Slurredspeech

http://www.freethinkers.co.za/documents/politics/katrina%20and%20race.jpg?racism

With the big push to emphasize the “sanctity of life” my question is can a person lose their sanctity of life?  Does a criminal forfeit his right to a sacred life, or is the sanctity of life ever present and ongoing, something given to us from God?  If all life is sacred shouldn’t the death penalty be considered an abomination?  After reading this CNN story about lethal injections my hate for the death penalty resurfaced.  How on one hand you can fight to preserve the sanctity of life of a blastocyst, but not respect the life of a full grown human?  It frustrates me to the core.  At least be consistent with your policy.

http://www.youtube.com/v/NBZQfAYfH7s

Deployed new features on Nearbie.com like history item commenting, history browsing (earlier and later for each item that makes up the history) and slowly adding more cities of the world (all Canada is imported — I think UK is next).

Enjoy!

I was just listening to NPR and the whole Kyle Sampson testimony. I was just wondering how old this dude was and haven’t really found the answer — 34? Anyway — I did come across a firm and bio page to send him an email… Feel free to tell him how you feel!

http://www.texasdefenselawyers.com/Bio/KyleSampson.asp

If 2006 was the year of the mashup, 2007 will be the year of the MegaMashup.  Sites will spring up mashing up feeds from 5-20 other sites.   You will see  mashups incorporating everything from last.fm,  amazon, yahoo, google, bn.com,  twitter, flickr, del.icio.us, myspace, digg and many more.

Quick little blurb about nearbie.com on ehub.  Over the next few weeks we will be focusing our efforts on marketing and brand building.  And as always any thoughts about how to make Nearbie better or great marketing ideas — shoot me an email at feedback at nearbie.com.

“Refresh Release” Deployed

Check it out and as always — feedback is welcome and much appreciated at feedback at nearbie.com.

The idea of a quick customizable survey is something I have wanted to build for some time — and of course — that is as far as I got. Bruno on the other hand seems to be working with 36 hour days or something and cranked it out in a week. I would also like to see a quick little customizable rating tool — takes a scale, item type, id, and allows you to rate an item.
Also I just came across a nice interview with the Man/Machine himself on Ruby Inside.

Congratulations Bruno!

This little girl has trouble pronouncing “sparkling wiggles” but what comes out sounds very racist.

Now It’s Personal: Al Qaeda Calls Bush an Alcoholic Liar — well it’s true isn’t it?

Bush Quit Drinking ‘On His Own’

Bush Lies

If you don’t already know the Ruby Users of Minnesota (RUM) is the premier Ruby user group in the Minneapolis, Twin Cities (Mpls and St. Paul) area.  You could call it the Ruby Users of Minneapolis or Ruby Users of St. Paul.  But no matter what the name is, it is still all the same great RUM with the same great people.
Meetings are typically held on the last Tuesday of the every month at the Loring Park Dunn Bros. More information is available at Ruby.mn.

Box in a box for you — So funny — Think SNL — D*** in a Box.

Well, I have been a bit remiss in keeping everyone updated on what I have been up to lately.

Earlier this year I started a fairly large Rails project, Yfly.com, a social networking site for teens and celebrities. We did an initial deploy on August 15th and weekly/biweekly updates thereafter. At the end of October I left Space 150 and the Yfly contract to work for Dean Heckler, (inventor, designer and technologist) to start building Nearbie.com. Nearbie is a fun (and practical) tool to enable the exploration of history connections between people, places and events. It lets everyone capture history and see how that history is related to other nearby people, places and events. Nearbie is in active development right now and will be going live later this month.

Democrats win the house and probably the senate… Rummy was thrown under the bus … and I just got done eating a very tasty steak from Mancini’s. Today was one big middle finger from moderate middle America to the neocon Bush, evangelical White House.

The only thing that will keep me drinking is that T-paw was re-elected and I voted for Peter Hutchinson expecting an easy victory for Hatch. Oh well I guess you can’t win ‘em all.