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What we discovered is that Santelli’s "rant" was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign
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Area rich nerds make a whole curriculum about stuff they think is cool. Actual world ignored. Prizes for everyone, and special hats!
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Our daddy always told us that bees were God’s way of showing us he hated witches. We think it’s high time someone investigated the bee-dieoff/witch connection!
Month: February 2009
Hey, you know that Rich Santelli rant?
You know, the one that’s being passed around in email, the one your dad wants you to watch, the “chicago tea party” thing?
It’s poorly concealed astroturf from the usual billionaires. Just so you know.
EDIT: It appears that the Playboy article, which has now been pulled from their site, was at a minimum poorly researched and may have been slanderous. The Koch connection has not been proved. Please see my later entry.
International Whatever Luxo-Truxo Fiascomobile
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Yes, it’s a luxury conversion of a semi truck. These were funny a few years ago and now they’re completely hilarious.
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-27-2009
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sociology paper: an "ethnology of arbitrage" from Industrial and Corporate Change
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-26-2009
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Resembling a "wall-wart" power adapter, the SheevaPlug draws 5 Watts, comes with Linux, and boasts completely open hardware and software designs
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Branding is not for people. Branding is for cattle. Branding is for slaves. Do you imagine itâs a coincidence that branding is for property?
Sir, this is naught but rank linksmanship.
The delicious crossposter broke for me today so here’s the best of today’s, some of which I thought were worth manually putting in here:
- The Trashout Squad Something few people ever see – the dirty work of contractors hired by banks and mortgage companies to empty out foreclosed homes of whatever the former owners leave behind so the property can be readied for re-sale. Short KCET local video.
- The Singularics Corporation starring Mr. Jeffrey N. Cook brings you the finest in postscientific “new physics,” impossible encryption, and synthetic creation of life. Bees. In. Head.
- Your boss, the motivational speaker, and some dude with a blog all say you should “brand yourself.” Don’t do it literally, but more importantly, don’t do it at all.
- Social networking, like everything else fun, is totally going to kill you in the head. Only, no, it isn’t. The usual self-identified experts are alarmed and useless.
- This Turkish synth duo plays neo New Wave songs that recall Young Marble Giants, Pixies, early Human League, and Fad Gadget. I love them. Two downloadable albums.
- The great Orange County Mortgage Collapse has another unforeseen risk: Your financial records in some miscellaneous dumpster.
- Wired magazine had a bad fact-checking failure and their victim wrote it up.
- The Interactive 8-Track Tape: Foghat/Atari 2600 Double Ender is so close to plausible that it had me going for a few minutes. Yes, 1977 was that weird a time.
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-24-2009
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The low-power XBee 802.15.4 and extended-range XBee-PRO 802.15.4 use the IEEE 802.15.4 networking protocol for fast point-to-multipoint or peer-to-peer networking.
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"Joe six-pack has a sense something is happening," Pastor Hitchcock said at the prophecy meeting. "You don’t have to be politically astute."
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For five years, Li’s formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before
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the top ten most important incidents regarding removable devices, including hardware keystroke loggers, USB thumb drives, and MP3 players
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Scientists believe they have found a way to grow teeth in the laboratory, a discovery that could put an end to fillings and dentures.
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Insufferable poetic wankery, cold cut platters, and recreational drug use will only get you so far with your beat-style hootenanny, however.
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"There is not a terrorist organization in the world that has not adopted LTTE tactics or at least aspired to do so." The Tamil Tigers are the Velvet Underground of terrorism
I still think this is Far Ghambowl’s best record.
1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random… Read More” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go to “Random quotations” or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.
5 – Post it to LJ with this text in the “caption” and TAG the friends you want to join in.
In which I totally say “I told you so”
kniwt was kind enough to point out that I was right in March 2007, and others have been kind to point out that I was right in July 2003 about the oncoming subprime mortgage tsunami.
I’d love to call myself a prophet, but most of us in Newport saw that one coming. Too bad the financial journalists didn’t get to reporting on it until it was too late. Wonder why that happened?
Photo of Photo
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I spent an afternoon with two photographers. It was mostly like this.
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