So, I collect desktop backgrounds (wallpaper, to you Windows folks). I have somewhere north of 800 desktop backgrounds, of all different subjects. But I really love the abstract, simple stuff. And then I found Simple Desktops. Just awesome. As they say on their about page “Do you want less, but not boring? Then you want Simple Desktops.” Go check ‘em out, you won’t be disappointed!
So my buddy Brian posted this tidbit, Funniest thing I’ve seen today., and pointed out this new Twitter user: @newlywedsontjob. Seriously, go check it out & start with the oldest tweet; this is an epic prank.
(Via Off The Grid : Fred)
Chez over at Deus Ex Malcontent links to a New York Times article which reveals that one of CNN’s contributors, who happens to be against health care reform, is, in fact, in the pocket of the private health insurance industry. Disgusting. Having a conflict of interest is one level of unethical, but failing to disclose said conflict takes it to a whole other level.
Read on:
The New York Times: CNN To Disclose Contributor’s Ties to Advocacy Group/10.15.09
Read a little bit of this as well, and it’s just spectacular. Makes me wish I would encounter a little bit of the fortune this man has received.
(Via Off The Grid)
Read, then think. Then think some more. Then get out there & ask for that public option again to get this ball rolling in the right direction.
A Whole Lotta Nothing: The entrepreneurial case for national healthcare
(Via Off the Grid)
So the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue was this week. A landmark album, to be sure; it brought modal jazz into the mainstream, and has continued to be an entry point into jazz for every generation that followed its release. There have been quite a few tributes to the music recorded on this album (I’ve certainly played those songs quite a few times myself), but this one is my new favorite. Friends, I present to you:
Kind of Bloop: an 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.
This is a must-read. In case you were on the fence about her before, here’s some irrefutable proof that we dodged a bullet in a big way during the last election: Palin’s Resignation: The Edited Version, courtesy of vanityfair.com. My favorite? The misspellings of her own policies & the misquoting of other facts & figures. And the grammar… yikes!
The most awesome T-shift I’ve seen in ages. Check it: ‘Helvetica Swiss army knife’
