by cameron | Sep 28, 2008 | US politics
Funniest line from a very insightful EW interview with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert:
STEPHEN COLBERT: One of the things I love about my character is I can make vast declarations and it doesn’t matter if I’m wrong. I love being wrong. So my character can tell you exactly what’s going to happen: The Democrats are going to change everything. We’re going to have gay parents marrying their own gay babies. Obama’s gonna be sworn in on a gay baby. The oath is gonna end ”So help me, gay baby.”
I also love this line from Stewart, which goes to show that it doesn’t matter a damn which party wins the election:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Do you think anything will change if the Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress?
JON STEWART: Look at what they promised when they took over Congress. I’ve never heard such hardcore rhetoric. ”The era of the blank check is over! And we will send a sternly worded memorandum — nonbinding — to somebody at the White House. Not necessarily the inner executive circle, we certainly don’t want to offend, but…” And then they got in and were like, ”Really, you want to eavesdrop? Okay, we’ll let this one go. But this is the last blank check! Unless you want another. But let me say this: The next one will not be blank, because we’ll just write in the memo line. Can we write in memo? Would you be bothered by that?”
by cameron | Sep 27, 2008 | Podcast
Ahh…. Microsoft. I love ya. Where do they get so many folks who can’t cope once they lose their powerpoint cheat sheet?
In the first of a series of interviews with Microsoft folks from the last couple of weeks, today I present a few interviews I did at their TechEd 2008 event in Sydney.
In order of appearance, I chat with:
Gary Gross, Director of Customer Partner Connection Mobile Information Worker Division;
Michael Kordahi and Shane Morris, Evangelists for Silverlight (and other stuff);
Reed Schaffner, Product Manager, Microsoft Office
We talk about why Apple is kicking Microsoft’s ass on the mobile front; why the porn industry isn’t using Silverlight; and why Microsoft Office is (or isn’t) boring.
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by cameron | Sep 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
In my ongoing attempts to coin at least ONE WORD which makes it into the dictionary, I tonight stumbled upon “impossibible” which I define as “any claim found in a religious book which is obviously impossible”. Here’s how you use it:
“Jesus rising from the dead is obviously impossibible.”
by cameron | Sep 26, 2008 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Just when I was congratulating myself that my Napoleon podcast was the greatest thing to happen to teaching history since the Christians realized that if they killed their enemies and burned all their books then they had total control over “the truth”… Bron introduces me to DRUNK HISTORY. Totally brilliant. I’m sick with jealousy.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqzUI1ihfpk&hl=en&fs=1]
by cameron | Sep 26, 2008 | US politics
How do you stop a black candidate from winning the vote? Easy. Take black voters off of the voting registers in swing-states. Read more from investigative journalist Greg Palast.
