I don't want to go to your poorly designed, ad ridden, ajax ruined websites. I want to read your news by RSS. I want to READ your news via rss, not just read the title and the first sentence.

I'm sure you do this to try and force us back to your site so you can bombard us with ads. Let me explain something to you. I, like most smart internet users, use AdBlock, so I never see your annoying ads. Second I'll use a different news source's RSS if you keep your crappy format.

See I don't need you anymore. Information is no longer in the strangle hold of the MSM. There are 1000's of news sources who will filter out your corporatist crap and present me only what I want in my news, information!

See I don't support you because, well honestly I think you suck and have long out lasted your usefulness.

In other words, change or be chastised.

Today on TechPresident The Battle to Control Obama's Myspace.

My Thoughts:
What they did is practically stealing. A supporter put in lots of his own hours to support a candidate he was passionate about and when the Obama campaign got grabby he gave a very reasonable offer. They continued to be greedy and used a loop hole to steal from Joe. Disgraceful!

Obama's campaign is arrogant to think they have any right to Joe's fan page.

First Edwards blogger nightmare, now Obama's stolen MySpace page... do any of these "populist" "netroots" candidates have any understanding or respect for the tools and the people that are making them popular?

Rules
1 - Say no to Betas
--Netscape beta were worse not better
2 - Know your Adoption Rate
IE7 will over take IE6 by the end of the month... wow.
3 - Take an Inventory
CSS 3 support is in beta still
no text shadow
4 - Keep them separated
Use conditional Comments
5 - Kick Ass
CSS2 support
something about png color shades that i didn't understand

This blog post is completely off topic for this blog, but I have a unique opportunity so I'm going to take advantage. Last night I got to go to an advanced screening for the new, and at this moment still not in theaters, movie 300. So this is my first attempt of being a movie critic.

I've never read the graphic novel, so I went into the screening knowing little about it. I knew it had Spartans and I've always been interested in ancient Greece and mythology.

The two things that stick out right away about this movie are first the story telling, which is much better then found in most movies. It is told as a story, and it seems natural, not forced as if it was the only way to make the movie. Second is the visuals are very well done. The blood, which in most movies looks stupid when it is in excess, looks great in this movie. So it is easy to say this movie is cool bloody fight scene after cool bloody fight scene.

The story is interesting but honestly was easy to predict. That didn't make it a bad story, just predictable early on. As I said the telling of the story was very well done.

The movie also blurs the line of whether this is an attempt to tell the a story as it "might" have happened. Sure the battles are unlikely but not fantasy, but there are a few characters which go over that line. That's fine and great in a movie, but it did seem a little awkward at times to understand the frame, mythology or fantastic. (But I've been told my thoughts on story framing are insane on a couple occasions. oh well.)

Dwindling In Unbelief

Found this from a great Jesus' General post. Dwindling In Unbelief is from Steve Well, the Editor of the Skeptic's Annotated Bible/Quran/Book of Mormon, which is the best annotated version of the Bible (and Quran and Book of Mormon) I've ever found. I really have been waiting quite a while for a print version.

Dwindling in Unbelief's newest post is this great video featuring Richard Dawkins.

It's a little late in the process, but you can still vote today.

Here are my recommendations for the 2006 weblog awards.

Best Blog - Daily Kos

Best Individual Blog - Glenn Greenwald (this is the hardest choice there are a number of good blogs in this category)

Best Online Community - Daily Kos

Best Liberal Blog - Pandagon (again a hard choice I read all of them on a regular basis)

Best Centrist Blog - The Moderate Voice

Best LGBT Blog - Pam's House Blend

Best of the Top 250 Blogs - Feministe

This is my magic trick. I make a donut hole dissapear. All I've used is one donut hole, my cell phone and this website: www.nodonuthole.com

There is a new social networking site on the block but this one won't help you find a 45 year old stalker boyfriend.

Essembly is a social networking site specifically geared for politics and ideas. The site uses "resolves," which are simple statements on one side of an issue, and has people vote on whether they agree, lean-agree, lean-disagree or disagree with the issue. Then your votes get compared to the votes of other individuals to see if you are ideologically similar or not, sorta like OkCupid finds matches.

One of the good things about this site is that they are actually working with real organizations, like the Campaign for America's Future that I talk so much about, so that these organizations can have a real and organized presence on the site. The site is a bit addictive, more so even then MySpace! At this point the site is by invite only as it's still in a beta form. I have a couple invitations I could share, but you'd have to ask nicely. Either way keep an eye open for the site and I'll post about it again as it develops.