Why the Deomcrats lost

Couldn’t stay out of politics. Reading new blogs did it too me. I think in America winning an election is less “getting people to vote for you” and more “getting your people to vote”. And the Republican’s voted. Democrats didn’t. It like the whole country is so lazy that it takes a major pissing off…

“under-representation of left…”

From a blog of Glenn Reynold’s talk at a conference this week. This is from the last paragraph in the story. Question about under-representation of left-leaning political interests in the Blogosphere. The Internet is fairly libertarian and rationalistic; this probably contributes. Blogs and big media in a negative feedback loop; many people blog because they’re…

Xmas expansion

Here’s some more stuff I want for Christmas. Just some other books. Cocoa Programming Shadow Puppets

Farscape comercial

I’m a big fan of Sci-Fi channel’s Farscape and it has been canceled. There is a movement on the net to save it you should participate in. The latest cool thing is a home grown commercial. Good concept even if it has a bit of an amateurish execution (the lighting is horrible and the shots…

Gun, Blogging and a Voice

I’ve been looking for “Voice”, to theme or focus, for Reactuate. I’ve got a number of areas of expertise and interest I could use. I’m a Mac programmer by trade, but I have a shareware company with its own blog for that. I thought about politics because the blog-o-sphere is woefully lacking in conservative voices….

Space Links

I woke up Saturday morning thinking about what technology would be needed if you had a cheap means of getting into orbit. Right now the big problem is getting there, not living there. But if you had something like anti-gravity you could do it easily. The first thing I thought of was space suits. So…

Suanna’s List

To make things complete, here’s my wife’s list. And I don’t have any links for it because I don’t think most people would buy this stuff online. duvet cover for down comforter–$50-75, Bed Bath and Beyond frame for my nature original that’s still not framed–$250, probably large bookshelves, one dark, two light– Cost Plus, when…

Kids Xmas lists

My kids have a Christmas list now and here it is. Animal Crossing, for Nintendo GameCube Metroid Prime, for Nintendo GameCube Sly Cooper, for PlayStation 2 Age of Mythology, for PC Not exactly a variable choice of item types.