The Bug, the Worm and the Death Star
Cute article about insider names for logos. Reminds me of something I often say, whatever it is that you create/design, someone somewhere thinks it looks like something that they’re familiar with already.

I’m happy to be a part of the launch of Maryland MilFamily, a new career searching site built to help Military families in Maryland, and the surrounding areas, find a career.

We just finished watching King Corn. Description:

“Two recent college grads discover where America’s food comes from when they plant a single acre of corn and follow it from the seed to the dinner plate. With the help of government subsidies, genetically modified seeds and powerful herbicides, America’s most-subsidized crop becomes the staple of its cheapest – and most troubling – foods.”

I highly recommend this movie if you care even the slightest bit about what you and your family ingests on a daily basis. This isn’t a left wing, hippie, fight the power movie, not that I’d care if it was – but it’s a honest look at an industrialized crop that has taken over in the past thirty plus years. There is quite a lot of useful, enlightening and troubling information here that an informed American should be aware of.

If you have Netflix you can watch it on demand: King Corn on Netflix

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The Blackboard Blogger of Monrovia
“Alfred Sirleaf is an analog blogger. He take runs the “Daily News”, a news hut by the side of a major road in the middle of Monrovia. He started it a number of years ago, stating that he wanted to get news into the hands of those who couldn’t afford newspapers, in the language that they could understand.”

With all of the hysteria over David Letterman’s joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter I’d like to remind people of John McCain’s crude remark about Chelsea Clinton, when she was 13 years old.

“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”
– Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.

Rush Limbaugh had a go a Chelsea’s expense as well.

Can we all agree that it’s time to admit that automatic faucets don’t work properly? You know, the ones you wave your hand in front of and eventually water comes out, for one second. Can we just scratch what we’ve acheived in this particular field thus far and try something new? If not, perhaps looking at alternative ways to harness the power of all of the arms fluttering in vain across the public bathrooms of the world would be a worthy undertaking.

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Debunking Canadian health care myths