Archive for October, 2003
No Stinkin’ Badgers
New photo album up, from August, when I visited my brother and attended a reunion: Chicago and Wisconsin Dells.
Duck and Roll and Hail Mary
In the tradition of Ready.gov parodies such as this and this, the Curt Jester has made use of anti-terror clipart in his Liturgy for Ignoramuses. (Caveat: Oman-Ray Atholic-Cay! That’s Latin, dear.)
Show Me, Show You…
When Glenn Reynolds blogs you, they call it an Instalanche, but what do you call it when Dave Barry blogs you? And spells your name wrong? Related: Fight! (Via danelope. And the sauce that started it all.)
FIR is the mind-killer
The relaunch of A List Apart has gotten FIR on my mind. The idea behind FIR (Fahrner Image Replacement) is that one can use a block element (e.g. <div> or <h1>) in place of an image, using CSS width, height, and background-image, along with a nested <span>. (I believe it was Doug Bowman who first [...]
Adieu, Concorde
Last Boom – the Concorde’s final flight. My own experience with the Concorde has been limited to seeing it once in New York, and watching Airport ’79 repeatedly, wishing I could go and ride it, despite the repeated air disasters the fictional Concorde went through.
Ionic Gale
Big solar storm hitting Earth today, which could potentially rival the storm of 1859. I was watching SpaceWeather for news on this, knowing that there were a couple of sunspots spitting out some powerful CME’s. News is that there could be auroras visible as far south as middle latitudes, which covers the DC/VA area. (Although [...]
Free Roomba
A robot floor vacuum sounds like a nice thing to have at first, and I’m sure these people agree, but what happens when they start evolving? How long before they turn against us and start harvesting our body heat for power? (via chris o’donnell)
Veni, Vidi, Abscedi
All charm, no moneybags. Teddy Benigno on President Bush’s brief visit to the Philippines. Again, he is able to sum up the Philippines’ general political situation in a few terse, disheartening paragraphs.
G4 iBook
G4 iBook. With Panther. And a new slot-loading CD drive. For cheap. Kind of. More feedback (and trolling) on Slashdot. (Aside: Ah, so here’s where the Slashdot Mac troll finds its roots; a Kottke blog of ages past.)
Kessel Run
Han Solo: “It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.” The two issues here are: “Parsecs” are an earth-construct: the distance from the sun which would result in a parallax-second arc from earth’s orbit — about 3.26 light years. Such a term should be completely useless a long time ago [...]