Oregon Man Bites Dog Before His Arrest (AP)

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Oregon Daily Emerald - University of
Oregon news and sports - Esteemed
journalist lectures on ethics

Oregon Daily Emerald - University of
Oregon news and sports - Esteemed
journalist lectures on ethics 05/09/2004 08:07 PM
complains about "pseudo-journalists" and calls for speech restrictions .. Psuedo-Journalism: Don't be a piano player in a whorehouse

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LA to Oregon at Mach 9

LA to Oregon at Mach 9 06/02/2004 02:14 AM

No on 36: Help save Oregon marriages

No on 36: Help save Oregon marriages 09/20/2004 02:33 AM

Plenty has been written about the mastery of language in use by conservative think tanks these days and I'm reminded of it every time I turn on the news or watch a discussion show featuring conservative guests. I used to discount the importance of language and framing of issues as overly simplistic, but this really is the death of liberals right now. It's in the liberal nature to tell both sides of the story and/or go for a nuanced discussion of issues, but people don't have time or energy to keep those kinds of things straight on hundreds of subjects in the news. I'm constantly impressed by conservatives that can gain traction with somewhat crazy ideas, but do it using such simple language that leaves little room for interpretation.

One instance that is driving it home for me is seeing signs for prop 36 in Oregon. Proposition 36 is the vote on a change to the State Constitution, to clear up the ambiguous language that says "anyone over 18 can marry..." so that is says "A man and a woman over 18 can marry..." I hear the issue is currently polling at around 50%-50%, which surprises me because I thought gay marriage had zero chance of survival in the wild, but looking at the signs it's clear that the No side's language isn't helping them, while the Yes side is killing it.

The No on 36 folks have these complicated signs that say "no on constitutional amendment 36" and although the NO and 36 are the biggest things on it, it still requires them to push a negative with a screaming NO on it. The color is drab and you can't read the words "constitutional ammendment" from a car. The Yes folks have a great distilled message, with multiple colors. It says "One Man. One Woman. Yes on 36." It's simple, concise, and gets the point across without the need for a five-syllable word.

So here's the thing: why don't liberals champion the power slogan? Why can't liberals drop the "yeah, but..." from everything they want to say? Conservatives never feel the need to spell out the specifics, or the drawbacks, or the exceptions, while liberals are almost happy to do it. It obscures the message when you have to add "yeah, but..." to everything you say.

Here's my suggestion for the No on prop 36 folks: Go simple. Your new slogan is "Support Marriages. Support Families. No on 36." That's it. You don't have to explain these are new marriages or expanded definitions of family, just go with short, emotional slogans. People love marriage. People love family. A no vote on 36 means thousands of marriages don't have to be dissolved.

Just as a conservative might repeat the phrase "Progress in Iraq" over and over, you could easily spin gay marriage as a way to encourage more marriages, help create more happy families, and help spread love instead of hate. And when your opponents try to point out "but! but! you're going to ruin civilization!" you can ask they why they hate the institution of marriage, why they want to deny love, and why they want to break up families.

And you can't argue with that on a 2 foot-by-3 foot sign at 60mph.

Eugene, Oregon, Wants Downtown Wi-Fi

Eugene, Oregon, Wants Downtown Wi-Fi 03/27/2005 06:15 PM

The city's daily newspaper urges Wi-Fi rollout: I grew up in Eugene. This is a fairly conservative paper in a pretty liberal town. And there's no sock-puppet talk here. Just a concern about keeping Eugene, a kind of island in the middle of the state with a large liberal-arts university, on track to keep the economy humming. They don't suggest city-wide Wi-Fi, but downtown Wi-Fi for free, which is a good starting place to understand usage.

Eugene's downtown used to be cited by city planners because in the 1960s, they converted from a street-based downtown to a pedestrian-only one. Streets were paved over. Remarkably, shoppers and businesses slowly fled downtown into surrounding areas and the Valley River Center Mall a few miles away on the other side of the Willamette River. A few years ago, the pedestrian mall was ripped out and life has slowly returned to downtown.

Oregon gives boost to gay couples

Oregon gives boost to gay couples 04/20/2004 11:39 PM
A county judge freezes same-sex weddings but equally moves to cement the status of such unions.

Oregon Mall Goes Wireless

Oregon Mall Goes Wireless 02/18/2004 01:17 PM
Cedar Hills Crossing, a mall in Beaverton, Ore., is now covered by Wi-Fi: Access is free to visitors and the network is co-sponsored by Personal Telco. Without interesting applications for visitors, I'm not sure how useful this network will be. I don't often carry my laptop with me when I'm shopping. There is a restaurant here that's covered, however. Plus, this would be a good place for customers to use services that let them scan bar codes and compare products and prices. Best Buy, Borders, and Office Depot are in this mall so those stores might be able to think up some useful applications for the network. The University Village and Bellevue Square malls in the Seattle area, both somewhat upscale places, have full coverage with Cometa. But they also have individual coverage (free and fee) in individual properties throughout. It's unclear whether those two malls have seen any change in visitors or usage -- they haven't discussed it, and they may not even be able to track it....

Right rallies for Nader in Oregon

Right rallies for Nader in Oregon 06/25/2004 05:11 PM

No. 4 LSU Edges Oregon State 22-21 in OT
(AP)

No. 4 LSU Edges Oregon State 22-21 in OT
(AP) 09/04/2004 10:58 PM
AP - LSU can thank an Oregon State kicker who could not make extra points for its season-opening victory. Alexis Serna missed three extra points Saturday night, including one that would have forced a second overtime, and No. 4 LSU escaped with a 22-21 victory over the Beavers.

Oregon Gets Biggest Hotspot

Oregon Gets Biggest Hotspot 02/10/2004 02:40 AM
It's always worrisome to qualify networks as the "biggest" but in this case I'd bet that eastern Oregon really does have the biggest hotspot in the country: Yesterday, Boardman and Hermiston, Ore. turned on a 600-square-mile hotspot. The network came about through a public/private initiative and was built by EZ Wireless. The network will be used by the Morrow County Emergency Management and Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, the police force, and citizens. Initially, it will cover 600 square miles which includes four counties and seven cities, some in Washington. The second phase, which should be complete this summer, will add another seven cities. The press release isn't online and any news organizations in the area either don't post the stories online or require subscriptions from visitors wanting to read the stories online....

Oregon Pedometer with Alarm

Oregon Pedometer with Alarm 09/24/2004 11:46 PM

The girls over at Shiny Shiny point out this great new gizmo from Oregon, a pedometer with a built-in panic alarm. If next you're out jogging and can't outpace that Olympic-sprinter-cum-homo-mugger, a push of the panic button will cause an ear-piercing 120dB alarm to blare forth, hopefully scaring the attacker away before you do permanent damage to your taut, muscular ears. 

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Oregon cat born with two faces

Oregon cat born with two faces 06/17/2005 04:19 PM
I'd call it Zaphod. A kitten has been born with one brain, one skull, but two faces. Picture he re.

KATU 2 - Portland, Oregon

KATU 2 - Portland, Oregon 04/27/2004 06:05 AM
blind 71 year old women .. :

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Tiny Oregon Town Getting First Stoplight
(AP)

Tiny Oregon Town Getting First Stoplight
(AP) 03/28/2005 10:09 AM
AP - A bit of the big city is coming to La Pine.

University of Oregon Sees Utility of
Wi-Fi

University of Oregon Sees Utility of
Wi-Fi 05/27/2004 01:37 PM
The U of O installed Wi-Fi beginning in 1999; 2,500 unique users in a 20,000-person student body in January: The university went full bore on Wi-Fi in 2002, and access is practically ubiquitous. They're thinking about extending service out into community nearby as well, but not for general use. The university is in my hometown of Eugene, Oregon. (That's OR-ih-gun not OREY-gone. What are you, some kind of hick?)...

Oregon Launches License Database

Oregon Launches License Database 12/02/2003 01:17 AM
The state of Oregon now has a site devoted to licensing information at http://www.oregon.gov/lic/ . It's not really for searching for licensing per se; it's more about getting pointers to other search sources and information on licensing bodies. The top...

Oregon Man Finds Stray $15,000 Check
(AP)

Oregon Man Finds Stray $15,000 Check
(AP) 09/16/2004 09:31 AM
AP - Jeff Datwyler thought he was just being conscientious about litter when he stopped to pick up a stray envelope on the streets of Salem.

Upcoming local [Oregon] appearances...

Upcoming local [Oregon] appearances... 09/14/2004 10:51 AM
My apologies for the late notice, as I meant to get this blurb online last week, but I have two upcoming Mac User Group (MUG) presentations set for this week. Tonight I'll be presenting in Corvallis at the monthly Corvallis M...

Oregon Archdiocese Files for Bankruptcy
(AP)

Oregon Archdiocese Files for Bankruptcy
(AP) 07/06/2004 09:44 PM
AP - The Portland Archdiocese filed for bankruptcy Tuesday because of the steep costs from clergy sex abuse lawsuits, an unprecedented step that could open the Roman Catholic archdiocese to new levels of court scrutiny.

Oregon town up for sale (Reuters)

Oregon town up for sale (Reuters) 08/18/2004 04:53 PM
Reuters - The small town of Otis, Oregon is up for sale again as its octogenarian owner tries to find a buyer willing to part with $3 million (1.91 million pounds) for a restaurant, gas station, market, Pronto Pup corn dog shack, two homes and a barn.

Nader-ites in Oregon are getting some
help from the Big Boys!

Nader-ites in Oregon are getting some
help from the Big Boys! 06/26/2004 10:55 AM
Two GOP groups in Orygun helping to get Nader on ballot .. threadon Kos .. Confirmed

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In Oregon, Choosing Death Over Suffering

In Oregon, Choosing Death Over Suffering 05/31/2004 05:31 PM
Since Oregon began allowing adults with terminal diseases who are likely to die within six months to obtain lethal doses of drugs, surprises have been many.

Oregon Prisoners Must Pay for Jail Stay
(AP)

Oregon Prisoners Must Pay for Jail Stay
(AP) 05/21/2004 06:51 PM
AP - First, Sheriff Tim Evinger eliminated ketchup, salt, coffee and pepper at the jail, a move he says saved an instant $30,000 a year in runaway beverage and condiment costs. Now, Evinger has decided to start charging inmates $60 a day to help cover the costs of their stay behind bars.

Bluetooth Bites It?

Bluetooth Bites It? 09/02/2004 07:11 PM
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Pain bites.

Pain bites. 09/20/2004 08:52 AM
No pain, no gain, they say, and when it comes to real pain, the inverse is true as well. "We now have research indicating there's a memory of chronic pain," said Dr. Doris K. Cope, director of chronic and cancer pain for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. It changes the genic code sometimes, it changes the biochemistry, and it causes new proteins to be formed." Or in other words, the more pain you have, the more pain you have. (More on this.) It's no wonder, then, that more money is spent on pain relief than any other medical problem, and that there has been so much p ain research and so many clinical trials revealing such painful facts as redhead s feel more pain, men feel less pain, and that there's a genetic difference between tough guys and wimps. (Much more pain inside.)

MP3 sound bites

MP3 sound bites 09/06/2004 11:54 PM

In the inaugural column of this series on hypermedia, I mentioned an MP3 clipping service I wrote to enable quotation of sound bites. Before I explain how it works, let's review why it exists. Audio content -- and of particular interest to me, spoken-word audio content -- is flourishing. In the tech world, Doug Kaye's ITConversations web site is a great example. It features audio interviews with IT personalities, as well as recorded speeches from conferences -- including the recent O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Kaye's audio engineering credentials are impeccable, but nowadays anyone can pick up a microphone and speak into an MP3 file. Today, for example, I listened to Dave Winer's thoughts on the business model for Wi-Fi and blogs, recorded while he was driving northward in Wisconsin. In my own journalistic work, I increasingly record and post audio interviews.

Although the amount of audio content keeps growing, the time available for listening remains constant. Until and unless we achieve a radical breakthrough in speech-to-text translation -- and I'm not holding my breath -- we'll need to find another way to make audio content more granular, and easier to consume selectively. [Full story at O'Reilly Network]

I've been using the service described here for a while now. For this column, the second in a planned series on hypermedia, I rewrote and published the code in hopes that others will be inspired to help move the project forward. ...

Another one bites the dust!

Another one bites the dust! 04/07/2005 02:36 AM
Easytree.org has been shutdown. Easytree, for those unfamiliar, was a tracker site for legal (apparently not) live music and video bit torrents, similar to Archive.org's Live Music collaboration with etree.org. Other discussions of File-sharing on MeFi (specifically the MGM vs. Grokster SCOTUS case) here and here. [more inside]

Sound bites

Sound bites 08/12/2004 11:35 AM
The following blurb appeared in my RSS reader this morning:

Paul Graham: Great Hackers

In one of the most entertaining presentations [clip] from OSCON 2004, Paul Graham answers the questions, what motivates great hackers? [clip] What do they need to do their jobs? How do you recognize them? [clip] How do you get them to come and work for you? [clip] And how can you become one?

[IT Conversations]

I missed Paul Graham's talk at OSCON, but caught some of the ripple effects -- in particular, the reaction to his trashing of Java in favor of Python. This blurb, from the IT Conversations RSS feed, gave me a link to the clip. By repeating the link here, in conjunction with some keywords -- "Paul Graham Java Python" -- I'm pretty certain that in a week or so, this Google query will lead you to the item you are now reading, and thence (if you're so inclined) to Graham's controversial remark, and thence (if you're further inclined) to the complete 30-minute segment posted by Doug Kaye at IT Conversations. ...

Another one Bites the dust

Another one Bites the dust 10/30/2003 04:52 AM
I come home today and the wife says honey the computer quit working. Putting on my Geek hate I go...

CeBIT bites

CeBIT bites 04/30/2004 11:17 PM
PlaybackTime May 1 2004 2:35AM GMT

Dog bites AIBO

Dog bites AIBO 03/21/2003 10:17 AM
Clive sez:

Many people love showering attention on their Aibos, pretending they're real. But what about actual dogs? Are they fooled? To find out, a bunch of French scientists recently had a few real dogs interact with some Aibos. It all went quite peacefully, until the scientists decided to put a piece of meat in the room and have an Aibo and a dog compete over it. Go to their site and you enjoy what is surely a first in scientific history: Live video of a snarling dog kicking the living shit out of a hapless robot.

The best part is the explanatory note by the scientists: "The horrible screams that you hear at the end of this film were made by the experimenters, who were startled to see the dog attack the AIBO ... we strongly advise you not to try anything similar with your AIBO."

Link Discuss (Thanks, Clive!)

Man Bites Dog (Reuters)

Man Bites Dog (Reuters) 05/07/2004 09:16 AM
Reuters - A man fleeing police in the South African city of Durban bit the dog and police officer ordered to apprehend him, police said on Friday.

Bush Administration Blocked on Oregon
Suicide Law

Bush Administration Blocked on Oregon
Suicide Law 05/27/2004 01:41 AM
Reuters via Wired News May 27 2004 5:27AM GMT

Green Housing Takes Root in Oregon

Green Housing Takes Root in Oregon 09/20/2004 03:17 AM

Bomb Case Against Oregon Lawyer Is
Rejected

Bomb Case Against Oregon Lawyer Is
Rejected 05/25/2004 02:33 AM
The F.B.I. said it had mistakenly matched the lawyer's fingerprints with prints on a plastic bag found near the scene of the Madrid train bombing last March.

Oregon Scientific MP100: Another World's
Smallest

Oregon Scientific MP100: Another World's
Smallest 08/18/2004 08:38 AM

Oregon Scientific is taking a stab at the "World's Smallest MP3 Player" title, but considering they don't throw a quarter or a finger or something into the picture Tech-Digest has (which can be added to the pictures on their barely-functional site for a total of... one) doesn't really tell us much. What we do know, though, is that the £90 (~$165) MP100 player has only 128MB of flash memory, so you pretty much wrinkle your nose at it, too, no matter how tiny it is.

There are other players being launched, too, including the MP130 with an SD/MMC expansion slot. (See, a little expansion never hurt no one.) And the MP140, not out for a few months, is listed as having a "transparent display." Barring marketing gobbledegook, that could be pretty interesting, considering that MP140 is only 6.6mm thick.

Read - Oregon's new range of music players [Tech-DigestUK]

Torvalds leaves Silicon Valley for
Oregon

Torvalds leaves Silicon Valley for
Oregon 06/11/2004 02:23 PM
The Linux leader and founder is moving closer to his employer, the Open Source Development Labs.

Oregon doctor jailed for billing for sex
(Reuters)

Oregon doctor jailed for billing for sex
(Reuters) 06/18/2004 10:23 PM
Reuters - An Oregon doctor, who had sex with a patient and then charged the state about $5,000 (2,700 pounds) for his "treatments," has been jailed for 60 days and stripped of his license, officials say.

Oregon Soldier Convicted of Trying to
Aid Al Qaeda (Reuters)

Oregon Soldier Convicted of Trying to
Aid Al Qaeda (Reuters) 09/03/2004 12:20 PM
Reuters - A U.S. Army soldier was convicted of trying to aid al Qaeda by detailing ways to destroy U.S. weapons and kill soldiers to undercover agents, army officials said on Friday.

Oregon Lawyer Arrested in Madrid
Bombings (AP)

Oregon Lawyer Arrested in Madrid
Bombings (AP) 05/07/2004 04:50 AM
AP - A native Oregonian was arrested as a material witness in the deadly train bombings in Madrid, Spain, federal authorities said.
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