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occasionally fully formed thoughts by bernie mcginn

File: January 2007

2007-01-30 :: Bernie // cata-wha?
Finally made NPR

There is a raging controversy in Nebraska about changing the state song from “Beautiful Nebraska” to a really, really, really bad country tune called “I Love Nebraska”.

A Nebraska State Senator has proposed the change the state song to this abomination. You can watch the disturbing video for “I Love Nebraska” here, if you dare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI2×6vsr-TY

I [...]

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2007-01-30 :: Bernie // linkage
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Vimeo / Reggie Watts: Out Of Control video clip (from Jakob Lodwick)
really really amazing
(tags: music performance reggiewatts)

SlimStat — A simple web stats analyser based on ShortStat – Wettone.com
i am a statistics hound… need to check this out!
(tags: analytics web)

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2007-01-29 :: Bernie // cata-wha?
In My Language

An autistic person’s explanation of her experience with language:

“This is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow as much as it is a statement about what gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication, and what does not.”

Profound. Fascinating.

Stay with it. It’s worth it.

(Via Metafilter – where the filmmaker stopped in to discuss)

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2007-01-28 :: Bernie // linkage
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My Life As An RSS Junkie | Medialoper
I think i collect feeds now like I used to collect records….
(tags: RSS)

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2007-01-26 :: Bernie // linkage
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My basement Mac collection – a photoset on Flickr
crazy interior decorating with Macs from all eras…
(tags: mac fanatic)

Top 10 Hacks on Flickr
flickr users – take note!
(tags: flickr hacks)

Band on the Diaper Run
Kori from Mates of State is writing a blog about touring with their daughter (via:waxy)
(tags: blogs)

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2007-01-25 :: Bernie // linkage
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The BRAD BLOG : DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINE KEY COPIED FROM PHOTO AT COMPANY’S OWN ONLINE STORE!
(tags: security voting diebold)

The Beholder – Affordable Emerging Art
buying and enjoying art doesn’t have to be an expensive proposition.
(tags: SanFrancisco art)

Educators Flock To Blogging
Blogging Will Revolutionize Education.
(tags: blogging)

Little-Known Music Magazine Attempts Big-Time Ad-Sales Scheme
I never liked the business side of [...]

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2007-01-24 :: Bernie // cata-wha?
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yet another daily del.icious (weekly)
(tags: wordpress plugin)

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2007-01-23 :: Bernie // cata-wha?
outside.in

This crazy World Wide Web made the world much smaller, true. But what I have always found more interesting is how the same technology can bring communities, even neighborhoods, closer together.
That was part of the thinking behind the lincolnblog experiment. (Which reminds me… anyone want to take over a site?) [...]

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2007-01-22 :: Bernie // music
digitally analog?

I used to be the happy owner of a Marantz 7 tube pre-amp. It was a thing of beauty. Transistors and tubes. Beautifully machined dials. My records loved being channeled through the 40 year old technology. Especially old jazz records from the same era. (Ahh… Jimmy Smith.) I got the pre-amp for free. The [...]

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2007-01-15 :: Bernie // random
look ma, no pants. #6

Improv Everywhere went and did it again. Apparently the 6th time they have done the no pants subway ride. The Improv Everywhere site doesn’t have details of the ‘mission’ posted yet. Stay tuned.
Check the photo sets from Chad Nicholson and Steph Goralnick.”
(Via laughingsquid. again.)

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