Archive for June, 2007

Red.jpg

Posted by brownpau on June 28, 2007. 2 comments.

Metro’s deathly red LED platform edge lights have come to Union Station. (Red.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

links for 2007-06-27

Posted by brownpau on June 27, 2007. No comments.

Captain Jon: Apollo vs. the Space Shuttle. Comparison videos of Apollo 16 and Space Shuttle launches, showing a notable difference in thrust and acceleration upon clearing the tower. (tags: space apollo spaceshuttle rocket video) Official Google Docs and Spreadsheets Blog: An entirely new way to stay organized. New Docs UI introduced, now with folders. I [...]

Whthrst.jpg

Posted by brownpau on June 27, 2007. No comments.

Underside of the Whitehurst Freeway over the Georgetown Waterfront, DC’s own version of the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Except the Whitehurst is probably not getting torn down anytime soon. (Whthrst.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

links for 2007-06-26

Posted by brownpau on June 26, 2007. No comments.

GetReligion – Media ignore Obama’s testimony. Obama talks frankly about how he came to believe in Christ at his UCC church, but the testimony sees little coverage. (tags: obama politics faith religion ucc) Marc Fisher – A Good Chance to Be Taken for a Ride – washingtonpost.com VA to hire a consortium headed by Bechtel [...]

Darling.jpg

Posted by brownpau on June 26, 2007. One comment.

They’re Clementine oranges! And they’re called Darling! As a reference to the song “Oh My Darling Clementine!” Isn’t that clever? I think it’s clever! (Darling.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

links for 2007-06-25

Posted by brownpau on June 25, 2007. No comments.

Dusty planetary discs around spinning stars can slow their rotation via magnetically-induced transference of angular momentum. As observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 500 Orion stars. (tags: space spitzer telescope stars science physics) Boing Boing: Bamboo jeep. Filipino government worker makes a functional jeep out of bamboo (kawayan). (tags: philippines jeep transportation bamboo cars [...]

links for 2007-06-24

Posted by brownpau on June 24, 2007. One comment.

GetReligion – There will always be an England. Media coverage of Tony Blair’s conversion to Roman Catholicism, noting a few interesting contradictions of belief. I love the first comment. (tags: faith politics news catholic pope uk) Hello Kitty Hell (tags: weblogs hellokitty wtf fun japan culture) ASCII by Jason Scott: Online Cancer. Unmoderated, out-of-control, off-topic [...]

links for 2007-06-23

Posted by brownpau on June 23, 2007. No comments.

Uncle Sam’s Photos – Stock Photo Collections Directory to public domain government photo galleries. (tags: free publicdomain government photography photos images) The knife-sharpening bicycle – AfriGadget (tags: africa tech knives fun bicycles) Harpers Ferry Weekend Honeymoon for the Carless | Ask MetaFilter (tags: askmetafilter travel harpersferry wv) Rolling Stone : The Secret Campaign of President [...]

Caturday!

Posted by brownpau on June 23, 2007. No comments.

Caturday – Round Cat is Round Edition. As you can see from the light blue geometric overlay, when curled-up and sleeping Pandora is able to form a near-perfect ellipse. That video rocker’s going to need a brushing.

links for 2007-06-22

Posted by brownpau on June 22, 2007. No comments.

Avoiding an Internet Scam | Ask MetaFilter. Don’t even go to the bank to try and cash the scammer’s check, or you’ll be arrested. (tags: net crime scams law banks money askmetafilter) Mike Davidson: How To Keep Widgets From Slowing Down Sites: WEDJE or “Widget Enabled DOM Javascript Embedding” (tags: markup development html js) WordPress [...]