Archive for November, 2008

I do not believe that camera.

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Hm. Okay. I’m thinking you shouldn’t be in the icon design business when your drawing of a video camera has to have the words “video camera” on the side in order to even remotely resemble what any human might call a video camera.
And I don’t even want to know what it’s plugged in to.
At any [...]

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Always listening.

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

I’m going to have to figure out a way to pull back from politics and settle back into my usual vast panoply of micro-obsessions with geeky minutiae, and I will, soon, I promise, but for now consider this paragraph of wisdom:

Obama has continually been asked to defend something that ought to be at democracy’s heart: [...]

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A triumph of science over fear.

Friday, November 7th, 2008

No, it’s not a real headline, but it cracks me up in a way that I really can’t explain.
There are more here. I think this gets close to the kind of fake headlines and odd stuff we’d stick to the walls of my college newspaper’s office and laugh at over the sound of Warren [...]

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Sometimes a Great Notion.

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

And just like that, we’re past Halloween, through the tissue-paper barrier between October and November, and headed down the chute toward the first Tuesday in November…historically, Election Day.
But for maybe as many as 35% of eligible voters, they’ve been there, and, in many cases, stood in line quite a while before having done that…voted, that [...]

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