Feb 28 2010
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As if it’s not obvious from this early attempt to draw on my phone, I ran uphill through potholes in New Balance running shoes today (with hairy legs).
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Some cool archive footage of Twincy followed by (starting around 1:30) implosions of buildings and bridges including the old High Bridge in St. Paul and the Met Center. Via Downhill Both Ways.
Feb 26 2010
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It sounds like Sen. John Thune has spent more time reading GOP talking points about the health care bill than the bill itself.
Feb 25 2010
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The Sunlight Foundation is live streaming the healthcare summit alongside individual campaign donations
This is really clever — when someone takes the mic, a list of campaign contributions shows up inline. [via mathowie]
Well played.
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MSP Int'l Airport 2nd Best in Country
JD Power and Associates’ poll concludes that our airport (and safest neighborhood) is one of the best in the country for its cleanliness and ease of navigation. Does this mean we have upgraded from a flyover state to a stopover state?
JD Power & Associates’ surveyors must not own computers. Detroit, who they put at #1 has around 1 public power outlet in their entire terminal. And it’s in a restaurant with some of the worst nachos I’ve had outside of Canada. Neither Detroit nor MSP offer free WiFi. On my 2010 Ed Kohler & Associates survey, I’m going with Las Vegas at #1.
Feb 23 2010
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“ The list of items she will need to turn over includes a $60,000 fur coat, a $30,000 Harrison dog, $15,000 Chanel watch and ring and other properties.
— The “dude buys you a $60,000 fur coat and things don’t work out” theorem strikes again.
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A Real Question
If you wrote a post on your personal blog that had the effect of making someone look bad on Google (because their name is in it and they did something dicky that you were writing about), would you remove the post if they paid you enough?
How much? What if it were, say, $10K? More?
And if you did remove it, was it unethical?
I’d remove it for money if I couldn’t get more publicity and satisfaction from publicizing the indecent exposure, and as long as I thought I wasn’t breaking blackmail laws. Anyone with a personal blog who says otherwise is lying or Cory Doctorow.
I’d be tempted to write a blog post about someone offering me money to remove a blog post, which would probably end up out ranking the original blog post.
Feb 22 2010
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Ted Rall is Kickstarting a reporting trip to Afghanistan
He’s trying to raise $25,000 to get there, report and get home to write a book about it. No media outlet will cover his expenses so he’s bootstrapping the operation himself.
Rall is nothing if not controversial and certainly willing to launch metaphorical bombs at both sides of the political divide. He knows his shit when it comes to central Asia, though, he’ll do good work there.
I liked Rall’s last book/comic on Afghanistan, To Afghanistan and Back, so chipped in $25 toward this new effort. He has some great perspectives on that part of the world and a creative storytelling style with a combination of narrative and comics.
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“ When EMI disabled the embedding feature, views of our treadmill video dropped 90 percent, from about 10,000 per day to just over 1,000.
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OK Go’s Damian Kulash Jr. (via livejamie) (via nickdouglas)
This makes me wonder how many views (and, um, ad impressions) news sites are missing due to their video embedding disabilities.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
I had a chance to talk about increasing the temperature of toilet water using my own pee during an East Lake Pub Crawl / roaming Flak Radio Podcast. A bar scene with a rowdy crowd and bingo in the background does not make for perfect acoustics. You’ll really want to have to hear this to put up with the noise.
