Cole: "Look at this convo between Nick and me from Spring of '07 that I accidentally found today."

  • me: i learned about a new blog service
  • nick: yeah?
  • me: they insist on calling it something else
  • it's not blogging, it's __
  • and it's supposed to be more free form, more like a scrapbook
  • less about writing, more about sharing...
  • ring any bells?
  • it had a real web2.0-ish name
  • nick: kinda
  • not twitter?
  • me: no
  • nick: i have some friends kinda doing that
  • but it's more file-sending i think
  • than open sharing
  • me: it was like squag or vizzle or some such gibberish
  • nick: jaiku?
  • dunno
  • me: no...
  • i'll keep looking

Probably time to quit Aardvark

Aardvark

(From Muhammad Sufyan S./27/M/Riyadh,SaudiArabia)
    **web application**
Any entrepreneurship idea? which is related to software web application.

(Type ‘pass’ to skip, or ‘more’ for extra options.)

Sad Keanu Reeves went shopping.

Sad Keanu Reeves went shopping.

“In a July 2005 speech at the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Center in Adelaide, Australia, Rauf said, according to the center’s transcript: “We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaida has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.” While calling terrorism unjustified, he said the U.S. has supported authoritarian regimes with heinous human rights records and, faced with that, “how else do people get attention?”
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FACT CHECK: Islam already lives near ground zero - Yahoo! News

Or as I read on Twitter, “It’s only fair – the U.S. has put plenty of Ground Zeros next to mosques.”

via i.imgur.com

via i.imgur.com

» Dutch Muslim Group Fined Over Holocaust Cartoon - ABC News

Best job of the decade: Dutch cartoonist

This is what this blog is about now.

This is what this blog is about now.

» Federal appeals court says highways' crosses are unconstitutional - CNN.com

Oh come on seriously you guys? I think religion is a curse and even I don’t get the problem with these.

“What an enormous relief to be judged only as an individual and not prejudged according to the worst thing ever done by anyone ever claiming to belong to my faith community, or sharing my gender or my ethnicity. It’s not just a relief it’s a … oh, what’s the word? … privilege. Yes, that’s what it is — a fantastic privilege.”
– slacktivist: Please forgive me for the actions of extremists I have never met who commit acts of violence that I have never advocated
“Benjaman Kyle is the pseudonym adopted by a man who has retrograde amnesia. He was discovered unconscious on August 31, 2004, in Richmond Hill, Georgia and is believed to be about 60 years old. He is unable to obtain employment without a Social Security number.”
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Benjaman Kyle - Wikipedia

Kyle has been in local and international papers and on the Dr. Phil Show. The FBI, two DNA centers, two online DNA databases, and several other organizations have tried to identify him.

Reddit is skeptical about him.

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President Ahmadinejad auditions for new Wes Anderson film - Telegraph

President Ahmadinejad auditions for new Wes Anderson film - Telegraph

“He was in the hands of medicine. He was hopeful but realistic. He will come to feel increasingly like a member of the audience in the theater of his own illness. I’ve been there. There were times when I seemed to have nothing to do with it.”
– Roger Ebert writes about Christopher Hitchens’s fight with cancer
“For instance, let’s say Sarah Palin wanted to bring a law­suit to stop the Cor­doba House from being built near the WTC site. So long as she can’t show that she, per­son­ally, is harmed by its being built, all she can do is say how much she doesn’t like it on TV.”
– Expanding Standing « Snarkmarket
topherchris: The planned “Ground Zero mosque” has generated plenty of opinions and controversy. I made this map to help illustrate some points which might be helpful in the debate. (The view from the Burger King is fantastic. It’s directly across the street and there’s a large window upstairs just for this purpose. I highly recommend it and the TRIPLE WHOPPER® as a way to pay your respects.)

topherchris:

The planned “Ground Zero mosque” has generated plenty of opinions and controversy. I made this map to help illustrate some points which might be helpful in the debate.

(The view from the Burger King is fantastic. It’s directly across the street and there’s a large window upstairs just for this purpose. I highly recommend it and the TRIPLE WHOPPER® as a way to pay your respects.)