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Express Blog Log

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

I was quoted in yesterday’s Express , in the “Blog Log” section. Unfortunately, they picked a premature sigh of relief about New Orleans being spared, from before the aftermath became more dire.
Get the PDF here. My quote in Blog Log is on page 29.

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Quoted in Express’ Blog Log

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

I was quoted in yesterday’s Express, in the “Blog Log” section. Unfortunately, they picked a premature sigh of relief about New Orleans being spared, from before the aftermath became more dire.
Get the PDF here. My quote in Blog Log is on page 29. (Oh, and thanks to Jeff for pointing it out!)

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Hurricane Katrina’s Aftermath

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Check out the National Doppler Radar Loop and the Geostationary Satellite Northwest Atlantic Visible Loop to watch the remnants of Hurricane Katrina heading north, now a mere tropical depression.
We thought it would be a disaster, then we thought it was oversensationalized media hype, and after a bit of a delay, it turned out to be [...]

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On Tachmonites

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Most people assume that Fred Phelps (of Westboro Baptist Church/”God Hates Fags” infamy) is an over-zealous anti-gay Baptist, but it looks more like he and his kin are in the process of starting a homegrown cult. They’re not “Christians” or “Baptists”; apparently they refer to themselves as “Tachmonites.” So Phelps is the “last prophet” with [...]

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Found Tables

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Above: a bunch of tables I found by the building dumpster last month. People throw out some of the most amazing things. See that last one? It’s a vintage typewriter stand from Metalstand, an old Philadelphia furniture company which used to manufacture aluminum furniture in the 1950s. This piece might just [...]

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Di Ka Nag-iisa + 22

Monday, August 29, 2005

I’m over a week late for this, but August 21st was the twenty-second anniversary of the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, the Filipino politician who stood up to the Marcos dictatorship and faced death in his imprisonment by Marcos and on his return from exile, because he believed that “the Filipino is worth dying for.” Ninoy’s [...]

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Hurricane Katrina Heads for New Orleans

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Update, 8/30/2005: What they feared would happen came true a day late: levees have broken and water is rising. Large portions of New Orleans are underwater and getting worse. The mayor has ordered a mass evacuation of the entire city.

CNN story.
WWLTV.com: Hurricane devastation ‘overwhelming.’
Times-Picayune evacuates their offices.

Update on Katrina’s aftermath here.

Update, 8/28/2005: Katrina has weakened [...]

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To Think They Call What You’re Sitting In a Car

Saturday, August 27, 2005

(CarAd.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)
This is a subway billboard at Metro Center. I often comment to myself about how car companies pay ad agencies thousands of dollars to implicitly insult the public’s intelligence with unsubtle condescension, but this BMW campaign takes it a step further by insulting the target audience outright. “OH YOU POOR IDIOTS, SITTING [...]

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Firetrucks at Hotel George

Thursday, August 25, 2005

(Firetrucks at Hotel George uploaded by brownpau.)
I was not quite asleep yet when the smell of burning rubber filled the apartment building, and a fire alarm sounded from a few buildings down. I peeked out the window to see people streaming out of the Hotel George, so I got my camera and trotted down the [...]

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Google Talk

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

(Google Talk uploaded by brownpau.)
Google Talk, Google’s new instant messaging and voice chat service. Sadly, the Google client is Windows only, but Adium X on Mac OS X 10.2.8 is hooking up to Google’s Jabber server just fine, so I’ve at least been able to message other eager early adopters. (Screenshot is of my desktop, [...]

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