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  • China's Thought Police and the Olympic Games

    When China won the Olympic games, one of the things it agreed to do was a bit unusual -- it promised not to censor media reporting on anything related to the games, and to allow uncensored Internet access within the Olympic village before and during the games. It's already broken these promises several...
    Posted to Pat's Blog (Weblog) by Pat on 07-28-2008

  • AMV

    AMV stands for "Anime music video", a very popular pastime amongst anime fans. The general idea is to take a song that is familiar to your friends and then find a bunch of anime clips that support the lyrics (lip-syncing the words). If you do a search on the initials "AMV" on YouTube...
    Posted to Pat's Blog (Weblog) by Pat on 06-23-2008

  • Then and Now

    Question: What does the very first issue of Consumer Reports, issued in 1936, have in common with the current issue, 71 years later? Answer: Both issues warned of the dangers of lead in paint. Kind of a sad statement about the irrelevence of consumer awareness of public safety issues, if you ask me.
    Posted to Pat's Blog (Weblog) by Pat on 12-20-2007

  • Carlin says fire victims deserved it

    Link includes video: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20153859,00.html "People are selfish," he said. "These people with the fires and the floods and everything, they overbuild and they put nature to the test, and they get what's coming to them , that's what I say."...
    Posted to Pat's Blog (Weblog) by Pat on 10-30-2007

  • New York Times Ends Online Subscription Fee

    Effective midnight last night, the TimesSelect subscription thing ended, opening up the archive and all the secured content. The reasons why were kinda interesting -- they were making $10 million/year (!), but apparently advertising has a brighter future. I'm surprised that many people subscribed...
    Posted to Pat's Blog (Weblog) by Pat on 09-19-2007

  • Remaining Vigilant to Scientific Truth

    A DailyTech blog entry has been making the news & blogosphere rounds this week in which the author discusses a potential Y2K bug that has reportedly been found in NASA's data regarding global temperatures. The study is (or so it says here) the basis for ongoing media stories saying that 1998...
    Posted to Pat's Blog (Weblog) by Pat on 08-10-2007

  • Paddy Chayefsky Rolls in His Grave

    What happened to two news choppers covering a car chase in Phoenix on Friday: Four people died. Following the crash the other news choppers immediately swooped in to film the aftermath, and the local televisions stations, whose employees had just died a fiery death , immediately and repeatedly aired...
    Posted to Pat's Blog (Weblog) by Pat on 07-28-2007

  • A Fair(y) Use Tale

    This is an awesome video made by a professor at Bucknell University that uses Disney clips to explain copyright law (demonstrating fair use in the process!). Very funny, too.
    Posted to Pat's Blog (Weblog) by Pat on 05-21-2007

  • The Truth About 4/29!

    Everyone knows heat cannot melt steel! When will the government wake up about events like 4/29 and 9/11?! And just take a look at this further evidence: WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!! http://429truth.org/
    Posted to Pat's Blog (Weblog) by Pat on 05-08-2007

  • Media Impact on Law Enforcement

    A Florida deputy is patrolling an area around a hospital when he spots a woman doing 65 in a 35. He pulls her over, but finds her behavior suspicious and doubts her story. While he's writing the ticket she suddenly speeds away. He chases her down and when she continues to behave oddly he uses a relatively...
    Posted to Pat's Blog (Weblog) by Pat on 05-03-2007
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