this is a year old but highly relevant. Jeff Jarvis talks on citizens media to Daimler Chrysler, Organic and BBDO.
via craig who calls this a potential tipping point.
high school principal run amuk
in yet another case of an overzealous high school principal squelching free speech, Winona Senior High School’s Nancy Wondrasch doesn’t want students wearing buttons.
When senior Carrie Rethlefsen began wearing an “I (heart) My Vagina” button to school, she says she was trying to speak out against violence toward women.
However, Winona Senior High School administration think the button could be interpreted differently.
A month after she began donning the button, Rethlefsen was told to take it off.
But Rethlefsen considers the button a matter of free speech.
And the hypocrisy element:
Other students said their peers often wear shirts that say “Pet my pussy,” “I got lucky in Kentucky” or attire bearing Hooters or Playboy bunny logo without consequence.
priorities
From a Salon interview with Richard Florida:
Once I heard a former high-ranking member of the Bush administration on economic policy, when asked about immigration and national security, say, “If it comes down to a question of national security and economic growth, we will always choose in favor of national security. I don’t care if it means that the next Bill Gates can’t get in …”
south carolina legislative cock-up
The South Carolina State Senate passed a bill banning gamecock fighting while at the same time tabling a bill protecting victims of domestic violence. That means that domestic violence is a misdemeanor, but cockfighting is set to become a felony.
When questioned about this, Rep. John Graham Altman insulted the reporter:
“People who compare the two are not very smart and if you don’t understand the difference, Ms. Gormley, between trying to ban the savage practice of watching chickens trying to kill each other and protecting people rights in CDV statutes, I’ll never be able to explain it to you in a 100 years ma’am.”
News 10 reporter Kara Gormley asked Altman, “That’s fine if you feel you will never be able to explain it to me, but my question to you is: does that show that we are valuing a gamecock’s life over a woman’s life?”
Altman again, “You’re really not very bright and I realize you are not accustomed to this, but I’m accustomed to reporters having a better sense of depth of things and you’re asking this question to me would indicate you can’t understand the answer. To ask the question is to demonstrate an enormous amount of ignorance. I’m not trying to be rude or hostile, I’m telling you.”
Microsoft Caves on Gay Rights
Last month, [Microsoft] quietly withdrew its support for House bill 1515, the anti-gay-discrimination bill currently under consideration by the Washington State legislature, after being pressured by the Evangelical Christian pastor of a suburban megachurch.
want to learn English?
the commercial provides some motivation.
adobe-macromedia acquisition
Daring Fireball: Translation from PR-Speak to English of selected portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ regarding their acquisition of Macromedia.
free macworld expo pass
register by june 10, 2005 and get a free exhibit hall pass to macworld expo. use priority code B0401.
pimp my safari
forget pimp my ride, check out pimp my safari. i’ve already beeng using fiwt and PithHelmet. good stuff.
tiger review from windows guy
Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite reviews Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. He concludes (emphases mine):
The marketing that accompanies Tiger’s release is no different: Described by Apple as “a super-modern operating system” and “the newest major release of the world’s most advanced operating system,” Tiger will, in Apple’s words, “change the way you use a computer.” That, of course, is completely untrue. Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” is, in fact, a minor upgrade to an already well-designed and rock-solid operating system. It will not change the way you use your computer at all, and instead uses the exact same mouse and windows interface we’ve had since the first Mac debuted in 1984. That isn’t a complaint about Tiger, per se: It’s a high-quality release. My issue here is with marketing, not with reality.