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Handheld Internet
A week ago I got an iPhone. I’m using it to write this entry. It’s an interesting device, since it shows, once again, an old lesson: the more a tool does for you, the more you notice its deficiencies. I say this not to dis the phone, which is actually quite nice. The interface in…
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Money or Votes?
I’m sure that many people have noticed that the stories about the presidential election race (the actual election is, of course, more than a year away) are handicapping the candidates by the amount of money they raise. Candidates who raise more money are doing better. The Democrats are beating the Republicans because they are raising…
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Reincarnating Government
In one of the more peculiar recent news stories, the Chinese government is setting the procedure for Tibetan Buddhist monks to reincarnate. The background for this is of course a forward looking attempt by the Chinese government to silence the future Dalai Lama. The Chinese government is presumably trying to avoid the confusion over the…
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Ragmop
In the mid-90s Rob Walton wrote and self-published a very strange and funny comic book series called Ragmop. Sales apparently weren’t that great, and he cancelled it after (I think) ten issues. Recently he finished the storyline, and updated it for for 2006, and published the complete story in a book. It’s not possible to…
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Just Terrorism?
Back in August I wrote about the idea that in a democracy we all share responsibility for the actions of our government. Frank, one of my three loyal readers (and I do appreciate all of you), commented that this was a good way to rationalize to terrorism, and I agreed. Frank replied again to say…