O:9:"magpierss":20:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:15:{i:0;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:87:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/07/17/fanboy_marketing_at_its_best.html";s:5:"title";s:29:" Fanboy marketing at its best";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/07/17/fanboy_marketing_at_its_best.html";s:11:"description";s:120:""because Nokia's marketing team is too busy tossing salad to get the word out", the raving fanboy has to help.";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"tbishop61";s:4:"date";s:25:"2007-07-17T22:29:32-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:120:""because Nokia's marketing team is too busy tossing salad to get the word out", the raving fanboy has to help.";}i:1;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:76:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/06/03/rip_steve_gillard.html";s:5:"title";s:19:" RIP, Steve Gillard";s:4:"link";s:76:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/06/03/rip_steve_gillard.html";s:11:"description";s:693:"I remember discovering Steve Gillard's voice on DailyKos soon after I started blogging, and being so encouraged that there was someone else as furious as I was about the way that the tragedy of 911 was being used for partisan political purposes, and someone else who could clearly see the stupidity and evil of Bush's desire to invade Iraq. How sad to hear of his untimely death at 41. His voice will be missed. Lots of good obits and memories here, here, and here.";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"tbishop61";s:4:"date";s:25:"2007-06-03T00:35:07-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:693:"I remember discovering Steve Gillard's voice on DailyKos soon after I started blogging, and being so encouraged that there was someone else as furious as I was about the way that the tragedy of 911 was being used for partisan political purposes, and someone else who could clearly see the stupidity and evil of Bush's desire to invade Iraq. How sad to hear of his untimely death at 41. His voice will be missed. Lots of good obits and memories here, here, and here.";}i:2;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:106:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/05/22/if_going_after_cacciato_had_been_a_youtube_clip.html";s:5:"title";s:48:" If Going After Cacciato had been a YouTube clip";s:4:"link";s:106:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/05/22/if_going_after_cacciato_had_been_a_youtube_clip.html";s:11:"description";s:41:"It might have looked something like this.";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2007-05-22T22:56:59-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:41:"It might have looked something like this.";}i:3;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:87:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/05/22/nature_red_in_tooth_and_claw.html";s:5:"title";s:30:" Nature, red in tooth and claw";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/05/22/nature_red_in_tooth_and_claw.html";s:11:"description";s:53:"Amazing citizen journalist footage from South Africa.";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2007-05-22T22:50:13-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:53:"Amazing citizen journalist footage from South Africa.";}i:4;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:67:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/05/14/who_knew.html";s:5:"title";s:10:" Who knew?";s:4:"link";s:67:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/05/14/who_knew.html";s:11:"description";s:1337:"The hippies did. As Mark Morford says:
The hippies had it right all along.

All this hot enthusiasm for healing the planet and eating whole foods and avoiding chemicals and working with nature and developing the self? Came from the hippies. Alternative health? Hippies. Green cotton? Hippies. Reclaimed wood? Recycling? Humane treatment of animals? Medical pot? Alternative energy? Natural childbirth? Non-GMA seeds? It came from the granola types (who, of course, absorbed much of it from ancient cultures), from the alternative worldviews, from the underground and the sidelines and from far off the grid and it's about time the media, the politicians, the culture as a whole sent out a big, hemp-covered apology.

Here's a suggestion, from one of my more astute ex-hippie readers: Instead of issuing carbon credits so industrial polluters can clear their collective corporate conscience, maybe, to help offset all the damage they've done to the soul of the planet all these years, these commercial cretins should instead buy some karma credits from the former hippies themselves. You know, from those who've been working for the health of the planet, quite thanklessly, for 50 years and who have, as a result, built up quite a storehouse of good karma. You think?
Nice little essay.";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2007-05-14T21:56:24-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:1337:"The hippies did. As Mark Morford says:
The hippies had it right all along.

All this hot enthusiasm for healing the planet and eating whole foods and avoiding chemicals and working with nature and developing the self? Came from the hippies. Alternative health? Hippies. Green cotton? Hippies. Reclaimed wood? Recycling? Humane treatment of animals? Medical pot? Alternative energy? Natural childbirth? Non-GMA seeds? It came from the granola types (who, of course, absorbed much of it from ancient cultures), from the alternative worldviews, from the underground and the sidelines and from far off the grid and it's about time the media, the politicians, the culture as a whole sent out a big, hemp-covered apology.

Here's a suggestion, from one of my more astute ex-hippie readers: Instead of issuing carbon credits so industrial polluters can clear their collective corporate conscience, maybe, to help offset all the damage they've done to the soul of the planet all these years, these commercial cretins should instead buy some karma credits from the former hippies themselves. You know, from those who've been working for the health of the planet, quite thanklessly, for 50 years and who have, as a result, built up quite a storehouse of good karma. You think?
Nice little essay.";}i:5;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:93:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/05/07/david_weinberger_on_book_marketing.html";s:5:"title";s:35:" David Weinberger on book marketing";s:4:"link";s:93:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2007/05/07/david_weinberger_on_book_marketing.html";s:11:"description";s:333:"Quote of the day: "Everything Is Miscellaneous is an argument. In one sense, it’s an argument with Aristotle, although that’s not what we put on the jacket cover. " I'm looking forward to hearing David talk about his book on Wednesday, and to reading it, but I couldn't pass up noting this bon mot. ";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2007-05-07T11:30:34-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:333:"Quote of the day: "Everything Is Miscellaneous is an argument. In one sense, it’s an argument with Aristotle, although that’s not what we put on the jacket cover. " I'm looking forward to hearing David talk about his book on Wednesday, and to reading it, but I couldn't pass up noting this bon mot. ";}i:6;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:108:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/12/05/matt_mullenweg_has_a_new_perspective_on_wordpress.html";s:5:"title";s:50:" Matt Mullenweg has a new perspective on Wordpress";s:4:"link";s:108:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/12/05/matt_mullenweg_has_a_new_perspective_on_wordpress.html";s:11:"description";s:145:"[Writing about a suggested performance optimization], Matt wrote: "It's just blog software, we don't really need anything that fancy" ";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2006-12-05T01:58:09-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:145:"[Writing about a suggested performance optimization], Matt wrote: "It's just blog software, we don't really need anything that fancy" ";}i:7;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:94:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/11/29/privacy_liberty_and_totalitarianism.html";s:5:"title";s:38:" Privacy, Liberty, and Totalitarianism";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/11/29/privacy_liberty_and_totalitarianism.html";s:11:"description";s:480:"Great quote found via an insighful essay by Mary Hodder that I didn't get around to reading until now: "Dragging all human behavior into the public is literally totalitarian," said Bob Blakely, chief security and privacy scientist for IBM's Tivoli Systems. "If you erode privacy, you erode liberty, because people don't tolerate things going on in front of them that they don't approve of."";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2006-11-29T22:54:04-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:480:"Great quote found via an insighful essay by Mary Hodder that I didn't get around to reading until now: "Dragging all human behavior into the public is literally totalitarian," said Bob Blakely, chief security and privacy scientist for IBM's Tivoli Systems. "If you erode privacy, you erode liberty, because people don't tolerate things going on in front of them that they don't approve of."";}i:8;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:131:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/11/04/people_tortured_by_us_to_be_forbidden_to_describe_how_they_were_tortured.html";s:5:"title";s:73:" People tortured by US to be forbidden to describe how they were tortured";s:4:"link";s:131:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/11/04/people_tortured_by_us_to_be_forbidden_to_describe_how_they_were_tortured.html";s:11:"description";s:370:"Orwell is alive and well and living in the US Justice Department.

According to the Washington Post:
The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.
";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2006-11-04T20:17:41-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:370:"Orwell is alive and well and living in the US Justice Department.

According to the Washington Post:
The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.
";}i:9;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:104:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/10/28/coolest_use_of_youtube_i_have_seen_in_a_while.html";s:5:"title";s:46:" Coolest use of YouTube I have seen in a while";s:4:"link";s:104:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/10/28/coolest_use_of_youtube_i_have_seen_in_a_while.html";s:11:"description";s:409:"Biology lessons -- the protozoa that I spent hours watching in my youth can now be observed on You Tube. ";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2006-10-28T01:13:50-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:409:"Biology lessons -- the protozoa that I spent hours watching in my youth can now be observed on You Tube. ";}i:10;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:108:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/10/20/a_real_live_contemporary_american_hero_in_uniform.html";s:5:"title";s:50:" A real live contemporary American hero in uniform";s:4:"link";s:108:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/10/20/a_real_live_contemporary_american_hero_in_uniform.html";s:11:"description";s:268:"Listen to Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, the Navy lawyer who successfully challenged military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees, talk about being required to agree to get his client to plead guilty. Instead he took Hamadan's case to the United States Supreme Court and won.";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2006-10-20T22:53:17-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:268:"Listen to Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, the Navy lawyer who successfully challenged military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees, talk about being required to agree to get his client to plead guilty. Instead he took Hamadan's case to the United States Supreme Court and won.";}i:11;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:82:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/10/14/eudora_goes_open_source.html";s:5:"title";s:24:" Eudora goes open source";s:4:"link";s:82:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/10/14/eudora_goes_open_source.html";s:11:"description";s:385:"Looks like open source may rescue the best least used email client, Eudora.
The Penelope project's intention is to join the Eudora user experience with the Mozilla platform. We intend to produce a version of Eudora that is open source and based on mozilla and Thunderbird. It's *not* our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it.
";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:9:"tbishop61";s:4:"date";s:25:"2006-10-14T01:10:45-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:385:"Looks like open source may rescue the best least used email client, Eudora.
The Penelope project's intention is to join the Eudora user experience with the Mozilla platform. We intend to produce a version of Eudora that is open source and based on mozilla and Thunderbird. It's *not* our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it.
";}i:12;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:75:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/07/07/al_gores_sources.html";s:5:"title";s:18:" Al Gore's sources";s:4:"link";s:75:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/07/07/al_gores_sources.html";s:11:"description";s:176:"Unbossed does a great job of digging up some of the public sources for Al Gore's slides from "An Inconvienient Truth" that the film website itself neglects to put up.";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2006-07-07T01:01:20-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:176:"Unbossed does a great job of digging up some of the public sources for Al Gore's slides from "An Inconvienient Truth" that the film website itself neglects to put up.";}i:13;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:78:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/07/06/the_way_of_the_blog.html";s:5:"title";s:20:" The way of the blog";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/07/06/the_way_of_the_blog.html";s:11:"description";s:1026:"Anil dissects the blogging cycle.
The basic format of the weblog medium has been pretty much set for more than 5 years now, and it's enough time that we can probably make some safe observations about bloggers' behavior.... A lot of these points could be debated, but this is what I've noticed as some of the common steps of evolution within a blogging community:
I ran across this tonight. I'm not sure how I missed this when it came out, but he nails it cold. Great mini-essay (he has more to say about each bullet point).";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2006-07-06T23:29:16-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:1026:"Anil dissects the blogging cycle.
The basic format of the weblog medium has been pretty much set for more than 5 years now, and it's enough time that we can probably make some safe observations about bloggers' behavior.... A lot of these points could be debated, but this is what I've noticed as some of the common steps of evolution within a blogging community:
I ran across this tonight. I'm not sure how I missed this when it came out, but he nails it cold. Great mini-essay (he has more to say about each bullet point).";}i:14;a:6:{s:5:"about";s:94:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/07/05/computer_scientists_look_at_biology.html";s:5:"title";s:36:" Computer scientists look at biology";s:4:"link";s:94:"http://www.thebishop.net/midnight/archives/2006/07/05/computer_scientists_look_at_biology.html";s:11:"description";s:586:"Great quote across fields from a computer scientist and a biologist:
Wright observed that science is all about compressing reality to minimal rule sets, but generative creation goes the opposite direction. You look for a combination of the fewest rules that can generate a whole complex world which will always surprise you, yet within a framework that stays recognizable. "It's not engineering and design," he said, "so much as it is gardening. You plant seeds. Richard Dawkins says that a willow seed has only about 800K of data in it."
";s:2:"dc";a:2:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Geodog";s:4:"date";s:25:"2006-07-05T15:34:55-08:00";}s:7:"summary";s:586:"Great quote across fields from a computer scientist and a biologist:
Wright observed that science is all about compressing reality to minimal rule sets, but generative creation goes the opposite direction. You look for a combination of the fewest rules that can generate a whole complex world which will always surprise you, yet within a framework that stays recognizable. "It's not engineering and design," he said, "so much as it is gardening. You plant seeds. Richard Dawkins says that a willow seed has only about 800K of data in it."
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