Day March 6, 2006

Still relevant

From the LA Times, Monday morning. “John Heartfield found the pencil ‘too slow’ to ridicule Hitler, so he made his point with photo montages, as illustrated in a Getty show.” ” ‘Whoever Reads Bourgeois Newspapers Becomes Blind and Deaf: Away…

Let’s stop the madness

To paraphrase Steve Earle’s classic lyric of “Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war”, what we have in Iraq is just another poor boy, dying for a rich man’s war. Country Joe said it about the…

Scoble hits it perfectly

From Robert Scoble, “Microsoft tech evangelist”, on snarkiness, deliberate attacks in hopes of getting hits, and other such self-referential blogdom ploys. The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum) I’m unsubscribing from Memeorandum.Reading Dave Winer this morning…