Eminem’s Mosh
Thursday, October 28th, 2004Watch this. Then go talk about it with your friends. Then go vote. [Thanks to Jason for clueing me in]
Archive for October, 2004
Watch this. Then go talk about it with your friends. Then go vote. [Thanks to Jason for clueing me in]
Hypoallergenic kitties
Thursday, October 28th, 2004An LA-based company is working on gene-splicing cats to suppress production of the protein that causes allergic reactions in people... they're hoping to have them on sale in 2007 at the low, low price of $3500 each. The cats are spayed/neutered to avoid reproduction and subsequent mutations with regular kitties. See story ...
MC Tim Ryan
Tuesday, October 26th, 2004Ohio Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan speaking on why some people might not trust the Bush Administration. Why can't we get this kind of passion and delivery from our more prominent national politicians? [from Lessig]
W’s Hard Work: the Remix
Tuesday, October 12th, 2004This is hilarious, remixed from the first debate. It is hard to be president, now isn't it. Maybe you should rest for a while...
SMS in the Philippines
Thursday, October 7th, 2004According to the ITU, “Filipino users are responsible for about 10 per cent of total global SMS traffic or 50 million SMS messages per day, making it the largest society of SMS users in the world.” Wow. I would have expected someplace in Europe or maybe Japan to come in at the ...
RNC (abridged)
Thursday, October 7th, 2004SF-based video producer Brennan Houlihan put together a bunch of clips from the Republican National Convention that is simultaneously funny and disturbing. See it on Buzzflash. Mirrors to the actual .mov are here and here.
Change enablers vs. change drivers
Monday, October 4th, 2004The last decade has seen a significant focus around the world in “bridging the digital divide“ - bringing the myriad benefits of computer technology and the Internet to the masses in the developing world (and to impoverished populations in the developed world). There is an important question that seems to ...
eGovernment research
Monday, October 4th, 2004I've recently agreed to “work“ (volunteer) for the Asia Foundation as a technical advisor for the next three months. This will entail a bunch of random techie-type activities (including trying to figure out some weirdness with localizing a Java app to the Khmer language for use in Cambodia) and some ...
The ups and downs of travel to the developing world
Monday, October 4th, 2004Slate recently published a great well-traveled entry that doesn't sugar-coat the experience of travelling in the third world. One of the most difficult things for a reasonably well-off, educated white boy like me is seeing the poverty and related despair in much of the world and not becoming numb to ...
Mountain go boom!
Friday, October 1st, 2004Mt. St. Helens blew off a little steam today... news story here. (Update: more steam is coming out today and the lava dome is apparently on the rise to the tune of several meters. Likely to blow any day now. More from the Seattle Times.)
