Archive for August, 2005
To Think They Call What You’re Sitting In a Car
(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, [...]
links for 2005-08-27
Talini the polar bear cub swims with her mother. Aw! (tags: animals) Guardian: the ten worst paintings hanging in Britain. (tags: art) Earth’s Core Spins Faster Than Surface. The inner core is crucial in the generation of Earth’s magnetic field. (tags: science) Barnacle Press: Outbursts of Everett True. Old 1900s comic about an irate man [...]
links for 2005-08-26
MySpace: Is ‘ghetto’ a design choice? Does bad web design actually improve a community interface? (tags: design culture) Glass skywalk to let tourists peer way down into Grand Canyon. (tags: grandcanyon)
links for 2005-08-25
Is Your Boy A Real Man? Focus On The Family’s Gender Confusion Watch. (tags: faith culture) Flickr: Forums: FlickrHelp: exif and filename mass-manipulation software [info] (tags: flickr photography software) Leighton Tebay on why women should be church leaders. Very interesting exegesis of 1 Tim 2. (tags: theology) Wikipedia: Chronological list of human spaceflights. (tags: space [...]
Firetrucks at Hotel George
(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 [...]
Google Talk
(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 [...]
King’s Dominion and Manly Cherubs
Amy and I spent Saturday at King’s Dominion in VA, with Jeff and Stacey from church. This was kind of a momentous theme park visit for me, because before last Saturday I could count the number of times I’d been on roller coasters in my life on one hand: starting with Great America’s Tidal Wave [...]
links for 2005-08-23
Net Stocks: Why Google is selling a piece of pi. 14.159265 million Class A shares. Get it? Pi? 3.14159265? Cute. (tags: google) The Mainline – DC Area Railfan. (tags: dc rail) TrekPulse. Lots of screenshots. (tags: startrek) CVO Menu – Mount St. Helens – Eruption 2004, 2005. With links to images and videos of the [...]
Affordablehost Going Down the Drain
Over the weekend, Affordablehost lost data to a hard disk crash on the server which hosts my site. There were backups, but they were three days old, so not only weblog entries from Thursday onward were lost, but also a weekend’s worth of forum entries on TheBereans.net, and possibly email on two other clients’ sites [...]
Flickr and Yahoo Logins Merging
Flickr is merging logins with Yahoo. That makes me quite sad and dejected, not because of the convenience of having one less login and password to deal with, but because someone else got “brownpau” on Yahoo long before me, and whoever it is has not answered my polite requests and offers of financial recompense for [...]