{"id":43,"date":"2003-03-05T22:30:46","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T04:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2005-02-04T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T09:48:45","slug":"note-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/05\/note-it\/","title":{"rendered":"note it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I highly recommend checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/sections\/politics\/DailyNews\/TheNote.html\" target=\"_blank\">ABC&#8217;s<br \/>\n&quot;the note&quot;<\/a> for more than decent political commentary every day.<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s (well, yesterday&#8217;s, but I am in a different time zone) discussion was<br \/>\nabout needing a &quot;War Room&quot; to gain speed in public opinion polls &#8211; thus<br \/>\n<b> <i>The Blair Bush Project <\/i><\/b>of &quot;Cowboys and Indians.&quot; Wish<br \/>\nthe opposite were true&#8230; Peace Rooms anyone? In other news, I love the internet!<br \/>\nYes, even as a digital art geek, I can&#8217;t help but be awed by it&#8217;s power at times<br \/>\n&#8211; I guess that&#8217;s <i>why<\/i> I&#8217;m a digital art geek&#8230; Today, I used <a href=\"http:\/\/web.icq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICQ<\/a><br \/>\nto do two-way SMS&#8217;s with friends in Berlin and (a little closer to my home in<br \/>\nJohannesburg) Cape Town. Also sent flowers to my sister in Florida without too<br \/>\nmuch hassle, due to be delivered in only two days, from all the way around the<br \/>\nglobe. Ah, modern technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I highly recommend checking out ABC&#8217;s &quot;the note&quot; for more than decent political commentary every day. Today&#8217;s (well, yesterday&#8217;s, but I am in a different time zone) discussion was about needing a &quot;War Room&quot; to gain speed in public opinion polls &#8211; thus The Blair Bush Project of &quot;Cowboys and Indians.&quot; Wish the opposite were [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":310,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/07\/stuff-for-the-technical-art-geek\/","url_meta":{"origin":43,"position":0},"title":"stuff for the technical art geek","author":"nathaniel","date":"07 March 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Tech \/ Geek \/ Art: Slashster - a slashdot version of friendster for geeks who want to keep in touch... 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