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Ad-Jamming Coca-Cola over their support of the Tibet torch relay: Vote for the winners!

Published by Yuletide on May 23, 2008 in FUCKERS!. 0 Comments

“Is this the ‘Coke Side Of Life’?” Ad Jam Competition

We received so many creative submissions to SFT’s “Is this the Coke Side of Life?” Ad Jam competition that the staff at SFT Headquarters simply couldn’t agree on a winner. We ended up totally deadlocked!

That being said, you can’t have a contest without having a winner, right? So, we’re leaving it up to YOU to choose the winner.

That’s right, the results of this contest are in your hands. Check out the jams and vote for your favorite.

Voting Instructions:

1) Click on the links below to view submissions:

View Coke Videos

View Coke Graphics

2) Once you view all submissions and would like to vote click on:

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITES

Voting ends on Thursday May 29th.

Winners will be announced on Friday May 30th 6pm EDT on SFTtv

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The Raw Story | Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in ‘God’s standards’

Published by Yuletide on January 17, 2008 in Asides, FUCKERS!, Links and Politics. 0 Comments Tags: , .

So, apparently Mike Huckabee wants to fix the constitution… so it lives up to his God’s standards. Right…

[From The Raw Story | Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in 'God's standards']
… O_o

Pizza Politics

Published by Yuletide on January 8, 2008 in Funny and Politics. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Finally, someone with the guts to say what we’ve all been thinking. If only our political commentators were as insightful as those who write on pizza…

This info has been out there since late last month, but it’s yet another reason why Mitt Romney may not have carried Iowa in the Republican caucus last night. The man must have alienated the pizza partisans in the Hawkeye State:

[From Slice: Did the Politics of Pizza Sink Romney's Iowa Bid?]

 

And from the original article linked to from the above blog post:

I just can’t imagine the American people electing as president someone who does that to pizza. I’m not saying a president has to have a special knack for eating pizza - what you call “pizza talent” - but he or she has to respect the pizza, and look comfortable with it.

[From Iowa Journal: A Very Foggy Campaign - Achenblog]

Signs of progress and setbacks in addressing climate change at… (kottke.org)

Published by Yuletide on December 25, 2007 in Environment and Politics. 0 Comments Tags: .

Great quote from Big Al.

Signs of progress and setbacks in addressing climate change From Al Gore’s Nobel lecture: (New Yorker via kottke.org)

However, despite a growing number of honorable exceptions, too many of the world’s leaders are still best described in the words Winston Churchill applied to those who ignored Adolf Hitler’s threat: “They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.”

So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer. And tomorrow, we will dump a slightly larger amount, with the cumulative concentrations now trapping more and more heat from the sun.

Nude Pictures of Bosnian Genocide, WTF?!

Published by Yuletide on August 13, 2007 in FUCKERS!. 0 Comments

Ok, according to the wordpress.com traffic analyzer, 2 hits on August 5th, 2007 came from people searching for “Nude Pictures of Bosnian Genocide”. WTF?

METAL MAPS

Published by Yuletide on April 19, 2007 in Energy, Environment, Geography and Metal. 0 Comments

I’m working on a mapping project for a cartography class. To map METAL around the world, and investigate its distribution. I’ve already compiled a list of all the countries which have bands listed on http://metal-archives.com (my main source of primary data thus far) and calculated a preliminary METAL RATIO, which is basically population divided by # of metal bands. While far from perfect, it certainly gets things to within an order of magnitude. Also, its clearly skewed by reporting error (internet connectivity is quite high in scandinavia, for instance). But still, the data remains useful.

I’m also putting out a request for anyone who has data I could use in this project. I’ve tried contacting the people at metal-archives.com to no avail, so I just scraped the data by hand. Ideally I’d like an excel spreadsheet (or at least an sql dump) of any kind of relevant music data with geographic relationships (music industry data, album sales, all that is good too). Also interesting would be user demographics for the popular metal forums and sites, though so far the responses have been so lacking on the forums I’ve tried I’m not hopeful anything will come up (at least for now, maybe things will change once I start posting the maps themselves).

random aside:

[posted with ecto]

OH, and as if we didn’t need more reasons to love Norway:
From USA Today: Norway aims to be carbon neutral by 2050

OSLO, April 19 — Norway wants to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 in the world’s toughest national plan for fighting global warming, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.
He said that Norway, the world’s number five oil exporter, wanted other rich nations to set similar “carbon neutral” aims.
“Norway would be the first country in the world to take on such a concrete commitment,” Stoltenberg said in a proposal to his Labour Party that was met by a standing ovation.

I should add some extra bonus points to Norway’s Metal Ratio, no?

Granted, they’re just buying a crapload of carbon credits using money they earned exporting oil and gas… but it’s a start, right?

Irony in the News

Published by Yuletide on December 15, 2006 in Asides and Politics. 0 Comments

NPR : Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers

All Things Considered, December 14, 2006 · A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company’s work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.

This is just toooo funny.
[tags] politics, immigration [/tags]

F’ers in the News

Published by Yuletide on December 13, 2006 in Energy, Environment, FUCKERS!, Issues, News, Politics and Quotes. 0 Comments

Nabil Soleiman, an adviser to the ministry of religious affairs in Syria, said, “If the Holocaust ever occurred, it was a conspiracy against the Arab-Islamic world as today the Middle East is still paying the consequences.

Oh, ok. That makes sense. OH WAIT.

The number of victims at the Auschwitz concentration camp could be about 2,007,” [Australian Frederick] Toben said. ”The railroad to the camp did not have enough capacity to transfer large numbers of Jews.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,236014,00.html

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“Eventually, even the peddlars of climate alarmism will have to concede that the hoopla over manmade catastrophic global warming and the proposed solutions like the costly and ineffective Kyoto Protocol, will prove to be one of the history’s most misguided concerns– joining the 1970’s coming ice age fears, overpopulation and famines scares — to name just a few.”
–Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee
http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?id=266803&party=rep

Wow. And this guy is actually an elected member of our Congress. WOW.
Fucking assholes.

OH, and the best part? The article that he’s commenting on, is (according to the title referenced by his press release) about how the impact of COWS is worse than CARS! So, like, the cows are doing it then… Without ANY help from us… who–oh yeah–BREED THEM.

Of course, I’m sure he has nothing to say about the fucking POLAR BEARS (Note: link from the WSJ, no less)

Inspired by this note from the kind folks over at SNG:

Looks like we have a few skeptics on our hands: SENATOR INHOFE ANNOUNCES PUBLIC RELEASE OF “SKEPTIC’S GUIDE TO DEBUNKING GLOBAL WARMING”

Oklahoma senator James Inhofe is Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee–he just published a booklet called “Hot and Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge To Journalists Who Cover Global Warming.” It’s in color and substantiated with lots of pretty charts and graphics and quotes from real, live scientists! Almost as good a read as State of Fear!

Get it while it’s hot: http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=266711

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