Canadian Tech Hero

I discovered this article about a Canadian guy named Andrew Greig who has a sweet home setup. He's running VoIP that travels with him on his PDA, MythTV with tons of recorded shows. And best of all, he shares all of this and internet bandwith with his neighbors. They all use VoIP thru his VoIP PBX, and are able to watch both live and recorded shows through his MythTV server setup. It's a must read for any geek.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930.html

Thank you Mr. Cheney

Thank you for pointing me to 2 great websites:

Factcheck.com (aka www.GeorgeSoros.com)

Factcheck.org

Pitcairn Island

I am always curious about islands that nobody has heard of. Sometimes I will look at my world map, and just find an island, and then do some research on it to try and figure out if anyone lives there and if they do, what is their life like.

Today I was reading CNN and there was a big scandal brewing on the little Pitcairn Island. I became very curiuos about this island, and the people who lived there. I decided to check on CIA World Factbook first (one of my favorite places to read actually). It peaked my interest even more, so I decided to Google it.

In any case, I encourage everyone to read a little about it. Seems like a very interesting lifestyle choice that these people make to live here. It's definitely a life much simplier than the busy stress inducing world of big city life.

Nokia 6820 and Debates

I got a new Nokia 6820 today. I love it. You'll notice I now have a moblog on the side nav.

Don't forget to watch the debates tonight!

How do you step on your own hand?

I ran into some more interesting information about copyright recently and thought I'd pass it along.

The government finds out it's hard to speak when you have duct tape on your mouth:
Pentagon Censors Gov't Openness Videotape

I also found an interesting organization that is working towards releasing creative works under a license specified by its creator. The organization is called Creative Commons.

Electoral Vote Predictor

Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: Kerry 249 Bush 232

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

Personalized stamp

I just found a site that lets you order personalized stamps. They look pretty neat!

http://photo.stamps.com/

Fundrace.org

Just a quick entry to promote a neat site I've been watching for a few months. My friend Jason turned me on to this site.

www.fundrace.org

They have some really neat maps of where political contributions are coming from.

The new campaign ad

I thought it might be interesting to write a bit about the future of political campaign ads. I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 a few weeks ago. Then of course I went and rented Bowling for Columbine and Roger and Me.

Michael Moore is a genius. He has taken the concept of Reality TV and put an activist's spin on it. I love it. In a world were most candidates pay for expensive advertising slots, the future of political advertising may change into a model where we (the voters) actually go to the movie theater and pay to watch such advertising. Only the future will tell, but the thought of it is provoking!

I think if Michael Moore were running for president, I would vote for him after paying to seeing his 3 movies! Come to think of it... maybe that is that how Reagan and Schwarzenegger fell into place so easily? After all, Arnold was famous for quoting his movies during his campaign!

Quick hit: new .NET blog

A buddy of mine is starting a .NET blog. If you're interested, check it out:

http://www.spinnetblog.blogspot.com/