What a bullshit list: outsideleft: The Top 12 Hottest Female Guitarists Ever. No Lita Ford? No Allison Robertson (The Donnas)? No Bonnie Raitt? Nancy Wilson? Sheryl Crow? And especially Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, and Vicki Peterson (The Bangles)? At least Joan Jett is listed.
I mean common. Damn music snobs. Can’t stand ’em.
Check out the CSS playground. Wow.
Lyndon B. Johnson: Remarks Upon Signing the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967:
I believe the time has come to stake another claim in the name of all the people, stake a claim based upon the combined resources of communications. I believe the time has come to enlist the computer and the satellite, as well as television and radio, and to enlist them in the cause of education….
So I think we must consider new ways to build a great network for knowledge-not just a broadcast system, but one that employs every means of sending and of storing information that the individual can rise.
Think of the lives that this would change:
–the student in a small college could tap the resources of a great university….
–the country doctor getting help from a distant laboratory or a teaching hospital;
–a scholar in Atlanta might draw instantly on a library in New York;
–a famous teacher could reach with ideas and inspirations into some far-off classroom, so that no child need be neglected. Eventually, I think this electronic knowledge bank could be as valuable as the Federal Reserve Bank.And such a system could involve other nations, too–it could involve them in a partnership to share knowledge and to thus enrich all mankind.
A wild and visionary idea? Not at all. Yesterday’s strangest dreams are today’s headlines and change is getting swifter every moment.
techno.blog(“Dion”): More Rails / Java Talk: an interesting roundup of recent discussions.
Congrats Garret and Sandra.
I’ll be looking forward to this. Might be fun 🙂
Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers’s Flashforward presentation is online.
The AP is saying Bob Novak told Karl Rove about Valerie Plame, who then passed it on to other journalists. So who told Novak? via Metafilter.
Interesting
The Boston Globe: In sanctum Santorum:
Today, I’d like to take a few moments to express profound thanks to Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the third-ranking Republican in the US Senate. In fact, all Bostonians should thank him for sharing his incredible wisdom and insight about this city and its depraved ways.
Specifically, here’s what Santorum wrote about the church pedophile scandal on a religious website called Catholic Online. ”When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.”
So thank you, senator, for setting us straight about the problems with the clergy. Thank you for letting us know that all those pedophilic priests and the church leaders who covered up their crimes are the fault of every Bostonian.
…I asked a Santorum spokesman whether the senator still believed what he said about Boston. I mean, guilt might be our greatest natural resource, but do we really have to fall on our collective sword over wayward priests?
“It’s an open secret that you have Harvard University and MIT that tend to tilt to the left in terms of academic biases,” said Robert Traynham, the Santorum aide. “I think that’s what the senator was speaking to.”
Of course. The whole thing is MIT’s fault.