Theatre

A blog post about consensus decision-making -
http://mollymew.blogspot.com/2008/02/cats-meow-issues-surrounding-consensus.html
with a link to a web forum discussion about this.

Remarks from the blog post author - 
The consensus model is "an open invitation for ... personal manipulation."  "It is also totally inappropriate where the issues being discussed are of any real importance and especially where there are real political differences that don't deserve to be argued into a false oblivion, only to resurface later (often at the very second when exhausted participants finally and mercifully exit the stage of the all too long meeting). In addition to this it gives huge power to salaried 'professional leftists' and those amongst us with no jobs nor family (and with exceedingly strong bladders ie coffee drinkers are penalized)."

***Parental guidance on this one - not safe for children***

My stomach hurts from laughing. This type of logic and fear mongering is used by extremists, here in North America, to convert all those unenlightened souls - including "those who have their own religion".

A Letter From Hell (6min.)

- disclaimer - to my christian friends, presenting this video is not intended to attack christianity as a whole, just to point out the crazies who seem to be rapidly expanding and upping the anti on their recruiting processes. All religions have their extremists.

I caught a little snippet in the London Free Press the other day about a video on youtube that has been getting a lot of attention as of late and decided to investigate a little.

The video, uploaded by a prison worker in Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, Philippines, shows about 1,500 inmates doing a choreographed dance routine to Michael Jackson's "Thriller".

...and it's actually quite good.

The CPDRC stars (many in jail for drug charges) have become quite popular on Youtube and have done several other videos, a few to the music from Whoopi Goldberg's "Sister Act", a Japanese algorithm march and even one to the Black Eyed Peas!!  read more »

Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University made a short film about copyright laws and fair use.  The title is A Fair(y) Use Tale and it entirely out of small clips from Disney cartoons.

You can download a higher quality copy from the link above.  read more »

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YouTube videos: 
"bike kill" part 1
"bike kill" part 2 
The New York Black Label Bicycle Club in action.

Some of you will enjoy these.  I found them interesting and amusing (with the exception of the Jack Ass and 'smash shit up' aspects of the videos.)

The videos reminded me of the 'Free' Press talk, awhile back, about "rogue cyclists"