Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Monday, November 05, 2007
SI has a gallery of modern NHL goalie masks. Don't waste your time - they're a bunch of airbrushed, NASCAR-inspired design casualties.
A better gallery is at classicmask.com, who chronicles the times when goalie masks were downright creepy.
A better gallery is at classicmask.com, who chronicles the times when goalie masks were downright creepy.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Friday, November 02, 2007
[sarcastic, but just barely] Best donut maker review/Indictment of complacent American consumerism ever.
Danny Wilcox Frazier's Driftless: Pictures from Iowa
(via gmt+9)
As rural economies fail, people and resources are migrating to the coasts and cities, as though the heart of America were being emptied. Frazier’s arresting photographs take us into Iowa’s abandoned places and illuminate the lives of those people who stay behind and continue to live there: young people at leisure, fishermen on the Mississippi, veterans on Memorial Day, Amish women playing cards, as well as more recent arrivals, Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews at prayer and Latinos at work in the fields.
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As rural economies fail, people and resources are migrating to the coasts and cities, as though the heart of America were being emptied. Frazier’s arresting photographs take us into Iowa’s abandoned places and illuminate the lives of those people who stay behind and continue to live there: young people at leisure, fishermen on the Mississippi, veterans on Memorial Day, Amish women playing cards, as well as more recent arrivals, Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews at prayer and Latinos at work in the fields.
Kos got screwed by Blue Shield on a routine medical procedure. Looks like they messed with the wrong guy.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
10 Reasons to hate cellphone carriers. Or 10 reasons to hate them even more if you've already arrived at the hatred point.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The Bush administration appears to be ramping up for another all-you-can-eat buffet for it's polluting cronies in the form of subsidies for polluters. Tell your congressman that you won't stand for it. (MoveOn)
French finger shadow-puppets circa WWI. Somebody should pdf these for modern consumption.
It's good to be cronies. Bush administration offers immunity to Blackwater killers.
But you knew this was going to happen
But you knew this was going to happen
Monday, October 29, 2007
Amazing 15-lateral play by Trinity U against Millsap this Saturday. Cal/Stanford has met its match.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Trigger-happy commando contractor Blackwater has modified its logo to reflect a slightly less "We will shoot anything foreign that moves" sentiment. Since when did they start caring about what anyone thinks?
FEMA loves FEMA
Unbelievable. Every time the Bush Administration hits a new low, the bring in more backhoes.
Very smooth, very professional. But something didn't seem right. The reporters were lobbing too many softballs. No one asked about trailers with formaldehyde for those made homeless by the fires. And the media seemed to be giving Johnson all day to wax on and on about FEMA's greatness. Of course, that could be because the questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters.
Unbelievable. Every time the Bush Administration hits a new low, the bring in more backhoes.
Very smooth, very professional. But something didn't seem right. The reporters were lobbing too many softballs. No one asked about trailers with formaldehyde for those made homeless by the fires. And the media seemed to be giving Johnson all day to wax on and on about FEMA's greatness. Of course, that could be because the questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
Written and released before the copyright lawsuits that put the damper on ubiquitous sampling for commercial releases, The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique is possibly the most sample-heavy record ever released with 105 samples appearing throughout the album (and 24 on the last track alone). Now they're all indexed and annotated at paulsboutique.info
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Bullshit is most important issue for 2008 voters
The Onion erases the line between parody and reality
The Onion erases the line between parody and reality
Are you right-brain or left-brain? I'm apparently so right brain that I can't force myself to see the left-brain interpretation of this test
Friday, October 19, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
It's the oil (London Book Review)
In the 27 September issue of the New York Review of Books, Thomas Powers, one of the most astute watchers of the intelligence world, admitted to a degree of bafflement. ‘What’s particularly odd,’ he wrote, ‘is that there seems to be no sophisticated, professional, insiders’ version of the thinking that drove events.’ Alan Greenspan, in his just published memoir, is clearer on the matter. ‘I am saddened,’ he writes, ‘that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.’
In the 27 September issue of the New York Review of Books, Thomas Powers, one of the most astute watchers of the intelligence world, admitted to a degree of bafflement. ‘What’s particularly odd,’ he wrote, ‘is that there seems to be no sophisticated, professional, insiders’ version of the thinking that drove events.’ Alan Greenspan, in his just published memoir, is clearer on the matter. ‘I am saddened,’ he writes, ‘that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.’
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
So Radiohead is going up against the majors, and everyone except the majors hopes they win.
Is it any good?
Is it any good?
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Monday, October 01, 2007
[Everybody! Look over there!!!] Shifting Targets (New Yorker)
“They’re moving everybody to the Iran desk,” one recently retired C.I.A. official said. “They’re dragging in a lot of analysts and ramping up everything. It’s just like the fall of 2002”
“They’re moving everybody to the Iran desk,” one recently retired C.I.A. official said. “They’re dragging in a lot of analysts and ramping up everything. It’s just like the fall of 2002”
Friday, September 28, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
How the mighty have fallen. The worlds formerly Only Ass Kicking Machine is now just an Ass Kicking Machine.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Kasparov on modern Russian power
(New Yorker, where you should also check out "Mapping Manahatta" that explores Manhattan island, pre-urbanization)
(New Yorker, where you should also check out "Mapping Manahatta" that explores Manhattan island, pre-urbanization)
Monday, September 24, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Extreme Rich/Poor divides
(deputydog, who also (accurately) lists the most repulsive buildings on earth)
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
This is how the America treats its engineers. You can bet the Chinese don't have to deal with this bullshit.
“Sir, this is an improvised electronic device. You will never be allowed to fly with this.”
I responded to many questions with information about my occupation, circuit theory up to and including Ohm’s law, and a discussion of the market for bicycle power meters. But they still would not let me fly with the programmer. I had to leave it behind.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Another fantastic Olbermann op-ed. "Promoting Failure in the Bush Administration" (youtube)
(via truthout)
(via truthout)
Most Americans think that founders intended a Christian nation
And the founders saaaaaid!...
George Washington, 1st President (1789-1797)
"... the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion ..."
Source: The "Treaty of Tripoli," negotiated and signed by the First
President of the United States, on November 4, 1796
John Adams, 2nd President (1797-1801)
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it.
Source: A letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 15, 1817
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809)
"Christianity ... (has become) the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ... Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers ..."
Source: Six Historic Americans, by John E. Remsberg
James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817), often called the Father of
the Constitution:
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
Source: Letter to William Bradford, April 1, 1774
Benjamin Franklin:
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
Source: "Toward the Mystery"
Thomas Paine (1737-1809):
"I would not dare to so dishonor my Creator God by attaching His name to
that book (the Bible)."
The Age of Reason, Part 1, Section 5
Thomas Jefferson:
"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot ..."
Source: Thomas Jefferson letter to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:119
Thomas Paine (1737-1809):
"The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion."
From The Age of Reason
And the founders saaaaaid!...
George Washington, 1st President (1789-1797)
"... the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion ..."
Source: The "Treaty of Tripoli," negotiated and signed by the First
President of the United States, on November 4, 1796
John Adams, 2nd President (1797-1801)
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it.
Source: A letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 15, 1817
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809)
"Christianity ... (has become) the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ... Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers ..."
Source: Six Historic Americans, by John E. Remsberg
James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817), often called the Father of
the Constitution:
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
Source: Letter to William Bradford, April 1, 1774
Benjamin Franklin:
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
Source: "Toward the Mystery"
Thomas Paine (1737-1809):
"I would not dare to so dishonor my Creator God by attaching His name to
that book (the Bible)."
The Age of Reason, Part 1, Section 5
Thomas Jefferson:
"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot ..."
Source: Thomas Jefferson letter to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:119
Thomas Paine (1737-1809):
"The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion."
From The Age of Reason
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Zefrank tells you how to act convincingly
(where you should also play every second and experience how long a second really is)
(where you should also play every second and experience how long a second really is)
Friday, September 14, 2007
Death of Form
This also explains how we went from soul, jazz, country, and blues to "jam bands"
This also explains how we went from soul, jazz, country, and blues to "jam bands"
[Quote of the day (hell... possibly the year)]
Hindu hardliners say the project will destroy what they say is a bridge built by Ram and his army of monkeys.
Hindu hardliners say the project will destroy what they say is a bridge built by Ram and his army of monkeys.
