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Less than half – 43% – of parents of kids who play video games play them with their children, the Associated Press reports, citing a just-released AOL/AP survey. "Overall, the survey highlighted how pervasive – yet age-related – interest in electronic gaming is today." The survey found that 81% of children 4-17 play computer or […]
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They are very effective teaching tools, a new study found, including for teaching aggression. "Students who played multiple violent video games actually learned through those games to produce greater hostile actions and aggressive behaviors over a span of six months," reports Science Daily, citing a study of almost 2,500 young people – "Violent Video Games […]
Bebo's part in differentiation trend
Bebo stands out as a great example of how social sites are differentiating themselves. It's moving from being purely about social networking to being a social-media platform, as The Guardian puts it. For one thing, the site (based in San Francisco but huge in the UK, with 10.7 million "regular users" there), it's specializing in […]
Sex-trafficking in Canada, US
This story about sex trafficking in the Edmonton Sun is not about teen social networkers, it's about adults. But I'm including it this week as an extreme example of how vulnerable young people whose brains aren't fully developed can be found online, then victimized (prefrontal cortexes, or the executive part of brains, aren't developed till […]
Clear-eyed look at Net risks
Rarely do we see balanced reporting on the subject of children's online safety. So it was good to see USATODAY's Janet Kornblum looking at both the real risks and the misconceptions that have developed about how teens are victimized online. Not that dangers don't exist, but "some worry that parents are falling victim to 'predator […]
Virtual vs. real: Line blurring
William Gibson – the one-time science fiction author who now writes about the present and coined "cyberspace" – had something to say about youth in an interview he gave Rolling Stone for the magazine's 40th anniversary issue. He said (and I think he's right) that "one of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about […]
Social networking: What cops know
Indiana State Police Lt. Charles Cohen's 16-year-old nephew "has seven MySpace pages, including one in which he and his buddies pretend to be Chuck Norris," the Associated Press reports. That's a great observation for parents to hear, echoed by many experts on Web 2.0 – that there are all kinds of blogs and social-networking profiles, […]
Tragic school shooting in Finland
A high school student in Finland shot and killed himself, six other students, and the school principal yesterday "after announcing plans for the rampage on YouTube," the Financial Times reports. The FT cites a Reuters reports saying the boy's video was "called 'Jokela High School Massacre' and posted by a user called Sturmgeist89, meaning Storm […]
'Kickstart' for students
Yahoo has a new niche social site for college students that's supposed to be more professional than social but not quite as professional as LinkedIn.com, a PC World blog reports. Apparently a profile on "Kickstart" is designed to be more like a resume than a place for friends' "pokes" and comments. The site's photo upload […]
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Striking a blow for power producers, who cited the risk of not being paid, the FERC denied authority to the California ISO to waive its minimum credit requirements to allow PG&E and Southern California Edison to continue to schedule transactions within ISO markets with third-party power producers and marketers.
The FERC ruled that PG&E and Edison must continue to meet ISO credit standards, except in the limited case in which PG&E or Edison would self-provide the transaction and create no risk for third parties-that is, the utilities would be using only their own generating facilities and their own proprietary transmission lines (albeit under ISO control) to execute the scheduled transaction.
The FERC said that if it allowed the ISO to lower credit standards for the two largest buyers in the market, it would foster "an inappropriate unilateral shifting of unacceptable financial risks to both large and small third-party suppliers." .
The FERC acted after noting various retaliatory actions by power producers.
On Feb. 6, Mirant Delta and Mirant Potrero (two California power producers owned by Southern company spinoff Mirant) filed a complaint at the FERC attacking the ISO's move to waive credit requirements. Representing Mirant, attorneys James Beh and Jeffrey Jakubiak (Troutman, Sanders) put the matter bluntly: "By removing all semblance of payment security, the California agencies have effectively hijacked Mirant's assets." . And earlier, on Feb. 1, Reliant Energy had written to the California ISO, accusing the ISO of violating its tariff by attempting to release the California utilities from minimum credit requirements, and filed a complaint in federal district court in Washington, D.C. for a declaratory order to relieve it from any duty to comply with ISO dispatch orders. In that letter, Reliant Energy vice president and general counsel Michael Jines said the company was "fully aware of the gravity of the current electricity situation," and thus would honor any federal order forcing it to sell power in California: "Reliant Energy remains willing ... to provide electricity to the ISO to the extent of available capacity ... per a price of $0.02 per kilowatt-hour, provided the ISO, or another party on its behalf ... delivers the natural gas necessary to generate the electricity."
That threat had led the California ISO to file its own complaint, in federal district court (Eastern District of California), charging Reliant Energy with violating the ISO tariff. .-B.W.R..
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College Football 2011: The 10 Biggest Trap Games of Next Season
It can't be said enough that in America there are two seasons: football season and waiting for football season.
One of the more unique ways to look at the college football season is to look at potential trap games.
I consider trap games to be one of three things.
First, a game against a decent opponent before a "big game." Second, a game against a decent opponent following a "big game." Finally, a combination of the first two, a game against a decent team sandwiched between two "big games."
Throughout this slideshow all of those examples are used, and many are used more than once.
Some of this games appear on the outside to be considered locks. However, in college football nothing is guaranteed and here are some games that top tier teams need to pay special attention too.
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Illinois Basketball: Ranking the Team's 13 Players in Order
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The Fighting Illini are under a new head coach this season in John Groce, after firing Bruce Weber last March. Illinois returns 11 players from a year ago, only losing Meyers Leonard to the NBA and Sam Maniscalco to graduation. In return, they add freshman Mike LaTulip and transfer Sam McLaurin.
While the future of Fighting Illini hoops looks more optimistic than the outlook on the upcoming season, there is still plenty of talent on this team picked to finish in the bottom third of the Big Ten. To overachieve, each of these 13 players will need to elevate their games.
Illinois did not play a deep bench last year under Weber, something I would look to see change with Groce. If this team can have nine or 10 players receiving consistent playing time and playing at a high-caliber level then Illinois could surpass even my own expectations for them.
As a walk-on, Berardini has only scored six points in 21 minutes in his collegiate career. At 6'0" tall and 175 pounds, Berardini is too small to receive playing time unless it's late in a blowout. While Illinois should go deeper to their bench this year, Berardini appears to be too far down the bench.
Berardini is the prototypical walk-on and we know that every major fanbase loves the chance to see the walk-on get into the game and try to score. Hopefully Berardini will at least be able to appease the fans in this his senior season.
LaTulip is also a walk-on, albeit a preferred walk-on. He was supposed to be accompanied by Michael Orris in the current incoming freshman class, before Orris followed Bruce Weber to Kansas State. LaTulip stands 6'0" and weighs 165 pounds, slightly smaller than Berardini.
While LaTulip did pass up the chance to play at lesser programs in order to come to Illinois, he shouldn't see the floor much as a true freshman. However, Tracy Abrams is the only true point guard on the roster so an opportunity could arise for this sharpshooting youngster.
Langford sat out the entire 2011-12 season after breaking a finger in preseason workouts. At 6'7", Langford has the ability to play multiple positions. In high school he often brought the ball down court, although I see him playing small forward for U of I.
Langford's position on this list is predominantly based on the fact that he redshirted last year, while the other five Illini freshmen played, although most of them being minor roles. I could see Langford taking on the Joseph Bertrand/Calvin Brock-type role later on in his Illini career.
Although I highlighted Griffey in a somewhat negative aspect the other day, I truly hope that Griffey comes up big as a senior. Having started early on in his junior year, he may even get the chance to regain that role although I wouldn't count on it.
Griffey stands 6'8", but would rather pop out and shoot on the perimeter than muscle up opponents in the paint. He is the most experienced player in the Illinois frontcourt, which is somewhat scary, and it's up to Groce as to whether he wants to play Griffey or develop the sophomore big man.
Shaw is the exact same build as Griffey at 6'8" and 230 pounds, although Shaw isn't afraid to get physical down low. His contributions on the offensive side of the court are still an unknown, but his defense and rebounding abilities should help him see the court.
Shaw is a natural power forward, who could become the bruising hard-nosed player that Illinois sorely needs. Shaw's playing time, like many other players on this list, is still unknown, though I hope to see him more than the 7.0 minutes he played as a freshman.
Putting Djimde in the No. 8 spot might be a stretch, but I expect Groce to develop him more than Weber would have. Djimde hails from Mali, although he came to Champaign after one season of prep ball in West Virginia.
Djimde also is 6'8", weighing 245 pounds and possibly becoming the backup to Nnanna Egwu at center. Djimde needs to polish his offensive game, but he certainly has the size and physicality to compete in the post area as he did last December against Gonzaga and Robert Sacre.
If there's one thing that Henry proved during his 179 minutes of playing time as a freshman is that he can score the basketball. Known as a volume shooter, the 6'6" Henry averaged 3.2 points in only 8.1 minutes of PT a year ago.
Henry can play both shooting guard and small forward, and even play power forward if Groce decides to go with a small lineup. Henry is strong with the ball attacking the basket and I predict him to be one of the more improved players on the roster this year.
With Meyers Leonard's departure for the NBA, Egwu assumes the role of starting center for this year's version of the Fighting Illini. While Leonard made a enormous improvement between his freshman and sophomore seasons, I don't see Egwu making quite the same jump that Leonard did.
What Egwu lacks offensively though, he makes up for on defense and through his effort and hustle running up and down the court. Standing 6'11", Egwu has the height to play center in the Big Ten which could help him becoming a big time shot blocker.
McLaurin averaged 10.0 points and 7.5 rebounds last season at Coastal Carolina before coming to play at Illinois as a fifth-year senior much like Sam Maniscalco did a year ago. McLaurin should get the nod at starting power forward, although I don't want to be overly optimistic about transfers from small schools.
McLaurin has had issues with foul trouble the past two seasons, although he shouldn't be needed for 29.5 minutes per game like he was last season. McLaurin shot an impressive 65.2 percent from the floor last year, but needs to improve his 52.2 percent free throw percentage.
After winning the Big Ten Freshman of the Year award in 2010, Richardson hasn't shown any signs of improvement since. His three-point percentage has dropped each season and he rarely drives to the basket like he did early on in his Illini career.
Richardson is a top-notch defender, but will be absolutely needed to become the second or third scorer behind Brandon Paul. Richardson will be remembered to the Illinois faithful based on what he's done lately, which means a big senior season is in order and overdue.
After a redshirt season and an additional season and a half of rarely seeing the court, Bertrand made his mark during Illinois' loss to Missouri last December. The 6'5" junior scored 19 points on nine-for-nine shooting against the Tigers, vaulting him into the starting lineup soon after.
Bertrand scored in double figures nine times after the Mizzou game, including a 25-point effort on 11-for-12 shooting in a win over Nebraska. Bertrand could find himself playing both small forward and power forward, although he may start the season as the Illini's sixth man.
His ability to cut to the basket and finish emphatically helps makes him my current favorite player. Bertrand's versatility makes him a tough matchup on both offense and defense. Even if Bertrand comes off the bench, expect to see him on the floor late in games.
Statistically speaking, Abrams will not be Illinois' second-best player. In fact, he may not even be in the top five. Abrams' role for the 2012-13 Illini will be that of floor general and primary ball handler. Abrams may be the best on-ball defending point guard in the league, other than Ohio State's Aaron Craft.
As a freshman, Abrams only averaged 4.3 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 21.1 minutes. He became the team's starting point guard midway through the season, though this year he'll have established himself in that role from day one.
Abrams will need to log major minutes as a sophomore, as Illinois' next best ball handler is turnover machine Brandon Paul. While Abrams will mostly be distributing, he does have the ability to score as well, as shown by his 22-point performance against Purdue in February.
Brandon Paul showed the basketball world what he is capable of when he dropped 43 points in an upset win over Ohio State last January. No one would have thought it, but that 43-point performance may have been the worst thing that ever happened to Paul and the Illini.
After that game, Illinois only won two of their final 14 games. Paul averaged 3.7 turnovers per game during that slide, and finished the season shooting only 39 percent from the floor and 33 percent from long range.
As a senior, this is Paul's team. Illinois will have as much success as Paul allows them, which means Paul's careless turnovers and contested three-pointers need to come at a minimum. If he doesn't improve in those departments, 2012-13 could be even worse than 2011-12.


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Kansas pounds A&M in Big 12 tourney, Baylor next
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By BLAIR KERKHOFF
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The teams are part of the CBE Classic in November on the same Sprint Center court where the Jayhawks pounded A&M 83-66 in Thursday's quarterfinal round. KU faces Baylor on Friday night in the semifinals.
Johnson poured in 26 points, a career best. Three weeks ago in College Station, he had a 21-point game. The junior guard has three 20-point games in his career.
He started feeling it Thursday, oddly enough, on shots that didn't count. Twice in the early going, a whistle blew stopping play just before Johnson let it fly. Both times the shots went down, and he told backcourt mate Tyshawn Taylor that he was feeling it.
"He came to me when he could," Johnson said.
Like when the Jayhawks trailed early. The Aggies led 21-17. KU chipped three off the deficit, and then twice within a minute, the ball zipped around to an open Johnson. He buried it both times.
Suddenly a deficit was a five-point lead, and the run would grow to 13-0. Johnson hit two more free throws, giving him eight during the stretch.
The game had special meaning to Johnson for another reason. Johnson's uncle, William Couisnard of Gary, Ind., died last week, and Johnson missed practice Monday to be with his family. Johnson described his uncle as a "glue guy, a dear uncle, someone I stayed with for a while. He's taken care of me."
Yet, when Johnson was away, he thought about being back in Lawrence.
"While I was here, I couldn't wait to get home and see my family," Johnson said. "Once I got home to my family, I couldn't wait to get back and see these dudes. I could not wait.
"There was a point when I wished I could miss practice, now it was killing me to miss it."
Johnson made five of seven threes on Thursday and all five free-throw attempts. He had ample help from Thomas Robinson, who finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds; Taylor, who had 16; and Jeff Withey, who added 11 points and four blocks.
Nobody, it seemed, could miss. KU shot 61.4 percent from the floor and made 10 of its 15 three-pointers. The Aggies packed their defense to challenge Robinson and Withey, and the Jayhawks made them pay from deep.
Even Robinson stepped outside to hit two threes. Before the game, he had made only four in his career, all this season.
"When Robinson hits two threes, they're a very difficult team to guard," A&M coach Billy Kennedy said.
The Aggies looked spent. Their opening-round victory over Oklahoma ended about 18 hours before their quarterfinal game tipped off.
Legs weren't in shots, and starters labored in foul trouble. David Loubeau played only five minutes in the first half, and center Ray Turner finished the half with three fouls.
"Loubeau getting two fouls changes the whole complexion of the game," Kansas coach Bill Self said.
Texas A&M finished its final season in the Big 12 — they're off to the Southeastern Conference — at 14-18 record.
Baylor is looking for a different game against KU this time. Kansas beat the Bears by 18 in Lawrence and by 14 in Waco, Texas. Those were one-third of Baylor's losses this season.
So, who has the edge? All Kansas has known is beating Baylor, but there's something to the notion that it's difficult to beat a team three times in one season.
"It's true," Self said. "I think it's hardest to beat a team the third time. But sometimes the psychological advantage goes to the team that you've beaten."
The Bears topped Kansas State 82-74 on Thursday as Perry Jones III scored a career-best 31.
"I anticipate getting their best shot," Self said. "They're so talented it's a joke."
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Friday, December 17, 2010
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Evil in Return
As you can see in comments to the previous post, the liberal supporters of state authority are eager to impute naïveté to our views. "Did you really expect Manning to walk?" They are astonished! He could be a flight risk, someone rather hilariously suggests. I want you to ponder the use of the word "risk" in that statement and explain to me how it isn't hilarious on its face.
Obviously I did not expect Manning to walk. I do not expect him to go free. He will be punished and tortured, with or without a trial, whether guilty or innocent of a particular crime, whether he did what he is claimed to have done or not, whether what he is alleged to have done is right and just or wrong and unjust. I just want to be clear here. The procedural questions are totally immaterial. They have no bearing on my position. That he will be punished, and brutally, has already been determined. He has already been punished, and brutally. The injustice perpetrated upon him precedes the ritualized pursuit of justice so fetishized and lionized by liberal authoritarians. No future trial or tribunal, no future process-verbal or court martial, no matter how "fair", no matter how "impartial", can ever do anything but compound the injustice already committed. Everything subsequent is tainted by the torture he has already undergone, is currently undergoing. Even should the heavens part and the angels deliver him to freedom tomorrow, with the Holy Word of Jesus, Allah, and the Brahmanic pantheon engraving his innocence and righteousness upon his forehead, it will only make what has already been done to him all the more reprehensible.
The question "what is to be done with Private Manning," posed to me as if it presents an imponderable moral and practical conundrum that I have never considered, is irrelevant. It is, to use a phrase one of my regular commenter-critics recently reminded me of while criticizing me in comments, not even wrong. I do not care about the state's dilemma in dealing with Private Manning. I don't care about the state's dilemmas at all. The state will dispose of Private Manning as it sees fit. My interest is in the attitudes people take toward that state. Those who begin with the question of what the government should do with its enemies, even if their conclusion is some banal exhortation somehow to treat them humanely and fairly as it helps itself to their lives, are on the wrong side.
And, you know, as a follow-up, MattY thinks solitary confinement is going too far! He just wants Bradley Manning to be punished, not punished so much. I'm just going to keep civilly disobeying Godwin's law here, mkay? He just, you know, supports transport, not extermination. He supports the "necessary evil," but not the "straightforward evil." No, really!
So as best I can tell Manning is, in fact, guilty of serious crimes. And unlike the nutty and dangerous effort to legally sanction Julian Assange for publishing leaks, I have no problem with the government punishing people who violate the terms of their classification status. But Manning hasn't had a trial and hasn't been convicted. Somewhat punitive post-arrest pre-trial measures are kind of a necessary evil, but the prolonged confinement of Manning under cruel conditions go well beyond the necessary into the straightforward evil.Listen up, Ima just throw some shit out at all y'all. Put this in your pipes and smoke it. It is never necessary to do evil. It is always a choice.
Ordinary Germans
I think that in light of Glenn Greenwald's post, it is worth once more revisiting muscular squirrel, Matty Woodchuck, in his slavering to punish Bradley Manning.
I propose to you that the desire to see another human being punished, even a person who has done wrong, a category to which Bradley Manning emphatically doesn't belong anyway, is the most despicable of all human desires. Even if one admits to the necessity of punishment, a necessity that I find categorically problematic to begin with, then the only decent attitude is regret. To see punishment as an affirmative good is to be on the side of the barbarians. To turn your attention to a man who is not only decent and good, but who is innocent of wrongdoing, and to conclude that because he may have violated some bureaucratic doctrine in place for the sole purpose of obscuring and obfuscating the state's criminality, venality, and violence, he must therefore be tortured until he is insane, is psychopathic.
Matthew Yglesias is of course not insane, not psycopathic. He is merely inane. But I say unto yinz: if you wish to understand how authoritarianism triumphs, how ordinary people become the enablers of the monstrous, you could do no better than reread Yglesias' post again and again, until your eyes bleed.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Two Hearts that Beat as One
Beginning to end, there might not be another opera with more exciting music than Don Carlo. Now it is by no means Verdi's best opera. It isn't even one opera; so many changes and revisions have been made, so many different versions exist, that there is no definitive interpretation. In its completely unexpurgated form, it's something like four hours long. Dramatically it is a bit of a mess, and it doesn't really flow. Everything stops; someone sings an aria--over and over again. It lacks the violent intensity of a Trovatore, the tragic inevitability of La Traviata, and the musical invention of his last, possibly greatest, if not his most popular, Falstaff. What it lacks in unity, though, it makes up for in sheer verve, one knock-your-socks-off piece after another, like this super-manly, totally homoerotic duet ("Dio che nell' alma infondere") in which Don Carlo and Rodrigo swear their friendship:
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Rules and Order
I was going to say something about the Glenn Greenwald/CREW contretemps, but Hugh at Corrente has a fine view of it. He even called it a contretemps. That's what I was gonna say! I like his take so much that I will not even make fun of him for using the "progressive" label in something other than knee-slapping, eyebrow-busting derogation.
The story doesn't end there. Glenn Greenwald sits on CREW's board and on December 12, 2010, he resigned from it over CREW's and Weinstein's stand against Wikileaks. To which, Melanie Sloan, CREW's director, responded that she welcomed his resignation and lambasted him for not keeping his disagreement in-house, that is secret, thus demonstrating how much she and CREW have internalized the Washington mindset they pretend to criticize.This is certainly the punchline of the joke, and as Hugh shortly goes on to note:
CREW's moniker with its reference to responsibility and ethics is sad and hollow.As I have elsewhere and otherwise observed, responsibility (and in this context, ethics as well) is in fact a euphemism for acquiescence to institutional prerogatives over individual values: of a government, of an employer, of a school, etc. To act responsibly, to be a responsible critic, is to agree to suspend moral action at the point at which public judgment and public action might harm the institution.
What does this mean in the context of a group like CREW? It means that when they speak of "responsibility" in Washington, they are in fact speaking of a capital that acts in accordance with what they, CREW, perceive to be Washington's own best interest. Far from critics, they are in fact boosters of the American government. Indeed, they are boosters of the American government exactly as it is currently constituted. They see their role not as journalists, nor as agents of openness, but as ethical officers keeping a sprawling and occasionally messy governing apparatus from harming itself through careless, "unethical" conduct. This is why their own legal counsel's principal objection to wikileaks and Julian Assange is that she believes them to be "motivated by a desire to harm U.S. interests."
CREW, with a rather silly and very inflated sense of self-regard, sees itself as a party to the interests of the American goverment. It just wants to make sure that all the proper bylaws and rules of procedure are followed along the way.
Longtime Companion
My boyfriend is thirty and self-employed, as the saying goes, and he's not had health insurance since he was in college, but when the shitty health care bill passed, we figured it was better to put him on my very good and very reasonable employer-backed plan than find ourselves in a few years time saddled with some piece-of-shit, overpriced, high-deductible mandate. This led to an hilarious flurry of activity. We had to keep ourselves from giggling at the bank as we forced ourselves to call each other "domestic partners," and I nearly died when, after I called the auto insurance to have his name added beside the "additional driver in household" line, I got a form back listing his "relationship to primary policy-holder" simply as "friend," which is what my grandmother calls him. This was all to prove to an insurance broker that we are, in fact, "domestic partners," even though we are not, in fact, domestic partners. We are boyfriends, infantile though that term may be. For tax reasons and personal reasons and also simply because we are both hopeless procrastinaters, we never merged bank accounts or got joint, well, anything. It's actually a little disconcerting to find that our mutual-consensual householding is now something slightly less than instantly disolvable at-will by either party. It offends our sensibilities, but oh well, it's a relatively slim price for good dental.
Did we jump the gun? Of course, I said back when it passed that a government mandate that its subjects purchase the product of a private company or else the government will punish and penalize you was absurd, a forcible wealth-transfer scheme whereby we are all dragooned into a plot to subsidize the operating margins of private firms. Henry E. Hudson, I salute you. I doubt it will last; I can't imagine the Roberts court overturning such a delicious corporate subsidy. But a boy can dream, cain't he?
L'esprit d'escalier
"You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan."
Richard Holbrooke, on his deathbed
« Sedaine, immobile et froid, me regarde et me dit : « Ah ! Monsieur Diderot, que vous êtes beau ! » Voilà l'observateur et l'homme de génie. Ce fait, je le racontais un jour à table, chez un homme que ses talents supérieurs destinaient à occuper la place la plus importante de l'État, chez M. Necker ; il y avait un assez grand nombre de gens de lettres, entre lesquels Marmontel, que j'aime et à qui je suis cher. Celui-ci me dit ironiquement : « Vous verrez que lorsque Voltaire se désole au simple récit d'un trait pathétique et que Sedaine garde son sang-froid à la vue d'un ami qui fond en larmes, c'est Voltaire qui est l'homme ordinaire et Sedaine l'homme de génie ! » Cette apostrophe me déconcerte et me réduit au silence, parce que l'homme sensible, comme moi, tout entier à ce qu'on lui objecte, perd la tête et ne se retrouve qu'au bas de l'escalier. »
-Diderot, Paradoxe sur le comédien
Monday, December 13, 2010
But if you don't get the President of the Unites States on that phone, you know what's going to happen to you?
So Matty Woodchuck has discoverd the No Labels gang, an hilarious triumvirate of Beltway hacks hopping--for fun and profit!--on the post-partisanship train. Choo-choo, tweeeeeeeeeee, all-aboard! Yeah, you know, because nothing says Novel Ideas for Our Democracy like
...has worked in as a strategic advisor, fundraiser and relationship/network cultivator for Gary Hart, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Evan Bayh. She ran the finance operation for President Clinton's Inaugural Committee and was appointed the Finance Director of the Democratic National Committee in 1993. For the past 15 years, she was a senior advisor to the Democratic Leadership Council, Finance Chair for Senator Evan Bayh...By the way, "relationship cultivator for Gary Hart" has got to be the funniest phrase in American politics, bar none.
Now Matty doesn't like No Labels. Not one bit! Parties are important! They help people sort things out! Without labels, you can't tell the difference between Diet Coke and Pepsi! No, seriously:
Normally, how much you're willing to pay for a good or service depends on the quality of the good or service in question. But there's no way to sample the quality of a can of soda without buying it first. So how am I to know whether or not I want to buy that can of Diet Coke? Well it's simple. I may not have had that can of Diet Coke before, but I have had many other cans of Diet Coke. And I can infer that the Coca-Cola corporation, having invested a great deal of time and money in building the Diet Coke band is going to make a good-faith effort to turn out a consistent product. That doesn't necessarily mean everyone will like the taste of Diet Coke. But it does mean everyone knows more-or-less what Diet Coke tastes like, and then they can make their soda-consumption choices in a coherent way.As usual, a penetrating insight from Yggie. If not for the civic-minded virtue of the Coca-Cola company, it would be impossible, totally impossible, for us reguhlur-Joes to tell which sort of brown, carbonated, aspartame-jacked fake sugarwater we are sucking down our greedy fucking gullets. Thank god for Brand Management, which shows us where the difference lies. I am sure I do not have to explain how this illuminates the genius of Our Political System.
Under state capitalism, you hear a lot of talk about "wealth creation." So you're supposed to interpret wealth as something like an industrial product, a thing made and assembled, something which, provided the proper material inputs, we can consistently fabricate more of.
But wealth isn't created. It's extracted. You aren't an assembly line. You're a mineshaft.


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Baby Born With Extra Thingie On Its Back
I've been contemplating whether or not to post this since last night, but since so many people sent it in, and I'm a sucker for peer pressure (I do drugs now), I guess I am. Of course, the story was broken by The Sun, so it's probably faker than the license I use to buy beer with (I'm only 17) anyways. Allegedly a son born to Li Jun, a 30-year old farmer from Hejian City in China's Henan province, was born with an extra penis on his back. I had a kid on my swim team growing up with an extra nipple on his back, but never have I heard of a spare penis. The appendage is the result of a condition known as fetus in fetu, in which one twin is partially reabsorbed by the other. Thankfully, the baby underwent surgery to remove the unit (which was attached to the spine) and the baby has made a full recovery and will live a normal, one penis life.
Seriously, Geekologie is thankful the surgery was a success, the baby is healthy and doing well, and wonders if doctors could attach that thing to me somewhere. Anywhere, I don't care. Forehead's fine.
Uncensored picture of the thing after the jump. WARNING: It's a baby with a penis on it's back.
Baby born with penis on back [thesun]
Thanks Loni, Joe, Alice and Dr. WTF for making me realize that being born with two penises isn't the blessing I thought it was
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ICM Registry, which runs the controversial .xxx top-level domain, today revealed that it has applied to ICANN for the gTLDs .porn, .sex and .adult. The Florida-based company hopes to avoid "shakedown" accusations this time around - last year it faced severe criticism and a lawsuit when it raked in millions of dollars in …
They've stolen our word 'Adult'...
Does this mean we have to use the compound 'grown-up', when referring to things not childish or adolescent, if we wish not to be misinterpreted as talking about something erotic? We can't use the word 'mature', because that now seems to mean '40 years of age and older', rather than 15-24 years of age (dependant on context)?
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And all of them completely irrelevant. I haven't seen a single site on the xxx domain or any ads pointing to such domains during my onanistic surfing.
Re: 215,000 .xxx domain names
I don't think the new gTLDs are live yet, but top marks for some dedicated research.
Do we really need more top level domains?
Surely there are enough! Or, lets go the whole hog and get rid of ICANN and just let everyone have their own top level domain.
Re: Do we really need more top level domains?
We seem to be moving in the direction of anything as a TLD. The happy outcome of that would be that defensive registrations wouldn't be necessary anymore.
... Brilliant idea just happened, I'm going to offer obscene defensive reg. pricing to all Scandinavian companies to protect <domainname>.bork.bork.bork
Watch This Futility
all the new TLD are worthless except the for ICANN making money
what ... makes ... anyone ... think ... Google ... will ... index ... them ... ?
Not to mention that some are already in use.
ICANN isn't the only root in the world, just the most widely used.
.xxx and several of the other TLDs were in happy use by Alternate roots for some time.
Hopefully most credible companies will wise up to the scam before much longer.
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We enjoyed the Aqua Spa Cafe for breakfast and lunch and ate in the main dining room for all the other nights except for a night in the Normandy specialty restaurant. The food on the whole was very good to excellent. We had late seating and one of our favorite spots was the 10 deck aft bar with a sushi bar(excellent), guitar player (ok), and a beautiful sunset each evening. There was a nice mix of ages on the ship with just a few children. We thought there would be a much older crowd, but there wasn't.
We went to only a couple of shows in the theater that interested us and they were good, but the acts on the other nights didn't peak our interest. The late night activities at the bar at the end of the earth were enjoyable. I certainly would not call this ship a party boat, but there was enough going on at the casino & bar to keep you busy.
During the day at sea, they were not a ton of activities going on, but that was fine with us because we just wanted to sit by the pool and relax.
We booked our excursions on the internet taking the canopy tour in Puerto Vallarta and Randi's Happy Horses in Mazatlan. Both were great.
Ship was in great shape, very clean. Pro's for the Summit: Service, Food & wonderful staff.
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