Articles from January 2009



Here’s the Change You’ve Been Waiting for…

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H/T Charles at Little Green Footballs

Saturday Thoughts

The Winter of our Discontent
 
In the blogosphere news there’s been a meltdown at Pajamas Media in the face of sinking revenue, more about some of the fallout over at Protein Wisdom.
I don’t depend on ad revenue, and the “non pro” bloggers are not going to be affected by the implosion of ad revenues seen at [...]

From the Fires of Creation Data as Noise, Noise as Art

From the Fires of Creation Data as Noise, Noise as Art
H/T Bioephemera

Brilliant Noise from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Don’t Try to Take Kasey’s Blanket

Don’t Try to Take Kasey’s Blanket
Kasey is quick when you try to take her blankie…

Iced Rig and a Frozen Smoker

Iced Rig and a Frozen Smoker
Wildbeggar got caught by the icestorm yesterday, he sent me these pics.

Ryuichi Sakamoto – Thousand Knives

Home From the Sea

Home From the Sea
Docking at dawn, there’s some blurriness due to the low light long exposure and the motion of the ship it was taken from. I like the effect however.

Shame on the Netherlands

Shame on the Netherlands

Pakistan Lost II

Pakistan Lost II
Back in December both Bill Roggio and I said Swat was lost, (Pakistan Lost.) The post is ironically titled – Swat itself is a beautiful mountain paradise, or could be without the Taliban infestation. Traveling to Swat now would be like going upriver to meet Colonel Kurtz. Here’s what I said back then:
The [...]

What Now Democrats?

On the economic front the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but will the Dems realize this in time, or will they play up the current economic crisis for all its specious worth just to milk more “social justice” out of the wallets of taxpayers?

Snow at Night

Snow at Night
A low light long macro exposure of some snow that fell last night.

The High Bridge at Multnomah Falls

The High Bridge at Multnomah Falls
I took this ages ago with a weak-ass four or five mpx camera, but I still like it for the memories. I need to take a trip back with the Cannon and Sony cams. Click on the thumb for the larger version, there are tons of better pictures out there – [...]

Post Barakalyptic Wasteland

Post Barakalyptic Wasteland
Ayn Rand once wrote an essay that compared the crowd and the aftermath of the Apollo 11 Launch in 1969 to that of Woodstock. It was both acerbic and insightful, contrasting how the 1 million souls interested in science and the future at Cape Kennedy left the scene of the historic launch to how the 300,000 music and drug enthusiasts left Woodstock. I will leave it to [...]

Hamas Uses Ceasefire to Fire Rockets at Israel From Schools

Hamas Uses Ceasefire to Fire Rockets at Israel From Schools
IDF Video showing Hamas already moving back into schools to fire rockets at Israel

Meanwhile here’s an Al Arabiya reporter who thinks it’s humorous that Hamas just launched rockets at Israel from under their studio. She has no idea what counterbattery fire is, and is lucky that [...]

Bill Moyers Backpedals the Cycle of Violence

I still believe Bill to be the worst sort of racist, those that profess not to be prejudiced while savaging by word and deed the people they are supposedly not prejudiced against; all the while maintaining a tone of high-brow snooty moral superiority. Stating that you are one of the good people does not make you one.

Dawn Comes to a Wine Dark Sea

Dawn Comes to a Wine Dark Sea
 

“Hail,” said he, “Achilles, we have had no scant of good cheer, neither in the tent of Agamemnon, nor yet here; there has been plenty to eat and drink, but our thought turns upon no such matter. Sir, we are in the face of great disaster, and without your [...]

Kasey as a Puppy

Kasey as a Puppy
It’s hard to think back to when Kasey was a pup, so I’m glad I took some pics.

Constellation: A New Journey Begins

Constellation: A New Journey Begins
Ares V and heavy cargo capability to the moon – will it happen?

PBS’s Bill Moyers Goes Anti-Semite

So God-soaked violence became genetically coded

Renewed Sense of Wonder

The thought of the cosmos as a “holgram” projected from a thin veneer of “quanta” atmosphere around a massive black hole at the center of the universe is just astounding