Matt Katz

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• Commented on Life and Times of Martha Washington: the whole Frank Miller GIVE ME LIBERTY saga
  #12, perfectly put. I've noticed the same thing about DeNiro, and it fits with Miller....
• Commented on The magic of Japanese space-saving products
  I REAAAAAALLLLY need the iron bag. Really. I live in NY, and this should be mine....
• Commented on Spider and Jeanne Robinson need help
  I'm down with the Robinsons. They should feel love in these trying times, as they gave so much out....
• Commented on Sony assaults Kindle with new touchscreen 3G reader
  This is huge. Publicizing the library connection is a very very big deal for them. It's a bit of a shame that it can't function as just a USB connection for linux and such. Also odd that they support "RSS...
• Commented on TV is Dead, Long Live PC.TV
  I had an AppleTV for a while, but I found it lacking. It could do what it had been designed for quite well. I just wanted more. I have a Mac Mini in the living room, it is awesome. I...
• Commented on Twitpocalypse: "Open Source Twitter" proposed as antidote to Twitter's DDOS vulnerability
  @QEDX - I also failed at setting up my own laconi.ca instance, due to the XMPP integration. I wonder if pubsubhubbub would make all of this easier......
• Commented on Twitpocalypse: "Open Source Twitter" proposed as antidote to Twitter's DDOS vulnerability
  Ben, Agger, I think you've got it. Distributed is more resilient, and it's the web way. On the other hand, there are serious issues in trying to find your friends in a distributed social application. RSS feeds are great, but...
• Commented on Twitpocalypse: Best analysis yet of ongoing massive DDOS attacks
  For reals, there is an alternative to having a centralized service that 4chan can shut down. The solution to distributed denial of service is distributed delivery of service. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/open-source-’twitter’-network-could-fend-off-the-next-twitpocalypse/...
• Commented on NYPD is spending $1 million in typewriters
  Also in favor of keeping the arrest bar high. Most of the time, you want the cops on the street deterring and such. I'm all for the police giving people a stern shouting at when that will effectively solve the...
• Commented on Personal Transformations in the Internet Age
  You can see the rules changing even now, as we watch. You see waves of new disclosure in new media, then a series of scare stories promising you'll never get hired again due to your embarrassing pics on facespacester. The...
• Commented on TrickleSaver
  I like JeffK's power strip, but I've often wondered why the TV doesn't just have one power outlet built in. Everyone knows the TV needs at least one device to feed it, and that device should generally be on only...
• Commented on T-Mobile myTouch 3G
  Do you get a standard headphone jack? Believe it or not, that killed it for me last time around....
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  BBV, can we get a little longurlization for those? Boing boing links are important enough to not leave the url shorteners in....
• Commented on Topsy: a search-engine whose results come from highly trafficked Twitter links
  I don't understand. They say they search identi.ca, but do they only index twitter? http://topsy.com/about Hopefully they'll index the other conversations soon....
• Commented on Prop Hate
  @7 Think bigger. In 2010 outlaw all marriage and claim you are doing it for the budget savings....
• Commented on "Kurzweil will probably die"
  This particular religion is useful, as it is getting people to build cathedrals. An afterlife has historically proven to be a powerful motivator. In this case it is motivating few atrocities and many good works....
• Commented on Jesse Ventura on The View
  @26: If you call them mouthbreathers, you shouldn't be surprised that you can't have a good discussion with them. Deal in arguments, not ad hominems. Here's a conservative author saying exactly the same thing to her crowd: http://itsonlywords55.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/if-i-call-you-a-libtard-can-you-hear-anything-else-i-say/ There are...
• Commented on Kadrey and Shaw Live
  I'm a HUGE fan of tumbarumba. I often skip short stories that are posted online. Tumbarumba turns the stories into whimsical magical events, it is impossible not to read them. Ethan Ham, who also worked on http://add-art.org did an amazing...
• Commented on Brainstorm logo ideas for self-serve licensing here
  Let's just not call this the StarBucks license. WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA!...
• Commented on Greed is an Excuse, Not an Instinct
  I worked for a little while for Professor David Willer on power and control sociology experiments. We'd set people up in ways that some folks had a clear advantage in negotiation games. We had models that predicted how much on...
• Commented on Brainstorm logo ideas for self-serve licensing here
  #1: sounds like you need to renegotiate prices for those extortionate clips. Talk to the artists. You don't have a right to make your music in this system, you just have an easy way if you want to get moving...
• Commented on Brainstorm logo ideas for self-serve licensing here
  Just like CC, you want flexibility. I think you also want to base it on something more usual to the terms of sampling contracts, maybe mills. A mill is a thousandth, ten mills to the percentage. The outrageousness of 15%...
• Commented on Democracy Trying to Work
  Drama for consciousness raising is all good, but top down authoritarian solutions are often problematic. Unfortunately, that's what would happen if the senate did allow the single payer option in this way as well. An isolated group of folks would...
• Commented on Tables with tentacles
  for sale: small table, evil http://www.morelightmorelight.com/2008/01/18/for-sale-small-table-evil/...
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  Also, I'm psyched to see coverage of cops being nice. Way to go....
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  @snowrunner Cities that support bike messengers are a totally different biking environment. I occasionally ride into NYC on my bike and it is insane. I was a bike delivery guy in a sleepy southern town for one summer and was...
• Commented on BookArmy: a last.fm for books
  You know, what I'm really looking for isn't another librarything competitor. They do centralized book logging pretty well. And I don't want a librarything that I install on my server all alone. I want something like http://identi.ca and http://laconi.ca, but...
• Commented on <em>Gizmodo</em> mounted on maple blocks, sounds great
  The differences are real, but not why you think. Disclaimer: I know both Fremer and a wine reviewer. We know that $90 wine tastes better than the same wine for $9, because we've tested it. Double blind tests merely show...
• Commented on Snoop Dogg's Live Webshow on Ustream
  @insertfingerhere - this is the casino effect. Just give people a result every random number of tries and they'll play forever. I find this kind of surreal, like if you lived next door to snoop and had a common window,...
• Commented on Obama DOJ invents radical authoritarian theory to defend Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping
  The nice thing is that it doesn't matter that Obama did or didn't see the wording of this legal brief. Once you are the president, the buck stops with you. You get glory and shame for picking people who picked...