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Entries from July 2007

Fox News and Falafel Boy vs. Daily Kos

July 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments

Bill O'Riley, America's favorite frothing-at-the-mouth rabid, paranoid, reality-impared, sexually harassing pervert, recently declared war on the Daily Kos blog. It's a long, fascinating story that shows just how powerful and influential citizen journalists have become. Here's the short, incomplete version: O'Riley has been slagging Daily Kos on his show something fierce, because Kos had something [...]

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Tags: General

Supporting our Troops /sarcasm

July 18th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Something I heard on the ABC News Nightline podcast while commuting to work this morning really, really pissed me off. Over the past six years, some 22,500 soldiers have been discharged on grounds of “personality disorder” — a condition that can be alleged to have existed prior to their tour of duty — thus absolving [...]

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Tags: News

Tokyo is safe.

July 17th, 2007 · 7 Comments

The epicenter of yesterday's quake was 150 miles northwest of Tokyo, so we weren't affected. We only felt a mildly strong and long tremor.

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Tags: General

A YouTube Experiment

July 5th, 2007 · 8 Comments

Most of the videos I've posted on YouTube (same as the ones I post here) have been viewed hundreds or thousands of times, except for the "Koga Lantern Festival" video, which to date has been watched by a paltry 78 people. I don't get YouTube. The shaky, nausea-inducing video I made by sprinting through a [...]

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Tags: General

Real Happy Hour Raises the Bar for Video Podcasts

July 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

Those drunken lushes over at the The Real Happy Hour released their first video podcast a few days ago, and its production quality is nearly flawless. You have to watch it, it's well worth the download. I can't imagine how many hours it must have taken to produce a video podcast as good as a [...]

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Tags: General