Brad Barrish

MusicPlasma has tons of applications, but for someone like me it makes getting any work done incredibly difficult. Be careful with this one.

Hot damn! There’s even an excerpt from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim at the WNYC site.

While I’m not an illustrator, I’m a freak when it comes to the type of pen I use and I almost never use pencil. Someone turned me on to Sanford uni-ball Vision Elites, but I can’t use them when I write in my Moleskine. Boing Boing has a great link to a review of pens that was an interesting read.

I have a lot to say about Bush (and Kerry), but for now I’ll let McSweeney’s add some fuel to the fire.

I saw it earlier today, but forgot to draw some attention to the fact that The Morning News posted its 2004 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence. It’s full of links you should visit, if for no other reason Rosecrans and Andrew liked these sites. That’s reason enough for me.

I think the world of Jon Stewart (host of The Daily Show, which I TiVo every evening). His sense of humor is tops and while he’s a fake news anchor, he knows what’s going on in the world. Best of all, he actually cares. In any event, he recently gave a fantastic commencement address at his alma mater.

If you’re a Mac user, then you owe it to yourself to download (and use) Camino. It’s your new favorite web browser. While it’s still in beta, you can most certainly use it as your day-to-day browser. Go ahead, live a little.

Yeah, I’m known to get excited about software every once in a while. Speaking of which, Office 2004 seems to be pretty nice so far. I switched from Apple Mail to Entourage for the day to check out some of the new features and improvements and then ended up switching back to Mail. It really comes down to having to keep track of two address books, which is a total pain in the ass. Why can’t everything just use the Apple Address Book??

After years (yes, it’s been that long), I’ve decided to do something else with jeansandatshirt.com. This will be the new home of the archives from that site as well as my personal soap box. Things are going to be re-arranged a bit and the archives will slowly be filled in. Thanks for your continued support.

I’m beta testing Movable Type 3.0, which is creating quite a few glitches. Bear with me while I lose some sleep and get everything straightened out.

[UPDATE]: Things are real fucked up with the site now. Ugh… [UPDATE]: Things are a lot better, but still not back to normal.

Unless you’ve been under a rock, haven’t read, watched or heard the news, then you know about the torture that U.S. soldiers have been inflicting on Iraqi prisoners. Despite what you’re being led to believe, the torture and inhumane actions against our fellow human beings is not isolated to Abu Ghraib prison. The abuse is widespread and routine. The Bush administration would love you to believe that by prosecuting the soldiers that have appeared in some of the photographs you’ve undoubtedly seen, they will get rid of the problem. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Again, these acts against humanity are not isolated and there are plenty of high-ranking officials who know the details.

To put it simply, the Iraqis that are imprisoned, no matter if their faces appear on playing cards or not deserve to be treated like humans. This isn’t an argument against punishing those who have committed crimes. This is about America adhering to the Geneva Conventions and American soldiers realizing what they are doing isn’t right. These are human beings. We’re doing a fine job of fueling the fire of hatred against America without all of the torture by soldiers. I realize there aren’t many people that will read this, but I write this in hopes that those few that do take a moment to do a little digging for the truth. You don’t have to dig far.

Daisaku Ikeda said in his most recent Peace Proposal, “I Believe there is a kind of progressive “root-rot” eating away at the depths of people’s understanding of what it means to be human - how we define ourselves and how we relate to those different from us. In a world trapped in cycles of terrorism and military reprisal, I feel it is vital to put the scalpel to the corrupt roots from with the spiritual malaise of our era stems. Only by mustering the courage to do this will we be able to breathe again the liberating winds of hope.”