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benben  ·  4572 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Americans Elect is dead.
I had the same process. I would throw in a couple of emails telling me I needed to register as a delegate again or something like that?! Very confusing process.
benben  ·  4572 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The TED Talk TED didn't want you to see [video]
You guys should read this: http://hubski.com/pub?id=30419 it gives some insight in to what happened.
benben  ·  4580 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How America really chooses its president
    unless we as a nation kick and scream it's not going anywhere
. this is an area that I think the Tea Party and the OWS movement could agree. I say we unite.
benben  ·  4580 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Gawker: Barack Obama’s [BS] Gay Marriage Announcement
I agree that having the POTUS say he is "for" gay marriage is a pretty big friggin' deal. Can you imagine Reagan or Carter saying such a thing? It's monumental.
benben  ·  4580 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lighsabers are almost real now
I'm salivating
benben  ·  4592 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NEWSFLASH: Breaking news on television is now nothing more than a joke
I hadn't realized. Thanks
benben  ·  4592 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
Enjoy, she's a really great artist imho.
benben  ·  4592 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Christopher Hitchens Remembered by Vanity Fair
I like that one too. I first heard it in the Big Lebowsi.
benben  ·  4597 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Christopher Hitchens Remembered by Vanity Fair
"I left my dick in San Francisco"

He was hilarious. I've seen some Hitchen's tributes but this one is the best I've seen.

benben  ·  4597 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
benben  ·  4597 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
I've always liked Fiona Apple. She disappeared for a while but when "Extraordinary Machine" was released, she came back with a vengeance. Great writer and performer.
benben  ·  4597 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You’re Welcome -- Couch-surfing the globe.
Have you ever utilized this? I have not, it reminds me of hitch hiking, which is something I've never done either. Seems sketchy.
benben  ·  4622 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: French cars can be badass too
Bad ass. Great style, incredibly sexy.
benben  ·  4622 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stop This Train!
Great article. I wish the Obama administration would have kept the focus on this after his election.
benben  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun
All I could find was this: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5670...

I'm pretty sure it was a TED talk. Sorry I couldn't be more specific.

benben  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lexington: One nation under gods | The Economist
I agree, it was a worth while read for me too. While I don't have your 20+ years of Economisting, I tend to enjoy their work more often than not.
benben  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This Is What Using Windows 8 Actually Looks and Feels Like
Then styluses it is. Reminded me of this post I read a while back http://hubski.com/pub?id=13943
benben  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun
I remember seeing a device that would allow you to project your voice in a way that you could talk to someone from very far away and nobody but that person would hear it.
benben  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Allen Buchanan, “Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves”
Sounds like an interesting read. This is your site, right? I like it. It actually renders well on my iPhone. I've been listening to some interviews while driving. Thanks
benben  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This Is What Using Windows 8 Actually Looks and Feels Like
Is it styluses or styli?
benben  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Allen Buchanan, “Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves”
Thanks, I'll check out stitcher and listen to the interviews that way. Appreciate it.
benben  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun
meaning encoding/decoding mechanism in the device?. I'll try to find it.
benben  ·  4649 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kim Dotcom’s first TV interview: ‘I’m no piracy king’
John Campbell: Kim, you say it was unexpected. Was it totally and absolutely unexpected, did you never, ever think that this would happen somewhere in the world at some time?

KD: Well, the business is seven years old. We have been sued only once, never by any, you know, movie company or big content company and we have spent millions of dollars on legal advice over the last few years and our legal advisers have always told us that we are secure and that we are protected by the DMCA which is a law in the US that is protecting online service providers of liability for the actions of their users, so it came completely unexpected.

I think it sincerely caught him off guard. What do you think?

benben  ·  4694 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stephen Colbert Explains His Super PAC's 'Mitt the Ripper' Attack Ad
"Is Mitt Romney a serial killer? I don't know, but that questions out there now".
benben  ·  4695 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Things nobody says by Tripp and Tyler.
This is hilarious.
benben  ·  4695 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why should you learn math? Because fuck you, that's why.
benben  ·  4706 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can Montana get away with defying the Supreme Court on Citizens United?
Montana, the last best place, the last best people state motto when I went to school at the University of Montana. I hope that they can go toe to toe with the ruling and at the very least propel it in to the national discourse during the election cycle.
benben  ·  4709 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: A tweak
I agree, it does have a "chill and mellow" vibe. I'm not sure who "Saydrah" is but they have not seemed to have a negative effect on the community from what I can see.
benben  ·  4713 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to grow morels
I am home in MI for the holiday. Last night my mother made a pot roast for dinner and in the gravy were morels she had gathered herself. She dries them and then reconstitutes them in the gravy. They are wonderful.

Morels have come to embody "home" for me. They, like Tigers basesball, Michigan football, the Great Lakes and canoe trips, are intrinsically "Michigan". It's good to be home.

benben  ·  4715 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pixar's Zoetrope
Wonderful example of the creative process.