March 2008
132 posts
Time Machiner →
timemachiner.com
uhhh… what the hell is this thing?
TimeMachiner is a new mini-app that lets you email people in the future. Use it to remind yourself to do something that you’ll more than likely forget, keep your future self on the straight and narrow, even wish your friends happy birthday…
Extreme genius.
How to Capture Sound on a Piece of Paper [NPR] →
npr.org
Researchers have figured out a way to play back the earliest audio recording, one that predates Thomas Edison’s recordings. (…)
Thomas Edison wasn’t the first person to record sound. A Frenchman named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville actually did it earlier.
He invented a device called the phonautograph, and, on April 9, 1860, recorded someone singing the words, “Au clair de la lune, Pierrot repondit.” But he never had any intention of playing it back. He just wanted to study the pattern the sound waves made on a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp.
“If the news is that important, it will find me.”
— NYT piece examining media consumption among young voters
I am learning how to write grant proposals.
Attended this amazing (and free) workshop this morning. Want to try to go to another one tomorrow. Jobs at nonprofits in Pittsburgh are scarce and fiercely competitive (sigh) so honing some grantwriting skills is a smart way for me to move forward. And I would probably learn to love it more than I ever would a career in public relations — not that the two are even exclusive. I just wish someone would have told me that a year ago. Anyway, I’m very excited.
“He would not have been my pastor,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters and editors at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review as she interviewed for the paper’s editorial endorsement. →
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
She chose to say this to the editors of my notoriously conservative hometown newspaper — Richard Mellon Scaife’s newspaper.
Also makes me wonder who the Post-Gazette will decide to endorse.
GREENSBURG, Pa. – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton broke her week-long silence Tuesday morning about Senator Barack Obama’s relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, saying that she would have changed churches if her pastor had made the racially divisive and anti-American remarks that Mr. Wright had made.
“He would not have been my pastor,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters and editors at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review as she interviewed for the paper’s editorial endorsement. “You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.”
The paper has a conservative-leaning editorial page, and Mrs. Clinton’s point echoed the criticisms of some conservative political analysts who decried the portion of Mr. Obama’s speech on race last Tuesday where he tried to explain Mr. Wright’s viewpoints.
While Mr. Obama condemned his longtime pastor’s inflammatory views, he also Mr. Wright should not be judged solely on selected comments, and he made clear that he would not leave his church over them nor would he disown him.
When Mr. Wright’s comments surfaced, Mrs. Clinton sharply criticized “hate speech,” but she chose not to comment on the Obama-Wright controversy after Mr. Obama’s speech, simply saying that reporters should ask Mr. Obama if he was doing enough to condemn or break with Mr. Wright.
In her interview with the Pittsburgh paper, she cited her criticism of Don Imus, the radio shock-jock who made racially derogatory comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team.
“You know, I spoke out against Don Imus, saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that,” Mrs. Clinton said. “I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving.”
An article about Mrs. Clinton’s other remarks to the paper can be found here.
