Another Halloween has passed.
Many thanks to seedmoon for sharing this wonderful distraction with me:
Friday, October 31, 2008
Milton The Monster
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
VideoTheVote.org
Bring your cellphones, digital and video cameras to the polling booths and document anything you think is delaying, preventing or disenfranchising your vote this Nov. 4th.
videothevote.org
"Video the Vote is a national initiative to protect voting rights by monitoring the electoral process. We organize citizen journalists—ordinary folks like you and me—to document election problems as they occur. And then we distribute their footage to the mainstream media and online to make sure the full story of Election Day gets told. Watch our 2006 highlights and join us as we Video the Vote this November."
Feature Film: Zeitgeist - Addendum
This is a sequel to the movie "Zeitgeist" by Peter Joseph which was a web phenomenon from last year. The movie was very controversial and it has been attacked from many angles but I think it did what it set out to do: get people talking about the subjects.
In this sequel, Joseph spends all the time on something that was only a part of the original movie: the financial system. It is 2 hours long but the content was so fascinating to me that it went by very quickly. I'm not sure that I agree with all of the analysis but it is certainly something that makes me think. I think this movie might be more approachable than the original because it taps into something that everyone can relate to. It is still asking us to radically rethink the world around us but I think it does so more productively this time that will not be such a big turnoff to some people.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Remember the Wassaaaaaap Guys?
60 Frames brings us this video about the wasssup guys in 2008. It looks like times have changed.
McCain: Nuclear Power safety, Blah blah blah....
John McCain mocked Barack Obama for saying that nuclear power needed to be done safely.
McCain said, "You know, the other night in a debate I said his eloquence is admirable but pay attention to his words. We talked about offshore drilling and he said he would, quote, consider offshore drilling. We talked about nuclear power. Well it has to be safe, environment, blah blah blah."
This video is from CNN.com, broadcast October 25, 2008.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Seesmic - John Cleese interview
Seesmic is an international web video site that asks everyone to become part of the conversation with their own webcams. See their introductory video at the link for details.
John Cleese has created a profile there and voiced his thoughts on the US elections from a European perspective.
Ted Talks - John Hodgman: A brief digression on matters of lost time
John "I'm a PC" Hodgman takes his crack at the Ted Talks format.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Funny Or Die - Ron Howards Call To Action
See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die
Ron Howard, Andy Griffith, and Henry Winkler demonstrate the lengths they will go to endorse Barack Obama.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Conservatives For Change
"Conservatives for Change" is a documentary project featuring Republicans and Conservatives voting for Obama. These are real people, speaking in their own words.
Conservatives For Change:
Election 08 - He Said it First
Electon 08 brings us a whole new breed of web attack video. . a hilarious one. .
It's brutal but I bet you laugh anyway. .
The 2009 Job Market
Screaming frog productions presents a humorous look at the future of jobs in America.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Racists line up to see Palin in Ohio
Al Jazeerah visits the Palin stump speech in Ohio, (dear Allah).
The real story is not that these people are stupid, we all know that, it's that they're talking to Al Jazeera about this stuff.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Blumenthal documentary on Palin
From Andrew Sullivan's blog: "A chilling video from Wasilla by Max Blumenthal that helps explain more deeply how Palin is a product of some of the most extreme forms of Christianism that exist."
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Blogger interrupted: The McCain-Palin Mob
Blogger interrupted brings us this very simple and effective video that simply asks questions of McCain/Palin supporters. At least one of them, the blond lady pictured on the video thumbnail, gets very confrontational without really making much of a case for herself.
And here's part 2:
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
The Keating 5 and Thoughts on Dergulation
The McCain campaign lives in a big glass house and now they are throwing bricks at the Obama campaign. In response, this documentary, and a companion website have been released.
The research section of this site is really an eye opener. It has all kinds of letters etc that spell out exactly what this was about. For example: This is a quote from a letter John McCain wrote to the Whitehouse Chief of Staff at the time, James Baker.
Regarding regulation:
"I believe it to be unwise, and I think it flys (sic) in the face of our recent efforts to remove the hand of government from the affairs of private enterprise."
Here's the thing that really bothers me: We have a society here which is made up of human beings. We have agreed that human beings cannot be trusted to always regulate themselves and that the creation of "civilization" requires regulations. . also known as "laws." Without these laws people's primal natures are allowed to run wild and we have anarchy, chaos, tyranny and death.
Human beings once had a free market where everyone was on their own. The strongest families rose to the top and gathered power for themselves. This led to a world overrun for thousands of years by a number of tyrant leaders oppressing their populations and robbing them, and the land, of all wealth. Yet even these tyrants admitted that they needed regulations or their kingdoms would quickly fall apart.
The United States of America is very high minded scheme which attempts to create a society with a level playing field. We pride ourselves on this intention to give everyone a fair shot at success. Yet this doesn't happen without massive regulation imposed upon all of us. By agreeing to this regulation, America has benefited from the talents of many more people, and it has become very powerful.
Why is it that when it comes to human society, regulations (aka law and order) are considered necessary and it is a high minded goal to create a level playing field for all people. Yet, in the financial world, where society's well being is directly effected, regulation is an evil force that is ruining everything? Is there really a difference between tyranny and fraud in civilization and tyranny and fraud in the "marketplace?" Aren't civilization and "the market" a reflection of each other and dependent on each others outcomes?
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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