Archive for March, 2008
DC Protest Timelapse
Yesterday, fifth anniversary of the Iraq occupation, was supposed to be a big protest day, though Metro didn’t feel like it. Nothing much showed up on traffic cameras around DC, except for one at McPherson Square, where people seemed to be confronting a police line while a paper-machie bomb with a Strangelove-style Bush effigy atop [...]
links for 2008-03-19
YouTube – Sony Promotional Video for the VERY FIRST Betamax – 1975!! (tags: betamax tech retro history tv video) Man playing burning piano on beach. The piano is on fire. (tags: music art piano fire video wtf) A McCain Gaffe in Jordan | The Trail | washingtonpost.com “He said several times that Iran, a predominately [...]
links for 2008-03-18
BBC NEWS | UK | Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90 (tags: death literature scifi) NASA – NASA Awards Contracts for Design Study of Lunar Landing Craft Five aerospace companies receive contract awards to evaluate the Altair lander design and make engineering recommendations. (tags: space nasa constellation altair engineering business) “A More Perfect Union” [...]
Capitol Birds
On an afternoon walk last weekend, Amy and I spied more than a few red-breasted robins, and several small yellow birds hanging out in the still-bare branches of an old oak by the Capitol. WhatBird.com tells me the yellow birds are American Goldfinches, though there were a few with crown-like fringes on their heads which [...]
links for 2008-03-17
APOD: 2008 March 16 – Endeavour to Orbit Lovely shot of STS-123 Endeavour’s exhaust column rising into the clouds. (tags: nasa photos spaceshuttle space clouds) Bad Astronomy Blog – Bad Bad Movie Physics Detailed critique of io9′s Bad Movie Physics Report Card. (tags: space science scifi) Bad Astronomy Blog – Ten things you didn’t know [...]
Palm Z22
I’ve been a big fan of Palm for a while, but the last time I wrote in detail about a Palm device was three years ago, when the Zire 31 (to which I downgraded to replace the broken Zire 71) completely died just four months after I got it — and a month past warranty. [...]
links for 2008-03-16
Simplicity. Apple, Google, and your company’s web app. (tags: fun usability ui design) The Plug – Stranger Photos Have Happened Disposable camera tied to a bench in Atlanta for strangers to take photos. (tags: photography fun art) McCainBlogette.com Meghan McCain and friends write about being on the campaign trail with her father. (tags: mccain election [...]
Quoted in Guardian on Twitter Spam
I got a passing quote and link in this Guardian technology article: “Why are there no spam or trolls on Twitter?” by Kate Bevan, jumping off from Russell Beattie’s musings on the topic. I would dispute the titles of both articles; there absolutely are spammers (and trolls) on Twitter. The articles do append their praise [...]
links for 2008-03-15
kottke.org is ten years old today (kottke.org) Happy birthday, Kottke.org! Skin 9 was made as a CSS homage to the classic yellow Kottke.org layout. (tags: kottke design net history weblogs people) Tornado slams downtown Atlanta – CNN.com Lots of buildings damaged, including CNN HQ. (tags: news atlanta tornado weather disaster) Hate Rises – washingtonpost.com Maps [...]
links for 2008-03-14
Cassini-Huygens: News – Cassini Flies Through Watery Plumes of Saturn Moon Official NASA/JPL press release on the Enceladus flyby. (tags: space saturn enceladus water science nasa jpl cassini) NASA – NASA Readies Hardware for Test of Astronaut Escape System Includes a time-lapse video of the command module pad abort test mockup. (tags: space nasa orion [...]