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these satellite images are really telling of the destruction.

Some other related bits to this terrible situation:

This conservative newspaper has blasted the Bush administration for “aloofness” regarding the federal response in the aftermath.

These right-wing religious nuts say that “…God destroyed a wicked city”.? Curious, is this the same God which President Bush believes in?

Fats Domino is missing.?
Evidently, the 77 year-old R&B legend decided to stay at this New
Orleans house to ride out the storm.? No one has heard from him
since Sunday.? I think the total number will rise to thousands, if
not tens of thousands, before all is said and done.

Which begs the question.? Did this have to occur this way?? It seems President Bush even cut his vacation short by two days.

Another question.? Do white people “find”, and black people “loot”?? Yahoo seems to think so.

The liberal and progressive blogs everywhere are starting to run pieces
holding the Bush administration responsible for slow and inadequate
response to this disaster.? However, I am not ready to jump on
that bandwagon just yet.?

The next few days and weeks will reveal
what happened and what realistically could have been prevented.?
With that said, this whole situation does seem eerily reminiscent? of
how the Bush administration ignored warning signs about 9/11.?
There WERE warnings about this possibly happening.? Who was in
charge of planning, both for the prevention of this kind of catastrophic
result and for the response afterwards?

Wouldn’t it have made more sense to have a convey of buses help take
the poor and disabled out BEFORE Katrina hit the city??

In the end, there is only so much that can be done to prepare for such
a contingency.? However, was everything feasible truly done?

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Seriously, this is simply bigger government based on some fuzzy definition of morality.? When will we just admit it:

American’s like PORN

(Not me of course…but..well..all of you..*ahem*)

To the tune of over $10 BILLION per year.? That’s with a B, folks..

Anyway, Happy No-Porn Day!

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See, this little blog of mine has roots all the way back to 1996, when
I ran a mailing list containing (mostly) friends called Gun
Geeks.? Anyway, someone posted this little quiz to the
list..? Me, being the enthusiastic and bored programming geek I am
sometimes, put the test up on the Internet via PHP.?

To the best of my knowledge, this is one of the first on-line Sleaze
Test quizzes that ever existed on the Internet.? I kinda missed it,
so I recoded it this weekend.? At last look, over 150,000 people
had taken the first Sleaze Test between 1996-2001 (or so).

Give it a try.? If at least 5 people post their scores in the
discussion forums, I might be compelled to release my rather unseemly
high score.

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Couldn’t you just see me scrolling with my puppy down to Starbucks in this?

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earned over $158 Million in it’s first week, shattering the previous Spider-Man record set in 2002. This is a huge number, but does not surprise me. However, even this massive number can not stop the overall trend of the big screen losing numbers. I think this movie will have “legs” also, because many people have waited to see the movie to avoid the crowds.

Time Magazine has released an “All-Time 100 Movies” list.

This Salon Blog written by Dave Pollard talks about how to train yourself to think differently about something you may already think you know. Everyone is
guilty of “knowing they are right” sometimes, except Republicans… They always think they are right, but rarely are. *grin*

It’s my blog, and I’ll be bias if I want to… bias if I want to…..You would be to if it happened too you…

This article by the same author talks about Appreciative inquiry, complex systems and the four practices of open space. Interesting reading.

Here is an article on how to correctly use RSS. RSS is another piece of technology that has exploded in the past 12-18 months. Lots of Web Development tools here, also. Piturequest has a ton of royalty free images on their site. Good resource.

Kuro5hin has an excellent piece with lots of links for web development professionals.

Remember all the hubbub over the RIAA shutting down TV bittorrent downloads? Mindjack has an article that claims how Bittorrent actually HELPS some series get noticed, including Battlestar Galactica and the new Dr. Who from the UK.

This technology is currently fairly immature, however as it matures, Bittorrent (or what comes next) will become more and more troublesome for the RIAA and MPAA.

Finally, the next time some right-wing nut cases goes off on you about the nonsense of Creationism, this site will give you some good counterpoints.
Seriously, is it really too much to ask to keep religion in your
church, and OUT of public schools? Evidently it is for some
morons.

Technorati Tags: bittorrent, media, pop culture

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If I haven’t said it here before, I will now… Podcasting
is going to be HUGE. Some would argue that it already is…  I bet
XM/Sirius are sweating bullets as to where this technology will go.
Basically, Podcasts can provide the same quality and level of services
as the satellite providers, but with a fraction of the infrastructure
costs (web servers vs. launching many satellites).

Some new tools are already showing up such as GarageBand’s PodCast Studio which just unveiled the first consumer on-line tool to Record, Mix and Publish Podcasts. Apple is getting into the game by building-in Podcast subscriptions into the next release of iTunes and providing Podcast content via the iTunes Music Store. (Look, Audible.com just pissed their pants, also!)

If you enjoy listening to quality talk shows on your own existing
equipment and schedule, all or mostly all free of costs, podcasting may
be just what you’ve been waiting on.

(Thanks to TWH for the links!)

Technorati Tags: podcast, social, web20

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I am still getting use to the new blog software and have not installed a spell checker yet. Please forgive any errors for now.

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Here we go with a batch of quickies:

Watched Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith this weekend. I give it a highly favorable review and enjoyed the movie very much. George Lucas has redeemed himself for episodes I & II.

I also enjoyed MoveOn’s take on SW:RotS.