There's also DIY camera booms, dollys and other goodies.

1:16:58 PM     leave/read comments []

Scooter says hello.

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12:50:44 PM     leave/read comments []

The $14 SteadyCam. Brian sez: "For less than 5% of the price of a real Steadicam (the ones made for small video cameras go for about $900), you can apparently build your own "Steady-Cam" for $14 with parts from a hardware store. The sample video makes it look pretty good. Great gift for the amateur videographer in your life who refuses to use a tripod, the bastard. (Oh, and stabilized images compress much better for the Web, too.)" Link
[Boing Boing]

11:23:36 PM    

It's not live.

(see below)

11:17:11 PM     leave/read comments []

Burger King's S&M Chicken

What.

The.

F*#k?

You type in a command, like "roll over" and the guy in the chicken suit does your bidding, in a very Blue Velvet-y way. In dreams, indeed.

10:26:36 AM     leave/read comments []

Unexpectedly, war erupts again in Iraq. What is sweeping over Iraq is different from anything the US had anticipated, experts say, both in intensity and in terms of who is doing the fighting - which increasingly appears to be a possible unifying of radical Sunnis and dispossessed Shiite factions. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories]

Holy shit.

1:53:38 PM     leave/read comments []

Get the book and then go sign up at MacIdol!

1:26:54 PM     leave/read comments []

OK, I am banning myself from using the computer tomorrow.

I've spent the last four days obsessively playing Escape Velocity: NOVA, and even tho' I'm the Supreme Warlord of the Galaxy, I gotta back away and do something a bit more productive. So, After I go to bed tonight, y'all won't see me until Wednesday.

My fleet of DOOM! (click it to make it BiG)

Oh, how I shall pine for my Battle-Brothers and Battle-Sisters. Not. OK, maybe a little. I'll definitely pine for my nasty little starship. She's small, but a real beee-yotch.

11:00:29 PM     leave/read comments []

What is happening is nothing short of historic. The American workers' share of the increase in national income since November 2001, the end of the last recession, is the lowest on record. Employers took the money and ran.

...

The study said: "In no other recovery from a post-World War II recession did corporate profits ever account for as much as 20 percent of the growth in national income. And at no time did corporate profits ever increase by a greater amount than labor compensation."

In other words, an awful lot of American workers have been had. Fleeced. Taken to the cleaners.

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And despite the growth of jobs in March that had the Bush crowd dancing in the White House halls last Friday, there has been no net increase in formal payroll employment since the end of the recession. We have lost jobs. There are fewer payroll jobs now than there were when the recession ended in November 2001.

So if employers were not hiring workers, and if they were miserly when it came to increases in wages and benefits for existing employees, what happened to all the money from the strong economic growth?

The study is very clear on this point. The bulk of the gains did not go to workers, "but instead were used to boost profits, lower prices, or increase C.E.O. compensation."

UNION NOW!

For the whole damn country.

3:05:11 PM     leave/read comments []

Another boogeyman bites the dust.

"Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero, despite rather precise estimates," write its authors, Felix Oberholzer-Gee of the Harvard Business School and Koleman S. Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The industry has reacted with the kind of flustered consternation that the White House might display if Richard A. Clarke showed up at a Rose Garden tea party. Last week, the Recording Industry Association of America sent out three versions of a six-page response to the study.

The problem with the industry view, Professors Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf say, is that it is not supported by solid evidence. Previous studies have failed because they tend to depend on surveys, and the authors contend that surveys of illegal activity are not trustworthy. "Those who agree to have their Internet behavior discussed or monitored are unlikely to be representative of all Internet users," the authors wrote.

I wonder if the RIAA is going to start smearing Professors' Oberholzer-Gee's and Strumpf's private lives, ala BushCo. and Richard Clarke ?

2:45:54 PM     leave/read comments []

Click the photo, make it BiG.

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