Good Reputation Sleeping

Citizen Media - My First YouTube Video!

I tried to upload this video to Google Video but for some reason could not log in.
So I went to YouTube, where I had set up an account ages ago, just to see what it would do.

Nothing fancy here, just a rollercoaster ride at Disneyworld taken with my Canon SD 500. The video is re-sized and re-processed into Flash Video, which takes a while. The service is somewhat like flickr, although not nearly as well organized and the U.I. is pretty bad.

This service and Google Video are on the cutting edge, however, and with more and more people using digital cameras that take decent video, they will only get better and become more popular.

Tuesday Guilty Pleasure - Music from Across the Ocean

Finally! Some benefits from iTunes growing global reach!

Weekend Guilty Pleasure - Salsa Fresca!

Actress Eva Mendes does fashion with photographer Peggy Sirota in "T".

Monday Guilty Pleasure

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Originally uploaded by TommyOshima.

The photographs of Tommy Oshima on flickr!

Weekend Guilty Pleasure, Maureen Dowd

Sex & the Single Stiletto.

"The sense of being a smart, ambitious, alluring woman in a crazy, often infuriating man's world is at the heart of Dowd's take on life."I got a column entirely because I was a woman," she says bluntly. But being the only regular female voice on the Times op-ed page has, in her view, been a hazardous endeavor."Political aides have been lethally nasty with me and tried to smear me," Dowd says. "For me there's been a price for being no-holds-barred." - Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post; Photograph by Michael Williamson, The Washington Post

Friday Guilty Pleasure

A Fashionista Singing About (What Else?).

"The stage was like a catwalk as Ms. Stefani - who has her own designer label - changed costumes for nearly every song. Among them were lacy lingerie, an elegant silvery sequined dress, a red polka-dotted bathing suit and a shorty majorette's outfit, all showing off her long legs. She arrived onstage amid video images of the Harajuku district of designer stores in Japan; Ms. Stefani admires the fearless fashion sense of the young Japanese women who shop there, and she was flanked by four Asian dancers dressed like the Harajuku girls she mentions in more than one song." - Jon Pareles, NYT; Photograph by Rahav Segev

Your Government At Work

CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons.

"The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.

The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents." - Dana Priest, The Washington Post