Give me some credit, I've been doing better with staying away from politics lately. But you really have to watch this.
Thanks to the internet and all the bloggers that wouldn't let Colbert's performance get swept under the rug, it would seem that the spineless media's testicles are finally beginning to drop. Either that or they've merely wet their forefinger and stuck it up in the air to see which way the wind is blowing, and now they're giving their audience what they want to see.
Notice how many times the newscaster compares this smackdown of Rumsfeld by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern with Stephen Colbert's performance in front of the president. Not only that, but they completely side with McGovern and against Rumsfeld. Had bloggers (And BoingBoing.net in particular) NOT brought attention to Colbert, I would bet the media would have ignored this most recent confrontation also.
I really do believe that Colbert made history, and we're going to see more and more people willing to stand up to this administration, and, more importantly, the media more willing to cover it.
I wonder how this goverment of ours is willing to go to silence its critics. Next thing you know, they'll be tapping journalists' cell phones.
If you live in the US or Canada, until the end of this year you can use Skype to call any landline or cell phone in the US or Canada for free.
Maybe eBay is planning on putting long distance companies out of business, then begin charging up the ying-yang once they're the only game left in town.
When I was in college, there was a guy on my dorm floor who owed the phone company hundreds of dollars for long distance calls he made daily to his butt-ugly girlfriend on the west coast. These days, you could have a butt-ugly girlfriend in every state of the union and it wouldn't cost a dime.
As soon as they make worldwide phone calls free, I'll start ringin' ya'll up instead of podcasting. Won't that be a hoot at 3am.
This is from digg.com. The title doesn't mention that it's only available from 7-11 stores in Japan, and specifically only those in my neck of the woods.
Yes, I will buy it and try it and report back.
And after I fill my brain with enough Ruby on Rails, Javascript, CSS and SQL to put together this web site I'm supposed to be making, I might start up the podcast/videocast again. (In other words, don't hold your breath.) See, a few weeks ago my parents in the US finally upgraded from 56k modem to broadband, so my father is finally able to listen and watch everything. I figure by the time the new company website is online, he'll be ready to absorb new episodes and I'll have to time to make them.
If the oceans rise 7m from our inablility to drink bottled glacer water faster than they're melting, most of Tokyo Disneyland, which is built on reclaimed land, will be under water. And the company I work for will have an ocean view out the front door.
I wish people would learn that there's no plural in Japanese. The plural of "kanji" is "kanji." The plural of "kimono" is "kimono."
about 2 days ago from twhirl
