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• Netflix: Still Running Rush Ads 

  zENithFisHstiX Permalink
  4:09 pm on 03/09/2012  

  According to Media Matters, Netflix ads ran yet again today (Friday) on Rush Limbaugh’s show, as they have all week. Either their ad agency is incompetent, or they didn’t get the memo.

  Netflix didn’t get around to making an announcement on Facebook, Twitter, or their own blog. They didn’t issue a press release. Just replied to emails with a claim that they “have instructed [their] advertising agency to make sure that this error will not happen again.”

  So, what gives?

  View Link [mediamatters.org]

• Vikings and Merry Men Lay Siege to JP Morgan Chase 

  zENithFisHstiX Permalink
  8:40 am on 05/17/2011  

  When National People’s Action decided to stage a protest at Chase’s shareholder meeting, they weren’t counting on finding a moat in their way (seriously – the enormous Chase building is surrounded by a moat).

  Fortunately for NPA, my wife’s medieval history degree suddenly became truly useful.

  Give ‘em hell, honey!

  View Link [flickr.com]

• PZ Myers: Kurzweil still doesn’t understand the brain 

  zENithFisHstiX Permalink
  9:18 am on 08/21/2010  

  [Y]ou can’t measure the number of transistors in an Intel CPU and then announce, “A-ha! We now understand what a small amount of information is actually required to create all those operating systems and computer games and Microsoft Word, and it is much, much smaller than everyone is assuming.” Put it in those terms, and the Kurzweil fanboys would laugh at him[...]

  View Link [scienceblogs.com]

• Sean Tevis unveils American Nations Plan 

  zENithFisHstiX Permalink
  11:05 am on 08/05/2010  

  Kansas congressional hopeful (and xkcd fan) Sean Tevis has An Awesome and Practical Plan to Re-Balance the U.S. Political System:

  “In 1982, world-famous economist Mancur Olson published a plan that would end unhealthy partisanship, reduce the effects of special interest groups, and fix Congress. There was no way it could be implemented back then. Now we can. This is how we’re going to do it.”

  View Link [seantevis.com]