Merry Christmas! OK, now that I’ve got you smiling and thinking of Santa and Elves and Snow flakes, Sugar Plum Fairies (hey, sugar, are you reading this?) and dancing gingerbread boys, let’s look at some of the more dangerous yet popular items from this blog’s past.
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Senseless Christmas Carnage
The cookies. THE COOOOKIESSSSSS!!!!!!
More Retro: MTV Ruined Everything for Everybody
Half of my regular readers (well, at least four, maybe five) tell me, under duress, that they truly enjoy my more long-winded posts, but the vast majority of random visits clearly come to the quick and dirty posts, the videos that I slapped up with no forethought, the items that take less than five seconds to read though often there is a video, and the occasional kitty kat. MTV-generation pandering. Later I’ll retrospect some of those long winded tomes, but for now, here’s a set of pointers to some of the more visited posts not covered in my previous retrospective:
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Retrospective: Why do people read my blog?
It is end of the year retrospective time. This is the time of year those of us who do stuff others read or watch all year run out of good stuff to do and dredge up old stuff to keep the few of you who are not flying to Mexico or baking cookies busy while we get drunk. This is the first in a seemingly interminable set of such retrospectives that I plan to do this year.
I’ll start my retrospective with a prelude:
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Good Podcasts
This post is a followup on Podcasts good and bad, to which some of you responded with excellent suggestions for podcasts.
I want to say that the criticisms I leveled in the previous post apply mainly to video podcasts in technolology that I’ve seen via the Roku on TWiT TV and other places, and really, on only a few of those. The following list is compiled from your comments but including only science and skepticism podcasts. I’ve added a few that you’all didn’t happen to mention.
Please suggest what is missing and I’ll add that in a future update.
- Actually Speaking podcast.
- Brain Science podcast.
- Car Talk podcast on Automotive Science and Skepticism.
- For Good Reason podcast with D.J. Grothe.
- Legaltalk Network podcast.
- Meet the Scientist podcast of Microbe World.
- Minnesota Atheists podcasts (often science related).
- MIT World Distributed Intelligence videos.
- Monster Talk podcast from Skeptic Magazine
- Nature podcast.
- Point of Inquiry podcast.
- Princeton University web media.
- Rationally Speaking podcast.
- Science Friday podcast with Ira Flatow.
- Science Weekly podcast from The Guardian UK.
- Scientific American 60 second science/a>.
- Skepticality pocast of Skeptic magazine.
- Skeptically Speaking a podcast with Desiree Schell
- Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast.
- Stuff You Should Know podcast from How Stuff Works.
- This Week in Science podcast with Dr. Kiki.
- To the Best of our Knowledge podcast.
- Universe Today podcast
Some good writing, some good acting in this clip. Good bye Steve Landesberg.
Looking at Landesberg’s tvography and filmography, I note that there must be an entire genre he was big in that I am utterly unaware of. But I did watch Barney Miller, and he was good in it as the Edgy Skeptic with Quirks. Was he the first intellectual cop in the modern era of US based TV crime and cop shows? Imma say he was.
Cody Killed Logan. I suppose that’s OK if this is the only way you can have your toys.
NOTE Since writing this post other versions of the story behind this tragic and unnecessary gun related death have emerged. See the comments below.
The conversation that emerged from this post is not obviated by the story being different, as that conversation is more general.
I am not suggesting that one particular version of the story or another is correct. You’ll have tobdo your own research on that.
Did I say toys? Sorry, didn’t mean to prejudice the case. I meant “Legal Firearms For Protection Against Intruders and a Repressive Government.”
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A message from Mark Zuckerberg … er Julian Assange …
Hat Tip Rick MacPherson
What is the ideal camera for the person who… well, you know….
The person who never seems to be able to operate, or be happy with, these modern digital cameras. The person who more often says “Oh, I’m so upset, I couldn’t get a picture of that because this damn camera never works right” or the person who goes to take a shot but then quietly puts the camera away realizing it’s full and remembering that one does not quite know what one does when the camera is full. And so on.
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Help me nominate a non-profit
Move On Dot Org will be transferring funds to various non-profits, or otherwise be supporting them. Unfortunately, I don’t think Moveon has a rule against religious non-profis. But I do, and so do you. Please suggest a non-profit or two for me to nominate. If you area member of moveon as well, you can do this too.
Here are the guidelines:
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This is your LAST CHANCE for holiday shopping
(If you’re mailing your presents and don’t want to spend an arm and a leg.)
As part of my annual service to my readers who can’t think of what to give to those friends and relatives who insist on exchanging gifts this time every year, I present two categories of goodies, cheap and not so cheap. For additional ideas see these posts.
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SOCIAL MEDIA AMBER ALERT
A friend of mine has asked me to spread the word that we are looking for a missing person, Joe Sjoberg (pronounced Show-Berg). He is probably in the upper Midwest somewhere.
MISSING: JOE SJOBERG from MADISON, WI
ARTICLE IN THE ATLANTIC:HERE
FROM JOE’S BROTHER:
Right now the last true piece of evidence had him in Madison, but we’ve heard of car sightings in Minnesota.
Its likely he’s in Wisconsin but he could be anywhere as he’s been missing for almost a week. If you’re in the MN-WI Area Please Print This Flyer and Post It Around: http://bit.ly/gQ4BtJ
Joe Sjoberg (pronounced: SHOW-BERG) has been missing since Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
He lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Joe was last seen on the near East side of Madison, WI. Baldwin at Sherman. The police are involved and are doing all they can,
Joe is about 5’10, 180-200 lbs. He has short (not very short) brown hair and greenish eyes. He had about three or four weeks worth of beard when I last saw him.
May be wearing a hoodie, maybe a ski jacket.
He took his grey shoes with red trim; they’re casual sneakers, a bit beat up.
Joe drives a GREY ’91 Caprice with Washington state plates 513-WYN which is also missing.
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT CRIME STOPPERS AT: (608)266-6014
OR EMAIL sjobergpatrick AT gmail DOT com
New Wikileaks Release!!!11!!
Below the fold. Ten points if you can identify the significance of the law firm mentioned in this recently released video.
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Assange on the US Plan to capture, kill him
Last Minute Holiday Shopping!!!
As I’m sitting here ordering things on line and last minute for people’s Christmas presents (there, I said Christmas. Take THAT Bill O’Really!) I thought I’d make a few suggestions for my readers.