Entries created on Tue, 17 May 2005


My Long Bet with the NY Times
- It's quite possible you'd win that bet today.
To links web cool blogging ... on Tue 05/17/05 at 09:45 PM

Who are they?

Bill Moyers lashes out against the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to a large audience at the National Conference on Media Reform:

Who are they? I mean the people obsessed with control using the government to threaten and intimidate; I mean the people who are hollowing out middle class security even as they enlist the sons and daughters of the working class to make sure Ahmad Chalabi winds up controlling Iraq’s oil; I mean the people who turn faith-based initiatives into Karl Rove’s slush fund; who encourage the pious to look heavenward and pray so as not to see the long arm of privilege and power picking their pockets; I mean the people who squelch free speech in an effort to obliterate dissent and consolidate their orthodoxy into the official view of reality from which any deviation becomes unpatriotic heresy. That’s who I mean. And if that’s editorializing, so be it. A free press is one where it’s okay to state the conclusion you’re led to by the evidence.

Holy crap, there's audio too.

To politics speech quotes ... on Tue 05/17/05 at 09:45 PM

Not Elegant?
- Patrick Logan calls bullshit on a BUILDER.COM article on "scripting languages"... Quick list dynamic language misconceptions: inelegant, fragile, unprofessional, only used by monkeys..
Cory Doctorow - All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
- I bookmark a lot of doctorow and I bookmark a lot of IT Conversations; this is two birds with one stone. Doctorow sick genius as usual...
Register of Copyrights Misunderstands Copyright
- Ed Felton digs into the Register of Copyrights. More informative than dig, really...
To links freeculture copyright ... on Tue 05/17/05 at 08:52 PM