3 months into his 9 month prison sentence for
selling bongs, the LA City Beat talks to Tommy Chong and the LA Weekly
about the details of his case. [Via
Tough New Tactics by U.S. Tighten Grip on Iraq
Towns
Is the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference elitist? This
question seems to be stirring up the blogosphere, and causing lots of
good people who I read and like to throw verbal bricks at each other.
I thought that as someone who is clearly not a member of the blogging
elite, I might have a useful perspective to offer. Is the conference
elitist? Of course it is - and no, it isn't. Both are true. It is
elitist in the sense that it requires interest, knowing that the
conference is going to happen, and being able to come up with the
large amounts of time and money to attend. This rules out a very large
proportion of the world. However, if someone is motivated and willing
to rough it, it is possible to attend the conference for a lot less
money than the standard cost of the conference and swanky hotel. In my
case I found cheap late night flights on Southwest, stayed in a very
cheap hostel (though not as cheap as the hacker loft crash pad), and
got a free pass to the conference by writing and asking Tim O'Reilly
nicely for one -- I saw other free passes being given away via the
Wiki. So the money doesn't have to be the huge barrier it seems like
at first, but attending does require a bit of luck and or chutzpah,
geographical proximity, and being willing to stay in considerably less
than stellar accommodations. The conference can also feel elitist
because so many of the people who attend know each other. Many of them
have long-standing professional, technical and personal ties (and
ongoing feuds). If, like me, you are somewhat reticent by nature, you
don't have ties to lots of people at the conference, and you don't
have any particular product or idea to promote, it can be easy to feel
intimidated or like an outsider surrounded by insiders. For instance,
one day of the conference I ran into Dan Gillmor, Doc Searls, Micah
Sifry and Scott Rosenberg at a cafe next door to the conference. I
read 3 out of 4 of them regularly, I respect their work a lot, and I
would have enjoyed sitting at their lunch table and listening to them
talk. Did they invite me to join them for lunch? Of course not, no
more than I would invite a random stranger I saw...
"However, whether or not to use RSS on your site should no longer
be an option. I believe it has become a necessity if you wish to
compete with others in your industry....
For many users today, bookmarks have become useless since we have
too many of them. Bookmarks allow for information overload just as
easily as RSS does, but the difference is that RSS allows updates
through all that information overload. A bookmark gets hidden, but if
you update your site then the RSS feed will reflect that and tell the
reader its time to view the content....
With the plethora of sites around fighting for the mindshare of
your readers becomes essential. Why lessen your chances by not
including a RSS feed? That opens the gates for everyone else to
increase their readership. RSS feeds create more opportunities and the
advantages outweigh the disadvantages." [BusinessLogs, via del.icio.us/tag/rss]
Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands
Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands
02/10/2004 09:18 AM
CNN.com - Passengers: Pilot promotes faith on flight .. Pilot's
proselytizing scares passengers .. FLYING THE
PLANES!!!!cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/09/airline.christianity/index.html
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"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"
"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"
04/06/2005 03:07 AM
Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?
Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?
12/22/2003 07:54 AM
Well, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. Saddam Hussein was
captured by Kurds, not US forces. 12/22 .. (even more) ..
morecorrespondences.org/archives/000507.html
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There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people
There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people
08/27/2004 01:47 PM
Congrats to Roland and Boris and.....
They've just launched Bryght -
a Drupal hosting service. I hung out with these guys a bit when I was
in Vancouver and they're certainly a compelling reason for moving
there.
Vancouver is hot.
Here's Roland's post....
Our latest venture is Bryght, a hosted Drupal
service, "the Salesforce.com of community content". I am working with
Boris, Richard, Adrian and James on this
one. Yes, we are all Bryght
guys :-) !
We have taken Drupal and combined it with web hosting and email to
give you a one stop shop for your community content. No IT required,
no muss, no fuss! Check out The lights are on at
Bryght for more background on how this started. And if you know
of an individual, organization or company that could use a Bryght
site, please contact us.
Whither StreamLine you might ask?
StreamLine continues and it will continue to resell Blogware blogs because we
still believe that Blogware is the best individual blogging
platform.
[Roland Tanglao's blog]
"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..."
"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..."
12/22/2003 04:17 PM
An attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand
An attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand
01/03/2004 07:05 AM
monochrom Brandmarkermonochrom.at/markenzeichnen/index-eng.htm
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""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain.""
""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain.""
04/29/2004 03:19 AM
[etech] People-to-People (Microsoft)
[etech] People-to-People (Microsoft)
02/11/2004 09:36 PM
Lily Cheng from Microsoft Research is talking about how people
represent themselves on line. The closer the friends, the fuzzier they
want the representations. We need to make social tools fluid enough to
account for the way people's lives change. We need easy access to
friends and people important to us. We want sponatenous interactions.
Lily's group went to a mall and asked people to draw their social
interactions, and gots lots of circles and lines. Microsoft studied
this and built a "personal map" that clusters people based on who they
send email to (TO and CC) and how...
from guns to art
from guns to art
12/25/2004 11:14 PM
Peace Art Project
Cambodia --turning the detrius of war into art, in hopes of a more peaceful future. More info
here, and here.
"You can't help but think about what this machine has done to
affect so many lives."
And that is really the point. These sculptures are political art at
its most powerful - relics of a violent past transformed into
expressions of hope for a more peaceful future.
"You thought these people were saying
that the fight against Iraq was part of
the fight against the people that
attacked us on 9/11? Psych!"
"You thought these people were saying
that the fight against Iraq was part of
the fight against the people that
attacked us on 9/11? Psych!"
06/19/2004 04:26 PM
More cellphone guns
More cellphone guns
01/26/2004 11:29 AM
I swear we covered this almost exactly a year ago, so we're not sure
why it's just become news again, but Time magazine has a...
MTV guns for iTunes
MTV guns for iTunes
11/04/2003 09:23 PM
CNET Nov 4 2003 8:35PM ET
Oil, guns and money
Oil, guns and money
09/02/2004 10:09 AM
What's really behind the recent redeployment of U.S. military forces?
Making sure no one messes with American access to global energy
resources. An excerpt from "Oil: Anatomy of an Industry."
Gung-Ho Guns No. 10^100
Gung-Ho Guns No. 10^100
02/19/2003 07:06 PM
Heya Google. I'm about to graduate highschool and am currently looking
at colleges. Now I figured video game guru that you are you might be
able to help me ...
Real ray-guns
Real ray-guns
06/17/2004 11:36 AM
Following up on our previous post about the Pentagon's new Active
Denial System (energy beam) and other "non-let
hal" weapons, here's a New Scientist feature about the
state-of-the-art in ray guns:
"...the $9000 Close Quarters Shock Rifle projects an
ionised gas, or plasma, towards the target, producing a conducting
channel. It will also interfere with electronic ignition systems and
stop vehicles.
'We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of a
hose at one or many targets in a single sweep,' claims XADS (Xtreme
Alternative Defense Systems) president Peter Bitar."
Amnesty International and other human rights groups are none too
thrilled. Link
Sci-Fi Museum Is About More Than Ray
Guns
Sci-Fi Museum Is About More Than Ray
Guns
06/13/2004 04:49 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 13 2004 8:05PM GMT
Staples Guns It
Staples Guns It
05/18/2004 02:49 PM
The office supplier reports a sharp quarter.
Bringing out the big guns for SOA
Bringing out the big guns for SOA
04/17/2005 10:34 AM
ZDNet Apr 17 2005 2:17PM GMT
Guns and jets
Guns and jets
03/08/2004 11:03 PM
My friend Brad, a jet pilot with heroic
flying skills, graciously agreed to help me with the
Commercial maneuvers and precision landings today. We hauled
N505WT out of its hangar and headed out to Worcester with the GPS
turned off and the gyro-stabilized compass covered up. Flying
along at 2500' it was actually a bit tough to pick out landmarks from
the VFR chart. After 10 landings we decided it was time for some
of the free cookies that they bake at the Worcester FBO (airplane gas
station) so we taxied into the ramp. The scene was one of utter
desolation. The main terminal building looked empty. The
last scheduled airline flights from Worcester ceased about one year
ago. The general aviation area contained a small collection of
cheap piston-powered airplanes (like mine!). At Bedford,
N505WT's home airport, there is always at least $300 million of
private jets on the ramp, waiting to take hard-working public
corporation executives from golf game to weekend house. The
woman behind the desk confirmed that not a single jet had landed at
Worcester all day.
As we were starting up N505WT a good-sized business jet was taxiing
in. A van drove up to meet the passengers at the side of the $10
million twin-turbojet-powered plane. "What luxury!" we
thought. "This is the only way to travel. They're probably
just back from a resort in Mexico." A couple of guys got out of
the van and walked around the plane wearing guns. Security for
someone important! The one passenger got out, a teenager wearing
a rather plain jumpsuit. Then we noticed that his legs were
chained together...
Yet another thing that America's richest and poorest citizens
share: traveling by private jet.
Oh yes, speaking of guns. A friend from the MIT Media
Lab sent around a home video yesterday. It seems that he
has put the filmmaking skills that he learned there to good use and
has made effective use of the Internet in distributing his
creation. Click right on the following link and then "Save
Target As" before playing from your own hard disk in a separate player
window (100 or 200% size is best): boyhood
dream.
Twenty years ago people talked about Arpanet/Internet leading to an
explosion in video creativity and distribution but it just wasn't
practical with the available bandwidth and percentage of consumers
hooked up. Today all the pieces are in place.
US women to march against guns
US women to march against guns
05/09/2004 01:42 AM
The 2004 Million Mom March aims to remind George Bush of his promise
to renew a ban on assault weapons.
"Americans love guns"
"Americans love guns"
01/06/2005 11:45 AM
Microsoft brings out the big guns
Microsoft brings out the big guns
11/13/2003 06:33 AM
Daily Mail & Guardian Nov 13 2003 5:41AM ET
LCDs + Guns = Broken LCD
LCDs + Guns = Broken LCD
09/24/2004 07:55 AM
I'm sure when most of you buy a monitor you're thinking,
"Sure, it looks great, but can it withstand being pelted with tiny
metal plastic balls shot from a gun?" I usually just
check the "Gunfire Resistance" rating on the little placard they keep
on the shelf, but some people feel like they need to go hands on.
Those people also feel like they need to video tape the results, which
were, by the way, pretty much what you'd expect.
Shuttle XP17 LCD Monitor - Extreme Impact Test
[not5150]
Update: Airsoft rounds aren't metal? They were when they shot
them at me, those bastards.
Next Generation Stun Guns?
Next Generation Stun Guns?
06/17/2004 08:40 AM
Putin' their money where their guns are
Putin' their money where their guns are
09/14/2004 06:58 AM
Vladimir
Putin, wanted, alive.
Chechen Rebels responding to the 10
million dollar bounty placed by the Russian secret services on
rebel leaders Basayev and Mashkadov, have upped the ante offering
20 million dollars for the detention of "the war criminal
Putin"...
This is the sort of war crimes they are referring to.
Cell Phone Guns
Cell Phone Guns
01/27/2004 05:19 PM
Press M for Murder: Cell Phones That
Kill: Can you program the phone to shoot the owner if it's
answered in a movie theater?
Though heavier than normal phones, the lethal ones look
nearly identical. The hollowed-out devices, made in Croatia, are fired
by punching buttons on the keypad and can shoot four .22-cal. bullets
in rapid succession.
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Microsoft guns for Google
Microsoft guns for Google
07/30/2004 01:58 PM
p2pnet.net Jul 30 2004 6:43PM GMT
The Mother of All Potato Guns
The Mother of All Potato Guns
06/22/2005 01:56 AM
Potato Gun
Shoots Through Brick Wall: This video shows a seriously powerful
potato gun. When
you're shooting projectiles through brick walls, it's time to
reconsider whether or not this is a hobby. Reminds me of the home-mad
e flamethrower guy.
(And if you think potato guns are just fun and games, ask this
guy. A potato gun, a frog, and some bad judgement left him
blind.)
Big guns await FA Cup draw
Big guns await FA Cup draw
02/16/2004 05:09 AM
Arsenal and Man Utd are among the teams in Monday's FA Cup
quarter-final draw.
Small Shooters, Big Guns
Small Shooters, Big Guns
01/27/2004 08:39 PM
Popular Mechanics Jan 28 2004 0:52AM GMT
Guns, Games, and Style
Guns, Games, and Style
06/05/2005 10:59 PM
What do they have in common?
Find out in my new column for BusinessWeek Online.
Learn from young guns
Learn from young guns
06/15/2002 12:22 AM
CNET Jun 14 2002 11:13PM ET
IBM Guns For Bengal E-gov Plans
IBM Guns For Bengal E-gov Plans
04/09/2004 04:02 PM
Financial Express Apr 9 2004 0:05AM GMT
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