Archive for February, 2006

A Few Lost Notes

Posted by brownpau on February 21, 2006. No comments.

Okay, okay, LOST fans, here are some notes on recent episodes, since I haven’t written about it for a while. Some spoilers follow, so those of you who haven’t been watching the second season should stop reading right here. The Hunting Party Jack, you didn’t ask “Zeke” enough questions. That’s all. Oh, and Kate messed [...]

links for 2006-02-21

Posted by brownpau on February 21, 2006. No comments.

Opera Desktop Team features weekly builds. Opera Beta 9.0 chugs along. (tags: browsers)

Photo Retrospective: Capitol at Twilight

Posted by brownpau on February 20, 2006. One comment.

(capitol-at-twilight, uploaded by brownpau.) Walking by the Capitol on my way home after a long day in November of 2004. See full size panorama here.

links for 2006-02-20

Posted by brownpau on February 20, 2006. One comment.

F*** Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades. Old Onion article with remarkably prescient satire of Gillette’s five-blade Fusion razor. (tags: fun shaving) Gillette Fusion for Men. Yup, five blades, plus a sixth additional reverse precision blade, and an overproduced Flash site. (tags: shaving flash) Cute Overload: cat cleaning ferret. Aw! (tags: cute animals)

links for 2006-02-19

Posted by brownpau on February 19, 2006. No comments.

CPDL.org – Choral Public Domain Library. Public domain sheet music wiki. (tags: music free wiki) DFL – a blog of last-placers at the Olympics. (tags: sport blogs) Godbit Project Encouraging Christian churches to “catch up” with current web standards, to the glory of God. (tags: faith church design markup standards)

Photo Retrospective: Wessels

Posted by brownpau on February 18, 2006. No comments.

(Set1294_01, uploaded by brownpau.) They are not nuclear wessels, but wessels nonetheless. Taken June 2004 with a very fuzzy-lensed Zire 71. Update: I added this photo to the Flickr Star Trek Group Pool, but the admin removed it. Bunch of humorless Vulcans.

Photo on Capitalweather

Posted by brownpau on February 18, 2006. No comments.

Capital Weather shows one of my Flickr photos from the 12 Feb 2006 snowstorm, Washington Monument Tree Panorama:

links for 2006-02-18

Posted by brownpau on February 18, 2006. No comments.

Toothpaste for Dinner: Marital Arts. YOU CANNOT STOP MY MARRIAGE STYLE. (tags: fun art comics marriage) Old photos of the Philippines, circa late 19th Century. Thread on Pinoyexchange. (tags: philippines photos history) Atmospheric ‘sprites’ captured in explosive detail. With lovely 7000fps video of sprite formation and dispersal. (tags: science weather lightning video) Thomas Edison’s Concrete [...]

Leyte Landslides

Posted by brownpau on February 17, 2006. One comment.

Leyte landslides bury village. As many as 3,000 may have been killed. This keeps happening. With large swaths of the island deforested by unchecked logging, populated areas are prone to flash flooding and mudslides caused by loose earth and disrupted watersheds. Every time it happens, the usual things happen, fingers pointed, blame assigned, promises made: [...]

links for 2006-02-17

Posted by brownpau on February 17, 2006. 2 comments.

Deer Hunt On Church Property Shocks Some Members. Church allows hunters to shoot deer that was stripping vegetation from church property. Church workers ‘held a silent prayer for the deer, because she said the animals were “part of our church community.”‘ I say it’s time for venison communion chips. (tags: animals church dc news) DCDreamLofts.com [...]