2002/08/23
- 23-Aug-2002Live from the Apple Store Fashion Valley
So i’m geeking out with massive amounts of people here at the Fashion Valley Apple Store for their 10:20 Mac OS X Event tonight. It’s amazing what an overpriced upgrade can create in the Mac faithful. Lots of excitement. Okay. Gotta get outta here now.
- 23-Aug-2002Geek Activism?
Via John: GeekPAC — GeekPAC is an organization created for the specific purpose of Lobbying Directly to Influence Elections and the passage of legislation that fits the goals of our organization. We are a “PRO” Information Technology, “PRO” Freedom of Information, “PRO” Equal Access, “PRO” Freedom of Innovation and “PRO” Free Enterprise organization. In essence…
- 23-Aug-2002This is how to get people to do things…
This is how to get people to do things. You decide you’re going, and bring ’em along!
- 23-Aug-2002Power and Weakness by Robert Kagan
There is a great deal of food for thought in Power and Weakness by Robert Kagan, from Policy Review. (via bruce sterling). It’s a long but good article. … The United States is a behemoth with a conscience. It is not Louis xiv’s France or George III’s England. Americans do not argue, even to themselves,…
- 23-Aug-2002xplane’s xblog has redesigned…
xplane’s xblog has redesigned. Nice.
- 23-Aug-2002From The My-Readers-Make-Me-Laugh-Too! Department
Tom Bickle writes: If you thought the handcuff exchange was funny, you’d love a similar back ‘n forth, early on in the movie “Ransom.” Perp: “Oww! These cuffs are too tight!” Cop (in a heavy Noo Yawk accent): “Oh yeah, dat’s because they’re new – give ’em time, they’ll stretch.”
