"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." ~ G. K. Chesterton

Yay! The Story of Stuff makes The NYT

Posted: May 11th, 2009 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: video, world | 2 Comments »

I just received an email alerting me that Annie Leonard’s wonderful 20-minute animation, The Story of Stuff, made The New York Times’ front page. I first mentioned Annie’s work, briefly, in 2007.

It appears that the video has become a hit in America’s classrooms, where teachers are using it to convey the basic law of economics: that finite resources are just that, finite. And that our rabid consumerism is accelerating the use of our planets limited resources.

Watch it here. Really, you should. It’s excellent.

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Time to raise our voices?

Posted: February 27th, 2009 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: liberty, uk, video | Comments Off

(via. email)

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Dramatic cupcake dog

Posted: February 6th, 2009 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: humour, video | 3 Comments »

Usually something I’d put up at RatGeek, but this needs to be seen by as many people as possible.

That dog really wants a cupcake.

via. digg / Kevin Rose.

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Some links…

Posted: February 4th, 2009 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: meta, politics, uk, usa, video | 1 Comment »

Originally written for LC.

First, cabalamat predicts that Obama will win in 2012. His prediction is based mainly on the idea that Republicans are idiots, which seems fair enough to me.

Next, Jim pads up and goes out to bat for Socialist Unity.

Jennie’s in the know re. the latest Wikio stats.

No Right Turn wonders if you’re aware that it may soon be illegal to take a photo of a policeman in this country? Punishable by a fine and up to ten years in the clink. Think about it.

Philosopher’s Tree on why we should ban those evil cluster-bombs. He’s right. We should.

Btw. The utterly glorious Sadie never fails to make me giggle.

Mark Pack has news that Labour MSP Charlie Gordon is alleged to have fiddled his expenses. This isn’t the first time Gordon has been in the shit. Iain Dale would like you throw a hissy-fit. But Dale’s not holding his breath, so I don’t see why you’d bother.

Speaking of Dale, watch this. Via. teh Monkey. Heh.

Hagley Road to Ladywood has some linky-love for those covering the “Wild-Cat” strikes, including our Unity, who as always, is shining a light into the darkness and finding rats!

Finally, Fancy winning a trip to Washington? Me too.

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Some of which, is probably true…

Posted: December 22nd, 2008 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: economics, usa, video, world | Comments Off

John Hodgman on hobos.

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Billy no mates

Posted: November 20th, 2008 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: politics, usa, video | Comments Off

You’ll enjoy this short video of Bush getting the “freeze-out” from his peers on the global stage ::

H/t. Toby (email)

UPDATE: Turns out Bush had meet’d and greet’d the folks prior to this vid.

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Super Barack

Posted: November 4th, 2008 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: politics, usa, video | Comments Off

via. Oliver Willis

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A bit o’ Friday Fun

Posted: October 17th, 2008 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: humour, politics, usa, video | Comments Off

In honour of Sarah Silverman ::


Lil’ Bush: I’m F***ing McCain - The best bloopers are a click away

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No Average Joe

Posted: October 17th, 2008 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: politics, usa, video | Comments Off

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McCain 4.0

Posted: October 15th, 2008 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: humour, politics, usa, video | 2 Comments »

ROFL.

via. Sunny @ LC

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On the attack…

Posted: October 10th, 2008 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: economics, finance, politics, usa, video | Comments Off

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Who caused the financial crisis?

Posted: October 6th, 2008 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: economics, politics, usa, video | Comments Off

Source: CBS NEWS
Via: Oliver Willis

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iraq: masters of war by mike power

Posted: March 19th, 2008 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: middle east, politics, scandal, uk, usa, video | Comments Off

Created by Mike Power.

Other articles/posts of interest…

A blogswarm
March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Bring the Noise! Bring the swarm!
Chicken Yoghurt - A child called ‘It’
Sim-O’s Random Thoughts - Five Years
Bloggerheads - The Iraq War (according to Page 3)
Left of Centrist - Numbers you can’t count on - Five Years too many
Darrell Goodliffe/LDV - Not so happy birthday
Obsolete - the parliamentary vote
Don’t trip up - Step by step
MOMocrats - Saying NO to George Bush’s War in Iraq
Outta the cornfield - Blogswarm

The MSM
First Post - Five years on: What they said about war on Iraq
Richard Norton-Taylor/CiF - The Iraq legacy: international relations
Patrick Cockburn - This is the war that started with lies, and continues with lie after lie after lie
The Guardian - What is the real death toll in Iraq?
Mark Steel - How dare these soldiers go round getting wounded?

My own contribution to the blogswarm will go up later.

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that’s one bastard bunny

Posted: March 18th, 2008 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: humour, video | Comments Off

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george osborne: hypnotoad

Posted: March 18th, 2008 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: politics, uk, video | Comments Off

By Tim.

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