YouTube on your cellphone, sort of
by Pete on November 30, 2006
In case you missed it, Verizon recently announced a deal with YouTube which would allow Verizon wireless customers to view YouTube content on their cellphones via Verizon’s V CAST service. Sound cool? This Ars Technica write-up quickly gets to the (…)
Reaching out to people of faith
by Pete on November 29, 2006
It is difficult to imagine a more illustrative example of the Christian Right’s true colors than this article from today’s Washington Post. As a bit of background, the Christian Coalition, founded by Pat “The gays caused 9/11″ Robertson, has been (…)
JFK
by Pete on November 28, 2006
I have been thinking about Oliver Stone’s JFK, which I recently re-watched for the first time since seeing it in the theater. You may recall that at the time the film originally came out, there was a large fooferah surrounding (…)
Freedom of religion
by Pete on November 19, 2006
A whole society is a society which welcomes basic freedoms and there’s no more basic freedom than the freedom to worship as you see fit. That’s President Bush, speaking outside a Christian church in Hanoi where he and Laura “worshipped” (…)
It’s all downhill from here
by Pete on November 17, 2006
The developing media narrative around the Democrats’ choice of Steny Hoyer as House Majority Leader is clearly that incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been rebuffed for her strong support of Hoyer’s challenger, John Murtha. “Democrats in disarray,” yet again. Ah, (…)
The stupidity of political action groups
by Pete on November 16, 2006
Upon getting home from work last night, I found a package in my mailbox from NARAL exhorting me to sign a petition “in the midst of these important elections” asking Congress to support various reproductive rights. Rather than an envelope, (…)
I learned it from watching you!
by Pete on November 14, 2006
According to an article in this morning’s Washington Post, “Internet addiction” is a growing problem. The article begins with scary stories about people neglecting their children and not paying the bills because they spend all their time “on the Internet.” (…)
Comets on Fire – Avatar
by Pete on November 14, 2006
After reading a number of rave reviews, I recently got Avatar, the 2006 release from Comets on Fire. While I enjoyed the band’s 2005 album Blue Cathedral, the new one is less satisfying. On Blue Cathedral, the Comets displayed some (…)
A kajillion dollars and “Zune” is the best name they could come up with?
by Pete on November 13, 2006
Zune, Microsoft’s long-awaited and much-anticipated entry into the iPod-killer market, hits stores tomorrow. By all accounts, the company has sunk an immense amount of time and treasure into the device’s development, and no wonder. Apple owns 90% of the market (…)
Meet the new George W. Bush, same as the old George W. Bush.
by Pete on November 10, 2006
So Rumsfeld is out. In the aggregate, there’s no way his ouster is not a good thing. Rumsfeld, with his control-freak, autocratic approach to the management of the the DoD, has been one of main enabler’s of the President’s bone-headed (…)