moving

That's right folks... my blog is moving. All new content is on my fancy-dancy website, brappy.com! I'll try to update as often as I can as I head to Beijing in the morning!

very old map

very old map
Originally uploaded by brappy!

I took a ferry ride today, and got some nice shots... but this map confused me. Click the photo and mouse-over it in flickr to see my notes...

Survey shows Fox news airs less war news than others

This is a pretty unsurprising story - everyone knows that Fox News Channel is far from "fair and balanced" but a new study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism says it's even worse.

On a winter day when bomb blasts at an Iraqi university killeddozens and the United Nations estimated that 34,000 civilians in Iraqhad died in 2006, MSNBC spent nearly nine minutes on the stories duringthe 1 p.m. hour. A CNN correspondent in Iraq did a three-minute reportabout the bombings.

Neither story merited a mention on Fox News Channel that hour.

But the kicker? That's at the end:

So with less on-air attention being paid to Iraq during the first fewmonths of the year, what filled the void for Fox? PEJ's report said thenetwork gave the death of Anna Nicole Smith significantly more air timethan its rivals.

technorati tags:fnc, fox news channel

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Limbo

0713 PDT
Originally uploaded by brappy!

I'm in limbo. Between the busy time at the end of the last school term and the giant stress of a trip to another continent. I have a million things running through my head, and for some reason, when I lay in bed, all I can think about is this documentary I saw on HBO about lesbian moms and their kids on a cruise.

I have nothing to do during the day until 6 p.m., so I'm free, but at the same time, I want to wake up early and be productive. But here I am, 4.15 a.m., looking at the light grow brighter outside and wondering "why do I feel guilty that I"m not asleep?"

Oh, Ed Jew....

This is a brilliantly worded AP story on the travails of SF city supervisor Ed Jew.

It includes such quotes as... "There are politicians who during their first time around make mistakes and are not ready for prime time"...

and "San Francisco, a place that masks its provincialism with a cachet of sophistication"... wow. What a line!

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the most relaxing in-flight safety video ever...

I always liked watching this video when flying Thai. It's so calm. They also handle the two languages well.

Old Airline Commercials

These are usually a little bit hilarious, as evidenced by the following:

Apparently Southwest Airline's LUV had a different meaning in the 1970s. Yikes!


First day on the job at UA:


The world's NEWEST jet plane - a DC-10! Catch the Economy class lounge on the Friendship Plane... I like their little jingle at the end...



"Some of our best businessmen... are women!"