Linkage of notage:
Category: Old News
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Remaindered links
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A Post-Debate Thought Experiment
Heres a nice little story for you to think about: VIA The Poison Kitchen
Imagine two bus drivers. One is waiting to take over the other’s shift.
The current driver changes the route because he thinks he knows how to get to the destination in the best possible way. The second bus driver has qualms but believes the person driving the bus should have the discretion to change the route if it is necessary. The current driver then makes a sharp turn and starts driving up an off-ramp into oncoming traffic despite the screams of the passengers. Things do not go well.
The second bus driver suggests that it might have been a mistake to have recklessly driven into the traffic. “It was the wrong turn,” he says, “into the wrong exit.” As well, the second driver suggests that –having already driven into the wrong lane– it would then be a mistake to abandon the scene and not try to help those hurt in the “accident.”
I wonder, is the second bus driver really being inconsistent?
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Fresh New Scent.
The little redesign looks better for the unfortunate souls still using Internet Explorer. The “new look” is a little lighter on its feet. She’s more nimble, more street, more gang if you will. Nothing intesting to write about today.
Your obligatory Links of Note:
This convention video is amazing. Its a must see.
Cool t-shirts:”My Frat Is Cooler Than Your Frat.” “Without ME It’s Just AWESO.” “Racquetball: Where Blue Balls are Fun!”
JACK: My suitcase was vibrating?
SECURITY: Nine times out of ten, it’s an electric razor. But, every once in a while … (whispers) …it’s a dildo. It’s airline policy not to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. We use the indefinite aricle: “A dildo.” Never “Your dildo.”Videobloggins video chat / web discussion every week at 2PM EDT
How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence
I guess now that Kerry won the debate its not important anymore.
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MSNBC – The Race is On
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Bush vs. Reality
BUSH vs. REALITY
BUSH: Mixed messages are bad for our troops, efforts in war on terror.REALITY
Mixed Messages on Winning the War on Terror
“Can’t Win The War On Terror†Asked “Can we win [the war on terror]?†Bush said, “I don’t think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that the – those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.†[NBC, “The Today Show,†8/30/04]Mixed Messages on Osama Bin Laden
QUESTION: Do you want bin Laden dead?
BUSH: I want justice. And there’s an old poster out west, that I recall, that said, “Wanted, Dead or Alive.†[Bush Remarks, 9/17/01, emphasis added]BUSH: “And [Osama Bin Laden is] just – he’s a person who has now been marginalized. His network is — his host government has been destroyed. He’s the ultimate parasite who found weakness, exploited it, and met his match…So I don’t know where he is. Nor — you know, I just don’t spend that much time on him really, to be honest with you. I…I truly am not that concerned about him.†[Bush Remarks, 3/13/02]
Mixed Messages on Protecting the Homeland
Bush Thought Homeland Security Cabinet Position Was “Just Not Necessary†And Blocked Its Creation.  In October 2001, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said Bush opposed creating Office of Homeland Security position for Ridge. “[T]he president has suggested to members of Congress that they do not need to make this a statutory post, that he [Ridge] does not need Cabinet rank, for example, there does not need to be a Cabinet-level Office of Homeland Security is because there is such overlap among the various agencies, because every agency of the government has security concerns,” Fleischer said. [White House Press Briefing, 10/24/01]
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AP news writes the future!
Wonkette has an interesting link about an article written before the debate in the past tense.I guess AP has already decided the outcome!
I put together this screenshot.
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Big Day for Blogging.
It is often said that these “debates” are won after the debates actually take place. The media decides who wins the debate in the days after. As Paul Krugman puts it is that “whatever happens in Thursday’s debate, cable news will proclaim President Bush the winner.” I think tonight the blogosphere will have a large say in who actually “won” the debate. There will be a full fledged war after the debate in the blogosphere. The Bush team seems to be doing a better job of equipping its blog soldiers. The Bush team has created a “debate feed” so that all of the consevrative bloggers out there can put up “debate facts” live on their blogs courtesy of G-Dub’s team. Wired has an interesting article about this. Where are the weapons for the Kerry supporter blogs? Where are the nerds when you need em? Why isn’t the Kerry team mobilizing the bloggers?
Some 50 million people are going to be watching the debate tonight. What will be interesting is comparing the post debate coverage in terms of TV vs print vs blogs. I mean someone has to tell these people who won. It will be interesting to see who says what and how they say it. I really want the blogs to assert their influence this evening and in the days to come, not only so Kerry can win but because I just like the idea of more people participating in the political process.
If you want to follow the blogosphere live you can use Feedster, Blogdex, Technorati to name a few.
BTW, you can read the rulebook for the debate here. (pdf) Its pretty funny.
Links of Note yo.
A debate briefing for G-Dub.
10 secrets they dont want you to know about the debates.
Bush’s top ten flip flops.
What can be learned from debates of the past?
Fact Check the debate.
Voter’s info guide.Also of Note:
Kyoto might actually happen…Update:
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air quotes: Debate
def’n Debate
v. de·bat·ed, de·bat·ing, de·bates
debate : used to catch de fish.The upcoming enthusiastic two-handed inverted air quotes “debate” airing tomorrow is not a debate. But it will still be funny to watch G-Dub fuck up remembering his scripted talking points.
More information on the “new hot shit“: ten questions with eric kleptone.
Get your “stock on“: Google Shares Just May Be Winners After All.
Wired is putting out a cd designed to be “mashed up“: This Compilation CD Is Meant To Be Copied and Shared.
Play this fun game. (flash)And now for something completely unrelated to anything:
“Just one more drink and then I should be on my way home
I’m not entirely sure what your talking about
I’ve had a really nice time but my dogs need to be fed
I must say that in the right light you look like Shackleton
Comment allez-vous ce soir? Je suis comme ci comme ça
Yes, a penguin taught me French back in Antarctica
Oh, I could show you the way shadows colonize snow
Ice breaking up on the bay off the Lassiter coast
Light failing over the pole as every longitude leads
up to your frost bitten feet oh, you’re very sweet
thank you for the flowers and the book by Derrida
But I must be getting back to dear Antarctica
Say, do you have a ship and a dozen able men
That maybe you could lend me?Oh Antarctica
Oh Antarctica
Oh Antarctica
Oh Antarctica”
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Giant asteroid approaching Earth looks like poop
Ok, to lighten things up…dont you think this asteroid looks like poop? This is actually pretty fascinating This poop is about 2.9 miles long and 1.5 miles wide (4.6 by 2.4 kilometers). On Wednesday, it will zoom by our planet within a million miles, or about four times the distance to the Moon. That’s close by cosmic standards for an object that could cause global devastation. Toutatis hasn’t been so near since the year 1353 and won’t be that close again until 2562, NASA scientists have calculated. No other asteroid so large is known to have come so close in the past, though accurate tracking of space rocks is a fairly recent, high-tech skill that still leaves wide margins of error for many objects. Wow, I wonder if anyone back in 1353 looked up at the sky and said “Hey look, flyin crap!”.
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The world is like a ride at an amusement park.
First of all The Kleptones are brilliant. “Warning : If not one of these albums makes you grin like an idiot, you may be dead.”
I have two letters for you today:Letter 1:
Dear Ecto,
Fuck you Ecto. Fuck you for making me update this program like everyday since 2.0 Beta was released. I mean I know its Beta but still? A new update EVERY DAY? Fuck you more because I just spent the last little while drafting up probably the best Blog post ever. And you go and crash just before I go to post it. Fucking brilliant! I mean the post obviously wasn’t that great but still. I spent like way more time then I should have drafting it up and it just “vaporized“. The program crashes and I’m asked if I want to send a note to Apple.
Sincerely,
Me.Fuck. What the hell was I saying? Oh yeah, I was talking about how my site suffers from a lack of cohesion and a general tendency toward cognitive bias stream of consciousness posting (see below). I don’t think anyone expects in-depth anything on this here bloggy so I think I’m ok.
Letter 2:
Dear G-Dub
Dub, (the lying fuckin ass that you are) would you be so kind as to stop slandering someone who actually went and fought in Vietnam when you were being a coked up alcoholic in the safety of the homeland?
Sincerely.
Me.
I was thinking last night about how it would be interesting to look back on what I’m thinking now and compare it to what I think after the election… I obviously want Kerry to win but thats only because he sucks less. I’d like Kerry to win because I believe in international law, multilaterlism, a woman’s right to choose, not destroying the environment, complete sentences and all that naive optimism shit.
The post that got eaten up by ecto was much better, I swear it wasn’t so hack… You know just like how the surf yesterday was amazing. I guess lying is easy to do when you’re blogging in your pajamas or sending your nation to war. Same difference. Complete sentences are great. Complete good. Yes.
Something for you to think about:
“The world is like a ride at an amusement park. It goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, “hey – don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride…” And we… kill those people. Ha ha “Shut him up.” “We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real.” It’s just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus murdered; Martin Luther King mudered; Malcolm X murdered; Gandhi murdered; John Lennon murdered; Reagan…. wounded. But it doesn’t matter because: It’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love.
The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. Thank you very much, you’ve been great.” Bill Hicks.
Finally, links worthy of note:
