Political Wednesday

Nick showed me this video the other day, it's long for something you'd watch on your computer (45m). It's called "A history of Oil", performed by comedian/political activist Robert Newman of England. I'm starting to see a converging set of information leading towards this idea, admittedly most recently egged on by mr. Voidstar Runner.

We watched this piece by Newman, that touched on subjects brought up by this (very long, and pretty tedious to follow) documentary called the Money Masters (I must point out i've only made it through the first half). This evening right on the front page of Digg.com is a video of Ron Paul making a speech, if you will, about similar topics.

The reoccurring theme you might ask? The federal reserve bank (yea that's right... lower case suck it, vampires) and the likelihood of a failing of the United States 'greenback' currency. The Ron Paul video is 5 minutes long, Money Masters is about 4 hours, and Robert Newman is 45 minutes, please watch some part of some of this. I won't lie, this will not make you happy (the Robert Newman will give you guilty spats of laughter), but I thought it was intriguing to me how little this information stuck when I first learned it (or were we taught this????).

Running gmail securely

Bobu just laid this amazing tidbit on me (amazing if you're a paranoid uber geek, like me). You can log into gmail thru https:// . Which runs the whole thing through SSL, making it as secure as pretty much possible as far as standards on the web go. Apparently his boss has been doing it that way for the longest time, and just now found it interesting to tell him.

Also the shortcut keys on gmail are pretty fucking neat. It's worth turning them on even if you're not a keyboard junkie (like me). The option is the 3rd one down in your general settings tab, under settings when logged into gmail.

Online Grafitti??

I'm perplexed by this whole thing, it's a big ball of community driven pixel art? It's pretty neat but it's getting hammered by digg.com, causing me to lose connection both times I tried to add to the pink floyd prism. Check it out sometime in the next few days when the web traffic slows down.

food(water) for thought

Well it's about time I make my bi-monthly post (I need to post more, I probably think of (or read) three post worthy things a day but don't think to jump on here and post them. Somebody needs to get on my case about it!)

I swapped the blog over to blogger (at Google), and now It has these neat labels on the bottom.

Anyway this is pretty intriguing stuff here, makes you wonder how much is wasted on a global scale from the relatively new advent of bottled water. I found this while perusing www.treehugger.com, which by the way has the most annoying layout. Makes me want to rake out my eyes! Check back soooooooon, maybe I'll make this a bi-weekly blog :P