- I can’t wait to see the new Batman movie, Batman Begins. Christian Bale is a great choice for the role, and I’m glad they seem to be taking it more seriously this time. Anyway, there’s a great new trailer out. (Click the image on the right) This is going to be a great summer for movies. Via CarbonGeek.
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May 05
New Batman! (And other things)
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May 05
The Power of Nightmares
From a video about 9-11 and Al Quaeda, The Power of Nightmares, on the ties and similarities between fundamentalist Islam and Straussian neo-conservatism. You can watch the video and read the trascript of the documentary courtesy of the Information Clearing House. Conservatives of all types are often concerned with restoring the ‘lost’ virtue of the past, and fighting the decadence they see as inherent to individualism.
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May 05
John Robb’s weblog moves
I’ve been reading John Robb’s work for a while now since I came across the excellent Global Guerrillas, his web site on 4th Generation Warfare. His daily blog posting are excellent as well since he’s always picking up on significant trends and happenings. Anyway, he’s got a new blog hosted on Typepad. Until he moves his older posts you can read them here.
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May 05
Ego Spamming
I was poring through my server logs when I noticed a website hotlinking to one of the images on my server. If you pull up this guy’s website and scroll down you’ll see The Smiths listed as one of his favorite bands.
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May 05
Arianna Huffington’s Celeb-log Debuts
Via Micropersuasion. Wow. The Huffington Post is amazing. I’m surprised it took so long to come up with a celebrity blog that features… real celebrities blogging. Props to Arianna. Now you get to see what John Cusack, Ellen DeGeneres, David Mamet and others think about politics and culture. It’s an amazing lineup.
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May 05
Justice Department sues National Association of Realtors for anti-trust violations
This is big news as well as a good thing for home buyers and sellers, basically anyone who is NOT a real estate broker should be glad about this lawsuit. In 2003, the National Association of Realtors drafted new by-laws which would ban online and fixed-fee brokers from retrieving NAR real estate listings. It looks like the NAR is hoping to prevent the growth of any type of fixed-fee or discounted brokerage, which would negatively impact a long-standing business practice of charging a percentage of the closing cost.
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May 05
Daily treasure
I visit the wonderful One Man Safari blog several times a day because you never know what you’ll find there. Lately, “one man” has been posting images from old issues of National Geographic Magazine.
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May 05
Shhhh… The Blogging Business Model
Blogging is becoming a business for a select few, but how long can it last before the business world catches a whiff and susses out the simple mechanism for generating ad-driven revenues? Many for-profit blogs like, Boing Boing, simply repackage actual content allowing them to make money off the teeming masses of individuals that publish original material to the web. As a business model, it’s rather uninspired: grab a bunch of junk from RSS feeds, technorati pings, and credit-link-whoring tipsters tied to their computers and post it before the plebes see it anywhere else first. Anyone can do this, and they will.
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May 05
Two weeks notice
This morning at work, I gave my two weeks notice. It was very difficult for me since I will really miss working with everyone here. When you’re at work you spend eight hours a day, five days a week with the people around you. Work takes up half of your waking life. After more than a year, the people I work have become my second family, as well as the people I spend most of my time with.
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