Yep, blogging is everywhere, even the South Pole. During this upcoming Southern Hemisphere Summer it’ll be interesting to check Michael Hoffman’s blog from Antarctica . He’s got a great photo gallery posted all ready. (If you see posts in German, scroll down a little. He’s blogging in both English and German, the smarty pants).
SweetRoxy215: are you a computer like Zola or a person like me? sylloge: I am just a normal person.
More US soldiers have died in Iraq than died in the first three years of the Vietnam War. Startling, but true it seems. There were 392 fatal casualties in 1962, ‘63 and ‘64 in Vietnam. The current US deathtoll in Iraq is up to 418 today– which includes the 2 Black Hawks shot down this weekend.
Who the hell says David Lynch is the world’s best director? A panel of judges picked by the UK Guardian, that’s who. They’ve compiled a list of The world’s 40 best directors There’s even an asinine, faux-empiric point score for each director– one that gives Terrence Malick and Steven Soderbergh an equal score of “85.”
From the guys who brought you Kazaa, comes the latest peer-to-peer network free lunch: Skype. Using the same peer-to-peer technology that allowed millions to connect and download each other’s music files, Skype allows users to talk to each other using voice over IP. If you have a fast connection to the internet, you never have to pay for long distance now.
The Ambient Orb slowly transitions between thousands of colors to show changes in the weather, the health of your stock portfolio, or if your boss or kid is on instant messenger.Just plug it into the wall and it gives you information by changing colors.
The CORNER SHOT is the ultimate solution for dealing with the deadly threats that lurk “around the corner” in a variety of tactical situations encountered by military and law enforcement personnel, anti-terror units and SWAT teams operating in open or built-up areas, inside buildings, rooms and enclosed spaces, and especially in forced entry situations.
Researchers at the University of Arizona have accidentally invented a pill which makes subjects thin, tan and horny.
Photos from the Sixth Annual Vintage Computer Festival held last month in Mountain View.
Nice site for the photographer John Arsenault. Careful of the flying bullets.
Is it just me or is Cardinal Ni
I like the looks of this site: tdcollins.com.
I definitely need a haircut, I think.
Holy Crap. Diebold vote count software could be the most dangerous piece of technology in the country. Not only is it incredibly easy to hack the diebold voting software and cover your tracks, but poll workers are prohibited by law from checking to see if the machines have been hacked (it’s proprietary software, afterall). How did we come to privatize the most public act we have as Americans? And why can’t the new machines just include a paper copy of your vote as backup? Our analysis shows that this voting system is far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts, said one Johns Hopkins University study of the Diebold software.
Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon has successfully brought to life a Simpsons gag by grafting a tomato plant onto tobacco roots to produce tomacco. It’s smooth and mild — and refreshingly addictive.
Space smells like a rather pleasant sweet metallic sensation. It reminded me of my college summers where I labored for many hours with an arc welding torch repairing heavy equipment for a small logging outfit. It reminded me of pleasant sweet smelling welding fumes. NASA’s ISS Science Officer Don Pettit describes what it smells like up there.
Magnum Photos has a terrific collection of photo features on their site from some of the best photographers in the world. There are a lot of great gems including the Elliot Erwitt photo on the left from the feature on Arnold in the ’70s.
Scientists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver are studying the possibility that some fish communicate in darkness by farting. I’m not shitting you. Here, go ahead, listen to a herring fart.
McDonald’s to give away 1 billion itunes downloads.
Take the Red Pill and The Meatrix shall be revealed to you.