Blogging has also become more than simply writing. There's Twitter, that I do occasionally enjoy, but I feel so out of the loop since I can't spend hours interacting like it seems so many others do. I talk to people, they don't talk back. I talk to people and sometimes I don't have time to reply. Hello vicious cycle! I cannot keep up, I feel like I'm drowning in the wake of bloggers who must have 48 hours in their days to my mere

Many people simply want to sit down and turn down the volume. With a newspaper, you control the volume.

A man has won a legal battle to be transferred to a women's prison. The prisoner, who was also convicted of attempted rape, will be moved to a women's jail within weeks The prisoner is serving a life sentence for manslaughter and attempted rape.

"Why do black people have to bargain for what is theirs? Why do we have to wait for the right to vote? Why can't we get what God has given us? And that is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not court the votes. Just do the right thing," Rangel said.

In a report on their findings the researchers said: 'We conclude men's cognitive functioning may temporarily decline after an interaction with an attractive woman.'

"While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus," she explains in the tome she published last year. "It was a very beautiful place, and it was very green."

The Associated Press picture has appeared in any number of venues, and it shows two lawmakers sitting in the back row of the historic Hall of the House in Hartford during the lengthy debate over the two-year, $37 billion state budget.

Try to put yourself in the place of a high school student confronted with this ordeal. It's worse than all of the lame "special events" I experienced in my school career, combined. It makes the grainy black and white filmstrip of lung cancer surgery that we had to watch back in the early 1960s--Don't smoke!--look like Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The only possible reaction by any self-respecting American adolescent is rebellion. An hour of this stuff, and President Obama will be the least cool person on the planet. No, in the galaxy.

I guess I'm curious now. I am going to find some high school kids & see if they think this exercise is cool or lame

"Some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit ugly" Van Jones is an associate director of the Council of Environmental Quality which is part of the Executive Office of the President

"Some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit ugly" (quote from the end of the YouTube video at the link)

Do you realize that light only moves 30 centimeters in a nanosecond? How in hell are you supposed to get anywhere at that speed?

If you follow the link to Damn You, Speed Of Light it says: "I'm testing a new application I've developed at my day job, which takes key parts of the load off our old application. ("Old" in social network / Web 2.x terms, i.e. more than three months.) I've optimised the hell out of the new system, and it's really efficient, on both the small and large scale of things. It can handle 100,000 simultaneous users, and it responds to user requests in under 100 microseconds. But the development server is in Dallas, and I'm in Sydney, so it still feels slow."

Construction guys have the best toys, and that one is the most mysterious to me. It's a pump. A cement mixer dumps readymix into a hopper at the bottom, and it pumps the concrete up as much as four floors. That's quite a column, and wet concrete is heavy. What kind of pump can move a liquid loaded with hard chunks (gravel) against that much back pressure? I suppose it's a screw, simply because I can't imagine anything else that could work, but it's still astounding.

Just thought I would share something completly different today ... see if we can get the construction guy interested in this web site :)

"Now there probably was another side of this, see Kenny is courting Sarah so in evangelical culture sharing the gospel with strangers can be akin to slaying a dragon or bringing home the bacon" ... Nice. I imagine Sarah's brownies were pretty good as she was out to impress the new "man".

Hat tip to Stones Cry out who calls this: Evangelicals Dating. Young people are .... well ... fascinating.

From 1776 to 1912 (136 years), the value of the dollar, relative to the Consumer Price Index, increased by 11% ... After the Fed's creation, from 1913 to 2008 (95 years), the value of the dollar, relative to the Consumer Price Index, decreased by 95%

The article goes on to argue that "The Federal Reserve System is fraudulent. Whatever its stated purpose, its effect is to create a hidden mechanism of deficit spending by politicians, through the insidious invisible taxation of monetary debasement (inflation)." However, I disagree.... Having studied what the stable monetary policy from 1776 to 1912 did ... and what the unstable monetary policy of the Federal Reserve from 1913 to 2008 has done ... Its clear to me, it is much preferable to have the unstable monetary policy ... our economy during the second period of time has been far superior by an order of magnitude than the economy before the federal reserve. Thus the slow debasement of the dollar (95%) over the last 95 years has been *good*, and to the benefit of America.

The article goes on to argue: "The Federal Reserve System is fraudulent. Whatever its stated purpose, its effect is to create a hidden mechanism of deficit spending by politicians, through the insidious invisible taxation of monetary debasement (inflation). With printed money, the Government can buy services for its voters before the effects of inflation are felt. The voters money buys less the following year, as the new money has raised prices, and they are often none the wiser." My comments on this are at Hope for America: I don't agree. Having studied the economy of this country from 1776 to 1912, and from 1913 to 2008, it is quite clear to me that the overall economy has been much better off in the last 95 years. Thus, although the currency has been debased (95%) in 95 years, this is what we want ... a slow debasement of the currency, it helps the economy overall. The real risk these days, is we are heading to a fast debasement of the currency, and are likely to hit 10% to 20% inflation in a few years. That would be truly bad [Though not as horrible as another great depresssion, which would probably happen if we were not printing money as fast as we are these days].

Changing the world, one person at a time ... Domus 3D Printing looks to scale up 3-D printing technologies, which have already begun creating items from silicone and even stainless steel. The end goal involves creating affordable and customizable housing on a mass scale.

This is an interesting program ... to help others with great ideas ... escape from the dimension of ideas ... and move from ideas ... to implementation.

Again, one of the main things we are exploring is combine.

How would you combine some of the best features of facebook with some of the best features of diigo?

As one person put it to me about Diigo "Its like using a Cadillac to transport watermelons" ... the diigo tool is really great, but the use to which it is put is very limiting ...

A truly superb talk by Dr. Azides. Please watch

A truly superb talk by Dr. Azides. Everyone from Tocqueville project please watch it.

Trying to highlight this article: The Last Brother has run into a few issues:

(1) I tried to share this url: http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/08/30/the-last-brother/
(2) Richard shared this url: http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/08/30/the-last-brother/comment-page-2

This confuses Diigo.

Other issues:

(3) When you highlight something to share with others, it posts it in Diigo as if it is your own thoughts, instead of someone else thoughts. This is problematical in multiple ways (a) Copyright issues (b) attribution of others thoughts to you.

Please also see: The Diigo summary of the annotations

The two comments by Wretchard are actually not by Wretchard, but highlights from the post using the Diigo tool. So the Diigo interface is a bit confusing. The first comment is from Alaska Paul and the second from blogstrop.

The comment I highlighted about McCain is not from me but from JMH

The purpose of this forum is to conduct an experiment for one week of how a social website works.

After the experiment is done, this group will be closed.

This experiment is motivated by Without Borders

The Belmont Club has a fatal flaw. It is trapped in the dimension of ideas. Within its pages a dozen possibilities struggle to escape.

Also how the Belmont Club in Houston group is organizing for a get together. [Maybe this will help me meet people in the Boston/Nashua area for a get together in this area also]

First, I want to discuss how to escape being trapped in the dimension of ideas. Get creative solutions from people.

Second, I want to evaluate the Diigo platform. Since this is social software, I need to get others to interact with me, here, to do a proper evaluation:

Is the experience enjoyable?

What could be improved?

Third, Off course I also have hidden motives ... but that's for me to know & you to find out ;-P