Johnny Cash keeps churning out songs by alternative bands, and sometimes they’re brilliant.

Here is a good example. Not sure I care much for the video, but musically, his version of Reznor’s song is great.

This is probably a good thing for Jeremy, but I doubt it will help Macromedia

Fun site with a huge selection of things kids used to believe about stuff like baths, body parts, etc.

http://www.iusedtobelieve.com/

Via Scobleizer

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white

guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup,

France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, and Germany doesn’t want to

go to war.”

Looks like the original turquoise was a bit optimistic. Instead, we get Beige. Anyone called Pantone yet?

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Without sounding too corny, I’d like to thank…

• Jessica, my daughter, and greatest challenge.

• My work and business partners. I couldn’t ask for better.

• Parents who do much more for me than I deserve.

• A few close, trusted friends.

• The resolve of a great country.

Oh, and can I mention a few little things…

• Single-malt scotch. A short glass at night - yum.

• Candles. Vanilla, burned evenings while I work.

• Movies. Discovering some obscure little film is the best.

• CD Burners, Limewire, and MP3s

• amazon.com. For helping me live beyond my means.

• eBay. See amazon.com

• FreeBSD. Opened up a whole new set of possibilities.

• Funny people. I’m lucky to be near a few.

• Starr Puffs. One after another after another.

9 reasons to be suspicious of Google.

My mom’s dog Rags passed away yesterday. She was 17 years old and playful till the end.

Peace Rags.

I started today by meeting Mary for breakfast. We continued a discussion started yesterday about cloning. More specifically, she had asked me what all the fuss was about and why it seemed that everyone opposed it. Good questions, but of course I had no answers, so I did a little digging and found that it is indeed a complex topic.

What she was seeing I believe is the “general public” and its knee jerk reaction to the idea of cloning. The man on the street only knows cloning through science fiction, and it’s always a Bad Thing in the movies. “Attack of the Clones”, “Stepford Wives”, “Boys from Brazil” and “Jurassic Park”. How many of those films leave you with warm fuzzies when it comes to cloning?

Immediately following the man on the street come the politicians. George W. calling for a ban on all cloning, and cloning research for crying out loud.

The academics seem to be divided only on when cloning should be done, not necessarily if it should be done.

And the religious folks of course consider cloning to be playing god, as if god had nothing at all to do with human beings learning how to clone.

I’ll try and keep you posted on where this all leads. The interesting thing is that at some point I took a little quiz that determined that I’m actually a dead-center Libertarian. (Not a Liberal, that’s something else entirely of course).

Something to think about.

Eric Norlin writes The Big “I”, a piece about the convergence of digital and real world identities.