Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for March, 2009

Close to peak

Posted in WM_archive on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Traffic much easier to handle with a view!

Sent from my iPhone

Read Full Post »

At the bottom of Niagara Falls with a bucket

Posted in WM_archive on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

First, watch this very slick YouTube video:

Then read this post which explains who is behind the remix version now circulating:

Toward the end of the 5-minute video, we’re “informed” that by that point in the presentation, “694,000 songs were downloaded ILLEGALLY”!

Illegally? Who says? As far as I know, to date, no law has been anywhere against downloading ANYTHING. So I wondered who, exactly, had the audacity to publish this obvious piece of Recording Industery propaganda as “fact”. …

I downloaded the original material, and there’s absolutely no mention of “illegal downloads” anywhere in it: others have remixed it for their own purposes. And this is where the questionable slide comes in.

Apparently, SONY/BMG inserted the rest of the material! And, it’s the infected Sony version that’s enjoying the circulation via YouTube, etc.

Karl believes Sony did it to encourage discussion and says he believes Sony is already in talks about making changes.

The video is still very slick, but I thought the bullet re downloads was jarring.

BTW, the Niagara Falls reference refers to a quote I love from Paul Sagan, an editor of Time, who said (referring to editors): "No one wants to sit at the bottom of Niagara Falls with a bucket, saying "I can't keep up with all this."

Information anxiety indeed.

Read Full Post »

NY Times on Easing Bank Laws in 1999

Posted in WM_archive on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/05/business/congress-passes-wide-ranging-bill-easing-bank-laws.html

It is really depressing to read 1) the criticism of this legislation ten years ago and see that everything they warned about has come to pass and 2) that Larry Summers was Treasury Secretary then and is advising Obama and Geithner now.

Money grafs:

But consumer groups and civil rights advocates criticized the legislation for being a sop to the nation's biggest financial institutions. They say that it fails to protect the privacy interests of consumers and community lending standards for the disadvantaged and that it will create more problems than it solves.

The opponents of the measure gloomily predicted that by unshackling banks and enabling them to move more freely into new kinds of financial activities, the new law could lead to an economic crisis down the road when the marketplace is no longer growing briskly.

''I think we will look back in 10 years' time and say we should not have done this but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930's is true in 2010,'' said Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota.

[Re-testing posting URL to Posterous.]

Read Full Post »

Let the blossoming begin!

Posted in WM_archive on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sent from my iPhone

Read Full Post »

Pole Dancing Grizzly Bear

Posted in WM_archive on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Testing posting a YouTube to my Posterous page. Note: the USGS has the straight version of this video on their page, but the version with soundtrack is MUCH better!

Read Full Post »

Getting ready for cherry blossoms

Posted in WM_archive on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

One last test of Posterous to check out Facebook integration.

Sent from my iPhone

Posted via email from idblog on posterous

Read Full Post »

Pittsburgh sushi

Posted in WM_archive on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This pic has gotten a lot of views on Flickr, not sure why. It’s a California roll with shrimp and asparagus. Not exactly sure what is Yinzer about that.

Sent from my iPhone

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 258 other followers