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Van Susteren jumps to Palin's defense: Wants to convert her to Scientology
There is as much substantiation for the Scientology claim in the Fox piece as there is for Van Susteren's claim that
Sally Quinn mocks Palin's son: Just about zilch.
Up next on Fox News: The liberal science bias
The reason why "Intelligent Design" isn't getting a fair shake from science?
Google's Chrome OS to launch 2010
The blog says it will be targeted at the netbook class of devices and we think it should fit into the Google vision of cloud computing.
We don't imagine Google will be worried about screen size in the implementation of the OS, as Microsoft and Intel have been with their products.
Intel has also been aiding the development of Linux based
Moblin for use in netbooks and other devices.
We've installed the Chrome browser on a few machines and with somewhat limited use have found it capable. We are not happy with IE 8.
"Bhopal Coale" and Palin
He was on our radar earlier as Greta Van Susteren's husband advising Sarah Palin: A very tangled web.
Intel and Microsoft in agreement on netbook size
Anything with a screen size greater than 10.2 inches could mean the end of preferred chip pricing from Intel and Microsoft looks as if it will do the same for Windows 7.
While it could run the risk of killing the netbook niche, this type of enforcement of a convention is rather pointless. Better to let the market find the efficiencies to keep the price down. On the other hand, MSFT is afraid one of those cost-cutting measures would mean using Linux.
Thank you, David Letterman
His "off-color jokes" help persuade Palin to quit.
Palin resigns, something is brewing
This broke a few minutes ago, so we'll be updating on this. Obviously this is not anywhere near the end of the story, with her two most likely motivations either a scandal ready to break or she has decided to begin preparation for a run at president.
We apologize for the last three posts all concerning Palin: But it's like a wreck on the highway from which you can't turn your gaze.
Update: There appear to be hints of the next steps in Palin's arc. We think they largely fall within the run for president explanation, although she may have opted for one of the less demanding options of media personality or NGO/think tank for the money. The amount of money required to outweigh her other drives being a long shot, it would be just a stop along the way.
We're all for Palin
We really want to see her as the next Republican candidate for president. We don't think Palin would be the best thing for the Republican party, it would just make things
easy.
Cat fight over Palin
We emailed a link to this story early this morning and as the day went by noticed increasing amounts of traffic surrounding it, the links to it and Kristol's
blog post on the Vanity Fair article.
Palin has been, from the start of her rise in national Republican politics, Kristol's ingenue. We find her to be artless but far from innocent. We are not prepared at this time to concur on the Purdum article's placement of her in the DSM. But we are quite sure she does not enjoy full mental health. Her
actions surrounding the birth of her son, Trig, are most convincing in this matter and can only be characterised as not of sound judgement.
#iranelection is still alive
As the government crackdown stymied further protests and Jacko (in case we haven't made it clear, hope the POS turns to compost quickly) ate up the bandwidth, it looked as if the tyrants had won.
Mousavi has a new statement that would indicate things are far from over. Our reading of statements by other opposition voices indicates they are preparing for action of a more long term nature.
Lawyers back fired inspector
The firing sounded somewhat dicey at first but ample grounds were provided by Walpin when he politicised the position with his repeated public announcements.
For fun and profit, Jeff Jarvis loves to see himself as a prophet
We haven't kicked around Jarvis for a while so this little bit of lunacy presents itself as an excellent opportunity.
We think Judge Posner drank deep of the kooky koolaid but Jarvis saying that newspapers are free-riding on the links created because of the value of the content they have originated is just absolute reactive horseshit: It flies in the face of creating value through content.
We blog but we have an enduring love of the business we grew up with. We think that the professional news gathering businesses (across print and broadcast) have largely failed to utilize the Internet. But...
(Soliloquy: Let's do without all the malarkey and cut right to the current darling of the Web, Twitter)
Imagine everyone (a big bunch, anyway) retweeting (kinda like Elmer Fudd advancing in the other direction) some innocuous thing such as "For fun and profit, Jeff Jarvis loves to see himself as a prophet". While the statement appears to be true it is an opinion that has no inherent value. The retweeting (essentially a linking) might bring it to the top of Twitter Trends but without the value of substantiation and a lucid coherent presentation it has no real value.
Update: Actually, they'd have to use a hashtag on Twitter to get to the top of trends. As soon as "retweet" was associated with Fudd all thinking stopped. Oh well. Again, essentially a linking.
The Pitney/Milbank pettifoggery
Pitney could have very easily established his journalistic independence by asking a question other than the one expected.
The White House has an
Internet connection and simply wished to be relieved of the responsibility of selecting the question to be answered. Probably not a good idea to depend on the
HuffPo for a
distillation of the
Internet.
Jacko will be taking the dirt nap without kids
Add this to the list of reasons why we are cynical (if you're keeping tally); Big money, no remorse.
Sometimes genius comes out twisted. Real twisted.
Circumstances bring an end to domestic spy satellites
On the bright side, some creepy Bush era program is ended.
On the not-so-bright side, doesn't seem like it was done out of any great concern for civil liberties.
Google goes Bing
Well, sorta. These backgrounds can be seen as a reaction. The high quality photographic backgrounds of Bing have gotten a very positive response: We like the
embedded links.
Process obsessed on Twitter
This really needed to be said:
"The protests in Iran are about the strength of the Iranians not the strength of Twitter"
Broadband marches on
Broadband adoption has continued to grow in this recession despite price increases, according to the latest Pew Internet & American Life Project report.
Wingnuts in bloom, another downside: LVJR to roll on comments
Tough choices often present themselves at the worst of times. The editor Mitchell's choice to err on the side of caution, while perhaps somewhat understandable, fails to live up to newspapers' historic role and undermines the very often wild conversation with readers that newspapers need in order to move forward.
As for the legal boilerplate defense: We'll go with a comments proxy.
Cyberwar in Iran
boingboing links to helpful stuff.
Windows 7 a winner again
Finally beat the problem with the Intel 845 graphics driver for the HP D510USDT. With a right click to open the driver install package in XP compatibility mode, we were able to use HP's WinXP driver to give greater functionality (i.e., sleep function, some degree of hardware acceleration) in Win7.
Two points, though: No Aero, it's not a WDDM driver and this isn't a use of Win7's virtual "XP Mode"- the processor doesn't support that function (a surprising number and variety don't).
We're very happy with the outcome. This model is about seven years old and it speaks well for Win7 that it will perform as well as it does with the dated technology.