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| Friday, May 18, 2007 |
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Praise farming 
| | I can¹t believe this tool is real - and no, they¹re not paying me to say or write this. |
| | Is it perfect? No, it's alpha. Is it telling the world that Microsoft is getting back into "the game?" Hell yeah. This isn't a Microsoft project, I swear - it can¹t be. It simply can't be. If this is the kind of experience that Silverlight enables, color me sold. |
| | Hope it's not all in a silo. Can't tell yet. |
Thinking through identity, privacy and relationships
Get used to it
Quote du jour
| | Lauren Weinstein: Howard nicely crystallized the rapidly declining environment for freedom of speech when he reacted to this case by telling his Sirius audience, "If you want free speech, walk in a closet and talk to yourself." That would be Howard Stern. |
Heady times
| | Not quite speaking of which, I saw this video at MemriTV last November and it has haunted me ever since. It's an interview on Lebanon's LBC TV of Abdallah Al-Bishi, a top professional executioner in Saudi Arabia. It's a bloodless talking-head interview, through which I became amazed by the bureaucratic banality of Al-Bishi's job — as well as the apparently large number of people he has killed. Yes, I have beheaded many people who were my friends, but whoever commits an offense brings it on himself... On the personal level, I am very normal. I get up in the morning, pray the Al-Fajr prayer. My breakfast is prepared, and I eat it. Allah be praised. I wait for the police car to pick me up, and I go to work. It's all very normal. I finish the job, and go home. It's all very normal. |
| | Kuwait Times reports that 72 people have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year so far — almost double the rate from one year ago. |
Thanks, Long guy
| | And congrats to Chris and the Wired crew for winning the latest National Magazine Award for General Excellence in the 500,000 to 1,000,000 circulation category. |
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