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Admit it: You’ve had enough of Charlie Sheen. For a while, it was almost funny, as he talked about Warlocks and Trolls and always winning, and then it became kind of uncomfortable when you realized that it wasn’t really an act, and now you’re at the point where you kind of wish you could just pretend that he doesn’t exist. Luckily, there’s a Firefox and Chrome plug-in for that.

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Jeff Bezos shows off better screens, slick TV tricks and built-in help from real people.

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From left, Amazon's 8.9" Kindle Fire HDX, updated 7" Kindle Fire HD and 7" Kindle Fire HDX

I’m sitting in an Amazon conference room in Seattle along with a couple of other tech journalists. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is telling us about the company’s goals with its new Kindle Fire tablets. He begins by scrawling two goals on a whiteboard — and since they were also centerpieces of the Kindle event he presided over in September, 2012, I knew what they were going to be as he began writing them:

1. Premium products at non-premium prices

2. Make money when people use our devices, not when people buy our devices

And then Bezos adds a new goal. It’s in the form of a Venn diagram he says we may find a bit oblique without further explanation. Here’s my crude approximation:

Jeff Bezos Venn diagram

After shading in the overlapping area, he tells us: “Here is where some of the hardest-to-do but also coolest things reside.”

That overlap turns out to be key to Amazon’s new tablets, the 7″ and 8.9″ Kindle Fire HDX and a revised version of last year’s 7″ Kindle Fire HD. What Bezos is saying is that Amazon can make better, more inventive tablets than most companies because it designs its own hardware, writes its own software and controls its own services. Or to put it the way Steve Jobs once did when speaking of Apple products, Amazon makes “the whole widget.”

All three new models go on pre-order today; Amazon says that the updated Fire HD will ship on October 2, the 7″ Fire HDX on October 18 and the 8.9″ HDX on November 7. On Tuesday, I got a walk-through of all three and some hands-on time with the 7″ HDX.

People who think about gadgets primarily in terms of specs are going to fixate on the fact that the new Kindle Fires pack substantially more sophisticated technologies than earlier models. Enough so that even though Amazon foregoes a profit until consumers start to pay it for content — “We add up our bill of materials and are willing to sell this device at break-even,” Bezos says. The two HDX models sell for more than last year’s HD models.

Riffing on Bezos’s point #1, they’re even more premium products at somewhat more premium prices; the 8.9″ model is now more expensive than Apple’s iPad Mini, and will therefore compete with it solely on quality, not cost.

Here are the basics on the new hardware:

  • 7″ Kindle Fire HDX: 2.2-GHz, four-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor with three times the previous performance; Adreno 330 graphics with four times the previous performance; 1920-by-1200 display at 323 pixels-inch; 2GB of RAM; front-facing camera; redesigned case that’s thinner and 20 percent lighter, with power and volume buttons on the back. The starting price is $229, vs. $199 for the 7″ Kindle Fire HD.
  • 8.9″ Kindle Fire HDX: same processor, graphics, and RAM as 7″ model; 2560-by-1600 display at 339 PPI; front-facing camera and new rear-facing 8-megapixel camera with LED flash. It weighs 13.2 ounces — vs. 20 ounces for the 8.9″ Kindle Fire HD — which, Amazon says, makes it the lightest full-size tablet. (It is indeed a featherweight — so easy to pick up that it feels more like a hollow model than something stuffed with electronics.) The starting price is $379 with 16GB of storage, vs. a current price of $269 for the 8.9″ Fire HD, which originally sold for $299.
  • 7″ Kindle Fire HD: This one is an update to last year’s Fire HD, and the big news is the rock-bottom price: $139, or $20 less than the previous version. It has a 1280-by-800 screen, a 1.5-GHz dual-core processor, and a svelte new case similar in looks to those of the HDX models.

Hardware-wise, the HDX models’ biggest news is probably their super-high-resolution screens. Both handily beat the pixel-per-inch count of Apple’s iPad, which introduced the whole idea of super-high-resolution tablet screens with its Retina display just last year. Amazon says that its new displays have perfect 100% sRGB color accuracy and less glare, and a new feature adjusts contrast on the fly for whatever lighting environment you’re in, whether you’re reclining in a dimly-lit bedroom or sitting on a park bench. (I saw the screens only fleetingly, in Amazon’s own conference rooms, but they did look awfully good.) The company also says that it’s dug deeply into Android’s underpinnings to make the touch interface unusually responsive.

Zippy processors and graphics don’t always translate into gizmos that feel faster than theoretically more sluggish ones. But in my limited time with the 7″ HDX, it did seem to be a rocket: On-screen scrolling was super-responsive, and a racing game achieved console-like detail and fluidity.

Amazon also claims that both HDX models can run for up to 11 hours on a charge — up from 10 for the previous generation — and that a new power-efficient mode for reading Kindle e-books can last for up to 17 hours.

Last year’s 8.9″ Kindle Fire HD came in a version with AT&T LTE and a really cheap starter plan: $50 a year for 250MB of data a month. With the new HDX models, Amazon is ditching that offer. (It’s not a great loss, since the amount was pretty darn skimpy.) Instead, it’s offering both AT&T and Verizon versions, in both screen sizes, for $100 more than Wi-Fi-only models. You’ll add them to your carrier’s shared plan and have access to however much data you choose to pay for. Not disruptive in the least, but practical and straightforward.

The new Kindle Fire hardware looks nice, but the more meaningful changes may be in the tablets’ software and services. As before, these are “Android tablets” only in the sense that Amazon started with Android as a software ingredient, and lets you download third-party Android programs from its AppStore. More than ever, though, it’s building its own ambitious, content-centric world. It’s the closest thing the industry has to a third major tablet platform besides Apple’s iOS and Google’s standard-issue version of Android.

Ever since the first Kindle Fire debuted in 2011, every article about Amazon’s tablets has needed to explain that they run the company’s own heavily modified version of Android. Amazon has now made this easier to address by giving its software a name: Fire OS. The version shipping on the new Kindle Fires is Fire OS 3.0, code-named “Mojito.” (If future versions are also named after cocktails, feel free to take it as Amazon hinting that its version of Android is more grown-up than Google’s, which bears code names such as Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean and KitKat.)

Basic new features in Fire OS 3.0 include:

Kindle Fire Grid View

A grid view. The primary navigation remains the very Amazon-centric Carousel, which shows sections for books, movies, music, apps and other content, along with Amazon’s own stores for purchasing more of all of the above. But you can swipe up to reveal a grid that looks a lot more like iOS and Android.

An app (and other content) switcher. Swiping in from the side now shows thumbnails for apps and other recent stuff you’ve been consuming, allowing you to quickly go back.

A left-navigation menu. Amazon’s own apps now have menus you can pull down on the side for quick access to a variety of features.

Business features. Kindle Fires may be among the most consumery tablets on the market, but with previous generations,”one of the surprises was how many enterprises were buying them,” Bezos says. “We’ve doubled down on that.” The new software has a number of prosaic-but-important features aimed at worker bees, including Virtual Private Networking and Kerberos authentication.

All of these additions make Fire OS 3.0 feel meatier, and should appeal to advanced types who found the previous versions a tad dumbed-down compared to raw Android. But the features Bezos demonstrated personally were more striking. They’re the ones aiming for that intersection between customer delight and deep integration he diagrammed:

Amazon Kindle Mayday

The Mayday Button. The only way I can think of to adequately explain this new customer-service feature is as a Genius Bar that happens to be built into every new Kindle Fire.

“We have many, many tech support representatives for Kindle, and we have had for several years,” Bezos says. “The first thing the customer has to do is describe the state of their device…that actually takes quite a bit of time.” With Mayday, a live rep appears on the Kindle in a tiny video chat window that can sit anywhere on the screen, overlaying any app. The rep can talk with the customer, draw arrows on the screen to call attention to features and even operate the interface to show how to accomplish tasks.

“We’re going to try and completely elevate the experience of doing customer support,” says Bezos, who points out that Mayday is only possible because Amazon has such thorough control over the operating system. It’ll be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year for free, and the goal is to respond to requests to initiate a session in under fifteen seconds. Kindle owners are free to use it both for technical issues and what Bezos calls “cup of sugar” requests such as suggestions of apps to try.

“In our beta testing, when we’re showing this to people,” he says, “their jaws hit the table.” Having seen Mayday for myself, I believe it.

Kindle Fire Second Screen

Harry McCracken / TIME

Second-screen TV features. As before, thousands of movies and TV episodes support an Amazon technology called X-Ray, which lets you learn more about what you’re watching. It delves even deeper than before — for instance, it now shows any songs that are played during a program. And if you’ve got a PlayStation 3, a PlayStation 4 or a Samsung Smart TV, you can start watching something on Amazon Video on the tablet, then redirect it to your TV, which will stream it directly from the Internet.

“The tablet processor is completely freed up to do whatever I’d like on my tablet, but it’s completely synchronized,” Bezos told us as he demoed the feature by watching an episode of USA’s Scrubs. “I can do e-mail, play games…I can multitask if I want to.”

Kindle Fire Music X-Ray

X-Ray for music. Songs, like other types of content, are now complemented with related material, such as lyrics; as a song plays, the words appear on-screen. You can tap on any lyric to jump around in the audio.

Bezos also showed us a new case available for the updated Fires called the Origami Cover. With its embedded magnets and folding panels, it’s obviously inspired by the iPad’s Smart Cover, but it’s not a slavish knockoff: The panels fold up into a pyramid-like shape, which lets you prop up the tablet in either portrait or landscape orientation. The version for the 8.9″ Fire HDX also lets you slide up the tablet slightly so that you can snap a picture with the rear camera. And when you slide, the Fire automatically launches its camera app.

Kindle Fire Origami Cover

Harry McCracken / TIME

That’s a lot to chew on, and it’s not everything. (Amazon Prime subscribers, for instance, will now be able to download some movies and TV shows so they’re watchable without an Internet connection.) The Kindle Fire line has come a long way from the original 2011 Kindle Fire, which was cheap and small, and otherwise not all that exciting.

Still, with Kindle Fires, even more than most gadgets, I’ve learned to tamp down my enthusiasm until I’ve tried them on my own. I’ve found that the versions Amazon initially ships have been buggy and generally rough around the edges; only with subsequent software updates have the hardware, software and services all blended together into something resembling a seamless whole.

In fact, this time around, Amazon is already saying that it won’t be quite finished when the new devices ship. Some of the features, including certain enterprise capabilities and integration with the Amazon-owned GoodReads social network, will arrive in a Fire OS 3.1 update, due in mid-November. Maybe delaying these items will help the company ship tablets that are more robust in the first place.

I asked Bezos whether the competitive landscape had changed much in the year since he unveiled the Kindle HD models. “The main point I would make,” he told me, “is that it’s so early for the whole tablet marketplace and arena. It’s also very big. There’s room for multiple winners pursuing different strategies, different interfaces and different variants.”

Like Bezos says, Amazon’s own strategy is to sell excellent hardware at low prices with the expectation that happy customers will readily plunk down money for lots of content. That’s pretty much the one it created for the first Kindle e-reader way back in 2007. The concept has never been as fully evolved as it is in the new Fire HDX models — and in just a few weeks, we’ll get to see if they live up to their promise.

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The Twins Were Rowing Boats

Mark Zuckerberg at South by Southwest in 2008.Image via WikipediaThe twins were rowing boats and I want the money back. What these guys have been able to do already is a travesty to the spirit of entrepreneurship.

They have this attitude that since they were born into money - not money by Zuckerberg standards obviously - and Zuckerberg was merely a dentist's son, they could hire this guy to build them a billion dollar company.

Social networking was not a new idea. And these two automatons were thinking of a dating site. There was Friendster. There was MySpace. There were a dozen dating sites out and about. Having a college level social network was not new either. Some guy at Columbia was already doing it.

So if social networking was not a new idea, and online dating was not a new idea, and a college level social network was not a new idea - anyone who was online at that point might have found it hard to miss any of those - then what was the idea that got stolen?

If you hired the guy, and he was not doing the work, you should have gone ahead and fired him.

That these twins were ever awarded any money is insane. It is harassment. It has to irk.
New York Times: Twins’ Facebook Fight Rages On: Whatever their value at the time of the deal, Facebook’s shares have soared since, putting the current worth of the settlement, by some estimates, at more than $140 million. ....... Next month, the twins and Mr. Narendra plan to ask a federal appeals court in San Francisco to undo the deal so they can pursue their original case against Facebook and Mr. Zuckerberg, and win a richer payday. They could, though, lose it all. ..... the twins are also at war with the lawyers who helped them win the settlement. The brothers fired them, accused them of malpractice and refused to pay them. A judge recently found for the lawyers, and ordered the twins to pay the 20 percent contingency fee, or $13 million. For now, the money and shares remain in an escrow account. ...... In the past, Mr. Zuckerberg has denied he stole the Facebook idea from the Winklevosses, saying they planned a dating site, not a social network. ..... They grew up in affluence in Greenwich, Conn. ..... As they talked about the Facebook case, no detail was too small to omit, from where they first met Mr. Zuckerberg (the Kirkland House dining room) to the layout of Mr. Zuckerberg’s dorm room, to the content of the e-mails he had sent them after they asked him to do computer programming for a Web site called Harvard Connection. They recited arcane facts about the valuation of private companies and even quoted from the Securities Act of 1934 ..... If the court unwinds the agreement, the company will have to decide whether to offer them a richer settlement or face a trial. ..... The roots of the original dispute date to 2003, when Mr. Zuckerberg, then a Harvard sophomore, said he would help the Winklevosses and Mr. Narendra program Harvard Connection, later renamed ConnectU. But Mr. Zuckerberg delayed work on Harvard Connection, and when pressed for answers, stalled, according to the Winklevosses. In February 2004 he released TheFacebook, which eventually became Facebook. ...... days before the settlement, Facebook’s board signed off on an expert’s valuation that put a price of $8.88 on its shares ..... Last year, the Winklevoss brothers completed coursework for a masters in business administration at Oxford. Cameron helped to start When asked if they could have turned ConnectU into a site with hundreds of millions of users, like Mr. Zuckerberg did with Facebook, the twins replied in unison, “Absolutely.” They added that Mr. Zuckerberg deserved some credit for “not screwing up” and expanding Facebook into a community of 500 million users. But they believe the fame and fortune is undeserved. ..... Tyler Winklevoss said: “Mark is where he is because we approached him to include him in our idea.”
These two need to be counter sued for wrongful allegation. I say put them behind bars.

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Background is where walls can be placed or collected with hammers. In addition to blocks, furniture is also placed in the background. The only background block(s) which can't be destroyed with a hammer are Trees. Trees can be chopped down with an axe.

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    What is the shortest roughin (drain center to back wall surface) possible for a toto neorest 500 and a neorest 550? Can I get away with 11.5"? 11.25?

    I'm looking for experience based answers rather than the toto party line, especially regarding the total length front to back and wall clearance; usually the toto drawings are very good. The dimensioning on the spec sheets for the neorests I found was a bit unclear, and postings elsewhere seem to indicate the tolerances are a bit tighter on these than most totos. Or perhaps the spec sheet is telling the truth and there's no wiggle room at all?

    The plumber, in spite of telling him I will have 1" (sheetrock +tile) of wall covering, left me a distance of 12.5" from framing to drain center.
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Let's go to Wyoming together!
Wyoming is a great place for lovers.
โดย wyominglover 13 มิถุนายน 2010
1)where you can actually see the stars at night

2)Find real cowboys

3)a girl is a girl a boy is a boy

4)where only a few kids ride their horses to school

5)having the phone is a luxury

6)where a rodeo is more popular than madonna

7)where if you stand on the side of the highway with your hood up and someone stops to help you

8)where the cows make up half the population

9)where the elevation exceeds the population

10)everyone owns more than 40 pairs of long johns

11)100 is too hot 30 is normal and 20 below is cold

12)where giving the bird means look up

13)people actually wave

14)places are considered cities when the pop. is over 2000

15)where the high school students have nothing better to do then this
wyomings' biggest city is Casper with a population around 60,000
โดย jamesyboy96 15 มิถุนายน 2011
Officially, this is a state in the United States of America. Unofficially, Universities from other states (especially Eastern US) know it as WHYoming.
Out-of-stater: Why do you live in Whyoming?

Local: I don't know why, but I live in Wyoming.

Out-of-stater: Oh, is that near Sydney?

Local: Nope, it's in East Dakota.

Out-of-stater: Oh. Still don't know Whyoming.

Local: ... Why Wyomin'? Because Wyomin' ain't fer everbuddy.
โดย Mountain Lady 26 พฤศจิกายน 2011
It's a state out in the middle of nothingness. I'm surprised people actually live here. We have towns with no gas stations, no post offices, one trailor house and a population of 10. Main towns being, Casper and Cheyenne. Powell isn't a major town..I know I live there.
Dude, Wyoming sucks...
โดย WTF my name is Kaysie... 03 มีนาคม 2006
A state that really does exist. You can ask someone from Colorado where they get there fire works and they will point you north to a real state called Wyoming. You can also ask some one from Utah where they get there liqure and beer and they too will point you north to that Wyoming and likely will offer some money for you to bring back some "beverages" if you head back this way. Ask any friends in Montana and Idaho and they will clearly tell you that Yellowstone isn't just in Wyoming and will defensively tell you great things gs about there state. Ask Some one from South Dakota and well don't do that....they might point you in the wrong direction. You might know someone from Nebraska or South Dakota and they will tell you about some mountains to the west that are responsible for their droght...those mountains are in Wyoming.
Them Folks are from Why ohem in. (Wyoming)
โดย Jaxon001 01 พฤศจิกายน 2015
Most sparsely populated state in the US. More pronghorn than humans. Yellowstone National Park. The Grand Tetons. Devil's Tower. Wildlife everywhere. Beautiful nature, and some of the last "untouched" wilderness in the lower 48. Lots of cowboys and Taco Johns. People from Wyoming are generally extremely friendly - as long as you fit their idea of an acceptable American. Strangers will wave to you on the road, but if you're not a white straight Christian gun-loving Republican who adheres to the proper gender roles, you will run into a lot of bigotry and ignorance. Wyoming is the self-proclaimed "equality state", but unfortunately, true equality is hard to come by (for the reasons stated above).
People in Europe: So you're American, are you from the East Coast or the West Coast?
Wyomingite: Um, Wyoming.
โดย vivaceska 14 ตุลาคม 2013
A place that lacks civilization
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Calling Katidis’ actions a “deep insult to all victims of Nazi brutality,” Greece’s soccer federation put an immediate end to the player’s international career, The Associated Press reported. – nydailynews

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In a rather strange set of events, 20-year old AEK Athens (Greece) soccer player Giorgos Katidis, gave a Nazi salute after scoring the winning goal over Vera (2-1) on Saturday! The Greek soccer federation put a lifetime ban on Katidis for his insanely inappropiate salute! In fact, Katidis’ teammate Roger Guerreiro looked shocked and like he was about to snuff him out (pic above)! In Greece, Saturday also marked the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the deportation of its country’s Jews to Nazi extermination camps during World War II. I would certainly hope if anything it was more of a memorial, a day to remember the Jews forced out, than a celebration like Katidis displayed?! USA is not the only country outraged with his total disrespect to Jewish heritage! It sickening even looking at these pictures…


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In The Dock: Songs with associated dance moves

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This week's subject: songs with associated dance moves

The case for the prosecution (Alison)

‘The Birdie Song’, ‘The Hokey-Cokey’, ‘Musicman’, ‘The Locomotion’, the entire Black Lace back catalogue. You almost certainly know the songs and you could probably give a competent performance of the dances. Indeed, you might even have some fond memories of a wedding or Butlins holiday where everyone got up and joined in. But believe me, it’s the rose (or rosé) tinted glasses at work.

At the outset of my prosecution I would like to clearly state that I am making reference to songs with associated, pre-formatted dances as opposed to songs which spontaneously inspire literal dance moves. The latter, known as interpretive dance, where the meaning of a song is interpreted through the medium of movement, is clearly brilliant; you need only look at Pan’s People for proof.

When songs with associated dances are played at events (usually those supported by a mobile disco DJ called Dave), people feel they have the right to force you to get up and join in. Indeed, it is even considered acceptable for a conga line to forcibly take hostages on its journey through the room(s). If you decline people assume that you are shy of your dancing prowess and offer encouragement: "But everyone can dance to this". But the fact that everyone can do it does not make doing it a good idea. If you refuse to participate you are labelled "miserable" and looks of disapproval are cast from the people who "know how to have fun".

I agree that dancing is fun, just not that kind of dancing. For me, dancing is about appreciating the music and there is a distinct lack of things to appreciate about the catalogue of songs with associated dances. Typically they are insipid soulless pop tunes, churned out for the masses, dances being bolted on for additional market appeal. The lyrics are superficial or even ridiculous, emphasis being placed on cramming in as many actions as possible (think Black Lace’s ‘Superman’). Dancing should also be about expressing your individuality and freedom (cf Ren’s impassioned speech in 'Footloose'), but there is nothing creative or unique about 100 people "pushing pineapple", and "grinding coffee" together.

I hate the fact that these songs make it acceptable to flout polite society’s tacit rules on bodily contact. I do not want some beer-laden old man to grab my hips, while I am led across the room by the arse of another beer-laden old man. Likewise, I do not want to see newly acquainted couples gyrating against one another while they recreate a 'Dirty Dancing' scene to the Lambada. In terms of specific moves, I should draw attention to the seemingly obligatory ballop* thrusting manoeuvre. Indeed, it is "the pelvic thrust that really drives [me] insane". The sight of your own parents and grandparents simulating sex on the dance floor is incredibly distressing and something I’m sure scars many people for life.

Perhaps you are reading this and thinking I’m being unreasonable; songs with associated dances are for kids. If this were true I would not forward any objections, let CBeebies’ Boogie Babies show them on repeat. But the fact is that gown-ups, who should know better, dance to these things. If it has been a while since you frequented your local discothèque, you may be under the false impression that the popularity of these songs died with the 80s and they should be cherished for their ability to conjure memories of a specific era. Think again! The soundtrack to my University life is sandwiched between Whigfield’s ‘Saturday Night’ and Steps’ ‘Tragedy’. And I would bet you any money that the floors of student union bars have been marked since then by the feet of 2-for-1-alcopop-fuelled students doing ‘The Macarena’, ‘The Fastfood Song’ and ‘The Cha Cha Slide’.

I urge the jury to find in favour of the prosecution on this matter and if not, please at least leave me in the corner to drink my vodka and coke in peace the next time they play ‘YMCA’.

* "Ballop": this term refers to the triangulated region between the upper thighs and lower belly. It could be replaced with the word "groin", but then I wouldn’t have the chance to use my favourite word.

The case for the defence (Dead Kenny)

There's you. And there's me. And there's... DANCING! But further still, I submit to you, wise old judge and jury, if it wasn't for dancing there probably wouldn't be me or you in the first place. And then there'd be a dirty great black hole where the majestic Los Campesinos! track resides on MySpace, and that's an alternative present none of us surely want to contemplate.

Confused? You would have been slightly had you found yourself in a provincial nightclub at 2am in the mid-90s faced with the prospect of busting the moves associated with Whigfield's 'bottom-tastic' discopop classic 'Saturday Night'. But the great thing was the only way to suss out the score was to closely monitor the wiggly bum shaking of the hot girl / guy / alien in front of you, while a similarly clueless chump / chumpette / spacechimp behind you did the same to you. Sex was had, and future generations were born.

Now I know what you might be thinking, that yes, dancing is all well and funky, but why do we need songs with associated dance moves rather than just let our bodies naturally interact with those crazy beats? I over-rule your objection on the grounds that you've clearly never been to a club where people are allowed to dance on a free-form basis, or been to a rave when not completely out of your skull on drugs. 99% of people can't dance, dancing is seen as a good indicator of your suitability in the sack, and therefore without carefully guided instruction in these matters the Human Race is likely to be exctinct by 2025. Ladies and gentlemen, the future of civilisation is in your hands, I beseech that you do not come to your decision lightly.

If you were being honest, learned friends, you've had a lot more fun doing the bunny's ear hand moves to 'The Birdie Song' with the secretary from Accounts than you ever did sitting in your bedsit feeling grumpy while listening to some mumbling Scottish indie. Sweeping your hand horizontally across the horizon of your mind's eye to John Travolta's 'Greased Lightning' got you much more attention from the opposite / same / alien sex than shouting loudly at the bar about how you were way too cool to shake some action. Doing the Timewarp was one of the great blasts of your life. Michael Jackson's moonwalk was ace for... well, a couple of minutes, anyway. Even songs with associated dance moves whose dance moves never caught on were still great records - Madonna's 'Vogue' or Kylie's 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head', for instance.

Dancing to songs with associated dance moves is one of those rare moments on a dancefloor where you quickly pick up exactly what you're supposed to be doing, and where any initial nervousness just gives you further opportunity for interaction with members of the opposite / same / alien sex. Which means you're left to relax, have fun and be yourself within the comfortable boundaries of a recognised structure. In fact, writing a song that doesn't lend itself to associated dance moves is just plain selfish and unsociable when you think about it. Heavy metal bands did cheat a little, mind, by having a one-dance-move-fits-all approach to their cock-rock nonsense, although getting down on your knees and shaking your greasy locks into those of your similarly wrong-haired layabouts was dancing in only the loosest sense, to be sure.

So, in summary, the only people who could possibly object to songs with associated dance moves are those people who are too lazy to dance and are upset that such songs / routines rob them of the excuse that they don't know how to dance. And those people who are too lazy to dance are almost certainly too lazy to fuck. So who cares what they think anyway?

So dismiss these trumped-up charges with immediate effect, don't forget to point to the stars and mind those steps on your way out of the courtroom.

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Thanks to Alison and Dead Kenny. Now it's over to you. Guilty or innocent? YOU decide. The comments box is open and awaiting your comments - you've got until Friday to make up your mind...

Blogger Ian said...

Dead Kenny may be entertaining and charming, but he's also talking absolute nonsense. The whole phenomenon brings to mind a good little rant in the last Terry Pratchett I read on the distinction between "fun" and actual enjoyment (which Alison ably touches on as well). The prosecution also makes the valid point that what's at stake here isn't so much dancing (even stupid dancing) but the right for those of us who wish to be left alone to be left bloody alone! Any liberal society must be on the side of that, shurely? They have this one in the bag, in spite of the valient effort of the counsel for the defence.

5:03 am
Blogger Paul said...

Good though Alison's argument was, I'd be hugely hypocritical if I didn't side with the defence.

My YMCA in Fresher's week at Nottingham Uni in 1999 was an absolute triumph, and I'll throw water on the ballop and shout "look they've wet themselves" at anyone who claims otherwise.

3:46 pm
Blogger Lord Bargain said...

I liked Alison's argument, but I am going to side with Dead Kenny's defence also.

I'm a pop music person, and part of the appeal of that genre is the sometimes nonsensical yet catchy records that hit the charts. If you are going to profess to love pop, you have to take the rough with the smooth and for every awful associated dance move ("The Fast Food Song") there is a genius one ("Blame it On The Boogie").

Plus, without them I wouldn't have the always fantastic pleasure of watching middle aged people at Christmas parties with no idea of the moves trying to claim that it's "fun to stay at MACY"s....

4:06 pm
Blogger mike said...

A very evenly matched set of arguments here, with points on both sides which I agree and disagree with.

For me, Alison's strongest argument is the coercion factor - but we part company when she starts talking disparagingly of music being "churned out for the masses".

As someone who has cheerfully done all the moves, in public, to The Birdie Song, YMCA, Saturday Night and the Macarena, I am instinctively drawn to Dead Kenny's side... because I have successfully made the journey from "aaargh, don't hassle me, God that's so EMBARRASSING" indie outsider, to enthusiastic "whoo-hoo, now hop three times!" joiner-inner. However, I don't like the idea of dance routines providing some sort of comfort crutch for the hopelessly left-footed. Plus, I can't f**king STAND the Timewarp.

So maybe it comes down to the song and the dance in question, and the context, and the company, and the mood I'm in.

In which case, I'm going to abstain this week.

4:29 pm
Blogger James said...

No chance of an abstention from me. Last week I dithered, and ultimately forgot to vote - for which I felt decidedly stupid.

This week, however, it is a no brainer. I have got to admit that I knew my answer even before I read the arguments. Music with associated dance moves have to go. Alison put the argument well, and sadly, despite much gusto, Dead Kenny did not cause me to falter. Ultimately, aside from being associated with some of the worst music ever made (not entirely - there are odd exceptions), the number of evenings that I have suffered such ...phenomena with a false smile lurching across my face, and a dagger in my heart are too numerous to mention. It is a gut reaction, perhaps, maybe even an elitist one. But they conjure more horror than a man my age has any right to have experienced. Hang 'em.....

Thank you,

5:56 pm
Anonymous Pete said...

It's not so much the dance moves (as there's nothing wrong with dancing), but they always accompany such tacky songs. As a novelty item (and with plenty of alcohol) they might just be considered acceptable. But once is enough. If you hear ‘Tragedy’, ‘The Locomotion’ or (shoot me now) ‘The Macarena’ week in, week out (as I did at my student union) it gets a bit monotonous and smacks of a lack of imagination on the DJs behalf. So I'm siding with Alison on this one.

Come the revolution....

6:20 pm
Blogger Ben said...

Alison has it spot on - it's that whole compulsion / coercion thing that I particularly hate with songs with associated dances. There is something very wrong about having to be forced to enjoy oneself.

Kenny's main argument doesn't hold water either - perhaps it's true of dancing in general, but to suggest that the likes of 'Macarena' and 'The Locomotion' are essential in the propagation and continuation of the human race is rather far-fetched. When did you last see someone doing the Timewarp at an office party and think "Phwoarr"?! Dancing can potentially make someone (more) sexually attractive - but not if it's merely an identikit copycat move enshrined in wedding reception disco law...

Of course, at various times I could have been found dancing to songs with associated dance moves - that doesn't make it right, and I hang my head in shame. I'm with the prosecution.

(Ken: The vogue may not have caught on as a result of Madonna's song, but the truth was it was the other way around - the song celebrated the dance, which was big in the underground gay scene at the time and which she subsequently picked up on. In other words, it's a dance with an associated song, really.)

12:51 am
Blogger Phill said...

Four letters YMCA

I support Kenny and his defence!

12:45 pm
Blogger Dead Kenny said...

Ben, I bow to your greater knowledge of the underground gay scene...

...but it's still a song with an associated dance move, whether the dance move preceded it or not, surely?

This is the kind of splitting hairs one has to expect from kitchen-dwelling partygoers I guess!

7:04 pm
Blogger Ben said...

Come now Kenneth - just because I've sided with the opposition, there's no need for sour grapes...

7:26 pm
Blogger James said...

Surely everyone knows where the cool people dwell at parties...?

7:28 pm
Blogger Dead Kenny said...

Erm, by the open windows?

10:49 pm
Anonymous Russ L said...

What of songs with numerous-associated-dance-moves-taken-from-elsewhere? Anything that leads to Wilson Pickett's 'Land Of A Thousand Dances' being excised from the repertoir will not make me a happy bunny.

The thought occurs that Alison's objection is more to 'arseholes' than 'songs with dances.' And Kenwood is just being silly. I'd throw this one out of court if I was preciding, there's insufficient evidence.

10:03 am
Blogger Del said...

I'm no great fan of the dance move, and Alison puts forward an admirably argued case. But I'm afraid that I must side with the defence, as during my misspent youth, I used to ask girls I fancied to show me how to do these stupid dances as a way to break the ice and start chatting them up. Pretty effective, too, I might add.

11:32 am
Anonymous drmigs said...

Hmm ... Russ L beat me to it (it wasn't hard). I think the prosecution is against arseholes and crap DJ's. And if you ignore the arseholes and the crap DJ's you're left with a product that some like and some don't.

Eventhough I'm not a fan of them, the songs are harmless. It's down to you where you listen to them, if your strong enough to resist being coerced and whether you dance in the same place as dirty old men.

I'm (rather un-nervingly) voting in defence of songs with associated dance moves.

7:28 pm
Anonymous jonathan said...

Dead Kenny had me involuntarily reprising long-forgotten moves from The Birdie Song a couple of times, but that cheap jibe at 'mumbling Scottish indie' lost me, as I am scheduled later in the series to launch a passionate defence of 'mumbling Scottish indie', or as I prefer to call them, Belle and Sebastian.

In the end I think Alison makes a quite quite unanswerable case for the defence, and reminds me of a very embarrassing that flirtation with 'Saturday Night' at a mid-1990s school disco (I was one of the teachers and not really supposed to be on the dance floor at all with all those sixth-form girls, I don't think). I vote for the defence!

11:49 pm
Anonymous jonathan said...

Damn I mean for the prosecution, don't I? Strike my previous plea from the record. You wouldn't think this was all my idea, would you...

11:50 pm
Anonymous Russ L said...

Quick run in to vote for the defence, assuming I'm not too late.

10:24 am
Blogger Igor Polk said...

Why don't you try Argentine Tango for that perfect dance you are looking for.

1:12 am

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Not a very interesting sky, but on my way home from work last night, this is the sky I saw.   I caught this Red-tailed Hawk sitting in the top of an oak tree right on the road.  Obviously I had to try to capture a couple of pictures.  It was an overcast day and getting pretty dark so not much contrast but I liked the bird’s form as it takes off.

The Red-tailed Hawk is the most common and widespread hawk in North America.  It’s most distinguishing field mark when seen from below is the dark patagial bar at the front edge of the wing as seen in this photo.

This coloring is the most common morph in the West but there are several intermediate colored birds between this bird and the very dark “Harlan’s” race.  There is also a very light colored morph called the “Krider’s” Red-tailed Hawk that is very pale with a whitish tail, found in the central plains of Canada and the US.

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Sally in WA February 12, 2009 at 10:19 pm

Wonderful photos of the hawk. I think they are beautiful birds and never get tired of seeing them.

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Gattina February 12, 2009 at 10:23 pm

Honnestly I prefer to look at this beautiful hawk ! it’s a long time I haven’t seen one in real ! but I see skies every day, lol !

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kallen305 February 13, 2009 at 2:46 am

A sky with a hawk as lovely as that is indeed interesting.

I love how you were able to capture it when i was taking off.

Very well done

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Rottlady February 13, 2009 at 3:47 am

Two great captures here! They are beautiful birds indeed!

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Avril February 13, 2009 at 5:43 am

Wow !! Those are amazing!
I tried to capture a hawk in the Drakensberg last weekend but no luck! Thanks for your comments on my skies. There is also a Falcon Centre in the Champagne Valley which we were keen to go to but they were closed because of the bad weather. Pity – will have to try on our next visit.

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@Sally me too. Raptors are awe inspiring to me

@Gattina I’m glad you enjoyed them

@Kallen thank you. I love your sky reflection captures

@Rottlady thank you. Amazing sunsets you have there in the Ozarks

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That first image looks as though the bird jumped into the air, the second looks like the wings took over. So great to see images like this!

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Colin Campbell February 13, 2009 at 1:18 pm

You captured the movement of the bird really nicely. Take care.

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Kyle February 13, 2009 at 3:05 pm

As far as I’m concerned, such a great close-up of a hawk like that will always make for interesting skies!

Great SkyWatch post, Larry!

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@Tammie since I began taking more photographs of the birds, I have seen things that the human eye can’t usually see. Being able to see the way birds actually leap off of their perches into the air is one of them.

@Colin thanks for the comment

@Kyle thank you so much for your opinion on this post. To my way of thinking, raptors always make for interesting skies!

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Alissa Moreno and Jeffrey Steele co-wrote “Every Day,” a song that Rascal Flatts recorded for their Still Feels Good album and released as the record’s third single in March of 2008. After debuting at No. 42 on the Hot Country Songs chart, “Every Day” reached a peak of No. 2 in June of 2008, becoming the Flatts 19th consecutive Top 10 hit. Below, Moreno tells The Boot about how the song came to be.

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Even if the Brewers have been getting by OK without him, the foot injury suffered by Corey Hart last Sunday is starting to look more and more troubling. Hart tore tissue in his arch making a turn on the bases during last week’s game against the Cardinals and hasn’t played since. There was hope early in the week that he would be back by now, but Hart – who has struggled with planting and changing direction after the injury – he had little success in a baserunning session this morning, and will probably be out until Tuesday, if not later.

For most of his career, Hart has quietly been putting up very good numbers in the shadows of the sluggers preceding him in the lineup, and this year is no exception. In 137 games, he has hit .278/.340/.514 while proving surprisingly competent at first base, a position he picked up a month into the season after Mat Gamel’s injury left it vacant. Ryan Braun, Aramis Ramirez, and Jonathan Lucroy all have him beat as far as OPS goes, and defensive metrics generally rate him as below-average at first, but that doesn’t mean his contributions haven’t been extremely valuable this season – to the tune of 3.3 WAR, according to Fangraphs.

However, the Brewers haven’t appeared to miss Hart all that much in the past week, going 5-1 and scoring an average of 5.33 runs per game since he’s been out. The Brewers offense as a whole has been fantastic as of late and has picked up a lot of the slack, but credit is also due to Hart’s replacement, Travis Ishikawa. Ishikawa has gotten the bulk of the starts at first this week, and gotten hot at just the right time, hitting .333/.391./571 in 24 September plate appearances.

It’s fantastic that the Brewers have been able to get that kind of production out of Ishikawa and the rest of the lineup, but neither are going to sustain this level of performance forever. If the Brewers are going to continue their current run, it’s almost certainly going to have to be with a healthy and productive Corey Hart. Hopefully, that will be a reality again within the next few days.


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Friday, September 24, 2010

A note from a son to his father

Daddy I want.
ISO this toddler fabric
O.K. so Mommy really wants this to go on the back of this quilt that she made for me.
Now I know my ABC's...
I know, you are right, that would be great. (1 is good, 2 is better, 3 is best.)
It can be purchased at, just click here. $5.35 each, even you know that it can't get much cheaper than that!
Thanks Daddy.
From your son,

1 comment:

Sarah said...

That quilt is adorable! Can jacob write a letter to my husband too?


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DALLAS — The bulk of a man's childhood comic book collection that included many of the most prized issues ever published sold at auction Wednesday for about $3.5 million.

A copy of Detective Comics No. 27, which sold for 10 cents in 1939 and features the debut of Batman, got the top bid at the New York City auction Wednesday. It sold for about $523,000, including a buyer's premium, said Lon Allen, managing director of comics for Heritage Auctions, the Dallas-based auction house overseeing the sale.

``This really has its place in the history of great comic book collections,'' said Allen, who added that the auction was high energy, with ``a bunch of applause at a couple of the top lots.''

Action Comics No. 1, a 1938 issue featuring the first appearance of Superman, sold for about $299,000; Batman No. 1, from 1940, sold for about $275,000; and Captain America No. 2, a 1941 issue with a frightened Adolf Hitler on the cover, brought in about $114,000, Allen said.

Among the 345 well-preserved comics bought decades ago by the Virginia boy with a remarkable knack for picking winners were 44 of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide's top 100 issues from comics' golden age.

``It was amazing seeing what they went for,'' said Michael Rorrer, who discovered his late great uncle Billy Wright's collection last year while cleaning out his late great aunt's house in Martinsville, Virginia, following her death.

Opening up a basement closet, Rorrer found the neatly stacked comics that had belonged to Wright, who died in 1994 at age 66.

``This is just one of those collections that all the guys in the business think don't exist anymore,'' Allen said.

Experts say the collection is remarkable not only for the number of rare books, but also because the comics were kept in such good condition for half a century by the man who bought them in his childhood.

``The scope of this collection is, from a historian's perspective, dizzying,'' said J.C. Vaughn, associate publisher of Overstreet.

Most comics from the golden age — the late 1930s into the 1950s — fell victim to wartime paper drives, normal wear and tear and mothers throwing them out, said Vaughn. Of the 200,000 copies of Action Comics No. 1 produced, about 130,000 were sold and the about 70,000 that didn't sell were pulped. Today, experts believe only about 100 copies are left in the world, he said.

Allen said that 118 of the lesser-valued comics from the collection will be sold in an online auction Friday that's expected to bring in about $100,000.

Rorrer, of Oxnard, California, got half his great uncle's collection and his mother took the other half to give to his brother Jonathan in Houston. Rorrer, 31, said he didn't realize their value until months later, when he mentioned the collection to a co-worker who mused that it would be quite something if he had Action Comics No. 1.

``I went home and was looking through some of them, and there it was,'' said Rorrer, who then began researching the collection's value in earnest.

Once Rorrer realized how important the comics were, he called his mother, Lisa Hernandez, of League City, Texas, who still had the box for his brother at her house. The two then went through their boxes, checking comic after comic off the list.

Hernandez said it really hit her how valuable the comics were when she saw the look on Allen's face when the auction house expert came to her house to look through the comics.

``It was kind of hard to wrap my head around it,'' Allen said.

The find was a complete surprise for the family, and it is unclear if Ruby Wright was aware of the collection's significance. Rorrer said he remembers her making only one fleeting reference to comics: Upon learning he and his brother liked comic books, she said she had some she would one day give them. He said his great uncle never mentioned his collection.

Allen, who called the collection ``jaw-dropping,'' noted that Wright ``seemed to have a knack'' for picking up the ones that would be the most valuable. The core of his collection is from 1938 to 1941.

Hernandez said it makes sense that her uncle — even as a boy — had a discerning eye. The man who went to The College of William and Mary before having a long career as a chemical engineer for DuPont was smart, she said. And, she added, Wright was an only child whose mother kept most everything he had. She said that they found games from the 1930s that were still in their original boxes.

``There were some really hard to find books that were in really, really great condition,'' said Paul Litch, the primary grader at Certified Guaranty Company, an independent certification service for comic books.

``You can see it was a real collection,'' Litch said. ``Someone really cared about these and kept them in good shape.''

Heritage Auctions: http://www.ha.com


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No significant changes coming in Coweta class sizes

The Georgia State Board of Education (SBOE) cut local school systems a major break Monday in terms of required class sizes. But Coweta County schools will likely be unaffected because class sizes should remain essentially the same as this year.

Class size is always a big issue for educators. The State Board of Education Monday (SBOE) granted an exemption of all statutory and regulatory class size maximums for the 2010-2011 school year due to the continued decline of state and local revenues brought on by the recession.

“We don't expect that there will be significant changes in average system class sizes next year compared to this school year,” said Coweta School System Public Information Officer Dean Jackson. “But we are glad the state board is understanding of the enormous financial strain has put on school systems and willing to allow local school boards the flexibility to manage their budgets as needed.”

Jackson said the Coweta County Board of Education currently plans to give first consideration to a 2011 budget on June 1, with final approval coming at the regular board Meeting on June 8. Superintendent Blake Bass is finalizing that budget now, Jackson said.

From the statewide perspective, the SBOE recognized the need to give school districts more flexibility, said spokesperson Matt Cardoza.

"School districts have been financially devastated by the economy so the State Board took action to help districts balance their budgets," said SBOE Chair Wanda Barrs. "Increasing class size is never ideal, but a slight increase will allow systems to significantly conserve resources while managing through these difficult times."

The exemption of class size maximums does not remove the requirement for school districts to continue to meet all federal and state accountability measures as well as health and safety requirements.

"Accountability is here to stay, which is a good thing," said State School Superintendent Kathy Cox. "The requirements under No Child Left Behind and the varying instructional needs of students should still be at the forefront when local districts are making decisions about their class sizes."

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Thank YOU!

Ah, using the words 'please' and 'thank you', sort of a Kindergarten 101, no? I'm simply amazed at the lack of manners that many people in our society display. Everything from the person who is oblivious to someone holding the door for them, not saying please while shopping in a store and asking for help to completely forgetting to thank a friend or family member for something sweet that they have gone out of their way to do.

Classy women remember to thank others, in fact they make it a priority. Especially when it comes to family, friends, colleagues, business partners and neighbors it is always a great idea to either send a personal hand written note after an event, verbally acknowledge the particular person in question as soon as you can or go out of your way to return a favor for someone who has done something unexpected, helpful or special.

I wanted to take a moment to thank each and every one of you-my readers. Thank you for your comments which always brighten my day and make me smile and sometimes laugh out loud. I really love reading what is on your mind, hearing your opinion and knowing that you care enough to leave me a little note. I enjoy your reader requests too. For all of you who have e-mailed me with requests or questions, thank you. It is my pleasure to answer them with the intention of helping you as well as many other women that come across the very post that you inspired.

Thank you too for just being you and popping over to read my posts, for following my little blog and sharing some love by grabbing my blog button, visiting me on twitter or linking to me. I appreciate you spreading the word and allowing others find me too in this big blog world! :)

Last week when I wrote about Yard Sale Savvy, my blogger friend from Simply Luxurious was super sweet and linked to me in her weekly Sunday 'cups of tea' post. I wanted to take this opportunity to publicly thank her for including my post. Hop on over and check her out, she's got a fun blog worth visiting. I look forward to sharing one of her fashion posts this week that I think you'll all enjoy.

And for all of you who have been following me and are wondering what I actually found at the big yard sale, it's coming-I PROMISE. I'm going to share it with you very soon but first I'm busy getting ready for my own yard sale this weekend!

So, today's post is dedicated to you, my classy friends from the blog-o-sphere. Thank you for just being YOU!

Love you guys!

* Thank You image above compliments of this site.

  1. It's quite sad how little manners people display today. *sigh* I am so glad my mother really taught me that manners really isn't an option, because it stuck with me. I think often parents themselves don't have manners to teach their children. I still feel happy after I hand write a thank-you note (I find that rare today too) because I used to be angry at my mom making me do it as a kid for EVERYTHING, but am so happy its a habit I have today. Have a lovely day!

  2. What a wonderful post, thank you! I still send handwritten notes and love it when my friends send them to me. It doesn't happen too often anymore, it's really a shame! Thank you so much for so many of your kind, inspirational comments on my blog! You really have accomplished so much in life and it means the world hearing it from you!
    Thank you!

Thanks for stopping by, your comments make my day! I read every single one and will answer any questions you have. I hope you'll visit again soon! :)

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feeds | grep link > Privacy Badges for Mobile Apps, StatusNet’s New iPhone Client, Meego Ported to a Few Android Devices, and More

  • TRUSTe to offer badge for mobile sites, apps
    I may sound cynical for saying so, but does anyone look for verification badge on existing web sites any more? The details at the New York Times are encouraging but I really am curious if TRUSTe’s brand still has cache in this space. Questions of trust and privacy for mobile apps and sites are certainly becoming more and more pressing, both with Apple’s heavy handed curation model and Android’s more liberal one. I just am not sure what stock users will put into the badges.
  • StatusNet releases iPhone client
    I am happy to see Evan and crew thriving. Audrey Watters at ReadWriteWeb has some details of the new app as well as an update on the company’s recent funding. I installed the app on my iPod Touch, it is pretty consistent with the portable desktop application they released earlier. One thing I would like is push support. I am also curious to see how the Android version stacks up once I get a replacement for my iPod.
  • New tablet from RIM reveals what they did with the acquisition of the QNX OS, The Register
  • Mapping the brain on a massive scale, Technology Review
  • Rewiring a damaged brain, Slashdot
  • Meego port for other Android devices
    Make had a story yesterday about a Nexus 1 running Meego, another Linux based OS designed for mobile devices. It makes sense that an Android capable gadget would easily run what could be thought of as a sibling OS. No big surprise, then, that the H expands the story today to point out that Dell’s Streak and HTC’s desire have also been made to run Meego. Sadly, as the H goes on to explain, there are issues with Android’s binary only accelerated graphics drivers for these three devices, so the Meego port is little more than a not very usable proof of concept.

feeds | grep links > Computing with 1 Million Cores, ASCAP War on Free Culture Escalates, Eyeborg to Share Video From Video Prosthesis, and More

  • Computing with 1 million cores
    Via Slashdot, this is a blog post from someone familiar with SpiNNaker. It is a project taking many core computing even beyond the realm of the RAMP project. The sheer density of nodes seems like a natural fit with a model of computation based on the physical architecture of the human brain. Of course, the hybridization also hits my personal sweet spot, intersecting with understanding human cognition, the low level aspects of artificial intelligence, as well as the future of traditional computing.
  • ASCAP war on Free Culture escalates
    Slashdot has a pretty good sum up of this quickly evolving story. I’ve read the further responses by CC and PK and they are rational and reasonable. I am still disappointed that conversation was utterly bypassed for FUD of this kind. Worse news to hear that the National Music Publishers Association has joined the fray, surpassing the inflammatory rhetoric originally spewed by ASCAP.
  • Much more on music publishers attacking public interest groups
    Mike Masnick at Techdirt covers the same story as above but digs much, much deeper into remarks made recently by NAMO CEO, David Israelite. I am also begging to think that “radical extremist” is industry’s preferred replacement term for “pirate”.
  • Creative Commons response to ASCAP’s deceptive claims
  • Canadian film maker replaces eye with video camera
    According to Mark at Boing Boing, he’s also sharing the live feed from his prosthetic. I’d actually heard about “Eyeborg”, what he’s calling himself, in the context of video recording police. That isn’t Rob Spence’s intent, clearly. He seems more interested in the documentary aspect but he is likely to expose some odd, latent ambiguities in laws and norms along the way.
  • StatusNet releases desktop client
    RWW has the news, not much more than the press release from the StatusNet project. I am pretty confident this move doesn’t detract from Evan’s commitment to maintaining a capable and open API for all third party clients. I haven’t had a chance to light it up, yet, nor have I tried any other software built using this particular cross platform toolkit. I expect given the good support for StatusNet in a variety of desktop and mobile clients this has more to do with their business of customizing StatusNet for big clients.
  • Twitter to open source of MySQL to Hadoop data tool

Twitter Doesn’t Love Open Source as Much as StatusNet

Glyn Moody tweeted an analysis by Zonker of Twitter’s recent publication of the open source projects to which the company contribute. In short, Twitter may have done so more as a marketing move and to attract potential developers than as a signal of any deep commitment to being open. Unlike StatusNet, a comparable micro-blogging project and the code that runs Identi.ca, Twitter’s core platform remains closed.

Evan and the fine folks at StatusNet, which is also a for-profit company not just a free software project, set an even higher bar than merely being open. The code is licensed under the Affero GPL license which closes the so-called web service loophole. There are other differentiator’s between the two, most importantly that StatusNet much more actively solicits input from and listens to the criticisms of its users. The commitment to open-ness and this responsiveness probably stem from a deeper set of principles around delivering the most useful and compelling social messaging system possible.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I am an active user of the StatusNet powered Identi.ca and am currently one of its featured users. My admiration of Evan, his team, and the project predates my nomination to that listing, however.)


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The US’s refusal to track civilian casualties in the conflict against Islamic State represents a radical departure from established military protocol. EPA/Sedat Suna

Lieutenant-General James L. Terry, commander of US forces in Iraq and Syria, recently admitted he had no idea how many civilians have died as a result of coalition airstrikes in the region.

In a briefing eerily reminiscent of the notorious “we don’t do body counts” remark by General Tommy Franks (the commander of US operations in Afghanistan and Iraq), Terry told reporters in December 2014 he was “tracking no civilian casualties” even though non-combatants are known to have been killed in at least two separate incidents.

The current failure to monitor civilians killed may seem unsurprising given the previous Bush administration’s rather glib attitude. Then-defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld was very good at deflecting criticisms of American forces. He claimed:

Responsibility for every single casualty in this war, be they innocent Afghans or innocent Americans, rests at the feet of the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

Likewise, George W. Bush argued:

Saddam Hussein regards the Iraqi people as human shields, entirely expendable when their suffering serves his purposes.

More worryingly, this attitude towards non-combatants was reflected in the kinds of operations undertaken and the types of weapons used, including cluster bombs.

The battle for hearts and minds

Since 2007, however, a growing body of literature has emerged from inside the US military that stresses the importance of tracking civilian casualties on strategic rather than moral grounds.

A key component of the counterinsurgency doctrine (COIN) developed under General David Petraeus' auspices was that the US needed to move away from enemy-centric operations and embrace a more population-centric approach.

By focusing on winning the hearts and minds of ordinary people, it was argued that the insurgency’s support structure could be removed without having to confront them head-on. The overall aim is not to gain control of territory as you would in a conventional war, but to win the local population’s support by convincing them that you can protect and provide.

Within this framework, civilians' deaths become a strategic consideration rather than a purely legal one. Avoiding civilian casualties was not simply a matter of adhering to international law, but an essential part of winning the war. Sarah Sewall, a key architect of COIN, argued:

… killing the civilian is no longer just collateral damage … [it] undermines the counterinsurgent’s goals.

Lieutenant-General Curtis M. Scaparrotti also claimed:

… any civilian loss of life is detrimental to the coalition’s cause. Avoiding civilian casualties must be a top priority and it must be at the forefront of all mission planning and execution.

The US Department of the Army even put together a report focusing on ways of limiting the harm caused to civilians and the harm civilian casualties cause to the mission. One key recommendation from this report, and others, is that all non-combatant deaths should be “aggregated in a standardised database” so they can be tracked, monitored and investigated.

The rationale for this is clear. A detailed “battle damage assessment” enables the military to respond to allegations in a swift and thorough manner, mitigating the negative effects it will have on public perceptions.

Also, tracking and monitoring the deaths of civilians allows the military to identify lessons to be learnt and adjust military operations accordingly. In this respect, Terry’s recent refusal to track civilian casualties represents a radical departure from established military protocol.

Lieutenant-General James L. Terry says the US is not tracking civilian casualties in the battle against Islamic State. Wikimedia Commons

A step backwards?

Framing civilian casualties as “strategic setbacks” is still clearly problematic. It might appear that the lives of ordinary people matter, but it is important to recognise that they only matter to the extent that they might impinge upon the success of military operations. Civilian casualties were only counted because they were considered counterproductive.

By objectifying them in this manner, the civilian population was simply co-opted into a strategic economy focused on winning the war rather than waging it more humanely. Their deaths were not mourned because they were recognised as genuine losses, but regretted because they undermined the success of military operations. Also, the idea that wars can be fought in a more humane and less violent manner has the paradoxical effect of hiding much of the pain and suffering caused.

Nevertheless, it is true that as the rules of engagement tightened and non-combatant deaths were monitored more closely, civilian casualties decreased.

In this respect, the announcement that the US is not counting the dead in the battle against IS is a step backwards. Not only does it reinforce the view that the lives of ordinary Iraqis and Syrians are not counted because they do not matter, it flies in the face of the military’s own recommendations about the strategic importance of tracking civilian casualties.

As well as being questionable on moral grounds, the refusal to count civilian casualties could be seen as a strategic mistake on the military’s own terms – fanning the flames of resentment in a region already in the midst of a violent war.


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On its 75th (or is it 67th?) anniversary, the venerable student film society looks back at an idiosyncratic history populated by rocketeer communists, rickety red wagons, Douglas Sirk enthusiasts...and, yes, documentaries. By Charlotte Robinson. Photographs by Dan Dry

Every night of the fall, winter, and spring quarters and four times a week during the summer, a projector hums away in the darkness of the Max Palevsky Cinema, home of Doc Films, the longestrunning student film society in America. With many esteemed film critics and filmmakers among its alumni and having hosted numerous Chicago premieres, film festivals, and director visits, Doc has an indisputably impressive history; just how long that history is, however, remains a subject of debate. Although Doc is often linked to an International House film group formed in 1932, Mary Woolsey Lewis, AB’44, who was a founding member along with her husband Robert Lewis, SB’39, and friend Jack Atlee, SB’41, asserted in a 1984 letter to the University of Chicago Magazine that Doc had no link to that group. According to Mrs. Lewis, the first screening organized by the Lewises’ loosely organized group was Paul Strand’s documentary about the Mexican fisherman’s union, The Wave, at International House in 1940. To gain more autonomy in programming, the group applied for student organization status, and in December 1940 the newly christened International House Documentary Film Group held its first screening, of The City, an anti-urban documentary written by Lewis Mumford.

Despite its name, which within a few years was shortened to the Documentary Film Group (necessitated by the first of many moves—this one from International House to Social Sciences 122), the organization exclusively screened documentaries for only a short time. Although the group’s intent was more educational than political, several of the founding members considered themselves to be socialists, and early documentary screenings focused on themes like labor problems, unemployment, and race relations, and were typically followed by lively discussions. And while Doc drew an estimated two hundred students to see early favorite The River, about the mighty Mississippi, receipts from documentaries alone could not keep the group afloat. In the spring of 1943, Doc began showing fiction films, often foreign ones, to pay the bills. The films of French heartthrob Jean Gabin proved particularly big draws throughout the decade.

By the time Ernest Callenbach, PhB’49, AM’53, arrived in 1947, Doc offered a mixture of documentaries, foreign films, Hollywood fare, and silent comedies. Callenbach, the founding editor of Film Quarterly, recalls, “I had probably seen Fantasia, a couple of Disneys, and a Shirley Temple movie or two and that was it when I went away to college. I’d never even heard the term ‘documentary.’” Callenbach volunteered at Doc until 1952, drawn to the organization not only by a Charlie Chaplin screening but by an attractive girl he believed to be a member. He attended a Doc meeting hoping to find her, and stumbled into a career in film criticism instead.

In Callenbach’s day, Doc still held screenings in Social Sciences 122, but the office was in Goodspeed Hall, so volunteers transported the projector between buildings in a children’s red wagon. Doc’s reputation was no more impressive than its equipment, according to Callenbach: “The sense was that we were on the fringe of crackpotism. We were interested in films in a serious way, and everyone else thought that was lunatic.” Another form of lunacy—and a continuation of Doc’s original pedagogical spirit—was provided by Chair Eugène DuFresne, PhB’46, MS’57, PhD’62, a (perhaps card-carrying) communist who lobbied for screenings of Russian silent films and, Callenbach recalls, “would give lengthy and rather tedious lectures about film and reality.” DuFresne wrote meandering film reviews for the Maroon and went on to found the University of Chicago Rocket Society. “They would go up into Stagg Field and have these little rockets on strings and run them around and around,” Callenbach says. “We all thought that was pretty nutty.”

The ranks of art-for-art’s-sake cinephiles continued to grow throughout the 1950s and ’60s, and with them grew Doc’s reputation. Sid Huttner, AB’63, AM’76, who contributed a great deal of memorabilia to the Doc archives at the Joseph Regenstein Library, took note of the new respect for cinema, saying, “Some members certainly saw that film studies would develop in significant ways.” If Doc’s profile had reached an impressive stature by that time, though, its facilities remained laughable. Two decades after Callenbach’s tenure, Barbara Bernstein, AB’70, recalls, volunteers were still using the red wagon to transport equipment, now to the balcony of the Cobb Hall auditorium (there was no projection booth). “For awhile we had only one working projector, so there was a pause between reels,” she remembers. “Film broke, came off the spindle, and unreeled down the aisle.” Despite the lamentable conditions, many legendary filmmakers paid visits to Doc in that era, including Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, John Ford, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray, and Alfred Hitchcock, who paid his own travel expenses.

The early to mid ’70s—widely considered to be Doc’s golden era—was dominated by a group of dedicated and opinionated young men, many of whom went on to forge careers as filmmakers and critics. Aaron Lipstadt, AB’74, onetime assistant to cult filmmaker Roger Corman and now a director of television shows including Law & Order and Medium, says his time in Doc “led directly to my making the choice to go to graduate school in film rather than law school.” The Doc members of Lipstadt’s era were proud auteurists—devotees of Cahiers du Cinéma and of American critic Andrew Sarris, who championed directors who were then disreputable (at least among cinéastes) like Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Mann, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Douglas Sirk. Film critic and former Doc Chair Dave Kehr, AB’75, remembers, “We were against Pauline Kael and everything she stood for. We thought movies were art and we wanted to take them seriously and were not interested in enjoying them as trash.”

While it wouldn’t be inaccurate to accuse the auteurists of being film snobs, they were also populists in a sense. They rallied behind low-budget American filmmakers and against the idea that only foreign directors like Bergman and Fellini were significant. Henry Sheehan, X’77, president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and a Doc member off and on throughout the ’70s, asserts, “There was a sense, not of being beleaguered, but being entrusted with a film heritage.” Doc furthered the auteurist cause with a film magazine, Focus, founded in 1967, but by the time Sheehan’s relationship with Doc came to a close in the late ’70s, Focus—and focus—had fizzled out.

“When I left, they had a Frank Capra series,” Sheehan says with a true critic’s disdain. “People I started out with would look down on a Frank Capra series.” But Doc has soldiered on for the last three decades, even if its membership has lacked an obvious philosophy around which to rally. Marc Evans, AB’89, a vice president at Paramount who has worked on films like Spider-Man and Zodiac, says of his 1980s stint at Doc, “I think auteur theory reigned then and to this day.” The organization’s lack of vehemence since the ’70s might say less about its membership than the fact that popular opinion has largely come around to the auteurist viewpoint. Doc’s eminence is finally evident in its facilities, too. The group’s current home, the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall, was built in 1986 and is a state-of-the-art auditorium with two 35mm projectors, a 16mm projector, and Dolby Digital and Digital Theater Systems audio systems.

Doc continues to follow the long-established model of screening more challenging films as part of its weekday thematic series while offering crowd-pleasers like Happy Feet and Casino Royale on the weekends to enhance profits. Even with an enticingly low five-dollar admission fee, however, it is increasingly difficult to compete with the entertainment options modern technology has made possible. After running into some financial problems last year, Doc implemented a budget policy that bars programmers from spending more than their series are expected to earn. The group has also started a newsletter and has conducted surveys to better understand its audience’s needs.

Doc’s 75th anniversary, no matter how contested its accuracy, provides one more way of attracting patrons, and the organization is taking advantage. Anniversary events kicked off in January with a screening of The Fountain and a Q&A with the film’s director, Darren Aronofsky. In the following months several professors presented their favorite films, including Red River (Robert Pippin) and The Grapes of Wrath (William Wimsatt). In July, Kyle Westphal, ’07, Finance Chair, and Alexis Becker, ’08, Librarian, will co-curate an exhibit of Doc’s archives in Special Collections at the Regenstein Library. Westphal is also writing a history of Doc, which he hopes to publish as a book. But when the dust settles from the anniversary celebrations, what will remain is a sense of dedication to Doc’s rich history. “As a longstanding member of the University of Chicago community, it’s equally important that we lose touch with neither our student base nor the Chicago film community,” says Fred Pfeiffer, ’07, current co-chair along with Yana Morgulis, ’07. And purists wary of the talk about budgets and surveys should take heart: a Douglas Sirk series is on Doc’s spring calendar.

Reel Encounters

Doc alumni recall prominent filmmakers who graced the U of C campus.

Marc Evans, AB'89, Vice President, Paramount Pictures: "When Spike Lee came and brought Do the Right Thing, it was a pretty interesting evening with a lot of smart, challenging questions."

Dave Kehr, AB'75, film critic: "I remember we had King Vidor in for a few days. It was a kick taking him to Robie House because he had made this film on Frank Lloyd Wright [The Fountainhead] and he'd never seen Robie House, and that was a quintessential University of Chicago experience."

Myron Meisel, AB'72, screenwriter/producer/director: "Nicholas Ray and Fritz Lang came to campus, met each other for the first time in decades, and had dinner at Effendi with us, where of all things they argued opposing views of metaphysics."

Barbara Bernstein, AB'70, COO, Kinexis and founder of Movies-seivoM.com: "John Ford was a hilariously crabby guy. Someone asked him a long question about the symbolism in 7 Women and he said, '7 Women? Did I make that picture?'"

“We thought movies were art and we wanted to take them seriously and were not interested in enjoying them as trash,” recalls Dave Kehr, AB’75.