I was there during the taping and can tell you that it was very 
The medium is no longer the message. The message, in fact, is now the message.That's a quote I can understand.
"Carol and Steve go on vacation to Maine and visit York's Wild Kingdom. Carol used to go there when she was little.
The park was closed, but that didn't stop Carol and Steve from exploring."
"Online Status Indicator is a service that lets you put a small image on a web page to show if you are online on AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger. Use the default icons or create your own status icons."via [ Jason Wallis ] a really great photographer.
"Last time, Consalvo had a lot of bullet votes," Arroyo explains. In the at-large election, a voter can select up to four candidates because there are four spaces to fill; a bullet voter marks just one, thus guaranteeing a vote solely to that candidate and denying votes to any others. Arroyo’s suggestion is that, without the bullet tactic, Consalvo’s voters would also have voted for him in the previous election and will support him this time. (Consalvo denies asking for bullet votes in 2001.)I find this interesting.
Those bullet votes are the stink bombs of the at-large race, and no candidate wants to be caught encouraging their use. But Arroyo is allowing his political ally Chuck Turner to call publicly for an Arroyo bullet vote, and doesn’t denounce it. "People have to do what they feel they ought to do. I do not encourage it or discourage it," he says.
If you would like to vote by absentee ballot, you should download the Absentee Ballot Application, complete it and mail it in by the deadline.Deadline. What deadline? It's unclear.
This application must be received by noon on the day before the election.Hmm. Interesting.
The ballot will be mailed to you. You can then mail the ballot back to the city or town clerk or you (or a family member) may deliver the ballot in person to the city or town clerk. .
"One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq's defence ministry in one of the largest thefts in history, The Independent can reveal, leaving the country's army to fight a savage insurgency with museum-piece weapons."via [ Atrios ]
Americans should be outraged at this news, which has now been reported twice by fine journalists in Iraq, but which has not become an issue in American politics. The embezzlement at the ministry of defense left the Iraqi military poorly equipped, and greatly delayed the moment at which it could take over from the US in providing security to the country. The embezzlement is directly tied to the Iraqi government losing control over its own capital, as reported here yesterday. The scale of it matches Saddam's kickbacks in the oil for food scandal, but the US journalists who were so outraged at the former don't seem to have the time of day for the embezzlement story.
On Sunday September 25th, Markos Moulitsas will interview Professor Juan Cole to discuss Shia Islam and the catastrophe in Iraq.The first show goes live next Sunday. Stay tuned.
On Sunday October 2nd, Duncan Black will interview Professor Paul Myers on the pernicious attempt to inject religious dogma into our children's science classes.
Now, both interviews have already been shot and the material is nothing less than amazing. Nothing like this has been produced for the mass market before. We approached Markos and Duncan with the idea for a few different reasons:
1) they're honest
2) they're intellectually curious
3) they have a demonstrative ability to attract viewers
Dr Cole and Dr Myers are genuine experts in their field, not pundits. The subject matter is riveting.
"ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including ffmpeg the 'hyper fast video and audio encoder', mpeg2enc the open-source mpeg-2 encoder and multiplexer and mencoder the mpeg-4 encoder with subtitles support."
"None of the five waters tested showed any trace of coliform bacteria, which can be an indicator of E. coli. But a heterotrophic plate count test, which indicates whether conditions are ripe for bacteria growth, showed Fiji water with an estimated 1,800 colony-forming units per milliliter. The recommended maximum is 500 colony-forming units.Why couldn't Fiji Water be reached for comment?
Paul Tierney, director of the food protection program at the state Department of Public Health, said the higher level does not necessarily indicate a health risk, but possibly a sanitation problem at the bottling plant. He said tests by his agency have found levels as high as 2,500 in some bottled waters.
Heterotrophic plate count levels are sometimes higher in bottled waters that are not disinfected and exposed to higher temperatures before consumption.
Officials at Fiji water could not be reached for comment. The lab officials who conducted the tests for the Globe said they were confident of the results."
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"Unlike most other states, Massachusetts is considering making it harder to buy wine online or through the mail."On Monday I am going to be making a lot of phone calls about this.
This computer is not authorized to play "gb3.mov".Then it prompts me to open iTunes. Guess that I too need to purchase the song that Raymond used if I want to hear it. Is that right?
If you purchased this song you can open iTunes and authorize this computer to play this song by entering you Apple ID and password.
"The Singularity itself will occur not in some distant Buck Rogers century but in the year 2045. That's right — during our lifetimes (if you're 50 or younger). By then, he writes, 'We will transcend biology — but not our humanity.' He estimates that the nonbiological intelligence created in that year will be one billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today."
"The stimTV™ network is built on free content provided by media owners in exchange for the promotional and marketing benefits they receive for the exposure of their media or products on the network."If you click the above link, a guy starts talking to you about stimTV, so you might want to put on headphones if you're in an office.
"Plazes is a grassroot approach to location-aware interaction, using the local network you are connected to as location reference. Plazes allows you to share your location with the people you know and to discover people and plazes around you. It's the navigation system for your social life and it's absolutely free."
"This model of story structure must never, ever be defied. Just kidding. But it comes in really handy when you're stuck."I just visited Channel 101 and saw that Dan Harmon has reviewed his story structure tutorial.
"New York, NY -- April 1, 2003 – (BUSINESS WIRE) hackoff.com (NASDAQ:HOFC) announced today that the company’s Chairman and CEO, Larry Lazard, was found dead in his corporate office of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Board of Directors has selected the company’s CFO, Donna Langhorne, as his successor. Controller Lew Marigold will serve as acting CFO replacing Ms. Langhorne."Tom Evslin is releasing his new book online. You can read it with a browser or feed reader, subscribe to it, tag it, comment on it, and link to it.
"Be part of the revolution. Check out 'casts from all over New England. These New England Podcasting shows rock, talk and make you laugh. Dig it."
"In Anthony Shadid's extraordinary new book about the Iraq war, the Iraqis themselves finally speak. Their stories provide the most eloquent indictment yet of America's disastrous Middle East adventure."via [ Juan Cole ]
"Thanks for watching Vlog Soup Episode 3.Take a trip with me around the vlogosphere and watch some vlogs.
From the recent batch of video blogs I've watched this past week, here are some of the ones that stood out."
"New Mural At Zesto's
Boston City Councillor John Tobin went over to Zesto's Pizza and Grille and filed this video report on the new mural that was painted by the Mayor's Mural Crew and the kids from the new WGBH TV show Fetch!"
"We're lucky to live in Boston, home to two breweries, Sam Adams and Harpoon.Mmm... Beer.
Carol and I were invited to a tasting of a new Harpoon 100 Barrel Series release, Framboise."
"My new Uninterruptible Power Supply arrived today [UPS delivered my UPS. Ha!]"via [ Pattie ]
Being a new media proponent and someone who is excited about how self-publishing is changing the world, I’m a strong proponent of the fact that it’s now possible to have interesting content published in a hyper-local verticals, and I want to bring that to area not known for its technology adoption. I want to drag Arkansasans kicking and screaming into the new media world of the 21st century and make it a place known for it’s adoption of new media publishing and subscription.Sounds great Clint. Good luck.
"Hurricane Katrina has caused widespread destruction throughout the Gulf Coast, especially in New Orleans. As the flood waters begin to ebb, the region faces the challenges of rebuilding from this disaster and reuniting with loved ones.Lycos is still around?
Numerous sites are posting information about survivors and missing persons. In an attempt to help, Lycos will search these sites for information about victims of Hurricane Katrina."
One of the most celebrated and effective animal advocates on the planet, Grandin revolutionized animal movement systems and spearheaded reform of the quality of life and humaneness of death for the cows, pigs, and chickens that Americans eat.
"50 / 50 PackageThe Age Discrimination Act: Positive Discrimination.
The popular 50/50 program is designed for mature travelers, age 50 or more, who can travel from Sunday to Thursday.
From September 5 to October 9, 2005, rates start at $110 per room, per night.
Rates are per room, per night, subject to availability and represent a 50% savings off regular rates. Guests must present photo identification with birth date upon check-in; only one room occupant must be 50 to qualify. Some blackout dates and restrictions apply."
"How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification was that he ran horse shows?"
"•Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO, Sept. 25, 10 p.m.) A 10-episode fix of Larry David for crank addicts.
•Extras (HBO, Sept. 25, 10:30 p.m.)
Ricky Gervais (The Office) hangs from a lower rung of the acting ladder.
•The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, Oct. 17, 11:30 p.m. ET/PT) The Daily Show's Stephen Colbert joins the punditocracy."
"Some artists, all over the globe were asked to share their personal window.Here's Dubrovnik by Lou Pestal.
They made a few minutes field recording from their everyday soundscape.
At one geographic point, at one moment, they catched the sound environment from their window and made a picture of it."
"Andy Hertzfeld, the original Macintosh systems programmer, talks about MacHistory and how he fell in love with Open Source software."
"Here's a new crop of videoblog posts that I found interesting."Take a trip with me around the vlogosphere and watch clips from some of my favorite video blogs from the past week.
"Carol and Steve head into Boston to take a balloon ride, walk over to The Swan Boats of Boston, workout, drive through the theatre district, and then pass by Cheers on their way home."
"New Orleans Deputy Police Chief WJ Riley said the shooting took place while 14 contractors were crossing the Danziger Bridge under police escort.
The contractors came under fire from a group of armed thugs and police officers shot back, killing at least five of them.
None of the contractors was killed."
"When I see federal officials bragging that they were well-prepared for Katrina because they've been organizing for terrorist attacks, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. In a terrorist attack, the human dynamics will be far worse. That's why they call it 'terrorism.' The terrorists won't have to inflict most of the deaths directly. They'll just hit us with a dirty bomb to start the panic. We'll do the rest."
Good morning Steve,I wanted to do something, in addition to giving money, to help victims of Kartina. Choosing to help one family find their missing son, is what I chose to do.
Thank you so very much for trying to help us find Diallo. We really appreciate it---more than words can say.
No, we have not heard from Diallo yet, but we are looking forward to his call.
Thanks again.
F. M.
Hi.
Diallo was rescued Saturday. We got a call from him about 10:00am this morning.
It is a real Miracle.
Thank you for your help.
FMB
The porch is done!
Peruse the porch pictures here.
Nice job Martin J. King and crew!
"Condensed Games : Edited versions of TV broadcasts concentrate all the action into just ten minutes."
Pictures: Straight Guy for the Mother in Law.
We had a busy day moving Sis in to her new apartment. I had fun putting everything together.
All eyes are on New Orleans and the surrounding area right now. You don't need me to explain the scope of the disaster there.This video will probably be watched by more people on the internet than on TV.But, let me explain this: About an hour ago, I was pulled into an edit bay to see a rough version of a report that we're about to put on air. And as soon as I saw it, I knew we had to put it on the web, too: It is a personal story of the hurricane's aftermath unlike any I've yet seen on TV.
Jared Arsement of Lafayette, Louisiana is friends with a Current producer. So we called him up and asked him to take his camera along as he joined a citizen rescue fleet that briefly plied the sodden streets of New Orleans. He sent us raw footage; we edited it down.
Of the final Five, I think J.D. is going to be the next to go. INXS has to pick people that they are going to want to work with and J.D. doesn't seem to fit the bill.
