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• How do you feel about broadcasting on twitter? I just tested an apple script that broadcasts what I’m listening to in itunes. #

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The Greeks started the Olympic flame business, but the people to start running this stupid candle around the world were the Nazi’s before the 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany. That’s right, the idea to have a relay around the world with the terminus being Berlin were the Nazi’s.

A enlightening article by the BBC succinctly gives us the history:

The organiser of the 1936 Olympics, Carl Diem, wanted an event linking the modern Olympics to the ancient.

The idea chimed perfectly with the Nazi belief that classical Greece was an Aryan forerunner of the modern German Reich.

And the event blended perfectly the perversion of history with publicity for contemporary German power.

The Nazi’s ran this torch through countries it would later invade.

So, why do you think China is going to run the 2008 Olympic torch through Tibet?

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Update: This just came to my attention. See those guys dressed in the friendly looking powder blue track suits, sort of looking like United Nations peace keepers? Well, they’re from the Chinese secret police, which Great Brittan, France, and the United States have allowed in their countries to protect the Olympic candle. Japan said “no, thanks,” we’ll take care of it ourselves.

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Okay, in 2006 when Joe Lieberman was sucking wind because of all the body blows he was getting from Ned Lamont, his Democrat primary opponent, he blamed the Lamont the campaign of dirty tricks when the Lieberman server died. Lieberman said it was because of a denial of service attack. On August 6, 2006, the day before the primary in Connecticut, the Lieberman server shit the bed, with the Lieberman campaign demanding the matter be investigated by FBI.

Now we have the truth, to which the Lieberman office said . . . never mind! It only took a freedom of information request by The Advocate of Stamford, CT to get the details of the of the long closed investigation. What did the investigation find? The server was misconfigured, only allowing 100 emails an hour to pass threw, and when that limit was reached the server began to tumble.

Oh, well . . . we’re idots . . . let’s blame the other guy!

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In doing research for my post about George Clooney watching the 2 girls 1 cup video (if you really need to know about it, read the Wikipedia article), I found an interesting phenomenon on youTube: sons forcing their mothers to watch this mind altering video. There’s a whole bunch of videos of sons taping their mother’s reaction to watching the video (here’s one, two, three, four), which seems very passive aggressive to me. If you love your mom, why would you show her such a horrible thing? I’m guessing that Freud would have some interesting things to say about sons making their mothers watch 2 girls 1 cup.

I think one of my favorite reactions comes from this French grandmother (!), who appears to be around 90 years old; she acts like “been there, done that . . .”

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I don’t know how I missed the Amazon Honor System, but there it was, making setting up a donation system very easy. And why you might ask, would I need donations? Because, I give a lot of my time away for free, can’t say no to sad story about how some person or another needs a Website, design work, or podcasting advice. Plus, everything I like doing doesn’t pay, or I haven’t discovered how to turn the cash spigot on.

Some of the projects I work on are the Photo Share Podcast, Writer’s Voice, this blog, the Netcast Blog, and I volunteer a lot of time to Valley Free Radio. This doesn’t count the ad hoc questions I get every day, none of which I ask money for answering.

Asking people to donate to my sustenance seems like an honorable thing . . . it’s better than robbing a bank! Or maybe not? My favorite radical defense attorney, Gerry Spence, said that the one crime he could rationalize and defend was bank robbing. Can you stop me from robbing a bank? Please check out my Amazon Honor System page.

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Craigslist has a new blog that is nearly totally useless. I love Craigslist for everything it is and for everything it isn’t: simple, no frills, with a lot of information; but the Craigslist blog is useless because it really isn’t a blog without permalinks (I don’t care about the comments, really). In fact, when a post rolls off the main page it seems to be gone forever. Because the fine folks at Craigslist can’t pull it together, I’m going to create a permalink to some information they posted a couple of days ago.

Craigslist has created a new phone verification system for the erotic services section of their site, meaning people wanting to post there will have to verify by phone, which is similar to what Google does for Checkout and some other services. Here’s what the blog post says:

In early March we implemented a phone verification system for our “erotic services” category, which taken together with other measures has reduced the volume of ads in this category by 80%, and more importantly has signficantly [sic] improved compliance with our terms of use and other posted guidelines.

This might put a dent in the police work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who in the past have enjoyed putting ads on Craigslist to entice suspects, then charge them with illegal solicitation. Here are two examples of the fine police work at UMass Amherst.

Hey, I bet cops using Craigslist is against the terms of use! Craigslist should take them to court! What do you think?

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With the release of WordPress 2.5 there was an interesting post by Anil Dash asking people to consider upgrading their blogs to Movable Type.

Well, as long as Mr. Dash is getting all old school on us, I want to recommend that people upgrade their blogs to Greymatter, the blogging tool that I was using back in 2000. No, I don’t use it anymore, but it was a hell of a tool back then. Static pages? Yup, Greymatter has those. Plugins? Nope, don’t need those. Just go into the base code and hack the shit out of it. Shrinking developer community? Yup! I don’t know of any blog currently running on Greymatter. And, since Mr. Dash so hot about raising the flag to cite Movable Type as being first to use various technologies, I want it to be recognized that Greymatter was around before MT, so it must be better, damn it!

I don’t need to write 1500 words like Mr. Dash to prove my case that Greymatter is the best, you be the judge.

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At one time I thought George Clooney was a zero, an empty suit with a charming smile that appealed to the ladies, but I don’t think that way anymore. He’s got some acting chops, takes some risks with his movies, and he’s willing to put his name on a small project if that’s what it takes for it to be made. Clooney’s politics are also progressive, which doesn’t mean he’s not above having some fun either, like in is Ocean movies.

With all that said, I think A.J. Jacobs, who did an otherwise funny and creative interview with Clooney for Esquire, should be given the Abu Ghraib treatment for the poor judgment that made him introduce Clooney to”2 girls 1 cup”. Mr. Jacobs, who probably thinks of himself as quite clever, showed Clooney the most horrible video that’s gotten wide recognition on the Web. If you know what I’m talking about, the video has seared your mind like a steak on a grill.

That’s what Jacobs did to Clooney: he seared his mind. And if we see any drop-off in the career Mr. Clooney I’ll argue it’s a direct result from watching 2 girls 1 cup, and for that Jacobs can not be forgiven.

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I’m in the midst of a radical shift in my relationship with food. I’m doing a modified cleansing fast that will hopefully help break my addiction to sugar, then create a new base and standard from which to work towards being a healthy person. It’s not easy.

Today has been the first tough day, number four. Actually yesterday was hard too, the first day that I started craving my old comfort foods, which are unhealthy, but nonetheless comforting. There are a lot of fast food commercials during sports on television, and reading the food and dining section of the New York Times online didn’t help much either.

But a nice greasy pepperoni pizza is what I really started craving after seeing a photo on Flickr. Dam, you Flickr!

Watching this ad directed by Steve Nash, professional basketball player and a pretty good soccer player (he grew up playing soccer), it made me wonder whether there has been any other person who’s had a ball either in their hand or on their foot more than Steve Nash? Think about it: the guy is always playing basketball and soccer; that’s a lot of time with a ball in his grasp.