September 2010
1 post
Remembering 9/11
9 years later, we must admit that the terrorists have won. While it was at best a shallow cover for our already heinous foreign policy, we were told that we were hated for our freedoms. And what have we done since then? Our people live in fear, divided against each other in bitter contempt, debating even basic reality. Our economy has collapsed, our surpluses run aground on the banks of...
July 2009
1 post
The Ignite Talk I Had Intended to Give...
Or what I THOUGHT I had memorized… If you want some expansion on my thoughts on some of this, read the lengthy post I wrote just before this one on the main page…
It’s the End of the World As We Know It:
And it’s about $#@&% Time!!!
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. My name is Uriah Zebadiah, and I am here to talk about the economy. You’ve probably heard a...
February 2009
1 post
How the Crash Will Reshape America - The... →
Best piece on the recession I’ve read this week.
January 2009
1 post
Thinking on the Economy
Our beloved National Debt: and why we don’t think too hard about it. « ThinkSketch
I can appreciate people’s concerns about the National Debt. It’s a complex subject that is honestly a little counter-intuitive.
The thing about the National Debt is that it’s nearly inevitable with a fiat currency. It’s not the same as the debt that you create to buy a television or a...
December 2008
3 posts
Why We Need A Big Green Tech Bubble
Why I’m Rooting for 3 Big Economic Bubbles | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
The article is quite correct. The sentiment that we don’t need bubbles is utterly irrelevant. Bubbles happen because of the way corporations work, and particularly the way they raise money. Without the dotcom bubble you wouldn’t be reading this. The internet only stands where it is...
Amanda Palmer and the Vagaries of Viral Marketing
Female artist’s belly too fat for record label - The F-Word
Call me a cynical manipulative bastard, but if I had an album and I wanted some serious free promotion, I would consider staging a fight with my record label. The contract is for x number of albums, by which time x years from now everyone has totally forgotten, and even most of the faces at the label are different, so when and if you...
November 2008
1 post
Talking about The Past and Future Web
In discussing what essentially amounts to recursive structures in business, or viral marketing of the sort only loosely related to the bastardized thing that gets tossed around when you start talking memes, some big boys were mentioned, talking about their viral growth strategy. Google, Amazon, eBay and PayPal were all mentioned as sites that make a profit off helping other people make and spend...
August 2008
1 post
Dinner in the Sky →
This company will rent you a custom dining table for 22 of your closest friends, and hoist it into the air by crane.
July 2008
5 posts
Arrest leads to Rainbow riot →
This makes me so mad I can hardly speak. I can’t think of anything that gets me going quite like a healthy dose of rampant fascist brutality. Anyone who supports paramilitary tactics for police use is a fucking traitor to everything that America stands for. When you turn a blind eye to this crap you are sticking a knife in the spirit of freedom. Zero tolerance for police brutality is the...
An Open Letter To Paul Carpenter
In response to your column about the cultural plague of tattoo work, and the subsequent followup column:
You, sir, are a bigot. No, there is no sense in trying to deny it. It’s the simple case. Admit it! You are a prejudiced man. You hate people who modify their bodies. ‘Avoid the generalization that others who get tattoos are necessarily bad’? You compared liking tattoos to...
“Pornography didn’t steal my culture. It never made me rape, it never denied my...”
– Renegade Evolution: Gail Dines, Her Porn Training Program, and Me
WatchQuite Possibly the Cutest Thing Ever: (via Boing Boing)
June 2008
60 posts
Colossal construction: The world's nine largest... →
Bias in Statistical Analysis?
Okay, so in the UK researchers asked 1743 people who had casual sex about their experiences. They conclude that “the permissive society sparked during the Sixties was supposed to free women to enjoy casual sex just like men, but it failed”.
How do they come to that conclusion? Because 80% of men and only 54% of women felt good about their one-night-stands afterwards. Okay, okay,...
Neave Television ...telly without context →
“GR: At a young age, you, too, were recognized as a reincarnate of an important...”
– TOKYOMANGO: My Interview with the Dalai Lama’s Youngest Brother
Circuit City Screws Its Employees and Gets Its...
Okay, so this is at this point some well-aged news, but I just heard about it, so I have to assume you haven’t either.
Get this: Circuit City is paying its senior salespeople $14-$15 an hour. In an attempt to curb their losses and make the company profitable again, they go ahead and fire all those senior salespeople and replace them with new hires at $9-$10 an hour. Perhaps unsurprisingly,...
“If I tell ‘em a guy walks into my hide site with an AK and I choke him...”
– Michael Hensley - Evan Vela - Murder in the U.S. Army - Esquire
“We can send a robot to Mars. We can find love and venereal disease on teh...”
– Junkbuzzed: sex, lies, and .jpgs
World Aids pandemic over. You know, except for all... →
Article points out that throughout the world, AIDS has leveled off or actually diminished outside of Sub-Saharan Africa. The article goes on to say that if they weren’t such dirty sex-obsessed animals, then they wouldn’t be in this mess.
Oh, here’s a concept— they have no money for sex education, no money for condoms, no money for testing, no money for treatment. Top it...
Israeli New Urbanists: Density Will Make Our... →
alt.blocked: Verizon blocks access to whole... →
This is yet another example of corporations gone wrong, abusing their power over us to stifle free speech. They deserve nothing from us. We’d be better off socializing those who seek to control us— clearly they don’t deserve our dollars.
(via Violet Blue)
“There was nothing else to do, because the South China Mall, which opened with...”
– Link (via Boing Boing)
“It would be his first time, he’d said, to taste feces and I figured he’d do...”
– Everyday Emilie - Eating Sh*t
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An interesting talk by anthropologist Wade Davis regarding the mutability of human experience. (via Dogbearmonkey)
Who’s More Innovative When it Comes to Electric... →
(via Technoccult)
“And above all, never forget that the pen is mightier than the plow-share. By...”
– How to Write Good by Michael O’Donoghue (via Melissa Gira)
Excellent Taylor 12-String Jumbo Guitar →
Critical Games » DailyLit →
$23 Billion Gag Order | PEEK | AlterNet →
Yay! Soon we may be gloriously awash in information relating to the theft of $23 BILLION dollars by government cronies.
Seriously, at what point do we start calling this shit high treason? We are the victims of a huge right-wing conspiracy of the nature and scale of a Nazi-style fascist coup. They are robbing us at the cost of our economic and political future. They are willfully fucking up our...
“The selling point of Mr. Obama’s vision of change is not doctrinaire liberalism...”
– Obama and McCain Offer Two Very Different Americas | Election 2008 | AlterNet
Worse Than Fascists: Christian Political Group... →
Yes, there is a vast right-wing conspiracy at work in America today, and our most powerful politicians are all members…
The Loom : A New Step In Evolution →
One of the most important experiments in evolution is going on right now in a laboratory in Michigan State University. A dozen flasks full of E. coli are sloshing around on a gently rocking table. The bacteria in those flasks has been evolving since 1988—for over 44,000 generations. And because they’ve been so carefully observed all that time, they’ve revealed some important...
“I would have been extremely upset if we had come anywhere close to reaching...”
– An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ”I am a Strange Loop”
Microsoft patents "digital manners policy" -... →
Yay! More technology that robs consumers of their freedom!
WatchHella cute. (via Flickr Video Embed: Baby Loves Banjo)