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  1. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-08-31
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  2. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-08-30
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    • #WisdomOfCrowds NHL “Hockey Night in Canada” new theme contest > http://tinyurl.com/6gsdye < #
    • Reality check. I think “Nadal’s backhand is like a 2handed forehand.” Seconds later, announcer: “His backhand is like a 2handed forehand.” #

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  3. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-08-29
    August 29th, 2008 by | 1 Comment »
    • Gore: McCain, Bush, Cheney: string of calamaties due to their “indifference to facts”. That indifference is foundational to “neo-realism”. #
    • @technosailor Someone offers me, heck, even half of that I’ll work something up. It’s for a good cause, after all. *choke sputter* #
    • Gore fingered Bush, Cheney for string of calamaties and their “indifference to facts”. That indifference is foundational to “neo-realism”. #
    • Tough viewing choice … DNC? or The Sting (one more time). Sting? Or DNC. Manipulators? or cons? Cons? or … #
    • Implementation of democracy from the ground up would be a whole IT niche. google “participatory deliberation” #
    • @bs I was at MozLabs looking at Ubiquity about 3 hours ago. Some awesome! #
    • Ok, let’s guess: how many YouTube videos will the Obama bio spawn? (it’s pretty damned good!) #
    • Concept: “pursuit of happiness” not as narcissistic entitlement, but “hard work and sacrifice”. Neo-cons work to stack the deck. #
    • Ya basta! Rationality, reason, “enlightened” self-interest … “pragmatic idealism”. Remember war-mongers like Cheney/Halliburton . #
    • “Ownership society” => “You’re on your own”. That’s the sort of rhetoric that in-formed Kennedy, and Churchill, and Roosevelt. #
    • Ok … so Obama’s not a theatrically gifted orator. But those who’ll say he wasn’t substantial have spread-sheets for souls. #
    • @ChrisSaad “Ya basta!” was a very popular slogan in anti-globalization. “Enough, already!” (I forget the Yiddish for it. Ganug ist ganug?) #
    • Point is: you wanna actualize progressive ideals? Then shine bright lights on fascist social architecture. (I don’trust yuppies’ kidz.) #
    • Metaphorically: Tennis players who qualified for the USOpen manifest true mastery. The Web2 sites I drill into? Foundationally thin / weak. #

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  4. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-08-28
    August 28th, 2008 by | 1 Comment »
    • LiveJournal, BlogSpot, Vox, PeopleAggregator, WordPress.com … not sure why I’m so partial to LJ, but I am. #
    • @aaroncampbell TU for pointer to Acquia/Drupal > http://snipurl.com/3kft2 [webdevnews_net] < BTW, met you via [wp-pro] #
    • heh … rewarded for snooping memepool.com circa1998: Silicon Valley Tarot > http://www.sjgames.com/svtarot/net/ < #
    • #karma Haven’t done Tarot since ‘78, but it came through for me BigTime! http://bentrem.sycks.net/tarot/ #
    • @ChrisSaad Someone said picking Biden shows that Obama has changed his mind about change. It’s a ghastly system. #
    • @ChrisSaad “Pragmatic idealism” is what the republican mayor from Alaska praised him for. Not the lamest explication. #
    • #Fragmentation? Yet.another way to make comments discoverable > http://www.backtype.com/ < #
    • Last night I called for more rhetoric like that of Kennedy, even that of Churchill. Tonight Doris Kearns Goodmin nailed it: Roosevelt. #
    • Profound question? “I’m only consuming as much as 500 other planetary passengers; how can I get out of debt?” #borg #oligarchs #matrix #
    • @KathySierra 89% read, 10% participate, 1% initiate. (Rough data from a study. IIRC, “Who Writes WikiPedia?”) #

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  5. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-08-27
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    • Slick bi-partisanship: get a Republican from Alaska to praise Obama’s “keen intellect and pragmatic idealism” … can’t hoit! #
    • #TV What to watch? Hillary at DNC? or the guys from Deadliest Catch sitting in a tavern, convo w/New England fishers? (hint: I’m prole.) #
    • My 1st job was airborne infantry. #2 was SigInt. #3 was NORAD/SAC in the Arctic. Puhleeze don’t ask me to pimp any politician. #
    • Politicians’ rhetoric is so artless! Hillary was “fine”. “Fine” i.e. “good enough/no offense”. It weren’t JFKennedy nor Churhill. No soul. #
    • Note to friends: no rhetoric can rival integrity as balm; individual greed is destroying our planet. > http://tinyurl.com/55jnqw < … #
    • @anildash I wudda DMd you about Charlie Rose but *shrug* you only follow a hundred or so. *shrug* #
    • I just wrote Matt Rutherford and Al Hunt at Bloomberg; yuppies (like Anil) are xenophobic/in-bred. They delete outlying data. #borg #
    • (bis) #epi-genetics Holy shit … identical series of DNA that manifest diff depending on whether they came from mom or dad. #
    • *Warning: mood in action* Have you ever had a thought? Bosses squelch you, politicians blow you, lovers and friends co-validate … #matrix #
    • @jkuramot If you haven’t watched the dramatic tennis then *shrug* dewd … what’s all that money for?! #

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  6. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-08-26
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    • A new domain is born! http://protension.com (Anybody here grok autopoeisis? *snort/giggle*) #
    • *sigh* _Potage_ was done but I got bummed by not having miso. I ignored it. Sitting on the heat. Played with docs.google … scorched it. #
    • Beauty: “Elliptical compound formation is one way of loosening the (ideal) one-to-one relation between forms and meanings.” *swoon* #
    • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast at http://pdamerica.org … mobilize progressive energy! _Ya basta!!_ #
    • W/respect to friends: setting aside public policy because it’s “political” is pathological … symptomatic of profound alienation. #
    • #tennis Earlier today Bjorn Phau (ranked #139) gave gold medalist / world #1 Nadal a run, now some guy named Young is pummeling Blake! #
    • @JessieX Now-days I go to Adbusters only rarely, but check this > http://tinyurl.com/582d2s < adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html #
    • Robert Reich, truly a progressive liberal > http://robertreich.blogspot.com < #
    • Seems to me web2.0 trinkets are the only place I see best theories actually applied … almost as though it needs to be denigrated. #

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  7. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-08-25
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    • Bjorn Phau (ranked #139) in first set tie-break w/Olympic gold medalist world #1 Rafael Nadal … how freakin’ unlikely! #
    • re-gawk: Bjorn Phau (ranked #139) is giving Olympic gold medalist / world #1 Rafael Nadal a run for his money … how freakin’ unlikely! #
    • Dang … made a nice _potage_ only to realize I have no miso. What’s the point of life w/o miso?! #

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  8. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-08-24
    August 24th, 2008 by | No Comments »
    • Why I’m keen on Jürgen Habermas’ “Discourse Ethics” > http://snipurl.com/3j629 < [plato_stanford_edu] #
    • (bis) Why I’m keen on Jürgen Habermas’ “Discourse Ethics” > http://snipurl.com/3j629 < [plato_stanford_edu] #
    • Pondering: who slaughtered the bison to starve a people into submission? who gave those people blankets shot through with smallpox? #borg #
    • Sad fact: most folk spend their lives thinking and thinking and thinking how to justify the fact of living as cowards, if not cheats. #karma #
    • Imagine: in Russia, China, others, folk cower under threat of real oppression. In the west, rich folk struggle with memories of integrity. #
    • To skip the hippie bullshit: how many wounded warriors are sleeping in ditches tonight? how many crack-heads kids? While you cower, again. #
    • @mashable When I’m in either vajrayana or airborne mode I’m up at 5AM. #
    • @mashable Someone asked an Apache elder how it was his men were such fine warriors. “Because they slept to have morning dreams.” heh #
    • How contrary am I /really/?! While (most of) you profit by marketing #matrix, I study/practice mantra. You wish AI, I wish splendid play. #
    • Hard truth is that folk are conditioned to respond to the psychopaths’ minions … conditioning. Kinda like town folk in a an old western. #
    • Hard truth: if you gave a good god damn you’d spend more that 7.2 minutes a week thinking on solutions. Shit headed suck-holes. #
    • A curious fact: China’s claim to Tibet is simply groundless. #

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  9. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-08-23
    August 23rd, 2008 by | No Comments »
    • Pondering: except for “glory of God” clap-trap and “manifest destiny” c/w low-grade xenophobia, do prototypical Americans have any values? #
    • Pondering: “nice” people pretend not to have experience of wickedness, soooo bourgeois entities can kiss mafia ass i.e. China / Russia. #
    • Soooo many #Olympic moments; on tower Matthew Mitcham (AU) aces his dive and gets gold … two 10s and a 9.5 #
    • I repeat, for the sake of self-satisfied/complacent yuppies’ kidz: “Incompetence” is the thin edge of a wedge called “corruption”. #borg #
    • @technosailor *cough/jive* Gee, Aaron, whatcha gonna chat about on TalkShoe tonight? > http://tinyurl.com/5wwkts < *mug/noodge* #

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  10. BenTrem tweeted on 2008-08-22
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