Journal
Latest Journal Entry:
I updated my title case program, Title Fix, to be more robust, with strict Perl coding, and with better help messages. I also took the time to create a manpage for it. All this stuff could have been in there before, but, hey, it's a learning experience. I've made other utility scripts in Perl, mostly for renaming files (especially mp3s), which I'm now formalizing by making them strict coding and tightening up the argument parsing. When I'm done polishing those, maybe I'll add them to the Title Fix package. Command-line computing rules! For efficiency, at least. And for those with time and patience to sort it out.
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Selected notes from The Al Franken Show and related stories (indicated times are Pacific) (why this is here):
- 0930: A Florida paper misquotes John Murtha, and the right-wing jumps on it. The paper corrects itself, and Brit Hume issues a correction, but not Rush or O'Reilly, and Ken Mehlman even puts it on their website after the paper's correction was issued.
- 1100: Lawrence O'Donnell: Melanie Sloan is a tough act to follow, because she has hard facts. I'd like to follow [Andy's skit] "Frank in the Car."
Selected notes from The Randi Rhodes Show and related stories (indicated times are Pacific) (why this is here):
- 1200: Audio of Sen. George Allen (R-VA) using a slur ("makak" or "macaca") on an audience member, a volunteer, S.R. Sidarth, working for the campaign of Allen's opponent, James Webb
- 1330: Call from Greg Palast on the selling of fear, while our terror alert colors specify what we're not doing for lower-alert colors, and the root causes of terrorism
- 1330: The British citizens arrested in the terror plot had no plane ticket, visa, or bomb, just chemicals.
- 1530: Audio montage (from the Daily Show) of old talking point "stay the course" that Mehlman wants to replace with "adapt and win"; in 1984-style, Jon Stewart jokingly suggests "it's always been our strategy to 'adapt and win'" (to paraphrase "[we'd] always been at war with Eurasia")
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- Daily Kos (dKos): http://www.dailykos.com/
- New York Times (NYT): http://www.nytimes.com/
- Washington Post (WaPo): http://www.washingtonpost.com/
- Randi Rhodes: http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/
- Media Matters for America (MMFA): http://www.mediamatters.org/
- Center for American Progress (CAP): http://www.americanprogress.org/
- CAP blog (Christy Harvey, Judd Legum): http://www.thinkprogress.org/
- Moby's journal: http://www.moby.com/journal/
- Sojourners: http://www.sojo.net/
- Tom's Hardware Guide (THG): http://www.tomshardware.com/
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): http://www.eff.org/
- SourceForge.net (SF): http://www.sourceforge.net/
- My referral link for a free Mac Mini (legit): http://www.freemacmini.com/?r=160454 (why this is here)
