Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Quote du jour
I don't care about the business part. I just want the Web to suck less. — Brad Fitzpatrick, talking about OpenID. That, by the way, is one big reason why OpenID kicks ass and takes names, um, URLs. Here's Brad's latest hacking update.
Another, It's better than everything, because the other stuff doesn't exist. Not even sure what he means by that, but it's ironic and cool. Brad's in a panel here at DIDW.
Next, in response to a (wrong) question about there being a "hole in OpenID", Brad says, There's a hole in PayPal, because I keep getting mails telling me to fix it.
Power from the people
USA Today: 'Blogosphere' spurs government oversight. Good piece, but linkless. So, here are a few: Porkbusters.org, Citzens Against Government Waste, Sunlight Foundation, Room Eight, TPM Cafe, OpenSecrets.org, DemocracyInAction.org, OMBwatch.org.
Chain reaction
Mike Taht has taken the blogging = cc:world metaphor literally. Dig his respone to one of those pesky chain forms. Fave line: 23. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? The dryer.
Five years ago today
As our parents came of age with the Great Depression and were tempered into adulthood by the Second World War, we were born into the world of Nuclear destruction, came of age with Kennedy’s assassination, and were tempered into our adulthood by Vietnam, will today’s youth see this as their crucible? Or is this just a turning point into the world they are inheriting? Is this the Pandora's box for them as the Bomb was for us? Once opened, it can never be closed; it is a reality that they will always live with?
Oh God, I hope not. I pray not. But I fear so.
But may this also be the fire that fuses us into the nation we can be, the world we can be. Like it did after the Depression and WWII, strength can come out of strife, heroism out of horror and hope out of Hell. May we be up to the test. May the world be with us.