Month: October 2005

<p><img src="http://static.flickr.com/24/57327956_ddf827b771.jpg" width="500" /><br /> I am a bit disenchanted about the NYC mayoral race. Not the matchup I had hoped for, to be honest. But when the Ferrer Campaign called me up on Thursday asking if I could get Mega Bloombucks to come to a press conference about Mike Bloomberg's rediculous campaign spending, I…

<p>[lk:http://www.nysun.com/article/22254|This article] by Andrew Wolf in the NY Sun raises a good point abou the reults of the mayoral election:<br /> <cite>If Mr. Bloomberg wins the Bronx and scores well among Latino voters citywide, the biggest loser will be Mr. Ferrer's political Rasputin, Roberto Ramirez, the former Bronx Democratic leader. Mr. Ramirez has become a…

<p>I also just finished reading [l:http://bookswelike.net/isbn/1576753018|Confessions of an Economic Hit Man] by John Perkins. I am not 100% sure what to think about the book. It is at times, enlightening, at others it seems like it is way oversimplifying the situation in the world around us. It feels like creative non finction, or a fictionalized…

<p>I just finished reading [lk:vonnegut.com|Kurt Vonnegurt's] [l:http://bookswelike.net/isbn/158322713X|Man Without A Country]. At about 140 pages it was a quick read. I knocked it off in the last week. I did not know whether to laugh or to cry at times. They say "With age comes privilege" well, Vonnegut doesn't pull any punches here, he calls it…

<p>I just returned from my trip to Amsterdam. The trip was primarily for [lk:civicactions.com|CivicActions] to have what we called an “off-site” which is kind of funny because we don't have a “site” so our 4 days spent on Amstelstraat would have better been described as an “on-site”. We engaged in the typical retreat exercises: trust…

<p>Just saw this on [l:http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1010-04.htm|Common Dreams]<br /> (originally from [l:http://www.latimes.com/|the LA Times]<br /> <b>SUV Drivers in Paris Get Wind Knocked Out of Them<br /> A clandestine group lets air out of tires as a form of protest. The vehicles' owners are not amused.</b></p> <p><cite>But five weeks after the clandestine crew of environmentalists launched a low-intensity…

<p>[via <a href="http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2005/10/10/earthquake_site.html">Smart Mobs: Earthquake site</a>]:</p> <p><cite>The website allows people in the region to register as "safe and well", either directly or through local Red Crescent staff, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement. Relatives can also consult the list of those who have registered and search for names. </cite>…

<p>On primary night here in NYC I was doing dome back of the envelope cost per vote calculations. Well, with the help of Esther Greenbaum, I finally got down to business and ran the numbers. I am attaching my preliminary analysis. Feel free to tinker. My cost per vote is crude, net expenditures divided by…

<p>[via <a href="http://www.reason.com/0510/fe.mf.rethinking.shtml">Reason: Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business: A <i>Reason</i> debate featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods%u2019 John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor%u2019s T.J. Rodgers</a>]:</p> <p><cite>The business model that Whole Foods has embraced could represent a new form of capitalism, one that more consciously works for the common good instead of depending solely on the <b>invisible…

<p>I just thought of this:<br /> When you label an email "Todo" in Thunderbird, it should show up in your "Task List" in Sunbird (the mozilla calendar ap)</p>