Brief Episode

I love Penelope Trunk.  She’s a riot.  This post in particular pinged for me because of this quote: Read the rest of this entry »

Eviscerated Shells

In all the Proposition 8 petitions from the side of the angels for marriage equality, I noticed a word crop up again and again about what the proposition would do if allowed as an amendment:  eviscerate. Read the rest of this entry »

Penelope Trunk, the Brazen Careerist

The Brazen Careerist talks about why she won’t get plastic surgery even though studies show it helps careers: Read the rest of this entry »

I responded to Paperwight’s comment over on a American Constitution Society Blog, visited Paperwight’s sight and read a post with this fantastic quotation.

If you want to be someone better, you have to do something better.

The rest of the blog is pretty awesome, too and focuses on John McCain and how the media has treated him (too well, it turns out).

Paperwight’s Fair Shot: What You Do Is Who You Are.

I was watching CNN yesterday at lunch and saw this very disturbing video.  It’s much better with the sound because you can hear the McCain republicans denouncing the fear monger and encouraging him to leave.

Note how the journalist is asked by the skin head whether he’s Muslim.  But when people walk up and identify themselves as Muslim (and one gent as chosen by McCain and a campaign official), the guy backs down.

Google was at it again!

Google released a new product — its Chrome browser — and claimed rights to everything you could read or type into or submit through it.

This means… Owning your Tweets. Your blog posts. Your emails.

Crazy, huh?

Then Google caught its gaffe, and rescinded that part of the license.

Oddly, Google did this last year with its Google Docs.

The initial agreement claimed rights over “any Content which you submit, post or display on or through” the browser.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google tweaks Chrome licence text

I can’t help but notice that Google’s splash page has a Trade Mark symbol, meaning that they’re watching their intellectual property very closely.  But yours? It’s their’s until they think better of it.  Or receive copious complaints.

A blogger I read wrote a great article about his looking back at 3 months without blogging. I’ve been out of writing real posts for at least that long, what with directing/producing my play with music (yeah, wrote the songs, too).

Social Media — What is it Good For?

Below the jump is my look at all of the social media I’ve been using.

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• O-Bar tonight is fashion networking event. Mostly models here so far. #
• I’m actually writing a new play with a model in it. Two, actually. Hands & feet & underwear. Wonder if I can use that as a pickup line. #

The Last Supper or The Last Cylon?

What the frak?!? Coasting down Melrose Avenue this morning, I looked up and saw this image. Read the rest of this entry »

Über-blogger, author & tv commentator Andrew Sullivan asked his readers to vote for whether they would like comments or not. He advised his readers (I’m one) that they could vote more than once if they felt strongly:

“You can vote any number of times, so those who care strongly about this – pro and con – can have their passions reflected.”

However, in the same news cycle (that’s 24-hour period for those of us who aren’t news obsessed), he writes:

“… the poll is actually restricted to one vote per IP address…”

This reflects something about Sullivan’s blog…
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