July 2006 Archives

The Utah UTOPIA project is amazing. It really shows that it makes more sense for the public to have owernship of the infrastructure for the internet. This allows true compition. I hope San Francisco has the foresight to implement something like this.

I've been feeling very powerless over the situation in Lebanon. I discovered today that you can make an online contribution to the International Federation of the Red Cross. This money will go to providing disaster relief for the refugees.

Here is a really depressing article from salon.com about "watching Beirut die." It is well worth the read.

I've said before that I pretty much hate myspace, but the DOPA act is stupid for a whole host of reasons. If you've got a minute run on over to Save Your Space and sign the petition.

Nothing Justifies what Israel is doing right now.

So, Ted Stevens has gotten a lot of press on the "internets" lately for his "series of tubes" rant. While I was reading a Wikipedia entry on the guy I noticed a disturbing thing. Not only is Ted Stevens ingorant of how the internet works, and the brain behind the "Bridge to Nowhere" scheme, he's also third in the presidential line of succession. Yep, you read that right, if Bush, Cheney, Hassert all keel over Stevens gets to run the country.

Shiver.

AdAge article: Wal-Mart Tries to Be MySpace. Seriously.

I'm not sure if I should be sad or horrified. It's too bad they spent so much time and effort creating something so, well, lame. You'd think they could have done better.

At first I thought it was refering to something else, but it's a good post anyway.

I have to rave about Green Chile Kitchen. I went there tonight for the first time. Great place for quick take out if you're in the area.

I came across this post on slashdot. It really did a good job of explaining the discomfort I've always had with using spreadsheets.

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Here's a word I hadn't heard of before: Kakistocracy.