April 22nd, 2005 §
From a Midsummer Night’s Dream to the urban streets, the Levi campaign is here.
When I wrote about it a couple months ago the campaign wasn’t airing yet: now it is, and it can be seen on the website. Check it out.
Pieces in a modern style: translation between Shakespeare’s words and Levi’s interpretation
- I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me.
- I can see what they’re up to, trying to freak me about my jeans
- Thou art changed! What do I see on thee?
- You look different. What sort of weird ass jeans are you wearing?
Levi Europe
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April 21st, 2005 §
Over at Pesky’Apostrophe, ‘mac’ discusses why estate taxes are a good thing, why the repeal of this sort of tax is not a bad thing; how it only affects those individuals with an estate valued over $1.5 million which amounts to just 2% of the population. By cutting out the $982 Billion that will come from the so called ‘death tax’, the state will struggle to continue paying for the $150 million spent in Iraq each day or the Billions each year that Medicare costs and will have trouble funding the myriad other income drains that face a country. The question really is, why would anyone want to repeal the estates tax? What is it that would be improved by not taxing the very most wealthy people just after they’ve died. This isn’t hurting working families, this hits the really really rich who can afford to pay just a little of their wealth.
But I’m open to ideas, I’m not entirely convinced.
More reading needed.
Pesky’Apostrophe
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April 21st, 2005 §
I’d been looking forward to running today. I’d done just over 200 situps and all the filler exercises that get me through the situps, which means something like 400 leg-raise things, around sixty pressups (my most hated activity) and so forth. I’d been held up by people ‘popping around’ and talking as well as random bits of web news that caught my eye. By the time I set out running I was itching for the exercise. After approximately three minutes of running, whilst turning a corner on some perfectly safe sidewalk, in front of two guys off to play football, I fell. I fell badly and sprained by ankle, for no reason other than the fact that my left foot landed oddly. And I’d been hoping for a fast time; this was making a mockery of those hopes. Click the image for a larger picture of how little of my desired distance I actually covered.
In red is the area that I ran from my house to the drop point. In blue is the rest of the area that I should have run, but somehow wasn’t allowed to by my foot. Not it’s lolling about on my desk, looking swollen and pleased with itself. Damn foot.
The image data is taken from Mapquest.
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April 21st, 2005 §
He particularly loved the first season of Paris Hilton’s The Simple Life. “You can watch that show for six hours,” Cohen says, “and your brain is still empty.”
Wired 13.01: The BitTorrent Effect
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April 21st, 2005 §
“”Oops! I Did It Again” was recorded in April 1932 in a Chicago studio, most likely Nearlie’s or West and Fourth. Cut for the Decca label by Louis Armstrong and elements of Zilner Randolph’s touring group, “Oops!” failed to make the chart impact of “All of Me” another side recorded in the same session, and soon fell out of print.”
Oops I Did It Again: The Original
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April 20th, 2005 §
“I would like to greet all those, including those who follow other religions … to reassure them that the church wants to continue with its open … sincere dialogue looking for the true good of man and of society.”
However, in a blow to the Catholic Church’s influence in it’s most economically powerful country, [according to CNN] “nearly three-quarters of American Catholics say they are more likely to follow their own conscience on “difficult moral questions,” rather than the teachings of the new pope, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll conducted after the pontiff’s election. Benedict XVI calls for unification of Christians
They say you’re a hard-line conservative, new pope Joseph Ratzinger (a.k.a. Benedict XVI) of Germany. Very old school and drab, a real lover of repressive, bitter, orthodox doctrine. No fun at parties. Catholic in chains. What glorious times of joy and progress the church is in for, millions now say, dejected sarcasm dripping from their once-hopeful mouths.
You know what we wanted? More sex. Love. Good TV. Gender freedom. Better wine. Less sneering doctrine and homophobia and sexism and more fun with condoms and music and spiritual joy. But, instead, we got you.
SFGate: Pointers for the new Pope
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April 20th, 2005 §
April 20th, 2005 §
But secretly just want some shared intimacy; their love a battle of wills.
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April 16th, 2005 §
All the other lyrics are wrong. I don’t know why it is, but all the sites hosting lyrics on the web appear to be keen to remove as much grammer from songs as is humanly possible. They take out the emphasis of words by annihilating all trace of descriptive puncutation and markings. When they write “your true beauty’s description” that means that your beauty is a description, whilst the actual lyric, saying “you’re true beauty’s description” means that you are the description of true beauty, a far more meaningful, touching and understandable sentance.
Mario:: Let Me Love You
…Listen
You’re true beauty’s description; looks so good that it hurts
You’re a dime plus ninety-nine and it’s a shame
Don’t even know what you’re worth
Everywhere you go they stop and stare
Cause you’re bad and it shows
From your head to your toes, Out of control, baby you know
If I was ya man (baby you’d)
Never worry bout (what I do)
I’d be coming home (back to you)
Every night, doin’ you right
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