Heh-heh.
I already posted about FOX News’s Obama smear of last week, and Obama’s response.
So you’re up to speed on the story and now it is time to have one last laugh over the whole thing. Here’s Jon Stewart on the Daily Show the other night, discussing the incident:
Perhaps you’ve already seen this and are familiar with the campaign:
Know what I think? I think women do this more to look good for each other than to look good for men. Am I right?
I like her, but the singing needs some work…:
Apparently, SONY didn’t when they ran it in the Netherlands. Needless to say there was a public uproar and the ad campaign was pulled.
What were they thinking?!
Sad, sad story.
From the CNN site:
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Kentucky Derby-winning racehorse Barbaro has been put down after failing to recover from a shattered hind leg suffered in the Preakness Stakes last May.
Veterinarians had gone to great lengths to save the horse, which won the most famous contest in U.S. horse racing last year and was attempting to win the second leg of the sport’s triple crown when he pulled up lame.
Barbaro pulled up lame in his right hind leg in the early stages as millions of race fans watched on television.
Dean Richardson, chief of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, revealed that Barbaro suffered a significant setback in his long recovery.
The horse developed a deep abscess in his foot last week and underwent surgery on Saturday at the New Bolton Center.
Richardson, who performed the surgery, said the operation carried significant risk but that it was the best option for the horse, whose damaged leg had been placed in a skeletal fixation device to give the foot a chance to heal.
“We just reached a point where it was going to be difficult for him to go on without pain,” said owner Roy Jackson. “It was the right decision.”
Combined with the right hind leg he broke in three places during the race and the left hind leg that developed laminitis during treatment, the pain to the horse was too great to continue the extraordinary life-saving effort.
“He started to have changes in the front feet. Now we were dealing with all four feet. We were all concurrent on everything that we just didn’t want the horse to suffer. It’s a sad situation because we had some bright periods.”
Oops! I almost missed this.
The Mystery Writers of America have announced their nominees for best mysteries of the year, in a variety of categories. (Time to head over to Amazon and fatten up my “Wish List”).
Here’s their press release:
NEW YORK, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ — Mystery Writers of America is proud
to announce on the 198th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, its
Nominees for the 2007 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery
fiction, non-fiction, television and film published or produced in 2006.
The Edgar Awards will be presented to the winners at our 61st Gala Banquet,
April 26, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.
BEST NOVEL
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard (HarperCollins)
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Gentleman and Players by Joanne Harris (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
The Dead Hour by Denise Mina (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and
Company) The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard (Random House -
Ballantine Books)
The Liberation Movements by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
This is the first ten minutes of my son’s wedding video. YouTube has a feature where you can upload your own videos to a private area on their site–and thus not searchable, nor viewable to the public–and to which you can then hand out the address to friends and relatives that might wish to see your own childrens’ wedding, your baby’s first steps, your child’s first soccer goal. Pretty cool, huh? And I’m going to show you how.
First of all, my kudos to the videographer–who was “a friend of a friend” of Suzy’s, but who apparently does this kind of thing professionally (?) in Brazil, and donated his time and talent to this project. Secondly, as you can see he had amazing “access” to the ceremony. Thankfully, the minister was pretty laid back–I’m not sure most churches would allow so much meandering about during the ceremony. Personally, I didn’t even notice he was there.
Now, as to how: First, you go to YouTube and open an account. It’s free. Then you convert the video. I received it on a DVD-R in some kind of “VOB” format. I did a quick GOOGLE for “VOB to DivX converter” (“DivX” being a format that the instructions at YouTube suggested), and found and downloaded some free software. It is shareware, and I’ll pay for it if I use it again. [Edit: Oops! After initial conversion, there was a "watermark" all over the video, so I sprang for the registration--there might be free stuff out there if you look further than I did]. I converted the video to the new format and then uploaded it, per YouTube instructions, to my personal and “private” YouTube site. Voila!
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This is the first ten minutes of my son’s wedding video. YouTube has a feature where you can upload your own videos to a private area on their site–and thus not searchable, nor viewable to the public–and to which you can then hand out the address to friends and relatives that might wish to see your own childrens’ wedding, your baby’s first steps, your child’s first soccer goal. Pretty cool, huh? And I’m going to show you how.
First of all, my kudos to the videographer–who was “a friend of a friend” of Suzy’s, but who apparently does this kind of thing professionally (?) in Brazil, and donated his time and talent to this project. Secondly, as you can see he had amazing “access” to the ceremony. Thankfully, the minister was pretty laid back–I’m not sure most churches would allow so much meandering about during the ceremony. Personally, I didn’t even notice he was there.
Now, as to how: First, you go to YouTube and open an account. It’s free. Then you convert the video. I received it on a DVD-R in some kind of “VOB” format. I did a quick GOOGLE for “VOB to DivX converter” (“DivX” being a format that the instructions at YouTube suggested), and found and downloaded some free software. It is shareware, and I’ll pay for it if I use it again. [Edit: Oops! After initial conversion, there was a "watermark" all over the video, so I sprang for the registration--there might be free stuff out there if you look further than I did]. I converted the video to the new format and then uploaded it, per YouTube instructions, to my personal and “private” YouTube site. Voila!
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