Archive for May, 2003

truthout.org Interview with Governor Dean

t r u t h o u t – TO Interview with Howard Dean

Interview with Howard Dean t r u t h o u t | Exclusive Interview
Thursday 22 May 2003

As the election season begins to heat up, truthout has begun pursuing interviews with the seven Democratic candidates for President. Invitations have been extended to […]

Philosophy of Matrix Reloaded

Salon.com Books | The Matrix way of knowledge

The Matrix way of knowledge
From the Gnostic gospels to the visions of Descartes to the shamanic quests of Eastern mystics, the Wachowski brothers’ pop opus weaves a dense web of philosophical and metaphysical allusions. – – – – – – – – – – – – By Erik Davis

The […]

The Real Howard Dean

Two good letters to the editor of the Washington Post about their coverage of the DLC/Dean flap from last week:

The Real Howard Dean (washingtonpost.com)

CRM Can Target Your Communications: Or can it?

I got an e-mail last night. It was personalized (they got my first name right), and they tell me that they’ve been selling “enterprise software to lawyers” for 12 years. Now it appears that they have a CRM system.

Amazingly enough, after they did some research they purport to have figured out the answer to why […]

24 Season 2 Finale

Nice twist at the end. Reactions?

Dean Meetup surpasses 25,000 members

National Dean in 2004 Meetup Day — Join other Dean Supporters

WHO

Dean Supporters Worldwide. So far, 25002 have signed up.

A Brief History of Microsoft on the Web

This is a great flashback. (Pop quiz: how many of the screen shots look familiar to you?)

A Brief History of Microsoft on the Web: Reflections on microsoft.com from Birth to ‘Middle Age’

In the beginning, www.microsoft.com was just one computer tucked under a table at the end of a long hallway. It was designed to test […]

Warren Says

Warren Says Warren Buffett says:

When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a “break” requires — now or down the line — that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the […]

RSS Feeds For Summaries of Recent Supreme Court Decisions

RSS Feeds For Summaries of Recent Supreme Court Decisions
From Thomas R. Bruce, Co-Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School:

“As part of some extensive (and ongoing) renovation of our Supreme Court collection, we’ve added RSS feeds that offer summaries of recent decisions. There are two: http://supct.law.cornell.edu:8080/supct/rss/0.91/supct_today.rss
Actually the less-useful of the two feeds, this […]

Gartner Hype Cycle and Blogs

Andy has tapped into a large movement of “anti-weblogger ferver.” There are a lot of them out there, believe me. It’s just a natural cycle to go through. Weblogs have gotten a lot of hype. Now it’s time for the anti-hype cycle to happen. No biggie. I’ll keep weblogging whether it’s popular or not.
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