My Hidden Camera Can Beat Up Your Hidden Camera

via Fark[*1] and the Denver Post[*2] :

The ABC affiliate (Denver channel 7) planned to use money and hidden cameras to research whether Martino, who appears regularly on Fox-31 News, takes payments to endorse products and services. Martino fought back with a similarly surreptitious tactic: his own hidden camera.

Channel 7 initially asked a Denver businessman for help with its report. At Martino’s behest, the man on Wednesday secretly taped the journalists as they outlined their proposed investigation.

Discussion Topic: Mainstream journalism today is nothing more than an elaborate, expensive, destructive and tedious game of “gotcha.” Arguments for? Against?

For These Three Days, Royals Are On Top

Does it get any better than sweeping a series[*1] from the New York Yankees? Certainly not for the struggling Kansas City Royals.

The win left the Royals a perfect 3-0 under new manager Buddy Bell and gave the last place Royals their first three game winning streak of the season. The crowd of 25,590 was enthused by their team’s success and chanted, ‘Sweep! Sweep! Sweep!’ in the ninth inning.

Ad-Aware SE 1.06 is out

One of the better spyware/adware removal packages.

Download it here[*1] .

Movin’ On Up

We barreled through the 100-visit-per-day mark in May, with 136 average visits per day in the month. Our growth curve is quite satisfactory, especially considering we haven’t really gone too far out of our way to do any kind of promotion, cross-linking, trackback, or any of the other tricks of the blogging trade to get us out and noticed in the Blogosphere.

Here’s the average daily unique visits per day since this iteration of Medary.com went on line in February:
May 2005, 136 hits per day;
Apr 2005, 75 hits per day;
Mar 2005, 62 hits per day;
Feb 2005, 39 hits per day.

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How to sign in and post articles coming soon, in a followup article.

Remembering

Memorial Day is about remembering. Remembering our honored dead, those who died in battle[*1] . At the same time, I think it is right and appropriate to remember those who served to protect those of us who didn’t.

My father served in World War II. He was in Burma as a combat engineer. He had many stories, some he wrote down, fewer he shared with me, his youngest son. The most memorable one he told me concerned digging latrines in Burma.

He wasn’t a “hero” in the sense that he charged into battle to save comrades (or maybe he did–like I said, he didn’t share all of his stories.) But he served, he did his duty. He helped save the world, by digging latrines.

He came home, raised a family, surveyed dams and power lines, designed irrigation systems. He served, he did his duty.

This weekend, Memorial Day weekend, he is remembered.

I miss you, Dad.

Oh-Oh! Does Viagra Make You Blind?

Oh, the comedy lines you could write . . .

Yahoo News (AP) reports that the FDA is looking into a possible link between Viagra (yes, that Viagra) and blindness[*1] .

The FDA has 42 reports of the blindness, 38 among users of Viagra and four among users of Cialis. There were no cases reported among users of Levitra, the third impotence drug.

Yes, I know it’s not really that funny to guys who have actually gone blind (no, that’s not funny at all), but sheesh, c’mon, you really can’t make up stuff this, well, funny. Maybe you have to be a guy to understand . . .

Disobey Authority

From Wired[*1] :

For more than four years – steadily, seriously, and with the unsentimental rigor for which we love them – civil engineers have been studying the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, sifting the tragedy for its lessons. And it turns out that one of the lessons is: Disobey authority. In a connected world, ordinary people often have access to better information than officials do.

Here’s the report itself:
Occupant Behavior, Egress, and Emergency Communications[*2]