Sarah McLachlan just scored herself a new fan. Instead of using 150,000 dollars on her video (not uncommon) she decided to give it all to various chareties. (According to the video, a total of $15 was used to make the video). Check out the video for World on fire, and also the donation list – could give you some good tips on how to use some of your christmas gift money this year. Oh, and YubaNet.com has the full story of how it all came about.
Today I got this error message when killing yet another spam in my blog: “Could not save your blacklist data: Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’” Pretty interesting error message. It didn’t immediately dawn on me that this was a MySQL related problem, before I started googeling it. Google-search: max_allowed_packet= mysql The problem seems to be that the whole blacklist is inserted as one insert into the database, and when it grows beyond 3914 spam listings it just gets so big to post directly to MySQL. Or as MySQL puts
Rick Ellis writes a good piece about the Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Crossfire and Novaks reactions after the fact. I think Rick is dead on when he writes You can see just one small indication of the problems facing old media by looking at the aftermath of Stewart’s “Crossfire” appearance. While Friday’s show received decent numbers for an episode of “Crossfire,” that’s not the way that most people viewed it. Videos of the show were passed around online last weekend, from sites such as iFilm (where more than a half
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I am almost never in agreement with Dave Winer, but this posting from his blog, dated 19th of october 2000 struck a note. Thoughtful writing and maybe a thought provoker for people living their lives solely to make more money. DaveNet : Transcendental Money Thanks to Dave for digging up some of his old stuff from time to time.
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Author and fake news anchor Jon Stewart was guest on CNNs Crossfire last friday. Rather than plugging his show and book Stewart took Crossfires Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson to school and said Crossfire was hurting America. The show turned into a discussion about Crossfires and medias failure to make politicians accountable and to ask the tough and real questions instead of just following the spin. I thought it was a very interesting edition of Crossfire, and I hope (although, I wouldn’t place much money on it) that Tucker, Paul
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Anders writes about the norwegian ad against the Bush administration and the english call for action to sway voters in the US. The question, will it work or just piss everyone off? Impacting the vote or pissing everyone off?
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The grass root movement Tellhim.no runs an ad in todays Washington Post where the movement articulates that the Norwegian government is not with the people when supporting George W. Bush and his was in Iraq. See the Washington Post ad [PDF] For those of you without PDF reader, I have included the letter in the extended entry for this post.
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Funny “commercial for” W. Bush: George W. Bush’s Words If you wonder who the real flip-flopper is, watch this video by The Daily Show.
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A cool new resource has surfaced for those into digital media (photography and other digital media). O’Reilly Digital Media Center From PhotographyBLOG: “As our digital media books continue to roll off the presses, we realized that we hadn’t provided an online meeting place for this community. As of today, that’s changed. Welcome to our new Digital Media site.” — Derrick Storey Its obvious that the site is there to promote their books, but it also contains some interesting articles and interviews. [Via PhotographyBLOG]
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Finally someone has given us an example to follow on how to deal with a spinner. Chris Matthres of the MSNBC program Hardball nails Michelle Malkin to the wall for trying to spin John Kerry as having shot himself to earn a purple heart. DV Guide : HOWTO Deal with a Spinner: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews [Update] Here you can see the video without having to install Bit Torrent (if it wasn’t already)
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