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Re: Mena Trott implodes on stage at Les Blogs: calls participant an Asshole after lecturing audience about the importance of civility

xian — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:48:51 -0000

The phrase you use twice in this post, "lost the plot" is that an Australian idiom?

Re: Meet Me at SXSW Interactive

xian — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:05:34 -0000

Hey, glad we had a chance to meet in person finally and chat a bit. There's never enough time at SXSW to talk to everyone you want to, though!

Re: Summit presentation available.

xian — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:04:27 -0000

Hello! download-y-odelay-hee-hoo

Re: We're still seeking spiffy columnists at The Blog Herald

xian — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:04:47 -0000

What's a "mold sample"?

Site's looking good btw. I like the current design (very "2.0").

Re: Google Updater and the Apple HIG

xian — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:34:47 -0000

Seems like they're mimicking the behavior of an accordion widget.

Re: My email conversation with Jason Calacanis

xian — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:38:05 -0000

@Joe Clarke: read it with your eyes and move your lips if that helps.

Re: Stuck Between Stations

xian — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:48:56 -0000

Oh, so now we're old, are we? :P

Re: http://bigthink.com/ideas/21136

xian — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:44:27 -0000

I was thinking maybe Wallachia for the Welschland

Re: 87 - The Whole World In A Cloverleaf

xian — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:44:27 -0000

I was thinking maybe Wallachia for the Welschland

Re: Theremin Cover Version of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy

xian — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:16:06 -0000

wonderful. never hear a theramin sound so much like the human voice. (usually more that sci-fi violin stylee). i seem to recall radiohead using a theramin when i saw them

Re: How Not To Suck At Socializing – Do’s & Don’ts

xian — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:43:28 -0000

One more spelling quibble: it's 'lo and behold', not 'low and behold'...

Re: This Just In, Abe Vigoda Is Still Alive | Laughing Squid

xian — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:48:43 -0000

There used to be an Abe Vigoda add-on for Firefox that likewise verified his status either on launch or at regular intervals but it appears to be missing from the current add-on registry.

So-called Bill of thephilter.com has done quite a bit of blogging about Abe Vigoda and his continued aliveness over the years:
http://search.yahoo.com/sea...

Re: 5 Ways To Get Me to Quickly Reject Your Book Proposal

xian — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:23:11 -0000

Chris, in my capacity as an ex-agent, ex-editor, erstwhile author I often find myself giving folks advice on how to put together a book proposal, etc. I always harp on the "this book has no competition" fallacy.

Also, I suggest that they think of the book proposal as something like a business plan or business case, so naturally you need to understand the market, figure out how to promote the thing, how to price it and explain why it's the right "product" to make, why you (the author) are the right person to write it and why the publsiher is the right business to produce it.

Re: Google Taking Design Lessons From Yahoo In China?

xian — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:50:49 -0000

Duncan, sounding a little defensive. Did you not write your own headline (which specifically relates to the design to Yahoo)?

Re: Newsflash

xian — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:31:21 -0000

how you do that?

Re: Google Announces Knol, An Author Driven Knowledge Project

xian — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:27:38 -0000

Cool. Let's all give Google content for free!

(disclaimer: I work for not-Google)

Re: Google Knol as an Instant Author Platform

xian — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:02:36 -0000

If I weren't a bit skeptical of Google's evilquotient on this new product and if I didn't work for a competitor, I would consider writing my next nonfiction book in the form of an extended knol or family of knols. As is I am trying to work out how to do it on a wiki.

Re: 10 Awesome Things About Dungeons & Dragons

xian — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:59:36 -0000

definitely character names. I had a female fighter called Bbbbbbbalqps (the last bit actually being the letter psi), and a paladin called G.R.O. LaSaller-Ingrate. A friend had a character named after the economist Biblabp das Gupta.

Re: Find a shared vision, v2.0 (Scripting News)

xian — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:08:52 -0000

Great sentiments, Dave. I do think that to some Democrats the Clintons represent winning at any cost (and this has been viewed as preferable to losing). Obama is a politican of course. Steel yourself for disillusion someday, as JFK was an inspirational symbol and a flawed man at the same time. But symbols mean things, and charisma in the service of hope sounds pretty good to me today.

Re: No one asked this question (Scripting News)

xian — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:29:39 -0000

Dave, when I started an ezine in '94 the question from friends and eventually from journalists was always 'how will you make money at it?' and few understood that i just felt free to put stuff out there (like we all do now)

Re: 16bit Party at SXSW Interactive 2008

xian — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:39:57 -0000

Wait, do we need to rsvp in all four places?

(btw, the field order in this form is strange. tabbing jumps around in an odd way.)

Re: Twitter Color Wars: Which Team Should Mashable Back?

xian — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:40:48 -0000

You forgot Poland! er, I mean @sepiateam.

Re: My name is Dave and I'm a racist (Scripting News)

xian — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:44:20 -0000

that may also have been because your comedy was weak and tired and designed to push buttons.

dave, i like the "i am a racist" pre-disclaimer idea (and let's all change our middle names to Hussein, too).

i want to point out that the comment made up-thread that tries to distinguish racism from racial prejudice in general is a view i've heard before mostly from black folks: that "racism" is something that requires power and dominance and hence "black people can't be racist." in some senses this is a terminology issue, but it's important because if we use the same term to mean two different things (or even two different nuances) it makes it much harder to come to terms.

that definition of racism is what i would call white supremacy, and in my language, anybody can be racist, but those concepts need to be clarified to move forward (and without dismissing or negating that underlying point about power to act on prejudice and society's embedded biases).

Re: My name is Dave and I'm a racist (Scripting News)

xian — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:14:46 -0000

I may have expressed myself badly. My point is that (just relating personal experience here) some black folks have suggested that "black people cannot be racist" which doesn't make sense if you use the majority definition of racism (roughly: race-oriented prejudice), but can make sense if you take racism to mean something more like "institutional racism enforced by societal norms."

I don't think this is an intentional wedge-issue factor so much as one of the (many) different concepts internalized by communities that have trouble speaking to each other about these very issues.

Mind you, I am not in any way trying to suggest that all white people or all black people subscribe to either of these views, just that there is a tradition of that viewpoint and someone in this thread expressed it.

My name is Christian and I'm racist, sexist, and hidebound in all sorts of ways but doing my best to grow beyond those limitations.

Re: My name is Dave and I'm a racist (Scripting News)

xian — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:16:24 -0000

note: It was mturro's comment that I was referring to - looks like it's actually "down thread" from mine....

loren gets points for being funny in his reply to mine ragging on his comedy.