Little Time for Blogging Today
George Paine at Warblogging - The Day of Protests - one New York City resident's experience of last Saturday's protest there. Three pictures. More promised. [warblogging]
"And when General Powell started blathering on about 'decades' of contact between Saddam and al-Qa'ida, things went wrong for the Secretary of State. Al-Qa'ida only came into existence five years ago, since Bin Laden -- 'decades' ago -- was working against the Russians for the CIA, whose present day director was sitting grave-faced behind General Powell." -- Robert Fisk,
Paul Graham - Why Nerds are Unpopular - because being popular isn't at the top of their list of important things, and it takes lots of work to be popular. Makes sense. [smith2004]
And that, I think, is the root of the problem. Nerds serve two masters. They want to be popular, certainly, but they want even more to be smart. And popularity is not something you can do in your spare time, not in the fiercely competitive environment of an American secondary school.