50,000 year-old Ancient Kauri wood for sale in 20’-0” x 4’-6” x 5’-6” slabs.  The wood has been buried for over 50,000 years, so no trees are cut down.
50,000 year-old Ancient Kauri wood for sale in 20’-0” x 4’-6” x 5’-6” slabs.  The wood has been buried for over 50,000 years, so no trees are cut down.
Stewart Coleman is a big developer, and the most hated man in Asheville. He’s trying to put a giant condo on public property that was sold to him in a secret deal with the city. When clicking this link from an Asheville news blog, the caption below his name reads: “Iz Put mah Bildin On Yr Park.”
Stewart Coleman is a big developer, and the most hated man in Asheville. He’s trying to put a giant condo on public property that was sold to him in a secret deal with the city. When clicking this link from an Asheville news blog, the caption below his name reads: “Iz Put mah Bildin On Yr Park.”
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Abigail Washburn w/ Bela Fleck: “Kangding Qingge”

Man, for some reason I really dig the traditional Chinese and Bluegrass fusion.

(Ordinarily, I wouldn’t really post bluegrass stuff here, but since everybody flipped for NC’s Avett Brothers, I thought they might enjoy this.)

Play count: 3

The “air” in Beijing on June 20, 2008, two months before the Olympic games are to start. Something tells me there won’t be any track records broken this year. (Photo: James Fallows)

The “air” in Beijing on June 20, 2008, two months before the Olympic games are to start.

Something tells me there won’t be any track records broken this year.

(Photo: James Fallows)

What is happening to Obama?

The most frightening thing to me about the recent Obama is his open support of the FISA bill (on the floor today) that would legalize warrantless wiretappings and give immunity to the telecoms that participate. Maybe he’s just trying to play it cool until the election, but seriously, he’s going to lose a lot of votes to Nader if he doesn’t cut this shit out really soon.

P.S.  If you’ve heard Nader speak at all about the election, these are exactly the reasons he cites for running in the first place.  Nader would also like to point out that Obama voted against gay marriage.  FIX THIS OBAMA!

codery:

He sounds like the Obama I know and love, but then I read his book.

brigno:

I’m watching Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN.
They are reporting on Obama and his newly found “centrist” positions.

  • Where is the Obama from the primaries?
  • From where did his oposition to abortion, if the woman is mentally distressed, came from?
  • Supporting faith based initiatives?
  • Refining his position on Iraq?

What’s next? Drilling in Alaska?
Obama, WTF?

Bureau of Land Management’s Plan to Kill Wild Horses This is the same BLM that just put a three year moratorium on solar energy plants because they needed to research how they would interfere with the desert tortoises’ migration patterns. Get real, folks. The BLM is the most corrupt government agency to have ever existed. Selling land to be clearcut and stripmined, killing horses, leasing some 80 million acres of land to be drilled for oil, and single-handedly stopping progress on solar plants because of migration patterns. Ridiculous!

Bureau of Land Management’s Plan to Kill Wild Horses

This is the same BLM that just put a three year moratorium on solar energy plants because they needed to research how they would interfere with the desert tortoises’ migration patterns. Get real, folks.

The BLM is the most corrupt government agency to have ever existed. Selling land to be clearcut and stripmined, killing horses, leasing some 80 million acres of land to be drilled for oil, and single-handedly stopping progress on solar plants because of migration patterns. Ridiculous!

I just got a boy kitty!  Now I need your help naming him.  Email me at Berryjiveuptown5 at gmail dot com with suggestions. By the way, the name “Beastpaint” has already been vetoed by Stacey.

I just got a boy kitty!  Now I need your help naming him.  Email me at Berryjiveuptown5 at gmail dot com with suggestions.

By the way, the name “Beastpaint” has already been vetoed by Stacey.

More frustrations with Windows

Thought I’d add my own recent frustrations with Windows to this list.

I bought a 500 gb hd for 85 bucks at Bestbuy (awesome deal). But the partition editor in Vista corrupted all of my partitions, making them no longer bootable. Though, I was able to recover data in Ubuntu via a live cd, I was not able to successfully reinstall the grub loader. So I decided to start over, putting xp back on my cpu along with a copy of the new Ubuntu 8.04.

Everything went ok through the white and blue text-based install screens of the seemingingly archaic XP install. After 30 minutes or so, I was finally in, except my sp2 disks did not have the drivers/recognize my ethernet card, my pci ports, and a whole slew of other components in my computer. And as you might have assumed, no ethernet card or pci (my wireless card is pci) means there was no easy way to update Windows.

So now I’m back with Vista. The good news is the new Ubuntu runs like a dream. And I now have 500+ gb of storage.

dalasverdugo:

It was foolish of me to think that I could install VMWare Fusion and it would work properly. I blame Windows, not VMWare.

*EDIT* Extra special thanks for corrupting my Windows installation, which means I’ll have to go back through the annoying installation and many “updates” that bug me to restart my computer every ten minutes. Now I do blame you, VMWare.

onenewsnow= new website to hate

Jeez, I didn’t know sites like this existed.  It’s claiming to be a “Christian News” network, but it seems more like that of the KKK. This article is calling is calling for the boycott of McDonalds because they gave some money to a gay and lesbian organization.  Read some of the comments!