Not LMAO, certainly not ROFLcopter-ingly funny, but funny enough to want to snap a picture, and good enough for casual Friday here. The boat in the parking lot, UPS vs. FedEx, and Hoe For Hire are all easy enough to understand (though they leave me open to easy criticism). The fourth photo is of some […] » about 100 words
I probably spend too much time considering competition and change management, but just as I figured I was done with it for the week, a comment from Kathryn Greenhill regarding Model Ts got me going again. Just like railroads, those “any color as long as it’s black” Model Ts looked like freedom, until General Motors […] » about 600 words
Have You Thanked the Internet Lately? OneWebDay, our opportunity to celebrate “one web, one world, one wish” is just about a week away (though it falls on Yom Kippur). This video explains a bit and Tim Berners-Lee is planning his own video (worth mentioning: his net neutrality post).
If things work out, I’ll be posting a video too, even though I’ll likely be offline most of that day (not observing Yom Kippur, at a friend’s wedding).
It’s an aside to Kathryn Greenhill’s larger point, that all this 2.0 stuff is about a shifting power to the user, but she places L2 somewhere on Ghandi’s continuum of change between ridicule and fight. The photo above (original by Monster) is in support of Greenhill’s larger point: control is shifting. Trains were once seen […] » about 200 words
Like all well bred women, my mother always told me not to play with my food. However, as we get older we realize that sometimes ignoring the rules is just as important as, generally, following them. Food is fun. It has wonderful tastes, smells, colors, and textures. Something with so many wonderful attributes is just […] » about 300 words
A guy walked into the student newspaper office and asked “does anybody want to jump out of an airplane?”
Without a moment’s hesitation, I said “I’m your man.” It was only afterwards that I confirmed a parachute would be involved.
Well, that was ten years ago (can’t you tell, I look young — young!), but the video is still laying around and I just uploaded it to YouTube. Actually, this video has been through the wringer. It was recorded on Hi8, edited at the jump site to VHS, years later I encoded to DV and re-edited in iMovie (version 2, I think) and just now uploaded that edited file (the source DV and iMovie project are long gone).
Is Bush really so hawkish that he refuses to formally declare an end to the Korean War?
A little more than two years after I realized how (really) bad the problem was and about 18 months after I » about 400 words
Office pranks are a bit of a thing here. Well, at least in IT. Last year Matt took charge and put together a quartet of pranks that got the attention of the London Daily Mirror.
This video is from a May 2002 prank that put a golf cart with fuzzy dice and bobble headed Jesus in Cliffy‘s office along with a Vote Bush sign and other things. He was mad, to be sure. Zach, Matt, Jon, and Al did all the heavy lifting, I simply offered (not like I had a choice) my golf cart to the cause (Zach would quickly point out that I’d basically abandoned it at his house).
Colophon: Why am I publishing this video only now? Because the new iMovie 08 rocks. Really. The source material was shot on my old Sony Clie, but until now I didn’t really have tools that would make editing it down easy enough to be worth the effort (it’s still five minutes, I know).
The short story is that you simply put “tags:” in the subject or body and anything that follows becomes a tag. It’s worth remembering that the Subject of the email becomes the title and the body becomes the description. The longer story is at Flickr.
In a development that even FOXNews couldn’t ignore, US attorney general Alberto Gonzales has resigned, he thinks.
In an interview on NPR, The Diana Chronicles author Tina Brown says “Diana had represented feeling, and the end of the stiff upper lip,” but the Princess comes off sounding a bit like a harbinger of the Cluetrain. Yes it’s all about the Royals, the glamor, and her dramatic death ten years ago, but take […] » about 400 words
Hot weather demands cool drinks. Lemonade is fine for the kids, but adults need a pitcher of something more entertaining. 2 parts Vodka 1 part Orange Juice 2 parts Lemonade dash Lime Juice Prepare in a pitcher with ice and share. Adjust quantities to taste. Enjoy safely. alcohol, drink, entertaining, hot weather, lime juice, orange […] » about 100 words
If the news is to be believed, separate teams have found hardware and software-based solutions to unlock an iPhone.
It’s worth noting that all this is legal because of an exemption, <a href=“http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/03/02/04" title=“On The Media: Transcript of “Mobile Malcontent” (March 2, 2007)">much needed and hard fought.
Hey, I’m a fan of that old book smell too, can I get some scratch-n-sniff stickers?
MeeboMe + Pidgin (formerly GAIM) = a match made in heaven. (Via.)
Etre‘s Colour Check.
A hurricane, high crosswinds at the landing site, a nitrogen leak, and two damaged tiles. Watch the shuttle land live on NASA TV.
Will, Jon, Joe, Ted, and I arrived at Telos Landing with plans to run the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. As we prepared to embark, the park ranger appeared with a tape measure and told us our kayaks weren’t canoes. Section 2.3 of the Allagash rules and regulations is quite clear: “A canoe is defined as a […] » about 500 words
About 597,000 vehicular bridges nationwide, and 73,764 are “structurally deficient.”
Sources: 2006 National Bridge Inventory compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation, American Society of Civil Engineers‘ Infrastructure Report Card, and Gannett.
I’m coming to learn that p0ps has a number of interesting things going on, but it was his panoramas stitched from pictures taken by iPhone that caught my attention first. Above is the J Train somewhere between Fulton and City Hall. I’d thought the iPhone’s camera was pretty decent, p0ps’ work shows it off. J […] » about 100 words
ContentsBeginning of a bad day...Our diets, our health Because I'm a man... Beginning of a bad day… I rear-ended a car this morning. I knew it was going to be a really bad day! The driver got out of the other car and I looked down and realized he was a dwarf!!! He looked up […] » about 400 words
Old instructions that connect the Mac OS X Address Book app to a phone via Bluetooth from O’Reilly and SillyDog. Once paired, the Address Book can initiate dialing, notify the user of incoming calls, and send SMS texts.
Bluetooth Texter SMS Widget, message2net, and BluePhoneElite all offer further tools to interact with your Bluetooth-connected mobile phone. The list of compatible phones (BPE & m2n) offers some leads for those trying to make the connection.
Finally, Simon Winter offers some tips on interacting with SMS via AppleScript.
In response to my previous kvetching about the scarcity of cheap fuel efficient cars, JWK commented that his 2001 Golf TDI gets 48 MPG (it’s rated for 44). Meanwhile, TreeHugger pointed out that Volkswagen’s Polo BlueMotion gets 62 MPG (Volkswagen UK claims the current Polo hatchback gets up to 72 MPG in diesel (I assume […] » about 400 words
It’s likely Phil Carrizzi could make a broken tire iron look good, but his series of the iPhone with the Newton Message Pad and eMate is geek-sweet eye candy. iphone, newton, emate, apple, photo, gallery, pr0n, porn, photos, eye candy » about 100 words