Monday 27 May 2002

categories: Computationally Minded

Current Apple rumors I am keeping track of: Yet another PDA sighting, this time on the Cupertino campus. Pleeeeease (Yes this can be interpreted two ways, at least.) An Apple-branded Mozilla-based iBrowser. 8:58:12 PM    comment []

I hate to be one of those “this gal nails it” bloggers, no offense intended to any. But Ms McArdle has her head on straight. On this Memorial Day, let us remember the America that our forebears lived and died for. Because America is an idea. America is the idea that if you leave people alone to get on with things, they get it right most of the time. It's the idea that where you come from is a great deal less important than where you're going. It's the idea that if you don't like something, you can pick up a wrench, get in there, and start fixing it. It's the idea that if your solution doesn't work out the first time, there's always room to try again. It's the idea that the most important thing a person can do in life can only really be known to them, and the most important thing a government can do is get out of their way while they look for it. It's the idea that individuals aren't available in groups; they can only be packaged individually. It's the idea that liberty is worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. It's the expectation that you do the best you can with what you have. And it's the knowlege that if there are a bunch of people who are violating these ideas, one way or another, you don't have to beat them into submission -- you can pick up and go somewhere else, where the people are more congenial. [by way of Live from the WTC] European multilateralism efforts can only get away with this not because of their arrogance, but because of our lack of it. 11:55:09 AM    comment []

Well. Or an InfoMaven. "I went to dinner last night with my fiancee Kilee and her sister Jodie. I realised that I have become the atypical Blogger of conversations.... I've never been one to get too involved in big conversations, preferring to sit back an listen. Now though I find I can slap out 15 second bites of current affairs. If you could convert the conversation to HTML or XML, I'd be the perfect Blog News Feed. Funny how life imitates Blogs :)." [DotBlog] [by way of The Shifted Librarian] Gee. Now we bloggers are now not only chairbound for large(r) portions of the day, we’re more insufferable when we do go out as well. Yay. 2:47:40 AM    comment []

categories: Hostage to Crap

Vote: Arts & Letters Daily has been nominated for a Webby. I love A&L Daily; it’s like an aggregator of the best of the mainstream journals; stuff to make you think. Like that Harpers Magazine section or the Utne Reader, only with less bias, and I don’t mean more conservative or more liberal, just the best of what the mainstream web has to say, often from several perspectives. 2:42:16 AM    comment []