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KQED Forum. Philip Shenon -- "The Commission" -- Forum welcomes New York Times reporter Philip Shenon for a conversation about his new book, "The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation." The text raises questions about the 9/11 Commission report.

Audio archive will eventually be posted at that link.

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From the a little behind the times department: Anyone use Skype? What's your experience?

Will be down in New Orleans for a few days in April, ostensibly for Jazzfest, but with nutria bringing 5 bucks a tail it might be a good time to earn a little extra pocket money.

Props to Ruth Root for an excellent show at Kreps. Very tight.

oscars tonight. place your bets.

near mortal locks:
best picture - no country for old men
best actor - daniel day lewis
best supporting actor - javier bardem


up for grabs:
best actress - julie christie
best supporting - ruby dee
best director - coens though i wish it were someone else. that movie wasnt that good. maybe theyll get rejected for that crap ending.
original screenplay - tamara jenkins would seem like the favorite but i bet diablo cody gets it as a consolation prize for juno.

what say you?

rip teo macero

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Where's the damn snow pictures, come on someone, hurry up before it turns black.

what, me worry?

Lessig for Congress.

"This is about building a parallel to Creative Commons in Congress," Lessig explains, referencing the popular legal license he created to help authors and artists make their work available for free distribution and modification. Just as creators under a Creative Commons license cede some control over their works in order to promote a robust open-source culture, Lessig's political vision entails "people in power, legislators, voluntarily waiving that power in order to build a better system." If politicians begin foreswearing PAC money, the theory runs, voters may come to see the failure to refuse lobbyist dollars as a badge of shame rather than simply the way things are done.

Lessig's wikipedia page in case you don't know who he is.

a personal favorite : junior bonner is on retroplex later at 8 tonight. a funny thing happened on the way to the forum just started.

classic tv an oxymoron at nbc.

http://www.phillesh.net/philzonepages/friends_stuff/setlists/080204.html

Typographical humor. New word:

keming. noun. The result of improper kerning.

anybody handicapping obamas veep options?

sen. webb (va)
sen. dodd (ct)
sen. biden (please god, no)
sen. ben nelson (ne)
gov napolitano (az) woman
gov sebelius (ks) woman
gov kaine (va)

i read somewhere that edwards doesnt want to be a veep candidate again.

anyone else?

museums are teaching tools.

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Toshiba withdraws from HD-DVD market. Blu-ray wins.

the history channel is a joke.

All over the inter-tubes today ... Hillary tendrá problemas en Tejas

I'm having trouble finding some info. Michigan and Florida have 313 democratic delegates between them (these are the delegates that were stripped.) But how does that break down?

Florida went Clinton 49.7%, Obama 33, Edwards 14.4. Michigan was Clinton 55.4%, Uncommitted 39.9. So assuming these states assign delegates proportionally it's easy to see how you could seat Florida - but Michigan really seems unfair. Obviously a lot of that 39.9 would have gone to Obama.

If they are sat, how many delegates does it give each of them? What's the best case for Hillary, ~160 more delegates? Obama is harder to guess without knowing the Florida/Michigan delegate split, but something around 50 from Florida? So best for Hillary is a little over 100 delegate gain on Obama?

I'm trying to figure how much of a lead Obama needs to be able to just agree to seat those two states and still have the lead.

Barkley for Gov. 2014. Go Charles. Anybody who can make Wolf that uncomfortable is okay in my book.