Monthly Archives: July 2004

MySilo

July 30, 2004 – 1:22 pm

Knowing that everybody wants a missile silo, bari1001 has posted his for sale on eBay (thanks to DefenseTech for the pointer). Silo World has the skinny on Titan 1 silo design, NPR did a story on missile silo homes a few years ago, though most of the silos are empty, abandoned, and dangerous. Still, there [...]

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News: Bush Bushed

July 30, 2004 – 12:27 pm

I hadn’t heard of Capitol Hill Blue until a friend forwarded this story about Bush’s paranoid isolation. First, I should say that paranoid isolation isn’t all bad. It worked well enough for ol’ Howard — “I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire; Goddamit, I’m a billionaire” — Hughes, but then Hughes wasn’t president and didn’t think [...]

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‘Pod Happy

July 28, 2004 – 12:23 pm

The new iPod came Monday. Stepping up to it from the second generation iPod I had is amazing. Most noticeable differences so far: I can now charge from the computer and play music (in the 2g iPod, it locks the interface and flashes “do not disconnect” any time it’s plugged in to a computer), the [...]

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Things You Have To Believe To Be A Republican Today

July 28, 2004 – 6:35 am

My father forwarded this to me this morning:

Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we can’t find Bin Laden” diversion.
Trade with Cuba is wrong because the [...]

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Woody Guthrie On Copright

July 27, 2004 – 8:40 am

Copyfight is reporting on the infringement lawsuit threatening the creators of the 2004 presidential election parody animation that’s getting all the laughs. They’re quoting TechDirt which apparently has a quote from Guthrie himself:
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it [...]

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Apple Fusses Over Fuse

July 26, 2004 – 6:25 am

Fuse, a music TV network trying to compete with MTV by actually playing music videos done some bilboards in NYC that look a lot like Apple’s silhouette ads, but with people pole dancing and masturbating and stuff. Gizmodo came through and posted images of the ads so low brow people outside NY (like me) could [...]

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These Aren’t Cubes

July 26, 2004 – 5:42 am

Also at Gizmodo: the Volume Macropod. They’re like cubicles, but cooler. They’re mobile, but useful. Ad agency Chiat-Day made big news about giving up structured offices and such back around 1995 [CNN Story & Supervert.com story].
The point, of course, is to have people working out of cube farms because they’re cheaper, cheaper, cheaper. Problem [...]

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This Land

July 23, 2004 – 8:10 pm

Greg & Evan Spiridellis oever at Jib Jab have put together a damn funny flash movie about the presidential race.
From the lyrics:

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Kerry: “You can’t say ‘nuclear,’ that really scares me. Sometimes a brain can come in quite handy”
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Bush: “you’re a liberal sissy”
Kerry: “you’re a right wing nut job”
Bush: “you’re a pinko commie”
Kerry: “you’re dumb [...]

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Life Goes On…

July 21, 2004 – 9:41 pm

Sandee called me from home Friday to say she was having trouble playing music from our primary music server. Every time she selected a song iTunes complained that it couldn’t find the file. I had a plausible explanation at the time and didn’t think much of it, but Sandee was really reporting something much more [...]

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Mapparium, Boston

July 14, 2004 – 8:58 pm

Religious landmarks usually don’t interest me, but the Mapparium really is a sight to see.
…The Mapparium, located within the Christian Science Publishing Society. A thirty-foot stained-glass globe room in lobby of the Christian Science Publishing Society gives one an ‘inside view’ of the world. Standing on the thirty-foot glass bridge, which traverses the diameter of [...]

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You Can Take It With You: DVDs on Palm/Clie

July 14, 2004 – 6:52 am

Junglemike has an interesting post on compressing video for Palm playback at the 1src Forums (n the ClieSource Forums):
This guide explains in detail how you can prepare video to watch on you Palm handheld. It [is usefull] for converting full-length 1.5-2 hour movies to be stored on even a small 128mb sd-card with uperior quality.
Let [...]

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Fox and Conservative Pals Out Spreading More Slander and Libel

July 13, 2004 – 10:24 am

Welcome the flacks. I don’t get many comments on stories here at MaisonBisson, so I was interested when I found a comment to my story about the Outfoxed documentary just an hour after I’d posted it.
Here’s my theory, and it’s supported by stories in Eric Alterman’s What Liberal Media and Al Franken’s Lies: conservative groups [...]

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OutFOXed

July 13, 2004 – 8:23 am

OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch’s War On Journalism is out on DVD and VHS now.
Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control [...]

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Another Military Family Against Bush

July 10, 2004 – 9:24 pm

Another Military Family Against Bush bumper stickers and other products available.
Another Military Family Against Bush Value T-Shirt
Another Military Family Against Bush Long Sleve T-Shirt
Another Military Family Against Bush Frisbee
Another Military Family Against Bush Mug
Another Military Family Against Bush Big Mug
Another Military Family Against Bush Messenger Bag
Another Military Family Against Bush Bumper Sticker
Another Military Family Against [...]

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Cheap Food, Cheap Labor

July 7, 2004 – 10:32 pm

I’ve found myself in a number of conversations about food safety lately. Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal comes up regularly, but I keep wanting to mention Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America. Why? Because Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose did such great job explaining the political context [...]

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