Archive for the ‘Voices’ Category

Secrets of the Slushpile

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Any aspiring author ought to read Slushkiller, an old but very informative post. Many of the comments are quite worthwhile, also.

Via a similarly-informative Whatever post.

Obama feels the need … the need for speed

Monday, June 15th, 2009

There is a saying that the road to Hell is wide and smooth. That must be why we are traveling this quickly now:

Found at Conservatism Today.

Memorial Day

Monday, May 25th, 2009

It’s the day to remember those whose lives were lost while serving our country. I don’t really have anything new to say, so I’ll just link to an earlier post on the topic.

Update: Worth looking at.

Because freedom and liberty are so passé

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Kim Hastreiter of the magazine PAPER asked 15 visual communicators (didn’t they used to be called graphic designers?) to come up with an advertisement rebranding the United States. I’m not at all pleased with most of them. A rebranding campaign normally promotes a new image for an existing “product.” Most of these are more along the lines of “NEW! DIFFERENT! Not what we used to be!”

These two images seem most egregious in their anti-US sentiment:

Sorry

No more US

“Sorry” fits right in line with what Obama has been offering to the world. “No more US & them” doesn’t really work for two reasons: first, Obama’s overtures haven’t been reciprocated. NATO, Russia, and others have heard him out and said, effectively, “Yeah, whatever.” It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to break it. Second, having the only color in the image be the flag background of “US” makes a blatant stopping point at “”No more US.”

George Lois believes that The One is the cure for what ails America:

Nasty to Inspirational

Alex Bogusky’s entry can at least be considered ambiguously – the concept of Che being inspired by Obama is positive if you’re inspired by Che, and negative if you’re not:

T-shirt: Obama / Che

The one I find most positive is this one, from Dan Weiden of Weiden + Kennedy:

Spine

Found at Adfreak.

Long, but worth it

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Over at The Smallest Minority, Kevin has posted another of his überposts. This one is on the subject of culture – specifically, the differences in culture between the US and the UK as it relates to the concepts of acceptable self-defense, gun control, and crime. I won’t excerpt any of it here, but it’s definitely worth reading – he has numbers and quotes from pertinent studies to support his position.

Eight and a half minutes

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Bill Whittle on media bias, and well worth the time.

ANZAC Day

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I don’t know how long this link will be good (it looks like the link will be for the entire trip … ANZAC Day is Day 5 of the trip), but we have Colorado representation Down Under for ANZAC Day.

Here’s a song that was written about it – Eric Bogle’s The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda.

Global Warming?

Friday, April 25th, 2008

How hot is it?

What global warming?

How cold is it?

Note: Both of these photos come from a column written by Jack Ganssle for Embedded Systems Design magazine on programmers being insufficiently paranoid about how their code handles errors.

“Pie doesn’t have tentacles!”

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

I had a link to Skippy’s List (in a prior incarnation at a different URL) on my old website. I didn’t find out until just now that he’s got a blog, when I ran across a link to this story.

For Veteran’s Day

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

While I’ve been in the military, I’m not a milblogger. Others are, though, and this Veteran’s Day, I’ll just point to BlackFive’s “Someone You Should Know” archives. These are stories you’re not likely to have heard.