When Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” won best documentary feature in February 2007, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research brought up an inconvenient truth of its own; the fact that Al Gore used 20 times more energy in his home than the average American household. Not wanting to be embarrassed, Mr. Gore went ahead and installed myriad energy saving devices, such [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Someone’s full of hot air…and I’m not talking about mother earth
Posted in Economics, tagged al gore, developing countries, Economics, economy, energy, environment, global warming on June 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Free Trade is *gasp* GOOD!
Posted in Economics, tagged drew carey, Economics, free trade, reason on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who-da-thunk-it? Drew Carey is the celebrity face of libertarianism these days (sorry John Stossel). I dig these videos a lot. Especially this one.
I wrote a paper that talked about this in college. It was called, “An economic case for open immigration.” Yeah, it was controversial.
A moment of VLC ZEN
Posted in geekspeak, tagged Darwin Streaming Server, VLC on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Quicktime live streaming video set up, with windows media support. Using a 256 kbit video stream (mp4v) and a 64 kbit audio stream (mp4a), using quick time broadcaster to stream to quicktime streaming server (open source) on the same local computer. Once that is set up, the local QTSS relays to a dedicated server [...]
