I gave the guy in the red Hummer a dirty look as I rode by….on my bike…with three layers of clothing so I wouldn’t loose circulation in my body and brain. Now, I know making a point to tell people you ride a bike instead of using a car is kinda like going up to a smoker and incessantly coughing in front of them. Namely, it's annoying as fuck, and doesn't really do much except make the people who you're trying to make a point for recoil against whatever it is you're representing.
Still, there are just too many nut-numbing facts kicking us in the balls on the daily. One, Americans use up more natural resources per capita than anyone else on the planet. We drive our cars and get our lattes and load tons of processed sugar in them or whatever, then drive to work, getting fatter, unhealthier, breathing in shit air that we're simultaneously making shittier…then carving out time to drive to the gym to get exercise… I know there are a lot of terrible, TERRIBLE drivers on the road, but instead of playing the gas-pollution-fat-high fructose-time waste game, why don't more of us ride a bike, limiting your carbon expenditure and getting in shape at the same time?

Or am I just dumb?

Bloomberg.com: Bush proposes to cut gasoline consumption by 20 Percent

Riddle me this.

Or just have your parents buy this shit for you. Apple CEO Steve Jobs had his keynote address today during the Macworld Conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. What new super-product is in store for us humble consumers? How about the iPhone. I guess people are tired of carrying their phone and ipod along with keys and wallet. Apple is attempting to realistically merge the phone and music player together to make some crazy new bastard child. The new iPhone is less than half an inch thick, has a “revolutionary” touch screen, headphone jack, SIM card slot, etc. etc. Sounds pretty fancy Apple, keep up your super advertising campaign and we will do whatever you want us to. No price or release date was given. Also announced was Apple TV. For $299 you get a 40 Gig, wireless, Intel charged box that sends video from your computer to your TV. Obviously this is only the hardware that will push the big bucks through Apple’s movie downloading service. Think you are addicted to downloading music? Just wait until you cant stop getting every movie made by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Swamp Donkey says: YouTube is Stepping Their Game Up

YouTube’s “Test Tube” team has released a beta version of Streams. YouTube Streams is basically an amateur soft-core porn outlet for millions of people world wide. It allows you to have one browser window load different videos of the same topic in queue. So by the time you’re finished watching the first movie, the second one will already be loaded. Another great thing about Streams is the chat window next to the video. The chat window is filled with YouTubers that are watching the same video!

My favorite channel is the Lolita Strip Tease Channel*. It is full of horny internet viewers just like me and you. What better people to chat with while you’re spanking it to girls in their bras and thongs dancing to songs the radio plays four times every hour?

Check it out before YouTube gets slapped with another lawsuit.

*Since the 5 minutes it took me to post this message, the channel has been shut down.

(note: Spoiler Warning. Be forewarned. And I may ramble on a bit. Again, be forewarned )

I remember how excited I was when I first heard of A Scanner Darkly’s impending release on the big screen. I, along with at least 200 other people, eagerly anticipated the film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s drug-mired future dystopia. (The film ended up grossing $391,672 its opening weekend….not stellar numbers by any means).

While a great number of the film’s enthusiasts got on board because of their appreciation for Philip K. Dick’s writings, I was not among them. Like every nerd, science fiction holds a dear place in my heart, but over the last decade I’ve not cracked open a science fiction novel, save rereading a few classic favorites (you can’t front on Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land or Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange). My nerdliness taking a shift towards music & art rather than Dungeons & Dragons, and never being a particular fan of Dick’s writing in the first place, I was on board because of a particular name attached to the film. And this name was not a part of A Scanner Darkly’s leading cast — all in their real lives inextricably linked to delinquency and drug-usage (Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder) or, failing that, dumb-as-dirt-ness (Keanu Reeves) — but instead, the film’s director and screenwriter, Richard Linklater.

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soon (very soon) the magnificent splendor of the new Chico park will wane, allowing for the transients and drug peddlers to reconvene. Then, and only then, will this camera provide hours of voyeuristic entertainment…..

Senator Theater Tower Network Camera