Taken while hiking in Hawaii. My first Flickr video!

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My friends and I recently converged in Hawaii for a reunion of sorts, and it was truly amazing. This is a video of the five of us sitting in a shark cage off the north shore of Oahu.

What an experience. What’s missing from this raw footage is me puking off the deck afterwards — above a circling shark that seems to be waiting for chunks like a dog for scraps. All he got was ingested seawater, though, which — on top of hyperventilation, lack of sleep, and crazy waves that almost made our tour guides call the whole thing off — is what I blame for the expulsion.

More media from this trip to come. I converted/compressed this vid down to about 80MB, so depending on your connection you might have a better viewing experience downloading it first by right-clicking the Quicktime link above.

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One minute, one corner.

Music by Trent Reznor et al off Nine Inch Nails’ outstanding latest release, Ghosts, licensed under Creative Commons.

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Semanal video #6 is brought to you by Don Ho.

As always, pitch-perfect satire from the kings.

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David Ray Griffin is a co-director of the Center for Process Studies and one of the foremost contemporary exponents of process theology. He’s also a leading proponent of theories questioning the Bush Administration’s account of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

I was invited to a lecture of his February 10 in San Diego that mainly concentrated on subjects within his new book, Debunking 9/11 Debunking, which he explained is largely a response to an article by Popular Mechanics its authors claim dispel the primary tenets of the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Snippets of what he said:

• a supposed mobile phone call from a hijack victim is dubious because the specific plane in question was not outfitted with seat-back phones, nor was the technology yet available in 2001 to allow in-flight cellphone calls. He said uncanny voice-cloning technology, however, was available.
• conclusions made by the Popular Mechanics’ writers should not be considered legitimate for various reasons including how they relied on federal NIST data and did not follow a scientific process; for example, despite evidence, they presuppose the events were the work of Islamic terrorists.

The full video is above and runs about an hour. ‘Full’ meaning I ran out of tape right before the end, and also missed any and all of the Q&A held afterwards.

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Welcome to Semanal video #4. I hope you find the cheesy 80’s music as amusing as we do. It’s an inside joke.

Woke up at 3 a.m. and required a post-midnight snack. Checked my email and found this lovely nugget of a link from my friend, Jim. Via here.

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My third semanal video. Art by Abby Martin. Music by Daft Punk (download their album Homework from iTunes here). Location: Basic Bar.

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Via JPS. Download at American Rhetoric.