Author: Mark Draughn
Friday Catblogging
No real blogging today, so here are a few cat pictures to contemplate. Ripley Dozer Buffy Read more
It Hurts Being Green
I would normally save a video like this until Friday, but I have a feeling we’re just counting the minutes until the DMCA take-down notice. I don’t want to spoil it too much, but it’s Kermit the Frog following in Mr Johnny Cash’s footsteps with his own very special cover of Trent Reznor’s “Hurt.” To… Read more
Whose Freedom? Counting the Cost
I’m listening to the audiobook of George Lakoff’s Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America’s Most Important Idea, in which he contrasts the progressive and conservative ideas of freedom. Lakoff repeats over and over again that progressive morality is built on empathy, whereas conservative morality is based on discipline. That formulation makes a certain amount of… Read more
Hacking John McCain
Apparently, Senator John McCain has a MySpace page. Rather than using the boring default design, whoever built the page for McCain used a customized MySpace template that he got from Mike Davidson. Only problem is, he forgot to credit Mike, which is all Mike asks for if you want to use his template. Well, that… Read more
Whose Freedom? Models For Government.
For reasons not worth explaining, I’ve been listening to the audiobook of George Lakoff’s Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America’s Most Important Idea, which is about the conflict between progressives and conservatives over the idea of freedom. The book’s subtitle is a bit misleading, although technically correct. I was expecting a book about different ideas… Read more