Roderick has been sending me links and I’ve been lax about posting them. Some of these links are NSFW, and one of them is a present back to Roderick. I’m not going to comment, because I’m lazy because I don’t want to prejudice you.
Kite Aerial Photography
I got sort of excited about kite aerial photography a couple of weeks ago in a post about photoblogging. I was amazed with Scott Haefner‘s work and especially impressed with his VR picture of Slain’s Castle in Scotland. Scott is pretty serious about KAP, and it shows in his description of his rig, but what’s […] » about 200 words
Scenes from the Museum of Bad Art
The Museum of Bad Art (MoBA) in the Dedham Community Theater. It’s in the basement outside the men’s bathroom, illuminated by a single fluorescent light hanging from the ceiling The MOBA slideshow. More photos from MaisonBisson. » about 100 words
Sandee’s Clothing Donations
It’s 132 photos, but I think there’s actually only 128 items. No, I’m not sure why I photo’d each one. More photos from MaisonBisson » about 100 words
The Plastics Museum
The Plastics Museum is in Leominster, MA, and online at plasticsmuseum.org. The National Plastics Center and Museum is a non-profit institution dedicated to preserving the past, addressing the present and promoting the future of plastics through public education and awareness. The educational staff has supported this mission throughout the years by conducting hands-on science programming […] » about 200 words
The Bellingham Accident
I pulled up to the stop sign at the end of North St., looking to turn left onto Route 126 in Bellingham, MA, at about 3:40 PM on Saturday 18 September when I saw a red Dodge Neon coming down the hill towards me with its brakes locked up. It was a busy intersection and […] » about 200 words
Funky Time
Gizmodo pointed out this fancy clock by Kikkerland. Being the clock-fiend I am, I had trouble not looking for more. Ship The Web seems to have Kikkerland’s entire catalog of clocks, which is more than enough to make me drool. Of course I want this one and this one and this one and this one. » about 100 words
“I Wanted a Tatra, So I Got A Tatra”
Engadget picked up on the story about the Tatra with a Mac in it. I couldn’t help checking for changes since I first saw the story. There’s a new version of DashMac, the control software, and it seems he can now control his car via SMS messages, but most things seem in-line with where he […] » about 200 words
5 Megapixels, Cheap
Engadget was quite excited about the Gateway DC-T50 5 megapixel camera, now selling for $150 at various retailers. I know more than one person who wants a cheap digital camera that doesn’t suck, so I went looking for reviews. Steve’s Digicams has some really detailed reviews, so I was excited to see they covered the […] » about 300 words
Mobile Carrier Wireless Networking
I put together a list of wide area wireless networking options in semi-rural areas for a friend recently. It’s far from complete and may not be accurate, but it’s a start. The coverage area I was looking for was north of Portland, ME, but we all know coverage maps lie and local conditions vary. I […] » about 400 words
These Aren’t Campaign Commercials
eBaum’s World added a couple of funny Bush videos recently.
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What is soveriegnty? Bumble mumble. Two things: if he was a lot smarter, he would have known the meaning of “sovereignty,” but if we was just a little bit smarter, he would have known that the question was about how his government would treat Native Americans and answered that.
- The claim is that this is a video of George W. Bush drunk at a wedding (with all apologies that it’s a WMV file).
The thing about these is that once you start wasting your working day watching them, you can’t really stop. So here’s a few more related videos and sound clips:
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Pleasure Boat Captains For Truth has three ads posted now, but the text is worth reading too.
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Bush In 30 Seconds has been around a while (I covered it in January), but it’s still meaningful today.
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This mashup of the 2003 State Of The Union also seems relevant today (and will always be more accurate than the original). I first posted it in Feb 2003.
- I thought this Bush Sr. Monologue was pretty funny when I found it in Feb 2004.
Techlinks
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The Save Betamax campaign has nothing to do with videotape and everything to do with the fair-use rights that allow us to legally convert CDs to MP3s or legally use Tivo to keep up with our favorite shows. These rights are under siege by content producers who want to charge consumers for every use. Copyfighters look here.
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Rumors are that OQO will release their Ultra Personal Computer soon.
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Other rumors suggest that Skype will release a Palm client for their VoIP network next month.
With SkypOut, their VoIP to PSTN service, I may finally get the Clie VoIP solution that I’ve been looking for.
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AppleInsider has a couple of interesting galleries of Tiger screenshots [1] and [2].
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The Importance Of… has an interesting lesson on the difference between Ones and Els, as relates to the CBS memos.
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Pentax has a new SD videocamera that I’m lusting over for some reason.
Be Better Dork: Command Line Stuff
Be geeky and look at the Apache modules:
| ``` /usr/sbin/httpd -l Compiled in modules: core.c prefork.c http_core.c mod_so.c ``` |
Set your path:
| ``` PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin export PATH ``` |
Project Censored’s Annual Roundup
Project Censored has released their list of the most censored stories of 2003-2004: #1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy #2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Holds Corporations Accountable #3: Bush Administration Censors Science #4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians #5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our […] » about 400 words
High And Mighty
I can’t help but steal the title to Keith Bradsher’s excellent book about the titanic rise of SUVs on our highways. Bradsher, in his 2002 book, makes note of efforts at Freightliner and Mercedes to release uber-SUVs based on the companies’ commercial truck bodies but weighing in at just under the limit at which commercial […] » about 200 words
Sewer in the Woods, Unknown Flower
Found the left image in the woods near Warren NH this weekend. Photo is composite of four smaller pictures taken with my Clie TH55, but the scene is entirely real. Seperately, I found the flower on the right a week before, while hiking around the other side of the lake where the sewer scene was […] » about 100 words
Pepper Pad 2
I can’t help but want one of Pepper Computer’s Pepper Pad 2 hand-held computer thingies. It’s available for pre-order now at only $800. But what is it, you ask? According to Pepper, it’s “either as a user’s only wireless computing device or […] a convenient, easy-to-use accessory to a PC.” It’s a Linux-based palmtop computer […] » about 400 words
In-Car Computers
The age of the in-car computer has come. One vendor calls them “carputers,” and Gizmodo lays it out for those who want an Intel-based CPU in their trunk/under the seat/in the dash. What to do with a computer in the car? Now that computers have moved out of the den to become part of the […] » about 200 words
Claim: Beverage Choice = Politics
I’ve been a little slow to blog these things lately, but this comes from BeverageWorld magazine. They published the results of a poll connects beverage choices to political affiliation. They break the politics down into six choices: Democrat, Republican, independent, independent liberal, independent conservative, and none of these, then they compared booze and soda-pop choices […] » about 300 words
Claim: Sleep Position = Personality
About a year ago, Reuters reported on the results of some sleep research from Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service and a visiting professor at the University of Surrey in southern England. The story is still online now at Wellspan.org and Netscape News. In summary, your sleep position is a […] » about 800 words
NH License Plates
For a variety of reasons, I was happy to discover that NH allows drivers to check the availability of vanity plates online (though, somewhat nervous find that the state uses Microsoft servers). The search enlightened me to a variety of plates I didn’t know about. We’ve all seen the “veteran” and “Purple Heart” plates, and a few “antique” plates, but I’ve never seen a “street rod” plate. But there are even more plates available.
Then I found Plate Shack‘s library of Bicentennial plates from New Hampshire. Down at the bottom of the page is a collection of “custom town plates” that were issued in place of the standard front plate. Those plates are from 1976, but “the tradition continues, as New Hampshire allows cities and towns to design custom front plates to celebrate important events or fund the restoration of historical sites.”
So now I’m wondering, why doesn’t Warren have a custom plate honoring our famed rocket?
In Car iPod
Without wanting to get into the rest of the story, I’m now trying to figure out how to plug an iPod into a Scion xB. The xB comes with a stereo by Pioneer, but I haven’t been able to get details about what inputs it supports. Installer.com and Logjam both offer connection kits that appear […] » about 300 words
Photoblogging, Etc.
I think I’m a fan of Flickr. It makes photoblogging easy and fun. Easier, anyway, than setting up an email to blog solution on my own, and the community features are more fun than I’d expected them to be at the outset. Flickr more or less automatically puts up a blog entry for each photo […] » about 400 words
Mini Golf
Minigolf is very serious business. Very serious. More photos from MaisonBisson » about 100 words
Texas’ Crony Politics and the Presidency
I finished Cronies by Robert Bryce recently and I can’t help but tell people about it. I hadn’t really wondered why so many presidents and vice-presidents have been from Texas, but Bryce did. “Two of the last three American presidents — and three of the last eight — have been Texans. Each of them got […] » about 300 words