There's a sample video. The four mountains are Taos NM, Deer Valley UT, Alta UT, and Mad River Glen VT. The response from the Taos a-holes is priceless.
Now all you need is Mitchell and Jurassic Park on HDDVD Tue Dec 4 2007
From derek: HD-DVD to introduce distance synching. It will be possible to watch a movie simultaneously with someone somewhere else. The host controls the play/pause/etc... functions.
Government relief plan to freeze interest rates for subprime borrowers. The article has examples of those who think it goes too far and those who doesn't think it goes far enough. I'm with the people who think it goes too far, even though the ones in the article don't sound like real people speaking. -decker
The best part is that Fox (who pulled funding in the middle of filming, because of the chance of offending sponsors) is on board with selling Brawndo because they might make some money. Sluts. All from polega.
"On the other hand only 16 percent of born-again Christians, compared to 43 percent of Catholics and 30 percent of Protestants, believe in Darwin's theory of evolution."
So if someone says they're a born-again Christian, there's an 84% chance they're a complete fucking moron. Good to know. If you're curious, here are the full poll results with breakdowns. -hendrix
So since he is so quick to point out that other places are doing this and doing well, I guess I can look forward to us following other cities tax plans which would of course include lowering things here, right?
Miss Landmine Angola! I original thought this would be a "jump on the grenade" type competition but it turns out to be a serious beauty pagent involving woman who have lost limbs from landmines... gulp...
So NBC showed off the cast for the new Knight Rider movie, which will now feature a Shelby Mustang as the new KITT. Even stranger, the voice will be provided by none other than Will Arnett (Arrested Development's GOB). The Hoff is scheduled to make an appearance.
My Bobby won't be playin no foosball Thu Dec 13 2007
ESPN ranks the top 64 QBs in the NFL... although I don't know how Vinny's backup makes the list, but no Vinny. And congrats to Big Ben, he's well ahead of the bad Manning.
Here's some ammo for you right-wingers: all income tiers are paying less effective tax rates than their historical averages (1979-2005). And the bottom tiers have the biggest drops. -decker
Another Reason Your iPhone Sucks: AT&T Fri Dec 14 2007
Editor-in-chief of Wired runs up $2,100 phone bill while traveling abroad because the iPhone updates its email every 10 minutes (if you've turned data roaming on). -decker
How to cut spending if you spoil your kids. If this isn't obvious to you, please pick up your computer or keyboard and hit yourself over the head. And if it is obvious, feel free to drive to Salt Lake and beat up these people. -hendrix
Alvin and the Chipmunks took in $45 million this weekend. That's fourty five million. (Fear of the end of the world = bad spelling. -ed) Dollars. I love Jason Lee as much as anyone, but this is a sign of the apocalypse. -hendrix
We recently got the pictures back from the photographer... Katie picked out a bunch of them and put together an online slideshow. The slideshow is in Flash, so check your Flash version if you have trouble viewing it.
Also, here are a few random albums of pics if you are interested:
Edit - Whoever sent in this story... please stop refreshing and reloading page data as it is reposting your link many times. Next time you want to reload the page, click on the URL and press return... that should clear things out for you. Thanks! - JT
As an added bonus, here is the 6 minute super trailer shown in IMAX theaters before I Am Legend. This is haxxxor video taped, but comes out well enough to enjoy it. This movie looks awesome. -JT
At least 14 states have either notified the federal government that they will no longer be requesting the funds or are not expected to apply, forgoing more than $15 million of the $50 million available, officials said.
Congratulations to Maine for being one of the first. -hendrix
Jay-z hasn't put out anything worthwhile since 1998 Tue Dec 18 2007
All Derek: If this list taught me anything, its that Rolling Stone doesn't know anything about music, and that 2007 was a banner year for crap. Rolling Stone's 100 songs of 2007
5-point plan to beating the !@#$ Patriots Apparently the Steelers didn't get this memo. Or they lost it at halftime and completely forgot every word in it. From Bean.
I knew I had something more going on than just being cute. What was tough about that for me was growing up playing hockey, coming from Canada, leaving at eighteen, all that stuff. I was a beer drinker and a chain-smoker, and I’d been in my share of scraps when I was a kid. So I kinda saw myself as a little bit of a hard guy, you know?
I can’t always control my body the way I want to, and I can’t control when I feel good or when I don’t. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.
I'll admit the whole iPod craze it a little out of control but I didn't realize it has come to THIS! Wed Dec 19 2007
The George Foreman iPod Grill Apparently there is a speaker and a docking station on this fuggin' thing. If I ever saw someone with one of these at a tailgate, I would kick my own ass.
Philadelphia anchorwoman is arrested in Manhattan for punching a cop in the face. She also sent Rich Eisen pictures of herself in a bikini, which were intercepted by Eisen's wife earlier this year.
Here's what it means to not be afraid, here's what it means to fight a real war on terror, and here's what it means to win that war, instantly . . .
* It means that you do not participate in the public hysteria when terrorists attack, but instead react proportionally, placing the terrorist act in its proper place in the vast scheme of crimes, accidents, disease, natural disaster, and generic tragedy that is man's lot on earth.
* It means that you do not permit the politicians to feel terror on your behalf. It means that you discourage them from fomenting and exploiting hysteria to expand their own power at the expense of traditional American principles.
* It means that you view terrorism as a matter for international police work, under the rule of law, and not a justification for bloated government programs, reckless wars, or the shredding of the Bill of Rights.
* It means that you recruit others to adopt your war winning strategy of not being afraid.
The only thing worse than a hippie is... Fri Dec 21 2007
A dumb hippie. Or 300 dumb hippies. The tiny Maine College of the Atlantic is the first to go carbon neutral. Does it do this by cutting back on energy usage? No, it does so by buying "offsets." Even as someone very sympathetic to environmental causes, I think the business of offsets, as it stands today, is not unlike snake oil, whatever that means. -jm
Besides being waaaay overrated as a global warming cure all, it's been causing other problems. For instance, corn has become very expensive, causing tortilla and other food price increases. But, finally, the last straw has been hit. It's starting to affect the production of hops, and thus, beer!!! Time to write your congressman. -jm
Author basically says that inequality is rising, but it's not the middle class that is suffering, despite what you might hear politicians say. -decker
PS - I believe his entire response to myth 2 is inflation adjusted - I've seen that fact touted before by an economist, and it wouldn't carry much weight if it weren't adjusted.
From rcr: I had read a bunch of stuff in fairly reputable (read: liberally biased) sources that had expressed cautious optimism about the impact of the troop surge. So this is depressing.
Amazon now has Warner music available DRM-free. Bad Boy for life. Dai-lan. Dai-lan. Dai-lan. Dai-lan. And Dai-lan.
The Big Dig is officially over as of the end of the year. At $14.798 billion, it cost less than two months in Iraq.
I took off the google analytics stuff, so the site may load a hair faster. YMMV.
Not that anyone but me uses it, but I made an update to the text-only site (Site->Text only) such that it includes my shared items from Google Reader. Basically it's a bunch of random links I found interesting enough to highlight so I can double back and possibly post them. Sort of like DTS unfiltered. If the other ed's want to jump in, send me the javascript. -hendrix
Charges: Worst president ever. So openly horrible, he now makes jokes about being Darth Vader. Unashamedly advocating for executive abuse of power and corporate theft. In and out of public office since his congressional internship during the Nixon Administration. Didn't care about the quagmire he foresaw in '94, because since then he'd deftly maneuvered to profit from it. Polling lower than HPV.
Exhibit A: His Halliburton stock rose 3000% in 2007. No joke.
By the George Mason Economics Department, apparently.
Evidence of contradiction regarding his attitude towards free trade are pointed out here and here (and earlier here). He then follows up with this, which I found to be particularly thoughtful.
There are also lots of other critiques of Krugman found on the site. Particularly damaging posts to Krugman's staple arguments about income inequality can be found by looking at this and this.
And while I'm on boring economics stuff, I'll recommend Thomas Schelling's Choice and Consequence for those of you interested in policy economics. The author won the fake Nobel Prize in 2005. I'm only about halfway through it (it's a series of essays, so I pick it up sporadically), but it's a good guide to thinking about policy (and other topics like self restraint). It's dense reading, but not muddled with equations or too much economics jargon. Reads like a philosophy book. It should probably be required reading for every member of Congress and anyone who lives in the White House. -decker
Buying a new car and refinancing the debt from your old car. This is beyond upside down. I'd like to congratulate the people in the article for being total idiots. And if you're considering a six or seven year car loan, please consider buying a cheaper car. -hendrix
Cindy Gerhardt has rolled over so much debt on successive vehicle purchases -- five in three years -- that she now owes almost $43,000 on two trucks worth no more than $29,000 and, she says, perhaps as little as $22,000.
