Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Bill Moyers at NCMR 2007

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

I was listening that old school form of media, something called radio, just now, NPR, and they started playing a slightly truncated version of the journalist Bill Moyers' speech at the National Conference on Media Reform. Found them on YouTube, you should watch / listen. It's very interesting.
Part 1 and Part 2 

Lunchtime links

Monday, January 8th, 2007

During lunch, while eating a delicious chicken sandwich and scanning my usual lunchtime news sites (Digg and Slashdot) I found the following tidbits that I thought I'd share.
Web developers, just say no to Internet ExplorerAn interesting little read from a frustrated developer (presumably, doesn't say what he does for a living, just what kind of [...]

Borat, Burgers, and Beer

Friday, November 10th, 2006

What a busy week, so much so that I've neglected my blog… again. This past week, the company I work for treated the team I'm working with to two special days, back-to-back. On Monday we were taken to a mid-day showing of the new film Borat (which was both hilarious and disturbing), and then on [...]

Perspective

Monday, September 11th, 2006

This morning, as I sat down to my computer with my cup of coffee (my morning ritual, as I shake off the slumber) and loaded up my daily nerd news sites it dawned on me that today is the fateful September 11th. If this seems strange to you, that I didn't think about it well [...]

Stephen Colbert, special report

Monday, May 1st, 2006

This past Saturday night C-Span aired the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, a fancy gala that included the President himself. The final speaker for the night was Steven Colbert, of the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report.
Mr. Colbert roasts the President, the media, and everyone between. It is quite entertaining to see Colbert standing face [...]