I gave up on Andrew Sullivan a while ago but I enjoyed reading (and voting in) his tongue-in-cheek awards poll. I especially enjoyed the contrast between the entries for the Hewitt Award and the Yglesias Award and what it says about the future of the Republican Party.
The Hewitt Award - named after the absurd partisan fanatic, Hugh Hewitt, is given for the most egregious attempts to label Barack Obama as un-American, alien, treasonous, and far out of the mainstream of American life and politics.
The Malkin Award - named after blogger, Michelle Malkin - is for shrill, hyperbolic, divisive and intemperate right-wing rhetoric. Ann Coulter is ineligible - to give others a chance.
The Moore Award - named after film-maker, Michael Moore - is for divisive, bitter and intemperate left-wing rhetoric.
The Poseur Alert is awarded for passages of prose that stand out for pretension, vanity and really bad writing designed to look like profundity.
The Yglesias Award is for writers, politicians, columnists or pundits who actually criticize their own side, make enemies among political allies, and generally risk something for the sake of saying what they believe.
Our 10yr old TV blew up a couple of weeks ago and we had to bring forward the whole HD purchasing decision.
I sent the missus out to buy an HDMI cable at Best Buy and she came back with a $50 cable. FIFTY DOLLARS!
CNet had told me not to spend more than $10 on a cable and that the ones online were perfectly adequate so a quick search on The Google took me to Monoprice where I got 3 cables for $10 (for future expansion).
Then I remembered that we still had the Wii going through composite video so I got a component video cable for that.
Oh - and my TV has a PC input so I finally found a use for the laptop with the broken monitor. Gonna need a cable though. And how about a wireless keyboard and mouse?
We got back from our trip to Hollywood to find 3 little packages from Monoprice and now our living room is wired for 21st century living. I’ll never need to get off the couch ever again.
Imagine that someone could stick your head in an MRI and look into your brain to see what’s going on. Now imagine that, when you look at a particular image, certain patterns show up on the MRI. Maybe a clever researcher could decode those patterns to see what you are seeing by looking inside your brain.
Imagine no longer.
The image on the left is what the subject is seeing. The image on the right is reconstructed from the MRI.
