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Quake ported to Chumby makes for an adorable first-person shooter — At first glance, you may wonder if Chumby is simply too lovable to rock a version of Quake, but after peeping ChumbyLurker's port of the game, we'll be darned if the two aren't perfect for each other. He's been gracious enough to make it available as both source code and a disk image, and installing the game is as easy as plugging in your USB drive and turning the machine on. On the video we've seen, the 350MHz device appears to keep up with things quite well, but the best part would have to be that the mouse and... [Tags: accelerometer, bunnie, control inputs, disk image, ditto]

Where Have All the Acorns Go? — First it was the bees. Then, something strange is happening to acorns: this year, there are no acorns in "I’m used to seeing so many acorns around and out in the field, it’s something I just didn’t believe," he said. "But this is not just not a good year for oaks. It’s a zero year. There’s zero production. I’ve never seen anything like this before." The absence of acorns could have something to do with the weather, Simmons thought. But he hoped it wasn’t a climatic event. "Let’s hope it’s not something ghastly going on with the natural world." To... [Tags: absence, acorn, acorns, arlington national cemetery, audubon nature]

James Warren: Clinton, Gates -- The Unveiling — Chicago -- If Sen. Hillary Clinton is unveiled Monday as the next Secretary of State, will she be allowed to speak or take questions? So far, the nominees of a properly cautious President-elect Barack Obama have stood behind him, statue-like, and then exited after he's answered a few queries. Though I might wager $1 (not more!) that Clinton does get to say something, albeit briefly, here's a quick wish list of questions for her, whether she does or not. Ditto for Defense Secretary Robert Gates if, as expected, he's there, too: ---What should be our role in the world, especially... [Tags: barack obama, curtailment, defense secretary, ditto, economic challenge]

Conservatism As McCarthyism? — It's crudely reductive, as even Neal Gabler is forced to concede. The American conservative era owes just as much to Goldwater's libertarianism and Reagan's pragmatic freedom agenda. It's also bundled up with Buckley's erudition, Gingrich's populism, and the first Bush's realism and prudence. But Gabler is surely onto something in seeing the McCarthyite strain in American conservatism being more tenacious and transmittable, because human resentment is more common and politically potent than agreement about limited government. The resentment theme also tends to get stronger when there is too little raw political talent around: when you have the limited grasp... [Tags: american conservatism, american politics, class resentment, ditto, erudition]

Danny Schechter: The Talk of a Depression is Depressing — In this Thanksgiving week, a majority, perhaps, of all Americans will give thanks not only for a bountiful table but for a transition of power in which so much hope is invested. As the new Administration translates its campaign's lofty vision of change into a new team and concrete plans, we find that the new change-makers are largely a throw back to the old centrist Clinton Administration that took its marching orders from the corporate interests funding the Democratic Leadership Conference. Barack Obama is now calling for a major stimulus and job creation effort but outlining it and getting it... [Tags: barack obama, bountiful table, business cycle, clinton administration, concrete plans]

I hate the term “social media”, but I didn’t really want to write a post entitled “How to Use Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, social networking, Google Search, Craigslist, and other Web sites to Get Hired.”  It just didn’t have a good ring to it. The last time my consulting firm put out a job opening (on Craigslist and LinkedIn) we received a few hundred emailed resumes.  We phone-screened about 25 of these resumes (and I left some advice for the other 375), met 8 people in person, and hired none of them. As the firm is hiring again (haven’t listed... [Tags: amazon, clients page, consulting firm, ditto, doom and gloom]

Cato: GOP Survival Depends On Blocking Health Care Reform — Basically, the argument is that universal health care would be so popular that Republicans would lose their grip on social conservatives. Michael F. Cannon makes the case: Blocking Obama’s Health Plan Is Key to the GOP’s Survival Ditto Baucus’ health plan. And Kennedy’s. And Wyden’s. Why? Norman Markowitz, a contributing editor at PoliticalAffairs.net (motto: "Marxist Thought Online"), makes an interesting point about how making citizens dependent on the government for their medical care can change the fates of political parties: A "single payer" national health system – known as "socialized medicine" in the rest of the developed world – should... [Tags: british history, cato, core constituencies, ditto, fates]

WWE offers social networking — Filed under: Industry, Reality-FreeUsually known for their violent soap opera on television and pay-per-view, World Wrestling Entertainment has quietly launched their own social networking site called WWE Universe.The article mentions that they already have 200,000 members without spending any money on advertising. Well, they have two shows weekly which have among the biggest audiences on cable television. One casual mention on those shows and they get advertising without spending any additional budget. Ditto for mentioning it on their website, which is one of the most popular destinations on the Internet.Continue reading WWE offers social networking Permalink | Email this | | Comments... [Tags: audiences, budget, cable television, ditto, industry reality]

In writing up my visit to Gannett, I realized that I was missing something that I wanted: I went to link Jim Lenahan’s name, and then realized that he doesn’t have a blog or any kind of external web presence. I wanted to link Michael Maness, their VP of Innovation, and realized he doesn’t have an external web presence. Ditto Ken Paulson, etc. It dawns on me that this is a missed opportunity in several ways. Links are love. If I link to them, Google values that link and helps search traffic find the site. Links encourage exploration. You... [Tags: blog, ditto, external web, gannett, google]

Obama’s Staff Of Clinton Hacks Is Insufficiently Change-y — Ha ha, remember back in that debate when Barack Obama was asked how he can represent change if his advisors are a bunch of Billary cronies, and Hillary laughed at him meanly, and he said, “I’m looking forward to you advising me too, Hillary”? He wasn’t lying. He has decided to reconstruct the entire foul Clinton repository of hacks, brick by brick, until his presidency culminates in a hasty under-the-desk blow job from a fat chick. Many Obama supporters find this objectionable! He promised to clean up Washington and usher in a new era of civility, and yet he hires... [Tags: applicant pool, barack obama, blow job, brick by brick, civility]

Greg Mitchell: Media 'In the Tank' for Obama? Studies Don't Prove It -- And Here's Why — This past Sunday, with the race for the White House finally over, Deborah Howell, the Washington Post ombudsman, examined the results of her paper's study of the fairness of its own election coverage in the past year. Soon articles, or links, relating to her piece were carrying headlines suggesting that the study had found that the Post had clearly "tilted" to Obama (this was Howell's, and HuffPost's, headline) or even showed a "major tilt" to Obama (that's how Mark Halperin at his "The Page" blog at Time.com had it, as did many others, especially conservative outlets). On top of the... [Tags: angles, conventional wisdom, crowds, ditto, election coverage]

iPlayer for Mac Coming This Month — If there were any lingering doubts about people’s desire to get television anywhere, anytime, and on any device, then the recent success of the BBC’s iPlayer service has put them to rest. As our team at NewTeeVee has repeatedly pointed out, in the British Isles, the iPlayer is a phenomenon. How big a phenom? Last week when I met with Richard Titus, who oversees user experience and design at the BBC, he told me that during the Olympics, the iPlayer accounted for nearly 20 percent of the total broadband traffic in the UK, and at present has garnered about 10... [Tags: akamai, british isles, broadband providers, broadband traffic, broadcaster]

Gays, Blacks, Marriage — Cindy Rizzo attacks Dan Savage, a Kossack tries to separate myth from reality, and Coates thinks before he speaks:I'm still embarrassed by the fact that 70 percent of those who did vote, voted yes. It means we have serious work to do. But I'm seeing a makings of a disreputable trend to turn a problem into a black problem. We use disproportion as a crutch--what's important is that blacks are disproportionately poor, not that there are large numbers of white poor people. Ditto for homophobia. What's important isn't the large minority of whites, and the influential majority (barely) of Latinos... [Tags: advocacy community, african americans, california electorate, clear signal, coates]

Are We Feeling Dehumanized Yet? [Kronk Burger] — Now that we're living in a technological wonderland, you're in constant danger of losing your humanity. It's just a fact — every scientific or medical advance makes us that little bit less human, and every time you play with your Google Android or take another eat another stem-cell sex donut, a few cells of your body transform into day-glo bubble wrap. Science fiction has been warning us for years! But how can you tell when you're no longer human? We're here to help. The situation has already become dire. You lose track of people for a few months, and the... [Tags: android, bubble wrap, cells, constant danger, crabs]

Say it with me. Peanut butter and… Right. You can’t just have peanut butter. It’s wrong. It’s a freak of nature. It’s an amputation of our sensibilities. It’s like cookies and … It’s like Day and … It’s like Batman and… Oh, I guess you can have just Batman these days. But you can’t have just peanut butter. It doesn’t work. Ditto social media for business. You can’t have just social media: the blogging and podcasting and tweeting and social newtork use. It’s great that you’re doing all that stuff, but you need your jelly, too. And in this... [Tags: amputation, batman, consultancies, conversions, cue]

Joe The Mugger Update Update — A hoax. She confesses, according to the cops. One should recall Fox news executive vice-president John Moody's statement: If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting.All those who reported or linked to this without some skepticism were race-baiting. But Michelle Malkin deserves kudos for calling this. One more thing about John Moody's remarkable blog posting.Here's what he wrote before that sentence on race-baiting: Part of the appeal of, and the unspoken tension behind, Senator Obama’s campaign is his transformational status as the first African-American to win a... [Tags: black man, democratic nominee, ditto, due respect, fox news]

Palin In 2012? The Argument — There's a suspicion in some McCain loyalist precincts that Gov. Sarah Palin is beginning to play the Republican base against John McCain -- McCain won't let her campaign in Michigan...McCain won't let her bring up Jeremiah Wright... McCain doesn't like her terrorist pal talks.... Think ahead to 2010...2011...2012. Palin is ambitious. Very ambitious. And if she wants the job, she's easily the frontrunner to become THE voice of the angry Right in the Wilderness. She is a favorite of talk radio and Fox News conservatives, and speaks their language as only a true member of the club can. (Her recent... [Tags: conservatives, ditto, dittohead, dog whistles, fox news]

First Technical Review of Mitsubishi LaserVue Laser TV: Technically Awesome [Mitsubishi Laservue Hdtv] — Reviews of Mitsubishi's $7000 laser-lit stunner have been rolling in for a bit, but HD Guru (who helped us buy an HDTV like a pro) has the first truly sophisticated technical evaluation—after watching it for 12 hours straight—of the best use of lasers in your living room yet. Not only does it have the most eye-popping colors, detailed blacks and pupil-squeezing brightness of any set he's tested, it uses less power than a 100-watt bulb, making it the greenest too. We've covered several prototypes of the LaserVue set, and Gary says it blows all of them away, and "rates in... [Tags: color gamut, ditto, eyeball, flat surface, hdtv reviews]

Steampunk Pr0n: Titanium Photochromatic Variable-Aperture Spectacles — It's entirely possible that Mike Brown overdosed on ADD meds: These brass goggles scream "attention to detail". And they're frickin' awesome. Some numbers: The leather is actually bolted to the eyepieces, using 48 tiny bolts plus another four for the nosepiece. The leather was chosen for the tanning process which should give it a klife of a few thousand years. Ditto the eyepieces, which are machines from titanium and coated with Titanium Nitride. Predicted lifespan: 500 years plus. There are even brass eyelets in the leather eyecups to stop the lenses steaming up. Mike put in a few nice... [Tags: attention to detail, bolts, brass eyelets, ditto, eyepiece]

The Journey Of Faith — Poulos contemplates the fullness of God:We do ourselves a disservice if we think of, say, the onset of faith in religious truth too exclusively in terms of Big Sudden Conversion Events...We start longing for the experience of conversion, the gratifying sensation that we are surrendering ourselves completely to an insuperable power, rather than longing, say, to have been converted. This presumptive longing for the sudden, totalizing experience of comprehensiveness is, I think, a bit too driven by envy. And our longing, post-conversion, for the enduring, permanent experience of fullness is ditto too driven by pride.... [Tags: conversion events, disservice, ditto, envy, god]