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Once again it's time for the
source code. It is Wednesday, on
the month of August 25th,

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2004. Good afternoon, good
evening, good morning wherever
you are. I'm Adam Curry. Welcome
to

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my daily brain dump which
hopefully showed up on your iPod
or the MP3 device automatically

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this morning. It's Wednesday
afternoon here and Wednesday
still is a tough day. It's the

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middle of the week and again the
alarm clock went off at 3.30
this morning and I'm feeling

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pretty worn down but we're
getting closer to the end of
that. I want to talk about a

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couple things today mainly about
what these audio blog posts or
audio shows should be.

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This morning though when I got
up Dave slushers getting
closures.

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Pearl script had nicely
deposited a brand new IT
conversations on my iPod

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And I was extremely happy to see
that it was an hour and two
minutes because my commute is
about an hour and six minutes

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And it was IT conversations very
on Oprah Hallie suit

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With the second installment of
her trip down memory lane the
show is called memory lane

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The first one was with Joey Ito
and this time she interviewed
Dan Bricklin who is the

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The founding father of the
spreadsheet Busy Cal for those
of you who remember

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And it was again a great great
show, you know, you just listen
to you know to lots of computer

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science and technology history
and

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Events that took place that I
recognize I remember a lot of
them

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Which is nice. It's it's funny
to hear how they do that, you
know, I think she

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Because of her very personal
approach. I think she gets a lot
more out of

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people like Dan, then someone
else might.

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I don't know.

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I've done that again.

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But it's certainly worth
mentioning, good show.

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And then I did say that it was
an hour and two minutes.

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I was really happy about that.

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And that immediately got me to
thinking about,

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well, what is the ideal length
for one of these shows?

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Of course, depending on how
people are going to use it,

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I presume that some will
perfectly

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find being three or four or five
hours long.

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But I'm just supposing here that
a lot of people

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listen to these during a commute
either in the morning

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or in the afternoon and sitting
in your car,

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you're on the train, the bus,
bike, whatever.

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So I think that they should
probably be, well,

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if it's a set show, maybe with a
topic for every episode,

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it could easily be half an hour
or an hour,

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so you could split it up.

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I'm trying to keep mine to 15
minutes,

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because, well, I figured if I'm
boring myself,

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I must be boring the tears out
of you,

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which is also an interesting
number.

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As Andy Warhol once said, 15
minutes.

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15 minutes of fame. Maybe these
things are supposed to be about
15 minutes. One that

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is much shorter but showed up a
nice spoof of me, courtesy of
Steve Garfield. Now Steve

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has done some video blogging
experiments most recently from
the Democratic National

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Convention. He's really getting
his chops down on editing,
putting his own stuff together.

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He found some video blog
software. I linked to it on my
web blog. You should check it

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out because I'm quite impressed
with the software. You register,
you log in. It says,

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can we connect to your webcam?
Well, it did not mine. I'm on a
Mac, so I presume that

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may have something to do with
it. But no configuration. You
just hit record and then you can
record

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your video. It stores it on
their server. Really nice.

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And so Steve, I guess he's a
jokester because he did a spoof
on the Daily Source code and

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he did a video version of it, a
video message. So I'll play the
audio from the

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that for you.

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Okay.

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Hello and welcome to the Daily
Source Code.

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Hi, I'm Eddie Adam Curry Castle
here in Belgium because some
people here, you know, we're

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only $50,000 close to someone.

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So I hope that really goes
through.

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Hang on a second.

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We got dogs here and everything.

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You know, it's crazy.

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There's lots of animals here.

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There's the phone.

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And my wife's coming in.

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She wants to talk to me.

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Some believable show.

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She always wants to talk to me.

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She knows I'm trying to do this.

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I'm not making any money.

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That's why she's mad.

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Okay.

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So that's the Daily Source Code
for today.

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We'll see you again tomorrow.

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As far as I could tell, I did
that without a script.

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I thought that was pretty good.

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And it's true though, you know,
this is...

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Hello and welcome to the Daily
Source Code.

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Hi, I'm Eddie Adam Curry,
welcome here in Belgium.

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We don't want that to be looping
around.

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Okay.

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He's right that there's, you
know, I feel like I'm pretty
crazy, you know, doing this

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stuff, trying to figure it out,
trying to get people to transfer
stuff automatically

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onto their iPod.

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But I know there's got to be
something there of if now I'm
already being spooked by Steve

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Garfield then you know you're
hitting the big time but I do
think that

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Writing is one thing on web
blogs when it comes to being
able to communicate through

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audio and video.

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Doing this stuff takes practice.

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They call it the recording arts
and sciences.

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There's stuff to be learned to
do it.

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There's software that isn't
necessarily very user friendly.

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There's a pretty steep learning
curve in the beginning.

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I think that there will be a
market though.

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Maybe it's audiobooks.

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Maybe it's audio blogs.

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As I'm sure there will be a
video market.

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Once we start to make it a
little bit easier to receive
stuff, to get it onto your
player,

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your play or whatever your play
out device is.

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I think that the download
platform is a lot more
interesting because we can get a
lot

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higher quality.

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You don't have to sit around
waiting for stuff.

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It just kind of shows up.

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Yeah, it's not a video on
demand.

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It's not immediate.

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It's a video by subscription or
audio by subscription.

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That's why I was talking about
audiobooks, which I like.

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I know I've mentioned it before.

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I listened to a lot of them,
particularly because I've been
in the car a lot in the

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past year.

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And Dave Weiner, I tried to talk
to him today.

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He's traveling on his way to
Seattle.

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He's going to be on the road for
another week and he's blogging
from the road.

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You can see it on scripting.com.

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And he had sent me a note that
he had listened to my source
code and he said, well, thanks

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for the recommendation.

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I subscribed, signed up with
audible.com.

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And I also downloaded the book
that you would suggest, which is
timeline by Michael Criton,

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which is 14 hours worth of MP3
audio.

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But I thought it was very
entertaining.

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Dave hated it and he's been in
the car and he's been playing
this for...

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He said it was almost done.

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He's listened more than 13 hours
of the book that he hates.

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So, it may not be the best guy
to refer audio books to you.

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But then I thought for a second,
you know...

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Cute, no one's reviewing audio
books.

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Maybe there's something there.

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Oprah certainly did okay with
Oprah's book club.

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And since I've already listened
to so many of them, what the
heck I'll try and review

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now and then.

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So for instance today, what we
have, I've been listening to a
book called Anti-Americanism

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by French author Jean-Francois
de Vérez.

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They did that accent, huh?

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Of course it's been translated.

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Apparently he wrote another book
called Without Marks or Jesus,
which apparently was

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a bestseller.

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Unfortunately, I don't know
anything about it nor is it
available on Audible.

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Just go to the blurb here, what
they give you about the book
Anti-Americanism.

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Just taking a moment here.

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Of course, lots of heavy
processing going on in the
community.

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There we go.

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Of course, now it's out here it
comes.

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Hold on.

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So there's two...

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We're sorry.

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We've encountered an assistant
error on your browser.

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It was less idle and lost
connection with audible.com.

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Oh, thanks.

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So, I guess I can't plug in your
beautiful writing there.

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Okay.

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So this book was also quite
controversial because it
discusses anti-Americanism.

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It's written by a French guy.

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And he basically says, bullshit.

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You know, all of this stuff
about all these...

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There are so many myths about
America that someone has to say
it.

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And by the way, we as Europeans
might want to look at ourselves
once in a while

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before we start pointing the
finger overseas at the hyper
superpower called the United
States of America.

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A couple things about
audiobooks.

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So, you know, one, there's just
the story and the book and
whatever you're going to listen
to.

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Then, of course, there's the
reader, how the reader, you
know, communicates the words.

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And there's also the quality.

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the quality.

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And in this is a prime example
of, I think, a reader that just
doesn't put everything into it
that he could,

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or he sounds a little bit too
technical, it's very dry.

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I think he reads just a tad too
fast.

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And the quality really, really
bites ass.

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But I want you to listen to a
little bit of it.

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So you get a feel for this book.

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His title is a little bit
written by a French guy.

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Well, it's actually none of
that.

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So listen to this from John F.
Montsseauchauve.

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you

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We deceive ourselves if we think
we can negotiate with the
al-Qaeda fanatics and their ilk.

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For this course to have the
remotest chance of success,
their motivations would have to

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be logical.

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As it is, an abyss separates
them from any rational course of
action, and terrorism is

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the parody of policy that serves
to fill it.

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you

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The days that immediately
followed the unleashing of the
full Islamo-terrorist war
against

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democracy in general and the
United States in particular
turned out to be an extremely

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interesting and revealing
testing ground.

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Since over a period of two
months the phobias and fallacies
of traditional anti-Americanism

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and of neo-totalitarianism
massively intensified.

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The clumsiest of these fallacies
was an attempt to justify
Islamist terrorism by claiming

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that America has long been
hostile towards Islam.

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But the truth is that the United
States' actions historically
have been far less damaging to

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Muslim interests than the
actions of Britain, France or
Russia.

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These European powers have
conquered Muslim countries,
occupied and indeed oppressed

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them over decades and even
centuries.

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Americans on the other hand have
never colonized a Muslim nation.

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Americans' events know hostility
towards Islam as such today.

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the contrary their interventions
in Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo as
well as the pressure

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exerted on the Macedonian
government were designed to
defend most of minorities.

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I've been listening to this book
for the past couple of days. I
think it's about

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six hours worth of five and a
half hours worth of audio. It's
really hard to concentrate.

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You heard the speaker. It's just
not a nice voice at all and
sounds very nasal. I should

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take that back to Audible and
tell them they should get it
redone. You do pick up a lot of
things.

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It's all of the books. I'll try
to do one a day as long as the
supply lasts. For all the books

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that are about the Bush Bin
Laden connection and 9-11
conspiracies. I listened to a
lot of those.

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This one definitely gives you a
whole different perspective.
Even some common

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myths or some common beliefs
that I've never really stopped
to think about really are quite
mythical.

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If you do, if different facts or
different angles perspective is
shown to you, which this book
does.

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One more thing I had for us
today.

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was second this was a some note
that I'd made myself taxes once
you got the audio software
running that everything just
anything any other application
you bring to the foreground
starts to hurt.

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I want to talk about the in a
parent were the are bought g are
that is spreading the internet
at least it's getting a lot of a
lot of attention a lot of
stories about this.

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So this were was distributed
open to the back door and
essentially enables the
distributor of the were to
activate your webcam and look at
you and spy in on you or
whatever the webcam is pointed
at.

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And it's like everyone's acting
like this is a bad thing I think
this is great this should be a
feature and built into every
single computer.

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In fact would it be nice if we
actually did have a compatible
video conferencing system this
guy apparently has it all
figured out whoever has done
this were because.

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He can check on all our webcam
so you know I think this needs
to be explored from a whole
different angle and.

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And quite frankly, I wouldn't
mind looking at someone else's
webcam.

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If we could connect, I wouldn't
mind checking out my neighbors.

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And maybe I'd even have some
PayPal cash.

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It left in my bank account to do
that.

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Grum Song of the Day.

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A song that has been performed
by many famous singers
throughout the years.

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This is one of, if not the
original, I believe it's from
1936.

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This is La Vianvosa, since we
were kind of in a French vibe,
brought to you by the perfectly

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German Marlena Dietrich.

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I'm going to say it's my fault.

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I'm going to say it's my fault.

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Yeah, take that Steve Garfield
dot com.

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Okay, I see that I've gone over
my allotted 15 minutes, a little
bit on the long side today.

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So, we're going to sign off and
tomorrow, well we'll see what
tomorrow brings.

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Take care and I'll see you
tomorrow with another source
code.

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Bye-bye.

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This is how it goes.

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