06.24.04
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Daily Show with John Stewart (June 22, 2004)
Interview with Stephen F Hayes
Author, “The Connection: How Al Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America”
Senior writer, The Weekly Standard
Hayes: “I think the idea behind the Bush doctrine is that if you support or harbor terrorist we are going to come after you. We’ll consider you a hostile regime. I don’t think that frankly in the aftermath of September 11–I really don’t think that’s an unreasonable doctrine.”
Stewart: “But here’s the problem. It’s not unreasonable, but it’s not the point. The point is… I’ll list you four things: developing weapons of mass destruction, inflammatory rhetoric against the United States, supporting and harboring terrorism, and oppression of their own people.
“Now here’s the problem with your doctrine. You can’t tell me which country I just named. And that’s a problem when you’re talking about war.”
See the video at:
On Lisa Rein’s Radar: Daily Show On “The Connection”
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06.23.04
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The other month, Fry’s had the Coby “HANDS-FREE” EAR/MICROPHONE with FM SCANNER RADIO on sale for 87% off. It’s usually $20, but they were clearing them out for $2.50.
I don’t own a cell phone. I know, it must seem odd: a web producer who talks nothing but technology all day long but eschews cell phones (for the most part). Anyways I really wanted this because it’s the smallest, cheapest FM radio I’ve seen. It’s smaller than your average cigarette lighter, runs on a couple of watch batteries.
Stereo is Overrated – The best thing is that, since it’s supposed to be used for a cell phone, it only has one ear bud. Stereo is great if you’re really listening to music, but if you simply want the music to provide you with a beat that you can work to, and you don’t want to have an ‘outloud’ radio playing and you’re switching between computers all day long… or you’ve got a convertible car that doesn’t lock up very well and someone’s already tried to steal the cd player out of it once so you’ve got an old broken deck in there but that’s okay because you haven’t re-installed the speakers that you disconnected when you took the door panels out to fix and clean the window lifting mechanism and you just want something small, simple and not worth worrying about like an MP3 player that might cost more than $40, then this little FM radio is perfect. Even without the cell phone.
Does the radio have Incredible crystal clear reception that picks up the merest hint of a radio signal? No, of course not. Does it pick up my favorite stations on a regular basis? Yes.
For my own future reference, this is the Coby CV-FM70 and it runs on two watch batteries. The two that came with are “G13-A” also known as AG13 but Energizer’s 357 1.55v work too.
It’s telling that the $2.50 radio cost me $7 in replacement batteries. Next time around I’ll pick up the 8 pack.
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TIMBERS Cut Down Thunder
June 22, 2004 – The Minnesota Thunder outshot the Portland Timbers 26-10 but fell short 1-0 on a fluke first half goal in an A-League battle between the two…
PORTLAND Timbers in first place in conference
By CHRIS METZ, Timbers Writer. ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Portland Timbers shut down the Minnesota Thunder 1-0 behind a first-half goal by Alan Gordon and six saves…
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PORTLAND Timbers learn of Open Cup opponent
And the Portland Timbers learned who their potential next opponent would be should they advance past the third round. …
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06.22.04
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Here it comes again…
I’m in a planning meeting for WebVisions 2004 and we’re gearing up for a really huge conference. 1 day, 5 rooms, 500 to 700 people. I’m the stage manager again this year, so I’m getting all of the volunteers slotted into specific roles and getting the floor plan and the event script written up and ready to go.
I also got all of the older WV web sites set up on sub-domains:
I’m tracking the error log as well in order to get redirects set up for the site. We got a favicon added to it and stuff. Woo hoo. 🙂
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06.21.04
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If you happen to have an extra hundred thousand burning a hole in your pocket, feel free to pick me up one of these:
Here’s a brief movie that shows the Beam Dynamics Laser Cutting Machine in action.
The movie’s quality with the background music sucks, but the machine shines…
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>Serena Williams was an ’80s child who has adopted the decade’s rather dubious style as her own. Yet as much as she loves the whole ’80s thing – the music (Depeche Mode), the jewellery (gaudy), the hair (big) – one major difference between tennis and fashion is that only in the latter is history certain to be repeated.
Williamses look back to the future – Tennis – www.smh.com.au
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06.20.04
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> I still am probably going to be migrating to WordPress at some point, but I’m keeping this handy in case I change my mind. Link from Neil’s Smaller World. – UtterlyBoring.com
Do it, do it do it. Go with WordPress as soon as you can. If you’ve got any PHP chops at all you can utterly bend it to your will.
I believe the phrase I’m looking for is “Easy as pi.”
erm… “pie.”
(I suppose Pi, being an irrational mathematical notation is not quite as easy as a fruit-filled bakery dessert with a tender and flaky crust.)
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I don’t think I’ve posted about OrBlogs here before, but since I was repairing some of my connection settings between Dwelling and OrBlogs, I though I’d do that.
<http ://www.orblogs.com/> has a collection of blogs from Oregonians. Physical locale is really the only connection between these people. Politically, emotionally, and chronologically they really have no other connection. but there is a sense of unification in terms of progressive thought.
I’m sure much of this is because the largest section of the population is from Portland and hence has a left-leaning, progressive oriented view point.
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06.19.04
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If you’re looking for a great iChat icon for yourself (or other I guess) check out: Portrait Illustration Maker where they’ve got a great system for putting together your own little icon. Supa crazy great! Warning: Engrish.
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In case you were wondering, World Cup qualifying rounds take place in each of FIFA’s 6 member confederations. At FIFA.com you can see the list of them, and they correspond roughly with the populated continents. They are the equivalent of the American League and the National League in Major League Baseball.
From FIFA: The Confederations are the umbrella organisations of the national football associations on each continent. The AFC in Asia, CAF in Africa, the Football Confederation (CONCACAF) in North and Central America and the Caribbean, CONMEBOL in South America, UEFA in Europe and the OFC in Oceania all provide support to FIFA without encroaching on the rights of the national associations.
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