Archive for September, 2006
Sunset Down the Road (Again)
Fall is just around the corner, and as always around this time of year, the ecliptic is aligned such that for a few days, the sunset shines right down DC’s downtown street grid, just so. I took this photo of the start-of-Fall sunset back in September 2004, too.
links for 2006-09-23
New ring around Saturn discovered in Cassini occultation marathon images. (tags: space) photoshopit. New Photoshop weblog. (tags: photoshop weblogs) The Philadelphia Orchestra – Online Music Store Purchase lossless DRM-free recordings of Philadelphia Orchestra performances. Online music shopping done right. (tags: music) National Gallery of Art – The Streets of New York: American Photographs from the [...]
links for 2006-09-22
Spaceflight Now | STS-115 Shuttle Report | Atlantis returns from space with predawn landing. Just 15 minutes after the ISS orbited overhead, while the ISS crew watched the reentry from above. How cool is that? (tags: space) ESA – Mars Express – Cydonia – the face on Mars. Mars Express images Cydonia. Surprise, it doesn’t [...]
DCist and Pentagon Hot Dog Stands
Some of you may be stumbling in via a hat tip from DCist, in the story about the Pentagon hot dog stand. The link isn’t here yet, as I posted it to my del.icio.us link stream with a for:dcist tag, which is how they saw it. (Late tonight, my del.icio.us links for the day will [...]
links for 2006-09-21
Vitamin Features: Everything you wanted to know about designers… Dan Saffer on why we graphic designers are the way we are. (tags: design business culture) Metroblogging Bangkok. Live from Bangkok, they’ve got the latest scoup on the coup. (Sorry, I know that doesn’t rhyme.) (tags: thailand weblogs news) Macworld: First Look: iTV: What you need [...]
links for 2006-09-20
Bede’s Journal: The Pope is Right. “He explained that unless faith is grounded in reason, it is dangerously prone to violence. If you can’t win an argument with reason then there is always the temptation to fight it out instead.” (tags: faith catholic islam pope news war) Locusts and Honey: Pope Quotes Byzantine Emperor Who [...]
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (and Survey Plug)
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links for 2006-09-19
DCist: Capitol Lockdown…Again. Crazy driver rams through barricade, runs into Capitol with a gun, gets caught in the basement having a seizure. Yay for Capitol Police security, letting him get that far in. (tags: dc crime news) Wonkette – More Details on the Crazy Guy Who Drove Into the Capitol (tags: dc crime news) Pretty [...]
links for 2006-09-18
456 Berea Street: Let your users scroll. Few design “trends” are more annoying than splitting web articles into multiple pages or making them scroll in an inline box as though users didn’t know how to scroll a full page. (tags: design) BLTC: Better Living Through Chemistry. Toward a human nirvana through paradise engineering. (i.e. Drugs [...]
CCM on FM in the Philippines
Jim asked me to pass this along: The Edge Radio, now on FM in the Philippines. I’m not much of a CCM guy, but for those of you in the Philippines who are, The Edge, a ministry of UCB-IFA, has stations in Manila (91.5), Davao (104.3), Lucena (90.3), Ilocos Sur (90.5), and Zamboanga (98.1). It’s [...]