Smaller & Smaller Eats ....or...Turkey Crap

Wired Science has a great article (surprise!). This one's about micro-algae breeding. It's very dense stuff. ...the algae.

Contrast with this article. I saw a Dirty Jobs episode where they were manually inseminating the turkeys because they are too big to have traditional turkey sex (The turkeys, not the guys inseminating the turkeys. The damned guys wouldn't stop! ...YES! it was turkey semen and it's also disgusting that you would think to ask!).

That was a hilarious episode of Dirty Jobs. It turns out a turkey's reproductive organs are right beside their waste dispensary. They (the turkeys) have a very common defense mechanism: They shoot crap when grabbed by the legs and turned upside down to have semen squirted into them with a plunger. Go figure, it's not just the horses that hate it! Then again, the horses might be complaining about the use of turkey semen. We'll have to have the lab look into that.

Re-use

Here's a great article about "repurposing" AKA reusing something for something other than its original Reason for Being. My favorite is the CD case reused as a cable organizer and also as a sandwich holder/storage container.

Let's go Brazilian!

I'm talking about ethanol fuel here. There are plenty of other great things about Brazil (AKA Brasil), but I'll talk about those things another time.

Before watching this video I was "on the fence" in regards to whether I was convinced in the economic and overall environmental benefits of the United States making the move to ethanol. I now think it's not a matter of whether we should move to ethanol or not, but rather what percentage of each type of ethanol generating items should be included in the move to ethanol.

So here's the scoop:
The guy who helped create Sun Systems & the Java programming language, Vinod Khosla, started a venture capitalist organization and his main focus in recent years has been bio-fuel production.

This video is about an hour long in total but the main "meat" of the idea is in the first 20-30 minutes.

It's worth noting that this presentation was given in 2006 just before Prop 87 was put on the ballot in California and was subsequently defeated. Another key point I would like to make is the current price of oil is, in fact, hovering around the critical $35/barrel price tag that would make ethanol less profitable than petrol/gas.

I have been to Brazil and used both gas (petrol) and ethanol (alcohol) in the same car while there. There was a slightly noticeable decline in acceleration with ethanol but the price difference far outweighed the compromise in performance.

At a time when the Federal government has the U.S. auto industry by the short-&-curlies and Obama will be in charge of making the call of whether or not they are economically viable (not that I agree with that concept, but there it is...), a critical point ought to be that ALL new vehicles be compatible with ethanol and gasoline. It's a simple and inexpensive (approximately $100 per auto) procedure on the assembly line and the Brazilians have already been there for over 20 years. Let's join them.

7 minutes will open your Economic mind

Here's one of the best (and simplest) explanations of current and past economic policies that left & right presidents have employed. If you are excited about the current "change" in presidents, this may curb your enthusiasm and bring you back to reality.

Auto Czar & Auto Bailout...short & sweet

This proposal by our Federal Government is, my fellow Americans, by dictionary definition, Socialism which is a tenant of Marxism. Marxism = Communism. J. Edgar Hoover (douche-nozzle that he was in many respects) is rolling over in his grave. At least he's dead and doesn't have to see this happening first hand like the rest of us Capitalists. Misdirected use of profits have been an ongoing problem with US automakers. Their competitors have maintained a much better position partially because of their reinvestment of profit back into their product.

Thanks a lot UAW! The profits of old have been spread wide and thin!

Bill Hicks = Great Messages

If you start to watch and want to stop, please just skip to the last 1.5 to 2 minutes. He always ended his shows with this concept and would still do so to this day if not for his unfortunate, early death at the age of 32 from pancreatic cancer.

Peter Schiff highlights...Peter at his best!

Nonconformist

"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity."
-Bill Vaughan

Bill Maher & Religulous

Religulous was a great movie and not offensive to the degree anticipated by some of my Christian friends. In fact, he's pretty much dead-on in terms of doctrine (for whatever that's worth).

For those who have not seen it, I’ve put together this list of YouTube videos to provide a little more insight into and also introduce you to the movie Religulous. The trailer does not count as an introduction and if you don’t believe that, after watching the 11 minute interview, check out the last link at the bottom of this email where a couple of guys bash the movie based on the trailer (yes, I think they are actually serious).

Soooo…This is the best interview I’ve found.

It’s 11 minutes long and features Bill Maher & the director (who also directed Borat):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeN2q3bA2xQ

Enjoy!
-Eric

Here are some more if you’re interested:

1. Great interview in general with Craig Ferguson –

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErD1WK99Kg8

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-47i46lKv30

2. An overall good interview and thorough. Part 1 (9 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UieI2A3DMCM

3. Part 2 (4 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxd6ycBmD0 (I can send you a link to the Real Time episode referenced as a plug at the end of this clip if you’d like. That was a pretty solid episode.)

4. A sterile introduction to Bill:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHH2JItePlc

5. Interview on The View (Whoopi Goldberg has some good comments at the end) :

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkfPZnyMaEY&feature=related

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCrPWWqNl1I&feature=related

6. Bill talking about Religulous on Larry King Live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CWiASiqDdU

7. Renegade filming tactics discussed in this radio interview with Bill & Larry (director):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ZDBmMiTsQ

BONUS FUN:

These guys watched the trailer for the movie and are supporting a boycott of the movie (for their own reasons...):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02CRWsfxQdE