Dog

Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet 


Brain winter hat. 


Stare at this pic carefully and you will see this man turn his face. (Not an animation) 


I just realized how brilliant this logo is.

A tense standoff between Foxy Brown the Pitbull and the neighbor's cat...

We were sitting in the living room, and heard a meowing in the bathroom

TIL There is a ship bigger than the empire state building, which can not traverse through the English channel because it draws too much water.

Forget about Planking and Cone-ing. Falling is where it's at.

Took my daughter to the aquarium for her birthday, this happened!


This landed on a friend's balcony in Melbourne this morning after a very, VERY long journey. 


Confused boxer puppy baffled by phone

One "Mystery Man" with radiation detector and bike Tweets two major radiation hotspots in Tokyo authorities confirm.

TIL the fastest supercomputer in the world has 548,352 cores and over a petabyte of RAM!

Loituma is a folk quartet based in Finland; it was formed at the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, where members attended the folk music department. They follow Finnish vocal and kantele traditions, producing quartet arrangements for both Finnish harp and a cappella vocals, their music ranging from the rousing to the haunting. Their first album, a self-titled effort, was released on the Sibelius Academy's own label, later being issued by Northside in the United States in modified form as Things of Beauty. They were proclaimed 1997 Band of the Year at the 1997 Kaustinen Folkmusic Festival. ~ Steven McDonald, Rovi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4om1rQKPijI

Everything makes sense now 


She's creepy

The invasion

I mean, would YOU be able to continue doing your homework? 


Howdy neighbor.

Hidden Orchestra - Antiphon. Jazzy electronica from Edinburgh, with two drumkits at once.

The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices - Kaval Sviri

A skateboard that moves on 24 robot legs. That is all.

View from the top of the world's largest waterfall - Angel Falls, Venezuela - HD

Tasmania 


My new twins: Spartacus and Leeloo

The Beatles - Yesterday

Best .gif ever (From a Kiss Cam during a sporting event)

Best In Show

http://www.google.com/

http://www.benjerry.com/halloween/

http://www.halloween.com/all-about-halloween/category/history-of-halloween/

There Really Is No Privacy

"UK Metropolitan Police have purchased a 'covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted area.' Other customers apparently include 'the U.S. Secret Service, the Ministry of Defence and regimes in the Middle East.'"

Tats Are Only For The Young And Uninformed.

The white supremacist gang leader who turned back time: Remarkable results after heavily tattooed criminal went through 16 months of agonizing laser surgery

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055437/The-white-supremacist-gang-leader-turned-time-Remarkable-results-heavily-tattooed-criminal-went-16-months-agonizing-laser-surgery.html#ixzz1cKDt3Loy

Pink

Hasan M. Elahi writes in the NY Times about his run-in with the FBI several months after September 11th, 2001. They'd received an erroneous report that he had explosives and had fled the country, so they were surprised when he showed up at an airport and was flagged by watch-list software. Elahi chose not to fight the investigation, and provided the FBI with enough detail about his life to convince them that he was a lawful citizen. But then, he kept going, providing more and more information about his life, documenting his every move and making it available online. His experience has been that providing too much information affords almost the same privacy blanket as too little. Quoting:"On my Web site, I compiled various databases that show the airports I’ve been in, food I’ve eaten at home, food I’ve eaten on the road, random hotel beds I’ve slept in, various parking lots off Interstate 80 that I parked in, empty train stations I saw, as well as very specific information like photos of the tacos I ate in Mexico City between July 5 and 7, and the toilets I used. ... A lot of work is required to thread together the thousands of available points of information. By putting everything about me out there, I am simultaneously telling everything and nothing about my life. Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life."
"In late 1965, President Lyndon Johnson stood in the modest gymnasium of what had once been the tiny teaching college he attended and announced a program to promote education. Almost a half-century later these modest steps have metastasized into a huge, federally guaranteed student-loan industry. On October 25th the Obama administration added indebted students to the list of banks, car companies, homeowners, solar manufacturers and others that have benefited from a federal handout. In response to students burying their obligations in court during the 1970s, anti-default provisions were imposed to make it almost impossible to shed student loans in bankruptcy. There are increasingly loud calls for reform of the system, with demands that range from a full-fledged bail-out of borrowers to a phased curtailment of government lending. The changes announced this week are designed to ease the pressure on struggling graduates. Borrowers who qualify will get payment relief, not debt relief. The administration says these changes will have no cost to taxpayers."

A Net Citizen Says:

"We create an online community that will enable us to collectively define the world's biggest problems, and then tap into our collective wisdom to create the solutions for those problems. The most important problems are "upvoted," and so are the best solutions to those problems. What we have then is crowd-sourced democracy.

I will personally fund this initiative if you'd like to join me.

But will it work? Yes it will. How do I know? Two reasons.

One: History has set the precedent. For example- the printing press (quick and cheap knowledge transfer) aided in ending the Dark Ages.

Two: I'm a Director at a Fortune 500 company, so I know first hand. For instance: I pay for a service that monitors every comment/post/tweet/blog about my company and I mobilize teams to manage even the smallest level of fallout, even “slightly negative” sentiment. Why? Because I know that the power is shifting. Individual customers can impact millions of dollars in revenue by portraying my company in the wrong light, even slightly, via the Internet. So I watch and listen, and then I react… Because I must do everything I can to control the perception of my brand and it’s subsequent impact to my bottom line.

Although I’m sure this is scary for many of my peers, it’s absolutely thrilling to me when I think of what this means for the world: the age of pure-profit motivation is very quickly colliding with the age of instant global information exchange and transparency.

But it's still early days, and we haven't quite connected the dots yet. Just wait until global corporations think about what people want (not just the product, but the product’s impact) before they think about their balance sheets. They know that if their customers don't like what they're doing (and their days of hiding are over by the way) then their business has no future. A free-market that is 100% accountable to the people that it serves, thanks to the Internet.

It's about time too, in fact it’s perfect timing. Industrialization is slowly shifting into the age of sustainability led by technological innovation, but that shift is being prolonged by companies that like things the way they are now, highly profitable and predictable. Change is uncertain and will upset elements of their business model, so it will be avoided and postponed for as long as possible. But this is a dangerous thing: global corporations have achieved unprecedented levels of power over the planet, its people, and its resources. They’re not accountable to a single set of governing rules, and many countries (both modern and developing) will do whatever it takes to attract investment from these companies into their borders, in many cases at the cost of safety to their people, and to the integrity of the environment.

So here’s what I’d like to create, in summary: • An online community that is accessible across the globe, in multiple languages • Simple and quick to start, so that we can support off-line movements while they’re still occurring (Arab spring, occupy wall-street) • Software that enables users to “skim the cream off the top,” meaning that the most crucial issues and solutions receive the most attention (as decided by the community) • Future evolution to include: o Facebook/Twitter/etc integration o Mobile access: WAP, Smartphone apps, and SMS o A repository of information about companies from customers and employees that is vetted by the community o Regional/local pages within the community to solve problems close to home • …And a lot more (I have a plan framework that I will share with the working team)

This has been something I’ve wanted to do for over three years. I’ve been saving, planning, and building connections, but I’m not quite ready… However I’ve never seen more of a need for this type of initiative than right now, and it’s important that we create this platform while the timing is right in order to keep the momentum going.

http://www.plainsite.org

I want to know two things from this community: • Can you help? If so, how? (Top-shelf web developers and legal experts especially) • Do you have feedback for me? What should I be sure to include/exclude? What pitfalls should I look out for?"

Newly elected Irish president Michael D. Higgins to remove "God" from Irish oath.

Just Plain Cute

I wish we could do away with daylight savings time.
Russia has not put its clocks back for winter this year, after President Dmitry Medvedev decided the country would stay permanently in summertime.

My head hurts when I try to grasp this.
World's most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space

More revelations on the official police-spread malware that Germany's Chaos Computer Club discovered in the wild and reverse engineered: pretty much everything the German police said in their defense turns out to be a lie.


Sen. Ron Wyden wants to keep the US from taking a step toward the totalitarian state envisioned in the novel "1984": The Oregon Democrat sees that possibility in law enforcement's use of global positioning system technology.


Psalm 14:1
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.


One day he will know...
http://imgur.com/occuS


Engineering The 10 000-Year Clock --- Designed by Danny Hills. Paid for by Jeff Bezos. It's ready to go. "Over the course of its 10,000-year life span it will be able to power itself enough to keep time, synchronise with the sun, and randomly generate melodies"


Occupy London could be protected by Christian ring of prayer: Coalition of Christian groups plan to prevent forcible attempts to remove tents outside St Paul's Cathedral


TIL Costco sells a 1 year survival food supply that lasts 27 years and is over 4,866 total servings (as a single register ring up item)


Here's a giraffe licking a ginger...


Spectacular Time-Lapse Video of Historic Dam Removal


The debt fallout: How Social Security went ‘cash negative’ earlier than expected


Outside of a Local Church


Bruising caused by oakland police rubber bullet


French government to buy over 15,000 electric vans


An Orb Weaver spider Sheds It's Skin

Found a Spider in my Car this Morning... 

Would Jesus Occupy? Michigan's Fountain Street Church says yes and backs movement heartily

Unequal Justice: Banker Arrests, 0; Protester Arrests, 2,511

Op-Ed: Blacklist Bill allows Feds to remove websites from Internet

Confrontations between Denver police & protesters gathered in support of Occupy Wall Street among the most violent since Oakland - Clearing out an encampment in a central city park, police fired pepper spray & pepper balls into a crowd, & used batons to clear out others

Alaska’s Billion Dollar Mountain --- How Jim McKenzie acquired the mining rights to a mountain of rare earths worth billions. "I didn’t think I’d get into the minerals business. It looks like I orchestrated this brilliant move, right? But it’s just inadvertent luck”

Woke up to this up here in Maine.

The derivatives market is the next big bubble to burst...and guess what?
Bank of America Forces Taxpayers To Cosign on 53 TRILLION In Derivatives. Too Big To Fail.

Nuclear powers plan weapons spending spree, report finds 


A NY police officer’s union put Occupy Wall Street on notice; says they will pursue legal claims against any protesters who injure any of its members

Translation : God loves money

My dad makes a pirate ship in the front yard every year... Sailed it??

Your Pin Number 


When life gives you lemons...

Police Brutality: This is how you react.

There can be good:

Reward Offered for the Identity of the Police Officer Who Shot Marine Vet Scott Olsen

Nevada Makes Illegal Foreclosures Felony - Responding to homeowner complaints, Nevada has become the first state in the nation to make illegally repossessing a home a felony, and may send bankers to jail for doing such.

TIL that US Customs can confiscate any electrical device capable of storing data with no need for suspicion. You could then be prosecuted for any number of things including piracy.

I've had the same thought recently. What if a country sent troops to USA to protect the protestors from the evil government. Who would you like to see do it? China would be most likely. Afghanistan would be ironic. Canada would be hilarious.


My friend made his own Wolverine claws in the machine shop. Nailed it? 


My dad just got a negative scaner he took this picture in 1977

"I've been watching OWS and so far I've gone down a couple of weekends to protest myself. I've tried going more often, but I do have a wife and kids. So I do what I can.

Anyways, I've started to notice that more and more OCCUPY protests have been heavily policed. Food tents being taken down, generators being shut down, and with Oaklands riot police. I've always seen how our country has supported protests in other countries, but when it comes to our own, apparently it's something that needs to be shut down.

I'd never thought I would be one to say this, but I think it's time that we should up the ante on these protests. I think it's time that we should take over government buildings and any corporation that opposes American freedom. I'm not talking about a full on riot and looting. I don't want small business' being destroyed because of the change we need in this country. I'm talking about we step into city halls, police stations, hell even the DMV's. Step into these buildings and demand a take-over. They can't arrest us all. They can't even kill us all. We go in there and demand that they leave their posts.

This is our country, everyone. Not the big corporations. Not the police. This country is for the people."

850-year old wooden church. Borgund, Norway. Where the Vikings were told to stop believe in Thor and Odin.


Best dog Halloween costume ever. 


You should never cover Pink Floyd... unless...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uGKCzVDJlM

Where Brant Baker and I waited to see Kathryn Khulman.


TIL that in July, 36 years after the event, a federal judge ordered the release of a secret grand jury testimony from Richard Nixon regarding many of his political scandals. The Obama DOJ has still not released it. 


A Thought:

"We have millions of our own citizens in prison, we have a near police state atmosphere that cracks down on dissent here at home, we spend more on military than the rest of the industrial world combined, we have spread that military all over the world,and we engage in wars in far away lands that have nothing to do with national security. Our government has turned airports into international shakedowns where the traveling public is exposed to radiation, frisks, and groping pat downs.

Lets not even talk about our corruption of governments around the world with the so-called drug war, our support of dictators, juntas, military coups, and monarchies. We proclaim to be capitalistic, when in fact, our own Government engages in activities with corporate executives to ship, literally, millions of jobs to Communist countries.

What has this nation become...?"

Um, this list describes U.S. "interventions" just in Latin America (you do know why Iranians stormed the US embassy, right?).


Nutty Russian "Parkour" dude...



America Land Of The Free;
Occupy San Diego shut down, dozens of arrests including legal observer and vets
For a second time, a Nashville night judge dismissed arrest warrants of arrested protesters.

Don't forget the good cops


A Must See:
SHARKS 


And they were never seen again...WIW?

Geoengineering

Evidence demands a verdict...

Wall Street has protesters...the powers that be do not like them...so...

Those who geo`engineer  are induced to make an early winter storm unrepresented for October...ever.
e
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/29/new-york-snow-noreaster_n_1065378.html?

They can make droughts and rain and earthquakes at will.



Driving in a freak snow day in October, got even freakier...

I Love My Morning Coffee

My french grandmother would give me coffee mixed with milk and sugar when I was just a toddler. Ever since I have had coffee every morning...

Scientists say a cup of joe can help ward off cancer, diabetes, depression, and more. Anneli Rufus on a dozen of coffee's miraculous benefits—and a few of its scary side effects.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/28/coffee-health-benefits-how-coffee-might-save-your-life.html

Beam Us Up Scotty

"Researchers at Purdue say the merging of plasmonics and nanophotonics is promising the emergence of new 'quantum information systems' far more powerful than today's computers. Plasmons are quasiparticles that combine electrons and photons. And by using them in place of the simple electrons of today's computers, they could overcome limitations in the operational speed of conventional integrated circuits. The technology hinges on using single photons for switching and routing in computers that would harness the exotic principles of quantum mechanics.'"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sgFMWBfNw

An Email From An Old 'Jesus People' Friend

The Jesus People experienced an incredible outpouring of the Holy Spirit that the last few generations have not experienced. There were things that most today would doubt because of the miraculous elements involved. Some will not share their experiences because no one would believe it. Here is a brother who is willing to open up and share his experience as a young man. For those who don't know, the Blue Top Motel was where Lonnie Frisbee lived with his wife. There were other units filled with the Jesus People.




David,

I want to thank you for your email. It will be off the record. I have received many emails in my days but this last one has the signature

of the Most High all through it. We have seen and beheld the glory of the Lord of Hosts. I too have experienced The Holy Spirit in a powerful

way. An Angel of the Lord woke me one night in 1969 as I was sleeping in my VW camper van in the Blue Top parking lot. It was in Feb. and the nights were 

very cold. I woke up because the presence of God was so heavy and the Holy Spirit was like fire in the van. An Angel of the Lord was in the van but it

 was so large its wings stuck up through the roof. The brightness was like the Sun and the angel was reading from a rather large book and the 

text was from Isaiah. The angel was explaining the scripture and why it was being fulfilled and calling me by name and ministering to me.

You are right when you say we experienced God during the Jesus movement. The oil of the Holy Spirit was all over us we were the anointed ones.

When I was saved at the House of Miracles and prayed with Lonnie the same night I was baptized by the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues and moved freely

in the gifts of the Spirit. When we were traveling playing music and sharing the gospel God gave me a word of knowledge when we were playing on stage for people

 in the crowd. We were walking in the book of Acts.

I appreciate you sharing with me your feeling and what God has put on your heart. I couldn't agree more and have experienced first hand what you have to share re: CCCM.

God is going to move through those who do love Jesus.

Thank you again for sharing and I want very much to be one of those who will be used of God and be pure of heart and vessel for the potter.

Dave Burgin

James 4:17
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.


Exodus 23:2
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil;


Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.


Proverbs 27:12
A prudent man foreseeth the evil...


Matthew 12:35
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.


John 3:20
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.


Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.


Romans 12:21
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.


Romans 14:16
Let not then your good be evil spoken of:


2 Corinthians 13:7
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil;...


Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
Galatians 1:3-5 (in Context) Galatians 1 (Whole Chapter)


1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.


Hebrews 5:14
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.


1 Peter 3:11
Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.


1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

An Evil Cop

Marine Says Oakland Used Crowd Control Methods That Are Prohibited In War Zones

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/marine-with-crowd-control-training-points-out-oakland-used-methods-prohibited-in-war-zones-2011-10#ixzz1c9XXrkmF

Apple Is Evil Read The New Book On Jobs

The Did Not Invent The Idea They Stole It
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/every-android-device-now-infringes-apple-patent-slide-to-unlock/5199

The Great American Firewall

"The U.S. House has drafted their version of Protect IP today. They have renamed the bill to "the Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act" or the E-PARASITE Act. The new house version of Protect IP is far worse than theSenate bill s.968 and it massively expands the sites that will be covered by the law. While the Senate bill limited its focus to sites that were "dedicated to infringing activities", the house bill targets "foreign infringing sites" and "has only limited purpose or use other than infringement". They're also including an "inducement" claim, any foreign site declared by the Attorney General to be "inducing" infringement, can now be censored by the US. With no adversarial hearing. The bill can be read here."

PROTECT IP Renamed E-PARASITES Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America 


"An upcoming version [PDF] of U.S. legislation designed to combat copyright infringement on the Web may include provisions that hold online services such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube legally responsible for infringing material posted by users, according to one group opposed to the bill. 'If Demand Progress is correct about the House version of PROTECT IP, the bill would overturn parts of the 13-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act that protect websites and ISPs from copyright lawsuits for the infringing activity of their users.'"