November, 2012 archive
Droning On 0
Robert Greenwald discusses the rain of robotic death from the skies. A quote:
According to the NYU-Stanford study, and others are substantiating this, maybe two per cent of the people we are hitting are “high value” targets.
Facebook Frolics, Wishful Thinking Dept. 0
Details at the link.
As near as I can decipher this story, it means that horny college students talk about sex, even if they aren’t getting any, but, the more they talk about it, the more likely they are to try to get some. (In other news, water wet.)
The researchers suggest that the voyeurs who run Facebook should increase ads about safe sex to said college students, based on their posts.
Cavalcade of Spots 0
Lies, damned lies, and Citizens Benighted:
(snip)
A Virginian-Pilot analysis of political ad sales to the four Hampton Roads stations found that the commercials amounted to more than 260 hours of air time. That doesn’t include the barrage of nationally broadcast ads bought directly from networks or cable outlets.
Great Moments in Stupid 2
MarketWatch dot com, an organ of Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, has implemented a Fiscal Cliff Countdown Clock (remember the “Fiscal Cliff,” a creation of your gridlocked-by-Republicans Congress as romanticized by your fact-free media?), the better to scare you with, my dear.
No link. Find it yourself.
Triangulating Globalization 0
E. J. Montini connects the dots:
Now, in order for Americans to get the cheap goods they demand on shopping days like Black Friday the ugly, unsafe labor conditions were moved to countries far way and into factories whose laborers we don’t care much about.
According to an Associated Press report from Dhaka, “When the fire alarm went off, workers were told by their bosses to go back to their sewing machines. An exit door was locked. And the fire extinguishers didn’t work and apparently were there just to impress inspectors and customers.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Criticize music, politely.
The critic says he was only standing his ground.
The Paradox Is Solved 1
I looked at the couch and realized that we have
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Shreddinger’s Cat!
Fox News Hunting 0
Tom Ricks calls out Fox News, among others, for trying to gin up a scandal about Benghazi.
Droning On, If You Ignore It, It Will Go Away Dept. 0
If you don’t want to feel uncomfortable about gamers’ raining robotic death from the sky, don’t read this Asia Times article:
While her bravery deserved the attention it received, it lies in stark contrast to the many other innocent victims of political violence in Pakistan. Indeed, the Drone War continues with hardly a mention in the US media. It is not hard to imagine that if Malala lived in a different village, she could just as well have been killed by a Predator drone as by the Taliban – and we’d know nothing about her courage.
“Cyber Monday” 0
It’s all myth and hype, dreamed up by, natch, a marketer, and spread by a credulous media complex that can’t tell fact from fiction in shopping or politics.
Sporting Chances 0
It just isn’t possible that there is selective enforcement in the NCAA, now, is it?
Twilight of the Copy Editor 0
Nowhere in the story was there any indication of an iProbe, or any other kind of iJunk, being used in Springfield.
