An oldie but a goodie from my archives, recently resurrected. (Full-size version).

“Two is Greater Than One.”

TWO:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

In a situation similar to last week in Portsmouth, N.H., cameras caught a protester with a pistol holstered to his leg outside of today’s event with the president.

Police on the scene were standing right next to the gentleman and were keeping a close eye on him. He’s well behind a security barrier outside the convention center in a crowd of protesters.

A second man, who appeared to be interviewing some of the protesters, also had a pistol strapped to his leg. He was also being watched by police.

[Source: MSNBC]

ONE:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Leslie Weise and Alex Young were ejected from one of President [Bush]’s speeches in Denver, Colorado, for arriving at the event in a car with the bumper sticker reading “No More Blood For Oil.”

[Source: ACLU]

Part 2 is still a work in progress. This is another multiple-exposure view from my back porch last night.

I’ve installed the Audio and Video plugins. You can add audio to your post with a simple tag, shown below. NOTE: In order to show the tag, I’ve added a space between the brackets and the enclosed text. You MUST OMIT the space between the bracket and the enclosed text if you want this to automagically work!

[ audio:http://web.path.to/yourSong/file.mp3 ]

The player will read the ID3 tags automagically. Or, you can specify the information like this:

[ audio:http://web.path.to/yourSong/file.mp3%7Ctitles=Title Of The Song%7Cartists=The Best Band Ever ]

You can specify multiple songs/titles/artists, too:

[ audio:http://web.path.to/yourSong/file.mp3, http://web.path.to/yourSong/anotherFile.mp3, http://web.path.to/yourSong/aThirdFile.mp3%7Ctitles=Title Of The Song, Second Song, Third Song Rules%7Cartists=The Best Band Ever, A Mediocre Band, Some Guy ]

For video, you do something similar:

[ flvplayer http://acme.com/video.flv 400 300 ]

Those last 2 numbers are width and height, and they are optional. I recommend specifying them as shown, however, since our blog’s center column is 400 pixels wide.

If you have trouble uploading your audio or video files (PHP currently imposes a 2 MB limit on uploads), contact me for FTP/SCP access.

Some songs never get old. People, on the other hand, do. And, given that I’m now older than I’ve ever been^*, I still like some of those songs, but I like ’em slower:

[audio:MusicSoundsBetterWithYou_MuxMoolRemix.mp3|titles=The Music Sounds Better With You (Mux Mool Remix)|artists=Stardust / Mux Mool]

Picked that one up over at the excellent ISO50 blog.

^*(and now I’m even older!)

Apropos of this post, this:

I may well have flown on ship 493 on a trip from Boston to Tampa, Orlando, or Fort Lauderdale in my youth. The Boeing 727-200 was long a workhorse of Delta’s fleet. It’s sad to see what’s become of her.

(I created the graphic above from a photo on Airliners.net and another on a photographer’s Flickr site which, I’m sad to say, I’ve lost track of.)

I created this image last night from multiple exposures taken from my back deck. It was foggy, and I like how the depth of the various trees on the hill came out. This was just my first experiment.

(full-sized version).

I like italics.

“Universal, single-killer, shamanistic death panels… just represent more Washington mission creep.”

Samantha Bee debates health care policy.

The invaluable Pam Spaulding (of Pam’s House Blend) is guest-blogging for Glenn Greenwald this week. (For those out of that particular “know,” Pam is an out & proud woman of color who hosts some of the most insightful and respectful discussions of race, gender, and sexuality over at The Blend).

Pam highlights the upcoming comedy/documentary produced by Chris Rock, called Good Hair. Have a look: