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A riduculous commentary on America
The most controversial Attourney General in years resigns and the main headline everywhere is an athlete’s admission of guilt. WTF?
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Pirates are the new ninjas
Check out the Hipster Olympics.
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Very well put
From Zeldman on designing on spec
Design is only partly decoration. Mainly it is problem solving. Unless the RFP spells out site goals and user needs in phenomenal detail, you can’t create an appropriate design because you don’t yet know what problems need to be solved.
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Now I find out…
After complaining for years about how I have nothing in common with my neighbors, today I find out that one of my neighbor’s loves to talk politics and is a fellow Ron Paul supporter. Pesky lopsided timing…
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To hunt the house you have to think like a house
I went out with Jim (the Realtor) for the first time today and found a couple good prospects, one of which I really liked. We also discovered that there is a ton of crap in East Atlanta, including what seemed like an operational crackhouse for sale. The term “No disclosure” is a big one on property listings.
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This hairstyle is called the Fascist
Check out this piece on youth hairstyles Iranian state TV. There’s a bizarre amount of KISS footage. My favorite quote from the comments
Ironically Gene Simmons has had at least 72 virgins and he didn’t even have to martyr himself.
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Scary quote of the day
From the AJC article Clayton may seek records on all renters
“This is not to say Big Brother is watching,” he insisted. “It says Big Brother is helping.”
It’s not the most intrusive thing that could happen, but bear in mind that in the past 10 years we (the Atlanta Metro Area) have had
- 1 Mayor in jailed on corruption charges
- 1 political assassination of a sheriff
- 1 ex-sheriff convicted of said assassination, along with several deputies
- 1 police shooting of an 87 year old woman based on a perjured warrant
- The creation of a “Tupac Shakur Arts Center” funded by the taxpayers
- Cynthia McKinney’s entire political career
And we should give the government more power?
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I try something new
In accordance with 37 Signals design methodology, I’m designing a new application by designing the interface first. I’ll keep everyone posted.
The project is currently called Socializer, it’s based (somehow) on Bill Clinton’s early networking style.
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Meaningless op-eds masquerading as human interest stories
From the CNN.com article: Muslim women: My headscarf is not a threat after telling a story about rudeness at Walmart while wearing a hijab (which they put in quotation marks for some reason).
Such stories are not altogether uncommon for Muslim Americans.
Wow, not altogether uncommon! I guess it’s not unlike a problem of variable merit. There’s also the annoying use of the term Muslim American (implying ethnicity or nationality) instead of American Muslim.
The rest of the story is of dubious logic and follows the same pattern as all other CNN.com stories about group identity, which is
- An offensive incident
- A quote of data after some seemingly arbitrary date
- Quote from expert
- Further interview with subject, telling everyone that he/she wants to be different while remaining the same.
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Funniest description of my musical ability
From the quite talented (both technically and in performance) Keith Lokey last night
“Your voice isn’t very good, but it is appropriate”.