That’s a very serious question for a very serious issue: The housing crisis is hitting military families particularly hard, according to real estate agents and service member advocacy groups. Many who bought during the boom and must now relocate because of fresh orders are faced with selling their homes at a big loss. They are […]
PETA submitted an AD to be aired during the Super Bowl, which NBC rejected. Here is the ad in question: ‘Veggie Love’: PETA’s Banned Super Bowl Ad Actually I love this ad. I think it sells great, and it’s nothing more than we would see in any other ad. But it turns out there might […]
90% of the work I do is in the open source software field. This blog runs off of open source software, as do most. It’s also turned into a multi-billion dollar industry. Imagine, software that is given away for free is now generating tons of revenue in a field that keeps on growing. I think […]
Time for a break from politics and a turn to my other love – cycling: Lance Armstrong made a cautious return to professional cycling Sunday, finishing well back in a 30-mile criterium in downtown Adelaide. More than 138,000 people turned out to see Armstrong return from three years in retirement and begin a campaign to […]
Two of my biggest passions are photography and history. Combine them and what do you get? The new archive of Life Magazines photos and illustrations dating back to 1750 (big h/t to Cesca). Here’s the cover from June, 1958 and it is so fitting for today: (Click for larger view and details)
But this time it’s a good kind of pain. Focus on the Family, James Dobson’s little group of hatred, is going to lay off over 200 employees, cutting it’s workforce by more than 20%. It turns out they dumped too much money into Prop 8 and their love of gay bashing, so they can’t afford […]
Hilarious: (h/t Cesca) What I really love is hearing the right wingers bitch that the media actually covered this. How much time was spent on Edwards’ haircut? Yeah – turnabout and all that.
McCain’s here in Ohio campaigning and fundraising today. Actually McCain was in Wilmington, Ohio this afternoon on a campaign stop. This is the town that McCain and his campaign manager, Rick Davis, :may be destroying. Think Progress has more on this. As someone who has been to Wilmington numerous times, and even done work at […]
stillness Originally uploaded by manyfires Things have been hectic lately. I been moving my office and just haven’t had time to think, let alone surf Flickr. I sat down for a couple of minutes tonight to breath and saw this picture. Instantly I fell in love and had to post it as my daily Flickr.