December 2007
158 posts
See you in '08!
I’m headed to an internet-free zone for some electronic detox over the New Year’s Holiday. A tremendous thanks to everyone who took the time to read, follow, send in comments or links, or graciously let me reblog their posts over this past year. 2008 is going to be a great year for CultrVultr. There are some exciting new developments planned over the next few months, and many more...
OptOutPrescreen.com →
remove your name from the lists that go out to credit card companies for all of those “you’ve been pre-approved” junk letters. Here is the list to stop junk mail. Having worked for a direct mail company for a little bit, I doubt this will work very well: http://www.directmail.com/directory/mail_preference/ UPDATE: Rosie wrote in to suggest Green Dimes, a service that removes your...
Pakistan opposition leader Bhutto killed →
Watch — bullshit
Tiger escapes S.F. zoo cage and kills 1 - Yahoo!... →
About that liberal media →
From Reuters yesterday afternoon: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp [..] will sell eight U.S. television stations to private equity firm Oak Hill Partners for about $1.1 billion. I couldn’t help but wonder who was buying up tv stations in an election year, so a quick check of Oak Hill Partners : Oak Hill Capital Partners traces its roots to Robert M. Bass, one of the four brothers who founded Bass...
“The days of the Alfred Lion, Norman Granz, Leonard Chess, Berry Gordy…all these...”
– Joel Dorn
25,000 →
Average number of Iraqi children displaced per month from their homes “as their families fled violence or intimidation” in 2007, according to a report from Unicef. Some 75,000 children had resorted to living in camps or temporary shelters, and only 20 percent outside Baghdad had working sewerage in their community.
No More 'Sexy Time': Cohen retiring Borat, Ali G →
Cheney Repeatedly Met With Auto Execs Before... →
Before EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson “answered the pleas of industry executives” by announcing his “decision to deny California the right to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles,” auto executives directly appealed to Vice President Cheney. EPA staffers told the LA Times that Johnson “made his decision” only after Cheney met with the executives. On multiple occasions in October and...
The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush: Politics &... →
A very clear article by Joseph Stiglitz on what the last 8 years will mean for the next 20 years. I really recommend this to anyone under 40 who will have to live with this for the rest of their lives. Baby Boomers, thanks again for the strong leadership, now get the hell out of the way….
'RELIGULOUS: A Conversation with Bill Maher and... →
a new movie on the way that looks to be really good….via Sydney Familiar
Join Wexler's Call for Cheney Hearings →
quick petition to impeach Cheney. 124,012 and couting. takes about 11 seconds to complete.
Evidence Mounts Of White House Ties To New... →
no ego
So many jobs, gigs, and posts on Craigslist require that applicants have “no ego”. Am I missing something or are there so many Buddhas nowadays that they’ve given up teaching, and are now searching for entry-level project management jobs or maybe something in food service?
EPA denies California waiver on tailpipe... →
“U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson today denied California’s long-standing request for a waiver from federal law to be able to implement its own landmark regulations to slash greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.” At issue were “tailpipe standards California adopted in 2004 that would force automakers to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent in new cars and...
The secret to winning at rock, paper, scissors →
Man's skin turns blue - Video →
thanks to SF for the link!
Facing Backlash, Blackwater Has a New Business... →
via sydney familiar
Drawings under the influence of LSD →
an amazing series of drawings from the late ’50s. Carios will love this…
WatchFunTown Auto - NSFW — bullshit
Nanosolar begins shipping "world's lowest-cost... →
the company says they can profitably sell the solar panels for “less than $1 a watt” or, as The Times points out, the price at which solar energy becomes less expensive than coal.
Elephant joke - Wikipedia →
Elephant jokes were a fad that started in 1962. They are not funny. From the W’pedia article Q: How many elephants will fit into a Mini? A: Four: Two in the front, two in the back. Q: How many giraffes will fit into a Mini? A: None. It’s full of elephants. Q: ...
Lunchtime
homemade steak sandwich FTW! I feel like I have a cabinet-level post in Flavor Country right now.
BBC NEWS | Iraq's Kurdish leader snubs Rice →
GAO: If Gov’t Were A Business, ‘Our Stock Would Be... →
Yesterday, the Treasury Department released a troubling financial report that revealed the federal government’s “total liabilities and unfunded commitments for future payments” related to Social Security and Medicare are now estimated at $53 trillion, up from $20 trillion in 2000. In a speech yesterday at the National Press Club, GAO Comptroller General David Walker said: If the federal...
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play;...”
– Albert Einstein - via energyface