Well with YouTube you’re in luck – as of the date of this post, there have been no changes to the Channel Uploads RSS feed. It has just been hidden from your browser’s “Subscribe” feature. All you have to do is take the existing YouTube Channel Uploads subscription in your feed reading software, and copy and paste into a new one with the channel name changed.

NOTE: These instructions only apply to the Channel Uploads feed.

The Channel Uploads feed for YouTube user HowToVanish is:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/howtovanish/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile

Replace “howtovanish” in the above example with the name of the channel you wish to subscribe to, and you have that channel’s RSS feed.

Enjoy!

and my next great challenge is on its way

went through a short bad phase for a while, something totally unlike me and not so good, but it’s over and i’m glad. everything is back to normal. oh so i always think about everything…

i’ll get back on volume iii pretty soon. i spent last night doing a backup, first time in a while. i won a contest taht took place all january, with one of the two bonuses. i tried last year, but didnt win. i even lost interest this month and disappeared for half of it, but when i got around to finishing i won and was very happy. (dont know if i’ll do it again next year.) but i thought i’d finish up the contest before i backed up my disk, but apparently i skipped two months. good thing i backed it up.

glad i can relax now. between the movies, the contest, art lessons, and everything else i was kind of in a jam where i had too much to do and it messed up my head. but, i got something coming in the mail on friday and hopefully the rest of it wont ship too much later. wacky weather over here, but the store which didnt ship yet is in ohio, so i’m not sure what they got. you cant use the thing without the other thing, but sometimes you gotta be smart and do things a slow way just in case.

i might start submitting columns to another blog. however, i havent written anything yet,.

aah shit the volume was low no wonder.

the end

and time goes by
but i’ll have to sleep soon

listen to the steel string guitar
might not be real
but this one is pretty convincing

video, audio
back to old

rip [it] off the thing [on my desk]
i missed a tv show
i missed a bunch of tv shows
maybe tomorrow…or today

I left a comment on the Mises Institute blog, which states this:

What’s great about this video is that inflation is not described merely as an increase in prices due to manipulation of the money supply, but the fact that money has lost its value.

Iran’s terrorist president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad states the following about capitalism:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a U.N. General Assembly session on poverty this week that capitalism is on the verge of death and that it’s time for a new economic system.

“The discriminatory order of capitalism and the hegemonic approaches are facing defeat and are getting close to their end,” Ahmadinejad said at a summit meeting assessing progress on achieving U.N. goals to drastically reduce poverty by 2015.

“The undemocratic and unjust governance structures of the decision-making bodies in international economic and political fields are the reasons behind most of the plights today humanity is confronting,” he said, according to an English translation of his prepared remarks.

Hegemony and “the undemocratic and unjust governance structures of the decision-making bodies in international economic and political fields” are not capitalism. It is the linkage between government and business (Italian fascism) in which the wealthy control key institutions.

For example, NAFTA, WTO, the European Union, the UN, and the development of proposals such as “harmonizing” (forcing copyright laws to be exactly the same in all countries) and “the public’s right to know” (shutting down non-government-sanctioned news sources) are anything but capitalist. Despite hijacking the economic concept of “free trade”, which by definition means the absence of legislation and treaties, all require government legislation which is more friendly to corporations. This has nothing to do with free trade or capitalism, other than the pursuit of wealth.

And if one views the varying link between effort and pay as “discriminatory”, well then they’re right.

Bolivian President Evo Morales stated:

…it was jeopardizing the future of “Mother Earth.”

The claims that capitalism is bad for the environment is only true due to the fact that it is handled by legislation rather than the judicial system.

For example, a business-friendly environmental law from the EPA would create limits on releasing a pollutant. As this business would be following the law, a nearby neighborhood would be unable to challenge the sickness, except by trying to overturn the law in the federal court system (often a waste of time and money)

However, resorting to the judicial system would prevent this sort of intrusion and poisoning, forcing businesses to pay a fine and cease further activity in the region. As for out-of-court settlements, a parent would not be likely to sell out their dying children and relatives.

See this example of a Pennsylvania town filled with exploding tap water and “methane fog”, permitted due to a business-friendly federal environmental law which renders the state courts almost helpless.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez also rejected the “global economic order, which continues to be an extremely unjust and plundering order that benefits rich countries.” The Venezuelan and Nicaraguan speakers raised similar complaints.

I assume this is referring to the pressuring of governments to accept pseudo-capitalist “free trade” treaties which force agribusiness/pharmaceutical-friendly patent laws, as well as the “nation-building” of Afghanistan and Iraq (which is also not capitalist, as the link to self-defense from these countries is weak if any). See this article about an neocon-penned Iraqi law forcing farmers to use “registered” (Monsanto-friendly and sterile) seeds.

If anything, capitalism is rising better than ever before, due to the use of the Internet to expose politicians’ past activities, videotape fraudulent news reports, spread classified documents, weaken copyright protection, and dig up laws and treaties the media doesn’t want you to know about and post them on blogs, as well as to organize protests and grassroots political campaigns. A past column from this blog describes this in detail.

Now it appears the same thing is occurring with STP. This band has existed since 1992 (1991 if you count the non-grunge Mighty Joe Young demo material)

Their first album in 1992, the grungy Core, has lots of hits played on classic rock stations, including “Sex Type Thing”, “Plush”, and “Wicked Garden”.

1994′s Purple (incorrectly considered self-titled as the word “purple” is written in Chinese) is very 70s rock sounding, Led Zeppelin-like. Two hits from Purple are frequently played by classic rock stations, “Big Empty” (also used in The Crow) and “Interstate Love Song”. (A heavier hit, “Unglued”, is no longer heard on the radio)

I was a fan of this band since I was in 6th grade. This was 1996, after Tiny Music was released. This had a more messy sound, wasn’t always heavy, and sounded similar to the Beatles at times.

In 1999, after a brief break-up (including terrible solo work by singer Scott Weiland), No. 4 was released. It was very heavy, kind of like Core, and there were a few softer Tiny Music-like songs, but also very messy, as there were psychological issues at the time, including Scott Weiland’s drug addiction.

Shangri-La Dee Da, released in 2001, was mostly acoustic. I didn’t like it and found it boring, but others disagreed with me. There were frequent obvious references to Courtney Love (Hole like most others had “sold out” at the time), including the hit “Hollywood Bitch” and the conspiratorial “Too Cool Queenie”

(note I can only find a session recording, if you are interested in the conspiracy theory click here for the lyrics)

A greatest hits album, 2003′s Thank You (from which the above video came from, as I am told, I do not have this album). The buy-this-anyway-hit was “All In The Suit That You Wear” (sounds kinda like a cross between No. 4 and Shangri-La Dee Da):

After another break-up, Scott joined members of Guns & Roses to found Velvet Revolver, which I didn’t like (nor do I like Guns & Roses). The rest of STP joined Filter’s singer Ray Luzier to form Army of Anyone, or, “The Rest of Shangri-La Dee Da”.

A few months ago, they came back with their self titled album, Stone Temple Pilots. This album was just plain excellent. IMO Shangri-La Dee Da is no way to end a career unless you’ve given up on music. The radio hit “Between the Lines”, which will probably be locked away in the ClearChannel vault, is heavy yet polished, with the bridge lifted from Nirvana’s song “Stay Away” Hopefully they will continue to release records and not break up with another Shangri-La Dee Da Here are some songs from the new album, and the Nirvana song for comparison:

Having heard all these songs, go check out the reviews on Amazon for Stone Temple Pilots’ new 2010 self-titled release. All of the negative reviews say “This isn’t Core or Purple“, as if this was STP’s third album released 10 years after being a one-hit wonder.

To put it another way: as classic rock and modern rock radio have become merged over the past 5 or so years, too many songs were lost, reducing great careers into one-hit wonders. Pearl Jam for instance had dozens of releases on old modern/alternative rock stations. Less than 5-8 of them are played now.

See also: Act! for America’s Stop the Mosque petition to Michael Bloomberg and New York officials. 99,622 have signed so far.

(via Catholic & Enjoying It)

Mentioning or linking to Wikipedia (or Wikimedia Commons, or any of their leecher sites, WAPedia, Answers.com, etc) on a Google-indexed Web site results in a higher position in Google search results for Wikipedia articles.

This tutorial need not require a domain name – follow these tips on your Blogspot blog, Facebook entry, even the description field of the YouTube video you’ve just uploaded, to weaken the influence of this wannabe-Orwell bullied teenage reject narcissism fest on Google, Yahoo, and the minds of you and your children:

1. Avoid mentioning the word “Wikipedia” (or “Wiki pedia” or something similar) in your articles.
2. Avoid linking to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, WAPedia, Answers.com, etc. in your articles. For example, when linking the word Slackware Linux, link to slackware.com rather than the Wikipedia entry for Slackware Linux.
3. When I left Facebook, the “Likes” system was being centralized around Wikipedia articles. Use the unofficial Facebook “Like” pages instead of Facebook’s Wikipedia-based ones, or use Facebook “Groups” instead. (I don’t know if this is still possible.)
4. Link to entries on Wikipedia alternatives like Conservapedia, Anarchopedia, Infoanarchy, and Wikia-based wikis.
5. Word of mouth
6. Create your own (intelligent) pages on the same subjects. Do not use Wikipedia’s content. Be sure to make it as visible as possible (do not use noarchive, nocache, block via robots.txt, etc.)
7. Don’t visit Wikimedia Commons sites or Wikipedia leecher sites for any reason. Block them out in a filter if you have to.

Even though you can’t see the effects of your boycott, you individually are still making a very small effort, and you’ll feel proud that you’ve done your part in protecting the minds of children and adults from this behemoth of junk. It’s easy – there is nothing to lose, just follow the tips above (and invent your own) and keep your effort going!

You Are a Thoughtful Artist

You may be creative, but there’s nothing messy about your approach to art. All of your art is well thought out and planned. You art ends up being close to how you initially imagined it. Your work tends to be quite deep and complex. You know how to produce something that appeals on many levels. Your art may take a long time to create, but your patient. And as a result, you tend to love everything you make.

Blogthings: What Type of Artist Are You?

You Are A Creative Dreamer

You dream big, and you often are willing to think of ideas that others wouldn’t dare dream about. You don’t just think outside the box – you’re not even aware of the box being there! You can solve problems that other people think are impossible. You always explore all options. Where others see nothing, you see possibilities. For you, the world is rich with potential.

Blogthings: What Kind of Dreamer Are You?

Here are all 3. Apparently Warner fucks are roughing up minors again, so #3 might get “muted” in its entirety for a Whitesnake clip in the credits (it is muted on other usernames).

(Click here for the previous post – contains details on the game)

The game consisted of simple arcade-style jump-and-shoot games with goofy graphics. Not a bad idea, but definitely not worth $199, regardless of inflation or the existence of Shockwave Flash.

More info here.

(I was a Super NES kid, not a Sega one, and didn’t own a SNES until two-three years later, so I didn’t fall victim to this, fortunately)

Also, as this funny video review points out, many of the games could not be continued due to inability of the character to jump or other issues caused by poor design.

Watch: