I’m a big supporter of moving back to a 28 year maximum term on copyrights. I’ve been thinking about how to describe that, and I think I’ve come up with one way of doing it. Rupert Holmes would still be able to earn a living off of his 1979 hit “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)”, but Debby Boone would just now be asked to hop off of the “You Light Up My Life” gravy train that left the station in the fall of 1977. I think that that’s more than enough economic motivation society should provide to ensure the creation of such … (ahem) … classics.
It’s amazing how vivid smell memory is. I remember the exact odor of the Sears Wishbook 1979 after seeing it on Flickr. I believe the Total Control Racing (TCR) track was the highlight of my Christmas that year. The TCR track was supposed to kick ass because the cars could change lanes, but as it turns out, it was No Control Racing. The cars would frequently jam up, or lose contact with the track (and thus, lose power), and centrifugal force would force the cars in the outside lane, despite your Total Control. I don’t believe the 30×40 Power Table Top Refractor Telescope was all that it was cracked up to be, either. But, boy howdy, did I want both of them when I saw them in the catalog. I think the Electronic Mastermind (which I don’t think was X-mas bounty) lived up to it’s promise as a product, and got much use by pretty much the whole family.
(via Boing Boing)
It seems that whenever Bush or the Republicans trot out the phrase “playing politics”, they really mean “thinking critically”. Just visit the following links, and replace the phrase “playing politics” with “thinking critically” to see what I mean.
“But here’s the question. The question is, how do you respond to [the intelligence failures]? Do you respond to it by correcting the intelligence, or do you do what the Democrats are doing, which is [thinking critically] with it. And I think the president’s point was at this critical moment in this critical war, with this central front in the war on terror, [thinking critically] is not what we should be doing.” Chairman of the Republican Party, Ken Mehlman - Transcript for November 13 - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com
Some of our elected leaders have opposed this war all along. I disagreed with them, but I respect their willingness to take a consistent stand. Yet some Democrats who voted to authorize the use of force are now rewriting the past. They are [thinking critically] with this issue and they are sending mixed signals to our troops and the enemy. And that’s irresponsible. President Delivers Remarks at Elmendorf AFB on War on Terror
I’m sure there are other substitutions that can be made, for “sending mixed signals” and “rewriting the past”. In fact, I’m beginning to think it’s possible to translate Bush-speak into something intelligible. Heh…nevermind…I can’t believe I just said that.
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Stumbled into Jon Udell’s Library lookup bookmarklet and thought I’d give it a spin. It took some tweaking, but now I’ve got a Seattle Public Library/Amazon Bookmarklet
To use, just drag the bookmarklet above to your toolbar. Visit Amazon, search for a book, and then click on the bookmarklet. It’ll check the availability of the book in the Seattle Public Library.
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….and of course, now that I’m sitting in front of this really easy to use interface, I don’t have anything useful to say. Well, that’s a blog for you. Plus, I’m feeling all Web 2.0-y now.
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