The softer side of Dick Cheney

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The Softer Side of Silicon Valley

The Softer Side of Silicon Valley 04/04/2005 07:03 PM
CIO Insight Apr 4 2005 11:26PM GMT

"Vice President Dick Cheney Rushed To
The Aid Of Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld -- Under Fire Over Iraqi Prison
Abuses -- By Saying People Should "Get
Off His Case" And Let Rumsfeld Do His
Job (Tell 'Em Dick)"

"Vice President Dick Cheney Rushed To
The Aid Of Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld -- Under Fire Over Iraqi Prison
Abuses -- By Saying People Should "Get
Off His Case" And Let Rumsfeld Do His
Job (Tell 'Em Dick)" 05/10/2004 02:59 PM

oh, and dick cheney, too.

oh, and dick cheney, too. 07/14/2004 10:40 PM
this land is your land, this land is my land... well done, relatively non-partisan political parody from the fine folks at jibjab (with apologies to woody guthre). [note : flash]

"Dick Cheney"

"Dick Cheney" 09/08/2004 04:23 PM

Hating Dick Cheney

Hating Dick Cheney 08/14/2004 02:29 AM
Hating Dick Cheney - Our vice president is so widely hated as being an evil puppeteer, but this seems to be far from the truth. He's really "a frazzled, heart attack survivor who's barely hanging on—to life, his job, his position, his sense of self-esteem."

The Curse of Dick Cheney

The Curse of Dick Cheney 09/06/2004 02:38 PM
Cheney disclosed. Rolling Stone's profile of our ambitious vice-president and the team he assembled to keep himself in power: "'They were like cancer cells,' says retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, who worked on the Defense Department's Near East and South Asia desk during the buildup to the Iraq war. 'They didn't care about the truth. They had an agenda. I'd never seen anything like it. They deformed everything.'" [Did you know that "dancing revolution" blogeur John Barlow was a former Cheney campaign worker? I sure didn't.]

The world according to Dick Cheney

The world according to Dick Cheney 07/02/2004 01:26 PM

"Poker with Dick Cheney"

"Poker with Dick Cheney" 06/25/2004 08:26 PM

Through the eyes of Dick Cheney

Through the eyes of Dick Cheney 05/20/2004 12:58 PM

"Dick "fuck you" Cheney"

"Dick "fuck you" Cheney" 06/25/2004 03:22 PM

Dick Cheney is a robot

Dick Cheney is a robot 06/21/2004 11:40 PM
“According to the Weekly World News, an unnamed CIA source has revealed that Dick Cheney is a robot. Unfortunately, says the source, the designers were “unable to give it emotions and compassion”. The robot can move and speak almost as well as a human and its electronic brain has 24/7 wireless Internet access. A leaked photo shows Cheney with a portion of his chest folded back, revealing wiring and circuit boards. While the source reported that Cheney-bot is unable to learn from experience, he also commented that ‘the damn thing is smart, I’ll give it that much.’”

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Dick Cheney is a Robot!

Dick Cheney is a Robot! 06/20/2004 07:17 PM
According to the Weekly World News, an unnamed CIA source has revealed that Dick Cheney is a robot. Unfortunately, says the source, the designers were "unable to give it emotions and compassion". The robot can move and speak almost as well as a human and its electronic brain has 24/7 wireless Internet access. A leaked photo shows Cheney with a portion of his chest folded back, revealing wiring and circuit boards. While the source reported that Cheney-bot is unable to learn from experience, he also commented that "the damn thing is smart, I'll give it that much." Cheney's frequent hospital visits are actually a cover for maintenance on his circuits. A scan of the original article can be found at Indymedia.org.

Will the French Indict Dick Cheney?
12/30

Will the French Indict Dick Cheney?
12/30 01/03/2004 05:55 AM
Read article .. Click

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"He's also the only one who didn't
appoint Dick Cheney to an office."

"He's also the only one who didn't
appoint Dick Cheney to an office." 09/07/2004 10:12 AM

Dick Cheney prefers Fox News

Dick Cheney prefers Fox News 04/30/2004 04:27 PM
praises

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The Poor Man: Poker With Dick Cheney

The Poor Man: Poker With Dick Cheney 06/25/2004 08:11 PM
DC: Better than that, that's for sure. Pay up .. some game of poker they had with Dick Cheney .. this little inside voyeur job .. Bush administration's version .. This is a howl! .. The Poor Man

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Humane Society Rips Dick Cheney

Humane Society Rips Dick Cheney 12/10/2003 09:08 PM
Th e Humane Society of the United States rips Dick Cheney on "can ned hunting": "This wasn't a hunting ground. It was an open-air abattoir, and the vice president should be ashamed to have patronized this operation and then slaughtered so many animals," states Wayne Pacelle, a senior vice president of The Humane Society of the United States. "If the Vice President and his friends wanted to sharpen their shooting skills, they could have shot skeet or clay, not resorted to the slaughter of more than 400 creatures planted right in front of them as animated targets." According to another news source, "five-hundred pheasants were released in front of Cheney and his men; and the ten-man hunting party killed 417 of the birds. Vice President Cheney alone shot over 70 pheasants. The birds were then plucked and vacuum-packed in time for Cheney's afternoon flight back to Washington, DC."

LA Weekly: News: Fuck Yourself, Dick
Cheney

LA Weekly: News: Fuck Yourself, Dick
Cheney 07/04/2004 08:08 PM

Rolling Stone: The Curse of Dick Cheney

Rolling Stone: The Curse of Dick Cheney 09/08/2004 10:46 AM
Mark Frauenfelder: "D" sez: This profile of Cheney is frightening. The only hope it offers is that every President to have Cheney involved in its adminitration has failed to be re-elected.

I knew the guy was bad, but if all the allegations in this article are true, he's singlehandedly hamstrung all the offices of the military and intelligence in the US:

Over at Defense, competent intelligence professionals were purged in order to ease the way to war. Douglas Feith, brought in under Rumsfeld to serve as undersecretary of defense for policy, applied an ideological test to his staff: He didn't want competence; he wanted fervor. Col. Pat Lang, a Middle East expert who served under five presidents, Republican and Democratic, in key posts in military intelligence, recalls being considered for a job at the Pentagon. During the job interview, Feith scanned Lang's impressive resume. "I see you speak Arabic," Feith said. When Lang nodded, Feith said, "Too bad," and dismissed him.

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Dick Cheney shoots 70 pen-raised birds

Dick Cheney shoots 70 pen-raised birds 12/10/2003 03:02 PM
Poor Dick Cheney. Those defered-salary payments he receives from Halliburton Oil (which has been importing oil into Iraq -- at taxpayer expense -- at twice the rate other companies have been trucking it in from Kuwait) must not be enough to pay for groceries. He has to go out and shoot his food. Read about his exciting bird hunting trip, where he shot 70 "pen-raised animals that cannot escape." He sure must be hungry. Li nk

Lynne, Dick Cheney Differ on Gay
Marriage (AP)

Lynne, Dick Cheney Differ on Gay
Marriage (AP) 07/11/2004 04:17 PM
AP - Lynne Cheney, the vice president's wife and mother of a lesbian, said Sunday that states should have the final say over the legal status of personal relationships.

Dick Cheney "Fuck Yourself" t-shirts,
trucker hats

Dick Cheney "Fuck Yourself" t-shirts,
trucker hats 07/03/2004 04:42 PM
It was inevitable. Get 'em while they last. Link (thanks, SBDC)

Dick Cheney went on a hunting trip this
past week with his old pal Fat Tony

Dick Cheney went on a hunting trip this
past week with his old pal Fat Tony 01/18/2004 05:59 AM
LALA goes sniffing for an EEEEEEEEEEEEVIL REPUBLICAN conflict of interest .. Click. (LAT Reg) .. LA Times

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"Vice President Dick Cheney has been
dropping F-bombs on Democratic Senators"

"Vice President Dick Cheney has been
dropping F-bombs on Democratic Senators" 06/25/2004 08:26 PM

Reason: Hating Dick Cheney: The new
national pastime is as puzzling and
unsatisfying as watching baseball

Reason: Hating Dick Cheney: The new
national pastime is as puzzling and
unsatisfying as watching baseball 08/15/2004 02:33 AM
power broker or handmaiden? .. snivelling "yes man" .. Hating Dick Cheney

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Dick Cheney Kills Birds Dead / The manly
veep has himself a lazy, "canned"
pheasant slaughter, and we are so
impressed

Dick Cheney Kills Birds Dead / The manly
veep has himself a lazy, "canned"
pheasant slaughter, and we are so
impressed 01/24/2004 06:07 PM
Mark Morford: Dick Cheney Kills Birds Dead; The manly veep has himself a lazy, "canned" pheasant slaughter, and we are so impressed 1/24 .. details .. More

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Shame on you, Dick Cheney, Shame on you.

Shame on you, Dick Cheney, Shame on you. 01/12/2004 12:47 AM

I can't believe Cheney changed his stance on gay marriage, and so completely at that.

What kind of father goes out on a national stage and says he doesn't believe his own daughter deserves the same rights in her life that he enjoys with his own marriage?

It's not like Dick and Mary have a bad relationship, all his quotes from 2000 supported her and kept her out of the limelight, while she put off grad school to work on his campaign and consulted on gay issues for the 2000 election. They reportedly accept Mary's longtime partner, Heather Poe, into their home and call her part of the family.

The vice president and his wife have fought for family values without completely alienating their daughter until now. I know sometimes career takes precidence over family and that Bush and Cheney have shown on more than one occasion that they can be hypocritical, but Cheney just proved he's worse than all that. He's a shitty father for not defending his daughter.

Castor and Pollux walking naked, side by
side, past Kafka

Castor and Pollux walking naked, side by
side, past Kafka 01/05/2005 06:52 PM
Guy Davenport is dead. The irrealist w riter, tra nslator of Archilochus, friend of modernists, and influential teacher has joined Hugh Kenner in whatever lies beyond this mortal coil. More links at today's wood s lot, where I learned the sad news.

Side-by-Side Console Round-Up: Xbox 360
vs Playstation 3 vs. Nintendo Revolution

Side-by-Side Console Round-Up: Xbox 360
vs Playstation 3 vs. Nintendo Revolution 06/17/2005 03:57 PM

Nothing like a good side by side comparison to separate the men from the boys when it comes to the next gen gaming consoles. True, not much is known at this time, but then again, for anyone seriously mulling this over and hankering for a good solid spec mash-up, you’ve come to the right place. In fact, we feel this is the longest, most massively detailed side-by-side ever built on the topic. Here we go……..

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Kyocera's Passport KPC650 EV-DO PC Card
up to 35 Percent Faster in Side-by-Side,
Third-Party Testing against L

Kyocera's Passport KPC650 EV-DO PC Card
up to 35 Percent Faster in Side-by-Side,
Third-Party Testing against L 04/18/2005 10:04 AM
Business Wire UK Apr 18 2005 2:03PM GMT

NADAguides.com Launches Side-by-Side
Vehicle Comparison Tool

NADAguides.com Launches Side-by-Side
Vehicle Comparison Tool 06/17/2005 04:35 PM
NADAguides.com recently announced the launch of an online side-by-side comparison tool, giving car buyers the ability to compare up to four new or used cars simultaneously online. With this new service, shoppers can compare new against new, new against used or used against used for makes and models dating back to 1998.

A Softer World

A Softer World 12/07/2003 12:24 AM
A Softer World.

A softer world.

A softer world. 07/22/2004 05:01 PM
A Softer World: Consistently good poetry on top of great imagery .. comics built from photos .. Boys who call back

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"a softer world"

"a softer world" 07/23/2004 09:49 PM

Virtual Collaboration: If You Can't Work
Side-by-Side

Virtual Collaboration: If You Can't Work
Side-by-Side 03/19/2005 02:58 AM

The Idea: What do you do if you need or want to collaborate, but you can't do so in person? What purposes are best served by weblogs, wikis, and other types of online collaboration tools, spaces and media? Collaboration entails finding the right group of people (skills, personalities, knowledge, work-styles, and chemistry), ensuring they share commitment to the collaboration task at hand, and providing them with an environment, tools, knowledge, training, process and facilitation to ensure they work together effectively. This is challenging enough face-to-face in real-time. It's doubly difficult virtually and asynchronously. But there are examples of great music, literature, invention, scientific discovery and problem-solving that have come from such handicapped collaboration. How did they do it, and can you improve the likelihood of brilliant virtual collaboration by using the right tools and media? Let's take a look at some of the alternatives: Tool / Medium Collaborative Advantages Collaborative Disadvantages Best Suited to Collaborative: weblog easy to post & comment; content is subscribable/ publishable participation limited to comments Conversations wiki anyone can contribute content harder to learn; can be easily sabotaged; inelegant appearance Projects / Alliances whiteboard real-time; anyone can contribute content content only persists for duration of call; possible firewall issues Conversations / Projects document-sharing can be real time; anyone can contribute content possible firewall issues; attention is focused on a document Conversations / Projects IM/skype/phone/ e-mail/ videoconferencing real-time conversations; audio/visual context; speed content only persists for duration of call Conversations mindmaps shows and documents consensus can't capture detail Projects discussion forums threading of comments; content is subscribable/ publishable limited contextual knowledge of participants; can attract undisciplined behaviours; threads can be hard to follow Conversations community of practice/ interest spaces organization; defined membership; multiple collaborative tools harder to learn; formality can reduce intimacy and level of participation Projects / Alliances personal e-mail groups flexible; personal; easy to use e-mail overload/spam; threads get lost or hard to navigate and follow Projects / Alliances social networking tools large number of members; good way to find collaborators most actual collaboration is done using other tools and media Finding collaborators in-person collaboration easy; real-time; context-rich; flexible expensive; time-consuming All of the above if time & cost permits There are three levels of collaboration based on duration of contact: Conversations: Where you're in contact just once, or a few times, discussing a particular subject or group of subjects. Projects: Where you're in contact as often as necessary to complete a project. Alliances: Where you're in contact in multiple conversations and on multiple projects, working together for an indefinite period of time. A collaborative conversation may be provoked by an interesting or important idea or an urgent one-off need for information or assistance. Much of the time spent in business is consumed in consulting with others, in canvassing for ideas or suggestions or comments, and in making decisions on what something means or how to respond to it. These are generally quick, collaborative conversations. In large organizations these conversations are usually peer-to-peer (where trust is stronger than up or down the hierarchy), and as size increases further they tend to be more and more intermediated (one middle-manager recently told me that 70% of his e-mail and 50% of his telephone calls are of the "Who should I talk to about X?" variety). In smaller organizations, these conversations are more likely to draw on external networks, and to involve the use of today's clunky social networking tools like LinkedIn and eCademy. I have argued before that the next generation of social networking tools should include 'people-finders' that streamline and automate the process of finding the right person (inside or outside the organization) to talk to, so that more time can be spent on actual conversations with those people. Once you've found the right person to converse with, if they're close and inexpensive to talk to in person, that's likely what you'll do. But what if they aren't? How do you quickly provide your Conversation Collaborators with the context they need to converse with you effectively when you can't put a chart or a piece of paper in front of them and brief them? Organizations have found that if the person you want to converse with face-to-face is more than two minutes walk (or elevator ride) away, the probability of you making the effort to converse with them in person drops precipitously. If you have a blog, an audience, and a little time, your blog can serve this need well. Ask a question on a popular blog and you'll probably get an informed answer quite quickly (thank you readers!) Most businesses, alas, have few established blogs and even less time. Preferred conversation tools in business, when face-to-face is impossible, are now IM and the telephone -- with IM trumping the phone for its self-documentation, its suitability to multi-tasking, and because it's easier to browse than voice-mail, and the phone trumping IM if a lot of iteration is needed to provide context. White-boarding and document-sharing applications, awkward as they are, can be helpful additions to IM and telephone conversations if the participants are savvy enough to use them properly (most aren't) and if documents and graphics are needed to provide more context. E-mail is the increasingly unpopular fall-back. Discussion forums are the ultimate tool of last resort for conversations, because of the disadvantages listed above. In most of the companies I am familiar with, they are only sporadically used and quickly grow stale. A variety of tools have been developed for more enduring project collaborations and alliance collaborations. Because they tend to involve more participants than conversations do, the logistics get tougher and the effectiveness of these tools gets more challenging. And the threshold point for giving up on the viability of in-person collaboration rises dramatically. I think this is an absolutely critical point. It is the reason large corporations, with the internal resources (people and money) to sequester, have the capacity to collaborate more effectively than small corporations and loose, unfunded collaborative groups (though whether they use that capacity to advantage is another question entirely). Open Source project teams and alliances have pioneered low-budget, virtual, asynchronous collaboration, and are the role model to follow. But is the reason for this perhaps that Open Source collaborations are generally undertaken by exceptionally tech-savvy groups, very agile at using and even inventing their own collaborative tools to get the job done? They usually have a good GUI for the non-techie, but wade into the material and collaboration technology behind a lot of these groups and your head will start spinning. What about the other 95% of the population? If I want to set up a virtual collaboration team to design a model intentional community (with people I might end up spending the rest of the my life with) or to invent a post-capitalist economy (a large project if there ever was one), what tools and media should I use? Wikis are one place to start -- a bit nerdy and physically inelegant but functional and not that hard to learn once you take the plunge. They are, however, asynchronous tools, which is a significant barrier to true collaboration. There are some more robust collaborative 'spaces' for communities of interest and communities of practice to adopt, but some of the best 'groupware' (like Groove and Exchange and eRooms) costs money and requires considerable learning to use its different tools effectively. These tools generally also require a coordinator to invest a lot of time to setting up and managing the 'space'. There are a variety of document-sharing technologies in the market, which allow several people to see a document at once and to 'take control' each in turn to change that document. Ideally, using a combination of Skype (free global VoIP telephony), White-boarding (everyone online can see what anyone posts to the white-board), Document-sharing and Mindmapping or some similar session annotation tool (everyone can see what the group's 'scribe' has documented as the findings, decisions and next actions from the collaboration) would be a close approximation to an in-person collaborative session. But that's a lot of technology to juggle on your screen, to hog and interfere with your bandwidth, and (if you opt for the more powerful tools in these categories) can also require some outlay of money. My experience has been (thanks in no small part to the valuable insights of online communication wizard Robin Good and Skypemaster Stu Henshall) that video-conferencing (seeing the people you're talking with online) is a "nice to have" not a "need to have", especially when bandwidth limitations force you to choose which applications to have running at any one time. I am confident that, as bandwidth and processing power continue to expand, we will soon see: A single, free, reliable, easy-to-use, professional-looking application that will provide what I've called Simple Virtual Presence -- the four applications listed above plus the option of videoconferencing (illustrated above), and A simple, free, easy-to-use collaboration space where the results of the online collaboration sessions, and a library of relevant resources and links, are stored, with wiki-like capability so it can be maintained by any and all in the group. Now that would be a real virtual collaboration environment.

Bush Signals Softer Approach to U.N.
(AP)

Bush Signals Softer Approach to U.N.
(AP) 09/18/2004 10:51 AM
AP - President Bush opens a new effort next week to focus attention on the compassionate side of his foreign policy, promising a vision for "building a better world."

Socitm pushes softer skills for e-gov

Socitm pushes softer skills for e-gov 09/03/2004 06:13 AM
Strategy before technology

Company Offers Softer Landing for
Smaller Aircraft in Distress

Company Offers Softer Landing for
Smaller Aircraft in Distress 12/25/2004 05:05 PM
Ballistic Recovery System is cooperating with NASA to adapt its parachute safety system for small planes to work for larger jets.

The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip
Side Is a DVD

The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip
Side Is a DVD 03/22/2005 04:52 PM
New York Times Mar 21 2005 6:56AM GMT
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