This must be seen to be believed.
You must also read the reviews and look at the customer images!

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but now I really love Ken Burns.

His newest documentary, on the National Parks of the US is everything I could have wanted and more.
That sounds like a lie or exaggeration designed to sway your opinion marketing, but it is not. I mean it.

Watching the third? I thought it was the second, but I must have missed the first part just now was fascinating and helped me understand more of why humans have hatred for some animals that is so strong it would drive them to try to drive them to extinction even if there is no rational justification. Burns is so very thorough in his research, and for that I love him even more.

like it needs me to spoil it. Russell Davies did a great job ruining it on his own.  Just ignore the plot holes and characters introduced then not developed and illogical events.

This article does a lot of the work for me, and I won't include a spoiler in the title, so those who still want to see the piece of crap Davies gave us.
Here's the article... And under the cut you will find the website link to thousands of disappointed, pissed off fans.

( So it appears that Russell Davies is angry with the BBC and decided to punish fans of Torchwood. )

opinions (aka hypotheses) must be proven at least to a certain extent to be considered a valid theory.

Thank you, science.( Gender is a social construct )

Instead of writing a whingey post complaining about what a drag it is to not be able to shower, or not be able to get up in order to get simple things without setting my recovery back four days I decided to report on some of the most high points of the TV I've been watching.

Sure, there's Hung (which I found to be pretty humorous) and the preview of Glee (itunes) which turned out to be much, much better than I expected. There are also my broad span of cop shows from Worlds Craziest Police Chases to Criminal Minds, but none of these measure up to the Science Channel shows and science shows on other networks.

My favorite Science Channel shows so far have been Brink, which is a half hour science news show and a show called, simply, The Atom. That one followed the history of the quest to understand the Atom.

Although it was on PBS, the Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives episode of Nova was awesome. It follows a musician whose father (now deceased) was the first to publish a paper in a legitimate physics publication proposing the existence of parallel universe theory. It was some wonderfully high level physics woven together with the human interest threads of a son learning another side of his father long after his father left the earth.

But I cheat with that one, because I watched that before I was stuck here going from bed to chouch (it's not big enough to be a couch and not small enough to be a chair) and back again.

I just watched Alive from PopTech on KQED world. The best part of this program was the Gigapxl Project. Graham Flint, physicist and engineer, developed cameras that capture images thousands of times more detailed than any photo ever taken. They are so detailed that as one looks closer, it works like a telescope. The image looks like a regular photo at first, and then as we look again we can see even the numbers on a person's watch in a panoramic photo.

Really, you must look at the photos in the Gigapxl project. They are amazing.

Sorry, lj. It's not that I love facebook more.
Really.

It's only that facebook has games.

This video will prove I love you both the same.( cut for those with slow loading machines )

poached from William Gibson's blog via gibsonfeed .

It's Bosch 3D.
Fucking Hell

from riotclitshave  via William Gibson

I am frequently engaged in wars of words with other Catholics, mostly members of my family, with regard to the issue of right vs wrong.

I get that in Hippie San Francisco those are outdated concepts at best, and objects of derision at worst but they still matter to me.

This is why i still call myself a Catholic even though I don't go to church and don't go along with much of anything the pope says...I'm not even really convinced that there is a big G god.

But I am deeply dedicated to my morality and I strongly believe in right vs wrong.
So I remain, what I have long called a cultural Catholic.

Today on European Journal they talked about the Old Catholic Church. They split from Rome during the time of the great schism (at the time Rome, France and Germany had their own popes) and they continue to function as a Catholic Church that refuses to listen to the things its members believe to be wrong.

Primary points of contention:

They refuse to see the pope as infallible.
They allow their priests to marry.

As Germans, they are particularly troubled by the recent pardoning by the Roman pope of the bishop who denied that the Holocaust ever happened. It's enormously troubling to anyone who has half a connection to reality too, but especially for Germans who desperately want to change they way the world sees them after such an amazingly deep stain as the Nazi regime.

For anyone interested, here are some links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Catholic

http://www.oldcatholic.org/

You can read the article here
http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/how-would-you-stop-the-puppy-hackers/



the petition is here.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/maximum-penalty-for-the-men-who-hacked-up-a-puppy

The maximum penalty for this is two years. That's really hard to stomach, but it's the best we can hope for.
If I had my way, the penalty would be much more severe.

They've changed their name to something that is a little gayer, a little more 1986...
it's the new and improved Blackwater....
Xe

BTW, the Explorer would come with bulletproof windows, steel reinforced sides and nose plus optional gun turret.
It would get 3mpg city and 4mpg highway unless you get the hybrid
that would get 6mpg city.

Like my favorite car of the decade...
the hybrid Escalade.



Now I can have porn on plasma screens AND save the environment.
It will only cost me 77k.

Everybody sing... marketiiiiiing!

from gibsonfeed 

onday, February 09, 2009

SPECIES
posted 8:48 PM
Toweling off, applying moisturizer, she listened to BBC through an ornate bronze grate. Nothing of catastrophic import since she’d last listened, though nothing particularly positive either. Early 21st-century quotidian, death-spiral subtexts kept well down in the mix. The species of clueless motherfuckers to which she herself so fully belonged, in the end more adroit at bringing about the extinction of other species than anything else, it seemed. And now the Americans had broken capitalism, fucking with it. They’d already broken sex, according to Inchmale.

 It's half a glass of water.

Definitely realist...
though I tend more toward surrealism and magical realism in art.

I love this.
Thanks to the CA Supreme Court, I can still carry in SF.

I know that won't meet with unanimous support in my friend base, like it did in the courts...

Is has no basis in science, but that doesn't matter to someone who is trying to hasten the end times so she can hang out with Jesus.( It's under the cut for me as much as for you. Horrific. )
Click here to send her a letter telling her how important it is to stop this horrific practice.

I'm surprised that I fell on the non-interventionist side of foreign affairs, but I think the test was a little weak on that front.


My Political Views
I am a far-left social libertarian
Left: 9.27, Libertarian: 3.54

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My Foreign Policy Views
Score: -2.12

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My Culture War Stance
Score: -7.5

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and it's based on nothing either good or reasonable.

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as usual, the first is more honest to my impulse
and the second to my actual choices
either way.

Bad hipster "fashion" slideshow click the photo...