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From the mouth of one of the horses... NOW: Transcript - Bill Moyers Interviews Barry Diller | PBS I actually caught this on TV the other night. It was astounding to watch. Moyers was dumbfounded by the words he heard....

Well, Apple announced it's online music store, which will spark at least one cultural phenomenon and feed another: iTunes Store Sample surfing, and one-stop-free-shop for mashmixers looking for samples. Yay!!! On another note, Madonna had the cojones to go and...

You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. You use a down comforter in the summer. Your parents drive at 120km/h through 13 feet of snow during a blizzard, without flinching. You carry jumper cables in...

Etiquette with friends & relationships in FOAF? and A module for defining relationships in FOAF...

by ColdPlay, "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" I missed the good part then I realised That I started looking and the bubble burst I started looking for excuses Come on in, I've got to tell you what a...

I know EXACTLY where i want to be. Always have. I just, for the life of me, cannot seem to focus on just how to get there dammit. It's all just *one* step away from me... ever so ever so...

I haven't had Peking Duck in well over 10 years. It had completely slipped my mind as a dish I very much enjoy. Can anybody recommend a good place to have Peking Duck in Montreal? Please? I don't think I'll...

From "The Prandial Post" weblog:So the media fought back by precisely not doing what they do best. As Ansar arrived in Parliament, everyone put down their cameras and notepads and just watched him, arms folded, not reporting on the events....

Link found on Smart Mobs, and quotes below lifted from the Miami Herald article it linked to. ''[Cellphones] extend the spatial and temporal boundaries of a physical encounter,'' she said, explaining that cellphones are providing a way for young people...

This is "way out" perhaps but no less implausible: SARS - A Great Global SCAM Caveat lector:The reader should reach his own conclusions on Horowitz's credentials. His earlier books appear to cover such topics as the author's thesis that the...

Joi Ito has gone and done it. He bought and read Ben Hammersley's new O'Reilly book "Content Syndication with RSS", Of course this means I have to run out and get it too (shame on me for not having it...

Reading the initial chapters of "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software" by Steven Johnson, wherein, amongst many other things, he speaks of a young Engels' sojourn in Manchester, England, I am struck by a correlation of...

"The Register" writer Andrew Orlowski misses a few points, and makes some fair ones, in his article "Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed... in 42 days". To all intents and purposes, the original meaning has been erased. Obliterated, in just...

Shometimes, online and off, I'll put on that shpecial kind of shcottish acshent that only Sean Connery sheemsh to do. It'sh shomething she and I youshed to do alot, after sheeing that Jeopardy shend.. ahem... send-up on Saturday Night Live......

BlogTalk - A European Weblog-Conference I am already looking into flight prices. With any luck, Adam's Moblogging conference in Tokyo is going on around then as well... maybe "kill two birds with one stone" so to speak... :)...

This leaves me speechless. I don't know which is more impressive... Rumsfeld's arrogance and stupidty (and therefor the certainty of his defeat), or the fact that apparently, normally, an "embedded piece of the bureaucratic and operational culture " is essentailly...