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A new vaccine that protects against cervical cancer has set up a clash between health advocates who want to use the shots aggressively to prevent thousands of malignancies and social conservatives who say immunizing teen-agers could encourage sexual activity.
If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.
Sphere: Related ContentTVgasm - But Can They Sing?: Flat-Out Awesome
Make sure you check out Bai Ling’s “Like a Virgin”. Its truly spectacular. (SPOILER ALERT: She. Can’t. Sing.)
A hummer that got high centered on the safety rail that keeps pedestrians from falling onto the highway below the overpass. The 280 South Mariposa exit at 18th and Pennsylvania is notorious. People wreck on it about every 2 months. Only 3 times have I seen a car get high centered though. Pretty funny (since everyone was all right).
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I keep seeing ads for Wasabi Tuna during The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Looks like fun. Anything that has Alana Ubach and Anna Nicole Smith is on my list of must-haves.
Sphere: Related ContentBeen trying to figure out how to get my own DVDs to my iPod. The right stuff is called HandBrake, and take a look at this easy tutorial. Note: Don’t use the AVC/H.264 encoding (as logic would suggest). Use MPEG-4 Video / AAC Audio. iTunes will import it and spit it back to your video enabled iPod without complaint.
Sadly, I have run across instances of DVDs that have multiple episodes, but which HandBrake reads as a single file. The entire thing is ripped into a single chunk. This wouldn’t be horrible, except that the audio disappears after the first episode. Grr.
Whatever. I have entertainment on the go, and that makes me happy.
Sphere: Related ContentI recently discovered an awesome, addictive podcast called Fox and the City on the new Yahoo! podcasts site. It’s the work of a poet/comedian/artfag named Ragan Fox, and I highly recommend it. It spans news commentary, queer issues, politics, and lots and lots of general offensiveness and fun. Ragan’s site is Raganfox.com.
He occasionally has a guest named Rachel Kann, and they do great show together. They have spun off a new show called Eat Bird! that features the two of them doing their general snarkiness. The most recent episode (Eat Bird! Episode 6) was a Rachel-only show. The first half was more or less repulsive (read the episode description), but near the end she plays one of her songs - a spoken word piece that fucking rocks. Rachel’s site is Inspirachel.com.
Sphere: Related ContentIt’s heavenly. I finally have my entire music collection + my entire photo collection + about 30G left over for videos.
I only successfully encoded one video, and it took a long time. I was using something called Handbrake to copy and encode a DVD. It doesn’t seem to be able to handle a DVD with multiple files. I fed it Family Guy Season 1 and it only got the first episode off the disk. And it created an mp4 which the iPod didn’t like. I had to use QuickTime Pro to export it to an m4v, and that took a long time too.
It will take awhile to get the hang of it I suppose. BitTorrent is looking attractive, since it will probably take less time to download something than it would be to rip and encode it off of a DVD (OF MEDIA I ALREADY OWN OF COURSE)
Anyway, it was delightful watching the premiere episode of Family Guy on Caltrain this morning on the way to work.
Sphere: Related ContentMiers Withdraws Under Mounting Criticism
Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats accused him of bowing to the “radical right wing of the Republican Party.” - from SFGate
Politics make strange bedfellows. A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer.
What’s truly annoying is that this predictable event is overshadowing Fitzmas. My Fitzmas present will be an addition of Smoking Gun mugshots to my already inflammatory desktop picture (a smiling Tom Delay).
Roche Suspends Tamiflu Shipments to U.S.
Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding AG said Thursday it had temporarily suspended shipments of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to wholesalers and other private sector recipients in the United States to ensure that enough treatments will be available for the regular influenza season. - also from SFGate
I’m not exactly a communist, but drug patents piss me off.
I am in a design orientation training for my new job all day today. It’s only 830am, and I suspect I will be outraged (or at least annoyed) by many things today
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