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October 16, 2008
This post by Trapper John at DailyKos I think gets something really right:
… Barack Obama isn’t just cool — he’s redefined cool in politics. He’s gotten past 20 years of presidents who equate anger with passion. There hasn’t been a president who could keep an even keel since Reagan — and even then, he was more easy-goin’ than cool. Reagan was detached. But Barack Obama is engaged, intelligent, and calm…
My reaction to the past three debates have exactly mirrored America’s reaction overall. This never happens. Usually, I’m convinced that my guy totally ruled, and the next day I find out that America couldn’t get past his sighs, his lock box, or his seeming complacency about the hypothetical rape of his wife.
I’m scared, too, kids*…
*Genuine Simpsons Referenceâ„¢
Remember what Bush said he was going to do internationally? Have a good, rueful laugh:
You might also enjoy this moment of Bush cowardice. But, of course, I’m, wrong about how America took it.
Just to follow up on my completely reproducible crash when I access (what is now my old) Applications folder, here are the relevant lines from the system.log:
Oct 16 08:43:49 davidmac2-red-MacBook2 kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Oct 16 08:43:49 davidmac2-red-MacBook2 kernel[0]:
Oct 16 08:44:00: — last message repeated 1 time —
Oct 16 08:44:00 davidmac2-red-MacBook2 ReportCrash[9201]: Formulating crash report for process Finder[6298]
Oct 16 08:44:01 davidmac2-red-MacBook2 com.apple.launchd[145] ([0x0-0x152152].com.apple.finder[6298]): Exited abnormally: Bus error
Oct 16 08:44:03 davidmac2-red-MacBook2 /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd[83]: SFLSharePointsEntry::CreateDSRecord: dsCreateRecordAndOpen(Documents) returned -14135
Oct 16 08:44:03 davidmac2-red-MacBook2 /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd[83]: SFLSharePointsEntry::CreateDSRecord: dsCreateRecordAndOpen(davidmac2’s Public Folder) returned -14135
Oct 16 08:44:03 davidmac2-red-MacBook2 /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd[83]: SFLSharePointsEntry::CreateDSRecord: dsCreateRecordAndOpen(_misc) returned -14135
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Oct 16 08:44:07 davidmac2-red-MacBook2 ReportCrash[9201]: Saved crashreport to /Users/davidmac2/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder_2008-10-16-084349_davidmac2-red-MacBook2.crash using uid: 501 gid: 20, euid: 501 egid: 20
I ran Drive Genius 2 and it found no problems with the drive. (See my previous entry for all else I tried.) Anyone know what this log entry tells me?
October 15, 2008
I just joined the Creative Commons Network. CC makes it easy to unfreeze your stuff from the icy grip of copyright that seizes across every work of hand or thought from the moment of its creation. And now that the US has a copyright czar, because clearly copyright abuse is as serious a threat to our nation’s youth as drug abuse is, we all the more need the flexibility that CC gives us.
Chris Soghoian pastes it to McCain for wanting special treatment for politicians when their stuff is taken off of YouTube because it allegedly infringes on someone’s copyright, as per the DMCA…despite Larry Lessig‘s enthusiasm for the McCain position.
YouTube and PBS are asking us to video and post our voting experience. The videos will be collected here.
I was already planning on Flickring my absentee vote for Obama, just for the joy of it.
If you’d like to get your snark on tonight for the debate, join irc://irc.freenode.com/debatejoho. We’ll start about half an hour before the debate, at 8:30 EDT (-5 GMT).
To participate, you need an IRC chat client. If you use Firefox, you might like Chatzilla, a free add-on.
See you then!
October 14, 2008
Zack Exley, who knows a thing or two about political organizing, writes about the Obama campaign’s use of top-down and lateral connectedness to get out the vote. And Patrick Ruffini, at The Next Right, is worried that Obama got it right. (Via Andrew Sullilvan)
October 13, 2008
To tell you the truth, after listening to this, I don’t know where he stands on Net neutrality. He does say he supports it, but I don’t get a warm feeling that he understands what he means.
For purposes of comparison:
I don’t know when either of these snippets were recorded.
I hear he also writes for a newspaper…
(Congratulations to Mr. Krugman! I guess telling the truth and being right occasionally pays off.)
Publishers mean no disrespect when they refer to the load of unsolicited manuscripts as the “slush pile.” Actually, they do mean disrespect. But we all know that somewhere in the slush there must be some manuscripts worth publishing.
So, Harper Collins is crowd-sourcing it. At Authonomy, you can add your own ms, or vote on those of others. The top 5 at the end of every month get a once-over from a HC editor. And the rest can go publish themselves at Lulu, where you can find my own non-award-winning young adult novel, My $100 Million Dollar Secret.
(Thanks to Elaine Warner at A Broad Abroad for the link.)
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