Tag Cloud of Russell's Why I Am Not A Christian

Mystery Pollster generated tag clouds for each candidate's remarks at the first 2008 Presidential Democratic primary debate. Got me thinking. I like tag clouds. Here's Russell:

accept against although anything argue argument away bad behave being belief believe best better certain certainly christ christian churches coming concerned country course cruelty curious deal design difference dogma due everlasting existence fact fashion fear fig fire further god goes going gospels granted gravitation hell human injustice instance intellectual known law less life living longer man matter meaning millions moral natural nothing people person progress question quite really reason religion remember says science second sense shall sort step subject suffering suppose teaching thee therefore things think times told toward tree understand universe upon used view whole world wrong ye years

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More Fun w Boxes & Lines (Treo Test Post)

The Parsons CDT Advanced MasMsp/Jitter class has their midterm show at Monkeytown & its like old home week. Dave and Todd are collaborating on an MSP/OpenGL piece,Walid is wrestling in a welding mask, and a guy I don't know named Yosuke Toyoda is shredding some OpenGL using a live guitar. Good times.

Oh Irony, What *Will* You Think of Next?

MS Urges Antitrust Scuttling of DoubleClick Deal

Safta

In 1995 my father interviewed his mother about her experiences in the Holocaust. The Hi-8 tape had been lost for a few years, and then stuck on Hi-8 for a few more years, but now its here, ripped and on the internet. One problem: it's in Yiddish. I'm hoping the dotSub community can help.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Musical Stylings of rms

Oh wow.

The God Ate My Homework

Glenn Greenwald connects the dots. Surprisingly, the CEO Presidency can't seem to handle the most basic record-retention tasks. I can't wait to see Bush apologists try to deny that this is the behavior of people with something to hide.

Kodak - Winds of Change

This is fantastic. I was a little sad that they didn't play the Scorpions song though.



Thank god for YouTube.

Status Report

Pame said "I'll start painting again if you start writing" so here we go. I'm not sure what this blog is going to be or where its going to live, but I do know that starting now is better than not starting. So here it is.

Booklist:
On my nighttable

- Send Our Regards to The Atom Smashers
- Get Back in the Box by Doug Rushkoff
- Dream by Stephen Duncombe

On the Pile
- Beautiful Evidence by Tufte

I haven't finished anything lately, but my attention's been divided by a bunch of non-fiction, mostly of the analytical sort. Atom Smashers has been a nice retreat to subjective meditations on a subject near to me: childhood love affairs with comic books, and the place in one's life comics take on during adulthood.

Comics I've finished in the last 2-3 weeks
- Kingdom Come (Ross)
- Red Son
- Secret Identity

Not sure why the DC stint started (I've never been a big fan of Supes) but Red Son and Secret ID are both really solid re imaginings of the Supes myth.

Ok, finally: I ripped a bunch of old 8mm that my uncle Mickey had transferred to VHS and I've been posting short clips to vimeo.






DEBORAH at 3 Months on Vimeo

More books

just finished Julie and Julia; great for a quick mindless read. in jamaica (call it around chrismas 2006) i finished Rip It Up and Start Again (Simon Reynolds) and Ubik (Philip K Dick). There's a ton of other stuff and i thought i'd be able to think of books off the top of my head but i'm tired and wrong so that'll have to do.

KJ Illin'

Eric sent this my way.  Thank you eric.

eBay: The Great Leader Kim Jong IL - Banksy Inspired POP ART (item 140058336058 end time Nov-30-06 12:07:52 PST)

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Blogged with Flock

Books 061128

off the top of my head, bc i'm blogging a fair bit tonight:

- The Complete Bone (in a single volume) (Jeff Smith)

A lot of fun and a gargantuan effort on Smith's part, but not quite deserving of the Best! Comic! Evar! lauds and laurels its been getting

- Gary Benchley, Rock Star (Paul Ford)

I read Ford in the Morning News before I knew it was Ford, and enjoyed the column. I think i was working at SuperCorporateWorld(TM) at the time. Meant to pick up the book, never did, and then found if for $5 at St. Marks and tore through it in about a day. Light, but a good read. I'll pick up the next Ford book i find.

Ok, disclaimer: the above link-gonhorrea is a result of 1) finding the Flock WYSIWYG editor to be pretty damn handy, and 2) having been reading blogs as if it were my job for about 4 years now, and not really writing that much, I feel as if there's a TON of hyperlinking to attend to. This man probably put that idea into my head when i was an impressionable 18 yr old. (Thanks)

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Blogged with Flock

Flock? Really?

I'm attracted to the ease-of-use Flock offers--i spend a lot of time in a web browser, and I'd just as happily write as I do read if it were as effortless as a right-click.  But i've been burned by Flock registration bugs in the past, so I'm a little skeptical.  Hopefully after I log out of this session it won't fuXX0r my account settings as it has in the past.

So this bout of blogging is based on a bit of skepticism.  (And, apparantly, navel-gazing.)

Yesterday I went of a fever-burn of iTunes tagging, and tonight (after an IM from the Millenial Cousin asking for my favorite blogs) the ol' delicious got a tiny bit of love and care.  Wouldn't it be nice if my online web-two-point-oh-i-ness translates into a little real-life get-yrself-organized-ation-ness?

Yes.  Yes it would.

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Consumer Lust Breaks In

The reason: Nintendo's new controller. The device resembles a TV remote but with fewer buttons. It relies on wireless technology with built-in motion sensors to translate movement directly onto a TV screen. Wii can be swung like a tennis racket, twirled like a steering wheel, or pointed at the screen like a gun.

The Big Ideas Behind Nintendo's Wii

I haven't owned a console since pneumonia forced the parents to accede to my 4th-grade demands for an 8-bit NES, but for the first time in a long time (PS Streetfighter discs aside), I'm tempted to drop some cash on a video game machine.  Wiiiiiii.

(This is a test-post to see if the new version of Flock has gotten its Right-Click-"Blog This" act together).

Books

Yikes. Been a while. Try to get back in the swing of blogging.

Books finished recently:

Dennet, Dan Breaking the Spell

crap, there was something else. Forgot. More soon.