Grab bag: courting chaos

An automated iPhoto to Flickr sync engine sounds good but doesn’t solve my problem–sharing some photos while setting privacy settings on others.

JP makes BoingBoing–a post about the new Make TV preview reel that’s out that gives a shout out to John Park as host.

There’s a certain amount of organized idiocy at work in the ballot question to eliminate the state income tax. I hope enough people see it for the idiocy that it is.

What’s striking in this review of the different phases of McCain’s campaign messaging and the decisions that led to each shift is how tactical it all is. And yes, I know all elections are tactical. But the best candidates–and for that matter the best products–have a core underneath them that is consistent from positioning to positioning, and message to message. Reading the story reinforces for me the feeling of a campaign that’s twisting in the wind.