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It's about immediacy and harsh judgements and seeing things from a POV that wouldn't have been accessible otherwise but is most enlightening when you discover it yourself. It can't be effectively harnessed in a boardroom, and it most certainly can't be taught. But, oh, how they will try and try. Do you really want all this sizzle to get doused by the same fifth estate that continues to publish allegedly fascinating statistics like "according to Google, there are 684,000 fan pages devoted to Jennifer Love Hewitt" ... On the Internet, you can get really neat things. Neat things like porn. But a bunch of attorneys general in the US aren't happy about that, as they mention over and over again in their letter to P2P operators: One substantial and ever-growing use of P2P software is as a method of disseminating pornography ... Did porn suddenly become illegal in the US? Is that one of the ways our societies are diverging? Kathy, who hates Muslims (because they don't value human life as much as George Bush), linked to this article about the contrasting religious values in the US and Canada, but the poll cited is a little myopic. Mr. Polling Dude misses the boat by only comparing the US and Canada. Including other Western democracies would have show that, in the broader context, the Canadian stats are common for the West and that the US is out-of-step. The interesting question is not, "Why is Canada different from the US?", it's "Why is the US different from the other democracies?" Or maybe it's not that interesting. What do you want? It's the Internet! There's more than porn on the 'Net; there are geeks, too! James disagreed with my assessment of Peter Davidson as Doctor Who (I'm sorry, but I just kept expecting him to shove his arm up a cow's arse) and declared his love for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Keeping in mind what Marc wrote, all I can say is: JAMES BOW SUCKS! Even so, he has a good Doctor Who post and and in depth look at the seventh season Buffy reruns. Andrew Spicer is concerned about the replacement street signs that are popping up all over town. The signs are cheap knock-offs of the original metal signs at 4x the size. My thought is this: if you're going to replace the signs, don't insult us with a discount simulation of the old sign. Start from scratch and create something new and good that's unique to the city. But then, this is yet another symptom of amalgamation. We're getting gigantic, suburban-style signs for tiny, urban residential streets where they're not appropriate. Finally, I was talking to my sister on the phone the other night and she had a little blog feedback, she said, "yeah, the cartoons are nice and all but there's something missing." There are, in fact, two things missing in this new version of the blog: 1) post requiring lots of thought and energy. Two years ago when I was doing lots of Flash stuff and visiting the Coffee Guys and hanging with Alice, I was working on a lucrative contract that required 10% of my creative resources and the blog was a good way to vent some of that energy. Now things have completely flipped, I'm working on projects that demand 90% brain energy. I'm using the remaining 10% to train to become a forklift operator. 2) personal stories, such as this one from this afternoon: I was at Dog Hill with Zack this afternoon and there was a really attractive woman there and I was checking her out a bit and then, just before we left I took Zack over to the water hose to get a drink and the woman was there filling up one of the buckets for her dog. I started hosing Zack off and she struck up a conversation (no wedding ring, btw) and while we were chatting and I was hosing Zack, she starting scrubbing his fur so the water could soak in. So there I am, chatting with a really attractive woman and she's scrubbing my wet dog ... and that was enough to throw me off and drift out of the conversation. And then we left. I'm dropping most of the personal stuff and deleted the archives because I'm thinking of maybe, possibly dating a little bit this fall and stories from other bloggers have convinced me that it's a good idea to have some firm boundaries drawn on the personal stuff. If you get involved with someone, you want them to feel comfortable that their life isn't going to become fodder for posts. Even though, in a perfect world, it would. Also, I hate all of you and I want to punish you. 11:16 PM , # , \|