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I had originally whipped up 2.0 RLY OWL for the Web 2.Oh No! Pool, traced in Photoshop from the original O RLY OWL, then goopified into the gradiated, shiny, reflect-y style that Strong Bad calls “molten plexiglass.” 2.0 RLY OWL has since then garnered thousands of views, 20 faves, and is now my #2 most […]
Still on the topic of squirrels, there’s apparently a new sport going around called “Squirrel Fishing.” It’s like fishing, but, as hinted at by the name, it’s for squirrels. You put nuts on the end of a line (no barbed hook, I guess, since you don’t want to hurt the critters), and try to lift […]
It’s Holy Week in the Philippines, and you know what that means? That’s right, it’s time for Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Neal H. Cruz’s Annual Attack on The Bible! I’ve seen him re-issuing this same column with little variation, pretty much every single year, using the same tired old straw-man arguments. It annoys me to […]
There was a lovely total solar eclipse over parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia yesterday. See the photo galleries from Spaceweather, BBC, various Flickr users, and the International Space Station. (Crossposted to Metafilter.)
(Set1294_01, uploaded by brownpau.) They are not nuclear wessels, but wessels nonetheless. Taken June 2004 with a very fuzzy-lensed Zire 71. Update: I added this photo to the Flickr Star Trek Group Pool, but the admin removed it. Bunch of humorless Vulcans.
You know what really bothers me about the whole Yahoo-Flickr deal? Take a look at each of these sites: RocketMail eGroups Geocities OddPost Overture Inktomi Launch ViaWeb (note that they didn’t even bother renewing the domain) Broadcast.com GamesDomain DotMusic Simplenet.net All of them were bought by Yahoo sometime between the late 1990s and early 2000s. […]
Flickr is merging logins with Yahoo. That makes me quite sad and dejected, not because of the convenience of having one less login and password to deal with, but because someone else got “brownpau” on Yahoo long before me, and whoever it is has not answered my polite requests and offers of financial recompense for […]
(Continued from “Gloria Resign?”) Gloria not resigning. Recent history continues to repeat itself in the Philippines: an embattled president dogged by scandal and corruption now faces — and refuses — intensifying calls to resign, with various opposition factions now massing in the streets to protest her defiance. She now faces impeachment, which, like the last […]
Terror attacks in London. So far, three Underground trains and a bus have been bombed. It looks like BBC’s being very conservative with the casualty count, and is wisely avoiding the flurry of rumors which always follows an incident such as this. And speaking of rumors, a heretofore unkonwn Al Qaeda group has claimed responsibility. […]
DC had a bit of evacuation action yesterday, when a single-engine Cessna wandered into the DC no-fly zone and triggered alarms in the Capitol, House and Senate office buildings, and the White House. People were evacuated, fighter jets and helicopters were scrambled, warning flares were fired, the plane was diverted, two confused amateur pilots were […]