Spent some time yesterday getting my animation log up to date. It's not really a blog, more an archive in blog form. All of the content appeared at my Digital Media Tree blog at one time or another (from late 2003 to the present).
tom moody
Bush and Frogs
I posted a comment to Digby's blog questioning the "Bush blowing up frogs" story, told by an ostensible childhood friend of Bush's and frequently cited by the Democratically inclined as evidence of Bush's early sadism. My comment appears to have been deleted (maybe I should have announced my left wing bona fides first).
I grew up in Midland, TX where springtime frogs were an interesting desert anomaly and someone was always telling stories about someone they knew blowing them up with firecrackers.
I'm not saying Bush isn't sadistic but this is weak anecdotal evidence--there are better examples.
Update: Digby kindly responded to my email and thought my comment's disappearance might have been a Haloscan error.
After We're Gone
What would happen to the Earth if every human suddenly disappeared?
Alan Weisman has written a book about it, which I can't wait to read.
One of the things I often envision is the animals we've moved all over the world regenerating in new environments. Like the Japanese snow monkeys thriving in South Texas. All the inhabitants of zoos could potentially proliferate and create completely new ecosystems.
Weisman concludes that the planet will survive even if we annihilate ourselves but suggests we can make that demise less inevitable by having one child per family, to get the population back to 19th Century levels. Good luck! Human nature is going to interfere there, and we already know fundies kill for babies (and to keep women birthin' them).
iTunes Hustle
I have been accused of "baiting" people into arguments about Apple* but I'm posting this because my Quicktime updater--installed for security reasons after QT developed some virus vulnerability--just prompted me again, with an invasive pop-up, asking me did I really, really, really, not want to install iTunes?
Microsoft at its worst was never this aggressive about using the customer's own computer to market a product.
Hey, Jobs, stick iTunes up your 10th summer home!
*Like I really want to discuss it, and it's a moot point since this blog has comments turned off.