July 2009

What Do They Call A Whopper In France?

July 9, 2009

“I don’t know. I didn’t go into Burger King.” Just who runs Burger King advertising these days?  The king is ultra-creepy and “I like square butts?”  Really?  I’ve often wondered if the BK VP of advertising is a frat boy or someone who wants to make easy money catering to the frat-boy demographic, because they [...]

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links for 2009-07-08

July 8, 2009

The Washington Independent | Obama Military Commissions Vision Takes Shape (tags: government history war) NYTimes | Bob Herbert: After The War Was Over "[Robert] McNamara, it turns out, had realized early on that Vietnam was a lost cause, but he kept that crucial information close to his chest, like a gambler trying to bluff his [...]

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My First Review Of Twinity

July 7, 2009

Just as I was griping about the lack of anything interesting to write about in the wide world of visualization, Twinity got a big chunk of change to back its claim of developing 3d digital cities.  What is Twinity?  (No, it’s not Neo‘s girlfriend’s Twitter presence.)  What the hell is a 3d digital city?  And [...]

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Suspect Device On The Public Health Option

July 7, 2009

From Greg, whose lovely wife my parents and I met right after his valve replacement. Like I was saying, “Employment and personal wealth should not be the only ways for an American to access a basic and low-cost yet good healthcare plan.” Especially not when health insurance exists to benefit from the healthy and not [...]

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25 Years Of Neuromancer

July 6, 2009

The book that propelled me further into love with the future’s endless (technological) possibilities.  Just never ask me to reproduce my drawings of Console Cowboy and essays on downloadable consciousness. MacWorld | Neuromancer turns 25: What it got right, what it got wrong Tweet

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links for 2009-07-02

July 2, 2009

NASA | ASTER Imagery Press Release With images from the L.A. Basin and the Himalayas. "The GDEM is produced with 30-meter (98-feet) postings, and is formatted as 23,000 one-by-one- degree tiles. The GDEM is available for download from NASA's EOS data archive and Japan's Ground Data System." (tags: NASA science japan maps geography earth GIS [...]

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Karen In Public Health Option Video Spot

July 2, 2009

Below is my friend Karen Gadbois (looking good!) in a MoveOn.org video speaking on behalf of the public health insurance option. Karen is a breast cancer survivor and one of many New Orleanians suffering without proper healthcare since The Flood and what I call Recovery Stalling severely crippled the Charity system.  Honestly, I don’t know [...]

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With Respect To

July 1, 2009

It’s July 1st, so I’ve been back in the Midwest for, what, three months? A quarter of a year. After fits and starts, travel and more travel and D gone for half of each month, we are beginning to own our home, home-ownership and the giant yard that always needs tending.  While D mows, I [...]

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