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It seems that the Republican pundits’ love affair with La Palin is wilting like a 3-day violet.  There have been several rather overtly uncomplimentary remarks amongst the press and conservative bloggers in general.
Most recently, there was Kathleen Parker’s blockbuster in the New Republic online, where she wrote, among other things, that “If BS were currency, [...]

It’s fun bitching and sniping, and believe me I’m not about to stop.  But it’s easy to bitch and snipe about the wrong things.  We need to stay on message, the same as Barack and everyone else.
The Galloping Curmudgeon: Buckling Down and Paying Attention

Thanks to Fred Langa’s blog.
Crowd mobs Taco Bell opening: Rutland Herald Online
Rain fell through the Wednesday afternoon lunch hour, but that didn’t stop hundreds of local chalupa-starved residents from lining up for the grand opening of the new Taco Bell on Route 7 in Rutland Town.

Andrew O’Hehir’s blog in Salon examines Peter Askins’ new film “Trumbo,” about the life of the most famous of the blacklisted filmmakers in the ’50’s witch hunts, along with the lessons the three generations since can take from the history of censorship and political gagging of Americans.
If the Hollywood blacklist and the entire Red Scare [...]

Do Our Virtual Lives Make Our Real Lives Suck? - 236 - The Room
The problem with video games and the internet and Web-connected cell phones and giant TVs with surround sound is not that it makes us violent. It’s that it makes us bored with reality. If you’re under thirty-five like me, answer this question: [...]

I ended up at Best Buy, and got a 22″ LCD (with zero dead/stuck pixels) for $229. Picture’s bright and gorgeous, excellent text clarity, good contrast (1000+/1) so photos look good, etc.
The big surprise to me was the brand: Fred Langa: What comes next?: an old brand returns to high tech

1. Try to be original. No one cares if you do stuff the same way the rest of us do. If you haven’t got something new to say, don’t bother.
2. Unless it’s about opinions, keep them to yourself unless you’re an expert on the subject. You have a right to [...]

As David Kushner gushed in Rolling Stone: “The long epoch of top-down culture… is fading faster than anyone predicted. The more vibrant world is bottom-up, powered by the people. Make a video, put it online; download a song, remix it, put it back up… With cheap computers, free software, broadband access and enough Mountain Dew, [...]

Facebook can ruin your life
Social network sites have brought unexpected pleasure to millions. But if present trends continue and users fail to wise up, the sites could soon be bringing them some equally unexpected shocks….

In his message for the Catholic Church’s World Communications Day, Benedict said that while the media did much good, it was also often used for ideological reasons and tried to create reality rather than report it.
“When communication loses its ethical underpinning and eludes society’s control, it ends up no longer taking into account the centrality [...]

For those of you who’ve been wondering where you could put a free blog that will accept all those photographs from your vacation in Patagonia — and Antarctica — and Africa — and China — and… — you need look no further.  As of Monday, WordPress is offering 3 Gigabytes of free storage for all [...]

TechCrunch informs us of a dirty little trick NS has come up with to revive its flagging domains sales.  [Opinion: it sucks]
As of Tuesday, if a user does a search on the site for a domain name,Network Solution immediately registers the domain in their own name. Ifthe user then goes to a discount registrar to [...]

While Trojan 2.0 may sound like the latest in a long line of terms that have attempted to piggyback on the market recognition of Web 2.0, Finjan’s decision to refer to the emerging generation of Trojans thus has some merit because Trojan 2.0 code exploits Web 2.0 systems and software.
As Finjan explains in its report, [...]

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“Facebook is trying to use legal pressure to stop 02138 magazine from disseminating information about Facebook’s origins. The documents are still available online here, but Facebook has a lot of lawyers. If you’re interested, read these things now. We believe that we have a legal right to post them online and that you have [...]

Last month, Kristin Sloan, a comely member of the New York City Ballet, began appearing in a television ad for the iPhone, one in a series of Real People telling slightly implausible stories against a black backdrop. Ms. Sloan’s tale—that she runs a dancers’ blog called The Winger, and sometimes mobile-blogs backstage on her iPhone [...]

WordPress is now the No. 2 most-visited blog host, passing rival SixApart’s TypePad last month, according to the latest tally from Nielsen Online. WordPress-hosted sites drew 11.4 million unique visitors last month, representing 444% year-over-year growth, while TypePad-hosted sites drew 10.6 million uniques, up 20% year-over-year. Google’s (GOOG) Blogger is still No. 1 with 34.1 [...]