I’ve been using Sharpreader as my RSS aggregator for 6 months or so. I picked it largely because of the way it managed feeds. I just tried RSS Bandit again though. It seems to have similar features these days, as well as the ablility to sync state (feeds subscribed, articles read) across installs via a variety of methods, including an FTP share.

So, what is it that ever made Zell Miller a democrat? I tuned in to some polemic, delivered to loud applause after each sentence or two. I figured it was the GOP convention, but I didn’t know who was speaking until he said something in the midst of something foreign-policy related along the lines of “my party has become a party full of people who think that America is the problem.” When this statement received loud applause, I had to assume that this guy wasn’t speaking to “his own.”

What I don’t get is why this guy ever thought of himself as a Democrat. His stereotypes of his “fellow Democrats” sound like the type of rhetoric Republican’s were using against Anti-war Democrats in the Vietnam era.

Someone in the DNC should have revoked Zell’s papers long ago.

I spent a little time tonight tracking down blogs from Seattle area Venture Captialists and I’ve posted the list as an OPML file suitable for importing in to at least some RSS readers. At this point, most (or is it all) of the blogs are for VCs at Ignition Partners since they actually have links from their site bios. Their might be VC bloggers at some of the other area firms, but its going to take a bit more work to track them down.

As a half-step in that direction, NW Venture Voice is a group blog which includes contributions by Martin Tobias, John Zagula and Rich Tong of Ignition, along with Kevin Cable of Cascadia Capital and Dave Chen of Olympic Venture Partners (OVP).

John and Rich (no, we aren’t on a first name basis, I’m just too lazy to type their last names again) also have a group blog called Geekfishing.

At this point, I haven’t actually done much more than add the feeds for these blogs to my aggregator, so some or all of them could suck. I’m planning on updating the list as I have the time. I’ll add new blogs I find and will plan to sort any sucky blogs into an innocuously named sub heading called “also of possible interest,” so as not to offend anyone.

Please let me know if you have any additions.

Page 3 – Model Propaganda: The Sun, The Girls, The Truth

It’s popular among left-leaning Americans who fancy themselves intellectuals to lament the stupidity of the “average” American.

I’m sure they’d feel much better in England, where some of the girls who appear bare breasted on the third page of finer news tabloids have decided to break their long silence, and share their rather right-wing views via thoughtful comments on current events.

via BoingBoing

Nelson’s Weblog: tech / bad / msieBugs

Nelson lists his top 3 MSIE bugs and I thought I’d pitch in, though I just have one:

MSIE Can’t print for shit!! It chops off text off the right size of pages that it can flow properly in narrow brower window. If I try to get around that little problem by printing to an 11×17 sheet, it will insist on putting footer text on a second page, even though there is 8 inches of whitespace at the bottom of the first page. It will also arbitrarily truncate long pages for no reason at ~4 sheets of paper. It’s been this way for a couple of years now.

Boing Boing: Formaldehyde find

“the lot includes 48 pickled organisms of an unknown vintage”

The really great thing about formaldehyde is that vintage doesn’t really matter.