Notes from the Surf
Melting steel with solar power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tt7RG3UR4c
Skip to 1:25 for the good stuff.
Experimenting with Domino's Pizza ordering
http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000707.php
Those beef pellets just don't look very appetizing somehow.
German traffic cops angered by British driver who mocks traffic cams with a Muppet
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/27/german-traffic-cops.html
OK, the guy is probably a jerk, but at least he's a funny jerk =b
The Rescue Plan
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/images/2008/10/23/080924_rescue_plan.jpg
Pushing on a string at its finest.
Wassup 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE
Maybe a bit too naive towards the end, but I wouldn't want to deny him of hope.
Bringing "Freedom" to Iraq
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m47991&hd=&size=1&l=e
..."freedom" as defined by Monsanto and Cargill.
Colombia: Half a million people on strike
http://www.marxist.com/colobmian-workers-and-peasants-mobilize-one-day-general-strike.htm
...in the nation that kills more union members than the rest of the world combined.
Libertarian right makes unusual choice as winner of essay competition
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20081026235358809
"...one that champions anarcho-syndicalist and other cooperative models rather than corporatism and exploitation as the likely product of a free society."
Mixing capitalism with democracy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081022/pl_politico/14811
Another GOP strategist lamented that McCain lacked a core group of rich friends who were willing to part with their money. Harold Simmons, a Dallas billionaire, underwrote the entire cost of the initial Ayers ad for AIP — but his investment wasn’t matched by other wealthy Republicans.
“In 2004, Bush had a cadre of donors who wanted to see him succeed,” said this source, citing “oil guys.”
Remembering Helen Keller
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2008helen-keller
"Are we no better than the capitalist politicians who stand in the high places and harangue about petty matters, while millions of the people are underpaid, underfed, thrown out of work and dying?”