Links With Your Coffee - Thursday
- Comparison Shopping: Oprah vs. Bill - Indecision 2008 Now that's amusing.
- The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark]
When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.
Jeff Bezos, Open letter to Author’s Guild, 2002
You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content.
Amazon, Kindle Terms of Service, 2007 - American College of Physicians Endorse Single-Payer - CommonDreams.org
- Ablative, Allative, Adessive, Obsessive - New York Times
SOMETIMES we turn to ritual to find peace in the solemnity of routine, in the comfort of regular practice. But occasionally we turn to ritual for another reason: because our favorite activities are just too embarrassing to do in public. My obsession, reading textbooks on foreign languages and memorizing obscure grammatical detail, is ritual of the latter persuasion. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if I did it in public, I wouldn’t have any friends. But if I didn’t do it at all, then I couldn’t tell you that Ancient Greek had a noun declension for objects found in pairs. Like shoes, or maybe breasts. And what fun would I be, then?
- Let us kill all the teddy bears / Note to radical Muslims: I've now named my favorite coffee mug 'Muhammad.' Hope that helps
Here's what I like to do every time I see a throng of frothing religious zombies marching in the streets of Sudan or Pakistan or Colorado Springs or anywhere else in the world, carrying knives and torches and holding festering clots of fear in their hearts as they burn flags or photographs or copies of "The Goblet of Fire" or "The Golden Compass" or that sweet little book about the cute gay penguins in the Central Park Zoo and all screaming for the instant death of someone who dared to suggest that, say, Jesus was actually a liberal pacifist or that L. Ron Hubbard was a nutball hack or that it's perfectly delightful to let sweet little schoolkids name a sweet little teddy bear 'Muhammad.'
- "A Cartoon" by Mr. Fish (Harper's Magazine)
- ZNet |U.S. | Don't Believe the Hype (Ron Paul is Not Your Savior)
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Ahh...the stuff about the Kindle is scary.
Does anyone know how reading aloud from a Kindle is treated under copyright law? The phrase in the terms of service "solely for your personal, non-commercial use" sounds alot like the grounds that ASCAP and BMI use to force coffeeshops, etc into paying royalties for open mics and playing CD's in the store.
Can't wait until the writers guild starts knocking on the doors of coffee shops that host poetry slams or prose readings, can you?
Thanks for the link. I posted on the subject in my blog as well.
What is the current ratio of negative articles on Huckabee to negative articles on Ron Paul on OGM? If it is anything below 4:1, I swear I will turn my computer off around this time in the evening and start jogging. Maybe jog for Jesus. Come on, Norm, you're killing me.
I have not received a single email about how great a president Huckabee would make. No one has any doubt about what I think of Huckabee. On the other hand I'll bet I've received over 50 emails on how I should be supporting Ron Paul and what a great President he'd make. If you're a right-wing libertarian he is definitely your man. If you are a liberal, a progressive, a Democrat and you subscribe to the values that those groups hold dear, Ron Paul is a nightmare.
Jogging is good :)
I enjoy your site very much so I'll come back tomorrow (jogging can wait). However, Huckabee's recent popularity with silly Americans is frightening, and there are more silly Americans than you think (I did a poll). Ron Paul's popularity is kind of internet cute, like a kitten with its own Myspace page. I would love to see old clips of Huckabee talking about Jesus, because that guy (Huckabee) is going to win the Republican nomination. Or Jesus. dunno.
But won't Mitt's I am a Mormon, but that doesn't mean I am a lunatic speech just as good as Huckabee's religious "leadership".
Republicans are making themselves into the third party in this process. At least I hope thats what they are doing.
I'm assuming the Democrat Party is first on your list Reed. If not the Republicans, who is second?
What, you distrust Willard Romney's "religion requires freedom, freedom requires faith" garbage? The fact that Ron Paul has soo many "true conservative" supporters show how ethically bankrupt "true" conservatism really is.
Typo: **"freedom requires religion, religion requires freedom"
I recently had someone comment on my blog to vote RP - to which I replied
David Neiwert over at Orcinus - links above - has probably done the most complete deconstruction on Ron Paul - there's much more than those links - but I heartily recommend reading those ones - voting record in particular
I considered buying the Kindle when I saw it had wireless capabilities. I was dismayed to learn it wouldn't access the Internet and read html. In my opinion, it is the one thing the Sony reader lacks that is keeping the masses from buying it, and now the Kindle of course. But, it is probably the one thing the publishers are insisting that they don't include as a condition for making content available.
People may disagree with Paul in regards to how things should be done in this country, but I've yet to hear anyone disagree with him on a Constitutional basis. In my opinion, if we disregard one aspect of the Constitution, the whole thing can be thrown out the window. And it has been.
If we want social programs, we should amend the Constitution to allow for them. If we want gun control, we should amend the Constitution to allow for that. I disagree with Paul on several issues, and abortion is one of them. But you can't argue with the fact that there is nothing in the Constitution that allows the federal government to allow or disallow it. As a result, it is a matter left to the states. I would personally vote to keep abortion safe and legal in my state, but our founding document does not give me the ability to dictate the policy of another state.
With that said, you don't have to agree with every part of Paul's platform to support him. What we need now, more than ever, is someone to help tear down this cataphysical bureaucratic machine that Washington has become before we can begin to build something positive again, and Paul is that man.
I agree with Norm, Ron Paul is diametrically opposite to most of progressive ideas.
Doug Adler,
Thank you for posting those links. Ron Paul's voting record speaks for itself.
He is obviously determined to outlaw abortion. He wants to erase the distinction in U.S. law between a zygote and a person
H.R.2597: To provide that human life shall be deemed to exist from conception.
H.R.1094: To provide that human life shall be deemed to exist from conception.
H.R.776: To provide that human life shall be deemed to exist from conception
H.R.392: A bill proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right to life
Alex, as for his love for the constitution, what about this part of his voting record? H.J.RES.80: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the States to prohibit the physical destruction of the flag of the United States and authorizing Congress to prohibit destruction of federally owned flags.
H.J.RES.82: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the States to prohibit the physical destruction of the flag of the United States and authorizing Congress
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