The 'Catastrophic Success': The Strategy to Secure Iraq Did Not Foresee a 2nd War Support for why I can't vote for Bush. I cast my vote for Kerry-Edwards today in New Mexico's early voting. Exit polling, while not officially published, shows heavy tilt to Kerry. Not particularly a surprise, since Santa Fe leans Democratic.

Despair, Inc. Makes me laugh. Need some de-motivation?

Questions and Observations Blog Seems to be reasonably sensible at avoiding loony left or wing nut rhetoric... though has a strong right/libertarian flavor.

The Washington Monthly Does Bush lie more than Kerry? Does his campaign have a stronger intent to deceive? Is Halperin right? Looks like it.

U.S. Constitution - Table of Contents - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net In case you need to remember what the government is and is not allowed to do.

Swing State Project Seems to be a bit lefty. Tracking the projected electoral votes. But see the more conservative Election Projection for alternative ways of counting. Maybe Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 is more in the middle...

My eBay 2.0 Icon Glossary I can never remember the meanings of all the damn icons...

Pandorabots - A Multilingual Chatbot Hosting Service Here's a way to construct your own virtual personality chatterbot. It's based on a specific pattern matching style. Seems to do better in practice than work using parsers & grammars.

this_or_that.mov (video/quicktime Object) And a very amusing remix (propaganda, of course, but it's well done...) from the debate.

How do you run a convention on a record of failure? Some clips of the "highlights" of the GOP convention. A pretty clear message. Oh, about the current administration's accomplishments? Nil. Plans? Nil. Fear, terrorism, September 11? Weapons of mass distraction.

The New Marcom Game Doc Searls' heuristics for marketing communications, which is now a two-way street via the power of the Internet.

Web Informant #387, 24 September 2004: Downloading music legally using XM's PCR
Looks like current "best practice" in snarfing music.

Muller and Robinson on Malkin
Debunking Malkin's book defending Japanese internment in WWII.

ProfessorBainbridge.com

TCS: Tech Central Station - Hayek Smiled: Why Blogging Works

KATAGIRI will sell you Japanese grocery products. Up on E. 59th between 2d & 3d.
Check out Suntory's Boss Coffee. What Starbucks used as a model for their Doubleshot. Except Suntory sells several styles, including one without any cream or sugar.

The Corporation - A film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan

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AxisofLogic/ Activism, News and Comment has a strong activist ("leftist"?) flavor. Appears to be attempting to be intellectual and independent. I like a lot of what I read here. As with several other sites I read regularly, there is a lot of logic and fewer (though by no means none...) rhetorical games.

Looking for one of the many Nonprofit Organizations to support with time or money?

Authentic Happiness - Using the New Positive Psychology. Marty is brilliant. The world will be a better place when more people understand his work. I'm a happy person. Most of it seems to be genetic &/or mom. But I've learned a lot from Marty's work and am a much better person for it.

Again, in the spirit of getting reporting from diverse sources, I've been reading Capitol Hill Blue. I disagree with a lot of it, but find the writing pretty good, on the whole. And it helps me think about issues.

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish writes well and sensibly, without screeching rhetoric. It's nice to see discourse at a high level. I don't agree with all of his opinions but am glad to see issues dealt with reasonably.

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Odd but amusing.

Trader Joe's has long been my favorite grocery store. Back in grad school days, I felt like I could eat very well on my"stipend" by shopping at TJs. (A stipend is like money, only it's so small that they can't in good conscience call it money, so they have to use another word...)

The Gottman Institute - has amazing insights into couples behavior.

Imago - A New Way To Love is a very effective, though challenging, way to transform your relationship into a process of growth.

I am adopting many of the principles of choice theory in my own life, especially with respect to how I manage my business. There is a useful introduction at The Choice Theory Connection. A discussion group is Rogha, Gaelic for choice

Ten Thousand Waves Japanese Health Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico is one of our favorite treats. Book a massage & private tub back-to-back and endulge.

Language Log is an great source for language nerd stuff. I laugh hysterically at the Lady Mondegreens. I love language. Wish I could use it better.