I’ve recently joined Odeo to help manage my podcasts and Barack Obama’s was a featured one the other day: Odeo: U.S. Senator Barack Obama Podcast.
While not the first U.S. Senator to have a podcast (that distinction belongs to Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, he is the only individual Senator with a podcast tagged on the site with senate. Hopefully, Larry Craig’s constituents will get him tagged properly.
This is pretty funny, but I hope people realize that he’s obviously responding, (note the different handwriting samples) to a request from one of his aides:
Yahoo! News Photo
I may not have voted for the guy, but I’m pretty sure he can take a bathroom break whenever he feels like it.
We interrupt the coverage of the Bush administration’s virtuoso display of incompetence in New Orleans to bring you…news of a draft deferment thanks to video games.
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Here’s a site that will automagically translate your English sentence(s) back and forth between 5 languages:
Lost in Translation
The results can be quite entertaining:
Original English Text:
I look at you all, see the love there that_s sleeping, while my guitar gently weeps.
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping, still my guitar gently weeps.Translated to French:
Je vous regarde tout, vois les that_s d’amour là qui dort, alors que
ma guitare pleure doucement. Je regarde le plancher et je vois qu’il a
besoin balayer, ma guitare pleure toujours doucement.Translated back to English:
I look at you all, see the that_s there love which sleeps, whereas my
guitar cries gently. I look at the floor and I see that it has need to
sweep, my guitar cries always gently.Translated to German:
Ich betrachte Sie allen, sehe die that_s dort zu lieben, das schläft,
während meine Guitarre leicht schreit. Ich betrachte den Fußboden
und ich sehe, daß er Notwendigkeit hat zu fegen, meine Guitarre
schreie immer leicht.Translated back to English:
I regard you everything, see that_s loving there, which sleeps, during
my Guitarre easily walk. I regard the floor and I see that he
necessity has to sweep, my Guitarre cries always easily.Translated to Italian:
Li considero tutto, vedo i that_s amoroso là, che i sonni, durante il
mio Guitarre camminano facilmente. Considero il pavimento e vedo che
la necessità deve scopare, il mio Guitarre grido sempre
facilmente.Translated back to English:
I consider all, I see them that_s the loving here, than the sleeps,
during my Guitarre they walk easy. I consider the pavement and I see
that the necessity must sweep, my Guitarre outcry always easy.Translated to Portuguese:
Eu considero tudo, mim v o that_s amar aqui, do que os sonos, durante
meu Guitarre que andam fácil. Eu considero o pavimento e eu v que a
necessidade deve varrer, meu outcry de Guitarre sempre fácil.Translated back to English:
I consider everything, me v that_s to love here, of that sleep, during
my Guitarre that they walk easy. I consider the floor and I v that the
necessity must sweep, mine outcry of always easy Guitarre.Translated to Spanish:
Considero todo, yo los that_s de v amar aquí, de ese sueño, durante
mi Guitarre que recorren fácil. Considero el suelo y el I v que la
necesidad debe barrer, protesta de la mina de Guitarre siempre fácil.Translated back to English:
I consider everything, them that_s of v to love here, of that dream,
during my Guitarre that they cross easy. I consider the ground and the
I v that the necessity must sweep, protest of the mine of always easy
Guitarre.
This is the best browswer plugin I’ve ever used. You choose the categories of sites you want to see, click the Stumble! button and voila, a new one appears. You can rate any site, whether you got there by stumbling or not and it uses collaborative filtering to suggest new sites. It’s definitely worth checking out.
“Dyseducational” drivingliikenne.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Very amusing.
If I’m ever in New Hyde Park, NY and I need some medical care, I’m going to the Long Island Medical Center, which contains the Long Island Jewish Hospital. For more information please check out their website: Long Island Jewish Medical Center Home Page
or Lon’s blog about it (coming soon to a browser near you.)
Here’s a link to the Google Map of the neighborhood:
Google Maps – 76th Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY
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Perhaps the most striking evidence of this came on Sunday during CNN’s ‘Late Edition’ when host Wolf Blitzer quoted West when asking Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson whether the response to Hurricane Katrina has been racist. Thompson, a Democrat, said the government had failed and ‘someone has to be held accountable.’ He cited the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.The most revealing part of the exchange, however, was the fact that Thompson mistook the comments from West as a statement from Princeton University professor, theologian, author and activist Dr. Cornel West. In one fell swoop, the rapper and college dropout has earned a place in the front ranks of this country’s best-known and most respected African-American activists.”
I personally think it’s great that Kanye said what he said, but I think it’s more of a class issue than a race issue. And instead of pegging it on one man, I think it has a lot more to do with the system and the establishment perpetuating itself.
