January 2010
21 posts
Jan 31st
“With the Citizens United ruling, the court revealed the depth of its contempt...”
– Welcome to the Plutocracy (via azspot) (via vruz)
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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“We had lost 650,000 jobs in December [2008] - I’m assuming your’e not faulting...”
– President Obama | TPMDC I keep asking myself why the Republicans would have agreed to let Obama smack down their nonsense for 90 minutes on live television.  And I keep coming to the same conclusion.  They’ve started to believe their own bullshit.  These people weren’t at all prepared for Obama to...
Jan 31st
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“The flaw is obvious. That the ACLU and Exxon are legally labeled the same thing...”
– I, For One, Welcome Our Corporate Overlords (via azspot)
Jan 26th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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“No constitutional right is an absolute, and it’s one thing to defend a...”
– After the Future (via azspot) (via vruz)
Jan 24th
Jan 22nd
Citizens United: The Problem Isn’t the Law, It’s... →
azspot: Progressives may have thought the victory of Scott Brown in Massachusetts earlier this week was bad news, but today’s Supreme Court 5-4 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC may ultimately prove far more devastating. That is because today, the Court’s conservative majority re-wrote the Constitution to give corporations—never mentioned in the Constitution—the same right to influence the...
Jan 22nd
Jan 19th
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Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 goes Wireless →
hapa: Behold the Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 Wireless. One of the best THX certified 2.1 speaker systems adds wireless convenience. The original version of these ProMedias is one of my all time…
Jan 19th
Jan 19th
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Don't Compete, Leapfrog (iPod)
Also wrong was the price of the Sonos system.  Still is.  Check out BestBuy’s Rocketboost products. continuations: Recently, someone (I believe it was Nicholas Carlson) said to me: “what most people forget about the iPhone is that it is also a very capable iPod.”  This was said in the context of a discussion of how successful Android will be this year.  Now this is an interesting...
Jan 15th
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A Democracy of Netbooks →
Interesting point of view on the subject of netbooks vs smartphones. vruz: —via azspot: Netbooks are the endpoint of four decades of computing — the final, ubiquitous manifestation of “A PC on every desk and in every home”. But netbooks are more than just PCs. If the internet is the ultimate force of democratization in the world, then netbooks are the instrument by which that democracy will...
Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
“I feel like there are two facets to differentiate between: Christianity, which...”
– Sufjan Stevens I really like the distinction between spirituality of religion and institutionality of religion. i’m with sufjan 100% ecbp (via fred-wilson) Wow.  I like his music and now I like him even more.
Jan 10th
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Jan 8th
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hapa: Check this Engadget article out: Sony introd…: http://bit.ly/7albP2 Interesting but I have so little faith in Sony doing anything right these days (save for PS).  And I am thinking it will be quite pricey.  Also why is the bezel so large.
Jan 7th
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Today
tsparks: 01022010 Special day for me.
Jan 4th
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Cascina Spinasse - Seattle, WA →
Just went here last night (new years eve).  Awesome food.  What a great place!  Go if you can.  A bit pricey but well worth it.
Jan 1st