February 2010
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WatchAbove is the Live USTREAM of Chilean TV with reports about today’s tragic, 8.8 earthquake. As I write a Tsunami is expected to strike Hawaii within 90 minutes. Live coverage from Hawaii News Now.
Update: This is ominous, the live “tv de chile” broadcast ended minutes after I posed.
Do you have a natural disaster story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether...
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Masters of the Econolypse
Rolling Stone issue 1099 arrived while I was flu-snookered last week. It’s the third issue received since my resubscribing after more than 25 years. Amazon made an offer I couldn’t refuse: Half-year subscription for a buck. The writing is better than ever, although a contributing editor wrote the best story—”Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle”. (If you see an...
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“On Sunday, Thérèse Rochette died from a heart attack at 55. Tonight, her...”
– —Scott Feschuk, Macleans Online
Do you have a triumph and inspiration story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail dot com.
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WatchRecently my wife attended a seminar in Las Vegas; she returned with a souvenir, Flip Flap, for our daughter. While sick with the flu last week, I made two quickie videos for testing purposes, using the Nokia N900 cell phone and Leica D-LUX 4 compact digicam. Because my wife so liked Flip Flap, the videos were a treat for her, too. I shot this video, edited with Apple’s iMovie, using the...
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Repeal McCarran-Ferguson Act
Today U Cal prof Robert Reich asserted: “Bust up the Health Insurance Trusts.” I made a similar call to action in August 2009 post: “America’s Health Insurance Cartels are the Problem.” Robert writes:
Astonishingly, the health insurance industry is exempt from federal antitrust laws, which is why a handful of insurers have become so dominant in their markets that...
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“Their home, meanwhile, which was originally valued at $585,000, had depreciated...”
– Attorney Wajahat Ali, describing part of the plight of a family facing home foreclosure.
Do you have home foreclosure story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail dot com.
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“It is estimated that every 14 days a language dies.”
– Microsoft press release “More Than 1 Billion Speakers of Endangered Languages Get Access to Technology”
[Joe says: I’m all for preserving culture, but, hell, they’re not endangered—cute as a button—baby seals. Endangered languages? Who writes these press releases?]
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The Bicycle Thieves
We rent half a garage to protect our bicycles, two of which someone stole sometime between Wednesday afternoon and Friday morning (Feb. 17th and 19th). The thieves got access to the garage and hacked through two Kryptonite HardWire cables. The thieves nearly cut through the Kryptonite Evolution Mini U-Lock protecting a third bike, presumably the prize of the three.
Timing of the theft clearly...