stream of consciousnessTumblr (3.0; @opensoul)http://stream.opensoul.org/“We’ve become so obsessed with building baseball fields, that we forget that we’re supposed to play in them”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://vimeo.com/4837290">Ze Frank</a></em>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/126652481http://stream.opensoul.org/post/126652481Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:17:26 -0400<img src="http://7.media.tumblr.com/93TKXIerloeier20Yn092b1Ho1_500.png"/><br/><br/>Happiness in Business (via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/bud_caddell">budcaddell</a>)http://stream.opensoul.org/post/119157279http://stream.opensoul.org/post/119157279Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:37:03 -0400<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_QyYaPWasos&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_QyYaPWasos&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>We Didn’t Start the Flame War (via <a href="http://youtube.com/user/collegehumor">collegehumor</a>)http://stream.opensoul.org/post/115868592http://stream.opensoul.org/post/115868592Sun, 31 May 2009 15:34:35 -0400<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R2a8TRSgzZY&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R2a8TRSgzZY&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://jnunemaker.tumblr.com/post/113780775/hilarious-and-depressingly-true">jnunemaker</a>:</p> <blockquote>Hilarious and depressingly true.</blockquote>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/113964416http://stream.opensoul.org/post/113964416Wed, 27 May 2009 18:18:11 -0400“The reality is that the browser vendors have the ultimate veto on everything in the spec, since if they don’t implement it, the spec is nothing but a work of fiction. So they have a lot of influence—I don’t want to be writing fiction, I want to be writing a spec that documents the actual behaviour of browsers.<br/> Whether that’s too much, I don’t know. Does gravity have too much influence on objects on earth? It’s just the way it is.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.webstandards.org/2009/05/13/interview-with-ian-hickson-editor-of-the-html-5-specification/">Ian Hickson</a>, editor of the HTML 5 specification, on whether the browser vendors have too much influence</em>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/113437618http://stream.opensoul.org/post/113437618Tue, 26 May 2009 18:20:36 -0400<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/93TKXIerlnhfgsaaDHvS1U9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5254222/olde-timey-notificator-machine-twitters-like-its-1935">Olde Timey Notificator Machine Twitters Like It’s 1935</a>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/107824016http://stream.opensoul.org/post/107824016Thu, 14 May 2009 15:58:16 -0400“My Dad said flu vaccines are linked to Autism, so to be safe from swine flu, I’m trying to lick an Autistic kid.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://xkcd.com/574/">xkcd - Swine Flu</a></em>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/100777788http://stream.opensoul.org/post/100777788Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:45:04 -0400“Here is how you win the War on Drugs: Legalize drugs, and unleash into drug culture wave after wave of middle aged suburbanites, each more middle aged than the one before.  You wouldn’t just remove the glamor from drug use, you’d make drugs incredibly boring (my experience comes straight from Facebook, the joy of which declines proportionately to the number of old people who create accounts for use as a professional networking platform).  The day pot smoking goes corporate is the day people stop doing it. I tell you this because it is truth.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.michiganliberal.com/diary/14758/a-solution-to-the-medical-marijuana-mess-legalize-it-for-everyone">A solution to the medical marijuana mess</a></em>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/100032928http://stream.opensoul.org/post/100032928Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:23:19 -0400“Just weed-whacked a worm in half. Sorry about that, little buddy. On the upside you now have a new friend.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://twitter.com/rwdaigle/statuses/1452024049">Ryan Daigle</a></em>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/92964546http://stream.opensoul.org/post/92964546Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:53:06 -0400<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/93TKXIerllowrinuzdL3WiZbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://fukung.net/v/11777/4e2e8183c12e4e8d6df353ede849b307.jpg">Damn liberals</a>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/91255114http://stream.opensoul.org/post/91255114Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:17:28 -0400<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Zj60zJT2EgU/red-states-consume-m.html">Red states consume more porn?</a>: According to a new Harvard Business School study, eight of the top ten states in terms of online porn consumption were ones where McCain won in the presidential election. Professor Benjamin Edelman…http://stream.opensoul.org/post/82112277http://stream.opensoul.org/post/82112277Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:06:50 -0500<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/27/red-states-consume-m.html">Red states consume more porn?</a>: According to a new Harvard Business School study, eight of the top ten states in terms of online porn consumption were ones where McCain won in the presidential election. Professor Benjamin Edelman…http://stream.opensoul.org/post/82099225http://stream.opensoul.org/post/82099225Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:06:47 -0500<a href="http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/qdsYmsdQ4x4/697810">From the files</a>: <p><a href="http://www.congressmatters.com/"><img align="right" src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/191280/cmcrosspost.png"/></a>What files? The insane pack-rat files, of course.</p> <p>I have with me a hard copy of a collection of Republican quotes predicting doom and disaster in the wake of the 1993 Clinton economic stimulus…</p>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/79371405http://stream.opensoul.org/post/79371405Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:55:57 -0500<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/93TKXIerlje56a60J1sVCorSo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://twitpic.com/19nso">What’s wrong with this ad?</a>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/74592745http://stream.opensoul.org/post/74592745Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:08:00 -0500<a href="http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/JrRRNvHM2Mo/690461">Networks abet continued GOP dominance of the airways</a>: <p><a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/shameless-by-digby-can-someone-explain_28.html">Digby</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Can someone explain to me why I’m seeing Republican after Republican on television advising Americans on the right way to run the economy? Is there any reason why we should listen to…</p> </blockquote>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/74236670http://stream.opensoul.org/post/74236670Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:59:51 -0500<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/93TKXIerlizw7n22WYBfsdOso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/21/barack-obama-is-a-ni.html">Barack Obama is a Ninja with a Lightsaber - Boing Boing</a>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/72121953http://stream.opensoul.org/post/72121953Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:48:19 -0500<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/93TKXIerliusrbzinq9xH6Bco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://www.alexbuga.com/v8/#article/one_pixel_can_make_the_difference/">One pixel can make the difference</a>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/71258431http://stream.opensoul.org/post/71258431Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:12:50 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VVp8UGjECt4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VVp8UGjECt4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Principles of economics, translated. via <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://jnunemaker.tumblr.com/post/70693618/this-is-hilarious-love-the-deconstructive-proof">jnunemaker</a>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/71173794http://stream.opensoul.org/post/71173794Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:43:00 -0500<a href="http://xkcd.com/530/">I'm An Idiot</a>: <img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/im_an_idiot.png" title="Sadly, this is a true story. At least I learned about the OS X 'say' command." alt="Sadly, this is a true story. At least I learned about the OS X 'say' command."/>http://stream.opensoul.org/post/70361093http://stream.opensoul.org/post/70361093Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:51:33 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EzsBv2HDaRo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EzsBv2HDaRo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Lawrence Lessig on Colbert Reporthttp://stream.opensoul.org/post/69697911http://stream.opensoul.org/post/69697911Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:32 -0500