TaleSlinger on Nov 02 2007 | Filed under: Entertainment
In the wake of last Tuesday’s debate, where Hillary was on both sides/no sides of several issues, this ad from Jon Edwards is crushing. Where the earlier anti-Hillary Ad based on 1984 was great, this one also focuses “like a laser beam” on a weakness that may very well be fatal.
TaleSlinger on Oct 21 2007 | Filed under: Entertainment, Policy
I wrote a short summary of podcasts I like for a friend of mine. Unfortunately, I used tables and it seems that WordPress doesn’t properly support html tables.
I’ve posted it as a separate web page, located here.
TaleSlinger on Sep 19 2007 | Filed under: Entertainment
The title doesn’t quite say it all, but in this case its pretty accurate. I assume that neither the SPCA nor PETA would not agree that this is acceptable behavior, but I thought it was both funny and innovative. 
However, it might make you feel better to know that I feel bad about the fact that I find this funny. Note also, that YouTube has removed this video from its catalog, thus, this is from LiveLeak.
TaleSlinger on Aug 28 2007 | Filed under: Video
This home made Slip ‘n Slide video is amazing. It looks so profoundly dangerous and stupid, its clear why a bunch of high school (college?) kids did it while their parents were out of town. As crazy as the beginning is, you need to watch the whole thing to see how crazy it really is.
While this video is safe for work, I wouldn’t show it to children, because it might give them innovative dangerous ideas (you know, the kind of things that you would have liked to do at that age!).
TaleSlinger on Aug 20 2007 | Filed under: Tech
This looks so amazing that I can’t believe it. Here’s a video demonstrating how to make a bunch of the expensive Button Batteries from a single A23 (12 Volt) Battery.
12 Volt Battery Hack! You’ll Be Surprised… - video powered by Metacafe
TaleSlinger on Jul 19 2007 | Filed under: Entertainment, Popular Culture, Tech
One of the Classic Twilight Zone episodes is “People Are Alike All Over“, which was originally based on a Fairman’s short story “Brothers Beyond the Void”, and made into an X Minus One Episode. Just as radio and television were once thought to be tools to educate and enlighten the masses.
The One Laptop Per Child program aims to educate and enlighten the underprivileged masses in a similar manner (and its a great program don’t get me wrong). It turns out that OLPC has again demonstrated that “People are alike all over”, as school children and teens given laptops in the pilot program surf porn during school.
Of course, the obvious solution is to install filters, so that only the smart and determined kids (and their friends) can get porn.
The eternal battle continues…
TaleSlinger on Apr 18 2007 | Filed under: Popular Culture, Video
Here’s a movie-quality moment from the Price is right.
As a special bonus, Here’s a pretty funny clip from “the Price is Right” as well. Both clips show that Bob Barker is a great Master of Ceremonies and thinks swell on this feet.
TaleSlinger on Apr 18 2007 | Filed under: Popular Culture
Here’s a movie-quality moment from the Price is right.
TaleSlinger on Apr 11 2007 | Filed under: Politics
Before the United States invaded Iraq, several things were said about
it. Here are some videos on the topic. Dick Cheney, explaining that
putting in a new Government in Iraq would “be the classic definition of
a quagmire”:
Here’s General Norman Schartzkopf and (current) SECDEF Gates,
interviewed by Dan Rather, explaining that we can’t overturn the Iraqi
Government, because:
I don’t have video for Cheney’s quotes:
“It
is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days,
six weeks. I doubt six months.” —
Feb 2003
”What
you’d like to do is have it be a short, short conflict. . . . Iraq is
much weaker than they were back in the ’90s,” —
Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
2003 (That was a 100 hour war…)
Lawerence B. Lindsey, the former head of the National Economic Council
was fired for suggesting that the cost of the Iraq war might reach $200
M in September 2002 (
York Times).
Here’s a bit more information on those pre-war cost estimates (quoted
from
American Prospect:
You can find another dozen quotes on the topic
showing that the cost and time table of the war was measured in weeks,
not years.
Here’s a video with some of the quotes above and in the web site in the
previous paragraph (go ahead and read it). Its done to R. E. M.’s ” Its
the End of the World As We Know It” (worth it to hear Bill Maher’s
quotes on making predictions).
Here’s the Mission Accomplished video. Its informative to review it,
becuase its been characterized in different ways by different factions:
“In the
battle of Iraq, the united states and our allies have prevailed”
TaleSlinger on Apr 11 2007 | Filed under: Policy
Here are three videos that show the power of computer augmentation in society today.
They are Extreme (Photoshop) Makeover, The Distortion of Beauty, and playboy evolution made by photoshop
All threed are 2-3 minutes long, and show how ordinary women can be transformed into stunning models with the power of the computer.
Also, here’s an excellent (though IMO improperly biased) view of women in media. Closely connected to the ideas in the three videos, called “Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women”.