Link of the Day [8.15.08]
This is gotta be the best usage of the internet so far. I’ll let the name speak for itself.
Link of the Day [8.14.08]
You Belong to Me sounds like an interesting movie. It stars Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. She’s a doctor. He’s a millionaire. They meet on vacation. I suppose wacky highjinx ensue soon turning to love.
But the movie only sounds interesting. There was never a movie with that description with those two in it. It is almost real and very similar plot points to The Lady Eve. Yet, I think it’s all fabricated.
I got this link in my google search RSS feed for Barabara Stanwyck. I read it the site. I think it’s a spam site as lately this search RSS feed has been getting hit with spam sites. I apologize now if you’re on a Windows machine and it installs some kind of malware.
I can’t believe how sophisticated these spammers are. If you read the rest of the site, you’ll see some other movies that were made in the alternate reality Hollywood of the spammers.
Link of the Day [8.13.08]
I have two bikes that I’ve been riding this year. I also have two more bikes in the garage. What to do with these? I would like to sell one, the Bianchi, but the other, an old Specialized Rockhopper, I want to recycle. Fix it up and give it to someone who may make use of it better.
I don’t who would do that, but these guys are close. If you have a few bikes you want to get rid of consider donating to this organization. Now if they only picked up door to door.
Link of the Day [8.12.08]
Sometimes political commentators can be blowhards hard to listen to and to take seriously especially if they bloviate about the problems of the Democratic party. While not perfect in any sense, and not achieving much for the American people, the Democratic party still strives to make living in the United States better for everyone.
The Republican party? Not so much.
Thomas Frank is supposedly one of the more astute commentators of the political scene. While I don’t doubt that (I had read One Market Under God which was okay), he does put succinctly the problems with the Republican party and the people who come to be its representatives. They are a corrupt bunch of people, because the philosophical underpinnings of the Republican party is corrupt as well. They are beholden not to the people who elect them but to the corporations and the wealthy. They believe government to be THE problem, but still want to work within it. You don’t put the criminals in charge of the police. Why do we do it for our government?
Get this book and see the impoverished ideas of the Republican party.
Link of the Day [8.11.08]
Palindromes are just plain fun. I think someone wrote a book that was a palindrome. I doubt that. There are some long ones, but most become gibberish. I have a picture of my VW’s odometer rolling through 100,001 miles. It was cute.
Link of the Day [8.10.08]
Went to the Yard last night. Saw the O’s win one for the first time in a long while. Perhaps my streak of losses is over.
On one pitch a Texas player swung, lost his grip on the bat, and then lost his bat to a fan who caught it. We cheered. Hopefully, the dude’s okay and not hurt from some wooden projectile hurtling his way. At least he got a souvenir. I wonder if the bat is maple or ash?
Link of the Day [8.09.08]
The MacMini is really great. I’m thinking about switching over to all intel machines. It’ll make developing software easier. I don’t think I’ll be doing that in the near term, but having an intel desktop would be nice.
Link of the Day [8.08.08]
So it’s a toy. So what? I like ’em. I collect figures. My older brother is building up a comic book/star wars figure collection. Me? I like the anime stuff. Lately, I’ve been interested in the small cute ones called nendoroids. They’re made by Good Smile Company. Today’s link will show you the list of them. It’s never too early to start a Christmas wish list.
Link of the Day [8.07.08]
It’s the day before the 2008 Olympics in China. For all their advances in commerce and capitalism, let’s not forget how totalitarian the regime is. Their staging of the Olympics is a propoganda device meant to show the world that they are ready to be a part of it. Yet, they can still do what they did almost twenty years ago except now with a corporate logo.
Link of the Day [8.06.08]
At 8:15 AM sixty-three years ago, the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. In an instant, 140,000 people were killed, and the fate of the world was changed. Who knows if the war in the Pacific could’ve been won without the bomb? Who knows what we had unleashed? It is a legacy that remains with us to this day. Should we have been the ones to use it? If not us, would they have used on us or our allies?