Chief Bratton, who feels the Paparazzi Task Force is a waste of time (I agree with him), just said on MSNBC:

“Since Britney started wearing clothes and behaving, Paris is out of town not bothering anybody anymore - thank God - and evidently Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we don’t seem to have much of an issue.”

Hey, man, don’t blame me for Linsday - I tried.

Alan Jaras, Twisting Light #21

You need to see Alan Jaras’ breathtaking photographic work.  No PhotoShop, no digital camera - not even any lens.  [thanks, David!]

An oldish, but eye-opening article in Rolling Stone about the pork business.

I felt my first quake today - about five minutes ago - and think I just felt something again.  More like rolling waves than the “jolt” just described on MSNBC.  Everything looks OK here in Venice.  On-the-fly updates here.

A great article by David Samuels on the marijuana business in southern California.  (Set mostly here in Venice.)

Associated Press has this gem.

Seth Godin offers Apple (and other marketers) some great advice.

Ten of them.  [thanks, Mona!]

Leo Strauss, the GrandPa of neoconservatism, spoke of stealth ideology when he talked about “noble myths” that leaders needed to use in order to rally the masses around a common purpose.  Now Len Hart at the Existentialist Cowboy describes how Bush and his men used stealth ideology to turn the Constitution into an ash heap.  Read and weep.

Robert Scoble suggested today that if he could make one rule about the Internet, it would be “no anonymity.”  I like Robert but I don’t like his idea.

Laura Fitton asked: “What one ‘rule’ would you make about the Internet?”, and in the thread that resulted, Robert replied that he’d eliminate anonymity. Read the rest of this entry »