YouTube – One man band.

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Why the Dow is Hitting 10,000 Even When Consumers Can’t Buy And Business Cries “Socialism” | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet.

So, I set out to determine the farthest point from a Micky Dee’s – in the lower 48 states, at least.
via Where The Buffalo Roamed « Weather Sealed.

The Saskatchewan NDP recaptured two seats in the provincial legislature by winning two byelections Monday, including one that will send Opposition leader Dwain Lingenfelter back to the legislature for the first time in eight years.
via NDP sweeps Sask. byelections.

What’s interesting is that every single person in this film is seen as themselves, is allowed to speak and seems to have a good heart. I’ve rarely seen a documentary quite like it. It has a point to make but no ax to grind.
via What’s the Matter with Kansas? :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews.

Do you ever feel like you’re a rock ‘n’ roll fan stuck in the Eighties? Or a science teacher at a Republican education convention down in the southern U.S.? Or an environmentalist in oil sands-ravaged Alberta?
Well, if so, then you’re quite possibly a left-wing Canadian voter. Because feeling discouraged, depressed, dejected, and downhearted is all [...]

He has been called the greatest self-promoter in the history of Seattle.
And now, more than 24 years after he died at age 79, Ivar Haglund apparently has managed one more fantastic stunt.
via Local News | Is there something fishy about Ivar’s latest stunt? | Seattle Times Newspaper.

xkcd – A Webcomic – The Search.

Two Hooters restaurant casinos are scheduled to open in the next few weeks in Renton and South Park, and the debate raging in some quarters is not over how short the waitresses’ shorts will be.
Instead, people are divided over whether Hooters is too upscale for working-class neighborhoods where the locals bond over $2 happy-hour beers.
via [...]

It’s a play I’ve been following for some time now. It’s about the increasing dominance – scratch that, the unqualified triumph – of a certain way of seeing, of reckoning value. It’s about the victory of whatever can be quantified over everything that can’t. It’s about the quiet retooling of American education into an adjunct [...]

As a psychologist with a Ph.D. in cognitive science, as well as an ardent dogophile, Horowitz aims “to take an informed imaginative leap inside of a dog — to see what it is like to be a dog; what the world is like from a dog’s point of view.”
via Book Review – ‘Inside of a [...]

The beautiful trail in the sky looked like a mysterious celestial event. In reality, it was urine.
via Mystery Explained: Glow in Night Sky Was Astronaut Urine – Yahoo! News.

“This is not a slough in Saskatchewan,” said the former mayor of Elstow, Sask., who lives in the Rocky Mountain resort town of Canmore, Alta. “This is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I’m trying to save something that can’t speak for itself. I want to hold people accountable.”
via The mystery of Lake Louise’s missing water [...]

A new study shows that dogs and young human babies both make the same classic error in a famous psychology experiment — while wolves raised by people do not.
via Babies And Dogs Make The Same Classic Mistake : NPR.

Photoshop Makeovers :: Photocritic photography blog.
Interesting look at what goes into a final portrait that, believe it or not, looks natural (certainly compared to what we see on magazine covers) and yet has had significant work done.
If it’s any consolation, the author is working on a photo of himself.

The DIYer in the video says he’s kept the same disposable razor sharp for six months. How? By taking a pair of jeans and running the razor up and down 10 to 20 times in one direction along the entire length of the jeans and then again in the opposite direction.
via Extend Your Razor’s Life [...]

How is it that Michael Moores father could buy a house and raise a family on the income of one auto worker, and still have a pension for his retirement? And yet this is not possible in the vastly more productive economy of today? The answer is not complicated: in the first half of the [...]

The Online Photographer: What Does Expensive Mean?.

It was 1913 when North Battleford and Weyburn became the province’s newest cities.
Nearly 100 years later, Saskatchewan is doing it again, announcing last week that the towns of Meadow Lake and Martensville have reached city status.
via The Canadian Press: Historian says creating new Saskatchewan cities has ‘great significance’.

Extraterrestrials have taken the place of angels, demons, fairies and saints, though it must be said that this last group is now making a comeback.
via ‘Aliens have taken the place of angels’ | Film | The Guardian.
Margaret Atwood on speculative and science fiction. According to the comments on Reddit, her speculative-fiction novel Oryx and Crake [...]

Lactic acid is actually a fuel, not a caustic waste product. Muscles make it deliberately, producing it from glucose, and they burn it to obtain energy.
via Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles’ Foe, It’s Fuel – New York Times.

Chad Kirkpatrick – Witness to Beauty – DESIGN and PHOTOGRAPHY | Canon Tilt/Shift Lens Reviews.
Reviews of the new Canon 17 and 24 MkII TS-E lenses.

 
Robert Frank’s Elevator Girl Sees Herself Years Later : NPR
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Slice of Life: Taco in a Bag! — The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

Panasonic DMC-GF1 Hands on Preview: 1. Introduction: Digital Photography Review.
Could this be the camera that makes the Micro 4/3 system viable? It sure seems like it.

Italian luxury fashion house, Salvatore Ferragamo, will open its new store at The Shops at The Bravern in Bellevue on Saturday, September 12. The store will be the brand’s first store to open in the Northwest and will feature a wide assortment of women’s and men’s shoes, leather and silk accessories, sunglasses, fragrance, and handbags.
via [...]

YouTube – Jones’ Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage (2nd Spot).

This is infuriating: According to today’s New York Times, most low-wage workers in America are victims of routine theft. The thieves: wealthy employers, who steal on average 15% of their low-wage employees’ pay by routinely underpaying them for their work, according to a new report.
via This Is Why Workers Shoot Their Employers – By Mark [...]

I normally don’t let my battery run down too far I decided to see how far I could take it and, even with a bit of Live View thrown in and plenty of review and playback, I got 833 pictures on 1 charge in the 5D MkII. I still have about 1% battery left but [...]