links, random thoughts, various opinions
My name is Jimmy Carter, and I’m not running for president.
“Truth is the foundation of our global leadership, but our credibility has been shattered and we are left increasingly isolated and vulnerable in a hostile world. Without truth — without trust — America cannot flourish. Trust is at the very heart of our democracy, the […]
The second night of travel is always the worse for jet lag (at least in terms of sleeping decently). In addition to that usual challenge the fire alarm in our hotel went off at 4:00 AM. I never found out if there was a real fire or not but this was a serious […]
Some advice from Apple on optimizing your iBook (and other Apple products) battery life.
Sad Song [30 meg file needing quicktime and sound] is a music video (sort of) produced in a few short days by Fredo. You can read about the video here. He produced it by stringing together 15 second video clips from his Nikon digital camera (in just a few days I think). […]
I watched F/911 over the weekend. Its a typical Moore movie, well crafted (to a point) and articulates his perspective extremely well. He should have been in advertising. Anyways I would hope that most people realize it’s a highly edited version of the truth, but just in case, the web is debunking […]
Came across this amazing site with all the U.S. Presidential TV ads since they started in the 50’s. The Reagan ones from 1984 are particularly slick (well done) and the classic “Nixon, now more than ever” ‘72 re-election ad remains the standard for ‘dynamic shots of the leader’.
This is a great use […]
Home again (I see I brought the London rain back with me). A couple of shots from London…including my new favourite restaurant.
Happy Canada Day. The photo in the link was taken by Maziar Hooshmand whose site .mused contains some beautiful shots. I miss home.
Andrew Coyne sums up nicely [naturally] what I was trying to say the other day about why the conservatives didn’t (and probably shouldn’t have won) this time around. This journalist really gets blogging, so cool, and he’s constantly tweaking the site.
Also via Scobleizer some truly amazing photos of the first private spacecraft launch.