Iphone Obsessions

Flock

I just had three wisdom teeth pulled out, and am currently drugged up on painkillers and antibiotics.

So I figure, what better way to to spend the evening before I crash, then by playing around with Flock, a webbrowser built off the Firefox engine, that is geared towards blogging and social networking.

This is my first test post of the features.... ignore me.

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Nice features -

Blogging in browser as an extension

• Editing in browser, post-publishing
• connects to online photo accounts for streamlined uploading
• Brings all you're news together in a nice front page thats designed to be blogged directly from - Front Page
• Many firefox extensions work with it.
  
• Allows you to easily post links and snippets off webpages in a more streamlined interface - This also includes drag-drop images off pages <---like that
  

Could use -

• More imaging features for on the fly webpage snapshots that can be cropped and sent to a blog post quick
  
• Drag and Drop videos
• Chat features so when you surf blogs or sites you can chat with whoever happens to be on that same site as well
• Better editing interface... its too simple and grety right now.
  

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Blogged with Flock

Bilbao - Free music for soul searching folk day dreamers

Here is a great album for all us low fi folk/indie junkies that feel out of place with a lot of music out there today...

Bilbao is an unsigned band, this is a collection of rarities that is offered free to download on the net. I first heard the track Brindille on the John Peel Tribute albums (which are also collections of free music)... thought it was great... and then found this load of tracks, which is a double bonus.

Enjoy.

Gorgeous use of Graphics

I haven't seen graphics this well done ever, they create a highly believable set of alien plants and make them seem as life like as possible. Had I not been told I was looking at graphics when I first watched this, It would definatly have taken me several reruns to discern the fake from the real.

Anyways, believable imagery, gorgeous environment, and a soundtrack that fits, all make this an A+ Video!

Death and Renewal

Abu Ghraib continues to haunt me. What is to be done?

If there were no pictures, there would be no Abu Ghraib. How many other cells, and how much torture existed and continues to exist is beyond conceptualization. These guys got caught red handed just out of the stupidity of taking photos and leaking them to a friend that was trusted.

The military covered up the extent of the torture by offering an amnesty period to anyone that had photos, hinting they be destroyed. The administration covered their backs by giving the people that were caught in the photos low grade prison sentences and not charging the actual murders or anyone in the administration that actually signed off on these policies. No figures were released on deaths in Abu Ghraib, and it is still not clear how many people, who endured so much of these disgusting tortures, actually were innocent...

What scares me, what horrifies me, is that since then, the US government has not only signed off on documents that further erode the Geneva Conventions, but also peruse an active policy of sending prisoners to foreign jails where they can be abused to greater extents.

Who am I but some dumb shit kid that got lucky enough to be born to a family who can live comfortably and relatively detached? What better way to make use of this gift then to agitate, to remember, to seek knowledge, to condemn. I am lucky, to be born as such, then be one of many Iraqi woman raped by security forces, children tortured to test their fathers will or a random innocent forced into a cell, psychologically and physically abused, sodomized and murdered.

We are an abused generation, we all were tortured and humiliated together. We cannot take this back, or reverse our direction, rather only hope to divert it from further abuse; that our children can live without the horrors we or our fathers have committed, or suffer our rape. All we can hope for is to remember, and to learn, to seek knowledge, and then to teach through our actions; to offer a better tomorrow. Let us be a transistor to peace, then another manifestation of hatred.

Let us give our children a chance to dream again, then endure the nightmares we have been witness to.

Viet-Dong: Fucking for Sanity... and 5 million dollars.

James Pacenza, has just been fired from IBM for using Adult chat rooms while at work.

Typical open and shut case right? Wrong! This guy claims that his military service in the Vietnam War led to a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that causes him to seek out "titillating conversations" whenever he gets bothered or worried.

James Pacenza, 58, of Montgomery, says he visits chat rooms to treat traumatic stress incurred in 1969 when he saw his best friend killed during an Army patrol in Vietnam.

Ah yes, but of course, that all makes sense now.

He argues, that on that specific day, he had just returned from a veterans memorial, and that he needed to get it off his mind.... so what better way of course then to have cyber sex with some miscellaneous person during your break?

His lawyer argues that Mr. Pacenza is the victim of age discrimination as he is 55 years old and that he has violated no written IBM rule. The company counter-claims that he had been warned once, and they weren't going to put up with his shenanigans anymore.

[Pacenza] argues that other workers with worse offenses were disciplined less severely -- including a couple who had sex on a desk and were transferred.

Wow, IBM is starting to sound like a deviants paradise!

Of course, the lawyer is arguing that because Mr. Pacenza is a war veteran he should be given special conditions, and that sex addiction as a result of watching someone die is perfectly normal.

Funny enough, this guy might have a chance at actually winning this case it seems... I mean, I doubt too many people buy the line that watching a friend die in combat resulted in a perpetual desire to fuck, but IBM messed up by not offering him sex addiction therapy when they offer therapy for employees who suffer drug/alcohol problems.

He is suing the company for $5 Million, so my guess is that they'll quietly settle this matter out of court for a decent sum, as well as give him his retirement benefits early.

Barack Obama is a Muslim Terrorist in Disguise Hell Bent on Single Handedly Destroying the American Empire and Freedom all over the World

..... aside from that I think he'd make a wonderful candidate for President.



*Warning - This post suffers from a megadose of talking out of Fox News ass*