FARK.com: (3475370) Man who taped infamous police encounter files federal civil rights violation case, says he wasn't baiting police with the camera in his car but the police are thankful he had one because they still can't find their dashcam video

FARK.com: (3475370) Man who taped infamous police encounter files federal civil rights violation case, says he wasn't baiting police with the camera in his car but the police are thankful he had one because they still can't find their dashcam video: "Cops are divorced from reality. They live in a vaccuum. They send their kids to the Cop Daycare and their wives and kids only socialize with other cop families. Cops are only friends with other cops. They only attend cop events. The Fraternal Order of Police Myopia.

From this self-inflicted isolation Cops are less human that we are. They experience fewer of the real-life scenarios that create wisdom and foresight.

Real citizens purposely avoid cops and cop families because real citizens realize a person can't be a 'cop' and be a normal human. The two are exclusive of one another."

FARK.com: (3475370) Man who taped infamous police encounter files federal civil rights violation case, says he wasn't baiting police with the camera i

FARK.com: (3475370) Man who taped infamous police encounter files federal civil rights violation case, says he wasn't baiting police with the camera in his car but the police are thankful he had one because they still can't find their dashcam video: "And I'm a 'cop magnet'.

I've got 15 years of driving under my belt, and there was a point for about 6 years, where I got pulled over at least once a month or more. I drove boring sedans, SLOWLY, and never had a single citation (out of 30 people) given to me once that stuck. That's right, I took the cops to basic traffic court and each time the judge threw out the bullshiat speeding, lane change, etc. tickets.

Why?

Because I subpoenaed the dash-mount cams, each time."

Chemical Plants (Ftrain.com)

Chemical Plants (Ftrain.com): "There was a company that specialized in fire-retardant chemicals, which the bus passed every day on the way to and from school. One afternoon, coming home, I saw a man in a moon suit entirely engulfed in flames, like a sun: the flames rose two feet over his head, and poured from his fingertips. He scorched the dry ground where he walked. He walked slowly, ominously, moving towards a man with a fire extinguisher. The bus turned the corner."

Six Principles for Making New Things

Six Principles for Making New Things: "And yet, mysteriously, Viaweb ended up crushing all its competitors."

Lilly E-Mail Discussed Off-Label Drug Use - New York Times

Lilly E-Mail Discussed Off-Label Drug Use - New York Times: "“The fact we are now talking to child psychs and peds and others about Strattera means that we must seize the opportunity to expand our work with Zyprexa in this same child-adolescent population,” Dr. Lechleiter wrote in the message. He also encouraged Lilly to get data on the use of Zyprexa in treating “disruptive kids” in order to increase the drug’s sales."

Monsters.

#81 Graduate School � Stuff White People Like

#81 Graduate School � Stuff White People Like: "Being white means to engage in a day in, day out struggle to prove that you are smarter than other white people. By the time they reach college, most white people are confronted with the fact that they may not be as smart as they imagined.

In coffee shops, bars, and classes white people will engage in conversations about authors and theorists that go nowhere as both parties start rattling off progressively more obscure people until eventually one side recognizes one and claims a victory. By the time they graduate (or a year or two afterwards), white people realize that they will need an edge to succeed in the cut-throat world of modern white society.

That edge is graduate school."

Big O (Ftrain.com)

Big O (Ftrain.com): "What scientists saved programmers squander. It must be disappointing to spend your college years cultivating a ponytail and a sense of superiority, discovering the inherent recursive nature of everything, only to wander into a cubicle farm where programmers like myself sit like veal calves, fattened on the candy-colored syntax served up by our platform IDEs, iteratively wasting what you've learned to prize. It must sting to see us burn tons of coal for a single cup of coffee. It stings me in a different way, because I've started to run into programming problems at work that can't be solved just by burning more coal. I've been moving mustard seeds of data with mountain-sized frameworks, and have hit limits personal and processorial. This must be why the puzzle calls to me."

A Web Geek Takes Off His Mask - New York Times

A Web Geek Takes Off His Mask - New York Times: "Trains are a recurring motif for Mr. Ford - a towering, big-bellied, relentlessly polite man with a recent history of mainlining Diet Coke and Marlboros. Every few minutes, from the windows behind the computer table squeezed into a corner of his room, the F train, elevated high above the neighborhood, can be seen cutting a diagonal path toward the Gowanus and Coney Island.

It inspired the name of Mr. Ford's personal Web site, Ftrain.com, the font from which everything else, he says - jobs, friends, the book - has sprung.

Since 1997, Mr. Ford has honed his prose at Ftrain, experimenting with narrative architecture and programming derring-do, and spinning random thoughts or diarylike yarns about the life of Paul Ford - reared in West Chester, Pa., son of an English professor and a professional puppeteer, educated at Alfred University, 80 miles south of Rochester, a school best known for ceramic engineering."

At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star - New York Times

At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star - New York Times: "Professor Lewin delivers his lectures with the panache of Julia Child bringing French cooking to amateurs and the zany theatricality of YouTube’s greatest hits. He is part of a new generation of academic stars who hold forth in cyberspace on their college Web sites and even, without charge, on iTunes U, which went up in May on Apple’s iTunes Store."

The Enemy Withi, by Gore Vidal, 10/27/02

The Enemy Withi, by Gore Vidal, 10/27/02: "`Bin Laden does not have the capabilities for an operation of this magnitude. When I hear Bush talking about al-Qaeda as if it were Nazi Germany or the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, I laugh because I know what is there. Bin Laden has been under surveillance for years: every telephone call was monitored and al-Qaeda has been penetrated by US intelligence, Pakistani intelligence, Saudi intelligence, Egyptian intelligence. They could not have kept secret an operation that required such a degree of organisation and sophistication.'"

The Enemy Withi, by Gore Vidal, 10/27/02

The Enemy Withi, by Gore Vidal, 10/27/02: "I don't think that Goff is being unduly picky when he wonders who and what kept the Air Force from following its normal procedure instead of waiting an hour and 20 minutes until the damage was done and only then launching the fighters. Obviously, somebody had ordered the Air Force to make no move to intercept those hijackings until . . . what?"

FARK.com: (3460932) Obama wins a primary in some other unimportant state

FARK.com: (3460932) Obama wins a primary in some other unimportant state: "Weaver95: I wonder what Hillary will say about this loss?

Think of the stupidest, most debasing comment that could be made that would insult all the people who voted and the entire Democratic Party. Then say it in a whining voice."

Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax

Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax: "In 1973, Gygax formed a company called Tactical Studies Rules with childhood buddy Kaye. They didn't ask Arneson to join. 'Dave was never considered as a partner,' Gygax says.'We didn't figure he was the kind of the guy who would be too good at running a business.'

Arneson agrees. 'Gary was willing to go and make the pitches,' he says. 'I was having fun.'"

Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax

Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax: "It's a weekday morning in the early 1950s. You can choose to go to school and max out your grade point average, or you can play hooky and go explore the sepulchral system of tunnels underneath the old Oak Hill Sanitarium, an abandoned insane asylum near the lake. What do you want to do?

Like most kids, Gygax wanted to be the hero of his own life. 'There's a call to adventure,' he says. 'It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.'

He was very bright, but tunnel-crawling held a lot more appeal than grinding away in the classroom. 'I hated school, didn't like the discipline,' he says. He dropped out in his junior year."

Geek of the Week # 131: clearclaw (J C Lawrence) | BoardGameGeek Forums

Geek of the Week # 131: clearclaw (J C Lawrence) | BoardGameGeek Forums: "TransAmerica isn't terrible.

An interesting variant for TransAmerica is to draft cities Citadels-style. It works surprisingly well."

Chuck Norris the only WMD in Iraq, say U.S. troops - Yahoo! News

Chuck Norris the only WMD in Iraq, say U.S. troops - Yahoo! News: "Truthfully, I didn't know who he was. I asked the Americans, and they said he was a great fighter, and that's why they named me after him. They showed me a video, and it's true, he's a great fighter' said police trainer Mohammed Rasheed.

With his handle-bar moustache, Rasheed has a vague resemblance to Norris."

This message is from a Virgin Mobile user. Enjoy.
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Colombia: Rebel killed by his security - Yahoo! News

Colombia: Rebel killed by his security - Yahoo! News: "Thursday night, he said, a guerrilla known as Rojas came to the troops with Rios' severed right hand, laptop computer and ID, saying he had killed his boss three days earlier.

It was unclear what motivated the killing, but Santos said it was to 'relieve the military pressure' because the rebels were 'surrounded, without supplies and without communication.'"

Raising Obama: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com

Raising Obama: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com: "“After I was elected president, in 2003, he came to see me, a couple months later,” Jones recalled, relishing the tale. “And he said to me, he said, ‘You’re the senate president now, and with that, you have a lot of pow-er.’ ” Jones stretched out the word, as if savoring the pleasure of it, and his voice became very quiet as he continued: “And I told Barack, ‘You think I got a lot of pow-er now?,’ and he said, ‘Yeah, you got a lot of pow-er.’ And I said, ‘What kind of pow-er do I have?’ He said, ‘You have the pow-er to make a United States sen-a-tor!’ ” Jones let out a soft, smoky laugh. “I said to Barack, I said, ‘That sounds good!’ I said, ‘I haven’t even thought of that.’ I said, ‘Do you have someone in mind you think I could make?,’ and he said, ‘Yeah. Me.’ ”"

Beekeepers get stung by hive heists as California nut trees bloom

Beekeepers get stung by hive heists as California nut trees bloom

Bee-nappers!

Army hero's leg torn off on sled run | Toboggan crash | St Moritz | Captain Bernie Bambury | The Sun |HomePage|News

Army hero's leg torn off on sled run | Toboggan crash | St Moritz | Captain Bernie Bambury | The Sun |HomePage|News: "Bernie, based at Bulford, Wilts, tackled the fearsome Cresta Run — nearly a mile of solid ice — at an Army tobogganing event in January. His right foot hit a marker post and the leg, severed below the knee, was recovered hundreds of yards up the course after he crossed the finish."

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early | : "Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early"

Cowboys Game Details

Cowboys Game Details

This game--tomorrow it is mine.

Fail Dogs

Fail Dogs

Mortgage Note Issues Help Debtors Avoid Foreclosure

Mortgage Note Issues Help Debtors Avoid Foreclosure

Feeling blue? Not like a Maya sacrificial victim - Yahoo! News

Feeling blue? Not like a Maya sacrificial victim - Yahoo! News: "'Adult males may have had their hearts removed before they were dumped in,' Feinman said.

Feinman said at the bottom of the cenote, a layer 14 feet

deep of blue goo has been found, likely composed of pigment that washed off sacrificial victims and objects."

Twitching :: Health and Disease :: Brain and Spinal Cord

Twitching :: Health and Disease :: Brain and Spinal Cord: "Nutritional Supplements

Neuromuscular function and muscle control require the minerals magnesium, calcium and potassium. A deficiency could be causing tics, trembling or cramping. The B vitamins reduce stress-triggered trembling by calming the nervous system. Vitamin B12 is often poorly absorbed through the intestinal tract and should be taken in a sublingual form. Calcium is also important for muscle growth and contraction and for the prevention of muscle cramps.

Daily dosages:

* Calcium, 1,000 mg

* Magnesium, 500 mg

* Vitamin B complex, 50 mg three times daily

* Vitamin B12 sublingual tablet, 100 mcg"

Annals of Invention: Thinking in the Rain: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Annals of Invention: Thinking in the Rain: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: "The Steve Hollinger experience can be described most simply as multimedia. For one thing, it includes olfactory surprises. My apartment was right above Steve’s for several years, and on a regular basis he would call to warn me about odors that might waft their way from the second floor, where he lived, to my apartment on the third. Once in a while, the warning was about something he’d be cooking, but often it was more unexpected; he would call to say that he was going to be using turpentine, or linseed oil, or exotic solvents, or some kind of stinky paint, and wanted to make sure that the smell wouldn’t drive me crazy. Other calls were about surprising noises: “I’m going to be using a table saw to cut up some ammunition boxes, so I hope it’s not too loud,” or “I’m drilling through some chunks of cement, so let me know if it bothers you.”"

I really enjoyed this profile of artist/inventory/sculptor Steve Hollinger, who invented a new type of umbrella. He moves so effortlessly through multiple domains of art and invention that it leaves me breathless and jealous.

Blogger, Sans Pajamas, Rakes Muck and a Prize - New York Times

Blogger, Sans Pajamas, Rakes Muck and a Prize - New York Times: "Seven years ago, Mr. Marshall was a Ph.D candidate in early American history at Brown University; the Washington editor of a liberal magazine, The American Prospect; and a new blogger. He had started the blog as an outlet for his ideas and to track the recount fight in Florida — the name came from a term bandied about during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

“If I had quickly happened into a staff position at The New Yorker, I probably wouldn’t have done this,” Mr. Marshall, 39, said of his migration to full-time online journalism."

Griffin Technology radioSHARK: Page 1

Griffin Technology radioSHARK: Page 1

The Griffin radio shark is like a Tivo for radio, recording radio straight to your hard drive. Bi-platform too.

YouTube - How to play In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by NMH on Ukulele

YouTube - How to play In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by NMH on Ukulele

Bill Clinton in Utah � Andrew’s Miracle Drug

Bill Clinton in Utah � Andrew’s Miracle Drug: "There’s growing inequality in the U.S. - while we’ve been in an economic recovery, the median income in the U.S. has actually decreased about $1000 per year in the past 7 years. This is one of the reasons that there is such a strong anti-immigrant sentiment. It’s not that right way to respond to this growing inequality between the upper- and middle-class, but it is an understandable reaction. This growing inequality is also reflected in the growing number of Americans without healthcare, and the vast differences in education opportunities between the wealthy and the poor. A Hillary Clinton presidency would bring universal health coverage, and make sure that education overall is improved. In addition, Hillary plans to make 2-year community college education available at no personal cost to all Americans."

gladwell dot com - none of the above

What IQ doesn't tell us about race.

Body of black male found in Draper - Salt Lake Tribune

Body of black male found in Draper - Salt Lake Tribune: "Body of black male found in Draper
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated:�02/23/2008 09:47:05 PM MST

Winter revelers found a dead body in Draper on Saturday.
��� Detectives are determining who the man was and how he died. The body belonged to a black male between the ages of 16 and 25, said Draper police Sgt. Kurt Imig.
��� He said there was no obvious cause of death and an autopsy is planned for Sunday. No identification was found with the body and police are asking for the public's help in learning his name.
��� A family taking winter photographs found the body at 1200 Mike Weir Drive in a ravine south of the town golf course. Imig said the body was there 'perhaps for weeks.'
��� Anyone with information about the body can contact Draper police at 801-840-4000"

Ezra Crane by What Madness Productions, LLC

Ezra Crane by What Madness Productions, LLC

In Defense Of Chess | Chess | BoardGameGeek

In Defense Of Chess | Chess | BoardGameGeek: "penings and Endings

I've heard some complain that too much of the game is merely memorization of the openings and endings of the game, and as such, the interesting portion is a tiny series of moves in the middle game.

I want to respond to this charge in two parts. First, openings are acquired gradually as you play. If you begin your chess career by memorizing openings, you will lose. If you spend your energy reading books of ending, you will lose (although perhaps less horribly than those reading the opening books). Opening, at the level played by most players (i.e. 2 or 3 moves deep), are mostly common sense. In Settlers, don't put a settlement on a desert to start unless you have a very good plan. In chess, don't move you 'a' pawn as your first move unless you have a very good plan. Yes -- correspondence and master level chess (and good club) players know many variations of the Caro-Kann and Sicilian and King's Indian and whatever else to ten or more moves. The average player need not."

The St. Petersburg Times - Feature - Mysterious Deaths of 9 Skiers Still Unresolved

The St. Petersburg Times - Feature - Mysterious Deaths of 9 Skiers Still Unresolved: "The declassified files contain testimony from the leader of a group of adventurers who camped about 50 kilometers south of the skiers on the same night. He said his group saw strange orange spheres floating in the night sky in the direction of Kholat-Syakhl."

rambo-death-chart.jpg (PNG Image, 979x831 pixels) - Scaled (73%)

rambo-death-chart.jpg (PNG Image, 979x831 pixels) - Scaled (73%)

Rambo in a nutshell.

Obamamania verges on obsession - Lisa Lerer - Politico.com

Obamamania verges on obsession - Lisa Lerer - Politico.com: "Last week, Clinton adviser Sid Blumenthal e-mailed an article from The American Conservative implying that Obama's support was, at least in part, due to white liberal guilt.

'It's time to get real about how we actually win this election,' Clinton said Wednesday at Hunter College in New York.

“It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.”

Her conclusion: “Let’s get real.”"

Obamamania verges on obsession - Lisa Lerer - Politico.com

Obamamania verges on obsession - Lisa Lerer - Politico.com: "His charms seem tough to resist, even for some of Hollywood’s biggest names.

'He walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere,' George Clooney told talk show host Charlie Rose.
See Also

* Obama win sets stage for showdown
* Obama turns tables on Clinton
* Obama camp slams Clinton ‘lunacy'

'I'll do whatever he says to do,' actress Halle Berry said to the Philadelphia Daily News. 'I'll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.'"

The Teacher has ADD

The Teacher has ADD: "Dear Parents:

I am very pleased to be your child's teacher this year and look forward to working with both you and your student. Before beginning the year however, I wanted to give you some information that might help us both during the coming months. I am sure you are familiar with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). Many students today have to deal with this difficult disorder. I am very able to empathize with them, because I too suffer from ADD. Because of this, I hope you will be willing to make certain accommodations that will help me to be successful.

Please consider the following accommodations:

(1) When you write notes to me, consider using various colored markers to write your message. These help me to focus my attention. Do not expect weekly progress reports on our child. Such reports require organizational skills that are beyond the ability of ADD subjects."

Six Principles for Making New Things

Six Principles for Making New Things: "I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.

When I first laid out these principles explicitly, I noticed something striking: this is practically a recipe for generating a contemptuous initial reaction. Though simple solutions are better, they don't seem as impressive as complex ones. Overlooked problems are by definition problems that most people think don't matter. Delivering solutions in an informal way means that instead of judging something by the way it's presented, people have to actually understand it, which is more work. And starting with a crude version 1 means your initial effort is always small and incomplete."

This is my book writing philosophy.

Castro Retires | MetaFilter

Castro Retires | MetaFilter: "'Eventually this transition ought to lead to free and fair elections, and I mean free and I mean fair, not these kind of staged elections that the Castro brothers try to foist off as being true democracy' - George W. Bush, brother of Jeb"

No Substitute - The Grinder - CHOW

No Substitute - The Grinder - CHOW: "I just made two quarts of my version of Postum this morning. I'm a chef, so I looked at the label, looked at the online recipes and developed my own very good alternative. I'm not going to sell it because I use it as an alternative to coffee for health reasons. Coffee, chocolate, tea, and barley malt all block iron absorption because of the high tannin content. I almost died of severe anemia last year, so I started drinking postum because Pero and all of the other substitutes have barley malt."

TIAA-CREF vs Fidelity investments? | Ask MetaFilter

TIAA-CREF vs Fidelity investments? | Ask MetaFilter

My work is giving us a choice.

Radio DavidByrne.com

Radio DavidByrne.com

Right now it all sounds like Graceland.

Goodbye to Postum

Goodbye to Postum

Ack!

Turn Me On, Dead Man: Scientific American

Turn Me On, Dead Man: Scientific American

An editorial about anecdotal thinking.

Taps for HD DVD as Wal-Mart Backs Blu-ray - New York Times

Taps for HD DVD as Wal-Mart Backs Blu-ray - New York Times

I'm trying to decide if this matters to me at all.

Crowdsourcing Puts Crucial Superdelegates Under a Microscope

Crowdsourcing Puts Crucial Superdelegates Under a Microscope

I too fear a Hillary superdelegate coup. But then again, don't you want a backhanded, sneaky political insider promoting your agenda? Idealistic presidents just get assassinated by the Dharma initiative.

HEPA filters may improve cardiovascular health: study

HEPA filters may improve cardiovascular health: study: "The researchers discovered that when the HEPA filters were used, they removed about 60 per cent of the particles in the homes. As well, the finger sensors picked up an 8.1 per cent improvement in blood flow on average.

'Our main finding was a significant improvement in the function of small finger blood vessels after reduction of indoor air particles. This effect most likely indicates a general improvement in the function of the inner lining of small vessels, including those supplying the heart,' said Professor Steffen Loft of the Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen, in a release."

Game over man!!! (Maybe) | MetaFilter

Game over man!!! (Maybe) | MetaFilter: "So I guess I'll eventually end up buying a Blu-Ray recordable drive rather than an HD-DVD recordable drive for when I'm eventually bittorrenting > DVD resolution video and want to burn it. Good to know.

Why do that? Run an HDMI cable (or coax or Cat-5) from your computer to your video screen. Cable runs are not that hard to do, and while it may seem daunting, trust me, it is so much easier to just have to run the video from your computer. HDMI over Cat5. Of course I'm sure coax or fiber would preferably over twisted pairs ... but if you run any kind of modern line through your house it should be able to carry the video."

What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage - New York Times

What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage - New York Times: "After two years of exotic animal training, my marriage is far smoother, my husband much easier to love. I used to take his faults personally; his dirty clothes on the floor were an affront, a symbol of how he didn't care enough about me. But thinking of my husband as an exotic species gave me the distance I needed to consider our differences more objectively."

Big night. Big mystery. -- chicagotribune.com

Big night. Big mystery. -- chicagotribune.com: "On an unseasonably warm Friday night last October, the culinary gods filed into a tiny restaurant on a gritty stretch of Wicker Park.

There was Ferran Adria from Spain, Heston Blumenthal from England and Pierre Herme from France -- considered by many to be among the world's top chefs. Other culinary heavy hitters followed close behind.

For the workers at Schwa, it was like seeing the 1927 Yankees roll in their front door.

'To look out the [kitchen] window and see these guys walk in, all eating at our restaurant, it was just a huge ego boost,' says Nathan Klingbail, one of the cooks that night. 'These are all the people we idolize.'

For 33-year-old Michael Carlson, chef/owner of Schwa, the dinner marked the pinnacle of his meteoric rise from anonymous assistant chef to proprietor of one of the most talked-about restaurants in town. On this night, Chicago chef Charlie Trotter -- a superstar in his own right -- had chosen Carlson to serve a 14-course, four-hour meal to his high-profile guests.

'It was as high a pinnacle as you could ever have,' Carlson says. 'It will never get better than that.'

The day after the dinner -- with a full refrigerator and a full reservation book -- Carlson disappeared."

YouTube - Seventeen

YouTube - Seventeen

some of the comments are hilarious.

Salt Lake Tribune - Committee approves autism registry for Utah

Salt Lake Tribune - Committee approves autism registry for Utah: "Committee approves autism registry for Utah
By Lisa Rosetta
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 02/13/2008 05:55:15 PM MST

Posted: 2:47 PM- A registry of all Utahns with autism would be created under HB263, passed by the House Health and Human Services Committee Wednesday.
The Utah Registry of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, or URADD, would contain medical histories and would be available to researchers.
'The [autism] research is currently underway, but there isn't enough data to make it meaningful,' said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns. 'That's the big hole we're dealing with.'"

Salt Lake Tribune - Huckabee scolds those who say he has alienated Mormons

Salt Lake Tribune - Huckabee scolds those who say he has alienated Mormons: "WASHINGTON - Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says it is 'unfounded' for anyone to say he has alienated the Mormon community or that he used rival Mitt Romney's LDS faith as a wedge issue.
Huckabee, talking to reporters Tuesday in Washington, blamed a single remark he made to The New York Times Magazine last year - when he asked whether Mormons believed Jesus and Satan are brothers - as the cause of the angst in the Mormon community."

YouTube - john.he.is

YouTube - john.he.is

Nice spoof of "Yes, We Can." Sorta.

Writers’ Strike: Why the Web Wins | Newsweek From Forbes.com | Newsweek.com

Writers’ Strike: Why the Web Wins | Newsweek From Forbes.com | Newsweek.com: "Under the new agreement, writers will earn a fixed residual amounting to roughly $1,300 for the early part of the contract's three-year life (excluding a two- to three-week window of free usage for promotional purposes) and 2% of the distributor's revenue in the deal's final year. For new material, writers get $618 for dramatic programs produced for 'new media' up to two minutes plus $309 for each additional minute; $360 for two-minute comedy videos, with $180 for each minute after. What's more, new media writers get credits as well as health insurance."

What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?

What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?: "Liberals in the United States have been losing political debates to conservatives for a quarter century. In order to start winning again, liberals must answer two simple questions: what is conservatism, and what is wrong with it? As it happens, the answers to these questions are also simple:

Q: What is conservatism?
A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.

Q: What is wrong with conservatism?
A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world."

Recurve Crossbows: Why Choose Recurve Crossbows?

Recurve Crossbows: Why Choose Recurve Crossbows?: "Recurve crossbows are still used by elite military organizations when stealth and accuracy are required for assassination missions. I trust YOU will never aim your crossbow at another human being - not even in jest! Crossbows should only be used for hunting and target practice. They are loads of fun, and if you are just getting involved in the sport, I highly recommend you stick with recurve crossbows."

JOSEPH GOEBBELS tm - Joseph Goebbels

JOSEPH GOEBBELS tm - Joseph Goebbels: "Some of the Goebbels' principles of propaganda:

'Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.'

'Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.'

'Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans. '

'Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred. '

'Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects. '

'To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium. '

'Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level'

�

Quotes 'If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.' and 'The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.' are widely and incorrectly attributed to Goebbels. It is probable that these are the paraphrases of the Goebbels' text 'Churchill's Lie Factory' where he said: 'The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.' - Jospeh Goebbels, 'Aus Churchills L�genfabrik,' 12. january 1941, Die Zeit ohne Beispiel"

Diabetes Study Partially Halted After Deaths - New York Times

Diabetes Study Partially Halted After Deaths - New York Times: "For decades, researchers believed that if people with diabetes lowered their blood sugar to normal levels, they would no longer be at high risk of dying from heart disease. But a major federal study of more than 10,000 middle-aged and older people with Type 2 diabetes has found that lowering blood sugar actually increased their risk of death, researchers reported Wednesday."

Whoops.

YouTube - Clinton/Obama....Ready or Not

YouTube - Clinton/Obama....Ready or Not

Oh my, this was great.

Apple - Science - Profiles - Robert J. Lang, pg. 1

Apple - Science - Profiles - Robert J. Lang, pg. 1

I think my brother Dave should become a professional Origama sculptor.

Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

Kevin Kelly -- The Technium: "the money in this networked economy does not follow the path of the copies. Rather it follows the path of attention, and attention has its own circuits.�"

Kueng Airguns - Magnum Pistol.

Kueng Airguns - Magnum Pistol.

The Dirty Harry of Air Pistols.

Apple TV 40GB WIFI HDMI Widescreen AppleTV 40 GB Grd. A - eBay (item 270210408616 end time Feb-10-08 13:00:00 PST)

Apple TV 40GB WIFI HDMI Widescreen AppleTV 40 GB Grd. A - eBay (item 270210408616 end time Feb-10-08 13:00:00 PST)

Here's one.

Apple - Apple TV - Guided Tour - Medium

Apple - Apple TV - Guided Tour - Medium

A used Apple TV can be had for $150 on ebay and will stream anything in itunes to your regular tv set.

YouTube - Beirut - "Elephant Gun"

YouTube - Beirut - "Elephant Gun"

YouTube - The Re-entrants ukulele duo - Tainted Love

YouTube - The Re-entrants ukulele duo - Tainted Love

YouTube - Bohemian Rhapsody - Ukulele Bartt

YouTube - Bohemian Rhapsody - Ukulele Bartt

Compass Games - Silent War Custom Cabinet

Compass Games - Silent War Custom Cabinet

This table was built to play a single wargame about Submarine warfare in WW II. It can be closed when a game is in progress to protect the board from being scattered.

20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog)

20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog)

Why A Recession Might Be A Good Thing | MetaFilter

Why A Recession Might Be A Good Thing | MetaFilter: "The true wealthy have captured back their time by employing people to do the things that this guy and his family likely still has to do himself (driving, cooking, etc) THAT is real opulence. Owning other peoples time."

"There's something profoundly sad about watching people like Mitt Romney give 'victory' speeches on nights like this when it becomes obvious to any thinking person that they're slipping down the drain."

LimerickDB: Top 150

LimerickDB: Top 150: "His critics insist that Obama
Is Muslim, like evil Osama.
Well, they don't know their biz;
For if that fellow is,
Then so is the damn Dalai Lama."

A curious case of burger blues | Chris Ayres - Times Online

A curious case of burger blues | Chris Ayres - Times Online: "But hang on a minute: isn't the hamburger an icon of Bad Old America, Bush's America, the America that made everyone fat and gave them diabetes? Of course it is, but that's not what the hamburger blues are all about. An American feeling emotional about a hamburger is like a Briton feeling emotional about Concorde: you miss it, you hope it inspires something better in the future, but you don't seriously think that anyone should build another aircraft that seats three people and burns through an oilfield before it reaches New York."

VideoNow Color (and Jr) Video Conversions - VideoHelp.com

VideoNow Color (and Jr) Video Conversions - VideoHelp.com

instructions for hacking the videonow portable video player which are $5.00 at Walmart right now.

MMAFighting.com - Mixed Martial Arts FAQ

MMAFighting.com - Mixed Martial Arts FAQ: "What is the story about Richard Simmons slapping a fighter?
Richard Simmons was arrested on May 24th 2004 when he was charged with assault against Harley Davidson salesman and 'cage fighter' Chris Farney. Simmons was upset when Farney said 'Look, Richard Simmons. Drop you bags, let's rock to the 50's.' Simmons responded with 'It's not nice to make fun of people with issues' and slapped Farney in the face. The charge was later dismissed after the two settled out of court. Although Farney described himself as a cage fighter, he has not participated in any major mixed martial arts show."

Depleted Cranium � Blog Archive � The Top Ten Things Environmentalists Need to Learn

Depleted Cranium � Blog Archive � The Top Ten Things Environmentalists Need to Learn: "What we have to drive home is that low energy lifestyle = poverty. Unfortunately crap like: ” reach a societal consensus that what we desire is a slower and smaller way of living, a re-conceived notion of success” appeals to some vestigial protestant ethic that still colors our ideas of ‘correctness’."

YouTube - Hi-Point 9mm Love Theme

YouTube - Hi-Point 9mm Love Theme

A very long report on the hi point C9 - TheFiringLine Forums

A very long report on the hi point C9 - TheFiringLine Forums: "I would trust this pistol with my life without thinking twice. Stripping the pistol down is not too great. It has a small pin you must knock out with a punch and hammer ( I actually used a small allen wrench to punch it out)."

Defense Review - Hi-Point C9 9mm Pistol: Viable Option for Defensive Use?

Defense Review - Hi-Point C9 9mm Pistol: Viable Option for Defensive Use?

Macworld Encore

Macworld Encore

Great slideshow on time and attention by Merlin Mann.

lilmissnever: One day, when it is safe, I will write a

lilmissnever: One day, when it is safe, I will write a: "A certain government agency's security person had to teach me how to answer the phone, and how NOT to answer the phone; namely, if the caller insists that we are beaming rays directly into his brain, ask him what frequency. (Prompt the caller with 'Low or high?' if necessary.) When you get an answer, brightly inform the caller that those are not our rays, those belong to $OtherAgency. (In your case, I suggest you blame the Chinese.) Therefore, you can do nothing to help them, good luck!"

Rat & Mouse Gazette: Medical Corner: Rat Respiratory Disease: The Use of Albuterol Treatments

Rat & Mouse Gazette: Medical Corner: Rat Respiratory Disease: The Use of Albuterol Treatments

Mycoplasmosis in Rats

Mycoplasmosis in Rats: "Possible Causes

Ammonia is a contributing factor.� Ammonia build up can come from poor cage ventilation, dirty conditions and over crowding.� If you use an aquarium as a cage, make sure there is a wire roof to let plenty of air in, aquariums must be cleaned more often than a wire cage.�

Older animals are more susceptible, as are those with lowered immune systems for instance, recovering from an operation.� Also rats which are inbred may be more susceptible, so watch out for rats in pet shops!� There may be problems with certain colour strains, such as the Blue, which is more inbred than many other colours, (this is mainly conjecture), but it is good breeding practice to out cross regularly!�"

Our rat is sick and blue.

On Movies: Warming to this Global news conference | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/13/2008

On Movies: Warming to this Global news conference | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/13/2008: "'Anyway, I don't remember who it was - maybe it was [New Mexico senator] Albert Fall - but someone had to get up there and describe what drainage was, and his way of describing it was to say, 'Sir, if you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and my straw reaches across the room, I'll end up drinking your milkshake.'"

Open chess diary 281-300

Open chess diary 281-300

Even the paranoid are sometimes persecuted. The chessworld has always agreed that in the Candidates Tournament of Curaçao 1962, there was a Soviet conspiracy against Bobby Fischer.
Among eight participants, there were five Soviets: Tal, Korchnoi, Geller, Keres and Petrosyan. And in those days you didn't have to be paranoid to think that their first objective might have been to make sure that Fischer would not win.
Tal, who was in bad form and bad health, and who dropped out after 21 rounds, has never been accused of being part of a Curaçao conspiracy, and Korchnoi has always vehemently denied any such thing. But Geller, Keres and Petrosyan only played fightless draws against each other, which helped them to eight extra resting days each.
The Soviet Union does not exist anymore, the sins can be admitted. "Of course it was rigged," Yuri Averbakh has recently said (in an interview with Jules Welling in the Dutch magazine Schaaknieuws). According to Averbakh, who was in Curaçao as a member of the Soviet delegation, it had been decided that Keres, being an Estonian, should not win, and neither should the Jewish Ukrainian Geller. It had to the Armenian Petrosyan. Why an Estonian and a Jewish Ukrainian (and the Jewish Russian Korchnoi!) were not suitable and an Armenian was, Averbakh sadly fails to say, or Welling did not ask.
Well, a conspiracy - but how poorly those evil Soviets managed their conspiracy! With two rounds to go, the disobedient Keres was in first place, and he had to play the outsider Benkö. Had he won, no conspiracy could have prevented an Estonian becoming Botvinnik's challenger - but he lost. Yes, that was a relief, Averbach now says, Benkö's win was a Deus ex Machina which prevented suspicions.
In his famous piece in Sports Illustrated in 1962, titled How the Russians fixed World Chess, Fischer has given this position as proof of the conspiracy.

Steves Digicams - Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ3 - User Review

Steves Digicams - Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ3 - User Review

I just purchased this camera for $87 shipped. I think it was $400 new. It's one of the highest rated (older) cameras on DPReview and some other sites. It has 12x optical zoom and will record video with sound, which is all I need. Kind of clunky, but definitely a step up from our 2002 Nikon Coolpix. Oh, and it has Leica optics.

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This newsmap graphically represents different breaking stories and their relative popularity. Plus, it looks cool.

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Keyboard - Drivers - Mac OS X Leopard - Software Updates - VersionTracker

Keyboard - Drivers - Mac OS X Leopard - Software Updates - VersionTracker

IGM: MS Digital Media Pro Keyboard

IGM: MS Digital Media Pro Keyboard

iPhoto Diet

iPhoto Diet

Index of /audio

Index of /audio kimya dawson

kimya dawson - loose lips4.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

kimya dawson - loose lips4.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

Juno songs.

Are you Electric?? - General Ukulele - Ukulele - ezFolk Forums

Are you Electric?? - General Ukulele - Ukulele - ezFolk Forums

Amping your Uke.

XScreenSaver: Download

XScreenSaver: Download: "Windows users:

There is no Windows version of xscreensaver, and there never will be. Please stop asking. Microsoft killed my company, and I hold a personal grudge. I don't use any Microsoft products and neither should you."