Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment: You ceased to be the President of the United States | Crooks and Liars

Posted by Alex on 4 Jul, 2007 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/03/keith-olbermanns-special-comment-you-ceased-to-be-the-president-of-the-united-states

This is dynamite.. I never thought I’d hear an American say this..

“Our generation’s willingness to state “we didn’t vote for him, but he’s our president, and we hope he does a good job,” was tested in the crucible of history, and far earlier than most. And in circumstances more tragic and threatening. And we did that with which history tasked us.

We enveloped “our” President in 2001.
And those who did not believe he should have been elected – indeed, those who did not believe he had been elected – willingly lowered their voices and assented to the sacred oath of non-partisanship.

And George W. Bush took our assent, and re-configured it, and honed it, and sharpened it to a razor-sharp point, and stabbed this nation in the back with it.”

And later…

“I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war.

I accuse you of fabricating in the minds of your own people, a false implied link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

I accuse you of subverting the Constitution, not in some misguided but sincerely-motivated struggle to combat terrorists, but instead to stifle dissent.

I accuse you of fomenting fear among your own people, of creating the very terror you claim to have fought.

I accuse you of exploiting that unreasoning fear, the natural fear of your own people who just want to live their lives in peace, as a political tool to slander your critics and libel your opponents.””

Posted by Alex on 3 Jul, 2007 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.unm.edu/~humanism/socvsjes.htm

What if Jesus & Socrates discussed faith vs logic, science vs religion? Very interesting read.

For the record, I do believe in God – but not limited to the Christian form.

Desktop wallpaper | Social Wallpapering

Posted by Alex on 3 Jul, 2007 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.socwall.com/browse/index.php?wpCategory=Space&wpSubcategory=General&wpLimit=45&wpSortby=0&wpFilter=0&wpQueryType=0&wpMarker=1

nice space wallpapers

For One Analyst, Facebook Is a Screaming Buy – NYTimes.com

Posted by Alex on 27 Jun, 2007 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/for-one-analyst-facebook-is-a-screaming-buy/

From the page: “the knowledge that could be harvested from controlling the Facebook platform would appear to be the most valuable data in the history of the media world.”

How To Write Unmaintainable Code

Posted by Alex on 21 Jun, 2007 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html

Every programmer should read this

Mark Shuttleworth & Blog Archive & No negotiations with Microsoft in progress

Posted by Alex on 21 Jun, 2007 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/127

Ah, Microsoft.. don’t you just love em?

Use the Source

Posted by Alex on 21 Jun, 2007 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://f8d.org/?c=91

A fantastic easy to understand everyman’s explanation of open source principles.

It reminds me of the Data Universal episode of Sliders I watched recently (“Please Press One”) .. “You must be a good consumer”