News Sources

I really wasn’t sure I should post this, but I almost feel I have no choice. I stumbled across this the other day after reading an article on Memri by Saudi Human and Women’s Rights Activist Wajeha Al-Huwaidar on how a large portion of Middle East population views women. Wajeha said this vid was from Iraq, but after a little more digging I learned it was from Syria. Allegedly the 17-year-old girl was beaten and stoned to death for ‘falling in love” with a young man who did not belong to her particular sect or family/social group. Whatever. This is quite possibly the most brutal thing I have ever seen. Watch it at your own risk. I really have no comment on this vid, draw your own conclusions. I think it’s best that way.

For some reason I clicked over to the Huffington Post this morning. I’m not much for the politic you know, so for the most part I tend to avoid these kind of blogs like a botfly. Oh! Now I remember why I pinged over. The main yahoo news page ‘news.yahoo.com‘ lists the Huffington Post as one of their default news sources. Right. Well anyway, some story caught my eye so I clicked over to HP central. One thing lead to another and I ended up clicking on a story written by Alex Baldwin. Sure he’s kinda cute, if you go for that sort of thing… He’s not a horrible actor. But I gotta’ tell you, and it’s really, really unfortunate, this man can NOT write. It’s almost, well no, I take that back, it is embarrassing, I am honestly embarrassed for him, reading his post. Politics, be what they may, and I don’t give a damn about which side of the cacophony he rests on, His writing is just embarrassingly bad. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no J.D. Salinger, hell I’m not even a O.J. Simpson. But what the hell are they thinking over there at the Huffington Post, if in fact they do! Who is behind editorial. Do they just give their friends jobs or hand out assignments to the cutest Hollywood talking head because people know their name, or their views fit into Huffington Post cleanly boxed in political world view? I’m sorry, Mr. Baldwin may be a great guy and a hell of an actor, he may be great in the sack or he could even be correct in his political viewpoint…. but he can’t farking write. Instead of writing, maybe he should just stick to voicemail. Was that a cheap shot? Sorry.

Oh, I’m trying a new bloggin application. Qumana. It’s open source, it’s ‘free’ and It’s ok. If you wanna give it a look, click here. But my favorite application of all time, well at least this week, is WriteRoom.What the hell is that thing? Well, it’s an OSX only application, so sorry Windows users (but I hear a PC application that is very similar is available called DarkRoom). This little app turns your candy, lickable Mac OSX interface into essentially something that looks like an old terminal text editor? Why would you want this? Heh. Well, some folks claim that they love it cause it’s distraction free. Me, I think I like it because it’s just so damn obvious. Unfortunately the ‘newer’ version is $24.95, as opposed to the ‘old’ 1.0 version which was free, as in beer. I’m still using the formerly free version. I just love this silly ass thing, and it’s actually damn usefull. Sooooo…. what is 25 bucks gonna get me? For god’s sake, it’s a little application that turns your vector delicious mac into a two color terminal text editor. Not sure if the free version is still available. Might wanna do some searching if you fall in love with the 2.0ish demo and just can’t live without it. Or fork over the 24.95, I’m sure the developer is a great guy!