Archive for February, 2007
White Castle
I had my first White Castle meal last Saturday, at the joint on 8th Ave in New York, between Port Authority and Penn Station. My train of thought upon entering the restaurant: “Wow, these burgers are cheap! Waaaay cheap! Hey, why are we ordering ten…” So it turns out White Castle burgers are pretty small, [...]
links for 2007-02-19
Static Electricity and People. The Cause, Stopping the Pain, and “Electric People” (tags: science physics electricity home) IKEA Hacker. Doing unorthodox things to and with IKEA products. (tags: home fun) New Symbol Launched to Warn Public About Radiation Dangers. The new radiation danger logo is like “The Message Bible” of sign symbols. (tags: design graphics [...]
links for 2007-02-18
NASA – THEMIS Mission Launched to Study Geomagnetic Substorms (tags: space nasa themis) YouTube – Introducing the book. Funny Norwegian spoof of tech support in a medieval context. (tags: fun tech support culture books video) How to Burn Youtube Videos to DVD. Links to free tools to download Flash video and burn it to DVD. [...]
links for 2007-02-16
The World Famous Random Kitten Generator. (tags: cats photos cute) Design Meltdown. Nice gallery and collection of design sites and techniques. (tags: design css graphics) DCist: Residents Lobby Congress for Voting Rights. A large group of DC residents and politicians did the rounds at the House to lobby for a congressional vote. (tags: dc politics) [...]
Washington Monument Tree
Over on DC Metroblogging, I have a few questions about the Washington Monument Tree. The photo I’m showing off in that entry is actually a stitched panorama of three vertical photos side by side. Funny thing is, I didn’t realize until after I had uploaded it that I had taken a somewhat similar panorama of [...]
Aftermath of the Valentine’s Day 2007 Winter Storm
The Valentine’s Day winter storm of 2007 was mostly sleet and frozen rain here in DC: ice pellets rather than flakes, and all through the night I heard the high-pitched tinkling of crystals striking my windows. What settled on the streets and sidewalks seemed like snow at first glance, but it slumped where it rested, [...]
links for 2007-02-14
SunshineGirl – love has a thousand faces. Remembering the landslides in Guinsaugon, Leyte, last year, and the relief efforts that followed. (tags: philippines disaster) Finkbuilt – 1960 Hovercraft Lineup. Personal hovercraft of the 1960s. Sadly no mention of eels. (tags: retro history transportation hovercraft fun photos) Novum Testamentum Blog – Primary Sources on the Decapolis. [...]
links for 2007-02-13
Novum Testamentum Blog – Luke’s Use of Mark’s Gospel (tags: faith bible greek) YouTube – Floating soap bubbles on carbon dioxide. In a wok. (tags: science video youtube) Paleo-Future. A weblog about past visions of the future. (tags: retro history culture tech weblogs) Sea Giants. Semi-submersible heavy-lift ships used to transport big things. (tags: sea [...]
Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo Pipes is a potentially interesting concept: a metadata mixer which you program via a drag-and-drop “flowchart” GUI, with little pipes to connect the boxes. Now, I say “potentially” because the concept is great, but the execution is still a bit buggy, especially where Flickr-based content and Content Analysis operators are concerned. Pipes are slow, [...]
Caturday
Today, a little something different: macro shots of Pandora’s lovely white coat of fur. In the thumbnails, more macro fur, and other assorted shots, including one of her curled up into a ball with her face tucked into her paw, and another of her sitting up and giving you a look. As always, more in [...]