Entries from December 2004 ↓

everyone! I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus over the holidays, but regular updates here will resume in 2005. Tonight, off to a cocktail party with many nice folks, some bloggers included.

“Weird context shifts caused by IM on hiptops…” I noticed that when I first installed an IM client on my old Treo 270 – immediately before uninstalling it.

This piece, called Chelsea (acrylic on canvas, 24″ X 30″), is but one example of the kind of thing she’s been working on.

Building on the success of the U2 iPod: New Apple Signature iPods

features a great piece on the apocalyptic narrative in modern society: The end of the world.

Major League Baseball continues the extortionary policy of requiring all-public funding for any stadium: Baseball Rejects Council’s Changes In Financing Plan for D.C. Stadium. This is the underlying reason why baseball left Montreal and will likely leave Washington before ever playing a game there. MLB needs this cautionary tale to force other governments in other jurisdictions to put up the money or lose their team. The reason Montreal wasn’t viable had nothing to do with attendence or revenues and everything to do with the fact that the Provincial and Federal gov’ts can’t be bought or intimidated as easily as US municipal, county, and state governments can be.