Europe to get fake-tree microwave masts. 
A Dutch company has acquired a license to market Envirocom's fake-tree cellular masts in Europe — the next stately pine you whizz past between Reims and Disneyland Paris might contain a giant, carcingoenic microwave tower.
(via Futurismic)
Here's the problem. Dean has tens of millions of dollars. What then? A new party? [Scripting News]
Dave, a great idea. Perot tried this once, but he had the same problem that Dean has: emotional outbursts and “real” feelings and ideas. Dean has doomed himself because he seems *too* immature and not “presidential”. Americans say they want someone with fresh ideas and someone “like the rest of us”, but when confronted with the opportunity (Dean), they fail to the safe side and elect someone that they hope won't get us killed or run the economy in the ground.
Wow.
I ordered my Treo 600 a few days ago. It arrived this morning and I activated it through Sprint. What a phone, what a PDA. The user interface is outstanding, the camera is so easy to use it's scary and the expansion slot has my hands trembling.
I'll put together a review over the weekend.
Wow, what a phone!
Since you can't share OPML unless you have instructions, Dave has ginned up a SDK for the site.
Transitions. I would like to reiterate how detailed and well-thought-out a plan it was, in a feeble attempt to excuse how magnificently I bungled it. (271 words) [dive into mark]
In his post, he mentions that he's looking for someone to maintain the feed parser and feed finder. “Dave”, is this something that would go with Harvard's Berkman Center? Keeping these two things under the care of the university would ensure that they will live on as long as can be relevant.
Today is the second birthday of Radio 8. Many happy returns! [Scripting News]
I had no idea it was only 2 years old! Wow! Congrats, Userland.
I've been on technology overload throughout the last couple of days. My brain needs some time to “slow down”, so I'm unplugging for the rest of the week. See you this weekend. I'll try to catch up on my TiVo “Now Playing” list…
Dave's Social Experiment
“Dave” has been running a social experiment to evangelize the uses of OPML and to lead aggregator developers to standardization. As a side effect, the OPML contributors have been asking for more data about their ad-hoc social groups. I'm one of those clammoring for more.
I made an observation that I want to share with everyone. Of those on my list of subscriptions, the people that I read/comment/converse with most often are those that have the some of the lowest readership. Dann Sheridan is a great example. Of those that have contributed to the site, six subscribe to his feed, self included.
Maybe subscription rank is not an indication of importance.
Just “thinking out loud”…
update: Found out that Rogers Cadenhead subscribes, but prefixes the domain with 'www'. Thanks, Rogers! Also, some have not shared who subscribes to what sites, so there are others not counted here. To all, again, thank you.
I'd like to thank six very nice people for reading my RSS feed. Dann's was one of my first; Sean's old “dot.communist” I was attracted to by the title. I read both still for the same reason: recurring and compelling content.
Thanks, RSS feed readers. If you haven't contributed over there yet, please do so. Sign up and submit your feed
Steve Kirks 