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My first Fliver.I bought a Flip Video camera the other day, and...

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:25:00 -0400

My first Fliver.

I bought a Flip Video camera the other day, and here’s what I’m going to do with it:

Every day, I’m going to record something that interests me. It might be an interesting image… or it might be an interview with someone on the street.

I’m going to allow myself 60 minutes of video a week and, at the end of the week, I’m going to edit a short video for the week. I’m going to take whatever inspires me from the raw footage, and create the week’s video out of it.

This first video was shot on the day I got the camera, Friday, April 18th. It’s fish from the fish tank at the Beverly Hilton. We all had a lot of fun staring at these guys while we were filming in LA.

MobLogic Does Animation!

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:55:52 -0400

MobLogic Does Animation!:

Very proud of this one. More like it on the way!

lindsaycampbell:

scottsolary:

Sean Smith’s animation talents really shine in our first animated episode of MobLogic. Our newest editor, Nick Paley, assisted.

Wow. lindsaycampbell: I guess I’ve becomed a known Jeremiah...

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:54:19 -0400

Wow.

lindsaycampbell:

I guess I’ve becomed a known Jeremiah Wright defender because an internet friend, Jim Adler, sent me this video.

I didn’t catch this ‘til today. You GOTTA give...

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:42:12 -0400

I didn’t catch this ‘til today. You GOTTA give Edwards props for making it through the Word, and doing a decent job of it.

Anyone who works in the field knows it’s infinitely more complicated to deliver The Word than Letterman’s Top Ten List.

An unequivical indictment of Clinton and McCain for piling on...

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:39:20 -0400

An unequivical indictment of Clinton and McCain for piling on Obama, who had the audacity to say that ppl are angry and bitter. Courtesy of Truthdig

Government-funded website blocks searches on abortion.

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:27:07 -0400

Government-funded website blocks searches on abortion.: The search database Popline dubs itself a “connection to the world’s reproductive health literature.” But the government-funded site, run by Johns Hopkins University, has recently begun blocking searches on the word abortion, “concealing nearly 25,000 search results”

America lauds Martin Luther King, but undermines his legacy every day

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:04:11 -0400

America lauds Martin Luther King, but undermines his legacy every day: Forty years after the civil rights leader’s death, his myth masks how the US remains segregated in practice and attitudes

tent city in suburbs is cost of home crisis

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:17:58 -0400

tent city in suburbs is cost of home crisis:

I found this article fascinating - evoking Hoovervilles, of course.

But Reuters… what the F with this story?!? Here’s a quote from the 5th paragraph:

While no current residents claim to be victims of foreclosure, all agree that tent city is a symptom of the wider economic downturn. And it’s just a matter of time before foreclosed families end up at tent city, local housing experts say.

So, there are no people in tent city because of the home crisis. There’s just a tent city… and a home crisis.

lindsaycampbell:

Have they not heard about the economic stimulus package? They’re gonna be fiiiinnnnneeeeee.

jessicagoldharalson:

“Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits “tent city,” a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California. The noisy, dusty camp sprang up in July with 20 residents and now numbers 200 people, including several children, growing as this region east of Los Angeles has been hit by the U.S. housing crisis.”

Bin Laden issues new message … that doesn’t mention fifth anniversary of Iraq invasion? Update: Audio added

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:51:19 -0400

Bin Laden issues new message … that doesn’t mention fifth anniversary of Iraq invasion? Update: Audio added: Great point from HotAir. Hmm, I guess Iraq is so important to the terrorists that the Al Queda-in-chief forgot the Anniversary in his speech.

Sequoia Voting Systems Threatens Princeton Computer Scientists with Legal Action if they Carry Out NJ Commissioned Analysis of the Company's Touch-Screen Voting Machines

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:40:13 -0400

Sequoia Voting Systems Threatens Princeton Computer Scientists with Legal Action if they Carry Out NJ Commissioned Analysis of the Company's Touch-Screen Voting Machines

Fox News infested by bed bugs.

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:38:50 -0400

Fox News infested by bed bugs.: Fox News’s senior vice president for operations and engineering, Warren Vandeveer, admitted to the New York Times yesterday that Fox’s Midtown Manhattan newsroom was recently infested with bed bugs.

John 'Foreign Policy Expert' McCain Unfamiliar With Sunni/Shia Roles in Iraq

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:36:05 -0400

John 'Foreign Policy Expert' McCain Unfamiliar With Sunni/Shia Roles in Iraq: Sen. John McCain, traveling in the Middle East to promote his foreign policy expertise, misidentified in remarks Tuesday which broad category of Iraqi extremists are allegedly receiving support from Iran.

"What our service men and women have accomplished over there has been nothing short of astounding...."

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:44:23 -0400

“What our service men and women have accomplished over there has been nothing short of astounding. Though you never hear about it in the media. God has not abandoned us.”

- More targeting the base: God is backing the United States in Iraq.

Targeting the base. From Tony in our office.

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:14:21 -0400

Targeting the base. From Tony in our office.

Via FakeSteve… God I wish this was a parody.

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:53:36 -0400

Via FakeSteve… God I wish this was a parody.

Trying the Times LC Style

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:48:00 -0400

I’m giving up my RSS feed habit for the morning, and am going to try reading the NYTimes online like Lindsay does, “cover to cover”.

I love reading the paper version this way, but have never tried it online. My pre2k eyes are just not used to consuming that quantity of written word on a computer screen linearly. I’m a browser, a scanner.

But I love me some Sunday NYT, so we’ll see how it goes.

Interview with the creator of the new John Adams series on HBO

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:20:34 -0400

Interview with the creator of the new John Adams series on HBO

imarks: Unwinding at the imeem party after our MobLogic launch...

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:52:27 -0400

imarks:

Unwinding at the imeem party after our MobLogic launch extravaganza!

lindsaycampbell: I’m proud of this episode. I think we...

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:05:37 -0400

lindsaycampbell:

I’m proud of this episode. I think we succeeded, though the show and the comment board, at getting some people thinking about this issue who didn’t know “The Decider” was primed to veto it.

In Alabama, a Crackdown on Pregnant Drug Users

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0400

In Alabama, a Crackdown on Pregnant Drug Users: Over an 18-month period, at least eight women have been prosecuted for using drugs while pregnant in this rural jurisdiction of barely 37,000, a tally without any recent parallel that women’s advocates have been able to find. The district attorney, Greg L. Gambril, acknowledges the number puts him at the “forefront,” at least among Alabama prosecutors. Similar cases have come up elsewhere, usually with limited success. But Alabama, and in particular this hilly, remote terrain just above the Florida Panhandle, is pursuing these cases with special vigor.