Candid and personal backstage footage of DNC
If Obama ever becomes the prez (fingers crossed) he’ll be the first true YouTube President.
Ue wo muite arukou (aka “Sukiyaki”) by Kyu Sakamoto
Released by Capitol Records in the US as Sukiyaki (Capitol 4945), it topped the Billboard pop charts in the United States for three weeks in 1963 — to date the first and only song sung entirely in Japanese to do so. The lyrics were written by Rokusuke Ei and the melody was composed by Hachidai Nakamura. The lyrics tell the story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears won’t fall. The verses of the song describe him doing this through each season of the year.
The original Japanese title was considered too difficult for American audiences to remember and pronounce, therefore a well-known word that people would associate with Japan was used - Sukiyaki, even though the word has nothing to do with the song. A Newsweek columnist noted that the re-titling was like issuing “Moon River” in Japan under the title “Beef Stew.
This is one of my mom’s favorite songs. Long time ago, she and I drove around record stores to trying to find this song on CD. When I sent her this link to this YouTube video, she was so delighted :)
On August 12, 1985, Kyu Sakamoto died in the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123. Before the doomed aircraft hit the ground, he managed to write a farewell note to his wife, Yukiko Kashiwagi. Married in 1971, they had two daughters, Hanako and Maiko.
This sad side story somehow makes the song even more beautiful…
http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/
I got avg error of 2.56 on the first try. Try it for yourself.
If you have gotten a message like this in your Inbox
In-n-Out’s 60th Year Anniversary is Wednesday, October 22nd
All hamburgers will be sold for 25 cents, Cheeseburgers 30 cents, Fries
15 cents, and drinks are 10 cents!!! So mark your calendars!
As much as I’d like it to be true, it is NOT TRUE
http://www.yelp.com/topic/anaheim-in-n-out-60th-aniversary-sale-oct-22-2008-rumor
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081006202443AAWFw8l
But do go there anyway, to celebrate the BEST hamburger in the world! Maybe you’ll even get to see lot of people expecting to get 25c hamburgers :D
Op-Ed Contributor - The Borrowers - NYTimes.com
So, the world economy is in deepest sh*t in whatever-years. And the US government, in a desperate move, just approved (with pinky in lips) $810 B-I-L-L-I-O-N DOLLARS, to bailout the failing Wall Street. So… I wondered, if there are so much debt, where did all that money go? If there are so many people at loss, there has to be some people who profited from it all. Money just does not disappear into thin air. It turns out, we all did! Well, some more than others, but most of us profited from this, nevertheless. I guess something similar was happening, but this Opnion piece from NY Times sums it up quite well.
Just as many of us deserve a share of the blame, many of us also got a share of the profits. No, not the kind of profits that Wall Streeters got, at least individually. But if you sold your house over, say, the last five years, you got an inflated price because of the proliferation of credit made possible by the Street’s practices.
If you bought a house, then you got a lower mortgage rate than you would have if it weren’t for Wall Street.
If you made money on the shares of Merrill Lynch or Lehman Brothers or another participant in this mess, then you shared in the profits. One could even argue that the overall stock market wouldn’t have achieved the heights it did were it not for our housing and debt-fueled economy. So if you cashed out at all, then you got some of the profits.
Regardless who profited from this mess, the majority of the blame must fall into the failed government policy and the greedy Wall Street pigs. No question about that.
I’m usually skeptical about online TV’s, but this seems like a real winner. It’s fast, got the right kind of shows, uncluttered UI, and it’s LEGAL (not that that stopped me from watching TV shows online before :-P)
(via Wired)
The funniest SNL skit I’ve seen in recent years, LOL
But also so sad that it’s not so different from the real Palin…
UC Berkeley Homecoming - Events for Everyone
Get your Cal gears on. Cal Homecoming is this weekend.
Doe Library tour should be pretty cool. “Secrets of the Sleeping Brain: Overnight Improvements in Memory and Emotion” and “The Science Behind the Stadium” sounds interesting as well.
monkey’s butt is red from min oh on Vimeo.
I’m not sure what to make of this. “Monkey’s Butt is Red” is a traditional play song taught to Korean kids to, I guess to teach the relationships between various objects. The similarity ends at the “plane is fast”. It usually ends with “…, plane is high, and baekdu mountain is high” — no, it does not go into “orgasm is distant” :-/
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we’re left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.
I highly recommend both liberals and conservatives to watch this video and reflect on themselves.
Op-Ed Columnist - Blizzard of Lies - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
I can’t think of any precedent, at least in America, for the blizzard of lies since the Republican convention. The Bush campaign’s lies in 2000 were artful — you needed some grasp of arithmetic to realize that you were being conned. This year, however, the McCain campaign keeps making assertions that anyone with an Internet connection can disprove in a minute, and repeating these assertions over and over again.
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And now the team that hopes to form the next administration is running a campaign that makes Bush-Cheney 2000 look like something out of a civics class. What does that say about how that team would run the country?
What it says, I’d argue, is that the Obama campaign is wrong to suggest that a McCain-Palin administration would just be a continuation of Bush-Cheney. If the way John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning is any indication, it would be much, much worse.
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