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 Thursday, January 24, 2002
The First Six Months of George W. Bush: a great (and sad) summary, but it illustrates one of the great weaknesses of the web: a lack of sources. The web makes it so easy for people to link to the source of their info, but people still refuse to do this. And if the source is not online, some kind of bibliographic info is required.... If you want what you say to be credible, which, I suppose, not everyone really does... 10:34:12 PM 
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Not the Mrs. Clinton Washington Thought It Knew: ""She is certainly entitled to say she that she is not running for president in 2004 and we can take her at her word," [political strategist Paul Friedman] continued. "But the activities she has been undertaking raise the question not of whether she is going to run, but when."" 10:10:34 PM
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Who worked at Enron? hundreds of energy traders. Energy traders. Think about that. Trading energy. Energy as a commodity. "Hi. I have 3 buckets of energy I'll give you for a case of atoms." Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but in the U.S. energy can be traded. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction... 9:41:08 PM
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The ghosts of "Gosford Park": "
About 10 years ago, Altman staged his Hollywood revival with "The Player" -- a postmodern sendup of Hollywood's hollow men, where every plot twist segues into a movie pitch. Since that film's release, deconstructed genre films have become a tired genre in themselves (reaching a low point with this year's "Not Another Teen Movie"). "Gosford Park" suggests an exit strategy from this postmodern hall-of-mirrors: You revive a dead genre, not to showcase its essential hollowness, but rather to connect it to its original, and more vital, roots. It's a kind of literary reconstruction, and a hopeful one at that. Just when you expect a mock Miss Marple to totter into the dining room, you find George Eliot instead.
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Brilliant review/critique of "Gosford Park" by Steven Johnson, former editor of Feed. This is a good example of why I think I should change careers; I don't think I could write something this great in a million years of trying. It sure will be a sad day if Salon.com loses its friendly backers. If you don't subscribe yet, please do so now! 8:54:37 PM
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Wow. See message 129 in the Apple discussion thread (below). They're talking class action lawsuit! What would Dave say about that, after his rant about how software doesn't work because nothing works, yet we expect the moon from our software, etc.? I'm thinking it's not too much to expect that when you click "connect" in a supposedly user-friendly GUI, it's going to dial up and connect. I do love OS X, but still... 9:36:06 AM
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OS X has a giant internet connection problem -- see these 275 angry messages on the Apple discussion boards. Apple's engineers know about it, but it's hard to tell what they're doing. It really is ridiculous that such basic internet connectivity has had such serious problems since the first betas and they still haven't figured it out. You know your hurting when you go to show off your cool iBook to your girlfriend and she laughs at you 'cuase you can't even connect to the internet. sheesh. 8:36:29 AM
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