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:

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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.