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He may be their Howard Dean, four years later, and perhaps without the self-destructiveness. They need, we need, someone to connect that component of our policial system in reality, and he's doing that quite well.&quot;" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 14:36:56 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://battellemedia.com/archives/003633.php&quot;&gt;John Battelle&lt;/a&gt; has a story on a Canadian man who wrote up his LSD experiences online. U.S. border guards Googled him and denied him entry in to the United States. &lt;i&gt;Idiotic&lt;/i&gt;!" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 14:16:54 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=1vq88hgzd1kmsc4tc8mgm71svpt2zts0&quot;&gt;Carlin Romano&lt;/a&gt; on Rudolf Steiner: &quot;In &lt;i&gt;Karmic Relationships&lt;/i&gt;, Steiner began identifying the former lives of famous folks. (He lived too early, alas, for a Fox reality show.) Karl Marx became Karl Marx because he'd previously been a landowner stripped of his property. Nietzsche lost his marbles because he remembered mortifying himself in his earlier incarnation as a Franciscan friar. A medieval precursor of Richard Wagner? Why, Merlin the magician! A neat game. Steiner luckily disappeared before his brusque fellow Austrian, Karl Popper, came on the philosophical scene with the falsifiability police.&quot; I have always been amazed how many people think Steiner is sane. Read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.biodynamic.org.uk/&quot;&gt;this site from the Biodynamic Agricultural Assocation&lt;/a&gt; and tell me that these aren't total nutcases. It's all pretty sensible up until 'An astronomical calendar is used to determine auspicious, planting, cultivating and harvesting times.'" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 14:07:27 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://right-thinking.com/index.php/weblog/farewell_falwell/&quot;&gt;Lee&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;How great would it be if hell was the Teletubbies, and Falwell had to spend eternity being done up the pooper by Tinky Winky.&quot;" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 08:25:28 GMT"/>		<outline text="I wanna be unlike Mike!" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 05:50:06 GMT">			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsome.org/2007/05/earnest-web.shtml&quot;&gt;Kent Newsome&lt;/a&gt; has a &lt;i&gt;great&lt;/i&gt; post today on blogging and fun. You should read it. But, because you won't, I'll give you some choice cuttings:" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 05:50:38 GMT"/>			<outline text="&quot;I've noticed a trend lately when reading my feeds.  There are so many bloggers churning out earnest posts about supposedly earnest products and events that the fun quotient in the blogosphere is really taking a hit.  My feeds look like hundreds of little sleep-inducing Wall Street Journals.&quot;" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 05:51:36 GMT"/>			<outline text="&quot;But fun makes the earnest blogger uncomfortable.  This is serious stuff for him, and he believes that serious and fun just aren't compatible.  It saddens me to see all this brainpower, potential and effort directed at something so...indistinguishable.&quot;" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 05:51:48 GMT"/>			<outline text="&quot;Otherwise, you're just another boring newspaper nobody wants to read.  Fun beats smart every time, and in every way.&quot;" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 05:52:14 GMT"/>			<outline text="That's a manifesto I can live by. &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2007/05/15&quot;&gt;Yesterday&lt;/a&gt;, I wrote about Scientology (assholes), Jerry Falwell (a man who was shockingly close to being like an STD) and, of course, the HTML Working Group. I take none of this with much seriousness. In fact, there's very little I take seriously." created="Wed, 16 May 2007 05:52:45 GMT"/>			<outline text="Then again, I have a feeling that the blogs I prefer to read are the ones which are liberal in their use of words like 'bullshit' and '[arse/ass]hole' than the ones who think that every new social networking startup out of the Valley is going to change everything. This is one of the reasons I listen to &lt;a href=&quot;http://yeastradio.podshow.com&quot;&gt;Yeast Radio&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 16 May 2007 06:01:25 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/iWannaBeUnlikeMike56526/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('iWannaBeUnlikeMike56526');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/iWannaBeUnlikeMike56526/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('iWannaBeUnlikeMike56526'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		<outline text="High expectations" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 15:46:33 GMT">			<outline text="Interesting quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://about.skype.com/2007/05/skype_puts_mac_users_first_wit.html&quot;&gt;Skype's press release&lt;/a&gt;:" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 15:46:36 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;Mac users have very high expectations,&quot; said Carter Adamson, Skype's general manager of desktop products. &quot;So we take the time to get things right. Whether it's quality, stability or choice of features, we try to deliver exactly what is important to them. With 2.6 we have launched a new feature on Mac first, demonstrating our commitment to this fast-growing segment of Skype users.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 15:46:49 GMT"/>			<outline text="I guess I do have high expectations for software. Having it not give me a virus, trojan or piece of spyware helps. Having it offer the basic functionality in a reasonably easy-to-use way is another." created="Wed, 16 May 2007 15:47:21 GMT"/>			<outline text="Is the Windows world 'low expectations' by comparison? Or is it a sort of modified Stockholm Syndrome?" created="Wed, 16 May 2007 15:49:39 GMT"/>			<outline text="Yes, smug Mac user. Not really. I have a Windows box on my desktop that I struggle to keep running." created="Wed, 16 May 2007 15:50:12 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/highExpectations98445/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('highExpectations98445');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/highExpectations98445/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('highExpectations98445'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>