Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Bret Dougherty has some thoughts on athletics, aesthetics, and spending at UNC. Sometimes I miss watching the big boys play in Carmichael... 7:24:17 PM   permalink   comment []

Wharton takes the bus. I've looked into doing it, our revived downtown means I don't need a car on days I don't have to be somewhere else (today, back to Minj; great hamburger, pretty good fries, nice service) but the bus takes soooo long...and I don't think they allow dogs. 7:14:55 PM   permalink   comment []

Dan Gillmor, on the occasion of big cuts at the NYT and the Philly Inquirer and Daily News: "It's painful to watch a business I care so much about commit slow suicide this way... I don't know if we need newspapers (though I still read them avidly). We damn well need what newspapers do." 7:02:37 PM   permalink   comment []

Handbook for Bloggers And Cyber-Dissidents -- sneak peak and review by RMac over at Global Voices. 5:55:12 PM   permalink   comment []

Anybody going to the Bennett College fundraiser tonight? I mean, anyone besides Bill Clinton and Bob Dole? How did I not know this was happening? 5:40:06 PM   permalink   comment []

Slate debate: Is porn ruining sex? A look at Pornified and Female Chauvinist Pigs. Wendy Shalit chimes in, too, although she wanders off course with the observation that "Feminism grounded itself, in its early days, in the idea that there were no differences between the sexes." Does anyone really believe that today? Does anyone who is raising at least one boy and one girl? As we've discussed before around here...what are the parents of the girls wearing the Porn Star t-shirts thinking? 1:39:55 PM   permalink   comment []

You can still register for the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Oct. 5-7, just $2,795 (add $100 for last-minute sign-up). Registration also remains open for the ConvergeSouth conference in Greensboro, Oct. 7-8, just $0 (add $0 for last-minute sign-up). 1:31:44 PM   permalink   comment []

Greensboro blogger Meetup, tonight at 7, Panera on Lawndale. 11:19:00 AM   permalink   comment []

An interesting exchange at Dean's World about changing standards of morality. 11:16:39 AM   permalink   comment []

Man, the President just can't get a break: Bush Braces As Cindy Sheehan's Other Son Drowns In New Orleans. 10:33:08 AM   permalink   comment []

Behind the NYT paywall, Friedman and Dowd. Friedman: "Katrina deprived the Bush team of the energy source that propelled it forward for the last four years: 9/11 and the halo over the presidency that came with it... "...Just throwing more borrowed money at New Orleans is not leadership. Mr. Bush needs to frame a new agenda for rebuilding all our cities and strengthening the nation as a whole. And what should be the centerpiece of a policy of American renewal is blindingly obvious: making a quest for energy independence the moon shot of our generation." Dowd warms up with some snark about Bush on the Gulf Coast: "There's nothing more pathetic than watching someone who's out of touch feign being in touch." But then she gets in some substance: "[Bush] has more hacks and cronies he's trying to put into important jobs...The announcement that a veterinarian, Norris Alderson, who has no experience on women's health issues, would head the F.D.A.'s Office of Women's Health ran into so much flak from appalled women that the F.D.A. may have already reneged on it. No morning-after pill, thanks to the antediluvian administration, but there may be hope for a morning-after horse pill. "Mr. Bush made a frownie over Brownie, but didn't learn much. He's once more trying to appoint a nothingburger to a position of real consequence in homeland security. The choice of Julie Myers, a 36-year-old lawyer with virtually no immigration, customs or law enforcement experience, to head the roiling Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency with its $4 billion budget and 22,000 staffers, has caused some alarm." 7:38:08 AM   permalink   comment []

Eric Muller says US soldiers are posting pictures of enemy dead from Iraq and Afghanistan on Internet sites. 6:52:06 AM   permalink   comment []

A brief preview article about LaChanze's role in The Color Purple. 6:38:29 AM   permalink   comment []