February 2009
36 posts
WatchWho wants to meet my son? He doesn’t like chapstick hanging around his zone. ps. you have to wait for him to get riled up.
Mysterious Creature on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
WatchThe Daily Commute
Not original by any means, but I couldn’t resist. My commute to work, via bicycle, using my new HD cam. I take this route back and forth twice a day, five days a week. To work, back for lunch, to work again, then home.
Obama plots huge railroad expansion →
Been waiting for a headline like that for about a decade now.
Recovery.gov →
This went live today.
“We have to ensure that the cars of tomorrow are built here by Americans, for...”
– Robert Gibbs - Why exactly? Why do we have to force cars to stay alive? Why can’t we start thinking about giving people ways of getting around that don’t require a giant oil fueled, industrial-military complex?
The New Jobless →
Going through this article felt like flipping through old depression photos in a Time Life book. The only difference is, this is happening right now and no one has a hold on how real it is. You can feel both sides tugging, the fake optimism saying everything is going to be fine, and the real undercurrent of intuition saying something is very very wrong.
Facebook, Overlord
Facebook just took a shit on all of it’s users, especially those with unique, self created content by updating it’s Terms of Service. Now they own your shit forever, no matter what you do, if you’ve posted it on their site, even if you delete your account.
You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the...
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
– Sir Francis Bacon
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but...”
– William James
13 year old boy becomes father with 15 year old... →
WTF of the day
Bon Iver and Friendly Fires
“All you need to do is grant visas to two million Indians, Chinese and Koreans....”
– Shekhar Gupta, editor of The Indian Express newspaper
Kanye West vs. Modest Mouse
“Sweden, on the other hand, had a problem like this. They took over the banks,...”
– Barack Obama
“Just a few short months ago, there was a smidgen of hope that Dubai might ride...”
– Bye-Bye, Dubai — Daily Intel — New York News Blog — New York Magazine
Watch“Fidelity”: Don’t Divorce… on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Ken Starr, who led the campaign to impeach President Bill Clinton, filed a legal brief last month — on behalf of the “Yes on 8” campaign — that would forcibly divorce 18,000 same-sex couples that were married in California last year before the passage of Prop 8.
couragecampaign.org/divorce
New Theme
I’m still tweaking it and all that, but I spent some time last night working on my first custom theme for this blog. It’s now more in line with my personal site. It’s that whole “the pumber has the leaky sink” syndrome since I work in the web industry, I never find time for my own stuff. But here is my first stab. I like it a lot better than all of the borrowed themes...
“I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could...”
– Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy | California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns - Los Angeles Times
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“El Centro, Calif. continued to hold the highest rate of unemployment at 22.6%....”
– Local unemployment up in 98% of cities - Feb. 4, 2009 | I can only imagine what it is like there right now. I lived there for a bit before starting college in San Diego and the only job I could find after weeks of looking was helping to demolish an old hardware store and even that was a...
