UPDATE: Watch it Monday night on your local PBS stations before you go vote on Tuesday!
frontline: the choice 2004 | PBS
If you missed last night’s Frontline on PBS, you can watch the whole program online. It tells the story of the two presidential candidates (well, Ralph is briefly mentioned), who started out from similar background, but lived a very different lives that resulted in their starkly different views of the world. Excellent, excellent program!
On a related note: go watch the new Eminem music video “Mosh”
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Nikon D70, 50mm f/1.8 1/200
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Wired News: On the Trail of the Analemma
Wired news has a story about people who photograph Analemma (”the yearlong pattern the sun etches in the sky as the Earth orbits around it”). The story claims that there are only 8 person in the world who have done this. Pretty cool~ See the story for more pictures.
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Uncivil War - Stolen Honor rewrites the history of the Vietnam War. By Dana Stevens
Dana Stevens of Slate reviews the controversial anti-Kerry movie, Stolen Honor, which is to air by the Sinclair stations (in edited form, being pressured by their tanking stock) the night before the election.
Its persuasive tactic is essentially one of brainwashing: By juxtaposing the occasional shot of Kerry’s face (at the Winter Soldier hearings, at an antiwar rally also attended by Jane Fonda) with the gruesome torture stories of surviving Vietnam POWs, the filmmaker hopes to leave the impression that Kerry is responsible for their suffering.
… producer and narrator Carlton Sherwood, with a straight face and without a shred of evidence, calls John Kerry a war criminal. And not in some symbolic, metaphorical way; he accuses him of decapitating, testicle-eletrocuting, and rape. Those are but some of the atrocities that Kerry describes in a well-known clip from the Winter Soldier hearings of 1971: “They [the soldiers] told the stories… at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals… and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam.” Immediately after this clip, Sherwood appears onscreen and asks: “Did I just hear that right? Was I, or my fellow Marines, being accused of the same atrocities John Kerry had committed?” Did I just hear that right? After rewinding this moment half a dozen times, I had to believe it: A film destined for the airwaves of national television on the eve of the election was coolly asserting that the Democratic candidate was a rapist and a ball-wiring babykiller. You’d think that would have come up in the debates: “My opponent has no plan for saving Social Security. Plus, he wired all those balls in Vietnam.”
Are people of the red states so dense that they’ll actually believe this crap?? We will see on the election day..
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The 9/11 Secret in the CIA’s Back Pocket
Eh.. too obvious.. barely made it to my blog ;)
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It must be pretty obvious to everyone that I’m no fan of Dubya, but wow.. I am quite impressed to see how articulate he was in his debates when he was running for the governor of Texas. Is he really going senile? (seriously).
From BB
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Update: (10/15) Dubya Bulges gallery
Update: An expert says, Bush WAS wired!
Is Bush Wired?
Salon.com | Bush’s mystery bulge (er.. on the back I mean..)
This wouldn’t be the first time Bush is caught with such device:
Suggestions that Bush may have using this technique stem from a D-day event in France, when a CNN broadcast appeared to pick up — and broadcast to surprised viewers — the sound of another voice seemingly reading Bush his lines, after which Bush repeated them. Danny Schechter, who operates the news site MediaChannel.org, and who has been doing some investigating into the wired-Bush rumors himself, said the Bush campaign has been worried of late about others picking up their radio frequencies — notably during the Republican Convention on the day of Bush’s appearance. “They had a frequency specialist stop me and ask about the frequency of my camera,” Schechter said. “The Democrats weren’t doing that at their convention.” (Salon.com)
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Wireless Internet access with ranges upto 30 miles + 25 times the speed of today’s broadband = Cool!
Wired 12.10: START
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Wired News: People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid
Most of the cells in your body are not your own, nor are they even human. They are bacterial. From the invisible strands of fungi waiting to sprout between our toes, to the kilogram of bacterial matter in our guts, we are best viewed as walking “superorganisms,” highly complex conglomerations of human, fungal, bacterial and viral cells… More than 500 different species of bacteria exist in our bodies, making up more than 100 trillion cells. Because our bodies are made of only some several trillion human cells, we are somewhat outnumbered by the aliens. It follows that most of the genes in our bodies are from bacteria, too.
Heh, it reminds me one of Futurama episode :)
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This is what happens to Sims, in the hands of a twisted mind.
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