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Archive for March 2010
Conservative Contraception
My questions:
1. Wasn't the G8 made somewhat irrelevant last autumn when it was decided that the G20 would be more important?
2. Why is this our business? Like, a bunch of women in poor countries are going to care about what Canadians say and do. WTF. You'd think paternalistic programs would be something Conservatives avoid. And perhaps this is where they are coming from? I don't know. I do know that getting all upset at their ideology is a predictable distraction to the fact that this story has no substance. Why can't we have a discussion around the thesis: "Poor women are capable of taking care of themselves". If that statement is false, why? And why is it our (G8) problem as opposed to the governments of the countries where these people live?
Birth control won't be in G8 plan to protect mothers, Tories say
Joe Stack
A guy named Joe
Blew his stack
He was an engineer
He had a thing against the IRS
He thought the tax rates were too dear
So he flew his plane into a building
After leaving a note online
Not on Facebook though,
He was not that much of his time
The internetz wrote about it
And called him a right-wing loon
Some said had he been Muslim
There’d be another war soon
But all in all it’s just a tale
Of an engineer, a website and a plane
A fool who set his house on fire
Before he flew off never to be seen again
Backdoor Slavery
The world needs more Alfalfa
Alien vs. Predator
(via ? be careful!! this site is generallyand wonderfully NSFW)
Google Docs
I just did this diagram in less than 5 minutes using Google Docs. Had I done this in Illustrator, I would have taken a half-hour. I don’t know if that means I suck at Illustrator, or if Google Docs is AMAZING.
Pressed to answer, I would say, no, I’m not that bad at Illustrator – it’s only I would have to create every element in the diagram from scratch.
Google Docs provides a library of readymade elements, which cuts down on the time. Also, the library suggests they anticipate their app to be used to create flow charts such as this one, meaning everything I would need to make such an image was there, increasing efficiency. Props to Google for so thoroughly anticipating user needs.
Secondly, Google’s experience with user interfaces (like SketchUp) meant that intuitive actions like grouping meant that I could put together shapes and move them around without having to explicitly group them, which was a bonus.
So yes, Google Docs is AMAZING, but it helps if one knows what one’s doing to begin with.
(BTW, this diagram illustrates the syncing relationship between Google’s cloud services and an iPhone and MacBook).
Limbaugh’s NY Condo
Slide show on Business Insider
Also on Gawker (the headline this morning read 'tasteless' rather than 'gaudy'):
Rush Limbaugh's Gaudy Fifth Avenue Penthouse Is Now For Sale
It looks like Rush Limbaugh is moving ahead with his threat to leave New York City. He's (finally!) put his tacky Fifth Avenue apartment up for sale. The cost of ridding NYC of Rush once and for all? $13.95 million.
Limbaugh promised that he'd sell his Manhattan apartment last March after the Paterson administration proposed raising taxes on New York residents who make more than $500,000 a year. (That wasn't the first time he'd made the threat. On the eve of the 2008 presidential election, Limbaugh said he was "seriously considering selling it," since "it may now become stupid to own any property there.")
Limbaugh was lying at the time, unfortunately. Months after making the "threat," he'd yet to actually put the Fifth Avenue apartment on the market.
But now he has! The 20th-floor penthouse at 1049 Fifth Avenue, which Limbaugh purchased in 1994 under the name RH Trust (Rush's middle name is Hudson) wasofficially listed two weeks ago for $13.95 million. And although he's described the place on his radio show as "fashionable," it's doubtful that will be the word that comes to mind when you look at the photos below, which show off moldings of "hand painted gold leaf" and his "hand painted ceilings and walls" by "renowned artist" Richard Smith.
It’s buried under bullshit
"You walk towards your fear, you embrace your fear, you don't try to hedge it. That a part of real living as human being, as a spiritual being is to embrace and encompass your fear, your love and not run away from anything because that's the life experience. And it's in that richness that we find the most beautiful art, the most beautiful music, we find the richness of what the human soul can offer and I see all that richness buried under such bullshit." – Michael C. Ruppert in Collapse (2009)