September 2008
28 posts
Matt Damon v. Sarah Phailin
This Matt Damon video is fairly old but it’s mostly only here for the follow up video in case you haven’t seen it.
Sarah Palin "actin' slow"
Jack Cafferty, tell us how you really feel. This is Palin’s response to a question asked by Katie Couric regarding the $700 billion government bail out of the private sector.
WHAT!?
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Presidential Debate Mississippi
In case you missed it you can watch the debate from September 26th, 2008 right here in it’s entirety thanks to our friends at Hulu.
John McCain (R) and Barack Obama (D) debate at the first 2008 Presidential Debate, from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss.
As far as debates go I was not that impressed. McCain was completely disrespectful in the fact that he never once...
Google fetish.
I’m not exactly sure what my fetish with Google is but for some reason I really enjoy reading and writing about Google. While I may make jokes about their plans of world domination (I still think this is true) I can’t help but wish that Google was running for president because not only would Google know the answer to everything but it also does it’s own lobbying AND you know...
Chinese to control space?
Chinese researchers claim they’ve confirmed the theory behind an “impossible” space drive, and are proceeding to build a demonstration version. If they’re right, this might transform the economics of satellites, open up new possibilities for space exploration –- and give the Chinese a decisive military advantage in space. To say that the “Emdrive” (short for...
Project 10 to the 100
This is actually a great idea. Everyday people can submit their ideas and have them voted on by other users to hopefully have their ideas implemented. The basis of the contest is to help the most people as possible. Have a great idea? Submit it here: http://www.project10tothe100.com/how_it_works.html
Google strikes again!
McCain attempts to cancel debates.
Wario Land "Shake It"
In an amazing display of youtube integration. Nintendo kills it with this latest youtube trailer of Wario Land “Shake It”.
http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii
Do the wave.
This is actually pretty funny. As I was writing the previous article about wind power I started thinking about how I had heard about wave powered turbines that would harness the power of ocean currents. No sooner did I post the entry did I overhear on BBC news that Portugal is first to implement this technology and as of today will have power running to their grid from the “wave...
Atmosphere on Jimmy Kimmel
Way better performance than the last few on live TV. Still a little rocky. Back up singer is still over powering and slightly off key.
The wind doth blow.
I grew up in a very flat part of the world. Colombian flat. Not like the country but in that Christopher Columbus the world is flat sort of way. I also grew up in a place that is consistently more windy than Chicago, IL. Eat your heart out “Windy City”. As such Buffalo Ridge became a place for wind energy development and testing and as a result sparked my fascination with wind...
San Francisco takes a stab at city wide health...
Today is an historic milestone for the 46 million Americans who don’t have health insurance.
At the National Press Club, I just announced that San Francisco has enrolled 30,061 residents into the city’s ground-breaking Healthy San Francisco universal health care program, more than half of the estimated 60,000 uninsured residents that the program hopes to serve. This comes just 15...
In Germany, car drives you.
Audi has thrown its weight behind “Travolution,” a German traffic light communication management system trying to smooth traffic flow and reduce congestion. The system works by way of 46 smart traffic lights installed in Audi’s home town of Ingolstadt which communicate with specially equipped Audi A5s and A6s. The cars interpret the information from the lights and display an...
If you think Katrina was bad...
Katrina was just the beginning. The long, hot summer that is global warming will be characterized by rising water levels, unprecedented coastal erosion, and more Category 5 hurricanes. Robert Dalrymple, a coastal engineer at Johns Hopkins University, warns that the nation is woefully unprepared. They said Katrina was a 100-year storm but then, so was Rita a month later, he says. What does that...
Utter facination unwarranted?
Independent dairies are finding a classic solution to a classic problem - how to differentiate their products. For inspiration, they hearken back to a time when ice cream was made on the farm, and milk was sold in glass bottles. For older people it’s a taste of nostalgia, for younger people it’s a novelty.
The appeal is simple - many aficionados swear milk tastes better from a glass bottle, and...
Deaf feeling left out.
The American Federation for the Blind has issued a statement regarding Apple’s recently-released 4G iPod nano and Apple’s recent attempts at making its products more accessible to the visually impaired. The organization is “applauding Apple’s moves,” which include adding talking menus and large font options to the UI. According to the AFB, previous incarnations of the...
Jake One single contest
Rhymesayers Entertainment is offering up a digital single deal to the winner of the Jake One Single Contest. The image below has the details of the contest.
Government mistakes beget government mistakes.
Senator Bernie Sanders:
For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sudden, yeah, we do have $700 billion for a bailout of Wall Street.
In just one week....
Faux campaign ad
Google continues with plans of world domination.
A partnership between Internet search giant Google and General Electric is designed to invest in — and promote — technologies for renewable energy.
The plan for the partnership, announced Wednesday, is to establish renewable-energy plants, promote plug-in electric cars and transform the nation’s electricity grid.
Although it’s an Internet company, Google has a vested interest in...
Guy should think plan through more.
Steve Demeter developed the iPhone puzzle game Trism as a side project, but now he’s quitting his day job. Why? Because he says he’s generated $250,000 in profits since he started selling the $4.99 game on iTunes this summer. That’s after Apple (AAPL) has taken its 30% cut of total sales, and after subtracting his initial investment of about $5,000.
So while we’ve heard...
China to kill you with everything they produce...
In an attempt to follow up their deadly toothpaste China has issued a new milk powder that’s killed at least 4 children and has affected nearly 13,000 victims. Next time you pick up a product might wanna make sure it was made in the United States where things might be messed up but at least your milk won’t kill ya.
Nearly 53,000 children in China are now known to have been made ill...
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Wired News Only 6 months behind on 'Obey'
Way to post this 6 months after everyone else knew this was going on.
If you’ve been to any major U.S. city recently, you may have spotted a two-tone print of presidential candidate Barack Obama emblazoned with the word “Hope” on a bumper sticker, lamp post or building.
Shepard Fairey, the 38-year-old street artist known for a guerrilla art campaign that coupled the ominous...
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Memory cards to replace CDs?
NEW YORK (AP) — Just as vinyl once gave way to compact discs as the main physical medium for music, could CDs be replaced now by a fingernail-sized memory card? Perhaps not entirely, but SanDisk Corp., four major record labels and retailers Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are hoping that albums sold on microSD memory cards will at least provide an additional stream of sales. The...
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Sarah Palin's e-mail hacker captured?
Last week it was revealed that the Palin email “hack” was little more than a lucky guess and that a trail of evidence existed that would likely lead the authorities to an arrest. Apparently, this evidence has lead the FBI to the home of a 20-year-old student at the University of Tennessee named David Kernell. To make matters worse, David is the son of Democratic Tennessee state...
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Enhanced Geothermal Systems
An interesting potential for renuable carbon nuetral energy but won’t all those fissures cause the world to break apart?
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