Ghoulardi & Shaker Heights

Ahhh, Ghoulardi... Memories of my youth growing up in Cleveland.

Obama Doesn't Deserve the Nobel Prize

Hey. I used to respect the Nobel Prize. Heck, His Holiness the Dalai Lama snagged on.

But Barack Obama? Nice guy and all but he ain't done shit yet. There are no accomplishments to recount. No trophies on his mantle. And I voted for the guy. He's too conservative for me, but I voted for him.

But his on my shit list. The latest insult was snubbing the Dalai Lama this week for fear of pissing off the Chinese before his visit next month. Pissing off the Chinese? When was that a concern of ours?

Let's get this straight: our new Nobel Prize winner favors bald faced, unbriddled capitalism over human rights and genocide. I'm sure the Uighers and Burmese as well as the Tibetans appreciate this cold-hearted decision.

Close Guantanamo? No. Get out of Iraq? No. Bitch slap Wall and reform Street and Detroit? No. Gay rights? Healthcare reform? Change I can believe in? Nope.

What's he done? What can I tick off my list? How is my life better and what about my kids' future? My only satisfaction is that we're not living under the McCain/Palin regime.

Liberals, they always break your heart. We need our own party...

Google's Icon is a Barcode Today!!!

Ya gotta love Google. Today they gave me another reason why: the Google icon is a Code 128 barcode today!

Don't cha jus love it.I know I do. Bar codes have bin berry, berry good to me.

BPP Black History Month events

For information about the Black Panther Reunion and Black History Month events, go to BigManBPP.com/BlackHistoryMonth/for details.

See you there!

JetCityOrange flyby

Seattle Critical Mass on the West Seattle Bridge

Swiss Train Video

Sea-Monkey YouTube Video

Bike Photos

I love my bike. (Yes, I'm down to only 1.)

I've just put a gallery of bike photos online.

Civil Rights Photographs

I've been scanning vintage photos of the Civil Rights Movement. I own tons of stuff and if you're not in my living room, you don't get a chance to see them.

Not any more. I'm scanning select images: the Black Panthers, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, etc. I have items like FBI wanted posters as well as photographs.

Now that I've started, I'm finding it hard to stop.

Black Panther Party photos

I've started to digitize my collection of civil rights photographs beginning with vintage photos of the Black Panther Party. They're available online at JetCityOrange.com/Black-Panther-Party/.

There's plenty more yet to come...

Pogoplug Web Server Video

A quick video tour of our Pogoplug web server:

Website Hosted on PogoPlug

AzaleaRSS.com is one of the first websites hosted on a Pogoplug. AzaleaRSS is a free RSS editor written in Microsoft Excel and creates feeds, podcasts, and webcasts.

The Pogoplug is a very small Linux appliance from CloudEngines originally designed as a way to mount USB drives online. The nerds at AzaleaRSS see Pogoplugs as cheap Linux computers and something kewl to play with. Using an 8GB USB flash drive for storage, a web server was born. Total cost: less than 100 dollars.

The AzaleaRSS server runs Nginx and PHP, and was configured by Cory King in Seattle.

Support the Iranian Protesters

Our sisters and brothers in Iran need our help. Their government is not their friend or ally. The first thing we can do is change our Twitter location and time zone to Tehran so the authorities have a harder time tracking them. Do it now!

Consider setting up a proxy server and/or a TOR server too.

All power to the people!,

Cell phone wallpaper & computer wallpaper photos

I've just uploaded a gallery of photos of metal designed to be used for wallpaper on your phone or computer, or to feed Google Photos Screensaver. Your choice.

Photos of metallic textures from Sodo, Seattle.

New free wallpaper & desktop background images.

Everyone loves fresh cell phone wallpaper images and backgrounds for your computer desktop. Now everyone else will be jealous of the wallpaper and backgrounds you have after you install the free photos from Azalea Software.

No, you won't find these anywhere else. Yes, they're cool, hip, and almost too much so.

IOS

Meditation MP3's Get Some Respect. Finally...

Nothing like getting a little link love from someone: http://www.bestfreetraining.net/?p=1165

I especially like the list of links to save folks from digging around themselves.

I'm flattered.

Mickey Mouse Toaster

Mickey toaster!

Danger Mouse's 'Dark Night of the Soul' download & burn

Danger Mouse can't release his new CD "Dark Night of the Soul" due to ongoing legal disputes with EMI. Again.

So he's selling a blank disk complete with the artwork encouraging folks to download and burn their own copy. All one needs is a link to the music online.

Enjoy!