Apparently Alan Greenspan, the head of the Federal Treasury and Wall Street’s eminence grise, isn’t the force of nature he’s made out to be, at least not according to an article in Foreign Policy.
Ebert (as usual) hits the nail on the head and explains the reasoning, or lack thereof, behind the awards doled out every year to well crafted films about retards.
A blog devoted to flatmate hatred. Funny and vindictive, but I’ll let it speak for itself.
Not much to say except they cover the basics here.
A server upgrade seems to have eaten the last two entries on my site, so I’ll repeat this one. Apartment Therapy has a small article comparing paper organizers to PDA devices, and paper seems to be coming out on top. I can sort of see their point; paper is just cool, wheras using your PDA is undeniably neat, but cool it ain’t. But on the other hand, you can’t play Zork on a daytimer.
One of the panels at the Northern Voice conference on the weekend was on videoblogging, and they mentioned a program called ANT (which stands for Ant’s Not Television.) It works much the same way that IpodderX does, grabbing videos hooked into RSS feeds. So far, most of the videos are some guy talking into a camera, but I can definitely see the potential behind this nascent videoblogging scene. I may even try some vlogging myself once I hit Korea.
The writer who penned “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” ws also a good friend of Hunter S. Thompson, and wrote a fitting epitaph to the man in, of all places, the Wall Street Journal.
I’ll be headed out to Korea in a few weeks or less, and reports on the insanely high levels of broadband in the ROK are just what a brotha needs to hear.
Hunter S. Thompson killed himself over the weekend. I was never a fanatical devotee of the original gonzo journalist’s work, but I can appreciate what he did to break the mold of objective reporting in the turmoil of the 1960s and ’70s.
A friend of mine said it’s inevitable that a pioneer like Thompson is followed by a legion of far less talented followers, and maybe that’s what finally did him in. My take is that Thompson felt the state of America’s volatile political and social condition a lot more than he let on,and masked it with vitriol. The rise of the neocons might have been too much for a guy who took on Nixon and Co. at his peak.
But nobody really knows why Thompson decided to end his life at this moment, and to be fair it’s really none of our business. Let’s hope his writing lives on to inspire a new generation of hacks and equals.
This article is a little old, but it’ll put all my meandering dribble from yesterday into a better perspective for the blogophobes out there.