Saturday, October 16, 2004 :::  

if you haven't seen the john kerry movie, i highly recomend it. you can dl it here: http://www.thekerrymovie.com/

you can find information about it here: http://www.goingupriver.com/

::: posted by Soup at 9:57 PM::: (0) comments

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something to think about...

"Think about our behavior over the past four years. We have cut taxes but increased spending, benefiting us but burdening our kids. We have relaxed the control of greenhouse emissions, creating cheaper energy for us but astronomically higer costs for our kids, if they are to avoid catastrophic climatic hanage. We have waged an effectively unilateral war against Iraq, giving some a feeling of resolve but engendering three generations of angry souls focused upon a single acto of revenge: killing Americans. And we have suffocated stem cell reseach through absurdly restrictive policies giving the sanctimonious ground upon which to rally, while gauaranteeing that kids with curable diseases will suffer unnecessary deaths. In each case, we have burdened children - that one gorup that can't complain so as to suposedly benefit those of us who do.

"This is the shameful application of a simple political truth: The future doesn't vote. And when tomorrow's generations get their turn at the polls, they won't be able to punish those who failed to consider their interests..."

- Lawrence Lessig, "Our Kids Are in Big Trouble," Wired Magazine October 2004

There are some parts of that first paragraph seem kinda stretchy, but the point that follows rings very true. And it's really sad.

::: posted by Soup at 9:44 PM::: (0) comments

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how would you explain the internet to someone who had no idea what it is? the concept itself is so ingrained in us that it'd almost be like explaining the concept of time to a create that doesn't know time is. ok, it wouldn't as difficult as that, but kinda like that. it just is....

::: posted by Soup at 1:31 AM::: (0) comments

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Thursday, October 14, 2004 :::  

coworker's friend wrote this to her after my coworker gave her gmail:

Gmail starts with the letter "G", which is an exciting letter. It's curvy,
straight and interestingly shaped. It's elements almost balanced by the
Golden Ratio.

On top of starting with the letter G, it offers free 1GB storage, is owned
by Google, and has thrifty/nifty email threading "technology".

Gmail is so much better. It could beat up Hotmail in a street fight anyday.

The end.

::: posted by Soup at 6:57 PM::: (0) comments

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