1963: "His fellow prisoner, Ho Yinsen, a physicist whose work Stark had greatly admired during college, constructs a magnetic chest plate to keep the shrapnel from reaching Stark's heart, keeping him alive. Stark uses the workshop to design and construct in secret a suit of powered armor. Stark uses the armor to escape, <spoiler follows>" - j1m
This guy is Scorsese's idol, so I've been working my way through his most important movies. This one is a disturbing horror pic, in kinda the way Silence of the Lambs is. It's also the evil counterpart to 8 1/2, if you're into that sort of thing. - j1m
"So it is that we asked (begged, really) a range of Hillarylanders for their up-close and personal lists of "What Went Wrong?" Not everyone wanted to play. Many stubbornly pointed out that their candidate is not yet dead. But, on the condition of total anonymity, a fairly broad enough cross-section of her staff responded--more than a dozen members all told, from high-level advisors to grunt-level assistants, from money men to on-the-ground organizers.....One respondent sent in a list of Top 25 screw ups, the first three being: 1. Patti 2. Solis 3. Doyle" - j1m
'from another corner came another list, reading: 1. Mark Penn 2. Mark Penn 3. Mark Penn' - j1m
Is it just me, or is this thinking always just obviously unwise: 'She's the leader of the party, the standard bearer, the big dog. Everyone thinks she's gonna win and walk away with it.' I mean, that's why Hart won in 84, right? - j1m
"In Iowa, Penn consistently would show polls that were of the eight-way. That was basically meaningless because it wasn't going to be an eight-way race. The candidates that were the second-tier candidates were not going to reach the threshold [of 15%]. The real race was the three-way. But he always focused on the eight-way when we'd start going over the numbers in Iowa. It was frustrating to the state staff and other people as well." - j1m
"Over the past several years, the momentum has shifted away from hard-core materialism. The brain seems less like a cold machine. It does not operate like a computer. Instead, meaning, belief and consciousness seem to emerge mysteriously from idiosyncratic networks of neural firings. Those squishy things called emotions play a gigantic role in all forms of thinking. Love is vital to brain development." - j1m
"Asked about who might share a ticket with Obama, Carville floated Clinton's name, as well as that of Clinton ally Gen. Wesley Clark. Carville also mentioned Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg" - j1m
Man can we get off this "Obama will be the likely nominee" kick. It's kind of like saying right now, "the Lakers are likely going to defeat the Nuggets and advance in the playoffs" or "Sanjiah is not going to be in the American Idol final." The ship has sailed. - Chris Reed
This guy, who I will admit to loving once, owns some part of the story of how the Clinton team missed the mark. I'm sure there'd be some reference to the broad side of a barn if I wrote this in Carville speak. I think he jumped the shark long before his Judas comments. Our discussion of VPs on FF sounded more informed than his list! - Shellee OBrien
"If you honestly assessed yourself, thinking in general about (ITEM), is that something you'd be entirely comfortable with, somewhat comfortable, somewhat uncomfortable or entirely uncomfortable?" Hnh, 12% of respondents are uncomfortable with an African American president; 16% are uncomfortable with a woman; 39% with a 72-year-old - j1m
It's definitely frustrating how much the media wants to fit the narrative of the race into something from past elections. Seems every day there's some new piece with some off-comparison (e.g., is Obama really Dukakis?: http://www.realclearpolitics.c...) that assumes conditions on the ground haven't changed in the past 20 or 40 years. - Nathan Young
"D’Angelo said in his letter that he would remain a strong and enthusiastic supporter of the much-hyped start-up" -- Hnh, I wonder if that's what he really said. - j1m
Wild. The adults are taking over. It'll be interesting to see if that's a good thing or not. - Robert Scoble
This is what happens when a company stops listening to early adopters and influencers, though. The adults try to replace everyone. What new features has Facebook added in the past year since the application platform came out? Not many. Well, there was Beacon, which was a bad idea and poorly explained. - Robert Scoble
More granulated privacy controls. That was important. - Prokofy Neva
Well, they've also done pages, chat, translations, friend lists, removing the 5000 friend limit, and scaled to 100m+ users... - Phillip Kast
Phillip: they also kick people off for doing pretty typical stuff. Just last week someone at Microsoft wrote me and told me she'd been kicked off for just talking with her friends. Pages? Yawn, we wouldn't have needed those if there wasn't a 5,000 friend limit. Chat? Annoying, if I wanted IM I would have used IM. FriendLists? Useful. Scaling to 100m users? Good, but most people don't notice that except when Facebook gets slow. - Robert Scoble
Scaling is amazing: I always noticed when there were all of a sudden twice as many users and the site didn't slow down. I didn't get bored and go elsewhere; I was thoroughly impressed. I notice it all the time when facebook stays fast. - Rob Schonberger
"Having no staff, the blogger is not expected to be accurate. Having no advertisers (though this is changing), he has no reason to pull his punches. And not needing a large circulation to cover costs, he can target a segment of the reading public much narrower than a newspaper or a television news channel could aim for." - j1m
"What really sticks in the craw of conventional journalists is that although individual blogs have no warrant of accuracy, the blogosphere as a whole has a better error-correction machinery than the conventional media do. The rapidity with which vast masses of information are pooled and sifted leaves the conventional media in the dust....The charge by mainstream journalists that blogging lacks checks and balances is obtuse. The blogosphere has more checks and balances than the conventional media; only they are different." - j1m
"But increased competition has not produced a public more oriented toward public issues, more motivated and competent to engage in genuine self-government, because these are not the goods that most people are seeking from the news media. They are seeking entertainment, confirmation, reinforcement, emotional satisfaction; and what consumers want, a competitive market supplies, no more, no less." - j1m
