Recent video of Ahnold talking about the need to spice up the way we talk about infrastructure.

To loosely paraphrase, “C’mon! C’mon! We must have the big blockbustah, super powerful, nuclear, gigantic, molecular destructionating of our sewage systems! Get to the choppah! The choppah! I have Supah Powerful bricks with mortah! C’mon! Leesten to me! Leesten!”

Generally, I’m a huge fan of cinema. Then, tonight, I stumbled upon this incredibly captivating amateur video of a camera on a sushi restaurant conveyor belt. No acting, no editing, no production, and yet a remarkably revealing piece. Maybe we’re all just voyeurs who consume anything we’re presented with.

I really get caught up in the relativity of the piece. Are the people moving, or the camera? Yes, we know the actual answer, but functionally either could be true.

It’s a new month, and you know what that means… Only four days to Cinco de Marcho! I was damn near sure I’d made this term up until I googled it and saw the myriad web pages already devoted to said fake holiday. There are too many silly thinkers on the internet, I tells ya.

This is one of the clearest, most entertaining explanations of the credit crisis that I’ve seen this year. Via Daring Fireball.

But I swear that's what happened!

Fortunately Brandeis came to its senses about the Rose Museum kerfuffle a few weeks ago, but alumni just got a message from the president which was intended to “clear up some of the misconceptions surrounding these issues.”  I only bring it up here briefly because I get annoyed when other factors–meteors, locusts, a terrible flood–get blamed for something instead of the real culprit, in this case the administration itself.

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The original first track of the Beatles’ White Album was leaked on the internet this week by a popular music blog.

This particular version of Revolution 1 features many of the sound effects, loops, and improvs that have previously been associated with Revolution 9.

It’s amazing that something of this quality would sit in obscurity for over 40 years. Be grateful that the internet provides a portal to this sort of lost media treasure:

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The Meth Minute was one of my favorite internet-based series before cartoonist Dan Meth moved onto bigger and better things. Here’s a short piece relaying the dangers of doing your taxes while on psychedelics.

I think most people know that freecreditreport.com masquerades as a free services while signing you up for a credit card ding every month for a special “monitoring” plan. But few people sing about it…

There is a reason that Ron Paul is the High Chancellor of the Internet. The man exudes common sense. Here is an elected US official (and a Republican, at that) who makes no assertions that aren’t backed up by common sense, evidence, and historical precedent. Say what you will about Libertarians, but this one has some damn near impenetrable logic. The Obama administration needs to make more use out of this figure as soon as possible.

In this clip on the Real Time with Bill Mahr (via The Raw Story), he tells us why we need to end the War on Drugs.

Feel free to fast forward to four minues into this clip:

Timeless.