .. Pictures don't do it justice. ... Crazy Legs Conti ate 168 oysters in 10 minutes. And Don Lerman ate seven quarter-pound sticks of butter in five minutes. ... only to discover pictures of the San Juan Islands. |
 I really want to grill some burgers for dinner tonight. This is the radar image from about half an hour ago. The collection of squares on the right is the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. I'm in the lower-left square. The wall is moving in our direction.
Do I try to beat it out? Or after the downpour comes, do I wait for a lull in the storm? |
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News.Com: "For a mainstream Web site such as MSNBC, blogs offer a stepped-up level of editorial control over the often raucous ramblings from readers in online discussion boards. The site closed the popular boards last December because of the high cost of monitoring discussions that often turned into obscene flame wars." [Scripting News] 5:56:15 PM
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My niece, Paige Albay Thomson, was introduced to the world at 1:16 AM this morning. Her older brother spent the night with us last night, so we were expecting the call. Haven't met her yet, but we'll be visiting the hospital soon. Congratulations to my brother and sister in law! 9:10:53 AM
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First spotted on Geodog's blog, Judge orders U.S. government to release names of 9/11 detainees. 8:42:51 AM
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Two from the op/ed page of this morning's paper. I wonder when news media will begin looking to weblogs for content on their printed pages? Because, frankly, I've seen both of these opinions stated elsewhere over the past couple of weeks (especially the Orwell bit).
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Last update: 8/17/2002; 5:07:11 PM .
