This was my problem last night while shopping for a new monitor. I ultimately went with the Dell 2407WFP-HC - over the Samsung 245BW. (So I could connect a Wii, which I still long for.)
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
Did Paul Otlet beat Vannevar Bush to HyperText by 50 years? Paul Otlet had both the vision and a rudimentary implementation.
The following is from the blog of the Long Now Foundation, a great organization of which I’m a proud charter member.
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Long Now seminar speaker Alex Wright brought to all of our attention the truly visionary work of Belgian Paul Otlet and his Mundameum of 1910 (video from a documentary above, and Stewart Brand’s description from the talk below.)
The greatest unknown revolutionary was the Belgian Paul Otlet. In 1895 he set about freeing the information in books from their bindings. He built a universal decimal classification and then figured out how that organized data could be explored, via “links” and a “web.” In 1910 Otlet created a “radiated library” called the Mundameum in Brussels that managed search queries in a massive way until the Nazis destroyed the service. Alex Wright showed an astonishing video of how Otlet’s distributed telephone-plus-screen sysem worked . - Stewart Brand on Alex Wright
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Our strategy works. When we all work together and channel the power of the progressive grassroots - we win! But we aren’t done yet. We have more work ahead to remove all Republican corruption from Washington.
Leaving the Democratic corruption behind?
It’s kind of annoying how these blatantly partisan PACs take on names like Democracy for America. Can they at least pretend to be bipartisan? Or, heavens, non-partisan?
The TV on the Radio concert at Mr. Smalls was great. They began by sharing that the singer and lead guitar (the essence of the band) are from Pittsburgh themselves. Even though this was a sold-out show, it then became the most intimate I’d seen at Mr. Smalls.
And now I’m listening to “King Eternal” and at 2:20 in I hear them sing “Pittsburgh, let her shine”. I looked up the lyrics to see for sure, and it’s not what they say, but it’s what I’ll keep hearing.
I just volunteered to review papers in 2008 for several divisions and SIGs of AERA, the American Educational Research Association. It’s a very long list (12 divisions, 3 committees, and 160 SIGs). Below are the SIGs that grabbed my attention.
I get really tired of e-mails from seemingly reputable organizations that make it difficult to unsubscribe. I’ve repeatedly filled out the unsubscribe form for Alternet.org and yet I keep getting e-mail. Here’s what I just wrote them.
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This is a map from National Geographic’s February Issue. 
The original post at The Creativity Exchange is worth visiting for the entertaining and thought-provoking comment thread.
Slate writes about GrandCentral, a phone service that wants to simplify your life.
I played with it a couple months ago when the NY Times covered it. I mostly wanted it to get a 412 number so people here in Pittsburgh can call me without paying long distance to my 510 mobile number. fwiw, I can now be reached at (412) ACE-NOMAD.
After toying with it a bit, I abandoned it. I didn’t like it much, mostly for the reasons described in the article. I also was creeped out by the features like “post to blog” for a voicemail you’ve received. That says something scary about the designers.
For listening to voicemails on the computer, I like GotVoice.com. It’s free and doesn’t try to take over your phone patterns. You just set it up to call into your voicemail and it plays the tones to match the button presses you would make if you were calling in. Only it records the audio of the voicemails and makes it available to you over the web. And they recently added a mobile web interface too.
I just wish they had a version for home answering machines so my mom could backup the messages she loves to save from me and my sister. There’s no room for new ones.
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Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man to beast.How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all dayWere all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.