tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715182011-07-08T08:23:09.968-07:00peter's hip pocketA friendly blog in a complicated world.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comBlogger2421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-42098852551674973042010-08-31T18:18:00.000-07:002010-08-31T18:19:58.500-07:00I'm hanging out at WordPress these days. Come on over!Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-10780803995199785322009-03-07T16:10:00.001-08:002009-03-07T16:13:21.839-08:00Snow in Duvall March 2009Originally uploaded by pgsvenskIt's been a crazy winter in the Pacific Northwest. And it just started snowing again.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-79378619437614618092009-03-07T15:52:00.000-08:002009-03-07T15:53:19.388-08:00Right now, it's snowing pretty hard at 475 feet elevation in Duvall, WA.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-22402276672151879092009-02-02T20:57:00.001-08:002009-02-02T20:57:30.002-08:00Ixtapa Mexican Restaurant, Duvall, Washington, USA Ixtapa is the only Mexican place in Duvall, WA. But it’s good, as “Americanized” Mexican places go. But, surprisingly, my favorite is the hamburger with a big Santa Fe chili in it. Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-65236793843872412892008-12-26T14:30:00.001-08:002008-12-26T14:30:30.889-08:00We are snowbound in Duvall, WA for yet another day. Have only been able to make it to the store a couple times in the last week or so.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-24906995220368967982008-08-10T08:59:00.001-07:002008-08-10T08:59:39.683-07:00MamaBettyMamaBettyOriginally uploaded by pgsvenskTaken when I was last in SoCal.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-2722101617575721742008-08-03T13:00:00.001-07:002008-08-03T13:13:33.270-07:00Microsoft study supports "six degrees/small world" theory. Kevin Bacon hasn't yet commented. http://ping.fm/guq92Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-31315370979321537732008-08-01T11:46:00.001-07:002008-08-01T11:46:08.758-07:00Eleven tips for using video in your article Blogger Andy Dickinson gives a few tips on how to get a video right on a newspaper website. After studying The Times, The Telegraph, FT and the Guardian's websites, here are his tips... Eleven tips for using video in your article - editorsweblog Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-38703871684914948642008-07-28T18:05:00.000-07:002008-07-28T18:27:54.383-07:00Let's Step Outside: The evolution of the fight scene, from the Duke to the Dark Knight.By Dennis LimAt one point in Michael Ondaatje's book of interviews with Walter Murch, the venerable film editor reflects on how effective cutting keeps audiences grounded as one shot, often imperceptibly, becomes another. The trick is to determine where the viewer's attention is trained in a particular shot andPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-3841020048424876272008-07-23T06:36:00.001-07:002008-07-23T06:37:25.779-07:00Call people without having to talk to themslydial let’s you do it. Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-44800929732004937862008-07-08T09:29:00.001-07:002008-07-08T09:32:54.338-07:00Web Design is 95% Typography95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.http://informationarchitects.jp/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period/Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-31036806919692350482008-07-08T09:25:00.001-07:002008-07-08T09:34:10.176-07:00Elvis and the OppositeA 14-year old video blogger named Fred somehow managed to get a fan base of almost 45 Million users. Now instead of asking how that’s possible, Seth Godin and Robert Scoble trivialize his success. Did they forget what Elvis said?http://ping.fm/6WEEyPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-44350432199361097512007-11-12T21:38:00.001-08:002007-11-12T21:38:42.607-08:00Lifehacker Top 10 Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and ConvertersSo many video file formats so many handheld video players so many online video sites and so little time To Lifehacker Top 10 Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1763080467982350392007-09-04T18:59:00.000-07:002007-09-04T18:59:13.477-07:00It Only Took A Minute | DlistedIt Only Took A Minute | DlistedWhoopi stirs it up on The View. That's what's she's famous for, no?Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-86716575958673785652007-09-02T13:00:00.001-07:002007-09-02T13:00:49.317-07:00Always good adviceSeat 1A: Reflections On Italy Spend less time on news, the Internet, and TV and more time reading, working in the garden, and listening to music. Spend less time rushing from place to place and more time walking or strolling. Walk more upright and with a swing in your arm. Wear simple clothes that fit you well and are made from quality materials. Don't worry so much about making a Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-509217284231389672007-09-01T06:51:00.000-07:002007-09-01T07:07:16.234-07:00Via Cookin' in the 'CuseOde to a Tomato by Pablo NerudaTranslated by Margaret Sayers PedenThe streetfilled with tomatoesmidday,summer,light ishalvedlikeatomato,its juicerunsthrough the streets.In December,unabated,the tomatoinvadesthe kitchen,it enters at lunchtime,takesits easeon countertops,among glasses,butter dishes,blue saltcellars.It shedsits own light,benign majesty.Unfortunately, we Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-14527997944390079152007-09-01T06:31:00.000-07:002007-09-01T06:34:08.292-07:00Andrew's birthday dinner at Daniel's Broiler.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-63779373666849236222007-08-31T10:35:00.000-07:002007-08-31T10:38:27.151-07:00I've posted entries on other blogging tools. You may want to see some of those posts, too.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-15464318168113866882007-08-31T10:31:00.000-07:002007-08-31T10:33:31.131-07:00Where we're moving to in a few weeks.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-5946021513223131622007-06-25T14:32:00.000-07:002007-06-25T14:33:07.658-07:00"And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as the leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new."--Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-43585761797537948622007-05-07T08:56:00.000-07:002007-05-07T08:58:48.002-07:00Staggering destruction. Donate here.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1153232682369112412006-07-18T07:21:00.000-07:002006-07-18T17:33:17.043-07:00Las Vegas lightning storm July 17, 2006Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1153147468323287792006-07-17T07:44:00.000-07:002006-07-18T07:53:27.000-07:00Welcome home, DiscoverySpace shuttle Discovery and its crew of six returned to Earth through thick clouds Monday, ending an impressive mission that put NASA's space program back on a solid, safer course.Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Center at 9:14 a.m. in only the second shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster killed seven astronauts."Welcome back, Discovery, and congratulations on a great mission," MissionPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1144681488144454842006-04-10T07:48:00.000-07:002006-04-10T08:04:49.163-07:00Laughs for a Monday morning.Love him, or hate him, Bill Maher's latest "New Rules" segment is pretty damned funny.Top 10 viral videos, including the must-see "Grape Smasher" news report.Via GorillaMask.netPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1139944149358219892006-02-14T11:08:00.000-08:002006-02-14T11:15:57.653-08:00brrreeeportPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1136225250903514542006-01-02T09:57:00.000-08:002006-01-03T09:10:47.936-08:00An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth [By Bruce Mau]Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works.1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1120325126774228792005-07-02T10:25:00.000-07:002006-01-03T10:23:56.950-08:00How 'bout a Miner's Burger? How 'bout a Miner's Burger?For years I had heard my wife tell stories of one of her teenage haunts, Miner's Drive Inn in Yakima, Washington.The stories told of incredibly large, juicy, tasty hamburgers, massive portions of crispy french fries, and luscious, rich shakes.These are my kind of stories!So, what better way to work off Thanksgiving dinner than to confirm the veracity of these stories Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1112623311578189732005-04-04T06:33:00.000-07:002005-04-04T07:01:51.583-07:00From Fragments from Floyd:Yes, it concerns me that while this page once had something almost every day about the real world of ridge and meadow, it now contains something almost every day about my doings, my complaints, my things or potential things. Baggage.It bothers me too how much of my day is spent sitting watching letters appear as my fingers lift and fall; I read the words—my words like Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1101060486737795172004-11-21T10:04:00.000-08:002004-11-21T10:08:06.736-08:00Why I always check in on Rebecca Blood:
"Things I have learned:
Someone loves me.It always gets better.Take a chance.Everyone can make a difference; everyone does make a difference.The map is not the territory.Embrace the unexpected; cherish the routine.I am blessed."
Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1059619387562727832003-07-30T19:43:00.000-07:002003-07-30T19:46:41.630-07:00
This is an ugly, smoggy, hot day in Seattle. Beautiful.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1059584629557388202003-07-30T10:03:00.000-07:002003-07-30T10:03:49.610-07:00Web Sites That Shorten Long URLs: "The following free web sites can take a long URL and give you back a shorter URL without requiring registration. Any of these services will do a good job, but if you want to study them before you pick one, here is an informal survey of the competitive landscape."Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1059408736555088722003-07-28T09:12:00.000-07:002003-07-28T09:12:16.606-07:00Bob Hope one-liners on politics:
"Richard Carlson: 'A zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly, with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.'
Hope: 'You mean like Democrats?'
— from 'The Ghost Breakers' (1940)
Nydia Westman: 'Do you believe in reincarnation, you know, that dead people come back?'
Hope: 'You mean like Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058747298399543012003-07-20T17:28:00.000-07:002003-07-20T17:28:18.383-07:00Poynter Online - The Design Desk: "Are you feeling uninspired? Maybe your work has become routine and doesn't hold your interest. It may be time to get back in touch with the things that first inspired you. The life you build and things you do outside the newsroom are key to being creatively charged in your job. "Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058747149566184462003-07-20T17:25:00.000-07:002003-07-20T17:25:49.563-07:00Poynter Online - The Design Desk: "If you're still using the Web-safe color palette of 216 colors, here's a better solution -- More Crayons. More Crayons is a site developed by Kirk Franklin that expands the Web-safe palette to a 'Web-smart' palette of 4,096 colors. "Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058746887286924322003-07-20T17:21:00.000-07:002003-07-20T17:21:27.303-07:00Newspapers should let reporters blog away, says OJR editor: "Online Journalism Review editor Michelle Nicolosi would love to see Orange County Register science reporter Gary Robbins get into blogging. 'He knows so much, he's finding things out all the time' and many items that don't get into the Register would make good blog entries. Nicolosi tells Dan Rohn: 'More papers should think about Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058734032834143602003-07-20T13:47:00.000-07:002003-07-20T13:57:03.366-07:00“If hypertext really becomes available, especially in the fancy versions now being talked about -- where words, sounds, video, computer graphics, simulations and more are available at the touch of the screen -- well, it’s hard to imagine anyone capable of preparing the material. It will take teams of people. I predict there will be much experimentation, and much failure, before the dimensions of Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058733014489219602003-07-20T13:30:00.000-07:002003-07-20T14:41:02.136-07:00How to make a "Golden Section."
What's the "Golden Section"?Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058460140963565842003-07-17T09:42:00.000-07:002003-07-17T09:42:20.900-07:00Mark Hollis (1998): "Before you play two notes learn how to play one note -- and don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it." [via chim chim]Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058453625343657622003-07-17T07:53:00.000-07:002003-07-17T07:54:38.140-07:00Yet another sharp observation from Robert Scoble: "This is business fundamentals 101. Tim Bray calls it 'sharecropping.' Dave Winer calls it 'building a trunk.' Macromedia calls it 'Flash.' Adobe calls it 'Acrobat.' Microsoft calls it 'Windows.' Intuit calls it 'Quicken.' Borland calls it 'Delphi.' Apple calls it 'iPod.' Sony calls it 'Playstation.' The SF Giants call it 'Barry Bonds.' Wall Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058380575398055102003-07-16T11:36:00.000-07:002003-07-16T11:36:15.360-07:00This war ain't over.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058120396884505532003-07-13T11:19:00.000-07:002003-07-13T11:19:56.900-07:00[Your choice] of mass destructionPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058114691537637882003-07-13T09:44:00.000-07:002003-07-13T09:49:06.910-07:00Am I the only fan of "CBS News Sunday Morning," one of the last watchable news programs on free television? Sure, it's totally soft feature/human interest/arts stories, but isn't that about right on a Sunday morning? A perfect visual accompaniment to reading The New York Times every Sunday morning. The pace of the studio segments, the length of the features, and the quality of writing, all make Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058113325355128032003-07-13T09:22:00.000-07:002003-07-13T09:22:05.346-07:00The "evil" drug companies:
My wife used to work for an executive at a very large pharmaceutical company during the 90s, and the same assaults were being made against them then. Doug Bandow has some interesting observations on the topic:
"This assault is not new. Drug companies have been under pressure for a decade. When the Clinton administration attempted to nationalize American health care, Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058109856630963522003-07-13T08:24:00.000-07:002003-07-13T08:24:16.610-07:00Clifford D. May continues: "Precisely which part of that statement isn't true? The British government did say that it believed Saddam had sought African uranium. Is it possible that the British government was mistaken? Sure. Is it possible that Her Majesty's government came by that belief based on an erroneous American intelligence report about a transaction between Iraq and Niger? Yes — but Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058109706244397682003-07-13T08:21:00.000-07:002003-07-13T08:21:46.230-07:00Byron York on Iraq & Democrats & WMDs on National Review Online: "The ad calls for a bipartisan investigation of the issue. It was produced by a group of veterans of the Clinton/Gore administration and several Democratic campaigns.
"The ad begins with the words, 'In his State of the Union address, George W. Bush told us of an imminent threat — ' It then cuts to a video clip of the president Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058079937725355632003-07-13T00:05:00.000-07:002003-07-13T00:07:04.123-07:00AP: Dean faces new challenges as campaign picks up momentum: "Raising $7.5 million for his Internet-fueled campaign was the easy part. Now Democrat Howard Dean says he must urgently expand his political machine, broaden his message and soften the rough edges of his personality.
"Although two of his rivals, John Kerry and John Edwards, have collected more money overall, and others have put more Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058079192120205542003-07-12T23:53:00.000-07:002003-07-12T23:53:12.136-07:00Newsweek: "You’d think that Howard Dean’s rivals would start attacking him—big time—now that his Internet-based fund-raising prowess has elevated him to what amounts to front-runner status in the Democratic presidential race. But each leading contender has his own strategic reason for laying off, at least until the fall, if not beyond—a scenario that could backfire by allowing Dean a free ride Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058033192578511172003-07-12T11:06:00.000-07:002003-07-12T11:06:32.626-07:00Letter to the SF Chronicle: "Editor -- The constant loss of U.S. soldiers in Iraq -- after the war is 'won' -- is a tragedy. However, if this is what it takes to retire the Bush administration at the next election, the sacrifice is justified." --ARIE L. BLEICHERPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058032386160174092003-07-12T10:53:00.000-07:002003-07-12T11:07:10.790-07:00Ann Coulter: "Columbia history professor Eric Foner claimed Radosh's book on the Rosenbergs violated the canons of historical scholarship. As any infant knows, one of the canons of historical scholarship is to mindlessly hold as an article of faith the manifestly absurd belief that the Rosenbergs were innocent. It is an affront to good scholarship to suggest otherwise. Most devastatingly, Foner –Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058032132070688542003-07-12T10:48:00.000-07:002003-07-12T10:48:52.103-07:00Dennis Miller's rant about Democratic presidential field: "And that brings us to Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont, who would like nothing better than to mallet a maple syrup tap into the U.S. treasury and spot-weld the valve wide open. Dean can roll up his sleeves in public all he wants, but as long as that heart tattoo with Neville Chamberlin's name in it is visible on his right forearm, Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1058029192623567122003-07-12T09:59:00.000-07:002003-07-12T10:49:32.923-07:00Liberal Democrats' Perverse Foreign Policy (Krauthammer in the WPost): "There are the usual suspects, Jesse Jackson and the New York Times, but the most unapologetic proponent of the no-Iraq/yes-Liberia school is Howard Dean, Democratic flavor of the month. 'I opposed the war in Iraq because it was the wrong war at the wrong time,' says Dean, but 'military intervention in Liberia represents an Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1057937919859538752003-07-11T08:38:00.000-07:002003-07-11T08:38:39.870-07:00Gizmodo : Bone conduction headphones: "You might recall those swimming goggles with a built-in MP3 player we mentioned a few weeks ago that worked by vibrating the sound directly into the skull. Now there's a line of headphones from GrabIT called Vonia that do the same thing using special bone conduction transducers. Looks promising, though they're going to have to change the name of the Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1057601239483486882003-07-07T11:07:00.000-07:002003-07-07T11:07:19.523-07:00Blogs in the Workplace: "For several years Mr. Tang viewed this daily surge of e-mail messages as an unpleasant but necessary part of his job managing a team of eight engineers. Then, a few months ago, he began using an alternative to e-mail, a Web log."Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1057031986629137042003-06-30T20:59:00.000-07:002003-06-30T20:59:46.506-07:00Four-thirds aspect ratio and the new Olympus E-1:
"Four-thirds is a measurement standard used to describe the sizes of 'Vidicon' tubes first used in video cameras. This style of measurement is now used to describe many of the CCDs used in digital cameras, like 1/2, 2/3, and now 4/3. Using this measurement, for example, a 1-inch tube (24.5 mm) will have an imaging area with a diagonal of about Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1056498192457605882003-06-24T16:43:00.000-07:002003-06-24T16:43:12.473-07:00"Why do I say these things?" [Howard] Dean asked a press aide.
--WashPostPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1056385193243655692003-06-23T09:19:00.000-07:002003-06-23T10:03:20.636-07:00Yesterday, whilst waiting to get a haircut at my new favorite retro-style barbershop, I ran into Steve Kilisky, an Adobe buddy from the old days (he's still managing Adobe After Effects), and he mentioned that Acrobat is the biggest moneymaker these days. Sure 'nuff:
"This month marks the 10th anniversary of when that idea, Adobe Acrobat, became a reality. Its effect on the San Jose company has Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1056384092529565322003-06-23T09:01:00.000-07:002003-06-23T09:41:03.336-07:00Seems as though it's always a bad time to buy a new TV: "Not since the first commercial cathode ray tube TV was developed seven decades ago has here been so much choice in televisions."Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1056383432030840252003-06-23T08:50:00.000-07:002003-06-23T08:50:31.903-07:00Seattle PI: Coalition presses on to save woodland: "The view from this ghost town is a crazy quilt of clearcuts etched across the surrounding hills, as if some giant barber had gone mad with his shears.
"Below, invasive weeds creep across the valley. High-tension wires slice the flank of Bald Mountain, which, true to its name, is mowed nearly treeless. Decrepit buildings mark what's left of Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1056382619673556712003-06-23T08:36:00.000-07:002003-06-23T08:36:59.606-07:00Tinfoil Hats Uncover the Wellstone Conspiracy: "The most detrimental aspect of conspiracy theories surrounding the deaths of prominent politicians, particularly Democrats like JFK or Wellstone, is the inflation of their actual achievements plus the vast inflation of what they might have done had they lived that invariably follows their untimely deaths."Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1056382367327568852003-06-23T08:32:00.000-07:002003-06-23T08:32:47.270-07:00NYTimes (free reg required): The Corporate Blog Is Catching On: "Once you get to the point where lawyers review everything in a blog, it ain't a blog anymore"Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1055514227175191412003-06-13T07:23:00.000-07:002003-06-13T07:23:47.083-07:00Harry Haun:
“Gregory Peck, in the last almost-60 years, gave us a lot to watch, and, lucky for us, he left a lot of it on film. Throughout, he remained true to his credo — which was advice that Walter Huston had given him early on: “Give ’em a good show, and always travel first class.
“That surely was Gregory Peck: a class actor.”Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-1054790546681673482003-06-04T22:22:00.000-07:002003-06-04T22:22:26.923-07:00Christ.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-942215872003-05-12T13:02:00.000-07:002003-05-12T13:02:07.160-07:00Sometimes, of course, a business lunch is a bad idea to begin with. Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-942213502003-05-12T12:57:00.000-07:002003-05-12T14:12:43.000-07:00Joshua Allen: Behind the Retro Curve
Why do the anti-war, anti-Bush protesters have such a hard time getting anything to stick?
In my opinion, they fail because they have failed to recognize the diminishing subliminal effectiveness of 60's and 70's pop-culture messages, and the Bush team has effectively marshalled 80's pop-culture engrams to appeal to today's young adults. First, watch any videoPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-941336452003-05-10T21:20:00.000-07:002003-05-10T21:20:10.233-07:00This is truly the dullest blog in the World.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-941184652003-05-10T13:45:00.000-07:002003-05-10T13:48:34.000-07:00Mark Simonson: The Scourge of Arial
Arial is everywhere. If you don't know what it is, you don't use a modern personal computer. Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products, whether on a PC or a Mac. It has spread like a virus through the typographic landscape and illustrates the pervasiveness of Microsoft's influence in the world.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-931859942003-04-24T09:46:00.000-07:002003-04-24T10:19:32.000-07:00Common Sense and Wonder
Mark Steyn on the looting of the Iraqi National Museum:
The National Museum fell victim not to general looting but to a heist, if not an inside job, for which the general lawlessness provided cover. Am I sorry it happened? Yes, because it has given the naysayers, who were wrong about the millions of dead civilians, humanitarian catastrophe, environmental devastation, Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-929874632003-04-21T08:50:00.000-07:002003-04-21T08:57:23.000-07:00Nicole Kidman sees the light, is steering clear of Scientology
Well, well. It seems that along with divorcing Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman also divorced the Church of Scientology. MSN.com reports that church members haven't seen the Oscar-winning mama in quite some time.
"Actually, when I knew Nicole, she seemed to think there was nothing better than Scientology," said Kelly Preston, wife of JohnPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-929491632003-04-20T15:40:00.000-07:002003-04-20T16:44:56.000-07:00Associated Press: Saddam's Family Lifestyles Shock Iraqis
The blacksmith paused from his looting of the palace to gape at a door a foot thick, and at the empty, marble-lined safe inside.
"This safe is as big as the room I rent, and I live there with my wife and two children," said Ahmed Hamza, 28. "I thought the rumors were exaggerated, but these people lived in a different world."
This Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-929485572003-04-20T15:25:00.000-07:002003-04-20T16:40:11.000-07:00David Horowitz: The Anti-American Times
The battle to topple Saddam Hussein is over; the war for Iraq and the Middle East is just beginning. And it is clear already that the political left and the institutions it dominates, the university and the media, are going to tilt to the other side. Today's top story in both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times is about a demonstration in BaghdadPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-929467542003-04-20T14:36:00.000-07:002003-04-20T14:53:31.000-07:00Andrew Sullivan on the BBC
This passage from the BBC about Abu Abbas simply defies belief. No use of the term "terrorist," of course:
A wanted Palestinian fugitive, Abu Abbas, has been detained by US forces in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. He led the Palestinian Liberation Front, which hijacked a US cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, in 1985. During the hijack, an elderly American passenger died. AbuPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-929384682003-04-20T10:45:00.000-07:002003-04-20T16:44:07.000-07:00Newsweek: The Saddam Files
Kubba’s money insulated his family from mayhem, but it did not shield him from witnessing the almost casual slaughter of his people. Last week he recalled a “scene that haunts me still.” Kubba was driving his Mercedes through Basra’s Saad Square when he came upon some 600 men who had been detained while police checked their IDs. According to Kubba, “Chemical Ali” Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-929354402003-04-20T09:24:00.000-07:002003-04-20T09:24:02.623-07:00Common Sense and Wonder
Signs That You've Already Grown Up
Your potted plants stay alive.
Fooling around in a twin-sized bed is absurd.
You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.
You hear your favourite song on an elevator.
You carry an umbrella. You watch the Weather Channel.
Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook-up and Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-929347302003-04-20T09:05:00.000-07:002003-04-20T11:00:18.000-07:00Memo to Nancy Pelosi:
In a message dated 4/15/2003 4:18:27 PM Pacific Standard Time, JAGudehus writes:
A Failed Plan?
1. We took Iraq in less time than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation.
2. It took less time to find evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.
3.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-926043672003-04-14T13:38:00.000-07:002003-04-14T13:57:41.000-07:00Building a Democratic Iraq, Adeed Dawisha and Karen Dawisha, in the 1 May 2003 issue of Foreign Affairs
For the sake of all parties involved, the American endeavor in Iraq must not end in a more agreeable dictatorship or a successor regime that promises nothing beyond greater cooperation with Washington. The United States' standing in the world rests not only on its might, but also on the Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-925439182003-04-13T14:48:00.000-07:002003-04-13T14:48:02.263-07:00[via AndrewSullivan.com]
"Perhaps we cannot make this a world in which children are no longer tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children," -- Albert Camus.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-925433112003-04-13T14:33:00.000-07:002003-04-13T14:37:03.000-07:00William Saletan's Slate Blog: Syria is undemocratic, supports terrorism, has weapons of mass destruction, violates human rights, has invaded its neighbors, and has violated a biological weapons treaty. Now evidence of its complicity in Iraq's defense is growing. I don't want a war with Syria. But Syria sure is acting as though it wants a war with us.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-925396192003-04-13T13:06:00.000-07:002003-04-13T13:06:42.200-07:00What a surprise! AP: Shooting at LA airport El Al counter ruled terrorist act.
LOS ANGELES - An Egyptian immigrant's deadly attack on an Israeli airline ticket counter last year has been ruled a terrorist attack related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an FBI spokesman said Friday.
"Given his political views and the fact that El Al is an Israeli government-owned airline, that met the Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-925395032003-04-13T13:04:00.000-07:002003-04-20T11:39:01.000-07:00Common Sense and Wonder: The anti war crowd is anti free choice.
As these nitwits from International ANSWER and Voices in the Wilderness explain Iraq and the rest of the world must not be able to choose what kind of life they wish to live but must be protected from American style liberty. Did they ever complain about the destruction of the Marsh Arabs habitat by Saddam. Of course not, it was Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-925392492003-04-13T12:58:00.000-07:002003-04-13T12:58:25.030-07:00The Weekly Standard: The Tempting of the President
The president will be under enormous pressure from Europeans, Middle East leaders, and top advisers in Washington to withdraw American troops and civilian officials from Iraq within months, not years. He shouldn't. The military occupation of Japan after World War II lasted seven years, and Japan is homogenous, not divided as Iraq is among threePeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-925374632003-04-13T12:16:00.000-07:002003-04-13T12:16:09.343-07:00The Weekly Standard: Beyond Baghdad
On September 24, 2002, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman warned his readers about a "definite whiff of imperial ambition in the air." The next month he was certain about the coming occupation of Iraq. "The administration has offered many different explanations, some of them mutually contradictory, for its determination to occupy Baghdad."
Effective withPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-916240042003-03-29T15:50:00.000-08:002003-03-29T16:11:54.000-08:00Andrew Sullivan: THE ME GENERATION'S PROTEST: Julie Burchill does her best Camille Paglia impression today (before Camille went soft on the war). Man, does she nail it:
"I've just heard a snippet of the most disgustingly me-me-me anti-war advert by Susan Sarandon, in which she intones, "Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags, and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-916115092003-03-29T10:22:00.000-08:002003-03-29T10:24:50.000-08:00George F. Will: Containment ‘Deadlier Than War’
Last week, Walter Russell Mead of the policy think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, writing in The Washington Post, argued that containment is "deadlier than war," especially for Iraqi children.
The 1991 Gulf War killed between 21,000 and 35,000 Iraqis. Between 1,000 and 5,000 were civilians.
But the United Nations itself estimates that Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-915684002003-03-28T13:36:00.000-08:002003-03-28T13:36:44.000-08:00‘Time-Traveler’ Busted For Insider Trading
Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-911272802003-03-21T07:26:00.000-08:002003-03-21T07:26:18.810-08:00ZDNet UK: War has toppled sex as the most popular search term among Web users as the conflict in Iraq captures the attention and apparently lowers libidos of online Britons, top Internet service Freeserve says.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-898401642003-02-27T07:01:00.000-08:002003-02-27T07:01:41.140-08:00AndrewSullivan.com: WILL THE FRENCH VETO? No firm statement yet either way. TF1 declares that France is putting aside the idea of a veto for the moment. The Communists and Socialists urge a veto, but Chirac's party, officially repesented in the parliament by Alain Juppe, talks instead of looming "noises of mobilization." Meanwhile, we have this odd statement from the increasingly erratic Chirac, Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-898394042003-02-27T06:47:00.000-08:002003-02-27T06:50:55.000-08:00Eject! Eject! Eject!: We are a strong nation. We’d damn well better be, because we carry the genes and mythologies of the most confident individuals on the planet, people unwilling to endure repression, persecution and enslavement by taking a chance on a place unknown to them, except perhaps in their dreams. We have come from every country in the world, from the free and prosperous, to the Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-898389652003-02-27T06:38:00.000-08:002003-02-27T06:49:51.000-08:00Common Sense and Wonder: And another Iraqi exile asks what will the protesters do if the liberation of Iraq is thwarted by their marches. I’ll side with Max in saying they really don’t give a hoot about the wellbeing of the Iraqis as long as they manage to diminish the U.S. in any way they can. They didn’t care about the people of the Soviet Union and its captive states. They never marched Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-891896402003-02-16T08:14:00.000-08:002003-02-16T08:14:53.000-08:00NYTimes: “Mr. Blix and Dr. ElBaradei cannot be left to play games of hide-and-seek. This is not like Washington’s unproved assertions about an alliance between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. There is ample evidence that Iraq has produced highly toxic VX nerve gas and anthrax and has the capacity to produce a lot more. It has concealed these materials, lied about them, and more recently Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-875468652003-01-16T11:13:00.000-08:002003-02-27T06:51:27.000-08:00“People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
--Joseph Cambell, American mythologistPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-862536712002-12-18T20:14:00.000-08:002002-12-18T20:14:04.093-08:00Michael Medved: If we go ahead with war against Iraq, it will represent a betrayal of our values and mark the first time in history that we attacked another country that never attacked us first.
Only those with a truly pathetic public-school education could believe such rubbish, since we fought the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War I, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf WarPeter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-853225232002-11-30T23:00:00.000-08:002002-11-30T23:00:08.726-08:00Jon Udell: I was shocked to discover a nest of pirates yesterday, operating brazenly right here in my hometown. They were gathered in a large nondescript building, reading and talking quietly and in some cases listening to music. Some kind of social club, perhaps? Yes, but with a profoundly subversive theme: "sharing" content. This establishment houses large collections of books, magazines, Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-846348132002-11-16T13:56:00.000-08:002002-11-16T13:56:58.990-08:00Charles Krauthammer: This is truly bizarre. George Bush, extremist? This is a president who passed an education bill essentially written by Ted Kennedy. His tax reform involves the most modest of rate cuts for the upper brackets and is what any Keynesian would have done in the face of a recession. It is, for example, more moderate than the (John) Kennedy tax cuts. The other alleged parts of his Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-846176552002-11-16T03:18:00.000-08:002002-11-16T03:18:55.766-08:00Rebecca Blood: "I think that at some point, turning off information is going to be a huge luxury. But it's clear that a shift has occurred. The game is no longer about access to information, it's about access to reliable, pertinent information. Filters will become more and more important. And, at some point, people will start trying to identify what level of information is optimal. My hunch is Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-843989192002-11-11T19:56:00.000-08:002002-11-11T20:18:51.000-08:00Cory Doctorow: "Feeding the query string 'http' to Google causes it to barf up all the pages in its database in order of their PageRank value."Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-843291732002-11-10T13:26:00.000-08:002002-11-10T13:39:39.000-08:00Jonathan Alter in Newsweek: “HELLO? ANYONE HOME? I’m not quite sure to whom I should address this, considering that you have no leadership right now. Nancy Pelosi? Tom Daschle? The 42d president turned Harlem globe-trotter? You lost only two seats in the Senate and five in the House, but the situation is much grimmer than those numbers suggest. Democrats actually have some good ideas lying Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-843286432002-11-10T13:13:00.000-08:002002-11-10T14:02:54.000-08:00Common Sense and Wonder: “Another reason the EU is against military action is that any fight would show how woefully unprepared they are for battle. As this piece in The Guardian, of all places, says ‘America does the fighting, Europe does the dishes.’ NATO without the US is a fiction. The EU and Canada have been living off the American taxpayer for decades. Perhaps we should tax them for Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-836739952002-10-28T10:47:00.000-08:002002-10-28T10:47:35.063-08:00"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-834848372002-10-24T16:40:00.000-07:002002-10-24T16:40:29.613-07:00Sniper Hunt Culminates in 2 Arrests
One of America's most extraordinary manhunts culminated Thursday in the arrests of an Army veteran and a teenager, asleep at a roadside rest stop — perpetrators, authorities believe, of a bloody, three-week sniping spree that left 10 people dead and multitudes paralyzed by fear.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-771518.post-832016942002-10-18T21:44:00.000-07:002002-10-18T21:44:32.693-07:00Wired News: Apple 'Switch' Star Flies High
Teenager Ellen Feiss, the "is-she-stoned?" star of one of Apple's new "Switch" ads, is quickly becoming a Web celebrity but not necessarily for reasons that would please the advertiser.Peter Svenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883250268538411925noreply@blogger.com