{"id":343,"date":"2004-05-20T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2005-02-04T09:22:54","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T07:22:54","slug":"as-usual-politics-macs-art-and-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/20\/as-usual-politics-macs-art-and-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"as usual: politics, macs, art and tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kerry revives ’92 election theme to attack Bush<\/a> – Dean praises Kerry and they both stomp Bush.<\/p>\n

Kerry Vies for Screen Time<\/a> – this is so ironic. Right after the primaries, Kerry was in the lead; following lots of media attacks \/ presidential infomercials, Bush took over. But if you looked at the numbers, it wasn’t that Bush’s popularity had increased – it was that his slander had sufficiently decreased<\/i> Kerry’s popularity. Thanks to some real Iraq coverage now (not that I’m happy about what is going on – trust me), it seems like the reverse is happening. Kerry may not be getting the national coverage he wants – but most of the Bush news is negative<\/p>\n

Booting Up Interactive Art in Shows of Prizewinners<\/a> – a kind of ARS Electronica retrospective; will interactive art soon be an accepted and engaging form by, and for, the mainstream?<\/p>\n

Apple – Mac OS X – Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac<\/a> – new layouts, incorporated applescript, and more… But those who look to pirate, beware! There have been a few reported cases of OS X viruses from limewire…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kerry revives ’92 election theme to attack Bush – Dean praises Kerry and they both stomp Bush. Kerry Vies for Screen Time – this is so ironic. Right after the primaries, Kerry was in the lead; following lots of media attacks \/ presidential infomercials, Bush took over. But if you looked at the numbers, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-tech","category-news-and-politics","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-5x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":301,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/14\/custom-bush\/","url_meta":{"origin":343,"position":0},"title":"custom bush","author":"nathaniel","date":"14 March 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"So, Bush made this site where you could make posters for his campaign - Custom Posters. 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