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Saturday, October 16, 2010
Tweak The Week
Marketplace Minute 10/15 from Marketplace on Vimeo.
Decapitation Strategy
Although headless torsos left behind in the desert by illegal aliens is, under the most charitable interpretation, at best a figment of the Arizona Governor's imagination, there out is an active group of headhunters at work throughout the country, spending vast amounts of out of state money from undisclosed interests trying to sever heads from the body politic.
In Nevada, the strategy is to kill off the Senate Majority Leader, much as happened to South Dakota's Tom Daschle in 2004. And so the election battle between "Landslide" Harry Reid (who has never won a by very large margins) and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle (who in 3 terms in the 42-member state legislature never managed to enact a single bill and so often had opposed everything with even the widest bipartisan support, political reporters coined the term "41 to Angle" to describe the lone contrarian) has become one of the most important election races in the country... God help us all, because face to face they both looked like idiots.
Videos: MSNBC
So who won their first and only debate Thursday night?
Political pundits are saying that neither won decisively, but Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun wrote that Reid lost the debate because Angle “looked relatively credible, appearing not to be the Wicked Witch of the West… and scoring many more rhetorical points.”
That gives you a sense of how low the expectations had been.
As chair of Financial Services, co-author of "Fin-Reg" and backer of Elizabeth Warren, Frank has been targeted for a hit by Wall Street.
In Nevada, the strategy is to kill off the Senate Majority Leader, much as happened to South Dakota's Tom Daschle in 2004. And so the election battle between "Landslide" Harry Reid (who has never won a by very large margins) and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle (who in 3 terms in the 42-member state legislature never managed to enact a single bill and so often had opposed everything with even the widest bipartisan support, political reporters coined the term "41 to Angle" to describe the lone contrarian) has become one of the most important election races in the country... God help us all, because face to face they both looked like idiots.
Videos: MSNBC
So who won their first and only debate Thursday night?
Political pundits are saying that neither won decisively, but Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun wrote that Reid lost the debate because Angle “looked relatively credible, appearing not to be the Wicked Witch of the West… and scoring many more rhetorical points.”
That gives you a sense of how low the expectations had been.
Jeff Danziger / New York Times
Democrat Barney Frank & Republican challenger Sean Bielat debated 10/11/10.
 | Meanwhile In Massachusetts Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 10/14/10, Reporter: Fred Thys, WBUR/Boston |
On Red's Red Carpet
Robot Skeleton Sidekick Interviews The Stars
Video: CBS... In your World Wide Pants!
Video: CBS... In your World Wide Pants!
Playoff Fever
A 5 run rally in the 8th gave the Yanks the win in ACLS game 1.
| Who's Left Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 10/14/10, Host: Monica Brady-Meyerov. |
 | Go Small or Go Home Audio Embed: CBS Radio's Osgood File 10/13/10. |
Abbott and Costello perform the classic "Who's on first?" baseball sketch in their 1945 film "The Naughty Nineties." It was first performed as part of their stage act in vaudeville.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Great Debates
Delaware Senate
Nevada Senate
 | California Governor Audio Embed: Berger & Prescott, podcast via Facebook. |
Strength of Conviction
Farah Stockman is the Boston Globe reporter who broke the story.
The real life Betty Anne Waters continues her work in criminal justice with the Innocence Project, which helped exonerate Kenny.
| Appealing Story Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 10/14/10, Host: Robin Young. |
Oh God... Or Not
 | Debating It To Death Audio Embed: Morning Edition 10/13/10, Reporter: Barbara Bradley Hagerty |
Here Comes The Sun
Who's that guy in the Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich ads?
The sunny guy at the center of our sausage-powered solar system is Haynes Brooke... Literal and figurative star of the commercials "Spaced Out," "Fog," "Lightning & Thunder" and "Full Moon," among others in the long-running campaign for Jimmy Dean's breakfast sandwiches.
Haynes is also part of the struggling do-it-yourself website-building couple who have yet to discover tools & templates packages available from Intuit.
Haynes is also part of the struggling do-it-yourself website-building couple who have yet to discover tools & templates packages available from Intuit.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Chi Chi Chi Le Le Le
los mineros de Chile!
Video: CNN
Joy and pride that need no translation... All the rescuers are out, too!
Video: CNN
Joy and pride that need no translation... All the rescuers are out, too!
| Why It Worked Audio Embed: Dave Ross, KIRO-FM/Seattle, 10/14/10. |
Bubbling Over
 | Carbonated Campaign Audio Embed: Puget Sound Public Radio 10/13/10, Reporter: Ruby de Luna |
Starbuck Drinking Starbucks
Coffee Cannibalism
Starbucks has told its baristas to slow down a bit, in an attempt to maintain a higher quality product, but does slow really mean better? Dave Ross and Luke Burbank conduct a taste test vs. McDonald's.
From livercake
Katee Sackhoff played Colonial Viper pilot Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace in the 2004–2009 version of the Battlestar Galactica TV series on Sci-Fi.Starbucks has told its baristas to slow down a bit, in an attempt to maintain a higher quality product, but does slow really mean better? Dave Ross and Luke Burbank conduct a taste test vs. McDonald's.
Cyber Singing
He’s asking people to join him in his next effort: to create the world’s largest online choir ever.
| Voices From Beyond Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 10/13/10, Host: Robin Young. |
Production Wizardry: Scott Haines
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Marching Orders
Videos: CBS & CNN
A group of Senate Democrats have again asked the administration not to appeal a judge's ruling that Don't Ask, Don't Tell is unconstitutional and the military must stop enforcing it immediately and permanently.
Senator Mark Udall (D-Colorado) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder last month after U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips first announced that DADT violates the First and Fifth amendments. Now Udall and Gillibrand are back, with 19 other cosigners: Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Roland Burris (D-IL), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Al Franken (D-MN), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Ben Cardin (D-MD)... No R's at all.
Lean And Mean
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Corporate America: A Catwalk?
CBS Early Show contributor Taryn Winter Brill reports on a University of Florida study on how weight and gender are linked to salary.
Andy Rooney Goes on a Diet
He has a plan to lose 20 lbs... Angling for bigger bucks, Andy?
Videos: Comedy Central & CBS
He's too sexy for his shirt; so sexy it hurts... At his age it all hurts.
Movement For Misfits
Cast of Glee by Carin Baer/Fox
Dan Savage is writer of the syndicated sex advice column "Savage Love" and editor of a Seattle alternative weekly. His message to (especially gay) teens facing bullying, sexuality issues, or both is simple: It Gets Better. | Hang On, Hang In There Audio Embed: PRI & WNYC's program The Takeaway 10/12/10, Hosts: John Hockenberry & Celeste Headlee. |
Paul McCartney's contemporary solo version of the 1967 Sgt. Pepper classic.
Quick Read
An Elevator Pitch For English Lit
Students looking for some help understanding literature classics may now turn to a website featuring a Boston woman summing up great books in one minute. CBS's Manuel Gallegus reports.
60 Second Recap website
Students looking for some help understanding literature classics may now turn to a website featuring a Boston woman summing up great books in one minute. CBS's Manuel Gallegus reports.
60 Second Recap website
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Being Gay Is Not Okay
Pander To Shlomo*, Screw The Homo
Is It A Symptom of Something Wider?
Videos: MSNBC & Newsy.com
*Shlomo is the Hebrew name Anglicized as 'Solomon,' the Biblical king.
Is It A Symptom of Something Wider?
Videos: MSNBC & Newsy.com
*Shlomo is the Hebrew name Anglicized as 'Solomon,' the Biblical king.
Lifechanging, Yet Disposable
Premium Cardboard Cup Carrier
vs. Standard Cardboard Carrying Tray
Via Geekologie
vs. Standard Cardboard Carrying Tray
Hang In There
 | Wholly Modal Music Audio Embed: Echoes, an ambient music program on public radio with extensive archives of subscriber downloads. |
California's Going To Pot
November 2nd California will decide on Proposition 19, which would allow adults 21 and older to grow and use marijuana recreationaly. CBS's Bill Whitaker reports.
A conflict between the Feds and the Altered State of California would be argued along the same lines as Arizona's anti-immigrant law.... Meanwhile, more advice from Chong; no fan of Mexican imports.
Monday, October 11, 2010
The Real Slim Shady
CNN's Anderson Cooper profiled Marshall Mathers, the chart-topping rapper Eninem from Detroit, who's trying to reclaim respect... And the status of being the biggest selling artist of the past decade, even though he spent half the years away from music, battling addiction.
Remaking A Vampire
| Boy Meets Vampire Girl Story Audio Embed: All Things Considered 10/10/10. |
Video via Trailer Addict
Graphic Language
Companies change logos to make a statement, but much like "sending a message" in diplomacy, it's not always clear whether the intended audience gets the point... But debate about the merits of such logo changes rages at industry publication Adweek's AdFreak blog.
This change by (sing: fall into the) Gap clothing stores (was cancelled October 12th as the company reverted to the previous design, but) prompted the magazine to dig into the archives for other examples of controversial changes in corporate imaging.
One major change I know about was the rebranding of UPS in 2003.
In 1961 the company commissioned renowned brand designer Paul Rand to create a streamlined United Parcel Service logo which featured a bow-tied package above the previously familiar shield shape to express the mission of the company... Package delivery, within a limited number of metropolitan areas, was its sole service.
Within the company there's a story that executives debated whether to adopt the design, because the company didn't accept packages tied with string. But when a young grandchild of the company's president saw a proof and exclaimed "Presents!" the deal was done.
Going to calling itself only "UPS" reflected diversification into multi-modal transport beyond packages carried on the original brown vans: including pallet and truckload freight services via ground and air, as well as ocean and rail; operating one of the world's largest airlines; business mail services; expanded delivery to every postal address in the lower 48 (except p.o. boxes); warehousing and supply chain services; and franchising over 3,000 locations of "The UPS Store."
In March 2003 the grandchild of corporate mythology was by then middle aged and played no part in the naming & design change.
One major change I know about was the rebranding of UPS in 2003.
In 1961 the company commissioned renowned brand designer Paul Rand to create a streamlined United Parcel Service logo which featured a bow-tied package above the previously familiar shield shape to express the mission of the company... Package delivery, within a limited number of metropolitan areas, was its sole service.
Within the company there's a story that executives debated whether to adopt the design, because the company didn't accept packages tied with string. But when a young grandchild of the company's president saw a proof and exclaimed "Presents!" the deal was done.
In March 2003 the grandchild of corporate mythology was by then middle aged and played no part in the naming & design change.
Cable News Wars
Gabriel Sherman, contributing editor of New York Magazine, explains the strategy and strife of the last decade of cable news wars and questions whether CNN's non-partisan passion by anchors & correspondents involved in stories with pathos can be sustained daily.
 | Channeling Emotions Audio Embed: WNYC's On The Media 10/9/10, Host: Brooke Gladstone. Illustration by Gluekit, from Gabe Sherman's "Chasing Fox" |
Or, Take A Break From That Argument
Video: CBS
Who Dat?
Who's the big-eyed brunette with bangs in all these commercials?
York Peppermint Patties - Closeup Venus
Bing - Search Overload, Pregnant
On Star - Live On
She's Alexi Wasser, an L.A. born & based actress who has a highly confessional blog, plus self-produced videos on YouTube & Vimeo.
York Peppermint Patties - Closeup Venus
Bing - Search Overload, Pregnant
On Star - Live On
She's Alexi Wasser, an L.A. born & based actress who has a highly confessional blog, plus self-produced videos on YouTube & Vimeo.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Aerial Assault
Out here in Nevada, we're knee-deep in attack ads. And by law the big money outside groups who've commandeered all available airtime can't really spend their Supreme Court-sanctioned unlimited money telling you to vote for anyone. So, their anonymous deep-pocketed hit job money attacks viable opponents of the person they support.
The candidates could positively advocate themselves, but by and large they don't... They follow the tune of outside money, and attack, too.
The tactic isn't novel, but the look is. In the latest official Sharron Angle attack, the on-camera spokeswoman in her new commercial bears an eerie resemblance to Delaware's Christine O'Donnell.
If your campaign was already under fire for "nutty" stances on public policy, why choose an actress who's an "I'm not a witch" lookalike?
Really, Mrs. Angle... It doesn't do anything to make you look sane.
Melissa Block talked with voice-over artists Dennis Steele and Scott Sanders about how to make a threatening voice for a political ad, on the day prior to the 2006 midterms.
The candidates could positively advocate themselves, but by and large they don't... They follow the tune of outside money, and attack, too.
The tactic isn't novel, but the look is. In the latest official Sharron Angle attack, the on-camera spokeswoman in her new commercial bears an eerie resemblance to Delaware's Christine O'Donnell.
If your campaign was already under fire for "nutty" stances on public policy, why choose an actress who's an "I'm not a witch" lookalike?
Really, Mrs. Angle... It doesn't do anything to make you look sane.
Melissa Block talked with voice-over artists Dennis Steele and Scott Sanders about how to make a threatening voice for a political ad, on the day prior to the 2006 midterms.
| Dire Predictions & Disastrous Votes Audio Embed: All Things Considered 11/6/06. |
Nobel Prize Falls Flat
 | Atomic-scale Chicken Wire Audio Embed: CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks 10/9/10, Host: Bob McDonald. |
Perfect Ten
- January 1st, 2010
- January 10th, 2010
- January 11th, 2010
- October 1st, 2010
- October 10th, 2010
- October 11th, 2010
- November 1st, 2010
- November 10th, 2010
- November 11th, 2010
“It was about two years ago that I figured it out,” she told a local reporter. “I’m really excited because it’s a very rare birthday.”
This morning at 10:10 AM a baby girl will be born. And although only one in 1.42 people per million people in the U.S. would receive the name normally...
I'll bet that today the parents will be tempted to call her Tenley.
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