Bookmarks for August 16th through August 21st

Some links for August 16th through August 21st…

• How The Democrats Can Blow It …In Six Easy Steps : Rolling Stone
  “A blueprint for losing the most winnable presidential election in American history by MICHAEL MOORE”
• Resetting an Apple portable’s System Management Controller (SMC)
  “Potential workaround for Issues — saved for the day that this happens to me.”
• The Criterion Collection starts doing BluRay
  “Reason #1 to get a BluRay player.”
• Le velo en libre-service en MTL
  “It's a North American first, and it's coming soon to Montreal. Thousand of bikes, hundreds of automated pay stations throughout the city. Freewheeling technological marvels. The bike… Urban, practical, modular, ecological. Available all the time, any time. For everybody, every day. Make it right. Make it bike.”
• usniff.com | Torrent search made easy
  “Usniff.com is a fast, easy to use, cool looking and free real-time torrent search engine that crawls 4 different torrent web pages (for now) to give you the best results for your search.”
• Patent for the Geodesic Dome – Inventor Buckminster Fuller
  “The geodesic dome was invented in 1954 by Richard Buckminster Fuller. U.S. Pat. No. 2,682,235 was granted to Buckminster Fuller in 1954 for geodesic domes. He also received U.S. Patent 3,197,927 for an improved geodesic dome issued on August 3, 1965”
• Television – Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America? – NYTimes.com
  “It’s been more than eight years since “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Indecision 2000, and the difference in the show’s approach to its coverage then and now provides a tongue-in-cheek measure of the show’s striking evolution.”
• YouTube – The Tyler Warren Experiments – Mandala Quad Test
  “Lessons on how to ride a fish from Tyler Warren”
• YouTube – Space Shuttle Launch From Under Parachute Atlantis STS-117
  “"I filmed this with a small hand-held Kodak camera. I jumped out of the plane in Sebastian, FL at 16,600 feet and deployed my parachute immediately. This is the STS-117 Atlantis launch on June 08, 2007."”