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  • Palin Against Abortion even if Rape or Incest October 7, 2008
    Palin debating the abortion issue in 2006. She's against abortion even in cases of rape or incest. Would approve of legislation outlawing all abortions except for health of the mother only.
  • Keating Economics: Brought to you by John McCain October 6, 2008
    New Barack Obama ad about how John "the maverick" McCain still hasn't learned his since 1989.
  • Bank Loans Have Not 'Dried Up' - Forbes.com October 2, 2008
    A view you won't hear on TV.
  • George Lakoff: A Brief Guide to the Debates October 2, 2008
    In the first debate, Obama did what he needed to do: convince a majority that he has what it takes. But there is room for improvement... The reason the list is short is that Obama did so well. Biden doesn't have to prove himself in this debate. Palin does have to prove herself. That means Biden can hold back, give short but powerful responses, and
  • Sam Stein: McCain Gets Testy With Des Moines Register October 1, 2008
    ...McCain got near anger when it was suggested that the Straight Talk Express had taken a detour, challenging the questioner to provide examples. Asked specifically about the kindergarten sex-ed ad, McCain defended it wholeheartedly....
  • Daily Kos: Seize the Day September 30, 2008
    The temptation now is going to be to coddle the poor right. Give them some minor tweak in the bill to salve their fragile egos and gain the dozen votes that are needed to pass yesterday's bill. Don't. Don't do it, damn it.
  • Economist: Why Bankruptcy is Better than Wall Street Bailout September 30, 2008
    Congress has balked at the Bush administration's proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Under this plan, the Treasury would have bought the "troubled assets" of financial institutions in an attempt to avoid economic meltdown. This bailout was a terrible idea. Here's why.
  • Humiliated September 28, 2008
    Jonathan Weisman has a fascinating, even riveting narrative of what went down in Washington on Thursday as John McCain made his play to commandeer the high-level negotiations over the bailout bill. And TPM Reader TW called my attention to a...
  • America’s bail-out plan [Economist] September 26, 2008
    A good article detailing out the happenings of the last year with a focus on the last couple of weeks. Not the Huffington Post.
  • Art Of Time Ensemble with Steven Page · CBC Radio 2 - Concer September 24, 2008
    Internationally renowned Steven Page, lead singer of the band Barenaked Ladies, performing his favourite songs live at the Enwave Theatre, at the Harbourfront Centre. He teams up with members of the Art Of Time Ensemble, led by pianist Andrew Burashko.
  • Aug
    1

    1st post from the wordpress appstore app

    Filed under: iPhone; Tagged as:
    by Charlie

    Just testing out the new app from the apple appstore. This seems to work about as well as can be expected from the mini keyboard on a mobile device.

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  • Jul
    11

    “You’re a mean one, Mr. Jobs.” Or, Why I’m paying to update my iPod Touch

    Filed under: Apple, advertising, iPhone; by Charlie

    This is like a bad launch day in an MMO. No official word on why some of the iTunes Store is offline, and we’re paying for the update! Please Mr. Jobs, can I give you ten dollars to waste my morning because your engineers failed to anticipate server loads? Why did I pay so much for your device? That’s right, because things “Just work” in Apple land. Your overpriced gadgets with revolving costs are starting to really chap my hide.

    The thing that annoys me is that to have the functionality of a portable computing device that also happens to play music, I’ve been forced to purchase an update for email, and now an update so I can finally get the thing on the WPA-Enterprise network. Heck, the thing still doesn’t do Flash. Sure, some may say, it’s just an iPod, buy a laptop or an iPhone. I’m tired of buying an Apple product and getting burned for not waiting another six months. It’s not that I’m expecting to get things sooner, it’s that I hate feeling like I’m being milked by Apple. “Gee, if we sell an 8 gig unit for a while, then update in a few months to a 16 we’ll make more money and who cares if our customers feel burned.” It’s the standard anymore. Heck, I can’t imagine how people who dropped coin on the Airbook with SSD feel after the big price drop there. Whose pockets got lined with that change?

    More rant once I get back from work…

    Update 2: Okay, so 12 hours have passed, and nothing changed. No email from Apple, except the one telling me they’d deleted my post from the discussion thread (I’ll show you non-constructive). No official statement on the apple.com website, nor even a removal of the “Buy” button. Fuck you Apple. I wanted to like but you’ve obviously shown us all that you’re way too cool to even come out of the Cupertino bunker and say “We fucked up, here’s 10$ in free software. Our bad.”

    Update: Start-up cost for an 8 gig iPhone 407$

    Update: iPhone 3G plastic casings are cracking left and right.

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  • Jun
    27

    iPhone and its discontents

    porn loves the iPhone. the long-nailed and the fat-fingered don’t. (no worries, though — mash the touchscreen with your palm to obtain a special dialing wand from apple.)

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