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The King on the $20
January 20, 2004

I was pretty shocked at the news of the advocacy group that wants to put the King on the twenty.  They have put up a web site, putkingonthe20.com, that explains why they want the change and why he is more deserving of the honor than Andrew Jackson.  I haven't read the site, but I hear it's pretty informative.

You can see my impression of what the new $20 bill might look like here.  I think that they should do like they did with the stamps and use the image of Elvis before the weight gain.

Privacy Survey
January 19, 2004

I was browsing around at Popdex the other day and encountered a survey site.  Basically, it was a survey for bloggers produced by someone writing a paper for a college course or degree.

The survey asked many questions about who reads the web log, mostly oriented from the perspective that there might be people out there that you would prefer not to read your writings.  I can understand that.  There have been a few incidences where people have called me on things I've written up here.  But as I have described before, things here are how they are for a reason.

Rude People
January 19, 2004

After our outing to The Producers last night, I've been thinking about how rude people are these days and how they accomplish their rudeness.

All sorts of things happened that were rude while we were in the theater.  It's funny how I can go to the show unshaved and in jeans when I'm surrounded by fur coats and ties, but I've still got better manners than many of the idiots in the audience.

No positive ideas
January 16, 2004

A couple of news items crossed my screen today that I thought I might comment on.

This year, MoveOn sponsored a contest for someone to make a commercial that could "engage and enlighten viewers and help them understand the truth about George Bush."  I suggest you check out the site, since the winners are up and they are very nice pieces of amateur work.

Alterslash
January 14, 2004

Are you interested in the new topics revealed by SlashDot, but have no interest in the folks who comment there?  Enter Alterslash, a web-scraping site that filters all but the most topical SlashDot content.