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About Me :
I'm a grownup nerd living in the Boston burbs. I write computer programs for a living and plays for fun.
I'm married to a wonderful woman, and we share a nice little house with our daughter and our cats.
I'm a humanist, a technologist, an artist, and an idealist. I believe in reason, freedom, love, equality,
and democracy. (Did I mention that I'm
an idealist? I did, OK.)
I'm also a pragmatist and an empiricist. I reject ideology and dogma, especially when they conflict with
practical facts (i.e., pretty much always). I particularly hate willful ignorance, which tends to go hand-in-hand
with ideology and dogma.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Monday, August 09, 2004
The Living Room Candidate
The Living Room Candidate is a web exhibit produced by the American Museum of the Moving Image, and it's brilliant. It's an exhibit of presidential campaign commercials from 1952 through the current political season. I'm not sure if this exhibit carries all of the candidates' ads, but at least there is a good cross-section of them. It's fascinating to watch the ads, and the accompanying commentary is also very good. In addition, the exhibit lets me see the TV ads of George W. Bush and John Kerry, which aren't running in this non-battleground state.
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The Living Room Candidate is a web exhibit produced by the American Museum of the Moving Image, and it's brilliant. It's an exhibit of presidential campaign commercials from 1952 through the current political season. I'm not sure if this exhibit carries all of the candidates' ads, but at least there is a good cross-section of them. It's fascinating to watch the ads, and the accompanying commentary is also very good. In addition, the exhibit lets me see the TV ads of George W. Bush and John Kerry, which aren't running in this non-battleground state.