Are You A Balanced Individual? Can You Handle Life's Topsy-Turvy Leanings?

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Topsy Turvy Surfy

Topsy Turvy Surfy 04/06/2005 11:57 AM
Sailboat Capsizes under Golden Gate Bridge, Surfers come to the Rescue. Photo essay of a sailboat riding a wave, capsizing, and sinking under the Golden Gate. Never fear, the surfers are here.

Individual-I: a "peace symbol" for
individual liberty

Individual-I: a "peace symbol" for
individual liberty 04/19/2005 03:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: Individual-I is a new campaign that Bruce Schneier has launched, to promote the idea of individual liberty. The sign shown here -- a vaguely humanoid capital letter I -- is intended to be a readily recognized symbol of personal liberty, freedom from surveillance and control, guarantee of due process rights and other fundamentals that are eroding in today's world. It is meant to be as recognizable and simple as a peace symbol or a cross, and as iconic.

I think it's a wonderful idea. Bruce isn't claiming any ownership or control over this, hoping that it will grow organically (though he will help you sell your Individual-I merch through his site). I got some Individual-I stickers last week at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, and they will shortly adorn my laptop. Link (Thanks, Bruce!)

A rare individual

A rare individual 02/11/2004 05:51 AM
You'll recall, I hope, that in the last issue I almost despaired of finding an answer to the problem of implementing identity projects over the irrational fears of non-technical, even technophobic, people. Most of the replies I'd gotten to the problem stressed the ability of the technology to protect data ownership as well as data security and privacy. We're all aware of that, but we still need to convince people in the enterprise that there is benefit to giving up control of the flow of data.

Possible Individual Trilogy DVD Covers

Possible Individual Trilogy DVD Covers 06/17/2004 07:27 PM
Starwars.se has posted an interesting image of what could be the individual movie DVD covers in the Trilogy box set. The site reports that the image comes from a Swedish DVD catalogue. Hit the link above to check it out.

Hiding content in Individual Entries

Hiding content in Individual Entries 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
How to use the Switch plugin for MT and a keyword to selectively hide static page content from individual entries.

Update: Adobe CS2 individual updates

Update: Adobe CS2 individual updates 04/05/2005 12:04 PM
Adobe announced individual CS2 versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and InCopy, with notes on updated features.

Life's strange dance

Life's strange dance 09/15/2004 03:01 PM
He came to her in the middle of the night She memorized his face under the street light He talked...

On Recovering From Life's Big Annoyances

On Recovering From Life's Big Annoyances 06/24/2004 09:34 AM
TheStreet.com Jun 24 2004 1:54PM GMT

Life's really important
questions.......

Life's really important
questions....... 05/26/2004 03:21 PM
Who really wants to know the meaning of life when the real questions of life are............ If Hooters were to...

Caltech Researchers Weigh Individual
Molecules

Caltech Researchers Weigh Individual
Molecules 04/01/2005 06:38 AM

View any number of individual days in
iCal

View any number of individual days in
iCal 02/12/2004 11:33 AM
You can view two days at a time in iCal by typing command-option-2, three days by typing command-option-3, and so on, up to seven days. I discovered this because I tried to assign command-option-1 to Window -> iCal in the Key...

Select individual Clutter album images
in 10.3

Select individual Clutter album images
in 10.3 04/29/2004 10:44 AM
I hadn't run Clutter (a great iTunes extra) since doing the Panther upgrade. This morning I started it up, and quickly went to my new, favorite habit of hitting the Exposé key. I wasn't even thinking about it, but each one of...

Rugged PCs unfazed by life's spills

Rugged PCs unfazed by life's spills 04/10/2004 06:24 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 10 2004 10:23AM GMT

Mount Hope Brings Service to Individual
Residents

Mount Hope Brings Service to Individual
Residents 06/09/2004 11:48 PM
As this article notes, most "digital divide" spanning efforts put computers and access into common spaces; Mount Hope is trying one-to-one: Using wires and wireless, a South Bronx community development group will bring Internet access to the 1,250 units in 32 buildings in a half-mile radius that they operate. Service may cost as little as $7 a month and be folded into the cost of rent. Half the residents have computers; the rest can purchase them from a Bronx firm that refurbishes used machines....

New Scientist Life's top 10 greatest
inventions - Features

New Scientist Life's top 10 greatest
inventions - Features 04/11/2005 12:00 AM

New Scientist Features - Life's top 10
greatest inventions

New Scientist Features - Life's top 10
greatest inventions 04/09/2005 03:59 AM

Life's Good At The Cutting Edge Of
Blades

Life's Good At The Cutting Edge Of
Blades 12/18/2003 03:21 AM
Investors Business Daily Dec 18 2003 3:03AM ET

Life's a Beach for Surf Professor
(Reuters)

Life's a Beach for Surf Professor
(Reuters) 04/21/2004 10:02 AM
Reuters - It's taken 17 years but one man believes he has found Australia's perfect beach. And it isn't Bondi in Sydney.

Sun Life's U.S. MFS Unit Subject of
Probe (Reuters)

Sun Life's U.S. MFS Unit Subject of
Probe (Reuters) 02/18/2004 10:49 AM
Reuters - Less than two weeks after settling with U.S. securities regulators, the U.S. unit of Sun Life Financial Services Inc. (SLF.TO), Massachusetts Financial Services Co., is under the microscope for directed brokerge and revenue-sharing arrangements.

Poll: iTunes 'One Of Life's Essentials'

Poll: iTunes 'One Of Life's Essentials' 02/18/2004 12:06 PM
Asked which Apple iApp they could not live without, over half of Macworld Online readers (57 per cent) named iTunes. By Karen Haslam (Macworld UK via MyAppleMenu)

New Scientist Features - Life's top
10 greatest inventions

New Scientist Features - Life's top
10 greatest inventions 04/08/2005 07:52 PM
New Scientist Features - Life’s top 10 greatest inventions

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Life's a beach for Australian surf
professor (Reuters)

Life's a beach for Australian surf
professor (Reuters) 04/21/2004 04:51 AM
Reuters - It's taken 17 years but one man believes he has found Australia's perfect beach. And it isn't Bondi in Sydney.

Quiet achievers plough on in life's fast
lane

Quiet achievers plough on in life's fast
lane 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
How would Google.com cope with last week's inquiries from a woman wanting to know about Potchulball's Cannon and that lovely opera The Three Shirts by Verdi? ...

Fair and Balanced

Fair and Balanced 05/04/2004 09:16 PM
Read this Editorial titled Leader: iTunes ain't what it used to be from Silicon.com. If you're like me you'll see many glaring errors. Let's start...

The Balanced Scorecard

The Balanced Scorecard 06/17/2005 03:20 PM
CIO Jun 11 2005 7:42AM GMT

Fair and Balanced?

Fair and Balanced? 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

Bill Gates recently got together with Steve Mills from IBM and demonstrated some web services interoperability between our two companies' products.  It has taken awhile to get to this point, from the initial hype to the point where some of these key scenarios work without smoke and mirrors; so it is nice to see a "status report" like this.

The first response I saw came in the form of this shrill attack piece run on CNET.  The author seems stuck in the last century, when people still bought the big lie about "write once run anywhere".  He fails to explain how "runs only on Java" is significantly different from "runs only on Windows", and completely misses the point that most enterprises have to support both types of systems (and many more) and therefore place a high priority on interop.

The attack piece brought back fond memories of the days when Bob Metcalfe and Jai Singh (now managing editor at CNET) were together at the helm of Infoworld.  Then I saw another analysis in CNET, covering the same interop event, but surprisingly balanced, at least in comparison to the first piece.  Finally, I found yet another analysis on CNET, again covering the same event; and this one is positively glowingly accurate!

What to make of it?  A single presentation by Bill Gates inspires three different pieces in CNET which cover the whole spectrum of opinion.  Can't complain about that.

~

Tragically, politics shuts down John Poindexter's data mining program.  It seems that only Safeway is allowed to collect that sort of information about U.S. citizens.

Balanced Passion

Balanced Passion 01/16/2004 11:33 AM
What is more important in business today: Spirit or sobriety?

Efficiency must be balanced with
security

Efficiency must be balanced with
security 05/27/2004 09:35 PM
Computer Weekly May 28 2004 1:07AM GMT

Fox New: Is "Fair and Balanced"
"ridiculous"?

Fox New: Is "Fair and Balanced"
"ridiculous"? 07/18/2004 06:39 PM
"Is 'Fair and Balanced' ridiculous?" So opened the FOX News Watch segment examining Robert Greenwald's film, OutFOXed. And astonishingly, the uncontradicted view of FOX News Watch was "yes"! As Neal Gabler put it, "To say that this network promotes the Republican view ... is like saying that the Pope is Catholic. It's self-evident ... pretty much undeniable." But, he asks, as if he hadn't actually seen the film, "So what?" So what? Well first, start with the question that opened the segment: Fox says it is "Fair and Balanced." If it is "self-evident" that it is not, then I guess we agree then that it is "ridiculous" to say that it is. And second, "obviously" media critics get this about Fox. Anyone who critically watches Fox gets this about Fox. But as one questioner at the San Francisco opening put it, for those who aren't media critics, and for those who don't actually watch Fox, just how "ridiculous" Fox's claim is is something significant. My bet is that a cross-section of FOX viewers would be surprised just how false Fox's claims actually are. The discussion opened with Jim Pinkerton of Newsday calling the film "dull and didactic." He then asserted that the film says that media networks are "either worse than the Mafia that ran Cuba in the 1950s or worse than the Soviet Union." When I heard him say that, I understood why he saw the film as "dull and didactic": if this is his view, he didn't really watch the film. The opening allusion to the Mafia comes from Robert McChesney, where he compares how the Mafia carved up Cuba with how the government carves up media ownership -- nothing to do with the media being "worse than the Mafia." The allusion to the Soviet Union, also McChesney's, again had nothing to do with Pinkerton's claim. McChesney's claim was simply that propaganda is most effective when the audience is unaware -- unlike in the Soviet Union. The other simple fabrication of Pinkerton was that the film comprised "two or three disgruntled employees." That's true if by "two or three" you mean seven (four listed here; three requested anonymity). But the more fundamental fabrication is the suggestion that the film's claims are based on nothing more than the word of "two or three disgruntled employees." The film has five independent sources for its "self-evident," as Grabler puts it, conclusion: (1) former Foxies, (2) Fox memos (unmentioned by anyone on the show), (3) independent studies of Fox viewers, (4) media commentators, and (5) clips from Fox shows. Cal Thomas -- who was one of the people in the film -- found the film flawed because it "ignored the many Democrats I've had on my show." Again, not true. The movie never asserts that there are no Democrats, or liberals on the show. It just asserts -- not denied by Thomas -- that the "balance" is "unbalanced." Indeed, in one of the best parts of the film, Greenwald reports a media group that studied months of Brit Hume's "Special Report" and found over 80% of the guests on that premier show were Republican -- and that most of the Democrats were centrists. Not balanced, and not a fair picture of the facts reported. Thomas goes on (with his wonderful announcer voice -- I love listening to him) to say something extraordinary however. Here's the quote:

"I think the reason that this network looks so Republican ... is by contrast on [sic] what the others do. If you went and did -- as the Media Research Center has done -- clips of what is said on the broadcast networks ... you would find an enormous tilt to the left. So by contrast it looks conservative."

I think we need more Media Research Centers on both the Left and Right and -- imagine this -- even without a political agenda! But I've not seen that they've put together "clips" as Greenwald has. And again, the film is comparing what Fox News actually is to what Fox News says it is. Jane Hall (Who? She's an assistant professor in the School of Communication at American University) complained the film was flawed because it left "out any evidence to the contrary." There were plenty of liberals on Fox she said -- for example, she said, she was a liberal. She also mentioned Jeff Cohen, cofounder of FAIR, was on Fox News Watch "for five years." Jeff Cohen? Actually, the movie not only doesn't ignore Jeff Cohen. He is one of the most critical interviewees. And again, the film doesn't say there are no liberals on Fox. The show instead reports Clara Frenk reporting that the "quality" of the liberals was far less than the quality of the conservatives -- in the sense that the liberals were either "unknown" or "weak." Hall also repeated the total non-thought that has been framed around this film -- that somehow the film is weak because it didn't get Roger Ailes to respond. The film in fact has Roger Ailes stating Fox News was to be a fair and balanced news program. It also has Roger Ailes stating Fox News failed its viewers on election night by allowing George Bush's cousin, on the basis of extremely weak data, to call the election for Bush. But even if it didn't twice include Roger Ailes in the film, the idea that before you release a film critical of someone you must include their comment is inane. I've had many critical reviews of my work published, some very intelligent, some others not. Never has anyone asked me for my comment on their review before they publish it. Indeed, to do so would be unethical. But my favorite part of the whole show is the contrast between segment one and segment two. The review of Outfoxed was in segment two. Segment one was about -- I swear -- "Media bias." For a full segment, Fox News Watch focused on a single statement by Newsweek's Evan Thomas. As Media Research Center quotes him,

The media want Kerry to win. They’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic, and this glow is going to be worth maybe 15 points."

This single quote by a single editor at a single magazine apparently proves, according to the show, that liberal "media bias" exists. Yet a film gathering (1) former Foxies, (2) Fox memos, (3) independent studies of Fox viewers, (4) media commentators, and (5) clips from Fox shows is, by contrast, "not that fairly put together," said Eric Burns, the show's host. I guess they would know. They're the trademark holder for the words "Fair and Balanced" (at least until the challenge to that trademark gets resolved).

"Fair and balanced" polls

"Fair and balanced" polls 06/25/2004 01:34 PM

Bush gets checked and balanced

Bush gets checked and balanced 06/29/2004 08:43 AM
The Supreme Court rules against indefinitely locking up detainees -- and deals a mortal blow to the president's vision of his own limitless power.

Now your cell phone can be fair and
balanced, too

Now your cell phone can be fair and
balanced, too 07/23/2004 04:52 PM

Fair and balanced, at least 27 percent
of the time!

Fair and balanced, at least 27 percent
of the time! 03/14/2005 06:14 PM
A new study crowns Fox News Channel the king of biased reporting.

A Fair and Balanced Review of the Mac
Mini

A Fair and Balanced Review of the Mac
Mini 02/05/2005 09:16 PM

Mac Mini: The Emperor's New Computer: Attention: Before you rip the living hell out of this guy, please remember that he went to DeVry. And he has an MCSE.

The Mini boots up into a stripped-down operating system which Apple calls OS X, similar to the stripped-down WindowsCE OS found on many handhelds. The mini OS is going to be a significant hurdle for many buyers who are used to Windows or have favorite Windows software packages they need to use. Think of it more as a first computer for your daughter or niece than as a machine to get any serious work done and you’ll get the point of the Mini and its target market. It might also be the perfect computer for grandmothers or autistic children, for example.

Precariously balanced atop Öolong

Precariously balanced atop Öolong 03/14/2005 06:29 PM
Peop le of the pancake: "I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available'. A new self that needs to contain less and less of an inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance—as we all become 'pancake people'—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button." Writing on the Edge, Richard Foreman and George Dyson speculate on a 'thin-client' view of the self where most cultural processing occurs not only somewhere else, but by something else! [reality checks provided by Kevin Kelly, Jaron Lanier, Steven Johnson, Marvin Minsky and Douglas Rushkoff, among others :]

Linus swiped Linux from SCO, says
balanced study

Linus swiped Linux from SCO, says
balanced study 05/17/2004 03:07 PM

balanced and fair: Geist on copyright
reform

balanced and fair: Geist on copyright
reform 06/16/2004 03:46 AM
Michael Geist's latest column in the Tornoto Star maps a sane process to realizing balance in IP. Help spread the sanity.

ABC's 60 Minutes is absolutely not fair
and balanced

ABC's 60 Minutes is absolutely not fair
and balanced 11/03/2003 09:33 PM
I spend a lot of Time watching Fox news and stay away from the heavily liberal biased ABC, NBC, CBS...

Outfoxed: How Murdoch's network gets so
fair and balanced

Outfoxed: How Murdoch's network gets so
fair and balanced 07/12/2004 07:22 PM

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