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We don’t have enough orators in this world anymore, at least not orators that make any damned sense. We get people like Bush, or Gore, or Rumsfeld who fancy themselves orators but, really, at their heart are passionless readers.
Except, that today, we may have found one. A writer, to be sure, of some prowess. A [...]

The message from New Orleans is clear.
This country should be ashamed.
Say a few words for some of your countrymen today. It’s more than the grandstanding in the Gulf Coast will do for them. (Seems to be a pattern.)

Scoble says that Steve Ball, group program manager for the Windows Audio Video Excellence team (hell of title) is reading all the blog, newsgroup, and beta feedback about the Vista sound.
For those of you not familiar, the Windows Audio Video Excellence team has decided that the default, startup sound for Windows Vista will not be [...]

Brilliant political strategy or stupidest thing you’ve heard in a year?
Ray Nagin to CBS Reporter (on camera)
“That’s alright. You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair.”
*head to desk*
[via Ashley Morris]

Check it out.. Ed Vielmetti is the lead interest in a Detroit News article about local bloggers. Blogs really are mainstream if The News picked it up.
I would have killed to have The News out Ann Arbor is Overrated, though.

At some point, I believe I heard or read that the human mind has a certain capacity for retaining information, sort of like a hard drive. At some point, you have kick out data in order to accommodate new data.
Which makes reading articles like this so damn infuriating. BBC NEWS | UK | Cows also [...]

As J– said, must be a slow news day.
ABC News has just learned that Republicans have sex. In fact, they have so much of it, they’re out-producing Democrats and creating a “Baby Gap”. Like that? Baby Gap.. get it? It’s like the store. Oh, and want a little trivia with your slow news day? Paul [...]