Bob Morris @ Apr 21st 2005 19:19 - Category: Podcasts ;
Sam Whitmore’s article on Podcasting.
Forbes: “Just when we grasped what blogging was all about, along came podcasting, which in some ways is even more disruptive and exciting as blogging.”
Bob Morris @ Apr 21st 2005 08:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
Tech geek and author Roger Cadenhead registered the domain name http://www.benedictxvi.com a few week ago.
Visitors to the site were redirected to Cadenhead’s website, on which he rejects the suggestion that he might be planning to cash in by selling the site to pornographers because they would be willing to pay the most.
“For the love of God, people, that’s not going to happen,” Cadenhead said.
“I will be running any plans I have for this domain by my own Catholic doctrinal enforcer, my never-miss-a-Sunday grandmother Rita.”
Cadenhead said that he was considering his options but that if the pope’s representatives were to approach him to discuss taking over the site, he might make a few requests, including “one of those hats” and “world peace.”
Bob Morris @ Apr 21st 2005 07:40 - Category: Unfiled ;
With the new law, Connecticut joins Vermont and Massachusetts as the only states with laws that provide far-reaching benefits to same-sex couples. Vermont recognizes civil unions and Massachusetts has gay marriage, but the laws were enacted only after court fights.
Connecticut is now the first state to legalize gay unions without a court fight. They didn’t legalize marriage, just gay unions, but still, this is an important first step. New England, where I grew up, is leading the country in legalizing gay unions. It’s a place where religion and sex are considered one’s own affair, not to be intruded on by others.
Bob Morris @ Apr 21st 2005 07:35 - Category: Unfiled ;
Sue and I were walking down the street in L.A. when she saw a newspaper stand with a free well-designed glossy paper called Epoch Times. I scanned the front page, saw an odd headline about the collapse of the Communist Party in China, other articles on varying topics, and absolutely no info about who published it, not even a masthead. “Front group”, I said. Sue agreed, and said she’d find out who was behind it.
It appears to be Falun Gong, a cult-like group in China that claims to be subjected to religious persecution. It also appears they are heavily involved in politics and virulently opposed to the current Chinese government - and they have some serious resources behind them.
Falungong, which Beijing outlawed as an “evil cult” in 1999, disrupted television broadcast signals in most parts of China last week for about five minutes by jamming signal transmission via the satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co.
Bob Morris @ Apr 21st 2005 07:25 - Category: Unfiled ;
VT: Sanders to replace Jeffords?.
Here are my first thoughts about who will replace Jeffords. Independent Bernie Sanders has wanted to run for the senate for years. I expect him to do so and win.
Bernie Sanders is a long time memeber of the House, runs as an independent, and is socialist.
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