Just another horrifying tale from the country that used to care about human rights. The big news in this story is that the people in the CIA care more about covering their own asses than wrongly imprisoning an innocent man. In other torture-related news, the Army has cleared the senior officials at Abu Ghraib of any [...]
Entries from April 2005
Welcome to the Salt Pit
April 25th, 2005 · Comments Off
The price of fame
April 24th, 2005 · Comments Off
Rogers Cadenhead has a post up about his brief brush with fame. I watched the Today show clip and thought he came off very well. And the whole time I watched it, I was paralyzed by anxiety. The one thing I knew for sure was that I never want to be on TV like that. [...]
Living by the browser
April 24th, 2005 · Comments Off
Rael Dornfest has a bit up at the O’Reilly Radar about how he’s migrating his computer usage to Web applications, and has a good list of the ones he relies upon. I’ve been thinking of doing something similar lately. The big change for me came when I realized that I strongly prefer Gmail to Thunderbird. [...]
Savage and true
April 23rd, 2005 · Comments Off
Check out this post at Making Light for an explanation of why Thomas Friedman annoys the hell out of me.
What the future looks like
April 22nd, 2005 · Comments Off
Stewart Brand has written an essay predicting what the future of cities and humanity looks like. Definitely worth reading.
Learning to eat everything
April 21st, 2005 · Comments Off
Jason Kottke pointed to an old article from Vogue food critic and frequent Iron Chef America judge Jeffrey Steingarten on learning to eat everything. I don’t eat everything (to my continued shame), but I eat many many different things. Until I was 25 or so, I was a very picky eater. I constantly lived in [...]
Intiative rewarded with attention
April 20th, 2005 · Comments Off
Rogers Cadenhead posted the other day about how he had speculated on the name the next pope would choose by registering some domain names. One of the names he chose was benedictxvi.com, and lo and behold, he nailed it. This has yielded him plenty of attention, not only among bloggers, but in the mainstream media [...]
NY Times redesign
April 20th, 2005 · Comments Off
The New York Times is planning a site-wide redesign. Want to be in charge of it? In a just world, Adrian Holovaty (or perhaps his boss) would get this job.
Stopping blog spam
April 19th, 2005 · Comments Off
Blogger has added captcha to the blog creation process in order to prevent spammers from creating spam blogs in an automated fashion.
Flickr gets cheapr
April 19th, 2005 · Comments Off
Flickr has lowered the price for pro accounts. Good thing I didn’t upgrade yesterday as I had planned. (They’re offering free perks for people who paid the higher price already, but I’d still prefer the lower initial outlay of cash.) Would I take a Pro invitation? Yes, yes I would. Update: Got an invitation. Thanks!