Interesting absence(s)
Last week, you could buy Radiohead’s OK Computer in the iTunes Music Store. Not this week. No comment, no notice.
Wonder if the leaking of Hail to the Thief to the web soured Thom and the boys on the whole music download thing? If so, I hope it’s a short term anger…
Also now absent: Sigur [...]
What did we hurt ourselves for?
From the back yard, the last blooms of spring (save our reluctant irises) and some of the first of summer:
More pix here.
LiveJournal pinging
Dave points out that LiveJournal can now ping Weblogs.Com. He points out that “there are a lot of apps that watch the XML feed from Weblogs.Com” and that now LiveJournal apps will be included. It also means that the high water mark measurements will include more of the blogosphere, at least those LiveJournal bloggers who [...]
MoveOn moves on
When you’ve mounted some of the most effective online anti-war protests ever, but still refused to prevent the war or convince the president to pay any more attention to your arguments than he did to his b-school classes, what’s your next act?
Some might give up. Not MoveOn. Currently they’re mounting a petition against the pending [...]
To South Carolina for pig-pickin
So, what’s the story with South Carolina, Greg asked me last night. Well, I’m not sure how best to describe the setup, but here goes:
My uncle and aunt live one hill over from my parents on the family farmland in western North Carolina
My uncle retired as an executive in a transportation company; his company has [...]
