Duties and Responsibilities
“I really don’t know what he did for us.”
— said recently about me by my old manager to a former co-worker.
photo: shrooms?
“I really don’t know what he did for us.”
— said recently about me by my old manager to a former co-worker.
So, Cliff points at stuff a lot. It turns out that he’s pointing in every picture in my photoblog that he appears in. Sure, it’s only five out of five photos, but it’s still 100%!
More photos from MaisonBisson
Engadget echoed a story from AutoBlog (duh, I just noticed that they’re both from Weblogs Inc.) about an iPod integration kit that works with most all 1998-or-newer cars: iPod2car.
First, it gives a clean line-in to the stero from the iPod, then it gives next and previous track as well as rewind and fastforward control on [...]
A friend asked me what digital camera she should buy. Her criteria were that it be small and inexpensive. My answer: the Pentax Optio S40 with a 256MB or 1GB SD card. Why? It’s less than an inch thick, is hovering at just over $200, and works well.
My slightly upscale alternative is the Olympus Stylus [...]
The Red Sox did an amazing thing last night: they won. There’s a lot of talk about how historic the four wins in a row come from behind victory is, but for most people, it’s enough simply that they won, and they beat the Yankees. Close to home, PSU students, and students all over New [...]
It’s an old story, the growing gap between rich and poor, and it’s probably booring as hell to most. Thing is, I fear it’s shaping America in more ways than can be counted. I’ve been at a loss to make a clean argument about this, so all I can do now is give you this: [...]
Copyfight points me to Doom9 which reports on Bits of Freedom’s recent project:
Dutch civil rights organization Bits of Freedom has run an interesting experiment: They put up a text by a famous Dutch author, written in 1871 to accounts with 10 different ISPs. Then they made up an imaginary society that is supposed to be [...]
Quotes from the bookofjoe:
“The bleeding always stops.”
…my favorite of the zillions of wonderful, pithy, often-harsh apothegms I’ve heard in my years in medicine.
There’s more:
“Try a Florsheim maneuver” [kick him to see if he's dead or faking]
“We won’t know until the autopsy.” [actually spoken on internal medicine rounds by a [...]
Wired News ran a two page profile of the inventor and his creation. Just two weeks before the US Presidential election, NPR found time run an interview with the inventor. Gizmodo rants angrilly about it. Clearly, a device that shuts of televisions gets attention.
TV-B-Gone is a one button remote control who’s only purpose is to [...]
Sex and politics, voter registration at strip clubs
“Ashcroft used to care more about pornography than terrorism,” says Scot Powe, professor of law at the University of Texas. “The guy is a throwback to the early 50s; maybe that’s being too generous.”
[...]
David Wasserman, a first amendment attorney, [says:] “My fear is that a second Bush administration [...]
Disney thieves Peter Pan from copyright-holding childrens’ hospital charity
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and published by Disney’s Hyperion Books is billed as a prequel to the children’s classic, Peter Pan. [...] But the hospital charity says [it] is getting nothing from Peter and the Starcatchers — which has been on [...]
Now that WiFi access is common, WiFi-dependant applications are starting to appear.
providers are finding out that the key to encouraging usage of hotspots and the key to leveraging hotspots to boost business is by offering applications that customers can use.
Rest Stop WiFi Roundup
Texas has signed a contract to install Wi-Fi at 105 locations by Oct. [...]
Links: starting with politics, going to copyfight, ending nowhere.
On The Mediathis week is reporting on the controversies about Sinclair TV and Bush’s wiring, looks at why there’s a dearth of local real local news, and, most interestingly, compares Bush’s lies to Kerry’s exaggerations.The whole show is available as MP3.
RealClearPolitics lists polls in swing states and [...]
Joe was telling his son, Justin, about his college football days. It was mostly a tale of his injuries, including one that required he have fluid drained from his knees daily before practice. He says it hurt. It hurt a lot. It hurt to drain the fluid. It hurt to practice on it. It hurt [...]
While Yahoo Movies is okay, it doesn’t track all the local theaters. Fortunately, many of them are online:
The Nugget, Hanover
Lebanon 6
Lincoln Cinemas
Smitty’s/Chunky’s Tilton
Then there are the drive-ins:
Meadows Drive-In
Route 135, Woodsville, N.H
(603)747-2608
Fairlee Drive-In Theater
Fairlee, VT.
(802) 333-9192
