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The Gipper's dark side
The Gipper's dark side
06/08/2004 09:07 AMReagan played the villain in his last movie -- a cynical gangster
flick called "The Killers" -- and it's a perfect antidote to the
deluge of adoring media coverage.
Dine With The Dark Side
Dine With The Dark Side
02/05/2005 09:09 PMRevenge of the Sith dinnerware is spotlighted on the official
site. Zak Designs will release plates, tumblers and more this April
featuring images of Darth Vader.
Tales From The Dark Side
Tales From The Dark Side
01/23/2004 02:23 PMApple's recent surge in education sales notwithstanding, the Macintosh
is still considered barely a computer at my school. By Gary Randazzo
(Mac Observer via MyAppleMenu)
Come over to the dark side.. of the
shire
Come over to the dark side.. of the
shire
12/20/2003 10:58 PM Welcome to
Pushington Downs This amusing fairy tale is brought to us from
some of the fine folks from MST3k. Edward the less is an amusing bit
of comedy based in a universe almost completely unlike that of JRR
Tolkien. It never made it past series 1. Perhaps a bunch of renewed
interest would push it along.
Dare To Go To The Dark Side...
Dare To Go To The Dark Side...
03/29/2005 02:15 PMRebelscum reader Rick Schmidt alerts us to this spiffy new ad for the
M&Ms
Mpire promotion. Click
here for more.
Tempted By The Dark Side?
Tempted By The Dark Side?
09/24/2004 01:58 PMAn all-new Probe Droid has just been launched; this week we're
searching for what fans/collectors would do if a high quality DVD copy
of the original, theatrical version, of the Star Wars Trilogy was
offered to them. How would you weigh your desire to own the original
classics against the issue of video piracy? Look for the new Probe
Droid ballot now and cast your vote today!
The Dark Side Rising Diet
The Dark Side Rising Diet
09/09/2004 09:14 AMFollow these four simple rules, and I promise, the hopelessness and
gloom you've been feeling for the past week will start to subside.
Pursuing the Libido's Dark Side
Pursuing the Libido's Dark Side
06/28/2004 05:24 AMThe massively multiplayer Sociolotron is strictly an adult-themed
role-playing game that indulges many sexual taboos -- including rape.
By Daniel Terdiman.
Dark Side of the Tune?
(washingtonpost.com)
Dark Side of the Tune?
(washingtonpost.com)
05/06/2004 10:13 AMwashingtonpost.com - Apple's iTunes music service continues to shine
with the news that its enhanced service helped set a weekly sales
record for downloads on the site.
The Dark Side of Exchanging Links
The Dark Side of Exchanging Links
12/19/2004 03:07 PMSome of the tricks Webmasters sometimes use to get around linking back
to you.
The Dark Side of Drug Patents
The Dark Side of Drug Patents
02/10/2004 02:53 AMWant costly pharmaceuticals to reach developing nations? You'll pay
the price. A commentary by Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine.
Military prayer has dark side
Military prayer has dark side
11/10/2003 11:18 PMI'll be thinking of Twain on Tuesday. (The War Prayer can be found on
Google under Twain). Theologian and author Tom Harpur's books focus on
spiritual growth. ...
Google headed the way of the dark side
Google headed the way of the dark side
09/23/2004 11:15 PMDirect and Related Links for
'Google headed the way of the dark side'
Fagoogle.com, a search engine tool oriented towards homosexual
concerns (What? Really? Whoa!) has been taken offline by the big bad
boys at Google. The site used Google’s search engine and the
results thrown up were the same, but with a twist: they had ads.
Revenue from these ads was supposed to be diverted to the ‘gay
community’ for whatever charitable purpose….
The dark side of Ralph Nader
The dark side of Ralph Nader
07/01/2004 08:43 AMHe's made a career of railing against corporate misdeeds. Yet he
himself has abused his underlings, betrayed close friends and ruled
his public-interest empire like a dictator.
Evil: Google goes over to the dark side
Evil: Google goes over to the dark side
07/02/2004 07:57 PMGoogle's new privacy policy has a loophole a good lawyer could manuver
a battleship through: We do not rent or sell your personally
identifying information to other companies or individuals, unless we
have your consent. We may share such information in any of the
following limited circumstances: ... * We have your consent. ... * We
conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that
access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably
necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Google, its
users or the public. What happened to "Do No Evil?" I sure hope that
my GoogleAnon Bookmarklet is working....
Growing acceptance of Linux has dark
side
Growing acceptance of Linux has dark
side
04/09/2004 04:07 PMred-eyed and blue on the dark side of
the moon
red-eyed and blue on the dark side of
the moon
03/17/2005 04:23 AMAnne and I took Felix to his vet on Monday for a blood panel. We hoped
the results would let...
The Dark Side Of DefCon's Wireless
Network
The Dark Side Of DefCon's Wireless
Network
08/07/2004 03:46 AMPepsi Turns To The Force And The Dark
Side
Pepsi Turns To The Force And The Dark
Side
03/25/2005 12:46 PMHere are the details on the sweepstakes and promotions that Pepsi will
be doing for Episode III . . .
Barry Scheck on the Dark Side of Justice
Barry Scheck on the Dark Side of Justice
12/19/2004 03:11 PMNotice: This talk was more unclear than the usual talk I take notes on
so it may include more errors…
The Dark Side of Exchanging Reciprocal
Links
The Dark Side of Exchanging Reciprocal
Links
12/19/2004 03:37 PMThe Dark Side Rising Diet: Week 2
The Dark Side Rising Diet: Week 2
09/17/2004 08:34 AMIt's harvest time. So instead of thinking about George W. Bush and the
looming election, look through seed catalogs and dream of daffodils
and irises.
Marketers Reveal Dark Side Of Search,
Cast Shadow On Agencies
Marketers Reveal Dark Side Of Search,
Cast Shadow On Agencies
08/02/2004 12:08 PMSource: MediaDailyNews - SEM firms and interactive shops would do well
to slow down, play nicely together, and have faith in the industry's
ability to help them work out these kinks....
Editing Saul Bellow - The novelist was a
wizard with a dark side. By Elisabeth
Sifton
Editing Saul Bellow - The novelist was a
wizard with a dark side. By Elisabeth
Sifton
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Dark Side of the Groove - Neil Conti
feat. Brian Eno - Apple Loops 1.0
Dark Side of the Groove - Neil Conti
feat. Brian Eno - Apple Loops 1.0
08/06/2004 06:31 PMThe long-awaited sequel from Neil Conti to his legendary Funky
drums from Hell.
At Beloved Artists Retreat, Nature Shows
Its Dark Side (Los Angeles Times)
At Beloved Artists Retreat, Nature Shows
Its Dark Side (Los Angeles Times)
05/09/2004 04:34 AMLos Angeles Times - Dorland Mountain Arts Colony always lived on
borrowed time. Tucked in a majestic grove of live oaks in the hills
above Temecula, the retreat repeatedly fended off both modernity and
the threat of flames.
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 PMNothing 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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360 vs Playstation 3 vs. Nintendo Revolution'
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
a> 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.
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 AMBusiness 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 PMNADAguides.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.
Dark Horse Comics Star Wars: Dark
Forces Cover Gallery
Dark Horse Comics Star Wars: Dark
Forces Cover Gallery
12/13/2003 08:45 PMOur
Dark Horse
Comics cover gallery is updated today with the
Dark
Forces series of graphic story albums. Not merely a comic
book-style adaptation of Kyle Katarn's adventures in the video game
series of the same name, this series of novella-length prose-story
books by William C. Dietz features illustrations by Dean Williams,
Ezra Tucker and Dave Dorman. An Expanded Universe must-have series!
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.
|
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 PMNew York Times Mar 21 2005 6:56AM GMT
Weapons Moving Out, Wildlife Moving In
Weapons Moving Out, Wildlife Moving In
04/19/2004 12:06 AMThe Rocky Mountain Arsenal is still a major environmental cleanup
project, but a direct product is the bounty of nature that came to
exist.
"side-by-side comparison"
"side-by-side comparison"
09/19/2004 02:22 AMXbox 360, Xbox Side-By-Side Picture
Xbox 360, Xbox Side-By-Side Picture
06/05/2005 11:36 PMthe other side
the other side
04/13/2004 09:07 PMSo I got a PC. Yes, a Windows box. I've been needing it for various
little things lately and I'm...
they're just on the other side
they're just on the other side
12/13/2003 08:11 AMlaunched a new campaign .. "German Peace Movement" ..
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08/13/2004 03:56 PMDark Age CMS v0.2a Beta Released!
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Dark Horse Comics Tales Of The
Jedi Cover Gallery
Dark Horse Comics Tales Of The
Jedi Cover Gallery
12/02/2003 10:12 PMToday's addition to our
Comic Book section
is a series of
Star Wars comics that take place thousands of
years before the galaxy even heard the name "Skywalker." In
Tales of the
Jedi, we meet an entirely new cast of characters, many of
which still play an important role in the current Expanded Universe
tales. Every cover from the seven different limited series are shown,
including the trade paperbacks, international editions, and a few
related comics based on the series.
Dark Horse Comics Gallery Update:
Tales of the Jedi Gold Covers
Dark Horse Comics Gallery Update:
Tales of the Jedi Gold Covers
04/23/2004 08:18 PMJason Todoroff hooks up our
Dark Horse Comics Cover
Gallery with a complete set of scans from the
Tales of the
Jedi series. This set was limited to 7,500, included embossed gold
foil logos, and came with a certificate of authenticity.
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Dark Horse Comic-Con Guest List
Dark Horse Comic-Con Guest List
07/11/2004 02:00 AMDark Horse has posted a partial list of who will be appearing in their
booth during the convention and some exciting news about our
convention exclusives! Several
Star Wars creators will be
signing at the show. Click
here
for all the details.
Dark Horse Comics Presents Comic-Con
Contest Mania!
Dark Horse Comics Presents Comic-Con
Contest Mania!
07/10/2004 10:36 AMDark Horse Comics presents Comic-Con contest mania! Check out a pair
of contests from Dark Horse where you can win fabulous prizes
Dark Horse's San Diego Comic-Contest
Prize List
Dark Horse's San Diego Comic-Contest
Prize List
07/20/2004 01:15 PMDark Horse Comics presents...the San Diego Comic-Contest! the coolest
contest in the company's history includes
seven prize packages
full of Dark Horse goodies, including a
Star Wars Prize Pack
that includes 4 trade paperbacks signed by Jan Duursema, 12 Random
House hardcover books, 2 Kotobukiya vinyl figures, 3 Gentle giant
mini-busts, a box of trading cards, and 5 signed hardcover collected
edition comics! Click
here for
the specifics.
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