Month / December 2005
Birnbaum Watch
Missed it while my legs were locked under wintry work, but Bob-B has talked with Marc Estrin and Barbara Ehrenreich.
New Orleans — The Abandoned Stepchild
New York Times: “We are about to lose New Orleans. Whether it is a conscious plan to let the city rot until no one is willing to move back or honest paralysis over difficult questions, the moment is upon us when a major American city will die, leaving nothing but a few shells for tourists to visit like a museum. We said this wouldn’t happen. President Bush said it wouldn’t happen. He stood in Jackson Square and said, ‘There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans.’ But it has been over three months since Hurricane Katrina struck and the city is in complete shambles.” (via Ghost in the Machine)
[RELATED LINK: It looks like the New Orleans Public Library is also in serious trouble, with a whole slew of city history threatened. (Thank you, Dan Wickett.)]
Note to Trailer Cutters: 1980s Synth and Period Pieces Are Incompatible
Bah. What next? Mr. Mister’s “Is This Love?” played against images of Christ being crucified? Thank goodness they didn’t scour into the Joy Division catalog.
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New Podjack City
To my knowledge, there is no one podjacking The Bat Segundo Show. But anyone currently podcasting needs to read this horror story . The potential implications here (third-party podjackers attaching advertisements and profiting off of content produced by others) are staggering. And frankly, I’m surprised that I was naive enough not to consider that things like this wouldn’t happen sooner or later.