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Homeless Man Performs Radiohead's 'Creep'

<p>On Friday, the Opie and Anthony radio show invited several homeless men they pulled off the street into the studio to promote their annual “homeless shopping spree” bit. When they learned one of the men was a musician who had written some songs, they procured him a guitar and he <a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXlzci1rKNM”>performed</a> Radiohead's “Creep.”</p><p align=”center”><object width=”560″ height=”340″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/hXlzci1rKNM&hl=en_US&fs=1&”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/hXlzci1rKNM&hl=en_US&fs=1&” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”560″ height=”340″></embed></object></p><p>There's more details on Daniel Mustard's appearance on <a href=”http://www.sportsinferno.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52855″>Sports Inferno</a> and <a href=”http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/adzje/homeless_guy_sings_radioheads_creep_because_this/c0h3p5g”>Reddit</a>.</p><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/workbench/~4/jSntD9gVO20″ height=”1″ width=”1″/>

I Ruined Blogging for the St. Augustine Record

<p>Peter Ellis, the editor of the <i>St. Augustine Record</i>, recently began a blog with an <a href=”http://staugustine.com/interact/blog-post/peter-ellis/2009-10-28/welcome-newsroom-blog”>angry post</a> that suggests he is starting his new site under duress:</p><blockquote><p>My first encounter with a blogger was a miserable experience. He reported stuff on his blog about <i>The Record</i> that was wrong and then urged bloggers across the country to write me to complain. Many of them did, even though most of them had never heard of the <i>St. Augustine Record</i>.</p><p>That left a bad taste in my mouth about bloggers. Since then, I've read quite a few blogs and, with some delightful exceptions, most are awful. So I enter the world of blogging gently, knowing that many who have gone before me have failed.</p><p>My goal is to write about what happens in the newsroom, why we make the decisions we do and, I hope, get into a conversation with you about <i>The Record</i> and our work. I won't write about my family, my dog, my old convertible and my golf game. They all fascinate me, but I'm pretty sure they won't do the same for you.</p><p>What I will talk about is journalism at <i>The Record</i>. I hope you'll join me in the conversation.</p></blockquote><p>He's talking about me. In 2007, I wrote about the <i>Record</i> when it tried to <a href=”http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3140/newspaper-asks-public-identify-local”>expose the identity</a> of a local blogger who was critical of a county commissioner, and my story was linked by <a href=”http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45″>Romenesko</a>, attracting attention from some journalists and bloggers across the country. I posted a <a href=”http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3141/putting-bloggers-identity-record”>follow-up</a> about how Ellis was telling people that the blogger was a front for an organized group but the paper never ran a story revealing his identity or that of the supposed group.</p><p>As a longtime reader of the <i>Record</i>, I thought it was inappropriate for the paper to release its own security video of the unnamed blogger, who had bought a <a href=”http://workbench.cadenhead.org/newspaper-ad-ben-rich”>display ad</a> in the paper to get his message out, and conduct a manhunt as if he was a criminal. The factual basis for the ad was backed up by the paper's own reporting.</p><p>When Ellis posted a comment on my blog, I contacted him to confirm his identity and we got into a bitchy email exchange. He told me “you don't have a lot of credibility with me,” I responded that my web traffic could <a href=”http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&c=1&y=r&b=ffffff&r=2y&u=staugustine.com&&u=drudge.com&”>beat up his web traffic</a> and he kept telling me that my blog was incorrect without pointing out any actual error. He finished the exchange with this comment: “You're wrong across the board, and you know it. Please don't write to me anymore.”</p><p>So now I learn that not only was I wrong in some still-unspecified way, but my wrongness proved to be a formative experience for him.</p><p>This isn't the first time I've made a professional journalist mad about what I wrote on <a href=”http://workbench.cadenhead.org/”>Workbench</a>, which I enjoy because turnabout is fair play. But I didn't encourage people to complain to Ellis. I just related the facts as I knew them, gave my own opinion and some bloggers evidently contacted him because they objected to what his paper was doing. It's ironic that a journalist with 37 years experience would play shoot the messenger when he doesn't like the consequences of somebody else's reporting.</p><p>Although this would appear to be another battle in the war between journalists and bloggers, as I begin my eleventh year of blogging I don't think the distinctions matter any more. He appears to see bloggers as a self-fascinated and awful group, but these days millions of people have blogs, Twitter accounts and social media sites. Everybody gathers and shares information. The world I went to college for, in which a trained priesthood of journalism school graduates are the primary dispensers of the news, doesn't exist any more.</p><p>I enjoyed the days when profits were fat and journalism jobs were plentiful, but I'm glad to live at a time when any outspoken person with a web site has the opportunity to put the local newspaper editor on the defensive.</p><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/workbench/~4/we47JkLG8G4″ height=”1″ width=”1″/>

The Danger of Employing Redskins as Movie Actors

Although it's getting a lot of flak from publishers and authors, <a href=”http://books.google.com/”>Google Books</a> is one of the most amazing contributions to world knowledge launched on the web in years. The ability to search the full text of thousands of books published prior to 1923 — and hence in the public domain — is amazing. I've been poking around it for a while, and I found something today while studying how Americans used the term “redskins” before Washington's NFL team chose that repulsive racist mascot in 1933.</p><p>In the 1915 book <a href=”http://books.google.com/books?id=tz0LAQAAIAAJ”>Making the Movies</a>, author Ernest Alfred Dench wrote a section giving advice to filmmakers on hiring Native Americans as actors. Here it is in full:</p><blockquote><p><b>The Dangers of Employing Redskins as Movie Actors</b></p><p>It is only within the last two or three years that genuine Redskins have been employed in pictures. Before then these parts were taken by white actors made up for the occasion. But this method was not realistic enough to satisfy the progressive spirit of the producer.</p><p>The Red Indians who have been fortunate enough to secure permanent engagements with the several Western film companies are paid a salary that keeps them well provided with tobacco and their worshipped “fire water.”</p><p>It might be thought that this would civilise them completely, but it has had a quite reverse effect, for the work affords them an opportunity to live their savage days over again, and they are not slow to take advantage of it.</p><p>They put their heart and soul into the work, especially in battles with the whites, and it is necessary to have armed guards watch over their movements for the least sign of treachery. They naturally object to acting in pictures where they are defeated, and it requires a good deal of coaxing to induce them to take on such objectionable parts.</p><p>Once a white player was seriously wounded when the Indians indulged in a bit too much realism with their clubs and tomahawks. After this activity they had their weapons padded to prevent further injurious use of them.</p><p>With all the precautions that are taken, the Redskins occasionally manage to smuggle real bullets into action; but happily they have always been detected in the nick of time, though on one occasion some cowboys had a narrow escape during the producing of a Bison film.</p><p>Even to-day a few white players specialise in Indian parts. They are pastmasters in such roles, for they have made a complete study of Indian life, and by clever make-up they are hard to tell from real redskins. They take leading parts, for which Indians are seldom adaptable.</p><p>To act as an Indian is the easiest thing possible, for the Redskin is practically motionless.</p></blockquote><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/workbench/~4/IhuaXhoCE5g” height=”1″ width=”1″/>

Human Target's Opening Credits Hit the Mark

<p>The new Fox series <a href=”http://www.fox.com/humantarget/”>Human Target</a> has amazing opening credits:</p><p align=”center”><object id=”flashObj” width=”486″ height=”412″ classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0″><param name=”movie” value=”http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/6555681001?isVid=1&publisherID=769341148″ /><param name=”bgcolor” value=”#FFFFFF” /><param name=”flashVars” value=”videoId=61807076001&playerID=6555681001&domain=embed&” /><param name=”base” value=”http://admin.brightcove.com” /><param name=”seamlesstabbing” value=”false” /><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” /><param name=”swLiveConnect” value=”true” /><param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always” /><embed src=”http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/6555681001?isVid=1&publisherID=769341148″ bgcolor=”#FFFFFF” flashVars=”videoId=61807076001&playerID=6555681001&domain=embed&” base=”http://admin.brightcove.com” name=”flashObj” width=”486″ height=”412″ seamlesstabbing=”false” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowFullScreen=”true” swLiveConnect=”true” allowScriptAccess=”always” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash”></embed></object></p><p>I caught the pilot during a special preview Sunday night sandwiched between episodes of <i>24</i>. Regular airings begin Wednesday. The show, based on a DC comic book from the '70s, was a light escapist romp. Mark Valley, who was great a few years ago in a similar role as <i>Keen Eddie</i>, plays an out-of-his-mind bodyguard for hire who manages to get shot, stabbed, blown up and trapped on a runaway bullet train in a single episode. The great Jackie Earle Haley, Rorschach from <i>Watchmen</i> and Kelly Leak from <i>Bad News Bears</i>, plays his unscrupulous henchman Guerrero.</p><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/workbench/~4/XLEoyz-iGZo” height=”1″ width=”1″/>

Photographer Makes Weighty Request

<p>Philip Greenspun, an MIT computer science teacher who founded the photographic community Photo.Net, has posted an <a href=”http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/12/10/where-in-orlando-to-take-pictures-of-fat-people-eating/”>unusual request</a> on his weblog:</p><blockquote><p>I'd like to get some pictures of fat people eating (<a href=”http://philip.greenspun.com/images/pcd1647/disney-ice-cream-42″>example1</a>; <a href=”http://philip.greenspun.com/images/20050813-newport-jazz-festival/fat-shirtless-guy-eating-cheeseburger-2.tcl”>example2</a>). I'm in Orlando and it seems like an ideal opportunity to combine two quintessentially American themes: obesity and theme parks. Also, a theme park is a great place to walk around with a big camera and lens without attracting attention. I would like to find a theme park where there are a lot of restaurants, a lot of fat people (aside from myself), and most of the restaurants have outdoor seating.</p></blockquote><p>He believes that diet pills will emerge in the future that make today's fat people a historical curiosity in the year 2100.</p><p>I've been to Orlando dozens of times. When you need to add blubber to prepare for the harsh Florida winter, the best places I've found are the Chevy's Tex-Mex at the Crossroads shopping center on State Road 535, the Wolfgang Puck Cafe at Downtown Disney and the Rainforest Cafe outside Animal Kingdom.</p><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/workbench/~4/dj_9cBfXpRA” height=”1″ width=”1″/>

CDC Official: Vaccine Distribution Remains 'Bumpy'

<p>The shortage of H1N1 swine flu vaccine in some parts of the country continues to be a concern of the federal government's vaccination authorities, immunologist Anne Schuchat said this afternoon during a briefing for bloggers on the pandemic. “This has really been bumpy,” Schuchat said as she fielded questions from California and other places where supplies of the vaccine has been extremely difficult for people to find. “As of today, 58.9 million doses of H1N1 vaccine have become available for the states to order.”</p><p><img src=”http://workbench.cadenhead.org/media/h1n1-vaccine-bottle.jpg” width=”138″ height=”242″ alt=”H1N1 vaccine bottle” border=”0″ hspace=”4″ align=”right” />I participated in the hour-long “bloginar,” which was held by the Department of Health and Human Services. <a href=”http://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/leaders/schuchat.htm”>Schuchat</a>, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, answered questions for an hour submitted over email and Twitter.</p><p>There are 43 states in which influenza is categorized as widespread, compared to zero at this time in a normal year, she said. Children, pregnant women and health care professionals are among the high-risk groups urged to get vaccinated. She encouraged bloggers to share a Flu Vaccine Locator widget from its <a hef=”http://www.flu.gov/”>Flu.Gov</a> web site, which helps people find the vaccine in their area.</p><p align=”center”><iframe frameborder=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ border=”0″ src=”http://www.flu.gov/widgets/vaccinelocator.html” width=”269″ height=”151″ scrolling=”no” title=”Flu Vaccine Locator”>http://www.flu.gov/widgets/vaccinelocator.html</iframe></p><p>When asked about the safety of the swine flu vaccine, Schuchat said that it's no different than the seasonal flu vaccines that have been offered for years. “It is produced exactly the same way,” she said. The companies that are producing the vaccine use the same production process and undergo “the same kind of oversight with FDA inspections and visits.”</p><p>Another blogger asked about the decision not to include an <a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFluNews/story?id=8296948″>adjuvant</a> in the vaccine. Adjuvants are “substances that are put in vaccines to improve the immune response,” Schuchat explained. The federal government bought adjuvant to store in case it was needed, but has found that the normal 15-microgram dose of <a href=”http://www.flu.gov/individualfamily/vaccination/vglossary.html”>antigen</a> in the current swine flu vaccine has been sufficient.</p><p>Current vaccine producers are not licensed to include an adjuvant in the United States, she said. This means that an “emergency use authorization” would have been required to make use of them to fight swine flu. “We worried that the use of adjuvants at this point wouldn't be acceptable to people,” she said.<p>I posed this question to Schuchat: What can you say to address the concerns of people who believe the long-term health effects of flu vaccines have not been adequately studied?</p><p>Schuchat replied that “influenza vaccines have a very good safety track record,” pointing out that 100 million doses are dispensed per year. “I'm not aware of any problems about long-term safety.” The National Institutes of Health are funding studies to observe whether any concerns arise for pregnant women who have been given the swine flu vaccine this year.</p><p>As someone who's gotten vaccinated along with my wife and children, I was passing along a concern raised by a reader on the <a href=”http://www.drudge.com/”>Drudge Retort</a>. I've been surprised by the number of people who get the yearly flu shot but have been hesitant to get the swine flu vaccine. The vaccine is currently available in several places here in St. Augustine and Jacksonville, though I have friends and family in Texas and California who can't find it anywhere.</p><p>An archived broadcast of the briefing can be <a href=”http://www.flu.gov/live/”>viewed</a> on Flu.Gov, which has other resources for people who have questions about the flu pandemic and vaccine. The site has a <a href=”http://www.flu.gov/evaluation/”>self-evaluation tool</a> for people who are battling flu-like symptoms and a <a href=”http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm186340.htm”>fraudulent H1N1 products widget</a> that a DHHS official urged bloggers and social networking users to share.</p><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/workbench/~4/gEtANwTJ_H4″ height=”1″ width=”1″/>

And Now You Want to Be My Friend on Facebook?

<p>I was poking around Google Reader when I found a recommended six-month-old blog post by Google engineer Mark Chu-Carroll on why <a href=”http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/07/very_off_topic_why_i_wont_be_a.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+scienceblogs/CyKN+(Good+Math,+Bad+Math)&utm_content=Google+Reader”>he will not be attending</a> his high school reunion:</p><blockquote><p>… it's twenty five years since I got out of that miserable fucking hell-hole. And people from my high school class are suddenly getting in touch, sending me email, trying to friend me on Facebook, and trying to convince me to bring my family to the reunion. (It's a picnic reunion, full family invited.) Even some of the people who used to beat the crap out of me on a regular basis are getting in touch as if we're old friends. …</p><p>Stay the fuck away from me. I don't want to hear about your lives. I don't want to know how you've changed since high school. I don't want to hear about your jobs, your spouses, your children. I've got a good life now, and I cannot imagine a reason in the world why I would pollute that world with contact with any of you.</p></blockquote><p>Chu-Carroll describes in his post and subsequent comments how his fingers were broken by a bully and a swastika was once burned into his lawn while he attended a suburban New Jersey high school in the '80s. He received hundreds of responses to his post, including one that recommended an <a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7MuwPlOiNQ”>appropriate song</a> by the Australian singer Kate Miller-Heidke:</p><p><p align=”center”><object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/S7MuwPlOiNQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/S7MuwPlOiNQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object></p><p>The song's titled “Are You F*cking Kidding Me? (Facebook Song),” and you can hear a better audio version on her <a href=”http://www.ilike.com/artist/Kate+Miller-Heidke”>iLike page</a>. I think my favorite genre of music is antisocial piano rock. Last fall, Miller-Heidke toured the U.S. as the opening act for the master of the form, Ben Folds.</p><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/workbench/~4/0-B5Hcq3eSk” height=”1″ width=”1″/>

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