Archive for May, 2008
links for 2008-05-19
US News 75th Anniversary Feature With cover galleries by decade. (tags: usnews history media news magazine) io9 – The Ten Most Important Satellites Orbiting Earth Now (tags: space satellites nasa) YouTube – How to Move a 100 Year Old Church. Love the time lapses. (tags: video fun church usa faith culture) The Revolution Will Not [...]
Three Metro Videos
Upper left: Cameraphone video from Yellow Line train crossing the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River from VA to DC at sunset. Upper right: Cameraphone video of random guy juggling three colored balls on a Blue Line train between McPherson Square and Metro Center. Bottom: Zoetrope-style tunnel ad for Speed Racer, viewed from a [...]
Weekend Panoramas
A few quick panoramas from my mobile phone, the first two — mostly-empty parking lot and DC skyline with water tank and Washington Monument — taken from the building in which Artomatic is exhibited, and the last one — Beth Lipman’s “Banquet” — taken at the Renwick.
links for 2008-05-16
Google Doctype – Google Code “Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library.” Effectively a Google-hosted wiki for web developers. (tags: google development wiki) Mount St. Helens dome building up close in time-lapse. Time lapse video of the lava dome slowly building itself up from 2004 to 2008. (tags: mountsainthelens volcano geology video timelapse) [...]
Labpup
Chocolate labrador puppy enjoys sunny day in Georgetown. We chatted a bit with the owner and it turns out she runs Tackle Box, M Street’s new seafood restaurant. Apparently they get their fish delivered fresh by Fedex daily. And the owner has a cute doggy! Gotta eat there sometime. (Labpup uploaded by brownpau.)
links for 2008-05-15
Two anonymous firsthand eyewitness accounts of the Burma cyclone and its aftermath. via MeFi. (tags: burma disaster stories) Shatner on Stern: Talks Trek Fueds, Abrams Trek, Berman Trek, and more | TrekMovie.com Kirk regrets the way he died. (tags: shatner startrek radio showbiz drama) Google Street View Sightings Cataloging fun and strangeness spotted in Google [...]
links for 2008-05-14
Marital Rating Scale. From the 1930s, Dr. George W. Crane’s merit/demerit chart to grade wife performance. (tags: gender women marriage psychology history retro) Love on Girls’ Side of the Saudi Divide – New York Times Saudi girls talk about courtship and engagement in conservative Islamic society. (tags: saudi islam love marriage faith women gender) The [...]
links for 2008-05-13
“Wow, Rock Stars Ask For Some Stupid Crap” Foo Fighters hospitality rider pairs standard absurd rockstar demands with dry, witty self-abasement. (tags: fun showbiz writing foofighters hospitality) Modern Mechanix: What Tomorrow’s Cars Will Look Like Modern Mechanics of 1932 envisions the future automobiles of 1940. (tags: cars tech retro future magazine) Google Friend Connect Easy-to-add [...]
Washington Harbour Floodwall
Walking along the river to work through the heavy rain yesterday, I stumbled across a Washington Harbour feature of which I had not been previously aware: a floodwall! The river was indeed fairly high (just over six feet, even higher than the last time I recorded a Potomac high tide), but still not swamping the [...]
links for 2008-05-12
Cloud Atlas – cloud classification, cloud pictures (tags: clouds weather photos) Dina Brodsky (tags: art painting) Wifely Steps – 10 It’s-Not-What-You-Think-Things for the Home (tags: home fun) Devlounge | Roll Your Own FriendFeed with Movable Type Action Streams plugin makes it easy to incorporate a lifestream into your weblog. (tags: movabletype weblogs friendfeed development) Nine [...]