Re: Converting Vinyl to CDs

Crosley Radio also has some turntables pretty cheap that record LPs to CDs. And they look pretty cool, too.

Atheists go to the movies, or try to

The American Atheists are convening in Minneapolis this weekend. Apparently some of them, including Richard Dawkins, attended a screening of the movie Expelled, the Ben Stein anti-evolution flick, at the theater at the Mall of America. A University of Minnesota-Morris biology professor, P.Z. Myers, was part of the movie-going group and was asked to leave. Here is his account of the episode, published on his website "Pharyngula: Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal".

Re: Peck

I call bs again. Read this.

Re: Re: Albums

Yes, Stephanie I still have almost all of my old vinyl. They are at my parents house in a closet in boxes. I haven't looked thru them in forever. I don't play vinyl anymore (don't even have a turntable), but I also don't want to get rid of them (why, I don't really know).

At one point, my "plan" was to gradually replace them with cd's, but my tastes were so eclectic and exotic that many of them still aren't easily available. I also have a feeling that if I were to listen to them these days, I would find many of them unlistenable crap.

Ambassador Peck and his chickens

So big surprise. When viewed in context, Rev. Wright's "chickens coming home to roost" comment seems pretty benign. Sam Stein at Huffington Post details the whole thing. Rev. Wright was referencing Ambassador Edward Peck, a retired, white, career U.S. diplomat who served 32-years in the U.S. Foreign Service and was chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq under Jimmy Carter. Be sure to watch the video clip. Violence begets violence was the point.

Re: albums

What am I, chopped liver? Does LJ have Long John Baldry's It Ain't Easy?

I certainly bow to LJ but My vinyl is still taking up too much room.

Albums

LJ, do you still have your album collection? I recall, from the day I met you 25+ years ago, that it was substantial.

Re: Copyright Permission

Wouldn't one first get a "cease and desist" and opportunity to delete the image or to complete reprint of text? I hope my hero Walter E. Williams would give me the chance to correct before he comes after me.

Spring Wonderland

I would complain about winter hanging on, but it was just too gorgeous today. We got 4-6 inches of snow overnight. This is a huge wooded area by the river where dogs are allowed off leash. Camera battery gave out before I got to the best part, the Mississippi River Gorge where the river runs beneath rocky cliffs. Karma the Dog swam in the river a bit, much to her surprise, when she followed another dog into the water for a stick.

Since I'm the only one who had to work today...

The view (from left to right, and I know, I still have to figure out the camera) from Scooter's office:

Re: Barry's con

All of the continued Barry-bashing seems to presume that Wright spent all of every sermon spewing the kind of things that are presented in the 30-60 seconds of clips we've been seeing.  There's no sign that that was the case.  The services at TUCC were broadcast live every week and rebroadcast many times during the week.  Trinity is a congregation within the UCC denomination that is 99% white.  Had UCC found Wright's sermons objectionable, they would have canned him.  

Barry's con?

As usual Krauthammer says it best: "Why did you give $22,500 just two years ago to a church run by a man of the past who infects the younger generation with precisely the racial attitudes and animus you say you have come unto us to transcend? "

Copyright permission

My episode with the City of Minneapolis maps illustrates a useful copyright pointer.  You can often get permission to use material that's protected by copyright.  

Thanks to Scooter for catching my illicit use. 

There are statutory damages for copyright infringement of $50,000 per occurrence, so the fact that one doesn't make money off use of infringing material doesn't insulate one from having to pay out.  (It's a factor in determining if a use is "fair", but it's not determinative.) 

Re: Foreclosure maps

With persmission? Explain please.

Sir Thomas More dead, again

RIP.

That woman on the toilet?

"I don't want to make light of this, but if a woman ever allowed me to sit on the toilet for two years and brought food and water to me to permit such a thing, I'd marry her. Just mount a flat-panel tv opposite the can and I'm alll good."

BigDog

Truly incredible robo-thing. Stay with the video at least to the middle where robo-thing slips on the ice and almost falls down, but doesn't. Via Ace.

Poll

I voted three times (once from the office, once from my laptop stealing a neighbor's WIFI, and once from the home PC) so the poll is looking better.

Copyright law for bloggers

You're not going to get me to spend my day off writing about copyright law. But I found this list of tips on copyright for bloggers that looks accurate and useful.

There's no distinction between text and images, by the way. But because it can be acceptable to use a portion of a copyrighted work, it's easier to make acceptable use of text, where you can use a small piece of a larger work, than of a photo where you're typically copying the whole of a photo.

Re: Picasso of asininty

Scooter: it's worth linking. I've said before that I've found the right much more willing to think about the big issues than the left.