Monthly Archives: February 2007

I find it eerie to watch this 2002 video of Barack Obama in which he states why, if he were in the U.S. Senate, he would have voted against the resolution authorizing military force in Iraq, not because peace is … Continue reading →

It’s Sunday, so I’m freewheeling. Checking out stuff on the internet with no plan, no agenda, no Getting Things Done task lists. So wasting a half hour watching a Discovery show on the phenomenal rise of the iPod is perfectly … Continue reading →

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pondering a New Home, originally uploaded by LenEdgerly. Darlene and I spent some time this morning in our new … Continue reading →

I first heard about this in Andy Bowers’s great collection of all the scary video clips out there ready to haunt Presidential candidates. It included a snippet from this video of Giuliani wearing a fetching dress, getting his ample breasts … Continue reading →

Not that she had in any way disappeared, but Camille Paglia today returns as a Salon columnist after a six-year absence. I have always been fascinated by her shrill, smart, and completely original take on the current scene. Reading her … Continue reading →

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Road Cut, originally uploaded by LenEdgerly. I took this photo today returning from Estes Park, waiting for my turn … Continue reading →

Click on the photo to hear Drew Gilpin Faust’s comments about her election today as the 28th president of Harvard University. Displaying the usual level of humility at my alma mater, she described Harvard as “the most talented community perhaps … Continue reading →

I clicked on the Obama web site a couple of hours ago, not expecting it would be live yet, so I was thrilled to see a totally new site hove into view. Being among the first explorers, I was the … Continue reading →

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bullets_0001_colored, originally uploaded by ‘Scratch’. From the U.K.’s Telegram come these tidbits on what sort of a poker player … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to return to the brand-new Yahoo aggregator/mashup site called Pipes after reading about it at 5 a.m. this morning, but I can’t get back in. Pipes looks like a new and improved way of automagically collecting information … Continue reading →