Song for the day? How about Back in the USSA by Andrei Sitov, the Washington Bureau Chief of ITAR-TASS News Agency of Russia. (This one, too, via Wood’s Lot.) Reminded me also of my imaginary poll question.
Via Wood’s Lot, a pointer to Aug.10’s As We May Incinerate by Jonathan Delacour. Apparently, the US is using Napalm in Iraq, although it prefers to call it Mark 77 now. Delacour picked this story up on jill/txt, by a blogger who happens to be a hypertext theorist. The result is Delacour’s amazing post, linking […]
My trackbacks really don’t work, as Pax Nortona pointed out a couple of days ago already. Wood’s Lot pointed at the fashionista (Avengers) post, and it doesn’t register. They have worked in the past, but don’t seem to do so consistently. How does trackback work and why would it work sometimes, but not at others?
Doc Searls points to the World’s Smallest Political Quiz, which scored him “libertarian.” It’s rather interesting, if spooky, to be profiled on the basis of so few questions: I came out “left-liberal,” what else? They didn’t have a Rosa Luxemburg category. But I’m still going to leave that imperialist Union Jack from yesterday waving about […]
A few days ago I said that I didn’t know any HTML, but I’ve been studyin’ a bit. So here’s the secret revealed (click on the flag, there’s a good chap).
Since those last two pointers to AlterNet, I can only wish millions were just reading the whole issue. But the 2 or 3 of you who drop in here should definitely take a look at Al Gore’s Setting It Right, a transcript of his speech to MoveOn.org at NYU on Aug.7. We should be so […]
Nearly a month late, but happy birthday “Mrs. Peel” (July 20, a significant date). If I could have been anyone, I would have been her in ridiculous pointy pale shoes, traipsing around London forever, and it would have been The End of History for me. But that only happens on tv. This is still one […]
Thinking about those last two entries (re. Pierson & Dean) made me wish for a national — no, international — poll with the following question: What’s more important: being a winner or telling the truth? Further questions. Is it dangerous not to be a winner (i.e., to be a loser)? Does one have to be […]
Frank Pierson, president of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences, former president of the Writers Guild of America, West, director of A Star is Born and other movies, writer for Cat Ballou, Dog Day Afternoon, Cool Hand Luke, etc., gave the commencement address to the 2003 USC film school graduating class, and AlterNet reprinted […]
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