Guesses At Nothing

Just a quick quip about the auto bailout passed by Bush; conservatives seem to be all about the free market until it fails. If the powers that be actually believed in what they preach, then there would be no bailouts. I am not saying that I disagree with the bailouts, but for conservatives to espouse free capitalism when it benefits them and flip-flop to the more realilistic stance that markets actually need regulation when their philosophy fails is pure hypocrisy. Here's to hoping that this economic downturn becomes a catalyst for better thinking.

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Make sure you have your speakers turned on. 

I wish stumbleupon had an "I love it!" button, because I do. Oddly, I sometimes sound like this on the way home when there is nothing good on the radio.

Awesome!

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
[via panopticist]

We went  to Seagrove and ended up buying an orchid from Seagrove Orchids.  But we left without any pottery.  Next time. 
Seagrove is famous for its pottery, especially face jugs (pictured below).

Only took me two and a half years to get here.  I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.

Obama has licensed change.gov under a Creative Commons license.  Finally, maybe a politician gets it.  From MojoBlog:

Who here is interested in the copyright standards of the Obama transition's web-based information, documents, and videos? Everybody, right? Excellent.

Open government advocates are cheering the fact that the Obama transition team has changed the copyright restriction on Change.gov to a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which allows users to grab content off Change.gov, copy it, remix it, and distribute it without limitation. All users have to do is attribute the content to Change.gov. It is the freest possible version of a copyright and a step in the right direction.

Beck - Gamma Ray

As a pocket knife owner, this is personal for me: 

Ever since 9/11, pocket knives and their owners have been separated at airport security checkpoints everywhere, never to be reunited. According to the TSA, knives are prohibited, except "for plastic or round bladed butter knives." Who carries a butter knife in his or her pocket or purse? The TSA's unhelpful "Summer Travel Tips" says: "Pocket knives, self-defense sprays and other potential weapons are also prohibited." What a huge misunderstanding! Pocket knives are tools. If you consider them to be weapons, certainly they are Weapons of minimal Destruction (WmD).

Talk about sweating the small stuff, missing the forest for the trees, looking for love in all the wrong places. If pocket knifes are prohibited, why are nail clippers and corkscrews allowed? Why not allow an all-in-one pocket knife, which best prepares a person for any emergency? Especially, what with emergencies on the rise!

[From BoingBoing]

Also noteworthy, I've walked back to my car to drop off my pocket knife at many music venues.  I loathe the day when I leave it behind when getting on a plane.