Spidey Senses -> Tingling

Cry With Me: Watch Video of 500 Million Gallons of Coal Ash Destroy Tenn. River

Ted Rheingold — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:47:11 +0000

Clean Coal is the most dangerous oxymoron. Obama strongly promoted it during his campaign. Learn about it. It’s about as unrealistic a scientific scheme as Reagan’s Star Wars defense system. This spill has nothing to do with pumping CO2 into the earth crust, but shows how much garbage coal production produces and how little room there is left on the planet to hide it.

Yappy Howlidays

Ted Rheingold — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:59:07 +0000

Dogster Member Eddie Essig made these pawsome holiday animations. Eddie, you are hi-larious!

Yappy Howlidays everyone!

Molly’s New Line: Cuisine Carriers

Ted Rheingold — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:24:20 +0000

Molly (my better half) just launched a line of Cuisine Carriers under the name First Resort. She’s makes each one by hand, often using vintage fabrics and is selling them on her First Resort Etsy store. She got the original design from a carrier her ~~very talented and crafty grandmother Browder made~~ mother bought at a crafts fair in Indiana thirty years ago.

They’re brilliant. They’re easy to carry, keep the dish lid securely in place, padded for both protection and insulation, and allow for a stylish entrance and exit. (No more walking out of a party with a crusty dirty caserole dish in your hands ;)

Here’s a screen grab of the different models:

Click any image or right here to go the First Resort Etsy store.

She also made this amazing Orchid Mohair Capelet, which half-way through she realized she’s alergic to mohair, so she had to put it up for sale.

If you want to give one as a holiday present, get that order in soon, we’re going to be taking off before santa’s sleigh!

Aw Heck, Here’s a Picture of My Family

Ted Rheingold — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:22:27 +0000

Sharing too much of my loved ones lives isn’t something I feel comfortable blogging.

But … here’s a picture of my family taken at my sister Susan’s and my brother-in-law John’s wedding last September. Growing up I took solace in what I took to be the all too irrefutable fact we were a dysfunctional family. Now I take solace in the fact we’re all kooky enough that we function pretty darn well ;>

[click to enlarge]

California Channel Island Fox Population Recovers in Record Time

Ted Rheingold — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:19:39 +0000

The Channel Island Fox population dropped to 50 foxes. The island population has almost completely returned in less than a decade by returning the natural balance to the Channel Islands, not just simply protect the Foxes themselves.

Software Engineers Testifies How He Coded Voting Software to Flip Results to a 51% Favor of Paying Candidate

Ted Rheingold — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:10:14 +0000

I wish I knew more details about this. I suppose it could be from a movie, but it very much appears to be a recording of a software engineer giving testimony of how he coded voting systems to rig winners. It’s posted on a pretti vigilant leak site (no, that’s not an oxymoron.)

Watch this video now. Watch the whole thing.

Here’s the link

Sen. Bernie Sanders “Let The Rich Bail Out the Rich”

Ted Rheingold — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:00:55 +0000

Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT-I) stood on the Senate floor today and lambasted Wall Street millionaires - including Secretary Paulson and the $36 million he earned in 2005 - while pushing for his amendment to the Financial Markets bailout bill that would generate $300 billion in bail out finds over the next five by increasing taxes on people making over $500,000 a year. He believes there is no reason the average citizens should bailout the rich, when the rich can bail out the rich.

It was gutsy. Srsly, who else in the Senate is going to suggest anything like this. Refreshing if nothing else in this time of fear.

Practically

Ted Rheingold — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:40:59 +0000

Do you know those items of clothing you have in your closet that you don’t really find comfortable but you keep and wear because they are acceptably dressy and usually clean (unlike your favorite personal items ;). And yes, when you wear them, everyone you are working with thinks you are dressed fine, but you’re thinking “I’m wearing my stupid pants” or “my scratchy shirt” or “the one with that makes you look like a banker”.

I had a pair of Brooks Brothers khaki pants that I could wear to almost any meeting, but they always felt like a uniform yet I always took good care of them because they were practical and well made.

Welp, yesterday we helped Tom celebrate his impending nuptials by playing paintball and other good, clean fun activites. I wore those damn khaki pants knowing they’d get trashed and I could never wear again.

We had a ball and they got trashed. Thanks Tom, we’re all so psyched for the both you you. Juni too! =)

Really Nice Set of Photos from Burning Man ‘08

Ted Rheingold — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:12:27 +0000

As proof I’m not giving up quality for Internet quickies, here’s a great set of photos from this year’s Burning Man by Neil Girling.

After clicking through, just click the big photo to see the next one.

My New Site … Do U Like It?

Ted Rheingold — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:09:53 +0000

I’ve been posting a lot to a new blog. I’ll still be posting here, especially the longer, more thought out entires, but the new blog is for the more spontaneous, funny and Internetical items. (yes, that’s right, I said Internetical ;) Maybe it’ll just be easier for you if you simply consider the new blog my web moleskin.

If you’re reading this in a RSS feed reader, why not subscribe to the new blog’s feed now.

If you’re a tumblr, give it a follow.