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Bill Oreilly On the Daily Show

This is from the October 7, 2004 program.
These files are too damn big. I’m having trouble doing anything with the DV files I’m ripping from .VOB files using MPEG stream. The 4GB files wouldn’t import into Imovie. So I had import the DV file into Premiere and then generate these from there.
The result is that they’re too damn big. Sorry. Maybe one of you can generate smaller versions from these.

Bill Oreilly On The Daily Show – Part 1 of 2 (51 MB)

Bill Oreilly On The Daily Show – Part 2 of 2 (30 MB)

California Voters: You Cannot Be Forced To Vote On An E-voting Machine — Demand A Paper Ballot

This just in from our friends at the EFF:

We need your help. California voters who are worried about electronic voting machines have an option to vote on paper this year. We worked very hard to get this from the Secretary of State and it was a major victory — he was sued over it and won in federal court.
Now we’ve learned that several of the larger counties (including Alameda, Santa Clara and Riverside) have instructed their pollworkers that they cannot tell voters about this choice. They must steer voters to the insecure machines and can only offer paper if a voter affirmatively chooses it.
Needless to say, this is outrageous. To try to raise voter awareness of the choice (and hopefully shame the registrars of voters to change their minds), we’ve thrown together a website:

http://www.paperorplastic2004.org
Please take a look and send the link on to your friends, family and other voters in the 11 affected counties (the list is on the website). We have very little time to get the word out, and I’m hoping that we can spread this far and wide and hopefully even provoke a little media coverage as well.

Tutorial On Ripping DVDs to DV and Quicktime Using MPEG Streamclip

Hey dudes,
Okay so I’m still trying to get a grip on using my new equipement and software to rip the nice DVDs people have been sending me in order to make .mov files suitable for my archive. Thanks to all of you that have been trying to help me out. It’s going slow, but I’m figuring it out.
Here’s a nice tutorial that Pete whipped up for me for MPEG Streamclip. I’ll be blogging the clip I’ve made so far and some other stuff in a second before going to Wide Hive for the morning. Then I’m back on the case this afternoon.
peace,
lisa

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Excellent Propaganda Film On 911’s Flight 77

I remember people talking about Flight 77 — the 747 that skillfully flew into the first floor of the Pentagon, and its strange circumstances, a bit immediately following the events. Then, like everyone else, I just kinda forgot about it.
This film does an excellent job of making the case that there was some kind of cover up surrounding the Pentagon attack. The film suggests that it was perhaps a missile — or perhaps combined with some kind of explosives — that caused the damage.
Simply stated: if it was a plane hit the building, where’s the wreckage?
They also bring up great details like how the man who supposedly flew the plane couldn’t fly his way out of a paper bag in flight school.
Whether you decide that the film connects the dots or that’s baseless propaganda and it’s time to put your tinfoil hat on. It’s definitely an thoughtful piece that somebody worked hard on for a while.
Enjoy!
(Thanks to my buddies who sent this to me. You know who you are 🙂

911 Pentagon Strike

RE: The Electoral College – Just A Little Confusion On My Part Guys

For those of you who were wondering, (I assume the rest of you just knew I was confused and would figure it out), I did realize that the electorate votes do go with the popular vote on a state-by-state basis — except for 1 or maybe 2 states where it’s proportional.
So that means I just have to wait and see what happens in two weeks. Whew.
I’ve got the TIVO working, and I also just bought a Panasonic DMR-E858 DVD recorder that will allow me two burn DVDs, and, if necessary, when combined with my TIVO and a cable splitter, record two channels simultaneously. Hee haw!
Many of you are sending me clips now to archive, and I’ll be getting those up as fast as I can. Weekends are better for that stuff now, as I am Wide Hiving and schooling during the week most of the time.
peace,
lisa

Help Me Pick Out A Good HDTV For My Dad

My Dad has asked me to help him pick out an HDTV this afternoon.
Only problem is, I don’t know diddly about HDTV.
Can you guys help me out here? What do I want to look out for?
We’re leaving this afternoon around 2pm, CA time.
(So if you read this after then, s’ok.)
Thanks in advance!
Lisa
lisarein@finetuning.com