Hillary Derailed

Stephen Brandau | February 11, 2008

Today's Penn Says (A video blog hosted by Penn of Penn&Teller) predicts Barack Obama will win the presidential election because of his audience's response to a joke about Hillary Clinton. Looking past the fact that Penn is delivering the election to the democrats, and really a lot can happen between now and November, I can understand his sentiment. After all, Hillary hate isn't something new. I've long heard that the sure way to a Republican presidential victory is a nomination for Hillary as the Democratic candidate, and truthfully I can't shake the argument, as sexist as it may be: We aren't ready for the most powerful person in the world to be a woman.

It's important to note I don't mean it wouldn't work - that some catastrophic catastrophe would ruin our great country because of feminine leadership - I simply mean there's enough STRONG opposition to dissuade anyone riding the fence. Are you really going to vote for someone who's known to practice the Occult? Granted, Hillary doesn't practice the Occult, but there's enough ridiculous stuff out there that other people believe to make it a reasonable assumption that someone out there will take such a statement as fact. I'm sure Penn, who often supports libertarian ideals, would have preferred Ron Paul winning, and he's arguably less masculine than Hillary. The fact is that neither of them are going to win.

What do you think? Is all this Hillary hate somehow substantiated? Is the election in the bag for Obama? Best comment gets a sticker.

Writers strike isnt very funny

Omri Cohen | November 28, 2007

I would expect this from the teamsters strike, or the grocery store workers strike, but wouldn't you think thousands of unemployed writers could make a better sign than "Writers Guild of America on Strike!"?

These people get paid to be good writers, but when it really counts they come up with boring garbage. I think every writer should get a blank picket sign and come up with something original. Theres a concept, originality, something that has been lacking in TV shows and movies in recent years. How do these writers expect to remind the world of their importance if they cant even come up with a funny sign?

Something like, "I write, you wrong" or "the penis mightier". You can tell why I am not out there with them.

Free Music, Vectorization, and '08 Candidates

David Davin | November 1, 2007

Trent Reznor and Saul Williams are following Radiohead’s example and offering a collaborative album online for free. The album is available in 192kbps for free, but for those of you used to Oink’s Pink Palace, a $5 charge will get you the album in 192kbps MP3, 320kbps MP3, or a FLAC lossless audio.

While I may not like what their football team has done this year, students at Stanford have created a free, really useful service which changes bitmap images (most normal images, jpegs, gifs) into vector art. Vector art uses lines and shapes instead of pixels so enlarging the image won’t pixilate it. You can upload your images to be vectorized here.

This quiz from a local TV station’s site tells you which 2008 presidential candidates’ views most closely reflect your own. Give it a try. The quiz isn’t perfect but it’s still insightful.