I just ran a speed test on how well I am connected to the internet.
Better than my cousin-sister in Hazard, KY, and better than my daddy-uncle in Pikeville, KY, but 1/2 the speed of my friend Elin Woods, in Sweden, and 1/12 the speed of my long-lost friend Danny Choo in Japan.
Right now the government is deciding the future of the Internet in the United States.
The Federal Communications Commission is crafting our national high speed internet strategy, which will determine how fast the Internet is and who has access to high speed connections.
Help shape this policy in just two minutes.
Take this Speed Test, and help update data and help make universal broadband a reality.
http://www.speedmatters.org/speedtest2009
Then fill in the form to send a letter to your feral (no typo – little or no contact with real people) representatives. I personalized my letter because Speedmatters.org was just too nice in their letter.
The United States ranks just 15th among industrialized nations in broadband access — and this is costing our economy billions of dollars every year.
Every day, American businesses are missing out on opportunities to sell their goods and services in the global marketplace. Every day, the American people are missing out on important health and educational benefits. And every day, the American economy is missing out on good jobs created by high speed internet access.
That’s because the U.S. has historically invested relatively less on telecommunications than most other major countries. Consumers are charged more for slower speeds, and our current high-speed networks don’t even reach millions of American households.
Like Bubba-Louise, my cousin-sister in Hazard can’t even watch Keyboard Cat, because it won’t download.
H/she needs to see this stuff:
J
Get Weird and Win!
The Junk Drawer Blog is goofing off somewhere this week, but she left an assignment for her commenters. She stole a comment game from Comedy Plus.
The Junk Drawer Blog is fun, but whoooo boy, her commenters are just so vanilla, so white bread, so unimaginative.
Here’s how SHE explained the Comment Game.
She started with Twitter or Facebook. Nice start, but OMG, her commenters responded with choices like:
I. am. NOT. kidding. And it goes on for over 100 comments.
I played too, here were my choice:
LISTEN UP. Here’s the deal. I am taking over this idea.
There is a big prize involved.
A wonderful Marilyn Monroe shirt from the wonderful people at TeesForAll.com. I wanted a gift certificate from TeaseForMe.com, but haven’t heard back. TeesforAll.com is not doing this because they like me, they want to sell you some Tee shirts. Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. They have a really cool Stones shirt, and some other Boomer targeted stuff.
WIN THIS SHIRT
No, it doesn’t have to be the Marilyn Monroe baby-doll with pink stripes, unless you want it. And then I want a picture of you in it.
HERE’S HOW WE’RE GONNA PLAY:
It’s kind of like the The Junk Drawer Blog contest, BUT, the combinations need to be weird, arcane, tricky, smart, obscure, clever, whatever. (Like my examples!
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AND: you must explain why you chose the word you did, to avoid miscellaneous fakery.
After a while, I’ll close the comments and then we will vote on the best combination. Finalists may be contacted to provide a full and complete explanation of their word combinations so you can’t fake it easily.
Got it? Good.
Here is my combination, you take it from here:
Sky King or Enola Gay?