Young voters’ interest fizzles – oh no! get out the vote!
Exit Polls Spot Vulnerabilities in Kerry’s Show of Strength – it says he is not “for people like me.” This is more, not less, of a reason to turn out the vote!
Dean faithful turn out in Tacoma as
Unpredictable Washington now gets say
Want an alternative to these extremes? Edwards Exults in South
Carolina Win
I think that today is "really cool people I never met but have something
in common with" day – tho some of the people I am about to mention I have
met, but I doubt they remember me. Of course, I’ll stick to just mentioning a
few people in the above category, cuz otherwise I’ll have nothing to blog next
year, right?
First, is Josh Nimoy – seems
like a really cool artist / programmer. He has a bunch of free and useful tools
on his site, as well as some open source apps and info on his impressive work.
Never met him, but I am an alum of the graduate program he is currently in (and
I graduated when I was the same age he is now – tho I was not nearly as cool as
him at the time).
Next, Colin
Richards, who I did meet once. Really interesting and talented artist – we
both teach at the Wits School of Arts.
Willem Boshoff,
who is so nice, that he might even remember my name from the time we met. He is
probably my favorite South African artist right now. We both showed installations
at the Gencor Gallery in Joburg in ’01 – only one week apart.
David
Rokeby is amazingly cool for reasons completely apparent at first glance.
I’d like to say that this is what we have in common, but I am not that
cool. We are both from North America, and we both work with interactive video.
One day, I may even be able to afford his softVNS objects for Max…
Here’s a new one: Kristin Thomas (of spam
poetry) – is just plain funny. We both use the blogger.com
service.
Last, and certainly not least, is Robyn
Orlin – we both had work at the FNB Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg last year.
But, like everyone above, she is much cooler than I am.
Big primary day today in the US; don’t forget to vote if you are in one of the
participating states! I know what they say about Kerry, but I am still rooting
for Mr. Howard Dean
– check out his li’l speech about black history month on the 1st of Feb.
More soon…
Nathaniel’s (actually, an edited version of Michael Moore’s) must-reads for the day:
Is Dean Toast? – Saddam’s capture doesn’t guarantee Bush’s re-election. By William Saletan
A New American Revolution
Michael Moore.com: We Loved Saddam
Michael Moore.com : Must Read
A must-read
editorial, in the Brattleboro Reformer, begins, "Amidst the giddy
party mood spawned by the capture of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, it’s
important to interject a sobering fact: Saddam Hussein is not Osama bin Laden."
read
more: Brattleboro Reformer – Today’s Editorial
And here’s more on the ‘Dean
doctrine’ [that] stresses alliances
In art news, the RRF festival has left the “now we realize the Biennale de Paris
just has an impressive name,” also taking hektor.net
off the bill. I guess we won’t always have Paris.
And thanks to Jonah to the
B and the C (Brucker-Cohen) and his blog for pointing me to this cool project:
The One and
Only ROPOD
A little late from me:
Digital Divide to Be Big Issue at U.N. Summit on Internet
JenniCam to Go Dark After 7 Years
Gore’s Puzzling Intervention (that I like; ’bout time he grew a backbone)
Should’ve blogged this yesterday, but a preview of ResFest I wrote was in THISDAY
– A South African daily, national newspaper – in their art supplement.
THE MEATRIX – funny and
political. We like that.
New Scientist – amazingly small and powerful plastic memory
From Salon.com | Joe Conason’s Journal:
Clark strikes a match
Perhaps Wesley Clark feels he must downplay his intellectual credentials. That could explain why the former Rhodes scholar abandoned his courageous defense of dissent yesterday to endorse the flag-burning amendment while speaking at an American Legion post in New Hampshire. It was the kind of incident to which voters have long since grown accustomed in presidential campaigns: a smart man saying stupid things while pandering.
I don’t think this is OK, actually. At least Dean’s Confederate Flag comment can arguably be coming from a good place. How can one argue that about this? I think it about ends my support and research into the Clark campaign.