Trampled Walmart Employee

I don't really want, or think I need, to add any new text to this story. Its terrible and I hope that people who read this simply become aware and cautious of both their morals and the morals of those surrounding. We are better than this.






CNN Story: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/28/black.friday.violence/
CNN Follow-up: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/03/walmart.lawsuits/
Nice Blog that also sums it up well: http://z-nano.com/2008/12/04/walmart-employee-trampled-to-death-on-black-friday/

Countdown to Korea

I just wanted to mention to family and friends that I'm going to Korea to visit with Yeajin on Dec 23rd and I'll be staying for just over 2 weeks.

The last time I saw Yeajin was June 4th when I left for my job interviews in the States... I'm slowly counting the days.

Dealing with the Economic Situation

Academia is its own little world, which means we have our own rules. I found this easy to follow flowchart on how we're dealing with the economic crisis in America. Enjoy this and everything else PhD Comics has to offer.

Best Commercial Mom

I ran into this series of commercials for Mamá Lucchetti pasta, but I wasn't able to find a site to reference it. It may just be a video collection based on a pilot series. Or a delicious food.... Either way, Pepper Melon is the creator.

Anyways, this commercial was particularily funny to me.

Mamá Lucchetti - Perfect Mom from Peppermelon on Vimeo.
Check out the others at Vimeo or Dekku's Blog or at the creators website... Pepper Melon.

Don Hertzfeldt Classics

Very strange animations that turned into cult classics. Made by Don Hertzfeldt. It takes a special humor to appreciate them, but for those that do... they are awesome!

Everyone's Doing the Morris Dance!

While out and about in Fells Point, I stumbled across this group of guys dancing in front of the Wharf Rat Pub. They're the Foggy Bottom Morris Dancers from Washington DC. The Morris Dance is an old English dance that's really focused on drinking nowadays more than anything else. They seemed to have a great time doing what they do... read a little about them when you have the chance, including the video I attached on this post.

Foggy Bottom Morris Dancers
List of Other Morris Dancers

How much do you think the war is costing America?

I just wanted to post a couple videos I thought were very well done. First is from National Priorities non-profit website. Really go through it sometime.




Find out more:
National Priorities-Cost of War
AFCS home
Common Dreams
Antiwar





Second comes from GOODMagazine (also on my list of links to check out).


"In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is more than 10 times that estimate. So what's behind the ballooning figures? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme's exhaustively researched book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we'll pay for many years to come. RESOURCES: The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict; War At Any Price? The Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget. By the Joint Economic Committee; threetrilliondollarwar.org. Thanks to the authors for their support, and to W. W. Norton for permission to use the research conducted for the book."


I hope you enjoy these vids as much as I did.