tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78002812012-02-01T00:55:42.514-05:00Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.comBlogger5621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-69612039550831236622012-01-29T19:41:00.000-05:002012-01-29T19:41:25.661-05:00

When you're home ill, who is the friendliest face on TV?

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-12815745203586487312011-11-19T12:22:00.000-05:002011-11-19T12:22:03.099-05:00

al Bari, the evolver, is one of the 99 names of God in the faith, Islam. This is a meditative piece on the idea that positive change, evolution, is a spiritual goal and exercise.

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For those people cold in their tents, for those people in the drum circles, for those people who march, for those willing to be arrested, for the people who know justice will come because they demand it, you are beautiful.

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-63687534831954306422011-10-23T17:00:00.002-04:002011-10-23T17:25:59.505-04:00

A protest song for your consideration.

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A love song..

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Something bitter and something sweet. The kids have it. The eyes have it.

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A non-traditional rendering of a traditional irish ballad. And a protest and a prayer. If not peace, then mercy.

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Because many of the comments I've heard regarding the recent events in Washington that led to the downgrade in our credit are about the American character and how American politics suffer by it, I will add this thought because from my perspective, this has been developing for years. There are economic impacts, but I think the theories of economics will not yield a means to change the problems of

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Today I was at work after a six month vacation courtesy of the State of Alabama unemployment insurance I've paid into these past forty years. It was marvelous. I learned to play rock piano, wrote some songs, made some videos, and I thank the rest of you who kept the ship going while I sat at home in my bathrobe. It's good to have a job again.The strangest thing today was reading a military

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“And ALERT: My character “Hollie Martin” starts her 7 episode run on Eureka July 18th - Felicia Day” A season featuring Felicia Day that begins with footage of the launch of a Mercury Redstone is not without the irony of an inside reference to her. Cute.On the other hand, the season premier is weak in the knees. Leave it to Canadian production to take pieces of American history and mash them up.

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A song of penitence dedicated to all those who raise their eyes to God in service regardless of religion or place in the world. The Oblatio Sui is a prayer by Ignatius Loyola and this is inspired by that text.

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We pay a price for the perfection of media. I tell my kids to watch the TV shows before color such as the Red Skelton Shows. I tell them to note two things:a) It was a very Caucasian world.b) Women had hips.For the first, I am glad. This had to change and as painful as that change was for some on the wrong side of history, the world is better.For the second, I am sad. We live in the

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Got 'er done. Parrotheads and demented environmentalists should like this one. :) Thanks to HGUMC for the loan of the piano and to Carolyn King who schemed until I learned to play it.

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These are two performances on the same day of a song I wrote for the HGUMC Praise Band about Jonah being swallowed by the Big Fish, aka, the Whale. We had a lot of fun with this. As someone said, "So Jonah fled on a banana boat, eh?" :)

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-8639281858828010592011-05-04T23:42:00.020-04:002011-05-07T12:52:04.629-04:00

The press and the politicians can't get enough of Operation Neptune's Spear. I can't tell if I am more grossed out by the idea of the photos, the fact that they are using the decision about their release to do polybody slams, or that they are quarreling over who has the right to claim the kill?Have American politics always been this much a blood sport? Gross.Any high energy event(power to

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I'm posting a favorite song of mine to honor the creator of Samantha, Sol Saks, who passed away today in Los Angeles at the age of 100. We all miss her too.

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Few things are as pathetic as celebrities from old school media discovering the web is a conversation and the rules that protected their feelings and egos don't apply. They emerged in an era of carefully managed engagements with the press, with their fans, and everyone they worked with. Their art went one way and so did their expression. Their fan mail was sorted; their images were hand

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Having fun with my brother, Michael, playing the old songs. It's been a long long time since I've done this act.

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Happy St Paddy's Day!

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We are the Evil House ElvesWith heads as hard as rocksWe live to leave the toilet lid upAnd hide your matching socksWe drink your milk right from the jugAnd flash our silky smilesWe torment Mother's with our tricksLeaving underwear in piles.We may look just like your childrenSo innocent and freeBut while you’re cleaning up the messWe’re making more with gleeThere’s nothing we can’t take apartNo

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ABC GMA says that Francis Ford Coppola is being honored this week for a lifetime of work. I say.. ++1. I have some particularly fond and private memories of seeing his work at the last of the drive in movies up the road before those were shuttered. For that and the movies, a simple thanks to an American original who reminded us what it means to be an immigrant, what it means to be a teen ager

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Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-83944720964701795252011-01-12T22:52:00.001-05:002011-01-12T23:38:19.407-05:00

If you're promoting your act on social networks, a chestnut to recruit is the holiday effect. Simply: people buy on the holidays. Market to the season. Sort of a marketing cosmic d'oh but it's fun to prove the merely obvious. Here are some Insight stats from YouTube. The first the overall downloads for the site. The tall spikes are release times. Releasing often to keep these high is important,

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With all that is happening in the world, it is harder to imagine or remember simple intimacy and the joy of being safe. Love who you love with all your strength.

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There is an art to screwing up and covering up.

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-16036903308609304992010-12-14T14:42:00.000-05:002010-12-14T14:42:36.374-05:00

Oopsie.

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-72826281453613495712010-12-14T12:48:00.000-05:002010-12-14T12:48:33.134-05:00

Evil is drab.

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-90482493940056867542010-12-13T16:02:00.000-05:002010-12-13T16:02:09.430-05:00

The bears have a plan and a menu.

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-17130019586685707322010-12-13T14:03:00.000-05:002010-12-13T14:03:55.961-05:00

In a web where nothing but money matters, it's easy to hire a posse of bounty hunters.

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This is my Christmas card to all of my friends. I produced a version of Ave Maria by Franz Schubert.Merry Christmas!

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-19629039726070862542010-12-09T21:52:00.001-05:002010-12-09T21:54:05.106-05:00

The hubris of the machines... and the meat that programs them. All Hail Virtuality! Resistance is... pointless.

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-15767058273636805052010-12-02T22:44:00.001-05:002010-12-02T22:45:41.724-05:00

These are a blast to make.So when will someone finally build something this much fun and this easy to do with X3D? We created HumanML precisely for that. Now...

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Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-46109688183481547302010-10-19T10:50:00.001-04:002010-10-19T10:52:02.161-04:00

My wonderful ever beautiful daughter, Kelly Rene.

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-67718627911989896742010-09-22T12:16:00.012-04:002010-09-23T06:07:44.085-04:00

Because our Constitution both separates church and state and protects freedom of religious expression, the AROMA Party must support the practice of witchcraft. However, an uninformed party is a party of ignorance as has been proven by past and current administrations; therefore, it is required that a study of examples of modern witchcraft be conducted.Given there are many varying witchcraft

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-64995377686435737952010-09-20T15:43:00.004-04:002010-09-20T15:48:00.652-04:00

Maybe we should give religion a rest and talk about sharing the spice before we end up as worm food!Join the AROMA Party! A good nose doesn't need a media rebreather.

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-8757678014151674242010-09-07T15:19:00.004-04:002010-09-07T15:49:05.791-04:00

The National Headquarters received the following from the AROMA Party Florida Chair regarding our economic platform:Point of disorder, motion on the floor: I propose that the Economic Program of the Aroma Party be called by its Right True Name: “Futilitarianism.” Resistance is optional, but will be terminal. Submitted on Sept 7, 2010 in the month of the Plucked Virgo. JTMc - AROMA Party Florida

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News Anchor: Tonight, we broadcast our final segment of Angelica Fulsome’s interview with the Devil. Tonight we hear why things are the way they are from the point of view of the most evil intelligence in the universe.(in a comfortable chair, dressed in a low-cut short dress, perfectly styled, Angelica confronts The Devil dressed in fire and The Gap).Angelica: I see you came dressed for a

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News Anchor: Tonight, Angelica Fulsome gives us a tour of the Devil’s Home on Earth revealing His Evil intimate side. Angelica, what did you find most interesting in the Devil’s House:Angelica: His collections. They are very large.News Anchor: He must keep a large staff.Angelica: Not even one. That’s why they’re interesting.News Anchor: Alrighty then. Let's get this Dust Devil to

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News Anchor: Tonight we have an interview with one of the most elusive and powerful personalities on this planet or any other. Tonight, investigative reporter, Angelica Fullsome will provide the first of our three part series: Interview with The Devil, Angelica, what was your feeling about this interview?Angelica: At first I was very frightened but when the Devil accepted the invitation

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Ed Fishy, political analyst for the Washington-based Demon Examiner reports that the AROMA Party is in secret negotiations with multi-millionaire rock star, Gene Simmons to be the AROMA Party candidate for President. As yet unconfirmed, the Fishy Report stated:"It makes sense. Simmons is a self-made man, megastar and multi-millionaire capable of financing his own campaign just as Meg Whitman

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FBI Field Report 19-082910SUBJECT: AROMA Party Party SurveillanceOn August 29, 2010, Special Agent Dagne Horowitz received a tip that members of the AROMA Party were conducting an unscheduled meeting at the home of an unregistered party member. Arriving in separate cars (see Appendix for make, model, licenses), they entered the home of Daniel Moz in the early hours of the evening. During the

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-38718751575216648682010-08-27T14:05:00.007-04:002010-09-07T17:38:19.393-04:00

Political correctness has become a burden to candidates and campaigns. As soon as a label is created, it is immediately, itself, labeled. The N-Word, the R-Word and of course, the Q-Word have been eliminated from all polite conversation. As a result, it has become impossible to correctly and effectively assign values of combative opposition and this interferes with the nature of the contest

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With the ever rising costs of running for political office including the need to scuttle the campaigns of the strongest opponents, spying on the weakest ones to ensure a reliable scandal in the last week before the election, paying off former lovers, paying the staff salaries of current lovers, and ensuring the jogging clothes of the candidate are the best the Chinese designers can offer, it is

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It's time for real change: a change of heart.

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An important feature of the net is that it not restrict through traffic in any way that favors the traffic by type. This is a fundamental of net design and its applications to commercial enterprise. Restrictions on bandwidth are the core problem. Therefore the following has been established:The issue of Net Neutrality with respect to bandwidth usage can be best resolved through standards for

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The AROMA Party has carefully studied the positions of other parties deliberating the so-called, Mosque On Ground Zero, aka, the Near Enough To Start the Fight Cultural Scenter. With his usual firm commitment to a course that neither defends nor offends, presumes or resolves, or otherwise provides a sensible solution to a sensitive problem, President Barack Obama said Saturday that Muslims have

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The topic of immigration along the southern borders of the United States has for too long bedeviled the Congress and the Governors of the States affected by undocumented immigrants pouring across these borders in ever greater numbers. The Aroma Party takes the position that the current situation exemplifies intolerance while overwhelming the resources of the affected States. However, there is

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"At last...a political party that makes scents!” – The Tango Times“Insensitive but sensible!” – Poor Richard’s Picayoon“Can’t have this. Colbert and I will be out of business!” – The Jon Stewart Show“Well… maybe.” – Diane Sawyer, ABC News, “A conspiracy of Moe, Larry and Curly nyuks” – The Washaton Yost“If this catches on we may have to relight Hell!” – Demon Gazette“There’s no loon like a left

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Q: Is the AROMA Party a Big Tent Party?A: No. We are insensitive to the weather, natural or political.Q: Does the AROMA Party endorse special interest concerns, and if so, which ones?A: No. We don’t find them interesting.Q: All of them?A: Any of them. Why discriminate?Q: I don't understand.A: Of course you don't. That's why they're special.Q: But surely there are issues which concern

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After 46 years of sensitivity to one special interest after another, I'm as sensitive as a sun burn and peeling fast. I will now be insensitive, brutish, chauvinistic, piggy, outright ignorant and obtuse.Today I am announcing the founding of a new political party: A Rash On My Ash, also known as the AROMA Party. Our motto is: The Nose Knows!.My campaign headquarters will open this week so send

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When you realize that half of your friends like Brewer and Palin and the other half like Brewer and Shipley, you know why you can't throw a party and invite all of your friends. That's what Facebook is like.Every day I watch the mounting number of cause solicitations and think they are getting even more annoying than the Farmville Send Me A Donkey's Kong messages. Here's Common Cause, voice of

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Eric Holder of the Department of Justice announced today that racism in the American Grizzly population has reached intolerable proportions and that suit will be filed to redress this sickening development. "This legacy of hate and violence against the human race as evidenced by the desire of these animals to attack and consume humans is not in keeping with the high aspirations of the American

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There is a minor tempest stirring about Blizzard exposing real identities in their forums removing the customary anonymity. It seems to upset women the most. They don't want to be treated differently for being women. Somehow the hypocrisy of that escapes them but one can counsel those who as Duran Duran said in Barbarella, "... find horrible the idea that one could do to me that which I do to

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General McChrystal offered his resignation and it was accepted. He was not fired. As a friend notes on another blog where I posted the following as a response, there is a significant difference in the career of a soldier who has done all that was asked of him.We train these men to be the best soldiers in the world, which is to say the best killers. If we ask a man or a woman to do that, to lead

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A song about a fellow who realizes the beautiful mysterious woman he married is actually a vampire. She keeps him alive because, well, she loves him and he feels the same way, but she is what she is and all he can say is, I don't wanta know.Much of modern life is too much like this fellow's problem: it may not kill us but it hurts.I Don’t Wanta Know – Len Bullard June 12, 2010Whose idea was it to

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Jimmy Carter's sweater is a phrase used in politics to indicate an earnest response rendered silly by the context in which it is offered. It asks for minimal discomfort when the political opponent is claiming you need suffer not at all.It is common effort versus snake oil. I'm in a business where snake oil solutions, technology as a solution instead of enabler is a way of life.Some say Obama

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It's an expertise problem. Drop the 'big government' distraction for a moment and consider the amount of training and background required to evaluate the technical details in a seemingly simple response plan that BP would be required to file by regulation. The way government run and regulated industries work, there have to be not simply GS employees (civil servants, job for life, hiring

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When both sides of the dispute are quoting Woody Guthrie, you have a real American smackdown. Once the oil well is capped, this is the next catastrophe in the making.

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I am reposting some comments made elsewhere so they don't get lost in the blizzard. The noise levels about the disaster are not helping. The "Bush Would Have Been Skinned" or "Obama is an idiot" discussions don't help. Obama has no magic fairy dust for this. No one does. There is blame but we need facts and that takes time. Time is what we don't have right now.Spy Vs Spy doesn't help."Out! We

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Watching a program on Nicola Tesla a few nights ago, I am reminded of conversations I had with friends in the pre-web days of hypermedia. At the time, I was describing Tesla's experiments with resonant frequencies and observing that global hypermedia would act as a feedback system. I speculated that cultures may have communication equivalents to resonant frequencies just as material structures do

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Celebrating the last evening of their tour. I am so glad I was there for the dress rehearsals. :) To the Guthries: Sail On!!

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A strategy for implementing profitable open systems is to create variations at interfaces that act as forces on integration thus market selection. This is particularly true of web systems with a small set of mostly interoperable browser clients. The competition shifted to the plug-in protocols or application content servers. It's a natural evolution and it leads some to think high reliability

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My God is a loving God, My GodMy God is a loving God, my GodKeeper of souls from the darkest obsessionHealer of hearts by the secret confessionMy God is a loving God, my GodMy God is a jealous God, my GodMy God is a jealous God, my GodHere is the bond that I set before theeThou shalt have no gods here before meMy God is a jealous God, my GodGiver of lifeAlmighty powerGive us this dayGive us this

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Dixie's gone. :( :( :(She made beautiful Southern women legends by right. Designing Women was brilliant.This is the episode I remember best because of Charlene's dilemma. It helps to know the context of the story where she performs this. In ways, it's Designing Women's finest moment.When you can't find faith in yourself, you can sometimes find it in others who find faith in themselves by having

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Last week the Hazel Green United Methodist Chancel Choir performed my composition, Domine Jesu. This is my first sacred classical work with a Latin text derived from the Jesus Prayer, a prayer of humility and a plea for forgiveness. At that service, our Choir Director's daughter, Hannah Williams performed Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone. That performance is included in the video below.My

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The war of critics of the iPad heat up.Some people can tune and play their guitar. Some can only play their boombox. iPad is a boombox. I'm ok with that, but I'm on the other side of the door where making software and having the freedom to access user screens sans the interference of the screen maker is important to competitive success. Then there are the old radicals on the West Coast who

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Here is another reality check from an article at VirtualWorldsNews.com. A product launch:“Inversoft’s software understands and analyzes how users communicate with each other, a tremendous value to our customers,” said Amy Pritchard, CEO of Metaverse Mod Squad. “In the hands of our community managers and moderators, this information not only makes us more efficient in stopping inappropriate

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The Beatles said all we need is love. Keats said, we need beauty and truth. From a life spent making art of my passion, they both were right. I wrote this song for a girl when I was twenty. A friend took her photos. A friend taught her guitar. Art is joy.All of the men who worked on this video cared about this woman. Because of that, thirty five years later, this video could be made and given

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I wrote this song when I was 20 for a wonderful girl. I sang it to her for the first time in the then trendiest restaurant in town where I was playing my first night and she was a college gal waitress. I looked up when I finished into two of the most beautiful luminous happy eyes I'd ever seen. The days of long nights playing solo in front of a fire to a room full of young college hippies

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Note that CNet is also running an article where newly signed bands try to refuse to social network or tweet. Note the comments are anti-social network on that announcement.Kill The Wabbit!!So in a single week, two trends we were promised were absolutely going to change our lives forever appear to be poised on the tip of the whiplash. True or not, it is a clue about how fragile any socially-driven

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10456382-261.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1The Google plan to scan books gets a Federal hearing and a lot of "low level static". Note they have a monetization plan. Note the fierce resistance.The scare to society is or should be that the edge cases pushing back are no where near as far from the center as they once were. The kid who capped a bully at school here,

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What if Google Managed Copyrights and Paid the Registration Fees?At Jon Taplin's blog is yet in another long series of debates on the woes of the publishing industries for copyright.Most geeks know that all you have to do to fix the registration problem is enable the Save boxes to require it the first time it is saved. And that probably solves 80% of the problem of universal registration.The

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“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” – Leonard BernsteinAnother edge case goes over the edge in Austin today, burning his bridges, his home and taking a blow against the man. I expect more. We have enough laws, we have guns,we have sufficient police and God knows, we will soon have far too much surveillance. We

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Mommas and Daddies hide yo' children. Here comes Mojo Overload. TASTY!!!

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The disturbing signs of the class war continue to emerge.Some are familiar with the terrible event that happened a block from where I sit writing this article. It is cliched to say driving past the campus from my office to my son's home to talk to him and his friends was surreal. To see my alma mater awash in a sea of blinking blue and red gumball machines was stupefying, maddening and

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Scenes last. Shared memories are powerful enticements to keep on keeping on. I’d say Dylan was co-opted long before Carter got to him. It’s not that important. Singer/songwriters are journalists and if they report honestly, if they are fair witnesses, they’ve done their job. They don’t need to be on the front lines and they surely don’t want to be bait to increase the crowd of innocents at a

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Props to Simon St Laurent for passing this along. I recommend this site for anyone who needs a shot of fake schadenfreude.Though I've never been hip or a hipster, lately I've begun to reflect on the fact I've spent most of my life naively and blissfully unaware of the extraordinarily large percentage of things I've admired, believed or followed that turned out to be fake. It seems to me that a

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Agism is the new racism. The one lesson learned from the browser wars was how profitable it is to win one. That this generation is so easily led is no big surprise. Bright and shiny with a hook works on most fish most of the time. As i said, the iPad launch is the Titanic to Avatar's iceberg. Cynicism is hard, cold and following the currents of a political zeitgeist where we know what we

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Despite all appearances, the Republicans have Obama on the run and they know it. Meanwhile, the spirit of the country continues to dissolve in the face of the reimagining campaigns of both sides. One hopes they collide in the middle like the old commercial about peanut butter and chocolate. Maybe they'll accidentally do something right but when the public has no stomach for reality and are too

Len Bullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001043126774600957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800281.post-66572661653624064662010-01-30T14:33:00.005-05:002010-01-30T14:44:52.911-05:00

As I was reading a comment by Stefanie Michaels that said, "Had you only taken the time to check out our feeds, you may have been able to have a more in depth understanding of who we are... after all- that's social media." I thought about this picture; so here is it is at the speed of tweet.The amazing thing is she didn't know we did read them and even made a video to support them in a good

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The harshness of the coming year will be the far left true believers in Obama who finally realize that the cuts in Federal spending will be in their favorite programs while the ones they do not support or actively despise will receive greater funding. They will blame the usual suspects and they will be right but they will also be part of the problem. It is rare to find those who can

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The Republican response to President Obama's speech last night follows:and pretty much everything else that would be good for anyone not rich enough to matter.

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Beyond the incalculable blunder of the name (yes, our office jokes about this are the same as yours): UPDATE: Thanks to Rob Koberg who sent this link, that point has been illustrated humorously by someone. Gotta love the web when it reacts fast and with the right spirit.I've heard the cooing about consumers of books. I don't need it. I don't read that often.I've heard the speculation about

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Scanning topics of interest, I see Dave Winer is complaining about agism, Jon Taplin is extolling the virtues of the grassroots bottom up governance style, and some bloggers are still trying to figure out how to get the most out of the Vanity Fair 6 kerfluffle.The bottom up decentralized means devolves quickly into the attention seeking means that shuts down criticism to enhance page views

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Here is my new video. Like the other 3D derived videos, this uses X3D/VRML samples. The theme is "Shraddha", Sanskrit for "Marvelous Faith". I hope you enjoy it.

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A career can cross a lot of paths. The two gentlemen in the photo are standing about twenty feet from my office door. One is an exec at our company and the other is one of our business partners. I'll let you figure out who they are. Hint: the short one worked for a much more famous executive and the tall one is, tall, even in sneakers.In all the fun of the Tweety Bird posts, I've been thinking

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They walked into the punch, but then as I dig around more, I realize the question is why the punch at all? It is time to call BS on the snark industry of blog journalism. They is geeks and us is geeks and they may be divas but they's our divas. Read Everybody Sucks by the same author, Vanessa Grigoriadis. The snark chic is the culprit.Geeks Unite! Free the VF6! ;)

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While working on a creative response to this flap (dieing down but still fun), I ran across this article from the author of the Vanity Fair article that started the mole rolling, Vanessa Grigoriadis. A couple of points:1. She isn't a hack. Vanessa can write and she is a decent journalist.2. In the article, the environment she describes is deeply flawed, seamy, and rage addicted.3. She

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Ursula leGuin resigned from the Author's Guild over their acceptance of the Google settlement regarding copyrights of published works.A war with the self-proclaimed digital royalty of GeekSheik is coming. They are destroying the creative ecosystem and real artists are shooting back.This is bad.

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It seems that digging the hole and standing in it is how tweety birds rest for the winter.Digital Royalty?I have to admit, when I heard the news I immediately called a family member and dropped a Ron Burgundy, “I don’t know how to put this, but I’m kind of a big deal.”It's hard to expand on that. In her opinion and that of her mates, the missed opportunity was to tell the story of their success,

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Why put on the trench coats and have the glamour shot? I think John Cowan nailed it: attentivores.Culture satirizes any source that takes itself more seriously than it is essential or more novel than a new version of an old model. 1.6 million people willing to give you access to their raster attention budget is as trivial or non-trivial as what that 1.6 million will do given a message from the

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It appears that the Flight of the Tweety Birds is this week's cause du jour among the geek women bloggers. The claims are getting evermore snarky and meant to justify a round of 'serious' web generation mystique but don't seem to offer a basis for complaint. Instead they are the victims of old people, old business, just old. Old frightens them. It could be they were had except the article

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In the new edition of Vanity Fair, some ladies of the web are photographed wearing trench coats and posing just slightly provocatively. The article has the breezy tone of snark VF is famous for and in the text follows the tone of the photo. It isn't a serious portrait or all that demeaning but the subjects have taken upon themselves to become outraged, pissed, ready to 'thump skulls' and their

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Bono has written an op-ed in the New York Times touching on the topic of music piracy. The usual counter-arguments are presented in the comments to the article and the usual lunatics tend to prevail.Fine for now. In the near future, maybe not.At some point the free services that the indies who give away their work rely on will no longer be free. Today YouTube is the radio. Anyone wanting to

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Merry Christmas! I made my Christmas card. I hope it suits and brings good cheer. There is an extra treat at the end.

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Don't get into the habit of the Republicans with Clinton: every time Bush made a misstep, the Republicans would cite something from Clinton and say 'this is better than that'. It may be but successful governance unlike some politics is about what is Next more than What Just Happened. I'm a Democrat and I say Obama is losing his support faster than the Titanic lost passengers. With all the first

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Sometimes I get asked why I still record my songs and release them on YouTube for essentially free. The truth is I enjoy it and it's a lot of fun. I listened to Arlo Guthrie talk about the music business at The Church two months ago and as a veteran he described how marvelous it is that the young musicians no longer had to sell their souls to the entertainment industry. I listened to Sam Phillips

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An early Christmas card before it is too late...According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, 1.35 million U.S. children are homeless on any given night. (2000) Families with children are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population, accounting for almost 41% of the nation's homeless. (2005) In 2003, children under the age of 18 accounted for 39% of the homeless population.

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