Charges of Sadism Hound Republican Candidates

Romney clan less brutal to fuzzy animals than Huckabee according to a recent old story.From Kinky Friedman's Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch:

(Miller County, Arkansas) Two boy scout counselors, 17 year old Clayton Frady and 18 year old David litickabee, the son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, have admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death.

Camp officials, who did not report the crime to law enforcement officials, have admitted that the act did occur and have fired the boys from their positions. However, no charges have been filed against the young men.

Arkansas State Police conducted a perfunctory investigation, but did not attempt to locate witnesses to the crime.

Huckabee denies all. Romney tortures dogs. Giuliani would kill everything if he got the chance. And ol' Hil says, "I will be a good president for dogs."

Vid Lists

I've decided to start making video playlists on youtube. Making playlists with iTunes really has changed how I listen to music, so I'm excited to see how this new medium and application feel when squished like clay against my head and hands. I'm anticipating the limitations. So far I've made 4 playlists, and I'm planning to stick with these for awhile and try to grow them.

MY VIDEO PLAYLISTS

Free Drug Pipe w/ iPhone

Found this image on the Apple website over X-Mas. I guess that drug pipe shown next to the iPhone has Bluetooth and wireless crapability. Apple must know their demographic at least as well as their competition does.

Is the Space Pope reptilian?

Of course I couldn't be happier with the return of Futurama. In the spring of 1999, when Futurama first aired, the Simpsons had already begun to show they would no longer as relevant or sharp in the years 2000. But Futurama still feels fresh to me. Futurama is a throwback. Like the new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Black Dossier, Futurama cast a wide net, trying to capture the sum of human thought since inception. With significance drifting back and forth between the past and the future. Like what the scientists tell us about God.
So I thought I thought I'd share some wiki research on Futurama:

* There is a strange racially charged history which the supremely diverse Futurama universe rests on. Evidence: the title of this new Futurama DVD is a play on Shaft's Big Score, the robots are often portrayed as robo-americans, and Nibbler is based on Minstrel cartoon character Bosko. Not everyone's from the Neutral Planet.

* Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth gets his name from Philo Farnsworth inventor of the television. Professor Farnsworth has invented these things, and Mr. Farnsworth invented these things.

* List of recurring alien characters from Futurama

Randy Newman - A Few Words in Defense of Our Country

The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein

GoogleSky

A few days ago we were looking for a good star/sky catalog, and a few days ago Google released an amazing update to GoogleEarth. So, wow, cool, all that.

You can now use their app to view the night sky, as you'd see it, from wherever you are. Also, just like in the rest of GoogleEarth, you can zooooooommmm.

This is looking like an amazing potential venue for the LSST star data Google has promised to archive, which will be coming in... 2013? (so far away) at a rate of 30TB a night.

Some applications with similar offerings are mentioned in this article, but I'd check out Stellarium (open-source, cross-platform). I haven't fully explored it, but it has some fun overlays, and from what I can see, it all sits on your computer, which would be preferable to the GoogleEarth/Sky, should you be star-gazing in an area where the wifi is a bit spotty.

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http://earth.google.com/sky/
Google Lat Long (GoogleEarth and Maps blog)
another youtube spot
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It is alarming (and wonderful) to think about how disparate the childhoods of the coming generations are and will be from every other generation that has come before. Seriously, check out the zoom on a nebula or something. Crazy.