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Timeline inconsistencies

Judson — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:59:00 +0000

I always laugh a little when twitter has an error message warning people of possible “timeline inconsistencies“. What an awesome twitter that would be!

SMS

Judson — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:55:04 +0000

So, now that viable mobile platforms exist how long can the SMS money gouge model survive? Twitter, Facebook IM, AIM, none of those cost more than a grand per MB… Related: Why are telecoms inherently anti-innovation and consumer-hostile?

FISA

Judson — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:54:44 +0000

Obama’s support of the FISA bill despite his explicit promise to support a filibuster is disappointing. I know some people say it’s ok for politicians to change their mind, but when the original promise is one that helped build the campaign, and almost no supporters agree with the change there is a problem.

AP nonsense

Judson — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:35:18 +0000

This is hilarious. The whole situation is just sad really. Poor AP is “negotiating” with some group under the delusion that that group speaks for bloggers everywhere. It’s not that world anymore.

Flickr founders leave

Judson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:16:46 +0000

Wow, Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield left. I don’t know why that’s a wow really, but it’s sad. I was one of those very early flickr users when I was active on metafilter. We used to go in there and chat (yes, flickr used to have live chat!) and trade images etc. It was fun. Caterina and Stewart were much more active when the site was small. Actually it probably just seemed that way, as they don’t scale well.

Anyway, through all the yahoo crap during the buyout, and even the account renaming fiasco I always kinda knew, well at least they are still there so nothing terrible will happen. Not anymore. I still think it’s the best photo sharing site, but I no longer have any loyalty or trust. I guess yahoo would rather fizzle into nothing than be bought by microsoft.

Weather in London

Judson — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:04:54 +0000

Well, this is pretty funny. The weather in London, is an article, well, a soft redirect to a section. This was an example of a crazy article in the past that would never exist, but hey, we do have a climate section on London, so… Steve Summit in the mailing lists suggests it’s the end of an era.

Wikimedia voting time

Judson — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:54:19 +0000

It’s always a mix of sadness and pride when I vote for wikimedia board elections, fully aware that the voting system is far superior and more secure than than the one I use for the US presidential elections. Range voting, public key encryption, digital paper trail… I’d really be happy with a pencil and paper for the US elections.

Phoenix twitters

Judson — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:01:01 +0000

The phoenix lander has a twitter account, cool!

Space, war, and Obama

Judson — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:35:44 +0000

By one estimate the war in Iraq could have paid for 510 people to go to Mars. I’m not a big fan of manned missions, as opposed to robotic ones, but wow. This may be a gross exaggeration (that number takes into account many peripheral costs like veteran healthcare), but even if you only take the direct costs you get more than enough for one normal manned mission.

Obama also recently said he would like to delay the Constellation Project 5 years to pay for his education plan.

I’m not particularly in love with going to the Moon, but give us new priorities instead. If you want to scrap Bush’s silly go to the moon program, and replace it with a serious look into the outer solar system for example, great. If you just want to scrap it to spend more money on poor schools, no thanks. Schools are important, but so is space. There is more than enough money being thrown away in military spending to pay for both, and military contractors can become space contractors pretty easily.

I know McCain and Clinton II probably aren’t better, but I can’t reasonably support someone who doesn’t think it’s at least important.

Phoenix

Judson — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:21:32 +0000

A new robot friend is landing on Mars today. Should land about 7pm CST, good luck! It will be drilling into the ice to maybe find liquid water and signs of life.