October 2007
139 posts
Music Business: We don’t have cobblers anymore,... →
“I like to say I’m ‘post-interesting.’”
– John Brockman via http://toomuchnick.com/
BBC NEWS | Health | Chocolate 'aids fatigue... →
September 2007
99 posts
Links From Leech
Dave ‘Trouble Town’ Leech writes in: “here are some cooler links for today, my good man.” HAHA!!! The Hobbit Returns http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/sep/21/2 Yucca Mtn/Indian Reserve is saved (maybe) due to fault lines from nuclear dumping http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0„2176842,00.html Thanks Dave! Everybody else, get your act together and write me at...
Best Bars for Smoking in San Francisco →
Although, I really gotta disagree with the positions on the list. I have been to most of these bars and Mucky Duck is by far the best on the list. Does anybody else have any additions?
BREAKING: Lieberman-Kyl’s Iran amendment passes. →
By a vote 76-22, the Senate passed the Lieberman-Kyl amendment, which threatens to “combat, contain and [stop]” Iran via “military instruments.” Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) called the amendment “Cheney’s fondest pipe dream” and said it could “read as a backdoor method of gaining Congressional validation for military action.”
Wired News - Germs Taken to Space Come Back... →
Weekend Update
Its the middle of the work week, so its time to start daydreaming about the weekend. For those of you not in San Francisco, come visit me. For those of you in SF: Thursday: Art Car Festival Caravan, Free, 10am-5pm Schedule Friday: Sex With No Hands at Giordanos Bros in North Beach, Free 9:30pm-12:00am Saturday - Love Parade all day, BM decomp party all night (find your own damn raver...
Freakonomics: The future of the music industry →
(via marco)
Think Progress » Extensive collection on ‘travel... →
“The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers have carried, according to documents obtained by a group of civil liberties advocates and...
Top 100 effects of global warming. →
I know lots of you hate lists, so here is a link to a summary of the list.
“We don’t think you can compensate for one mistake by committing more...”
– Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - speaking about Iran, Iraq, and the United States.
Dandali - Dandali - Audio →
Amazing traditional Hausa recordings. Yes, they are all real audio, and yes, they sound like they were recorded with some string and tin cans, but all aspiring Hugh Traceys should take a listen.
On Selfishness →
Marco put up a link to this article along with a suggestion to read the whole thing. Marco, here is the quote I liked the best: “That, my friends, is what should be scaring NBC shitless, not my three iPods, my Apple TV, or the existence of BitTorrent. You know what’s worse than being pirated? Being forgotten.” The execs at NBC who decided on making their new downloads...
The $3,850 per second war and its victims:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Assuming you read at average speed, by the time you get to the bottom of this column, the war in Iraq will have cost the United States another $760,000. More than $4 million of U.S. taxpayers’ money ebbed away in the 18 minutes it took George W. Bush to explain to his country and the world last week why the war he ordered would last well beyond his presidency. During...
American dollar becoming more worthless by the day →
via
September 27, 2007, meeting on N-Judah... →
Hyper-local info here. Upcoming Muni meeting to talk about ‘improvements” to Cole Valley. in the words of Greg Dewar, “Remember, with a lot of these kinds of things, if no one shows up early on, it becomes harder to get your $.02 in later on. Even if you can’t make the meeting, if you’ve got concerns about the future of Carl and Cole, email the MTA and let them...
BBC NEWS | Africa | Mali's Tuareg rebels agree... →
Think Progress » Breaking: Senate rejects habeas... →
“In a 56-43 vote, the majority of the Senate today voted for legislation that would have restored habeas corpus rights to military detainees and given them “the right to protest their detention in federal court.” But the roll call fell four votes short of the 60 needed to cut off debate.” If this vote is any indication of the future, it is going to take a very, very long time to...
WatchBush Broken Borders - Funny Video Clip
Think Progress » McConnell: ‘very small number’ of... →
“During his testimony about warrantless surveillance today before the House Judiciary Committee, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell said that out of the “billions” of conversations and e-mails intercepted abroad, only “a very small number” of Americans are “overheard.” McConnell gave no indication, however, of what he considered “small” to be, relative to “billions” of...
I woke up this morning
covered in tattoos. pirate tattoos.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Mali boosts army to fight... →
Dodd, Leahy reintroduce Habeas Corpus Restoration... →
Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/panjandrum →
panjandrum \pan-JAN-druhm, noun: An important personage or pretentious official.
“The earth can’t be billions of years old because it is slowly spinning...”
– FSTDT: Top 100 Quotes The level of utter stupidity on this page is both hilarious and extremely worrying…via
Discovery Channel :: News - Earth :: Medieval... →
Second warmest August ever
The National Climatic Data Center, a division of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, reports that last month was the second warmest August on record. Moreover, at the end of August, drought affected approximately 83% of the Southeast and 46% of the contiguous US. Climate Progress breaks down the key facts. via
What’s the best way to fight drugs? →
“… for every dollar spent on trying to stop drugs through source-country control, we could get the equivalent of twenty dollars benefit by spending the same money on treatment. This isn’t a bunch of hippy liberals saying this. This is a government think tank, sponsored by the US Army.”via
The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has... →
Here is some more information about the rapidly melting sea ice. via