Today President Obama announced that the US and Cuba are working on normalizing relations. This is good that the US and Cuba are moving forward into 21st century. It is even better to say goodbye to the vestiges of the 1950 and 1960s policy…
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Bruce Sterling on WikiLeaks
I love a good Bruce Sterling rant / essay / rambling all over the place critique. The Blast Shack on Wikileaks and its worldwide cultural / political ramifications is one of Bruce’s best in recent years, even if his thesis is a bit surprising…
Truth, Lies, and Politics
Here are two YouTube videos where an Illinois State Senator, Rickey Hendon, and US Congressman, Ron Paul, throw down/peach to their colleagues about lies, hypocrisy, politics, telling the truth, DADT, Wikileaks, and what it means to do the right thing. Illinois Senator Hendon: US…
A Few Tasty Links for Your Fourth of July Enjoyment
It is 12:41pm here in Seal Beach, California, socked in with the dreaded ‘June Gloom’, aka the Marine Inversion Layer, and it is chilly for a mid-summer day at 66F/18C and there is a bit of wind. The Sun has made no effort to…
Tomi Ahonen on Fire! Two Rants on the State of American Mobile Carriers!
My fave quote from Rant #1, US vs Them? American wireless industry, come meet me at Camera 3: But no, Americans consumers get crippled versions of the cheapest lousiest phones you can find. Why is it that an Apple ‘innovation’ of a Forward Facing…
Time to Change Our Approach to Airport Security
Bruce Schneier asks Is aviation security mostly for show? on Cnn.com. Yes, yes it is. My experience traveling the last eight years is that airport security measures to go beyond the border of ridiculous and over into the 2000’s version of Theatre of the…
I Miss My Nokia, Or Why Nokia Should Have a Finance Plan in the US
Photo taken by Ms. Jen with a Nokia N97. Lauren and Dave are getting married on Saturady in Seattle and I am a bridesmaid. This afternoon I drove up to Glendale to meet up with Felicity Lao and Kim Ray for a trial wedding…
Erika’s New American Boyfriend
Fri 12.19.08 – A certain Thomas became a true hyphenated German-American this afternoon, or as he put it, a “Germerican”.