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 Welcome to the first edition of the Wider Angle Sunday Reader. It's like the Wider Angle link dump you're used to, but perhaps with a bit more to injest. So grab your notebook and a cup of coffee (or a couple martinis). The Oil We Eat is an essay published in Harper's in 2004 that will change the way you think about everything you eat. This had more of an impact on me than Fast Food Nation, which made me stop eating fast food altogether, and this article is only 7 pages. "David Pimentel, an expert on food and energy at Cornell University, has estimated that if all of the world ate the way the United States eats, humanity would exhaust all known global fossil-fuel reserves in just over seven years. Pimentel has his detractors. Some have accused him of being off on other calculations by as much as 30 percent. Fine. Make it ten years." [via kottke] Video Chaser*: Rather than deliver a snide and witty comment to shame her dumbass co-star, Jodi Applegate totally freaked out on a live news report on Thursday. This is the kind of clip that gets cherished for years. *a Video Chaser will be defined in the spirit of Xeni Jardin's unicorn chasers to that follow very graphic/disturbing images on BoingBoing. WikiMapia is a wiki project using Google Maps to describe the world. Scroll to various locations on the map, zoom in, and discover what's there. [thanks Allyson] "At least 56 people, more than half children, were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that crushed a building, the deadliest attack of the campaign against Hezbollah." Video Chaser: The Daily Show: Stop calling people Hitler. The Chicago City Council has passed legislation to make big box retailers (those with stores in the area over 90,000 square feet and total annual revenues over $1 billion) pay their workers a living wage. Naturally, Wal-Mart has decried that this will hurt the workers and force them to close stores. That makes sense, as I found this in their 2005 Annual Report: "Our fiscal year ending January 31, 2005 was another record year for Wal-Mart. We topped $10 billion in net income for the first time in our history and added almost $29 billion in sales." How could they possibly afford to raise wages? I mean, where would the money come from? Wikipedia celebrates 750 years of American independence from The Onion. "At 750 years, the U.S. is by far the world's oldest surviving democracy, and is certainly deserving of our recognition," Wales said. "According to our database, that's 212 years older than the Eiffel Tower, 347 years older than the earliest-known woolly-mammoth fossil, and a full 493 years older than the microwave oven." At some Whole Foods, there are egg bar type places where you can find all sorts of weird eggs. Why? I have no idea. But Natalie Dee bought an emu egg, tried to fry it, wound up scrambling it, and created a detailed photo diary of the experience. [via BoingBoing] Weekly internet TV charts. Links to what everyone's been watching. Photos of the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001. Virtually no one has seen images this detailed this soon after the attacks. [via reddit] Video Chaser: Will Ferrell has done another video in the style of White House West, this time for global warming. A couple weeks ago, my mom called me and asked what she should do with my boxes of baseball cards still in her basement. She said they didn't take up much space, so she wouldn't mind holding onto them in case they get valuable. I thanked her and suggested she do that, since a lot of them are of pretty good players. We both overlooked the fact that no one cares about baseball cards anymore. I'm not sure what I'll do with them now, but it seems that they're kind of worthless as anything more than the cardboard currency of elementary school. I don't make a habit of talking to the under-20 crowd because I find them hard to follow since they rarely discuss anything I care about. It was that way when I was in my teens, too, which partially explains why I had so few friends. I don't like cars, have only a passing interest in chicks, and shopping malls make me sad. But I digress. According to The New York Times, where I get my slang information now, apparently, kids are shortening words in conversation to make themselves sound like they have some sort of brain-decaying disease. "Awkward became awk, actually became actu, typical became typ, amazing became amaze and hilarious became hilar. Something utterly hilar, of course, became TOPOSH — Top of the Pillar of St. Hilar — but there was nothing TOPOSH about the situation. As the older sister, I tried to do my part. Sometimes that involved throwing my sneakers at her, and sometimes it was as simple as, 'Hey, Justine, you’re an idiot.'" [via kottke] The 5 trends that are shaping everything in the world. "We say that this is an ‘experimental’ financial system, because nothing like it has ever existed. Not that this is the first experiment with lighter than air money. No, the U.S. Treasury did not invent pure-paper money. In the modern era, it has been tried many times – but never with happy results. And never, ever on such a grand scale. Now, practically every currency in the world is backed by dollars. And the dollar itself is backed by nothing." [via reddit] The ugly truth about everyday life in Baghdad - a confidential letter sent from U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad to Condi Rice on July 20. We focus on the civil war and deterioration of a region, but sometimes forget about all the other problems on a local level. Fuck. "7. Temperatures in Baghdad have already reached 115 degrees. Employees all confirm that, by the last week of May, they were getting one hour of power for every six hours without. By early June, the situation had improved slightly. In Hal al-Shaab, power has recently improved from one in six to one in three hours. Other staff report similar variances. Central Baghdad neighborhood Bab al-Nu'atham has had no city power for over a month. Areas near hospitals, political party headquarters, and the green zone have the best supply. One staff member reported a friend lives in a building that houses the new minister; within 24 hours of his appointment, her building had city power 24 hours a day." [via reddit] Video Chaser: Back to the Future I and II synced up so you see both Marty McFly's simultaneously. Beautiful images of the former Penn Station in NYC. I was looking at this page this week after hearing once again how ugly the current station is under Madison Square Garden. Coindidentally it showed up on del.icio.us popular this weekend. "I came over here because I wanted to kill people." A profile of Pvt. Steven D. Green. [via digg] Video Chaser: Windows Vista speech recognition doesn't work so well... in a demonstration at their headquarters and replayed on CNBC. Labels: Sunday Reader  Wider Angle is two years old. If you have any suggestions for stuff to add to the site, email me or leave it in the comments. Thanks!  Royal Sapien.com v2.0 is officially LIVE as of 7pm ET on Friday. Along with the fresh new look, there are a ton of streaming songs, free downloadable mixes and wallpaper, gear, and lots more cool stuff. At the moment the streaming music page only works in Firefox (IE can't handle the Flash but Firefox doesn't even flinch). You should be using Firefox anyway, so you'll be fine.  Yet another Population: One update. After being picked up by C|Net and Protein OS, in addition to reddit, Digg, Something Awful, and del.icio.us, it's hit 73836 unique users so far. Thanks for visiting!  The Washington Supreme Court, in an amazingly blatant display of bigotry, upheld the state's law banning gay marriage. Their reasoning was as follows: “Limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples,” Justice Barbara A. Madsen wrote in that opinion, “furthers procreation, essential to the survival of the human race, and furthers the well-being of children by encouraging families where children are reared in homes headed by the children’s biological parents.”First of all, there are already over 6.5 billion motherfucking people on the planet! How many more do we need?! That aside, people will keep on getting on and having babies whether gay people get married or not. It wouldn't stop breeders from breeding, it would only create, and here's the second point, more healthy environments for kids that are adopted by loving gay families. Countless studies have proven that kids raised in either type of household with two parents do equally well. Mathew D. Staver, a supporter of the ban, had this to say about the ruling: We are pleased that this latest attempt by the homosexual agenda to radically redefine our culture has been stopped dead in its tracks.Homosexual agenda? Is he from the past or just stupid? The plates on which American notions of right and wrong are based are constantly shifting, and the anger with which the 5-4 decision was carried out is a sign of a tension that could result in major groundshaking. Preventing any citizen from accessing a right that others have is just too recent a memory. Justice Bobbe J. Bridge, also dissenting, equated the majority’s position with the endorsement of racial discrimination. The majority, Justice Bridge wrote, contended “that it is not our place to require equality for Washington’s gay and lesbian citizens.” Under that reasoning, she said, “there would have been no Brown v. Board of Education,” the 1954 United States Supreme Court school desegregation case.So a big thank you goes out to Justices Bridge and Fairhurst who have been vocal in their opposition to the decision. The five judges who upheld the ban will soon realize how wrong they are, but too many families will suffer in the meantime.  Amazing underground photography from Japan. This photo creeps me out. Something about deep, deep enclosed water and nuclear power. It's getting much more expensive to be poor in America, making people even poorer. Continuous Partial Attention. You're probably doing it right now. I am. [via reddit] The complete archive of This American Life with Ira Glass on PRI is available on-demand for free online. AOL's customer retention manual has been leaked. You Gotta Love It! U.S. trendsetters are going on strike. Williamsburg is devastated. This photo from the Gay Games in Chicago is fantastic. I loved it when I saw it, then noticed it was the most e-mailed photo of the day. Digg Labs is stunning and it launched today.  The Independent had one of the best infographics I've ever seen on its cover a couple days ago. [via kottke] Microsoft's new Zune music/video/game player could kill their partners. Oops? The Apple WWDC Bingo card. What a fantastic idea. "The first person in the audience to win the game is expected to yell 'BINGO!' loud enough so that the rest of us schleps can hear it when we watch the keynote webcast video later." The American Bar Association says the signing statements Bush puts into bills are illegal. [via reddit] John Battelle doesn't think YouTube is worth $1 billion. I agree, but he also doesn't think anyone wants to buy YouTube. I think Yahoo does. [via digg] Slate has a handy chart outlining the complicated relationships in the Middle East.  Some beautiful photos of underground tunnels in Russia. [via reddit] The Lady is dead in the water. "There’s no place for skepticism in Lady in the Water—and no dramatic tension, either. Every member of the apartment-complex surrogate family jumps right onboard the narf express, instantly committed to beating back scrunts with the power of their faith." Apple will probably be announcing movie rentals through iTunes at their Worldwide Developers Conference in a few weeks. Royal Sapien's "Triple Nine" Body Shot Remix was featured on Indiefeed's Electronica podcast. Google's quarterly profit doubled. Revenue rose 77 percent to $2.46 billion resulting in profits of $721 million. Stephen Colbert interviewed Amy Sedaris a couple weeks ago. They tumbled. Gawker notes the rise of super-manly-man advertising. "So, your 'body peel' has a snake on the label and comes wrapped in tepidly crass misogyny? Newsflash: You're still gay." The U.S. is opposed to a cease-fire with Hezbollah. "I think it's a very fundamental question how a terrorist group agrees to a cease-fire," [U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John] Bolton said. "How do you hold a terrorist group accountable? Who runs the terrorist group? Who makes the commitments that the terrorist group will abide by a cease-fire? What does a terrorist group think a cease-fire is?" President Bush replied, "I thought you were gonna ask about the pig." Seriously, John Bolton should be the one answering those questions.  The AIGA has released their complete, copyright-free set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols on the web. These symbols have become standards internationally and are used freely by anyone who wants them in an effort to lend supreme clarity to signage. [thanks Kirk] Google has a super accessible search page for people with vision impairment. A USB HDTV-tuner (the Artec T14A) for $89? Wow! Lots of people I've talked to about the new iPod design, with the 3.5-inch multi-touch-screen have had one question: won't the screen get all smudgy when you're smearing your greasy paws all over it? Apple thought of that, too. They patented a non-touch technology that detects proximity in relation to the screen so your finger could, potentially, hover over the screen instead of touching it. The screen would hopefully be coated with something like the anti-scratch skins available as accessories now so they don't get shredded. [via digg] Between all but close friends and lovers, any contact other than a handshake is usually quite rude in Germany. [via BB]  In a very strange and hilariously misdirected move, Wal-Mart is launching a MySpace-type site called The Hub. Really. Ad Age notes, "It's a quasi-social-networking site for teens designed to allow them to 'express their individuality,' yet it screens all content, tells parents their kids have joined and forbids users to e-mail one another. Oh, and it calls users 'hubsters' -- a twist on hipsters that proves just how painfully uncool it is to try to be cool." As if reading our minds, the reporter quickly follows with where to place the blame. "Wal-Mart's agency is GSD&M, Austin, Texas." [via digg] It's really hot. Seriously, go outside. Trend Micro Housecall was recommended by DL.TV as the best online virus/malware/trojan scanner for your home PC. Easily mispronounced domain names. Some of them take a few seconds to figure out, but it's totally worth the effort. I'm torn between machome.com and nycanal.com. (I think I just verbally goatse'd myself. Gross.) [via kottke] President Bush makes me ill. He disrespected the G8 summit in numerous remarks at the G8, said "shit" over the mic at the G8, and gave the goddamn German Chancellor a fucking BACKRUB! Jesus christ you donkeyfucking assclown, stop acting like a child. America: Freedom to Fascism opens July 28. There's a trailer at Apple. How to live happily with a great designer offers tips for managers dealing with design departments and how to communicate with them so the result works. The Daily Show on the cost per taxpayer of the Iraq war. "Don't think of it as $2000 you don't have. Think of it as $200,000 your grandchildren don't have. And seriously, fuck them." [YouTube via reddit]  It was a fantastic run, but after a year of excellent online television, ESS shut down this weekend. As of Sunday afternoon, the streams were being taken offline one by one. Pressure from the owners of the content and the threat of unimaginable legal bills meant that it had to go. But ESS did prove that IPTV is viable, delivering 51 channels of solid programming for $5 a month. Too much choice can make us unhappy and indecisive. It can also frustrate us. Check out the comparison between Yahoo's calendar and Basecamp's. This chick rides a bike like nobody's business. [thanks Allyson] Weatherbonk is a mashup with maps, local forecasts, and weather webcams. [via waxy]  Hundreds (thousands?) of these HAM radio cards are at the Ham Gallery QSL Museum. There's a generational divide in digital culture, not only in use and influence, but in the way our brains process information. Are you a Digital Native? [via Eyebeam] KitKat bars sell $1.6 billion annually. When they offered more variety of flavors in the UK, sales dropped 18% over two years. Remains of interior walls once attached to buildings still standing make for surreal exteriors displayed on their former neighbors.  The Leo Burnett agency designed this sundial billboard for McDonald's in Chicago. [thanks Allyson] In my Drawing II class at SCAD with the inspiring Avantika Bawa, our first assignment was the hellish task of using a new BIC pen to draw until it was empty. I wish my final product was as amazing as these ballpoint pen drawings. [via digg] Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" was recreated along the riverfront in Beloit, Wisconsin. [via Towleroad]  The most recent web zen on chaoskitty is lighting. [via BB] An anti-abortion nut mistook an Onion article for a real one. Hilarity ensued, as one can imagine. Two women were shot inside Crobar in NYC. Is this what we have to look forward to as dance music goes more mainstream? Censorship is good for sales. The refusal of Indigo Music & Books in Canada to sell the June issue of Harper's made it a bestseller in the country. Weird Al interviews Eminem from his show AlTV. [via waxy] Speak Up has a roundtable discussion of the redesign of Design Observer.  Fashion, filmmaking, online shopping, and hardcore sex have never looked more stunning, in every sense of the word. Sexpacking is Shai's new interactive clothing catalog. Absolutely not safe for work. [via Protein] What started as a small project on Wider Angle turned into a relatively popular web meme this past week after being linked on Waxy. As of this weekend, Population : One received over 45,000 unique visitors, 858 diggs, 264 bookmarks on delicious, and 35 points on reddit, easily the largest referrer of traffic. Judging from the overwhelmingly positive comments on digg, it seems people appreciated the effort. Thanks for visiting! (By the way, it's beta because I'd like to make it more dynamic and interactive, not because it's pretending to be web2.0. Made of just HTML and JPEGs, it's definitely a web1.0 page.)  To design the new JetBlue terminal at JFK, David Rockwell hired a choreographer to study how people move through large spaces most effectively. Steven Heller has a great write-up on the typography and signage of President Bush, as inspired by Karl Rove. "Like socialist realism, POTUS Typographicus must be base as well as direct, clear, and downright all-American (no French or German typefaces are tolerated)." I feel these are visual symbols of what the CEO Presidency has done to the federal government. Everything looks like a PowerPoint presentation. Disney plans to reduce their annual movie output by more than 50% and cut staff. [via digg] The Daily Show explains the Internets as a series of tubes. [Comedy Central Motherload] Adam Carolla, on the ever-more-awesome FreeFM (oddly owned by CBS), hung up on Ann Coulter on his radio show. Crooks and Liars has the audio clip. Sony apologized for their creepy PSP ad. Strongbad responds to an email with one of the most clever critiques I've seen of logo redesigns and the current state of graphic design, amongst other things. [via BA] Sprite has a new look can debuting this summer with a shiny and pointy logo. Marissa Mayer is the vice president of search products and user experience at Google. She recently gave a speech followed by a Q&A session for the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (ETL) at Stanford, a weekly course where they invite important guests to speak with students. Their podcast has recordings of many of the speakers. What she said was really interesting, but her laugh is... well... by posting this, I'm probably eviscerating any chance I may have had to work at Google. Marissa Mayer laughs funny. Really funny. Police segways? Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson are suing Dick Cheney, Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove, and Scooter Libby for conspiring to ruin her career. I think she's got them on this one. Why is art supposed to be easy? "According to current wisdom, listening to music, reading poetry or contemplating a painting should not be thought of as work, least of all as hard work." [via ArtsJournal]  The citizens of the United States have subsidized the telcos with billions of dollars to build a fiber broadband network from places like New York City to Lynchburg, Virginia and Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Where the fuck is it? Population : One was linked on Waxy! Thanks!! Bose Sucks. I've had an audiophile dad since I was about 8 (same dad, aural value shift) and have tested at least 200 speakers with him, if not many more, and we have been consisitently underwhelmed by Bose systems. They're cute but sonically unbearable if you like listening to things instead of just having them on. Like techno. I've grown increasingly disappointed in my Yamaha speakers, and my EV's imploded after a few weeks of use. Anyone have any advice? Madonna may be giving up Kabbalah. It's a charming philosophy at first, but no one likes a brainwashed zombie. Someone I worked with required that the Zohar be kept on the mixing desk. My hard drive melted. Literally. Battlestar Galactica offers episode commentary via podcast before the episodes air so you can listen to the commentary during the episode premieres. I'd wait for the second viewing (if I watched the show, which I'm seriously considering) for the commentary, but it's a wonderful bonus for fans. They also have a long conversation between the writers developing the storylines for the second season. It would be great if country music performers stopped developing meat meals. A message to the artists: please confine your "talents" to your guitar, windscreen, producer, engineer, and AutoTune. "I don't know about you, but any food that comes with zinc oxide and sodium aluminum phosphate makes my mouth water."  Imagining all ten dimensions. Thanks to how I was raised and what I've chosen to learn and read, I've understood/known/thought/believed there are ten dimensions since I was about 16, but it's taken a long time to get what they're for. This fascinatingly clear animation makes it as easy as possible to understand it. I'll need to watch a couple more times, but I can tell you this: we are so insignificant that military and culture wars seem more useless and destructive than ever. [via kottke] Seven Ways to Ruin Friendships is a basic list of tips to stay friendly. It's very concise and well worth a read. I think everyone on earth could learn something from this. "Of course, we can all get a cheap thrill from being discourteous sometimes. Lots of comedy relies on this in order to get laughs. But your life isn't a sitcom." [via reddit] Jill Sobule has a bunch of tunes available for FREE in MP3 format on her website! Conde Nast finally bought Wired News from Lycos to reunite it with Wired magazine. Both institutions are invaluable. Wired News was purchased for $25 million.  I'm pretty sure I'd like working at Google a lot. If only they had a design department. Congratulations to Italy! Finally we can all get back to cricket. Sometimes ad placement goes very wrong. Hotels.com suffered one of these hilarious moments. A reporter on local news (surprise!) completely freaks out when... well, watch. It's a keeper. [via digg] Microsoft's new portable music player is going to have wifi to participate in social music networks. Not only that, "Microsoft is going to let you download for free any songs you've already bought from the iTunes Music Store. They'll actually scan iTunes for purchased tracks and then automatically add those to your account." The future of music distribution just got even more complicated for major labels and easier for consumers. I'm curious to see how Apple will react. Van Gogh proves even further his brilliance and that math is hardwired into everything. A prince of Mumbai has come out as gay, was subsequently disowned by his family and denied any right to royalty, and says he's cool with that and likes the gay community there, even though homosexuality is illegal. "'I will not stake my claim to the property. I have found a family in the (gay) community and am happy working for the community,' said Gohil, who runs an NGO working on HIV/AIDS among homosexuals. 'As an activist, I thought it right to come out of the closet first. Otherwise, it would have been living a lie.'" This makes me feel so, so Unthirsty. Find a happy hour near you. Madonna's concert at Madison Square Garden left something to be desired. "She gave us everything she had, but not what we wanted." Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart totally lose it on the Daily Show (from January or so). [via digg] If you've been looking to use something like Basecamp to manage projects between multiple people and have a web server (and know how to use it), you might want to try activeCollab. It's free and open source. The Google founders have purchased a massive jet and are refurbishing it to be a massive party plane. Oh, and there are lawsuits and apparent foulplay.  Justin Timberlake's new single "Sexy Back" featuring Timbaland, of all people, is really, outstandingly disappointing. I can't describe it better than stereogum... In a few weeks this will be the most boring single to ever hit #1.And the commenters... Was it produced by a 13 year old named Ashley who lives in Reno? Weak. - mattAfter "Rock Your Body," "Cry Me a River," and "Like I Love You," how does this happen? Both Timberlake and Timbaland are good musicians with production chops, so I don't get it. You can listen to the new track here. If there is a positive side to this, it's that Justin Timberlake has apparently proven that pretending to be sexy actually equates to being sexy, so I'm looking forward to going out next weekend.  TBWA created this ad as part of a series of over 100 to promote the new white Sony PSP in Europe. Without regard to historical context, I find the image captivating and gorgeous. However, a split second later I'm really, really uncomfortable and find it quite disturbing. After circulating around the blogosphere, Sony has taken photos of the ads off their Dutch site. Weird glowing nougat center in middle of supernova! The president has been speeching about North Korea. "Bush told reporters, 'You know, the problem with diplomacy is it takes a while to get something done' while 'acting alone, you can move quickly.'" Uh... yes. Furthermore, "Bush said that the United States had 'a reasonable chance' of shooting down the long-range missile, if it had not failed." A reasonable chance. That should make Hawaii feel better. Examining our options, it seems that we either attack North Korea and face nuclear war, or let them continue shooting missiles at us. I don't feel so good. [Thanks Allyson] Breast ironing is a huge problem in Cameroon and many other places. YIKES! Calvin and Hobbes strip from 1995 that predicts the future of the American political system. [via reddit] Imagination Cubed is a really cool, really easy online Flash-based collaborative whiteboard by GE that's available for free. [via digg] It sounds like the second installment of Pirates of the Caribbean might not be worth seeing on the big screen. "Did we really just sit through two and a half hours of deafening action sequences, wild plot twists, and at least two false endings only to be told, in essence, to cough up $10 more next year?" The new MasterCard logo has been goatse'd. Utterly brilliant. [via waxy] A giant church in Memphis constructed a giant Statue of Liberty holding a giant cross at a cost of a massive $260,000. It would be such a shame to see that money spent on homeless or poor people. [Thanks Mike]  Self-illumination by Andre Kutscherauer. [via reddit] Little Miss Sunshine looks like it's going to be fantastic. Some dudes were filling soccer balls with concrete and leaving them on streets. Simultaneously hilarious and totally uncool. Universal will be releasing select CDs from their back catalog in the UK in sleeves without cases or art at prices slightly higher than regular CDs to compete with iTunes. Good plan! The new Payless logo couldn't be more bland. Wait... maybe it's perfect.  See An Inconvenient Truth. Find a theater near you. Korea launched a bunch of missiles today for testing. You knew this already, but there are two key points to take away. First, "North Korean state-run news daily Rodong Sinmun quoted a government 'analyst' as saying the country would respond to any pre-emptive US military action with 'a relentless annihilating strike and a nuclear war with a mighty nuclear deterrent.'" Second, "The Bush administration responded by saying while it had no intention of attacking, it was determined to protect the United States if North Korea launched a long-range missile." We have no reason to trust any of these people, but no one can protect anyone else from a nuclear attack, one can only retaliate, and the U.S. can't even do that because all our troops are securing our borders or fighting battles we started in other countries. Determination doesn't take the place of preparation. So how, exactly, Mr. Bush, are we safer from the terrorists? This veteran was arrested for wearing a t-shirt while drinking coffee by himself in a veteran's hospital. Buy a signed World Cup jersey from one of your favorite DJs to benefit UNICEF. Save the children and be the party star. If you absolutely have to have the hottest bag all the time, you may be into this Netflix-like rental service. [thanks Allyson] Adidas has created some astonishing World Cup advertisements in Europe. Along with their adicolor series, their marketing department must be the best in the sports world. Of course, $65 for a running shirt is still too damn much money. The Mario theme on an 11-string bass. [ifilm] This article on drug running between the U.S. and Canada makes smuggling sound like the most amazing, awesome, exciting job ever. Not that I'd have the guts, but check this out: "Bags of marijuana were dropped from planes, or released from slings underneath helicopters. The drug flights would fly low through the valleys of the Okanogan National Forests and North Cascades National Park, hidden from radar. Aircraft tail numbers were altered or concealed to avoid easy identification, smuggling aircraft were parked on farms instead of airports and unlicensed pilots did the flying...." It seems like not much has changed from a few decades ago. Read Loaded for the details of stuff like this. David Cross on why Arrested Development was dropped by Fox. (This is video of an audio clip posted on Wider Angle in November.) Pirates have done a lot of good for democracy throughout history. [via reddit] Thousands of awesome free videos online. This directory is simply amazing.
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