And Speaking Of Wondering...

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"so have you been wondering too"

"so have you been wondering too" 04/08/2005 04:53 AM

Still Wondering About Tags

Still Wondering About Tags 04/10/2005 11:36 PM

This whole related-tags thing has been around for a month, but Dave Sifry says it’s official. I went and tried a half-dozen and the results were all over the map. I think I spot a pattern where things that are more or less steady-state are lame (Vancouver, prostitution), while it works well on current events: (Firefox, DeLay, Gomery). Which is intuitively plausible. But my question from last month still stands: Are tags useful? Are there any questions you want to ask, or jobs you want to do, where tags are part of the solution, and clearly work better than old-fashioned search? I really want to believe that tagging is big, a game-changer, but the longer I go on asking this question and not getting an answer, the more nervous I get.

Wondering About Magellan

Wondering About Magellan 04/13/2004 10:07 AM
The erstwhile darling of the mutual fund world has been struggling lately.

Talkback: Wondering about Web Services

Talkback: Wondering about Web Services 12/06/2002 10:02 AM

I'm wondering if Panther fixes any of OS
X's subtl ...

I'm wondering if Panther fixes any of OS
X's subtl ... 10/31/2003 07:24 PM

I'm wondering if Panther fixes any of OS X's subtle, but annoying and persistent, problems with monitor-spanning.

(For the record, while this is a gripe post, in general I love how easy OS X makes monitor-spanning. I consider it indispensible.)

I use two displays vertically stacked (my PB internal below and a 17" CRT above, for a 1152x1638 desktop). A lot of these problems are much more noticeable with this kind of setup, which I can only surmise has never been used by any OS X developer inside Apple.

A couple examples:

• with the menubar on the top monitor, open Clock. Drag it to the bottom. Now drag back to the top. Oops, you can't!
• with the menubar on the bottom monitor, open any Cocoa app on the bottom. try to drag its window to the top. Oops, you can't! (There may be Cocoa apps that don't do this and Carbon ones that do, but none that I've tried.)

Anybody running a Panther preview that can check these? Just curious. (Also, for the record, I did report this bug to Apple a couple months back -- the Clock example at least. Haven't heard anything yet...) Discuss

2:29 PM | Paul Bissex

Wondering About Clone Wars Cards?

Wondering About Clone Wars Cards? 05/27/2004 09:26 PM
Have you been debating about buying a set of Clone Wars trading cards? Not quite sure if it's the set for you? Well check out this great article by my main man Doug Cataldo from Non.Sportsology.net, and I'm sure you'll change your mind!

Paolo is wondering why Apple went from
orange to blue?

Paolo is wondering why Apple went from
orange to blue? 06/29/2004 12:21 PM

I assume that Paolo (by now) realizes that Apple will take standards and change them - just to be different.

It has happened with cables and connectors, browsers and now XML icons. I wonder what is next?

But we all love Apple - right? They're doing our R&D for us!

=========

Here is Paolo's post.....

Among the other news from yesterday's Apple Developers Conference keynote, it's interesting to note that apple picked the blue RSS icon and not the orange XML one to represent RSS (and Atom).

Even if I'm a long time orange icon user and fan, I think I can imagine Apple thinking: "why using an icon with the word 'XML' to link to something we call 'RSS'?". It's true: users are smart, but why making their life harder?

For some time XML icons were popping up everywhere. They linked RSS feeds but also other kind of XML files such as OPML blogrolls (oops, I have just realized that I still have such an icon here) and I do agree that it might have been confusing for users not living in our loop.

It's not that by choosing the blue icon Apple has closed all games but they definetly made a significant step in one direction. Soon we will see if users will start switching to the blue icon. Meanwhile I guess I'll adopt both for my site.

Also, from the demo's I've seen, Safari should solve another issue: users clicking on an RSS icon will not end up watching a page of code anymore but should see a nicely displayed set of posts. Cool.

[Paolo Valdemarin]

Heading for the Stars, and Wondering if
China Might Reach Them First

Heading for the Stars, and Wondering if
China Might Reach Them First 01/22/2004 03:20 AM
The U.S. and China stand at a critical juncture, between cooperation or competition, in what could be a costly and dangerous new space race.

FatCow Outage Leaves Customers Wondering

FatCow Outage Leaves Customers Wondering 04/13/2005 03:06 PM
Web Host Industry Review Apr 13 2005 6:08PM GMT

France And Germany Wondering If Matters
Have Gone Too Far (It's A Little Late To
Worry About That Now Isn't It?)

France And Germany Wondering If Matters
Have Gone Too Far (It's A Little Late To
Worry About That Now Isn't It?) 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
News Analysis piece .. France as an ally .. confirms .. IHT

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For those wondering what happened to the
January UXnet social meeting in London

For those wondering what happened to the
January UXnet social meeting in London 02/05/2005 09:27 PM
The January UXnet meeting in London was forced made a last minute move: an explanation and apology.

Wondering why the press doesn't focus on
the good stuff in Iraq? According to
Newsweek, most of it is exaggerated

Wondering why the press doesn't focus on
the good stuff in Iraq? According to
Newsweek, most of it is exaggerated 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
The $87 Billion Money Pit

msnbc.com/news/985304.asp?0cv=KA01
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ThePittsburghChannel.com - News - Radio
Host Fired For Wondering If Pope Went To
Heaven

ThePittsburghChannel.com - News - Radio
Host Fired For Wondering If Pope Went To
Heaven 04/18/2005 01:58 PM
Pope takes out radio host from the great beyond .. lose your forum to speak .. the firing of a local DJ .. religious bigotry

thepittsburghchannel.com/news/4378405/detail.html
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"For those of you who might be wondering
how it is that the widow of someone who
fought in a war in the early 1860s might
still be alive, quite a few young women
married elderly civil war-era veterans
during the depression"

"For those of you who might be wondering
how it is that the widow of someone who
fought in a war in the early 1860s might
still be alive, quite a few young women
married elderly civil war-era veterans
during the depression" 06/17/2004 11:33 AM

speaking Right

speaking Right 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
The Wall Street Journal ran a review of Free Culture Friday. (I can't show you a link because on the Journal's theory of the web, it doesn't make sense to even allow searches on your website without paying first.) Great review, with an interestingly critical twist. The thrust of Stewart Baker's criticism is that my argument should be directed to the Right: That copyright law is "asbestos litigation for the Internet age." "Big Copyright," he continues, "is one special interest that Republican strategists should love attacking." And he ends by mapping copyright as a wedge issue:

What's to fear, that Hollywood will end its generous suppo rt of Republican candidates? And talk about wedge issues. Voters under 40 are already more Republican than any other generation. What if the administration stood with them on this issue, proposing a cap on the damages that the industry can extract from college students for downloading music? Say, $1 a song, or even $10, instead of $150,000. Karl Rove could put that on the table, sit back and let John Kerry choose between his contributors and our kids. If that happens, Mr. Lessig could end up next to Ralph Nader in the pantheon of liberals that the Republican Party has learned to love.

Of course not a result I'm eager to see (though after my sniping about Nader, perhaps one I deserve), and of course, I am, as Baker suggests, a liberal. But Baker is exactly right that this issue should play to the Right as well as to the Left. And as you'll see in this video from the Progress and Freedom Foundation debate with Jim DeLong (recorded the day before Baker's review), it is a point I've been making as well.

Speaking of CES …

Speaking of CES … 01/07/2004 06:04 PM
Don't forget to check out PCMag.com's CES Center site for the latest product and technology news from Vegas all week.

Speaking of inexperience

Speaking of inexperience 07/06/2004 01:45 PM

Speaking naturally

Speaking naturally 01/28/2004 01:12 AM
Computer Times Asia Jan 28 2004 5:29AM GMT

Speaking in San Jose

Speaking in San Jose 09/20/2004 10:40 AM
Calendar note for Silicon Valley folks: On the evening of Oct. 4, I'm giving a talk in San Jose, sponsored by the Commonwealth Club and San Jose State University's Department of Journalism and Mass Communications. The topic will be "The Emergence of Grassroots Journalism," and given current events there's plenty to discuss. Details here. I'm also scheduled, on Nov. 6, to be at the Barnes & Noble store on Stevens Creek Blvd. in San Jose. Details to come.

And speaking of gifts

And speaking of gifts 12/19/2004 03:40 PM
So the most significant change in my technology-related life in the last year is the elimination of spam without a white-list technology. I used to use Mailblocks for my main account, but Marc Perkel convinced me to try his own Bayesian spam filter. I'm on record saying such systems could never work. I was wrong. Marc's system is amazing. I get endless email. His system filters the mail into three boxes -- my inbox, a low probability box, and a high probability box. I have never found a mistake in the high probability box, so I no longer look at it. I very rarely find a mistake in the low probability box, so I scan it about once a week (maybe 1% error). And it is almost fun to get an error in my inbox, reminding me that there still is this problem of spam out there. Anyway, I'm giving Marc's spam filter service to my family for Christmas (no, they don't read my blog). And I'd recommend it to anyone else out there looking for a gift (note, I don't have any financial interest in this). As Marc described to me:

I sell it as a service. I can do it several ways. If someone wants a single email address I can give them a something@marxmail.net account. $25/year. Or I can host their email domain for $95/year. Or I can be a front end spam filter where I clean it and pass it on to their existing email server $75/year.

You can reach him for at this MarxMail address.

Speaking of the environment...

Speaking of the environment... 06/10/2004 11:08 AM

I was on a road trip last weekend thru the rolling hills between Somerset, PA and Cumberland, MD, where I noticed scattered windmill technology producing clean energy. I posted my appreciation and a picture on my personal YardBoy Blog that provoked a valuable reader comment. I learned that my Rochester, NY electric utility offers a billing option that guarantees production of wind power at anyone's request. It's called [Catch the Wind] and I signed up to have my average useage "blown" into the power grid for an extra $5 per month. For $60 a year, I will reduce carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to planting 146 trees or not driving 2,338 miles. If I was a zealot, I could have purchased extra. In fact, one can support wind energy regardless of who supplies your electricity. You will receive a certificate that verifies your purchase.

Speaking SearchSpeak

Speaking SearchSpeak 07/15/2004 08:43 PM
Are we being trained by search engines to speak without "stop words"? More at Many2Many......

Speaking at Gnomedex

Speaking at Gnomedex 06/23/2004 09:22 AM

When I attended Gnomedex last year, I have to confess that I went with muted expectations. As it turned out, though, I had a great time, and rank it among the best conferences I've visited.

This year, not only am I attending the conference but I'm scheduled to speak on one of the panels. Along with blogging gurus Robert Scoble, Henry Copeland and Ross Rader, I'll be discussing how to maximize your blogging strategies. I'm glad I have a couple of months to figure out what to say, because I'm not an experienced public speaker :)

Among the other confirmed speakers are Steve Wozniak, Wil Wheaton and Dan Gillmor.

The conference isn't until September 30 so I'll talk more about it closer to the time, but if you want to attend I recommend registering now. Unlike last year's Iowa-based Gnomedex, this year it's being held in Lake Tahoe - so I expect even more people to be there.

Churches speaking out against BNP

Churches speaking out against BNP 04/28/2004 02:53 AM
West Yorkshire church leaders are due to sign a declaration attacking the right-wing British National Party.

Speaking of WiFi

Speaking of WiFi 09/06/2004 01:26 AM
Everybody's been talking about Pennsylvania thinking about going to an all-state, WiFi, so I thought I'd mention a press release at Michigan's Web site. Michigan has deployed WiFi at two...

Hypothetically Speaking...

Hypothetically Speaking... 03/11/2003 09:44 AM

... if there were a Safari v62, and it did happen to leak to the public, and someone did happen to run it, and that person did happen to discover a bug with text-decoration, well then I would hypothetically be most grateful, and would in fact fix such a bug with the utmost expedience. In fact, it might even be fixed already, assuming of course there were such a build, and it did in fact have this problem.

Speaking of contests...

Speaking of contests... 12/10/2003 11:24 PM

The Creative Commons Moving Images Contest deadline is three weeks from today, and there are lots of great prizes. You can use Flash or video to illustrate how Creative Commons works (here's a sample of how we describe it to musicians), no more than two minutes in length.

To be honest, we haven't had a ton of entries yet, so get cracking creative types!

Speaking about Blogs....

Speaking about Blogs.... 06/17/2005 07:17 PM

Yesterday, Larry Sloma, who (along with Troy Swanson) helped Moraine Valley Community College get all bloggy and RSSified, sent me an email noting that he’s running a pilot project on his new library’s web site. Check out the Highland Park Public Library’s blog, which you can now have read to you.

“Inspired by Gary Price's recent post about Speakwire, we thought we'd try to add a voice to our pilot blog. Works like a charm!

Look for the button labeled ‘Want this blog to read to you?’ near the bottom of the right hand column at http://lishost.org/~hpplblog/ .”

That wasn’t enough for Larry, though. Today, I got an email from Troy, saying that Larry had also helped MVCC set this up for their blogs, too. Check out the “Click to Listen” link on the right-hand side of their Library News blog!

Here’s the weird, spooky, serendipitous part. I’m reading my work email tonight (yeah, I’m that overwhelmed at work that I’m doing email from home these days), when the following message from David Mattison appears on the WEB4LIB mailing list:

“I spotted a Google Adsense ad on my blog for a new service called Talkr.com (http://www.talkr.com) that offers conversion of text-only blogs into podcasts. I haven't tried it, but it sounds like (pardon the pun) there's a library application in there somewhere. The company has a revenue sharing program if they select your blog as one of their podcasts. Jenny Levine's The Shifted Librarian blog is one of the blogs already available as a podcast.”

That’s news to me! But, I guess if you’d rather listen to my posts than read them, here’s your chance.

Speaking in Montreal

Speaking in Montreal 03/21/2003 11:26 AM
Lots of interesting things happening at the PHPQuebec Conference in Montreal. I gave my little "build a successful OSS business" speech yesterday, and it seems to have been well received.Seveal "well known" PHP folks were also there--from Rasmus Lerdorf to Zeev Suraski--with a good number of things to say and ...

Speaking machines!

Speaking machines! 01/04/2004 01:14 PM
A brief history of speech synthesis : an interesting read, with photos and sound samples!

Speaking of Crones

Speaking of Crones 01/02/2004 07:08 AM
Kalilily Time

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Cory speaking on Jan 28 in Novato

Cory speaking on Jan 28 in Novato 01/22/2004 02:46 AM
I'm giving a talk ("Copyright, the Web, and Innovation") for the North Bay Multimedia Association on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004 from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM at the Marin Community Foundation in Novato, CA.

There's nothing new about a copyright crisis: the ability to automatically reproduce work has been contentious since the Gutenberg Bible -- and as recently as the mid-Eighties, when the Hollywood studios tried to outlaw the VCR, calling it "the Boston Strangler of the American film-industry."

Is it any wonder that the web, with its ability to move, organize and reproduce information without control or oversight, has precipitated another crisis? Course not.

What is a wonder is that any number of otherwise bright and well-meaning lawmakers, geeks and businesspeople are behaving as though the proper response to a collision between copyright and technology is limits on technology -- imagine if recorded music had been "limited" to ensure that it didn't disrupt the sheet-music business! (It almost was -- and recorded music was only rescued through a Hail Mary act of Congress that legitimized piano rolls in 1908)

Today, the notion that technology should "compromise" with rights-holders is a tremendous threat to the open Web. The recording industry is indiscriminately abusing copyright law to sue 70,000 American file-sharers into submission. The Hollywood companies are getting the FCC to regulate the basic components of the PC.

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Speaking too fast? E-mail me...

Speaking too fast? E-mail me... 08/06/2004 11:08 AM

Speaking of Overpriced Gear...

Speaking of Overpriced Gear... 06/10/2004 01:01 PM

...did you know that you could spend more on a power cord than you would for a brand new Gateway 510 System? Or throw in another $55 and you could get a brand new eMac.

Yes, it's true. $744 for a friggin power cord. A "Cardas Golden Reference Power Cord with Built-in Filtration" no less, but still, a power cord.

Does the US Army know about this outfit?

from Gizmodo.

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Speaking of Image Formats

Speaking of Image Formats 07/22/2004 03:06 PM

The lame UNISYS LZW patent has kept GIF support out of free software for some time. The patent has now expired worldwide, so the popular GD Graphics Library now has GIF support again, after a very long absence.

gd 2.0.28 has been released. gd 2.0.28 restores support for reading and writing GIF images.

So now you can fire up PHP and render your on-the-fly 'Punch The Monkey' animated banner ads.

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Speaking of funny IM conversations

Speaking of funny IM conversations 07/16/2004 08:39 AM

I think fake IM conversations are becoming a new legitimate form of satire. Here is one of the classics.

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Speaking of Camino...If you are thinking
about gra ...

Speaking of Camino...If you are thinking
about gra ... 03/13/2003 10:22 AM

Speaking of Camino...If you are thinking about grabbing the 20030310 build of Camino, don't. It's crash-a-rific and I'm almost positive it has to do with the flash plug-in. I've already sent in 5 talkback reports today. Just stick with .7 for now. I only mention this because the nightly builds from .6 to .7 were almost always as stable as the point release and the dev guys even advocated grabbing a nightly build in the time between .6 and .7 to fix (among other things) a flash issue. Yes, I'm fully aware that nightly builds are meant for testing purposes only, they might shred your data, people can and do lose money! I'm just sayin'...

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Outrage over Sen. Clinton not speaking

Outrage over Sen. Clinton not speaking 07/14/2004 01:41 PM

IE key developer will be speaking at
Gnomedex

IE key developer will be speaking at
Gnomedex 06/17/2005 03:51 PM

Unless Dean Hachamovitch is coming to tell us how Podcasting is integrated into IE at Gnomedex, I think the speculation that Microsoft will be announcing how they have seen the light on Podcast and will have a product ready for us next week is probably not going to happen. But what does the addition of this keynote speaker mean. Could IE7 be released to the world at Gnomedex.

Whatever it is all of my sources are being really quiet and no one is talking. Have a tip send it to geek@geeknewscentral.com [C hris Pirillo]

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Why The United States Just Doesn't Get
The United Nations

Why The United States Just Doesn't Get
The United Nations 06/22/2005 02:41 AM

For years I have been amazed as I’ve listened to people here in the United States demonstrate their complete ignorance of the purpose and tremendous value of the United Nations, even to the point of our country not paying dues to the organization. Ambassador to the United Nations havs often been viewed as second-class or B-level diplomatic job and with the current presidential perspective, the UN has become a troublesome entity and the appointment of…

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The United States, Backed By The
European Union, Japan And Canada, Has
Turned Back A Bid By Developing Nations
To Place The Internet Under The Control
Of The United Nations Or Its Member
Governments

The United States, Backed By The
European Union, Japan And Canada, Has
Turned Back A Bid By Developing Nations
To Place The Internet Under The Control
Of The United Nations Or Its Member
Governments 12/09/2003 03:48 AM
Washington Times .. second paragraph

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A Map of Languages in the United States

A Map of Languages in the United States 06/22/2004 06:04 AM
A Map of Languages in the United States
http://www.mla.org/census_main

The MLA Language Map is intended for use by students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and seven groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States. The Language Map illustrates the density of language speakers in zip codes and counties. The Data Center provides actual numbers and percentages of speakers.

The United States of Texas

The United States of Texas 06/24/2004 01:23 AM
Salon Jun 24 2004 5:21AM GMT

The United States Is In Deep Doo doo!

The United States Is In Deep Doo doo! 03/14/2003 05:07 PM
The United States Is In Deep Doo doo! In the end, there is no such thing as a free lunch. You cannot make money grow in value by shaking it back and forth from one bank to another. You cannot prosper a nation by doing each other's laundry, or filling out their government mandated and greatly obfuscated paperwork, or flinging stock certificates around which may have as little real worth as Federal Reserve Notes. To make money, to show a profit, you must make products that somebody else wants to buy, and sadly, that is a capability the United States has allowed to slip away in great measure.

Historical Statistics of the United
States

Historical Statistics of the United
States 12/27/2004 06:52 AM
Historical Statistics of the United States
http://www.csep.ucr.edu/ HSUS/HSUS.html

The goal of the project is to produce an updated, expanded, and thoroughly revised edition in print and electronic formats of various historical statistics of the United States, to be collected from the Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, Colonial Times to The Present (Cambridge University Press). The Historical Statistics of the United States was first published in 1949 by the Bureau of the Census with the advice and assistance of the Social Science Research Council. A second and much larger edition appeared in 1960 under the same auspices. The third edition, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Bicentennial Edition, was published by the Bureau in 1975 and was expanded to two volumes. In the year 2005 Cambridge University Press will publish the fourth, millennial, edition of this classic reference work. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Vital Statistics of the United States

Vital Statistics of the United States 05/30/2004 07:49 AM
Vital Statistics of the United States (VSUS)
http:/ /www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/vsus/vsus.htm


Annual reports that present detailed vital statistics data, including natality, mortality, marriage and divorce. These reports are available for download or as bound volumes in many large public and university libraries. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog.

won't end the world's distrust of the
United States

won't end the world's distrust of the
United States 03/19/2003 10:46 PM
NYTimes - Krugman is worried about Things to Come .. Paul Krugman's current column .. Register at NYTimes.com .. for future d .. op-ed piece .. NY Times .. Click .. column .. more

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People of the United States, why is
everyone yelling at you???

People of the United States, why is
everyone yelling at you??? 04/14/2005 06:53 PM
Beware! We will take over television studios, kidnap so-called commentators and broadcast calm, well-reasoned discussions of the issues of the day. The manifesto of the Unitarian Jihad.

Al Capone shouldn't represent the United
States

Al Capone shouldn't represent the United
States 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Fareed Zakaria has a great article, The Arrogant Empire, in this week's Newsweek. Answers the questions, "why are all those foreigners against us?" and "how can they think that George Bush is a bigger threat than Saddam Hussein?" I learned a lot from reading it. Highly Recommended.. Some quotes: In fact, while the United States has the backing of a dozen or so governments, it has the support of a majority of the people in only one country in the world, Israel. If that is not isolation, then the word has no meaning.... the United States will spend as much next year on defense as the rest of the world put together (yes, all 191 countries... go back to 1945. When America had the world at its feet, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman chose not to create an American imperium, but to build a world of alliances and multilateral institutions. They formed the United Nations, the...

Legal gay marriages in the United States

Legal gay marriages in the United States 05/17/2004 03:03 PM

Massachusetts has become the first state in the US to allow same-sex couples to get married. Whether it will last or be crushed under the weight of a Constitutional amendment I don't know, but it's bloody wonderful in the meantime:

Other towns and cities across the state were also prepared to wed large numbers of same-sex couples as the law came into force. The Supreme Court ruling upheld a decision by the state's highest court. It said that denying marriage licences to same-sex couples violated anti-discrimination laws.

The Massachusetts ruling has fuelled heated debate across the country - and the controversy has been particularly intense in an election year. In a statement, President Bush said he had called on the Congress "to pass, and to send to the states for ratification, an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and a woman as husband and wife. The need for that amendment is still urgent, and I repeat that call today." His rival John Kerry - who is a Massachusetts senator - is also opposed to same-sex marriages, but favours a more limited form of legal recognition.

I think the issue of gay marriage only started to matter to me when I realised that many of my gay friends actually wanted to get married. And on the day when a friend of mine showed me a marriage booking form online in San Francisco and I started looking for the section for gay people and there wasn't one - It was all the same form... That affected me too I think - to realise that while it was clearly an issue at the moment, the whole point of this battle was about completely collapsing that difference around relationships. That's a pretty cool goal...

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"Bill Clinton, Former President of the
United States"

"Bill Clinton, Former President of the
United States" 07/29/2004 01:02 AM

United States Patent Application:
0050071741

United States Patent Application:
0050071741 04/04/2005 04:20 PM
•‰ €‚ � €� €‚�‚ .. Google was awarded a patent .. patents .. patent

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"stepping up to prevent him from
becoming President of the United States"

"stepping up to prevent him from
becoming President of the United States" 05/04/2004 05:02 PM

Even the president of the United States
sometimes must have to stand naked

Even the president of the United States
sometimes must have to stand naked 07/15/2004 01:55 AM

Two decades ago I had the odd and daunting experience of defending my undergraduate thesis, on several of Shakespeare's plays, before a panel of scholars. While hardly as rigorous as the real orals a PhD thesis is supposed to be subjected to, this encounter was part of what my department at Harvard required for graduation, and I faced it with some trepidation.

When I walked in, I was introduced to William Alfred, the playwright, poet and English professor. I hadn't studied with Alfred, and had no idea what to expect from the rumpled man. He broke the ice with a simple question: At the start of "King Lear," Cordelia refuses her royal father's demand for a profession of love. There's a foreign phrase that describes her act in legal terms -- what is it?

I'm not sure how many layers of my brain I had to dig through to find it, but somehow I retrieved the desired answer, the medieval label for an injury to the royal office: "Lese majeste!" Alfred's eyes twinkled; my response seemed to satisfy my interrogators' basic requirement of literacy, and from there, all went swimmingly. (Alfred, a brilliant and generous soul with whom, alas, I only had a handful of further conversations, died in 1999.)

Of all things, this distant recollection popped into my head after I finally caught up with Michael Moore's much-debated "Fahrenheit 9/11." Many words have already been flung across the political spectrum about the movie. I will limit my contributions to this one phrase: What Moore has, I think, accomplished, particularly in the movie's more coherent and better-assembled first half, is an outrageous and highly effective act of lese majeste.

George Bush campaigned as an informal man of the people, and he did not carry a very dignified bearing into the Oval Office. (Remember that strange boil on his face during the Florida recount?) But from 9/11 on, his team of handlers began to weave a cocoon of larger-than-life pomp around him. Partly, it was what the nation wanted; it was also smart political opportunism. It has, to be sure, frayed some since the Iraq war and its attendant scandals. The "Henry V"-style bullhorn at ground zero struck a chord with many Americans; the "Mission Accomplished" aircraft carrier stunt backfired.

But "Fahrenheit 9/11" methodically dismantles this president's carefully manicured dignity: It says to the viewer, "Pay attention to the man behind the curtain -- he's smaller than life." The movie's most indelible sequences are those that show our president as he really was in the face of the great crisis of 9/11: Not, as we were told by Showtime' s "DC 9/11," a stirring take-charge commander, but a passive photo-op participant who sat paralyzed for achingly long minutes of "My Pet Goat" rather than take the initiative to say "excuse me" to the class and leave the room.

My colleague Andrew O'Hehir drew a connection between Moore and Dario Fo, the Italian playwright/performer most famous for his assaults on the dignity of the papacy. To be sure, Moore has none of Fo's skills as a physical clown and only a fraction of his instincts as an entertainer; Fo is an artist, while Moore is chiefly a propagandist. Still, it's a good comparison: The two men share a willingness -- more than that, a ferocious determination -- to strip away the niceties of ceremony from powerful men so that we can see their misdeeds.

That refusal of deference is, after you get past all the various problems with "Fahrenheit 9/11" as documentary and as history, what counts. The TV networks (though they thought nothing of rummaging through the details of Bill Clinton's tawdry sexual escapades) have decided to protect Bush from unflattering images. It falls to Moore to dig up the footage of protesters pelting his inaugural limousine with eggs, and play it for us again.

By the end of "Fahrenheit 9/11," Moore has flung his own messy indictment at the presidential portrait, and it won't be easily cleaned up. The filmmaker is deliberately, methodically, overflowingly disrespectful at a moment in our history when there's far too much respect in the land. When the throne holds an ignorant, incompetent, profligate pretender, lese majeste becomes a patriotic duty.

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