Formats Available: iPod (.mp4) Election day is tomorrow… November 04, 2008. Make sure you get out and vote for the candidate of your choice. If you don’t choose the next President of the United States of America, somebody else will choose him FOR you. Make sure you feel good about yourself for the next four years by letting your voice be HEARD tomorrow in the voting booth. Be a DECIDER! VOTE! Tags: DatingGenius, Production & Post, RockStar, Social Media, Video Less

VIDEO - Iraq, Baghdad - This week at Alive in Baghdad, with the United States Presidential election looming and Iraq coverage dwindling dramatically, we decided to combine the two topics. Correspondents Nabeel Kamal and Ali Al-Le'abiy hit the streets of Baghdad and interviewed several Iraqis as to their opinion of the candidates. Our sampling was done in a short timeframe and by no means represents a statistically accurate cross-section of the Iraqi public. However, we do feel that you will hear an array of different opinions, and begin to gain a little insight into how the Iraqi public views the American government and electorate, more than five and years after the invasion. Please leave comments regarding your own views of the presidential candidates, and how you think they will affect the war in Iraq and how they should respond to these and other Iraqi civilians. If you appreciate the insightful content provided by Alive in Baghdad, which you won’t find anywhere else, please consider becoming a paying subscriber, or making a donation to Alive in Baghdad. You can also purchase Alive in Baghdad T-shirts and DVDs to spread the word. Less

Formats Available: iPod (.mp4) Whomever you think is the best candidate, it’s in your best interest to VOTE this Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 in the United States Presidential Election. Bre Pettis, Justin Johnson, Clint Comer and I are all releasing new videos every weekday of November 2008, and re-releasing “old” videos every Saturday and Sunday. My first contribution is this video I made in March, 2008 which shows how to scene-match video footage using filters in Final Cut Pro. I figured I’d bring it back since the election’s so close, and it reminds me of how different things were back in March, before the Democrats or Republicans had selected their representatives and before their representatives had selected their running mates. It’s been interesting. Let’s see what happens on the 4th! ~Bill Tags: Video Less

Here I go again, complaining about airline travel. But I'm not writing about my most recent experience because it was so horrible and unlike what happens to most people when they fly. I'm writing it because it seems to be more and more typical. These days, airline travel is like when you start to eat a terrible meal at someone's house when you're there for the first time. It's hard to believe, but it just keeps getting worse and worse. Recently, I was going from Los Angeles to Minneapolis with a stop in Denver. Soon after I got to the gate in L.A., I learned that my flight had been cancelled. A fairly impolite agent sent me to what might justifiably be called, "the ninth circle of hell" -- customer service. Eventually, someone helped me and changed my flight. Unfortunately, that flight was soon cancelled, too. This time, I called the airline from my cell phone and the person I spoke to changed my flights. I asked him if I needed a paper ticket. He said that I didn't, because now I had "an e-ticket." Since my bag hadn't left L.A. yet, he suggested that I go back out through security and down to the baggage desk to let them know about the flight change so my luggage would be on the flight with me. I did so, and the baggage people made the change. Next I went to security, where they stopped me because I didn't have a paper ticket. So I raced to another line where I got a paper ticket, went through security once again (where they confiscated the overpriced bottle of water I had purchased earlier when I had been on "the other side"), and went to my new gate. Finally, I got on the plane, breathed a sigh of relief, and put on my seatbelt. A few minutes later, a passenger ran off the plane. A flight attendant went after him, then came back to explain that he had accidentally gotten onto the wrong plane. Gotten onto the wrong plane? How? I couldn't bring my water through security but this guy was able to get on the wrong plane? A week later I was back at the Minneapolis airport, heading for home. I quickly learned that my flight from Minneapolis to Denver was cancelled. The gate agent was too tired and too rude to help me. I certainly didn't want to go to that place whose name still makes me shudder – "customer service." Desperate, I dragged myself to the "Red Carpet Club," took out a credit card, and asked, "How much does it cost to join? I know if I join, you'll help me." The person at the counter completely threw me off base -- she was helpful and nice. Her name was Carol Babel, and I hope mentioning that will get her a commendation rather than a condemnation. She took one look at the bedraggled passenger in front of her and said, "You don't have to join for me to give you a little help." She quickly changed my flights. I thanked her profusely and went to my gate. After waiting there for about twenty minutes, I heard someone call my name. It was Carol. She had a boarding pass in her hand and said that she had come up with a better plane for me. Unbelievable, right? Give her a first class ticket to Europe. Give her a private plane. Or at least, give her next Thursday off. It seemed doubly special that she had acted so nicely because nobody else had. I know, I know. I hadn't been tortured. And as I said, I'm aware that it's the kind of thing that happens to millions of people every day. But does that make it okay? Several friends think the airline should do something to make up for my bad experience. What do you think? A year's membership in that Red Carpet Club would be a good gift. A letter of apology seems appropriate. And some friends said the airline should give me a free flight somewhere. They all seem like fine ideas, but there's a problem with that free flight thing. If they give it to me, that means I actually have to try to fly somewhere again. Less

Here I go again, complaining about airline travel. But I'm not writing about my most recent experience because it was so horrible and unlike what happens to most people when they fly. I'm writing it because it seems to be more and more typical. These days, airline travel is like when you start to eat a terrible meal at someone's house when you're there for the first time. It's hard to believe, but it just keeps getting worse and worse. Recently, I was going from Los Angeles to Minneapolis with a stop in Denver. Soon after I got to the gate in L.A., I learned that my flight had been cancelled. A fairly impolite agent sent me to what might justifiably be called, "the ninth circle of hell" -- customer service. Eventually, someone helped me and changed my flight. Unfortunately, that flight was soon cancelled, too. This time, I called the airline from my cell phone and the person I spoke to changed my flights. I asked him if I needed a paper ticket. He said that I didn't, because now I had "an e-ticket." Since my bag hadn't left L.A. yet, he suggested that I go back out through security and down to the baggage desk to let them know about the flight change so my luggage would be on the flight with me. I did so, and the baggage people made the change. Next I went to security, where they stopped me because I didn't have a paper ticket. So I raced to another line where I got a paper ticket, went through security once again (where they confiscated the overpriced bottle of water I had purchased earlier when I had been on "the other side"), and went to my new gate. Finally, I got on the plane, breathed a sigh of relief, and put on my seatbelt. A few minutes later, a passenger ran off the plane. A flight attendant went after him, then came back to explain that he had accidentally gotten onto the wrong plane. Gotten onto the wrong plane? How? I couldn't bring my water through security but this guy was able to get on the wrong plane? A week later I was back at the Minneapolis airport, heading for home. I quickly learned that my flight from Minneapolis to Denver was cancelled. The gate agent was too tired and too rude to help me. I certainly didn't want to go to that place whose name still makes me shudder – "customer service." Desperate, I dragged myself to the "Red Carpet Club," took out a credit card, and asked, "How much does it cost to join? I know if I join, you'll help me." The person at the counter completely threw me off base -- she was helpful and nice. Her name was Carol Babel, and I hope mentioning that will get her a commendation rather than a condemnation. She took one look at the bedraggled passenger in front of her and said, "You don't have to join for me to give you a little help." She quickly changed my flights. I thanked her profusely and went to my gate. After waiting there for about twenty minutes, I heard someone call my name. It was Carol. She had a boarding pass in her hand and said that she had come up with a better plane for me. Unbelievable, right? Give her a first class ticket to Europe. Give her a private plane. Or at least, give her next Thursday off. It seemed doubly special that she had acted so nicely because nobody else had. I know, I know. I hadn't been tortured. And as I said, I'm aware that it's the kind of thing that happens to millions of people every day. But does that make it okay? Several friends think the airline should do something to make up for my bad experience. What do you think? A year's membership in that Red Carpet Club would be a good gift. A letter of apology seems appropriate. And some friends said the airline should give me a free flight somewhere. They all seem like fine ideas, but there's a problem with that free flight thing. If they give it to me, that means I actually have to try to fly somewhere again. Less

iPod | Phone | 4:20 | To Embed or Email: click photo, then "i", then "Share." Founder of Alltop.com Guy Kawasaki was in town and we had a wonderful impromptu meetup, organized by friends Neenz Faleafine and Ryan Ozawa. One of the striking things is how committed Guy is to delivering consistently high quality blog posts to his thousands of readers. Yet he shared with us some challenges he is facing, wanting genuine feedback from his readers. On the other hand, we had some not so good service on a recent trip. Instead of writing a pure rant, I took my time to write up a number of suggestions that I would love to see implemented to improve these types of situations in the future. Hawaiian word: Lawelawe: to serve Join us at The Reef for discussion, Reef Radio, and occasional live streaming. Support us by buying your own copy of our Beach Walks Theme music. Please check out our Blogroll page with many more links to our friends' web sites. Less

Since Dr. Paul Farmer helped found Partners In Health more than 20 years ago, healthcare around the world has never been the same. Less

Sheikh yusuf Advices Muslims to hold fast together for the sake of Allah and how to be united as a true Muslim. File Download (30:23 min / 7 MB) Less

Sheikh yusuf Advices Muslims to hold fast together for the sake of Allah and how to be united as a true Muslim. File Download (30:23 min / 7 MB) Less

"Just like soldiers, innocence is dangling on the skirt tail of someone's momma..." -Henry Wallace Hampton Less

Earlier this year, without much fanfare, a new blog about digital media and convergence was launched in the United States by London-based United Business Media, one of the world's biggest business-to-business publishers. Not a scrappy start-up, this enterprise has five full-time editorial employees with the sales and back office support of the parent company. It is not looking for venture capital. Scott Raynovich, who we first met in the Red Herring days as reporter, is the publisher. Scott is the founding editor of LightReading, highly successful online publication about the telecom industry with research and event divisions. Started in 2002, just as the telecom industry went bust, Scott and his team built a powerful industry publication which was sold in 2007 to United Business Media for $27 million. Clearly Scott knows how to create value in the B2B space. OK, so with with independent blogs like NewTeeVee, GigaOM, paidContent, TechCrunch along with powerful business and trade publishers like CNET, Information Week, the Hollywood Reporter and the wires and big newspapers, is there really room for a new player? Less

Episode 82 takes us back to basics - gone is the video edition of the podcast, back is more traditional audio only enjoyment. After taking last week off due to illness, we’ve got a ton of Battlefield Heroes news to catch up on as well as some great detailed interviews about Bad Company. We cover pretty much every iteration of Battlefield in the mod updates and also take some time out to answer a listener question. Excuse the coughs, where are the Frappr shoutouts, and more fun on this week’s episode of Battlefield Podcast! Show notes: Battlefield: Apocalypse First Strike Eve of Destruction Fight for the Future Point of Existence 2 Eve of Destruction 2 BattleGroup-Frontlines Battlefield Heroes Games for Windows CrunchGear GameDaily BFZeroes BF-Games.net BF Portal Sean Decker, Part 1 Part 2 Joakin Grundwall, Henrik Karlsson, Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Less

Dog talks turkey...fluently. Plus a brief commentary on the Writers Guild of America strike! Unleashed is an animated comedy show that follows the trials and tribulations of animal actors in Hollywood. A new episode every Monday, here and at http://www.Unleashed.tv Less

Continuing in our series about living missionally, we dive into some middle eastern geography to find an illustration of what our lives should look like. Less

Following the tidal wave of a request to get this week’s show podcasted (this one’s for you, Paul!) here is the pre-Halloween “really terrible week” catered-by-the-neighbours Rage Machine in which Spike remembers his dead friend, muses over why “trick or treat night” is on the 30th down his way – despite Halloween being on the 31st – and runs down the categories of ToTers, he talks about the “don’t tase me bro” guy, why Australian TV’s ‘worm’ is a good idea, and why a 100 year old mouldy orange is a rubbish museum exhibit. All with his mouth full of candy. You know the drill by now, right? Email TheRageMachine@gmail.com Send a voicemail through http://odeo.com/sendmeamessage/TheRageMachine Join the SNRM Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5266341551 Less

After looking at Jesus as God, and Jesus as our High Priest, we take a look at Jesus as our example. Looks at Christ as our example of humility, intimacy, and boldness, and finishes at the cross; the perfect demonstration of those three things. Less

There’s a brief recap of the last show (which, if you were clever enough and technical enough to decode it, would give you a good ten minutes’ worth of material from last week) before Spike breaks kayfabe and reveals some intimately personal details and has one of his regular and well-worn crisis of confidence. But he’s happy that local blogger The Film Geek asked him to guest review the movie “Michael Clayton”. On the show tonight, why Sean “insanity” Hannity is a better broadcaster than Spike; the cost of the Iraq war, what the cost to translate to per person and how much more Bush wants; a ‘gnarly’ action by an Australian politician which may cost him the PM-ship; it’s tinfoil hats at the ready as Spike expounds on a report that NASA are burying that is more interested in protecting “Wee Johnny CEO’s bonus” than it is the general population; anther reason for the extremists to hate ‘Harry Potter’; “signatures and circles” and, after a “crunchy gear shift”, why the geek will inherit the votes…. Join the Facebook group! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5266341551 Email the show! TheRageMachine@gmail.com RSSubscribe! http://feeds.feedburner.com/rage Send a voicemail! http://odeo.com/sendmeamessage/TheRageMachine Visit the Film Geek! http://thefilmgeek.blogspot.com Less

Continuing with our focus on knowing Jesus, this lesson focuses on our definitive belief as Christians, that Jesus Christ is Lord. Shows how Jesus revealed God’s presence, love, and desire. Finishes with the call to be reconciled, and be an ambassador of reconciliation. Less

A look at the majesty of God as revealed in Isaiah 6. Recorded at St. Peters United Methodist Church in Katy, Texas @ Bounce, their Wednesday night youth gathering. Less