Archive for June, 2008
links for 2008-06-14
Flood coverage from the Iowa City Press Citizen via FDL. (tags: iowa news flood disaster environment) The world loves Obama, except Jordan | FP Passport Graph of results from an international survey of US presidential preferences. For some reason, Spain really hates McCain, while Jordan doesn’t like Obama. (tags: world politics obama mccain president election) [...]
Caturday!
Here we have Amy (in her painting clothes) on the couch, cuddling Pandora, who has become comfortably stretchy and amorphous.
Train Effects
Waiting on the platform for our [delayed] train home from New Jersey last weekend, I took out my camera and tried getting a half-second exposure of the lights of a departing NJ Transit train: On the train later, I tried out the video time lapse feature at Trenton and Philadelphia, to see how stations and [...]
links for 2008-06-13
NASA’s new spacesuits for Project Constellation. With links to 3D preview videos. (tags: nasa space fashion spacesuit orion constellation moon) The Chicago Spire. 2,000 foot tall residential building going up near Navy Pier. Looks a lot like a screw. (tags: chicago buildings architecture records realestate) Ugly Overload An anti-CuteOverload weblog of ugly things! (tags: weblogs [...]
Caged Construction Vehicles
Animal Control was able to trap and contain this feral backhoe before it killed anyone by luring it into a cage with the help of a decoy mini-tractor. (Caged Construction Vehicles uploaded by brownpau.)
Castle-VINE-ea
Vine-covered tower, Embassy of Morocco near Dupont Circle. (Castle-VINE-ea uploaded by brownpau.)
links for 2008-06-12
Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds Give it text and it generates a pretty-looking, colored, weighted word cloud. Via Joey. (tags: type fun art language) Opera 9.5 – the next generation of web standards (tags: browsers opera) Fictional Stars Get a 21st Century Facelift – NYTimes.com Wow, that is definitely not the Strawberry Shortcake that the [...]
links for 2008-06-11
Space Colony Artwork 1970 Concept paintings of large-scale space colonies commissioned by NASA Ames Research Center. (tags: space future nasa colonization art painting retro) Electric Skies over DC at ebullient photo blog Lovely photos of lightning from violent thunderstorms over Washington. (tags: dc lightning photos weather) Gallery: A Century of Automated Food Service Pictures of [...]
Metro Rearview
I’ve always wanted to get this video, and I finally got my chance last week, sitting at the back of a Red Line train on our way home from church: the view out the rear window of a Metro train going from Gallery Place/Chinatown to Judiciary Square on the Red Line. (The Speed Racer tunnel [...]
Mobile Catchup
Some cameraphone photos from the past couple of weeks that have gone to Flickr but not to here: First row, left: New York Post headline depicting Hillary Clinton as Macaulay Culkin in “Home Alone,” shortly before the suspension of her campaign. First row, right: Sushi Robot at Harbour Cafe, Washington Harbour, Georgetown. Second row: Funny [...]