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Links Leaked over the Lyrics and Quotes

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Can I Quote You?

Wisdom and conversation were the same thing at Tuesday Open Comments Night, last night. We heard from Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham, and Betty White So it was no real surprise when the links started leaking as they always do.

The Link Leak Virus seeped into every thing we saw. — The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes at Open Comment Night they become a link free-for-all.

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was great fun having you!

Cool links were shared in a word or twol

Quoting Geniuses

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Ellen Weber Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:03 pm e
My quote – “We can learn from experts – and we seek them for mentors as well as partners. Yet, when these pros grow stagnant and compacent – we call them on their relapse, and encourage their evolution forward.”

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Sean says “It’s yet another in a long series of diversions at an attempt to avoid responsibility.” – Chris Knight (Real Genius)

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Ah Pek Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm e
“Imagine all the people..living life in Peace….”

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Joe Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm e
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away…

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Sean Says:

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”

– Albert Einstein

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Mermaid Renée Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:18 pm e
“To be successful at anything you have to have the guts to be hated” – Bette Davis

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Sheila Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:21 pm e
“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.”

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HART (1-800-HART) Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:21 pm e
Sudden-savage-shining-solid-soiled-solid-sanded
Steel-shuddering-shattering-shovelling until the
Sabre toothed rooter roots the earth
The eater eats his fill and is not satisfied and
Roars and reves his mathematical rage
on the footprints of Vikings
trapped on a sonic tape recorder
ten million years old, ten million years old, ten million years old.

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Delaney Kirk Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
WOODY: Pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson? NORM: All right, but stop me at one. Make that one-thirty.

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cat Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
“No offense intended, I’m also fiery passionate about the brand of nuts I eat”

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ME Strauss Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!”

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Chris Cree Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:42 pm e
OK, Instead of Bette Davis, how about a quote from Betty White?
All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Or course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.

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Scorpia Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:43 pm e
More like:

You’ve got questions. We’ve got security flaws.

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Rick Cockrum Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:50 pm e
Or maybe a pod? The kids look at me like I came out of a pod sometimes. Would that make us iPods?

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Jessica Doyle Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:50 pm e
“I fear what i do not know.” from my boyfriend eric.

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Marti Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:51 pm e
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

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Service Untitled – Douglas Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:54 pm e
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. “

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Steve Sherlock Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:56 pm e
Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest… Simon and Garfunkel

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Sandra Renshaw Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 9:10 pm e
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
– David Brinkley

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Char Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 9:11 pm e
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 10:01 pm e
“Money…it’s a gas…”
“Hello out there, we’re on the air, it’s hockey night tonight…”
“All in all we’re just a ‘nother brick in the wall.”

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Candice brought the lovely Christopher Walken video

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Troy Worman Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 10:29 pm e
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Sir Winston Churchill

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John Richardson Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm e
It was 90 degrees here in Sunny California today…

All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey

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ME Strauss Says:
November 8th, 2006 at 8:10 am e
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make”

The Beatles

-ME “Liz” Strauss

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Net Neutrality 11-08-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

Can Citizen Journalism Save the Internet? Does it Need to?

It’s pretty clear that we DON’T have a problem with content-based Internet blocking in the US today. That doesn’t mean that we won’t tomorrow. “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.” But that’s not what this post about.

We MAY have a problem with commercially-motivated blocking. At&t CEO Ed Whitacre has been clear that he considers parts of the Internet “my pipes” and that he believes at&t has a commercial right to charge information providers differentially for use of the pipes that we and the information providers believe are already paying for once.

Other telco execs have echoed this view.

Legislation requiring net neutrality has been proposed but may not be a good idea. It is very difficult to define the concept and enforcement itself might be a dangerous government intrusion.

But how do we avoid the need for neutrality legislation? How do we know if legislation has become the lesser of two evils? That’s where citizen journalism comes in.

Tom Evslin offers a process in which citizen journalists invesitgate and report — in real time and large numbers — instances of packet discrimination on the Internet.

Want to know what you can do?
MA Bell Monopoly Versus the Free Internet — Tell the FCC Net Neutrality Is Not Negotiable

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The Mic is On! It’s Song Lyrics and Quotes!

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

open mike night

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight it’s short song lyrics and quotes!

We might also talk about

  • famous words
  • lines from a song we’ll never forget
  • great one liners from our friends
  • what we used to say as childhood

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.

HART Comment

On Tuesday nights, the WHOLE show is in the comments. Go figure.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time — It’s Song Lyrics and Quotes!

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What Did You Say?

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YES, the mic will be open again tonight. So start collecting your thoughts. Remember, you get to bring what you want to talk about.

The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight it’s short song lyrics and quotes!

We might also talk about

  • famous words
  • lines from a song we’ll never forget
  • great one liners from our friends
  • what we used to say as childhood

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Net Neutrality 11-07-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

No Room for Neutrality on Net Neutrality

Myth: Net Neutrality would, for the first time, regulate the Internet.
FACT: Massive innovation on the Internet since its creation occurred under pre-2005 Net Neutrality protection. . . .

MYTH: Net Neutrality is a solution in search of a problem.
FACT: There are numerous examples of network providers engaging in content or user discrimination that will only grow without Net Neutrality. . . .
[ . . . ]
MYTH: Network operators are protecting consumers.
FACT: Like any monopoly or oligopoly, network operators want to maximize their profits and minimize competition at the consumer’s expense. . . .

MYTH: Net Neutrality will cause broadband networks to be abandoned.
FACT: Net Neutrality promotes broadband development by increasing Internet services and applications that generate new consumer demand. . . .

MYTH: Net Neutrality will cause broadband networks to be abandoned.
FACT: Net Neutrality promotes broadband development by increasing Internet services and applications that generate new consumer demand. . . .
[ . . . ]
MYTH: The Stevens Bill already ensures Net Neutrality.
FACT: The Net Neutrality provision included in S. 2686 merely requires the FCC to conduct an annual study about how information is flowing over the Internet, but provides no teeth to protect the free-flow of information. . . .

Want to know what you can do?
MA Bell Monopoly Versus the Free Internet — Tell the FCC Net Neutrality Is Not Negotiable

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Net Neutrality 11-06-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

Battle over ‘net neutrality’ arrives in Canada

. . . “Right now, the internet is almost a perfect, universal democracy,” says Pippa Lawson, the executive director of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Law Clinic.

“The smallest bloggers can be accessed as easily and as quickly as the websites of major corporations.”

There’s clear incentive there for those who have the economic interests to discriminate. That’s why it’s necessary to ensure that there’s a level playing field and you have to do that legislatively.”

Lawson said Canadian companies want exactly what American companies want — to control the web and make a lot of money doing so.

“There’s a big push in Canada right now to allow those sorts of discriminatory practices,” Lawson said.

“The companies that own the pipes of the internet — the telecom companies — haven’t liked sitting back and watching big content providers like Google and Yahoo make billions of dollars. They want a piece of the pie, and they want to be able to favour their own content or the content of the corporations that would pay them big money.”

Want to know what you can do?
MA Bell Monopoly Versus the Free Internet — Tell the FCC Net Neutrality Is Not Negotiable

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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