Monday, June 16, 2003

Revise This! LOL - From the Whiskey Bar A comment on George W. Bush's (or Karl Rove's, or Condoleeza Rice's or some other consultant's) catch phrase, "revisionist history". The term has a strong negative connotation, so hey, why not do some good old name-calling? Anybody who questions the imminent threat of Iraq is to be labeled a "revisionist historian." I really think Bush is a poor leader. Moreover, he's bad for business! The only economics he understands is cartel economics. Let's do everyone a favor and fire this kid. Revise This. Several people have pointed me to this quote from Bush's speech in New Jersey today: This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq. Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history -- revisionist historians is... [Whiskey Bar] 11:47:57 PM

White is Green It sounds philosophical, and probably is, but that phrase refers to Hal Glicksman's RWB color theory in which white replaces green as a primary color. More than that, white is defined as a very bright green. Sounds deuteranopic to me. Reviewing the color theories of Johann Goethe and Ed Land it all makes more sense. Color as percieved by the human eye (or as translated by our brains) is a complex system not perfectly mapped to wavelength. (In an epithany I realized this is the same phenomenom that makes some red wine appear purple, which 2 year old Olivia confirmed this evening.) Goethe's work resulted in a color wheel only slightly different than our modern color picker, and introduced the notion of complimentary colors. The wheel contined six colors, as opposed to Newtons seven (ROYGBIV) and connected the red and violet ends of the spectrum through the nonspectral color, magenta.     Magenta Red        Violet         Yellow      Blue Green     (to be continued...) [101-365] 1:37:40 PM

"The bloody red sun of phantastic L.A." - James D. Morrison " Los Angeles is the world's first and only city to receive its own unique Internet address; .la. " [Daypop Top 40] 2:47:26 AM

Interesting info - Whiskey Bar weblog and Washington Post Article: Read This Story. Do It Now. The new Deep Throat has emerged. But this time, he's on the record: Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror "The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure,... [Whiskey Bar] 1:43:26 AM

Open WMD hearings to come 'if warranted'. WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee held out the possibility Sunday of open hearings in the panel's examination of the quality of prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and how it was used by the Bush administration. [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page] 1:32:14 AM

Thomas Carlyle. "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." [Quotes of the Day] 1:11:05 AM

Alfred Lord Tennyson. "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." [Quotes of the Day] 1:08:40 AM