Tech / Geek / Art:
Slashster – a slashdot version of friendster for geeks who want to keep in touch…
Peter Jackson has a few new movies in the works, including King
Kong (2005) and the LOTR pre-quel, The
Hobbit (note that this latter link is to a slashdot internal page, and even
better than the announcement are the very ‘in’ responses to it!).
A History of Apple’s Operating Systems
New, smaller, flashier iPod sells out fast
FingaMIDI: cool for two reasons. 1. The new trackpads are now sensitive to amount of touch (in other words, they are all li’l ADCs – analog to digital converters). 2. Already, geeks have made room for artists to use this to their advantage, via Max/MSP!
The transition to politics:
The American People:
current blog which relays many right wing articles that use the words ‘The American
People,’ in vain, to their own advantage.
Kerry/Edwards/Bush/Dean:
Kerry
Backs Benefits for Legally United Gays – perhaps kerry is cooler than he first
appears? Maybe he has a better chance than Gore did, because he actually has some
views he is willing to tell to the public, rather than basing everything on polls
until it is too late… Still, he is nowhere near as cool as my boy Howard Dean
(or Kuchinich, while I’m at it). If you have CNN, check out True
Believers: Life Inside the Dean Campaign, on today.
Kerry
Camp Plans to Raise $80 Million up against Bush’s continually growing, but
already at, $100 Million. Bush
and Kerry [are starting to] square off with that money, but that’s not the
reason I liked to the article. This quote is:
“Two-time presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once had a woman supporter shout out, ‘Mr. Stevenson, all thinking people support you!’ To which Stevenson replied, ‘That’s wonderful. But I need a majority.'”
Buffett Charges Bush Tax Cuts Favor Wealthy – well, duh, but it is nice to finally hear a rich person say as such.
Steal
This Speech = interesting take on how Edwards changed the campaign (tho, I
read a similar one on Clark last week, which was utter rubbish; it’s that time
of year… but on one is arguing about Dean, are they?). More importantly, the
world waits with baited breath to see who Kerry will choose for his VP running
mate!
Last, not least, this article gives a very biased view of how Nader will change
the election (again). Spoiler
role is reflected in poll. I must point out two very obvious things
here. 1. it is an AP poll, which is predominantly lefties, who will vote for Nader.
2. if I ,as a former Nader voter, were to take said poll (which counts for nothing),
I would vote for Nader, too. Whereas in the actual election, I would first look
at how my state was swinging… Just a thought.
