June 17
Conversation — Courtesy of Bill Watterson
- Calvin: Hey Mom, did you know that gravity in outer space works as if space was a soft flat surface? Its true. Heavy matter like planets sink into the surface and anything passing by, like light, will roll toward the dip in space made by the planet. Light is actually deflected by gravity! Amazing huh? … And speaking of gravity, I dropped a pitcher of lemonade on the kitchen floor when my roller skates slipped.
- Mom: How can kids know so much and still be so dumb?
May 28
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MOAR LIKE TYPNOTGRAPHY AMIRITE
Note: Yes, it’s actually like that in the device UI, not just this press shot.
April 27
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April 24
Text — Android is nasty
Courtesy of adb logcat:
Changing supplicant state: SCANNING ==> ASSOCIATING
Apparently my device is hitting on people at a bar.
Changing supplicant state: ASSOCIATING ==> ASSOCIATED
Oh, must have met someone. Now they’re chatting it up.
Changing supplicant state: ASSOCIATED ==> FOUR_WAY_HANDSHAKE
Whoa, my device moves quick and-
Changing supplicant state: FOUR_WAY_HANDSHAKE ==> GROUP_HANDSHAKE
Oh jeez.
Changing supplicant state: GROUP_HANDSHAKE ==> COMPLETED
Ew.
April 23
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April 13
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March 18
Text — Declan McCullagh on AIG
Via IP, not yet in the archives:
Dave,
The AIG mess includes a number of serious oversights and bipartisan political failures:
* AIG received four taxpayer bailouts to date, the most recent under the Obama administration. As far as we know, even though the Treasury owns 80 percent of AIG, the current administration levied no accountability/transparency demands. (If that was the case, the documents have not been made public.)
* A bipartisan chorus of politicians last fall, including the Bush administration and Sen. Chuck Schumer, claimed that an AIG bailout was necessary to avoid “catastrophic” damage to the financial system. But those claims have now been called into question. The list of AIG’s counterparties was finally made public a few days ago; that list shows (a) tax dollars were funneled to in large part European banks and (b) the possible damage to counterparties measured by actual payments:
http://www.aig.com/aigweb/internet/en/files/CounterpartyAttachments031509_tcm385-153015.pdf
* AIG has continued to raise alarums in secret presentations to regulators as recently as last month that used phrases like “potentially catastrophic unforeseen consequences,” “retirement savings significantly at risk” and “a loss of confidence in the private pension system in the U.S.” Those presentations have never been made public by the current administration:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/09/AR2009030902806.html
Now we have the odd — but, perhaps, welcome — spectacle of Congress threatening to change tax law so the bonuses are taxed at a rate of 100 percent:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9600d072-1315-11de-a170-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
There’s no reason this process has to take place in such secrecy, behind closed doors, which invites special-interest lobbying, and which has the practice of both the Bush and Obama administrations.
I’ve covered this in more detail in my CBS News column:
http://cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/04/politics/otherpeoplesmoney/main4842207.shtml
http://cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/11/politics/otherpeoplesmoney/main4858348.shtml-Declan
January 5
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This is a photo I shot at the Common Ground main house in Algiers, New Orleans, Sept. 16th, 2005.
That night, the entire area lost power for hours, a fact of life shortly after Katrina. The experience that we had down there was both humbling and horrifying. Common Ground is a true grassroots effort, and I applaud their continued efforts when, as we had seen first hand, support for the area from the government and NGOs was nearly nonexistent.
Which is why it made me physically sick to hear that one of the founders, Brandon Darby, recently outed himself as an FBI informant. In the photo above, he’s in the gray shirt on the left.
The Huffington Post sums things up quite succinctly. For further reading, please visit this IndyMedia link. The NYTimes also has more on this story.
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