Author: Rick Klau

WOW. If this doesn’t qualify as the most electric television on C-Span ever, I don’t know what does. (It’s a panel at BookExpo America in Los Angeles from last week.) Molly Ivins starts out by talking about her observations about President Bush, who she’s known since high school. Then Bill O’Reilly follows. The fireworks happen…

For my wife and Denise: Dressing for England – The brutal fashion critics of the BBC’s What Not To Wear. By Virginia Heffernan The review is spot on: this show is addictive. And we just added Faking It to our TiVo subscription; haven’t watched it yet but the promos look hysterical. I can only imagine what…

I find it more than a touch ironic when the search results for www.useit.com all show an incorrect date. For those that don’t know, useit.com is the online home of Jakob Nielsen, the gold standard in website usability. I’m sure this is just a minor glitch (I’ve sent them a note to let them know…

TiVo Sells Ad Skipping Data To Marketers LA Times: Tivo to Sell Data on Ad Skipping to Marketers TiVo has a wealth of information culled from its users detailing their ad skipping behavior. Today, TiVo will begin selling that information gleaned from its 700,000 users to help advertisers understand what gets skipped and why. Knowing…

Licence plates in The Matrix:The discussion thread regarding Matrix: Revolutions on the Home Theater Forum is turning up all sorts of interesting tidbits, including the fact that all the licence plates seem to be biblical quotes! The Twins’ truck on the freeway: DE2852. Deutronomy 28:52 – “They shall besiege you in all your towns, until…

Finally got around to updating the blogroll on the site. Couple new additions – Left Leaner, One Father for Dean, Shiny Glass Beads. Also added back the webring. So if you’re looking for other good sites focused on Howard Dean, you’ve got several places to go.

For those of you who are AvantGo users, you can now subscribe to this weblog from AvantGo. Every time you sync your PDA, you’ll get the latest posts downloaded to AvantGo. I’ve set it up to also follow any linked articles – so if I link to a news article or another blog post, you’ll…

Sunday Times: Dr. No and the Yes Men I really wanted to like this profile, but in the end I didn’t. The article lurches forward on a few assumptions: that the primary fuel for the Dean campaign is liberal rage, that Dean is a protest candidate and little else, that the Democratic establishment doesn’t get…

So here’s a crazy idea – what about signing over the tax rebate that is on its way to the Dean campaign? Not only would it be a windfall for the campaign if we reached critical mass, but the PR bonanza (“Bush tax cuts fund rival campaign”) would be amazing.

ABCNEWS.com : Dean, Graham Make Strange Bedfellows Marc Ambinder speculates today that Governor Dean may be planning ahead and flirting with adding Graham to his ticket. While talk about possible VP candidates is very early, here are some noteworthy items about this article: Gov. Dean is identified (finally!) as a progressive candidate. Later in the…