eReader On The iPhone – An Overview
A good piece with many screensnaps that answers many questions.
Archive for July 11, 2008
Tour Of eReader On iPhone
July 11, 2008iPhone 3G iFAIL!
July 11, 2008I really really really do not like reading this: Ok, so maybe not so smooth…
In short: Many apps on iPhone = PalmOS Emulation Mode!!
See why I am never first for this stuff?
You guys get the all the headaches. I’ll come out when the All Clear sounds!
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #149
July 11, 2008Attention, American citizens.
Domino Number One has fallen.
IndyMac Bank seized by federal regulators
The federal government took control of Pasadena-based IndyMac Bank today, in what regulators called the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.
Done on a Friday afternoon.
So everyone can forget it by Monday.
Don’t be stupid.
Don’t forget it!
Cha-CHING!!
July 11, 2008Creaky Boards sent these two vids out in a MySpace Bulletin.
I’m so glad they did!
The first one was used as an example by an advertising expert on the Charlie Rose Show at the time to illustrate how to get a message across both quickly and memorably. He contrasted it to several political commercials the candidates were running back then.
I didn’t see the second one until just now.
Since I risk overloading the blog by putting these on the front page, you’ll have to click through for them (on the Blogger backup blog, they will bog down the blog, alas!).
Holy cow! That’s Seth Green!
Ralph Nader: FISA Music Video
July 11, 2008
1984 Knocking On Your Door – FISA – Telecom Immunity Bill
Vote Nader 2008 website
Vote Pact
Previously here:
Nader: Rush Limbaugh Is On Welfare!
Obama Vs. Nader: Politician Vs. Man
Mumia Abu Jamal Comments On Ralph Nader
The Disgusting Truth In One Image
Ralph Nader On ABC’s “This Week”
Ralph Nader On ABC’s “This Week” Sunday
Twelve Thousand Dollars An Hour
Obama-Nader 2008? Never, I Say!
Ralph Nader In NYC Tonight, June 18, 2008
Ralph Nader On Democracy Now!
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #126
The People Have The Power
John McCain: Fascist For President
He’s Not Spoiled. Our Political System Is.
Jive-Ass Turkey
And People Are Going To Vote For This Eejit?
The Final President Of The United States
There’s Only One Choice For President
Meet, Support Ralph Nader For President!
The Deserved Fall Of General Motors
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #112
Ralph Nader: Activist Presidential Candidate
Why Democrats Lose
Ralph Nader Now Has A Merch Store
Wordless
East Coast Corporate Liberal
A Civics Quiz
Vote For Ralph Nader To Take Back America!
Ralph Nader: The President We Need
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #017
Another Reason To Vote For Ralph Nader
Lincoln, FDR, Nader
Ralph Nader Tomorrow, March 9 2008, In PA
Just Say Yes: To Ralph Nader!
Ralph Nader On The Daily Show Tonight
Nazicrats
Weasels, Part Three
Weasels, Part Two
Ralph Nader’s Big Birthday
Exxon Can’t Hide
Happy Birthday, Ralph Nader
To Name Three: McCain, Hillary, Obama
Now I Can Vote This Year: Nader Is IN!
The Presidential Candidate You Laughed At
Nader: Rush Limbaugh Is On Welfare!
July 11, 2008Listen, every time I hear a new dispatch from Nader, I am amazed afresh.
Who else is saying this?
Who else is thinking so clearly?
Isn’t it time we had a President like this?
Transcript:
According to press reports, Rush Limbaugh will be making $38 million a year.
For eight years.
Rush is making this money by being a radio talk show host.
On public property.
That would be–the public airwaves.
Owned by the American people.
For which Rush–and his affiliated companies–pay no rent.
Rush Limbaugh is on welfare.
Corporate welfare.
The public airwaves belong to the American people.
The Federal Communications Commission is supposed to be our trustee.
The people are the landlords.
The radio and TV stations and the corporate giants who own them are the tenants.
Rush’s show is syndicated on over 650 radio stations.
Rush has enormous leverage over these stations.
They pay no rent.
And therefore, he pays no rent.
Here’s the problem:
Since the Radio Act was passed in 1927, the corporate tenants have been more organized and more powerful than the tens of millions of listeners and viewers.
The result?
Rush Limbaugh and his corporation get to use the public’s valuable property for free.
No payment of rent.
Zero.
Nada.
Nothing.
This freeloading on the backs of the American people is called corporate welfare.
Rush Limbaugh is the Kingboy of corporatist radio.
And it’s past time he set a corporatist example for his peers and pay rent to the American people for using their property.
It’s past time Rush Limbaugh takes himself off the corporate welfare rolls.
Rush need not wait for the FCC and Congress to do the right thing and order him to pay.
He can lead by example.
And pay voluntary rent–for the hours and hours every month Rush occupies on the hundreds of stations that carry his show every weekday.
And by the way, this fits well within Rush’s so-called conservative philosophy.
Payment of rent for the use of public airwaves owned by the American people is the conservative position.
Real conservatives oppose corporate welfare.
Note the Cato Institute’s position.
Real corporatists feed off the public trough–from the hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate welfare gushing out of Washington, D.C. every year–your tax dollars.
So, Rush, today I ask you–which side are you on?
Freeloading?
Or paying rent for the public property you have been using free for so many years?
Today, I mailed a letter to Rush asking him to get off welfare.
The letter is posted at votenader.org.
Take a look.
And then let Rush know what you think.
You can e-mail Rush at: ElRushbo@eibnet.com
Tell him–hey Rush, I agree with Ralph Nader.
Get off welfare.
Start paying rent.
Onward
Ralph Nader.
Read Ralph Nader’s letter to Rush Limbaugh!
Let’s see Limbaugh weasel his way out of this!
He can’t!
Vote Nader 2008 website
Vote Pact
Previously here:
Obama Vs. Nader: Politician Vs. Man
Mumia Abu Jamal Comments On Ralph Nader
The Disgusting Truth In One Image
Ralph Nader On ABC’s “This Week”
Ralph Nader On ABC’s “This Week” Sunday
Twelve Thousand Dollars An Hour
Obama-Nader 2008? Never, I Say!
Ralph Nader In NYC Tonight, June 18, 2008
Ralph Nader On Democracy Now!
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #126
The People Have The Power
John McCain: Fascist For President
He’s Not Spoiled. Our Political System Is.
Jive-Ass Turkey
And People Are Going To Vote For This Eejit?
The Final President Of The United States
There’s Only One Choice For President
Meet, Support Ralph Nader For President!
The Deserved Fall Of General Motors
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #112
Ralph Nader: Activist Presidential Candidate
Why Democrats Lose
Ralph Nader Now Has A Merch Store
Wordless
East Coast Corporate Liberal
A Civics Quiz
Vote For Ralph Nader To Take Back America!
Ralph Nader: The President We Need
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #017
Another Reason To Vote For Ralph Nader
Lincoln, FDR, Nader
Ralph Nader Tomorrow, March 9 2008, In PA
Just Say Yes: To Ralph Nader!
Ralph Nader On The Daily Show Tonight
Nazicrats
Weasels, Part Three
Weasels, Part Two
Ralph Nader’s Big Birthday
Exxon Can’t Hide
Happy Birthday, Ralph Nader
To Name Three: McCain, Hillary, Obama
Now I Can Vote This Year: Nader Is IN!
The Presidential Candidate You Laughed At
Obama Vs. Nader: Politician Vs. Man
July 11, 2008Even writer Barry Eisler, an ardent Obama supporter, expresses his disappointment in a MySpace Bulletin:
As an Obama supporter, I have to say the Senator massively disappointed me today with his craven capitulation on warrantless surveillance and amnesty for law-breaking telecoms.
His vote was a betrayal of numerous campaign promises.
I had thought more of him and feel naive now for having believed him earlier.
If you value the Fourth Amendment more than Senator Obama seems to, here’s a link to Strange Bedfellows, a new organization dedicated to preventing unchecked government power and preserving the Fourth Amendment. I’ve already signed up.
All you Obama supporters: Is this enough of a slap in your face to wake you up?
Contrast your candidate with Ralph Nader:
Here’s a transcript:
Good morning.
This is Ralph Nader.
Today is Wednesday July 9, 2008.
And I’m listening now to the debate on the Senate floor over legislation that will give President Bush new warrantless eavesdropping powers.
The bill will also grant immunity to telecom companies for cooperating with Mr. Bush in his illegal warrantless wiretapping on Americans–on any one of you.
We were taught as young children that in our democracy, under our system of justice, nobody is above the law–nobody.
But this bill puts the President and the telecom companies above the law.
It also conveniently assures a coverup of Mr. Bush’s past crimes in this area–of wiretapping and surveillance.
On the Senate floor, Senator Feingold has just warned his colleagues that the Senate “will regret that we passed this legislation.”
As my home state Senator, Christopher Dodd, said:
“If we pass this legislation, the Senate will ratify a domestic spying regime that has already concentrated far too much unaccountable power in the President’s hands and will place the telecommunications companies above the law.”
What does it say that Senators Dodd, Feingold, Harry Reid, and Patrick Leahy have led the valiant fight against this bill, but Senator Obama has said he will vote for it?
Again, this bill gives the President vast new warrantless eavesdropping powers and allows the government–for the first time ever–to tap into America’s telecommunications networks with no judicial warrant requirement.
President Bush and the Democrats who support him argue that the telecommunications companies were only doing what they were told by the President and were acting as “patriotic corporate citizens.”
This is pure hogwash.
First of all, corporations aren’t citizens.
Second, the President can’t order anyone–citizens or corporations–to break the law.
This legislation, which the Senate is debating right now, sets up a double standard of justice.
Break the law as a citizen, go to jail.
Break the law as a corporation, go to Washington and get immunity.
Remember, there were telecom companies, such as Qwest, that refused to follow President Bush’s illegal wiretap orders and chose instead to obey the laws of the land.
The Senate is now posed to bury the rule of law.
What to do?
Join Nader/Gonzalez–the candidacy that will shift the power from the corporations back into the hands of the people.
We strongly oppose the wiretap surveillance legislation that Obama and McCain support.
We stand strongly with the American people and for the Constitution.
The Nader/Gonzalez campaign is now at six percent in the most recent CNN poll.
We’re in the middle of a fundraising drive right now to put Nader/Gonzalez on the ballot in 45 states by September 20.
Help us get there now.
Go to votenader.org.
Donate to your heart’s content.
For the Constitution.
For liberty.
For freedom.
For justice.
For shifting the power from the corporations, back into the hands of the American people.
“We the people” are the first words of the Constitution–we should always remember.
Thank you.
To Barry and the rest of you:
I won’t gloat. I won’t stick out my tongue.
But I will ask: Why did you possibly expect anything else?
I don’t think any of you are stupid. But I do think you’ve allowed your hopes to cloud your better judgment.
Has Obama stated he will go after a criminal prosecution of Bush and Cheney?
Then where are Obama’s true principles?
We have had close to eight years of crimes committed at the highest level of government.
We have two men in office who make Richard Nixon look good by comparison.
And you would vote for a candidate who will shrug his shoulders and let them off the hook?
Is your commitment to this nation and to justice — or to a man?
I’ve said from the start there is only one man running for office who has shown a true commitment to this country. He has been consistent in his positions. He has never, ever sold out. Expediency doesn’t ever tempt him.
That’s Ralph Nader.
Take your disappointment in Obama and pull the lever in November for Ralph Nader.
Cleanse your souls. Recommit to America.
Vote Nader 2008 website
Vote Pact
Previously here:
Mumia Abu Jamal Comments On Ralph Nader
The Disgusting Truth In One Image
Ralph Nader On ABC’s “This Week”
Ralph Nader On ABC’s “This Week” Sunday
Twelve Thousand Dollars An Hour
Obama-Nader 2008? Never, I Say!
Ralph Nader In NYC Tonight, June 18, 2008
Ralph Nader On Democracy Now!
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #126
The People Have The Power
John McCain: Fascist For President
He’s Not Spoiled. Our Political System Is.
Jive-Ass Turkey
And People Are Going To Vote For This Eejit?
The Final President Of The United States
There’s Only One Choice For President
Meet, Support Ralph Nader For President!
The Deserved Fall Of General Motors
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #112
Ralph Nader: Activist Presidential Candidate
Why Democrats Lose
Ralph Nader Now Has A Merch Store
Wordless
East Coast Corporate Liberal
A Civics Quiz
Vote For Ralph Nader To Take Back America!
Ralph Nader: The President We Need
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #017
Another Reason To Vote For Ralph Nader
Lincoln, FDR, Nader
Ralph Nader Tomorrow, March 9 2008, In PA
Just Say Yes: To Ralph Nader!
Ralph Nader On The Daily Show Tonight
Nazicrats
Weasels, Part Three
Weasels, Part Two
Ralph Nader’s Big Birthday
Exxon Can’t Hide
Happy Birthday, Ralph Nader
To Name Three: McCain, Hillary, Obama
Now I Can Vote This Year: Nader Is IN!
The Presidential Candidate You Laughed At
James Kendrick: Tech Fiend Ultimate!
July 11, 2008I tell him to use some of Texas’s excess oil to drive over to Austin to see Victor Gischler.
He emails back telling me:
Can’t view this. In line at Apple store.
It can’t be for his MacBook Pro. That’s all fixed.
Can he be in line for an iPhone 3G?!!?
I think he’s just messing with my head.
FIEND!!!!!
Austin, Texas: Meet Victor Gischler TONIGHT!!!
July 11, 2008You damned Texans. You have better weather. You have oil. And you have James Kendrick!
Now you have this!!
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse, Victor Gischler‘s latest — and first SF — novel, has just been released. Go see the mad genius whose books grab your brain and take it for a spinnnnn!
Via MySpace Bulletin:
Date: Jul 11
Time: 7:00 PM
Event: Victor Gischler and Anthony Neil Smith – co-sponsored by Out of the Gutter
Description: Out of the Gutter is more than just a literary magazine – it’s a state of mind. Full of “degenerate literature” any pulp fan will love its mix of stories, interviews, and comics. BookPeople is proud to co-sponsor this reading of Out of the Gutter, featuring two authors who’ve been featured in their pages: Victor Gischler and Anthony Neil Smith. They both have new books out, and we’ll be celebrating their release by having soup and Schlitz. Yes, you read that right – enjoy tasty soup and an ice-cold Schlitz beer. Tonight at 7PM.
BookPeople is located at the corner of 6th & Lamar. We’re right across the street from Waterloo Records and right next door to REI & Anthropology
BookPeople
603 N. Lamar
Austin, TX 78703
512-472-5050
800-853-9757
Read an excerpt from Victor’s new novel. Warning: You won’t rest until you buy the book. So go read it now!
Previously here:
I Wade Into Shit For Victor Gischler
Victor Gischler Wants You Punished!
Victor Gischler: Alternate Covers
Victor Gischler’s Next Book
Uh-Oh. Suits Invading Net Video Space.
Mumia Abu Jamal Comments On Ralph Nader
July 11, 2008Commentary by Mumia Abu Jamal on Ralph Nader
I will not entertain any debate about the character or guilt of Abu Mumia Jamal. That’s a side issue to this.
Concentrate on his words. There is truth in them.
If anyone would have condemned Nader for crossing a line, Jamal would have. What does he have to fear?
What do you have to fear?
More of the same crap we’ve had for decades!
Vote Nader 2008 website
Vote Pact
Previously here:
The Disgusting Truth In One Image
Ralph Nader On ABC’s “This Week”
Ralph Nader On ABC’s “This Week” Sunday
Twelve Thousand Dollars An Hour
Obama-Nader 2008? Never, I Say!
Ralph Nader In NYC Tonight, June 18, 2008
Ralph Nader On Democracy Now!
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #126
The People Have The Power
John McCain: Fascist For President
He’s Not Spoiled. Our Political System Is.
Jive-Ass Turkey
And People Are Going To Vote For This Eejit?
The Final President Of The United States
There’s Only One Choice For President
Meet, Support Ralph Nader For President!
The Deserved Fall Of General Motors
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #112
Ralph Nader: Activist Presidential Candidate
Why Democrats Lose
Ralph Nader Now Has A Merch Store
Wordless
East Coast Corporate Liberal
A Civics Quiz
Vote For Ralph Nader To Take Back America!
Ralph Nader: The President We Need
Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #017
Another Reason To Vote For Ralph Nader
Lincoln, FDR, Nader
Ralph Nader Tomorrow, March 9 2008, In PA
Just Say Yes: To Ralph Nader!
Ralph Nader On The Daily Show Tonight
Nazicrats
Weasels, Part Three
Weasels, Part Two
Ralph Nader’s Big Birthday
Exxon Can’t Hide
Happy Birthday, Ralph Nader
To Name Three: McCain, Hillary, Obama
Now I Can Vote This Year: Nader Is IN!
The Presidential Candidate You Laughed At
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