Test from Duffs Small Engine

Google Voice let's you embed voicemails into a website, like that's necessary. Still, it's geeky cool, and here's a shout for Duffs Small Engine out on Hwy 41, thanks for fixing my mower:

New Site in progress

It's still in the womb, but I needed to add a link to it, and this place works.
No, I'm not replacing the watts4u2 blog, this is a new site featuring my 3D and normal photography services. It's a mess, any suggestions are welcome!
https://sites.google.com/site/wattsonline/

The Winter of Hate

You remember the Summer of Love? Well, we have a new counterculture on our hands, and Glenn Beck is the new Abbie Hoffman. Check out Michael Lind's piece in Salon. A fascinating look at how the tables have been turned and the right is now the counterculture. And they're even stupider than the left was when they were the counterculture.... it's like they don't even know it!
I think Glenn Beck is crazy, sloppy with his facts, and he clings to a reality that is different from yours & mine. He's a PT Barnum-style huckster for 21st century politics. A Merry Prankster?

Catch the Buzz with Obama

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I know some folks don't like Obama always blaming Bush, but c'mon, sometimes things like this chart make it painfully clear... The stimulus bill worked, and Obama is doing a good job. I know that disappoints a lot of folks out there, but there you go!

Check this out - Organizing for America
Wondering what the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has accomplished? Check this out:
This chart is clear. We know we have a long way to go, but we are on the road to recovery.Delete

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Not sure about the Buzz yet, but it sounds a heck of a lot better than Twitter, am I right?

Obama Takes All Comers

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/us/politics/30obama.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

I encourage all my friends to watch the video.... most fascinating political exchange in my memory.  I hope we get more opportunities for open debate like this.  Well done!

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What a Story

Amid the sorrow in Haiti, there are some amazing stories, and this is perhaps the most riveting 3:50 I've ever seen on the Nightly News, from Bill Neely of ITN.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Time Test. Commercial Pain

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1952317,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

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Shots from (near)Space for $150

Gizmodo pointed me to these MIT students who launched a camera to near space with a balloon for $150. Almost 18 miles high! They used a Canon point & shoot running CHDK software to take the photos. This is the same software that allows me to use my Canon SD1000s for 3D pictures. Cool!
Check these guys out. I only wish the camera had pointed down more. FF to about the 2:40 mark to see the balloon pop and descend. That's less boring.

Shape Collage Try-Out

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Testing

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Lindsey Graham Gets a Taste of Tea Bag

SC Senator Lindsey Graham (capital R) got a taste of the tea-bagger medicine at a recent town hall meeting. Lunatic fringe anyone?
From Alternet:

"Angry attendees in the crowd interrupted Graham with cries of, 'You're a country club Republican,' 'Sotomayor!,' and 'You lie.' Outside the event, right-wing activist Julliet Kozak picketed the town hall with a sign decrying all 'Unconstitutional Anti-Christ Socialist Federal Deficit Spending Programs.'"

Brad Johnson, meanwhile, collected reactions to Graham from prominent far-right blogs, where the South Carolinian has been called a "fake Republican," "RINO" (Republican in name only), a "traitor," "disgrace," "asshat," "democrat in drag," and a "wussypants, girly-man, half-a-sissy."

It's worth taking a moment to acknowledge Lindsey Graham's voting record here. The right is livid about his vote to confirm Sotomayor and his support for reforming U.S. energy policy, among other things. But given the apoplexy, one might think Graham had suddenly moved to the center. He hasn't.

In the always-helpful VoteView analysis, Graham is the 83rd most conservative senator in the current Congress, meaning only 17 senators are to his right. Graham is not only more conservative that most of the Senate, he's more conservative than most Republicans."

Museum in Australia Features My 3D Picture

The Museum of Tropical Queensland in Australia is featuring one of my 3D anaglyph photos in their new Train exhibition.

This is one of my older single-camera pictures, not the best 3D I've done, but hey, I'll take it. Thanks!

Crazy for God

I've been wanting to read Frank Shaeffer's book "Crazy for God", especially after reading an article like this on Alternet (read the whole thing):

"We might actually be able to change the conversation in America about religion.

Is that important? Yes, like it or not religion will not go away. It motivates the worst in the American psyche and some of the best too. It is Joe Wilson's religion of hate but it also motivated Martin Luther King Jr.

Perhaps a generation from now the image of a typical Christian won't be a hate-monger like James Dobson but rather a lover of peace such as Bishop Desmond Tutu, or a literary giant like John Updike, and yes, a President Obama.

The only real answer to the hijacking of Christianity by the Religious Right, the longevity of religion-based racism, and the backward and inward looking movement we now call "American Christianity" is not to talk everyone out a having faith but rather to fight for the humane and ancient thread found within the Christian tradition. Blaming everything on race is too easy."

My MINI

IMGP9579j, originally uploaded by Watts4.

It's all about saving the planet ;-)