Amazing Skit
Normally I don't get into the whole dramatic dance stuff. But the people in this video put together a very powerful and well executed skit.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
Talk Radio Bonanza
Just this evening I got the opportunity to sit in on the Matt Friedeman Show on AFR. For those of you who were able to catch the broadcast there's no doubt that you don't want to hear it again, but for the rest of you I'm going to provide a link to an MP3 download. Feel free to download and listen to my first attempt at talk radio.Be gentle.
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
Laws of physics? Pshf!
I love articles like this: Scientists break the speed of light. Apparently, a couple of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light, which is 186,282.397 miles per second (that's 670,616,628 MPH for you lay people out there, and 1,079,252,848.8 km/h for my metric friends). Actually I love any new article or report that claims to have impossibly broken some law of the physical universe. (I have been following the Steorn Orbo experiment from the beginning.)The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - traveled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart. I'm sure such a claim has the scientific community scratching their heads thinking about the physical and theoretical ramifications for the very structure of the known universe. But I can't help but wonder how on earth you measure that type of speed. Never mind that being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences, such as an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving. I wanna' get my hands on that stopwatch.
Seriously though, does anyone else out there keep track of stories like this? What difference does it make whether or not new discoveries claim to break known laws? I mean, until now the only one who could travel fast enough to turn back time was Superman. Are we living in a day when comic book fiction becomes scientific fact?
Questionable Advertising
A New York storage company called Manhattan Mini Storage is known for using liberal messages in its advertising billboards. Previous catch phrases like "The Democrats Cleaned The House ... Now It's Your Turn," superimposed over an elephant carrying a suitcase and "Your Closet's Scarier Than Bush's Agenda," appearing on a confidential document are both fairly witty and can dislodge a giggle even from the most loyal conservative (after all, I even chuckled).Their latest billboard (see the picture to the right) features a pro-abortion message that even made the Drudge Report this morning, and it has me wondering... Does this new ad cross the line? Is it smart advertising, or just bad taste? Should such a controversial issue be used to sell products and services? Does it bother you that everything has a political agenda behind it? What do you think?
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