I keep trying to convince myself that Dave Winer is exaggerating on this one, but it looks like he’s not. Here he articulates the reason I’ve made Opera my default browser, as part of my phased plan to, maybe by the end of the year, have things fixed up so the only Microsoft products I [...]
“I have no earthly idea what you are talking about, George,” he said finally. Funny stuff.
Stephy Says: Sure, C.S. Lewis was a much better writer than J.K. Rowling (who writes Harriet Potter), but she also has no illusions that she is doing more than drawing in, involving children, and she doesn’t barely hide Christian morals and ethics under every shrub. Also, I’m not sure Harry Potter is read-to-me as much [...]
One reliable gauge of the level of hysteria in ruling circles is how much abuse Noam Chomsky is getting from mainstream media types. There’s been an uptick lately, needless to say. Which only makes it more interesting to listen to the guy. Whether or not you can bring yourself to believe in “facts” the way [...]
Laura dictated this song to me the other night, by standing at my elbow and singing slowly while I typed it into my music notation program. I think it has to do with a story they were reading in class. I made some guesses about the chords she intended, and it ended up sounding like [...]