Thursday 7/31/03 §
We've got a pretty good view of the Blue Angels' Seafair practice flights from our office in Bellevue, although there's another building obstructing a full view. At a couple of points they flew quite close to us. Most cool.
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From Punk to Parent: Cleveland Scene profiles unusual parents. Hey, I guess S&M fetishists, male strippers, and cardboard-box drummers yearn for families too. Fascinating.
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Wednesday 7/30/03 §
Speakeasy informs me that my DSL may be down for "as long as" half an hour starting at 11:30 PM Pacific tonight. Maintenance is to be performed. So, if you can't or couldn't get to this site around then, that's why.
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Darren Barefoot admits, "I like any documentation that includes the phrase Insert trousers." (Boing Boing)
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Grant Barrett tells the nation's unemployed geeks how to make a killing in freelance technical support. It would take more patience than I have to do this kind of work, so those of you who want it, go get it. (randomWalks)
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A Bad Trip Down Memory Lane - New York Times Magazine article about Susan Clancy's experiences attempting to do research on the subject of false recovered memories. Harrowing yet at times humorous. Read it quick before it retreats behind the for-pay curtain. (Follow Me Here)
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Sex on wheels is not just the title of a My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult song anymore. (#mefi)
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Thursday 7/24/03 §
Real human flight just got a whole lot closer. By the way, be sure to check out the name of the guy who wrote that article. Can that be real? (MetaFilter)
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Grab yourself some cool retro video game fonts today. (memepool)
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Seen on a license plate frame on a fine Saturn automobile this morning: "Mess with my Saturn, and I'll kick Uranus."
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Tuesday 7/22/03 §
How to get a copy of Apple's Final Cut Express on the cheap: first, pick up a copy of Adobe Premiere on eBay (using, say, this auction which offers several copies for $115 and no shipping charge). Then order the Final Cut Express competitive upgrade from Apple for free. That Premiere CD is worth $500 off Final Cut Pro, as well, if you want the professional version.
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Tuesday 7/15/03 §
Make your own Web browser with zero lines of code. (RandomWalks, indirectly)
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The L. A. Times has a disturbing article about what passes for film school at the University of California Santa Barbara these days. As bad as you think the cinema is today, it's clearly going to get a whole lot worse. (Flutterby)
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Friday 7/11/03 §
The AmbiEntrance bills itself as being devoted to "spreading the word about ambient, electronic, experimental and plenty of etc." Aside from the clever domain name, which can be interpreted at least three ways (although their preferred capitalization makes the intent sadly unambiguous), I found it most fascinating that the word "music" does not appear on the site's main page. You have to already know that the site's about music to make any sense whatsoever of "ambient, electronic, experimental and plenty of etc." I wonder how well such deliberate vagueness works.
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I was at the Lynnwood Fred Meyer's last night. They had an "end cap" display of boxes of assorted chocolates suitable for giving as gifts. At the top of the display was a sign proclaiming these to be Chocolate Gift Solutions. Apparently, a lack of chocolate is now to be classified as a problem. (Not that this is an entirely unreasonable position to take, of course.) Why give someone a mere gift, when you can give them a solution to their chocolate deficit instead?
File this under "signs of the chocopalypse."
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Thursday 7/10/03 §
McBusted: portrait of a corporation in crisis. If you think Arch Deluxe was a debacle, wait until you read about "Innovate." (mkelley.net)
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A suggestion to the computer industry: most CD burners have a feature known as "buffer under-run prevention." Sanyo, the originator of the technology, calls it BURN-Proof, but this is unwieldy, and also implies that the drives cannot catch fire, which is false. I propose that this feature henceforth be referred to as BURP. Thank you for your time.
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Dasher is a gesture-based input method that works with pen computers, digitizer tablets, mice, or alternative input devices. Using eye-tracking, Dasher can achieve input speeds of 25 WPM (comparable to handwriting), which is useful for people who can't move much more than their eyes. (Bifurcated Rivets)
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The Short Woman wonders why Fannie Mae, a "quasi-government corporation" whose function most of us have only a very vague idea about, is spending money on touchy-feely TV spots.
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Noh meets ping-pong meets The Matrix in this brilliant live clip from a Japanese TV show. (Windows Media Player required.) (leuschke.org)
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Tuesday 7/8/03 §
Greetings Earthlings! Ed Lu writes about his experiences aboard the International Space Station -- while he's there. If he posted more often and sprinkled a few links into the mix, we might call it a blog. (leuschke.org)
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Part 1 of a four-part series on the brain: How Language Stunts the Brain. Some deeper background on that amazing story about magnetic brain stimulation from a couple of weeks ago. (dangerousmeta)
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Monday 7/7/03 §
If you fancy spending your next vacation with a spirit, check out Ghost in my Suitcase, your guide to haunted travel in America.
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Morbid Orbits Ultra Fractal Gallery. Very cool deformed fractals, some almost Giger-like.
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Wednesday 7/2/03 §
Duuuuuude. (Obscure Store)
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Tuesday 7/1/03 §
"One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else." Frankly astonishing and moving. (Antipixel)
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Dennis Miller: conservative sympathizer or liberal sell-out? (MetaFilter)
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