Posts from ‘Random Coolness’
An American Carol
Last week, while in Las Vegas, I had the opportunity to meet and talk with Kevin Farley and Myrna Sokoloff of the upcoming film An American Carol.
After having a wonderful lunch with Farley, the main character in the movie, and Sokoloff, the story writer, I became convinced that the folks behind An American Carol are top notch, free-market minded, and extremely deserving of the help of center-right activists and online professionals throughout social media realms.
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On Saturday Jed published my interview with him for NetSquared. The interview, titled “Fighting Taxation Without Information“, was a lot of fun and I enjoyed talking with Jed about the power of open source and crowd powered content to provide information to the masses.
We did the interview over skype, where the audio was recorded, and Jed moved it to text format for NetSquared.
You can read the full interview here.
These are the questions I addressed.
-Jed Sundwall: What is the stated mission of the Sam Adams Alliance?
-When did you get started with the Sam Adams Alliance?
-So Sam Adams did not begin as a tech centric initiative.
-What are your largest initiatives?
-Any notable successes?
-So it was fully open?
-Which social media tools have you found to be the most useful?
-What is your rationale for embracing open source software?
-I assume that your philosophy on what makes good software transfers over to your philosophy on what makes good laws as well.
-How do you propose to get people involved with these projects?
-Tell us more about Judgepedia.
-I’m looking forward to something like Fire-chief-pedia. I’m amazed at how many people we’re expected to vote for without having any idea who they are.
Go check it out. It’s a pretty good read.
The U.S. Secretary of Transportation has a new blog set up called “Welcome to the Fast Lane”. Check it out.
H/T: Josh Shultz
Or at least, that was the case with Officer Chad Stensgaard of Portland. Stensgaard parked in a no parking zone and Attorney Eric Bryant witnessed the event unfold. But, instead of doing nothing, Bryant began filing citizen-initiated citations.
(AP) An attorney who watched a police officer park illegally in front of a restaurant, then wait around while his meal was prepared, issued the officer a series of citizen-initiated violations.
Eric Bryant said he was sitting at the restaurant March 7 when Officer Chad Stensgaard parked his patrol car next to a no-parking sign and walked inside to wait for his food, the Portland Mercury reported Thursday.
Bryant told the weekly paper that when he asked Stensgaard about his car, the officer asked Bryant, “If someone broke into your house, would you rather have the police be able to park in front of your house or have to park three blocks away and walk there?”
Bryant filed a complaint as a private citizen alleging several violations, including illegal parking and illegal operation of an emergency vehicle.
Stensgaard was issued a summons to appear in traffic court in May. The fines could total $540.
“Citizens should be concerned that he used his status as an officer of the law as justification for breaking the law,” Bryant said.
Cathe Kent, a spokeswoman for the Portland Police Bureau, said Stensgaard would fight the complaint in court, “as he rightfully should.”
Parking is limited on city streets, especially with many construction projects downtown, she said, and officers remain on duty even when they are picking up food.
“We are emergency responders and need to be ready to take an emergency call,” Kent said Saturday.
H/T: Jayme Siemer (Great find!!!)
I’ve been meaning to write another freedom movement blog plug post, but because I’ve been traveling for a week I haven’t had time to get around to it. I do, however, have a few minutes while sitting here at the airport in Las Vegas and I figured I would plug Liberty Live, the official blog of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation.
Liberty Live has a very clean, very lively look and feel, and represents what a freedom movement blog should run like. The blog covers local issues revolving around labor, education, election reform, economic policy, public records and constitutional law.
I highly recommend you keep an eye on the Evergreen Freedom Foundation. They’re doing a great job online and I for one applaud their efforts.
Welcome to the .577 T-Rex Rifle.
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Of course, most of these guys are using terrible form, but it still shows the raw power of such a firearm. This video shows the proper way to fire a 577.
Is this for real?
In short… it’s absolutely amazing what 12 years of online innovation can do. I recently discovered a post that used WayBackMachine to pull together a collection of corporate websites from 1996. The results were quite astonishing.
Although Internet Explorer 3.0 could run Java applets and inline media, Netscape Navigator could not, and in any case nobody felt comfortable doing anything more complicated than making a few animated GIFs. Additionally, very few web designers had even the most rudimentary of aesthetic sensibilities, and nearly half of them were clinically retarded. The internet in 1996 looks like it had been created in its entirety by a panel of 13-year-olds with Geocities accounts who had about half an hour to spare each night before bedtime.
Here is the official Lego website, for example.
They include McDonald’s, Pepsi, Best Buy, and many others. Well worth the click.
