Today, Google posted its third annual zeitgeist video. I like last year’s a bit better, but this one is touching, amazing and the art direction is pretty cool:
There aren’t many end of the year lists/movies/projects that I post, but I always look forward to this.
Remember how the republicans have been shouting from the rooftops about voter fraud? And remember how those who fight against something the most are normally committing it themselves? Yeah, republicans are committing more voter fraud.
The big Seattle newspaper is giving away free political advertising, but only to one party. They are stating it is to prove how effective their advertising is, so they can gain more business in the future. Kind of strange, and throwing objectivity out the window. Now, to be fair, they can throw it out the window, but then they can’t go back and claim to not have a bias. Anyway, a good portion of their writers have signed on to a letter, saying the policy affects their journalistic integrity.
Ben Stein went on Fox news and told them that to fix the economy we have to tax the wealthy. Also, I had no idea he didn’t believe in evolution. Guess he isn’t as smart as I thought.
This has been floating around, a great response (from a fake CEO) about maxi pad commercials:
Marriage equality is on the ballot in four states (and I have friends in each one of those states), so here’s a reminder: instead of you know, helping the poor, as Jesus said, the Knights of Columbus spent over 15 million dollars fighting equality. Guess you didn’t really need to help the sick either:
AHAHAHAHA: Some evangelicals are trying to boycott Google due to their support for marriage equality. Good luck with that:
And speaking of marriage equality, at our triannual general convention, the Episcopal Church approved a blessing of same-sex couples. There’s a lot of caveats to that, I’ll be putting up a post at Metblogs about it, so look for that.
When will news anchors learn that Bill Nye is smarter than you. She asked him with such snark, it was nice to see him smack her down:
And lastly, the Good Men Project has an awesome poster about words we probably use in our everyday conversation and why they hurt people. Check it out here.
Quick update for everyone, let’s see what I have this time. On a side note, I’m finally getting to some really old links I’ve had stored away, so hopefully I’ll be getting through most of them soon, although I’ll have to see how many links still work. Anyway, onto the content.
America’s tourism board released this ad which is showing around the world and domestically. Pretty cool, although I’m not falling head over heels for the song, but it’s sill cool. The sky diver with the hawk is amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcfbdiiEQDM
That’s it for now, I”ll be back soon with more, have a great one!
I just finished reading the Hunger Games Trilogy, and it was awesome, now I need to go see the movie. In the meantime though, here is a trailer for The Hipster Games:
Big stuff from Google with their augmented reality glasses, and the inevitable remake of it:
Also from Google, they’ve been working on using Street Maps technology in museums around the world, now they’ve shot the interior of the White House:
So…Santorum is crazy. For a while, he was campaigning on a platform of outlawing porn. I was talking with a friend this week, a speaker brought into her work place was also known for going on tirades about pornography. And we all agree, it’s a case of “He who doth protest too much…” But anyway, in response, porn stars (ahem, hard, ahem, working Americans who would be put out of work) came together to make a video in protest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwMzFyyKWNc
One of my favorite church signs, going viral:
And lastly, holy crap, you know people are stretching when they want to protest Desmund Tutu. I saw him speak at my church, and the man is amazing and a living saint. If you ever have the chance to listen to him lecture, please do, you will not regret it, I promise.
That’s it for now, thanks everyone, have a great one!
