This has personally been a bad, bad week. But I'm learning things that I wouldn't have otherwise. And that's all I'm saying about that. augmentation by and by.
Clinton: Pot Smoking Should Not Be Prison Offense: "I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be." Why didn't he say this while he was President? Because it makes sense...but would be political suicide. At least he's saying it now. [via metafilter]
I haven't seen it yet, but I hear Blogger is in the Street Cred section of the latest (January) issue of Wired. That's so cool. Update: matt has a photo.
Show them all the beauty they possess inside. Give them a sense of pride to make it easier.
I believe that robots are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice." - Noam Chomsky. Sometimes that's not an easy choice.
today I took part in a day without weblogs to shift some attention to the AIDS epidemic. It's amazing that last year there were 50 participants, and this year there were 100 times that.
is it just me, or is blogger.com really fast all of a sudden? ;)
I've been keeping my books page fairly up to date. I notice I've been reading lots of history lately. I picked up a few used books this weekend, and they were mostly history. I'm looking forward to A History of Private Life edited by Georges Duby. Though I won't be able to read it all at once. I've already started bouncing around in it. I wonder if hypertext and the linking nature of the Internet has changed the way I read...or if I've always read this way. Some books I do read in a linear way. I'm blazing straight through The Federalist Papers Reader (trying to better understand this crazy republican not democratic form of government). I know I can read them free on the Internet, but this book distills them down to key sections...and provides groovy commentary. It's interesting when you read them as "constitutional propoganda" (they were written to pursuade people to ratify the constitution) instead of sacred texts. Federalist No. 10 has some great stuff about the value of keeping the electorate a certain distance from the government. It's especially relevant with all of this electoral college and process and "fair" and "accurate" stuff in the news. shew, I'm rambling. It was a good break...back to work tomorrow. and so on.
