Required Viewing on JihadVia Pixy, check out Obsession: What the War on Terror is Really About, an amazing one-hour-and-seventeen-minute video that puts together many pieces of the puzzle regarding the clash between Islamic fascism and the western world. Even if you think you've heard all this before or think your opinion can't be swayed, you need to watch this.
I had to google Jeordie White to find out he is the bass player for A Perfect Circle. But before Jeordie, APC had quite a striking bassist: Paz Lenchantin. Great player, but check out her especially unique move from around 1:50 to 2:05 in Judith:
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Killer App for Space Tourism
I wonder if private space travel will follow in the steps of the Internet, where sex was one of the earliest successful commercial ventures.
While joining the 250-mile-high-club would certainly be uniquely stimulating, it won't necessarily be easy, was the message of a panel of experts at the recently-concluded Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace 2006 conference in Las Vegas.
NASA (not speaking for the agency, of course) doctor Jim Logan had the money quote:
"It's a pretty messy environment, when you think about it....And for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. However ... I can well imagine how compelling, inspiring, and quite frankly stimulating choreographed sex in zero-G might be in the hands of a skilled and talented cinematographer with appropriate lighting and music....I'm not kidding: Sex in zero-G is going to have to be more or less choreographed. Otherwise it's just going to be a wild flail."
Remembering 9-11
Fred Kiesche at The Eternal Golden Braid is a blogger I read regularly (usually daily). But I didn't learn until recently that he was in New York City on 9-11 and in a subway train under the South Tower when it came down.
Online Video Debut
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a short nature documentary produced, directed, filmed, and edited by yours truly, via the magic of YouTube. Enjoy:
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Oh, John. No offense my friend, but that's nastier than watching Pamela Anderson bounce up and down.
Posted by: Kathy at July 21, 2006 09:36 AM (rDWcI)
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But isn't the little guy cute? Hardly bigger than a half-dollar coin (that's why I scratched his shell at the end of the clip -- for scale). We hand-feed him fish flakes and slices of strawberry.
We've never had a reptilian pet before, and this guy has at least as much personality as a bird. He's 1.5 years old and should live for another 100 years or so.
Posted by: JohnL at July 21, 2006 11:18 AM (Hs4rn)
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He'd be cuter if he was eating fish flakes.
Sorry
Posted by: Kathy at July 21, 2006 12:06 PM (rDWcI)
Posted by: Matan.d.c at July 24, 2006 05:57 AM (pvAUg)
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That is the coolest. thing. ever.
I have always wanted a turtle; what's it like being a turtle owner?
Posted by: Sarah at July 28, 2006 03:12 PM (YL5y0)
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Sarah - glad you liked it. Being a turtle owner is easy so far.
We place him in a separate container once a month and thoroughly clean the gravel bed in his cage (rinse, bleach, neutralizer). We mist him a couple times a day, clean his water dish daily, feed him every day or so (worms every few days, fish flakes and fruits or vegetables in between).
He needs a special UV bulb that cost about $30 but otherwise he has been one of the cheapest pets we've ever had. And he has lots of personality, for a reptile.
Posted by: JohnL at July 28, 2006 08:12 PM (aM8Nm)
I particularly love how the spinning Leslie in "The Great Gig in the Sky" mirrors the spinning tornado in Oz.
I guess this is as good a place as any to note the recent passing of Floyd founder Syd Barrett, who gave Pink Floyd their name and whose LSD-and-fame-fueled descent into insanity colored all of the band's subsequent output.
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Yeah, yeah (Who says a double positive doesn't make a negative?). The PF tune goes with almost anything. Such as, the movie I was watching in the lower right corner of my monitor while I evaluated this "experiment" (The Cave, if you must know).
I think one of the major failings of the internet is the lack of an appropriate emoticon - using ASCII characters - for the underwhelmed twit who has seen and heard it all before. That's me. That's the reaction I had (If you can call it a reaction).
Posted by: Hucbald at July 15, 2006 11:27 PM (H2sPy)
It's Not the Quantity, It's The Quality
The first rule of blogging is to update your blog regularly. But a funny thing happened when I stopped following that rule. My daily traffic doubled and has remained in the supra-500 hits-per-day range for the last 7 months or so of reduced posting. While many of my visitors come looking for airplane or science fiction babe pictures, they usually stick around for a few minutes at a time, which indicates to me that they like what they see.
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Damm, I wish I could get a few more hits on my site. I'ts so much more fun when you can respond to comments. HEY ALL YOUSE GUYS! check it out.
http://impudent.blognation.us/blog
Posted by: kyle8 at July 10, 2006 05:07 AM (t2CE1)
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Hmmm. I post, I get hits. I don't post, I don't get hits. Must be a karma thing.
Posted by: Hucbald at July 12, 2006 02:18 AM (H2sPy)
As to liberty, the heroes who signed the great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
