October 2008
Sufi Sounds, Volume Three →
Our next installment of Sufi sounds from Africa takes us East to Mali, home to some of West Africa’s most iconic Muslim sites; the Great Mosque of Djenne-the world’s largest mud brick building-is an…
The Return of AIM (in Beta) →
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What’s the point? Does anyone actually still use the official AIM client when iChat & Adium are a lot better?
AOL, which I often forget still exists and has millions of users,…
Cry CRA and Let Slip the Dogs of Deregulation →
Tim Westrich ads additional debunking of the “blame the CRA” myth. He also makes this observation:
Moreover, the Bush administration could have taken steps in this decade to further regulate…
★ Adobe Speaks of Flash Player for iPhone →
The Internet pipes are chock full of reaction to the news that Adobe is “working on” a Flash player for the iPhone, much of it based on the weird assumption that if Adobe can get it working…
September 2008
McCain: “Is this guy, Laden, really the bad guy... →
Interesting 1998 interview with John McCain conducted by Jason Vest for Mother Jones (ellipsis in original):
You not only have had combat experience in Vietnam, but you were also a…
Little Diomede Island: Who is Sarah Palin? →
Last week, Sarah Palin made the ridiculous claim that she had foreign policy experience because she could see Russia from Alaska. Determine to get a better look, Anderson Cooper 360 correspondent
HDR Style Results Using Layers in Photoshop →
In this post Nathan Pask takes a look at a technique to get HDR Style Images Using Layers in Photoshop.
There currently seems to be a lot of interest in HDR or similar processes. What…
Obama’s Challenge →
I’ve mentioned my former boss Bob Kuttner’s book, Obama’s Challenge: America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency before, but it’s not only a very interesting read,…
Economic Idiocy →
Louis Gray nailed it last night when he wrote that there are no experts in this financial crisis.
In the past 18 hours I’ve read literally thousands of posts and have done almost nothing but…
Into the Mystic →
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I’ve always been attracted to & fascinated with Sufism, which inspired Rumi’s poetry & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s music.
Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam (Riverboat…
Now We Need Leadership →
Now that the first vote on the Paulson plan has failed, and barring alien invasion or other game-changer of planetary scope, it seems one of the following things will happen. We’ll assume from the…
I bet if it happened in a church fulla white... →
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This really disgusts me. Muslims deserve the same respect as Christians & Jews.
Guess what folks? We had a terror attack on U.S. soil! Let’s see what happened:
DAYTON —…
The Great Schlep →
Sarah Silverman takes on Barack Obama’s problem with one part particular Florida demographic and advocates for The Great Schlep: + NY Times The Caucus + Joel Stein takes part
Remap the function keys on the wireless keyboard →
I just bought a new Apple wireless keyboard, and got annoyed that F4 was hard-wired to the Dashboard, so here’s what I did to change it. Warning! Driver hacking follows! Remember to back up the…
In Case You Were Wondering →
I’ve been a bit confused as to how the failure of a bill supported by Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid, and Barack Obama, and a majority of House Democrats, and a majority of Senate Democrats but…
Brooks: House ‘Wingers Are Destroying the GOP →
David Brooks is not a happy camper:
House Republicans led the way and will get most of the blame. It has been interesting to watch them on their single-minded mission to destroy the Republican…
Create a magical rainbow color flame in Photoshop →
One of the things I’ve seen around quite a bit lately is a transparent rainbow gradient effect on a dark background. It seems to me that flashy transparent gradients are in these days. They make me…
Economic Idiocy →
Louis Gray nailed it last night when he wrote that there are no experts in this financial crisis.
In the past 18 hours I’ve read literally thousands of posts and have done almost nothing but…
Recording With Les Super Etoiles in Dakar,... →
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I can’t wait to hear Ashley’s new album. She’s really great!
Just returned from Dakar, Senegal, where I spent three amazing weeks recording key members of Youssou Ndour’s band,…
PHP script for the migration of data from Drupal... →
Upgrading to Drupal 6 is still very painful, with a lot of modules still broken. I still haven’t been able to upgrade any of my sites. I’m now thinking of switching to something else instead of…
The “R” Word: A Brief History of Race in the... →
Although the talk about race in the current presidential election has been a long time coming, it is now here and in plain view. A e September 2008 AP/Yahoo poll confirmed what everyone…
Palin on Hamas →
It’s a little hard to believe that there’s actually more bizarre stuff in Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric, but Jeffrey Goldberg rightly calls attention to this revealing…
Terror At Home →
Chemical irritant empties Islamic Society of Greater Dayton’s mosque. This after Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West appeared as a paid advertising insert in the Dayton Daily News,…
Bracing for More Palin →
Howard Kurtz reviews last week’s trainwreck interviews Katie Couric did with Gov. Sarah Palin and notes “the worst may be yet to come for Palin; sources say CBS has two more responses on tape that…
The “R” Word: A Brief History of Race in the... →
Although the talk about race in the current presidential election has been a long time coming, it is now here and in plain view. A e September 2008 AP/Yahoo poll confirmed what everyone…
Let’s Play Palin VP Bingo! →
SNL's Couric/Palin interview →
Tina Fey is scary good. From the comments:
What Does CBS Have? →
Buried near the end of today’s column from Howard Kurtz, where he is talking about Sarah Palin’s disastrous interview with Katie Couric, was this interesting tidbit: And the worst may be yet…
Moon Photography Made Simple →
It follows the Earth on our yearly trips around the sun. It’s a constant companion, ever changing and moving across the sky. It’s our moon. And it can be one of the trickiest objects to…
Charlie’s Playhouse →
Last year, I had a chance to meet Kate Miller. She is the woman behind Charlie’s Playhouse, a website which sells Darwin-friendly toys for children. After several months of preparation, the…
Fairnesse Press: Brokaw’s “Fairness” Facts →
Brokaw lies about the latest poll numbers to support his “good friend” John McCain. Now we have to fact check the fact checkers!
Palin Claimed Dinosaurs And People Coexisted →
Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth…
Muslim Children Gassed at Dayton Mosque After... →
(From the diaries — kos) On Friday, September 26, the end of a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West — the fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary…
John McCain Doesn’t Understand Diplomatic History →
During the debate on Friday, John McCain referred to “Ronald Reagan, who wouldn’t sit down with Brezhnev, Andropov or Chernenko until Gorbachev was ready with glasnost and perestroika.” Brad DeLong
10 Reasons Why FriendFeed is a Better Place to... →
Lately I’ve been really getting into FriendFeed. Part of the reason that I like the site so much is that it provides a far superior experience to graze Flickr than Flickr itself. Don’t get…
SNL Palin Parody Actually Just a Transcript of Her... →
Link: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com… Not sure whether to be amused or deeply disturbed about this - they didn’t even need to write any jokes for a whole section of the sketch….
Communication Advice For Joe Biden →
With permission, I am going to post some advice for Joe Biden from a pair of risk communication professionals (risk communicators are the people that help advise officials how to talk to the public,…
Hemingway's Key West cats no longer face... →
Hemingway probably would have hated this. He wasn’t big on happy endings. But now we know that the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West have made nice with the federal government, reports …
Android vs. the iPhone →
Earlier this week the T-Mobile G1, the first phone based on Google’s Android software, debuted. Many believe this is the first real challenge the iPhone is seeing, and much of the marketing for it…
Go Elitists! →
You know what I think when I hear the mouth breathers calling Obama an “elitist”? I think “thank fucking god, it’s about time”. See, I like over-intelligent elitists, especially for jobs that…
Interview Sarah Palin →
Cafferty: Palin is “Pathetic” →
I think you can look at Jack Cafferty’s evident disdain for Sarah Palin as emblematic of the cyclical decline of the conservative coalition over the past couple of decades. I first got to…
Bottoms up →
Now that the presidential debate is back on, it’s time to prepare by selecting the most appropriate drinking game for tonight’s debate. Radar’s Ale to the Chief
Comedy Central’s …
McCain's Temperment Becomes Issue →
Sen. John McCain’s “high-wire intervention in the financial crisis is his latest
showstopper move - and his riskiest,” Politico observes. “He might succeed, but the
candidate’s penchant for the…
McCain Runs Web Ads Claiming to Win Debate -... →
Although the fate of tonight’s presidential debate in Mississippi remains very much up in the air, John McCain has apparently already won it — if you believe a web ad in the online edition of the…
The Weird Nihilism Of The Conservative Movement →
Mark Kleiman and Ezra Klein are right to compare the House GOP’s position vis a vis the bailout to the wrangling over comprehensive immigration reform. In both cases, you had the…
The Original Maverick →
I’m glad John McCain decided to reverse himself and participate in the debate after all. But I hope he understands that a president can’t actually govern a country like this — debate on, debate…
Nikon's ritzy D60 Black Gold edition DSLR seen in... →
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We’ve seen Pentax put the Midas touch on a few of its DSLRs before, but Nikon? In a rare effort to draw attention to its D60, the outfit has…
Editorial: More than ever, we need healthy debate →
GOP presidential nominee John McCain may have been trying to underscore the seriousness of the Wall Street crisis Wednesday, when he suspended his campaign and headed to Washington to join in talks…
As the light changes in Indonesia →
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He creates some of the most amazing HDR photos I’ve ever seen.
I have been working on a new batch of shots from Indonesia which will be coming up soon, but in the meantime I was…
