because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in social issues on Oct 8th, 2008
Last night’s “town hall” style debate between Senators Obama and McCain got me to thinking about what question I would have posed. And about the answer that would satisfy me. Much has been made of the first 100 days of President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration.
From Wikipedia:
Having won a decisive victory in the United States presidential election [...]
Posted in social issues on Oct 6th, 2008
I’ve already linked to this endorsement in the Delicious section of my sidebar, but I wanted to draw further attention to what the New Yorker had to say about Senator Barack Obama. On issues ranging from health care, taxation, energy, America’s position in the global community, Iraq, and the future of the judiciary, Senator Obama [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, social issues on Oct 4th, 2008
Yesterday the $700 Billion bailout of Wall Street was signed by President Bush. Like many Americans I felt scared and uncertain about the financial crisis and the need to do something about it. We won’t know for sometime whether history will see this as an intelligent response to the situation, or a knee-jerk reaction. However, it is [...]
Posted in social issues on Sep 25th, 2008
Or in this case, the man behind the Palin or Wall Street bailout negotiation. The Republicans and the McCain campaign have done a masterful job of changing the subject of this Presidential election. For weeks not it hasn’t been about John McCain and Barack Obama, it has been about Sarah Palin instead. And now that [...]
Posted in life, social issues on Sep 23rd, 2008
I rarely, if ever, give out my work email address. I have enough personal email addresses, that I don’t need the one my employer provides for anything other than work related correspondence. Sometimes, however, in order to get information from a vendor or software support center, I have provided my work email to people outside of [...]
Posted in social issues on Sep 22nd, 2008
Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” Ads - made on a Mac - Boing Boing
(tags: mac humor apple windows microsoft television ads)
naked capitalism: Why You Should Hate the Treasury Bailout Proposal
(tags: toread interesting politics economy bailout subprime credit_crisis)
New York in Black and White - Wired New York Forum
Very impressive collection of black and white photos of New [...]
Posted in social issues on Sep 21st, 2008
Grasshopper escapement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(tags: wikipedia animation clock escapement)
Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Former Secretaries of State to next President: Get over it. Get real. Be smart « - Blogs from CNN.com
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
(tags: politics ideas toread election2008)
How Long Could You Survive Chained to a [...]
Posted in social issues on Sep 20th, 2008
CHM PDF eBooks - Free Computer eBooks Downloads
(tags: freebooks free book ebooks toread)
Posted in social issues on Sep 19th, 2008
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - The Problem with Every Implementation of a "Forgot Your Password?" Feature I've Seen Online
(tags: security palin password hacking)
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Reminds me of the first computer acronym I learned: GIGO. Garbage In, Garbage Out
(tags: wsj toread business economics economy risk news)
Posted in social issues on Sep 1st, 2008
apophenia: As a woman, I'm offended.
(tags: politics mccain 2008election palin)
