I've mentioned a few times that I enjoy the writing of Amanda Marcotte (pandagon_amanda) at Pandagon (pandagon_net). She's an outspoken Texan feminist, liberal, music fan, atheist (yet leader and prophet of the Church of the Mouse and Disco Ball), heavily inspired in her writing by the late Molly Ivins.

A couple weeks ago she announced that she'd been hired as blogmistress ( Read more... )

When I was listening to "On The Media" early this evening, I noticed yet another instance of something that has become a pet peeve of mine. That is people trumpeting the "power of the blogs" based on the takedown of Dan Rather and CBS news over the allegedly-forged documents about Bush skipping out on the Texas Air National Guard. By now that ( Read more... )

Wired has a great article about BitTorrent. Besides interviewing the author and briefly explaining how BitTorrent works, I like that the article spends a lot of time on the issue of using BitTorrent for TV show timeshifting -- "the Internet becomes a giant TiVo." That's the most interesting aspect of BitTorrent for me, but it's one that normally ( Read more... )

Found at Daily Kos:

jiveturky tells the hilarious story of getting flipped off by the president yesterday.

Unfortunately the photo doesn't reveal much.

Update:
Just to make this entry slightly more substantive...

I may have mentioned before that a friend of mine here in Canton is running for Congress. The AP (and USA Today) now has a story about his ( Read more... )

First I introduced her to reading email at home, and life was never the same.

Next I introduced her to newsgroups, and she got sucked in.

Now after wanting a web site for a long time, she's set up two accounts here. So go say hi to nontacitare and kateryndraper.

Luckily it's summer so she has more time for this sort of thing now.