Entries from February 2005

Friday, February 11th, 2005

Goodbye Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller, dead at 89

Friday, February 11th, 2005

New Tiny Mitsubishi DLP projector

Perfect for impromptu or guerilla theater (via Chait Gear) Using tri-LEDs for it’s new DLP project, Mitsubishi has been able to make a TINY, super-light device with instant on and 10,000 life-span (since there is no bulb for replacing). The press release talks about having the project close to the surface, 1-3 feet of throw [...]

Friday, February 11th, 2005

Turning the Mac Mini into a media center

An open source group is working to turn the Mac Mini into a media center, but I don’t know if that is needed. The Center Stage project is looking to put together a nice app to make the Mac Mini into a sweet media center. I think that is cool, but I just figured that [...]

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Excellent Movie That I Must Recommend: Dinner Rush

Last night we saw “Dinner Rush” a film from 2000 starring Danny Aiello that I feel compelled to recommend Ever since I read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, I’ve been really interested about what life is like inside a real working kitchen. I was recommended the film Dinner Rush, rented it and watched it last night. [...]

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

More on the President’s class war

The initiatives coming from the White House since the re-election show that the Administration’s attack on the poor is heating up, not cooling down Previously I’ve talked about how the war on Iraq was in some ways an attack on the poor of this country who disproportionally make up the bulk of our nation’s military [...]

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Brit Hume lies to the American People

and the Al Franken show has a good idea about what we can do about it On their blog, they suggest that a campaign is started to get Hume to resign and I’m 100% behind it.

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Michael Kinsley’s Proof that Bush’s Social Security plan won’t work

Here’s a link to the proof published in the LA Times

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

The State of the Union

Honestly I couldn’t force myself to watch it, but here is some excellent commentary about it The Center For American Progress’ Progress Report Tom Shales at the Washington Post Chris Suellentrop on slate

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

Gonzales Confirmed

Expected, but at least the Democrats stand up Here’s the article on MSNBC, I’m glad to see that there were 36 “no” votes from the democrats.

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

Sites worth your peepers

Here’s a couple well-known sites that you still might not have heard about and are definitely worth a visit The Center For American Progress, and their blog ThinkProgress and Air America Radio which also has a lot of good links