[Email] Google, Verizon and Net Nuetrality Dear MoveOn member, Big news: according to reports, Google is about to cut a terrible deal with Verizon that would end the fair, open Internet as we know it.1 The reported Google-Verizon deal would allow giant corporations to control which websites load quickly and easily on the Internet and dump everyone else onto an […]
Net Neutrality: will the future really be brighter?
DVD review: The Ballad of Peter LaFarge
[Film] The Ballad of Peter Lafarge/Rare Breed The Ballad of Peter LaFarge (DVD) review by Jim Cherry Peter LaFarge was a proto-type for a rock star, he led a life that would be the envy of any writer. He was a rodeo cowboy, actor, playwright, folksinger, painter, manic depressive, drug user, all the things that burn in talent and leave […]
Surfing and The Gulf Petropocalypse
GULF GUSHER CONTINUES Here’s how you can help by Terry Gibson [From Surfline.com.] Over the past two weeks, Surfline has been closely monitoring the evolution of the oil spill caused by the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. On Wednesday, the situation deteriorated when an unmanned Rover ran into the containment cap, causing sufficient damage […]
Trasharella Ultra Vixen
The Showgirl Must Go On Rena Riffel remakes her directorial debut Trasharella as Trasharella Ultra Vixen and has plans to film a kind-of sequel to the mid-90’s dvd rental cult favorite Showgirls by Reviewer Rob As one would expect, Rena Riffel is physically gorgeous in person. Let me start out by saying that. The other thing is she comes off […]
“What you talkin’ bout, Willis?”
Dig A Hole: Gary Coleman by Scott Marks from emulsioncompulsion.com, 5/28/10 I will be killing myself tonight, from grief. I want to be a footnote to Gary Coleman’s life and art, his tiny greatness. Let us hope he gets a better sendoff than some of the other African-American legends of the 20thCentury like John Bubbles who went out with a […]
Yoga On A Personal Level
Watching TV & Downward Dog Why Do Yoga? by Page Turner from HypnoYogaOnline.com Is it possible to become a calm, centered master of your own universe even in the madness of this modern world? When you have about a thousand priorities on your list of things to do in the measly 24 hours of each day, yoga might weigh in […]
Surfboard Design
[Innovation] The Real Story La Jolla Surfing Legend Richard Kenvin Talks About The History Of Hull Shape This is documentary video from The Surfer’s Journal. Click HERE for YouTube version of this interview. I like the way they just let Richard talk and you don’t even hear the interviewer asking any questions. ~Editor TSJ | POV – “Richard Kenvin behind […]
Criminality in High Finance
Goldman Sachs Sucks by Olivia Allin [Reprinted here with permission by the author from the April 28th entry at thefrisky.com. ~Editor] Shun, Shag or Marry The Goldman Sachs bosses are in hot water. The Subcommittee on Investigations made sure they were thorough with a nearly 11-hour questioning of them this week, asking whether their firm “made significant bets against the […]