cainmark

George Carlin died.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021649.html

I put this in a comment, then realized I should probably have it in my own journal as well.

When I lived is Charleston, South Carolina in 1971 they would play Gamera the turtle movies and Ultraman shows on Saturday morning television. Then my best friend at the time and I would play all afternoon pretending to be Ultraman (we were *both* Ultraman). Gamera was our sidekick we'd call to protect the city (our neighborhood) while went off into outer space (the forest with a marsh behind it).

I tried to be him for Halloween, but I was too young to make it myself, it was too obscure for regular drugstores near us to have the manufactured costumes, and my mom had no idea what I was talking about (my drawing was nowhere near accurate. Hey, I was only six at the time) to make one for me. So I was a tiger instead. My brother was a robot made out of cardboard boxes and tinfoil.

I don't really remember if the show was any good, but our playtime stories were great!

Surveill the Surveillance. Let's take back the Constitution's hijacked 4th amendment as soon as we can.




http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/surveillancesocietyclock2.html

These are one day behind. I don't know why.

• 15:47 The pundit class-"Like Holocaust deniers as it's happening all around them." #

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Happy Birthday, seamusmoon

More information about Earth Hour here:

http://www5.earthhourus.org/

3.14

Happy Pi day!

That's interesting:

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002487

It explains why my videorecording of that 60 minutes segment was mostly a parking lot.


Definitely not just theories anymore.

UPDATE:

WHNT re-broadcast it at a sane hour during their 6:00pm broadcast.

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/02/whnt-re-airs-60.html

Good for them. Finally.

Here's a link I missed:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/media-blackout-update-pakistan-and-alabama/index.html?ex=1361682000&en=f74ecfb0dce41cfd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

I left this comment at the last link:
"I live in Huntsville. It’s a great city, really. And Alabama is a great state. It’s just very unfortunate that the publicity we get is from our loudest, not necessarily brightest. And we have very, very bright people here, especially in Huntsville, the Rocket City.

That being said, the coincidences are way too much for these to be just theories. Again, NYT hasn’t owned WHNT since May2007. There’s a link in the comments to the Republican crony who does. Follow the money, think critically, and ask yourself who stands to gain.

Seigelman was definitely railroaded unjustly.

I don’t think he was a very good Governor, and Riley has surprised me in a actually being the best Republican governor this state could hope for. He is good for this state. His party and the current administration are and have been disasters for this country.

What bothers me the most is the attempt to dismiss this as one little station in a city in a state, when what’s going on has much farther reaching consequences. But Britney or a flash of Janet’s boob during the Superbowl or crimes in sports are more important and worthy of outrage and attention than crimes by our city, state and federal judiciary? Why the heck is that?

Thank goodness the internet hasn’t been locked down yet (but oh, how they are trying.)

— Posted by cainmark"

Who stands to gain? and Follow the money. are things to keep in mind when such "coincidences" happen.

Stuff like this, just, aaargh! Unjust, unfair, and that girl is still dead. Cracks in this system need to be fixed.

http://phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-01-24/news/the-wrong-driver/

Thanks to Bloggity Blog Blog

http://realtegan.blogspot.com/2008/01/wednesday-linkdump_23.html

, I now have a new favorite word:

pareidolia

http://www.answers.com/Pareidolia?nafid=3

It's snowing!

(In Huntsville, Alabama)

It's so much better to bicycle home in than sleet!

Swiped from seamusmoon

Mostly links I shared. I skipped over private entries and birthday wishes.

2007

Jan

thought cookies in a pink box were fortune cookies. They weren't. They were almond. So I asked if they were misfortune cookies

Feb

These were pretty funny. Science fiction mashups.

http://jaylake.livejournal.com/923339.html

Mar

Jamendo has a Creative Commons music portal now. Looking for something to re-mix or use in your vidoe? here's another site that might help!

http://www.jamendo.com/en/creativecommons/

Apr

Darth Cheney
mood: blank
http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney07052006.html

May

Cool.

Join the first experiment in social tagging of art museum collections.

http://steve.museum/

Jun

This is just one of the important things going on in congress now about copyright

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.1353

Jul
But of course, I would think that.
mood: calm
I take issue with him being called a loon, though. He was just waaaay ahead of his time.


Which Historical Lunatic Are You?

Aug

I hate it when I'm so busy I can't remember what the heck I was so damnable busy with. I'll find out later when I have time to look back through my private entries.

Sep

My devilgirl and I are on our way to my Aunt and Uncle’s 50th wedding anniversary party in Indiana.

Oct

So after watching Dark Star http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film) again, I remembered a couple of things I’d read about Dan O’Bannon (Pinback) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_O'Bannon

Nov

Miro-The Free Open-Source Video Platform
I really like this feed aggregator. I didn't like its predeccesor so much (democracy) because it didn't have mefeedia as a channel. Now it does.

Dec

Cool library sides as bookshelves.

http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/30/can-you-spot-the-library/

Happy New Year to all! May 2008 be a blessing for you and your house, despite what happens.

"For years this ban has held back large media companies from owning both the newspapers and major television stations in the same media market. For you, this means fewer choices for your news, fewer voices in the local media, and news programming that gets worse and worse."

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/659309295?z00m=11868629

From the past, from the future, just not now.

http://forums.koalawallop.com/viewtopic.php?t=1719

I didn't want to post about this earlier:

Saturday - 27th - Crash Boom Bang Theatre Presents... "An Evening with the Eternally Nocturne", Admission $7 (9pm)

In case someone was going to the Sunday show, I didn't want to leave spoilers.


We entered into the theatre, and then were led down a metal staircase to outside metal folding chairs in front of a small screen. In front of the screen were musicians playing. Right above the screen to the right, near the Lowe Mill water tower was a very bright, though not full moon. They played the silent movie (with white letters on black boards title cards) about people going crazy from a mad scientist and her minions experiments until one escapes and make it to a school bus. Then there's no signal to the movie and to the right we see lights of the school bus that was in the movie start up. The woman gets off the bus and is holding title cards saying things like "You're next!" and she gets dragged away as she's holding a sign that says *gasp*. During the time this is happening the musicians have surrounded the audience and are chanting, "Get on the bus. Get on the bus". So all the audience members get on the bus and and it drives around Lowe Mill and lets the audience off at the parking lot. The musicians are marching toward the bus chanting "Get off the bus. Get off the bus."

It was a very fun interactive experience.