This literally made me LOL.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
The Amazing Internet: post I wrote seven years ago still gets the odd comment, all these years later...
I think the word "neat" was invented for something like this....
If you check out the original post here: http://thepete.com/wanna-convert-your-videos-to-3d/ you can scroll down to see that it just got another comment on April 18, 2010. Damn if that's not neat :)How could I know that in 2003 people would still be visiting that post into the following decade? I guess all the 3D video nerds know where to go? Or not, since the link in the post is dead now. Guess I'll have to update it one of these days since it is the second-most popular post on my old blog.
Hard to imagine (or remember) what blogging was like back in 2003 or 1997, around when I started.
/random-musing
Vote For Nobody (I loves me some wordplay--especially when it makes perfect, practical sense!)
You know you're in trouble when Bizarro Logic makes more sense that actual logic.
The NYTimes.com editorial asks the obvious question: With Financial Reform, Whose Side Are the Republicans On?
Editorial
Whose Side Are They On?
Published: April 17, 2010Last month Democrats on the Senate banking committee passed a reasonably tough financial regulatory reform bill. Now Republican leaders have suddenly begun lashing out against it.
Did they belatedly discover some problem? No. They suddenly realized that their bet that reform would be watered down as it moved along might not pan out.
via nytimes.com
It's a shame the NYTimes can't just call it like it is--that neither side will make the changes required to make our economy a real economy again.
There are just too many games to be played--too many tricks to be used to fool people--all legal. When we have a government willing to do away with these bullshit games, then I'll change my mood. For now, it's sad to see "the Paper of Record" ask such obvious questions like "Whose side are they on?"
The same side! The corporations' side. Why is there a conflict if Dems and Repubs are BOTH on the side of corporations? Because they're on the side of different corporations, silly!
If either party truly cared about We, The People, they'd be dismantling Wall Street, shutting down the Federal Reserve and reforming banking laws completely.
Oh and splitting the country down the middle between socialism and free market. Necessities of life go the socialist route (health care, housing, food, clothes, some communications) and everything else (probably based on a price level) the free market route.
It really does seem like the time to start from scratch, doesn't it?
We invade Iraq, partly to rid the country of torture & oppression--funny story--1st WE torture & oppress, then...
Secret prison revealed in Baghdad
Forces under the office of Prime Minister Maliki held hundreds of Sunni men at the facility. The U.S. fears that the news will stoke instability.
Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military office, where many were routinely tortured until the country's Human Rights Ministry gained access to the facility, Iraqi officials say.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said he had been unaware of abuses at the secret prison at Old Muthanna airport run by troops under his office's direct command. He vowed to shut down the prison. (Hadi Mizban / Associated Press / March 26, 2010)
By Ned ParkerApril 19, 2010
The men were detained by the Iraqi army in October in sweeps targeting Sunni groups in Nineveh province, a stronghold of the group Al Qaeda in Iraq and other militants in the north. The provincial governor alleged at the time that ordinary citizens had been detained as well, often without a warrant.
via latimes.com
GOSH, I'M SURE GLAD WE INVADED TO STOP ALL THE BAD THINGS GOING ON IN IRAQ!
SIGH... is it me or does all power corrupt? Saddam tortured, we tortured and now the government that replaced Saddam tortured.
My favorite non-traditional use of Lego--recreating moments from history... here's Tiananmen Square
via legos.tumblr.com
Depressing but somehow amusing, I feel like it makes us think about taking death lightly--and whether that's a good idea or not.
But anything that draws attention to tragedies is a good thing in my mind. Especially ones conveniently ignored in the interest of making money.
via http://lego365.tumblr.com comes a comparison of Lego bricks from the 1950s to today. Neat if your a geek :)
via lego365.tumblr.com (found via legos.tumblr.com)
The top row is the view from above and the bottom row is a view of the same bricks from below. From left-to-right, the bricks come from 1950-1957, 1958-1974, 1974-1979, the 1980s, the 1990s and finally, the modern brick.
Hit up the link for the specific things that make each brick different (material, coloring, logo, detail, etc).
Sunday, April 18, 2010
On my way to the A Train that I will take downtown to Etc Etc for The Salon with Mark Janas
Ah, the subway! Volcanic ash can't stop it!
Amazing chart displaying just how much that volcano in Iceland is *helping* our environment.
Too bad we can't use this time to come up with non-polluting (or less-polluting) ways of flying. A little dash of innovation could be pretty helpful right about now. Or should everyone get around like John Cleese did?
NY's Health Insurance Lessons teach us: insurance companies still only care about cash and not about us.
New York Offers Costly Lessons on Insurance
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Published: April 17, 2010When her small executive search firm in New York City canceled its health insurance policy last year because of the recession and rising premiums, April Welles was able to buy her own plan and still be covered for her cancer and multiple sclerosis.
She was lucky to live in New York, one of the first states to require insurance companies to offer comprehensive coverage to all people regardless of pre-existing conditions. But Ms. Welles, 58, also pays dearly: Her premium is $17,876 a year.
“That’s a lot of groceries,” she said.
via nytimes.com
The gist: because health insurance companies in NY have already been forced to provide health care to folks with pre-existing conditions, they're madly hiking up prices to compensate. Where does that leave a person suffering from a condition that can effect her ability to make money?
This is absurd.
Sure, America gets a lot right, but it gets health care 100% wrong.
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