2008 Jul 15, 3:50This is 'Dr. Horrible' (Neil Patrick Harris) a man in love, and also a super villain fighting Nathan Fillion. This is all Joss Whedon's Internet only awesome thing. Its free if you watch now but
eventually it will go away unless you pay for it.
humor geek super-hero internet media video tv joss-whedon neil-patrick-harris nathan-fillion via:ericlaw 2008 Jul 15, 3:47Lots of meta info on 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog', Joss Whedon's Internet only hilarious and awesome project.
humor geek super-hero internet media video tv joss-whedon neil-patrick-harris nathan-fillion 2008 Jul 9, 5:37Moore proposes magical divination fills function of generating random outcomes. E.g. shaman reading cracks in caribou bones determines where to hunt avoiding over hunting particular areas or the game
picking up hunters patterns. Wish this wasn't pay site.
random game-theory anthropology divination magic 2008 Jul 9, 1:37
In my previous home, just after I moved in, my neighbor which was the city of Redmond's various city government buildings, decided to build a parking
structure. This was maybe 30 feet from my window, lasted for at least a year and would regularly wake me up at seven or eight in the morning. Determined to not be so punctual for work, I got
earplugs which meant in addition to not hearing the construction outside, I couldn't hear my alarm. I had an idea for a combination ear plug, headphone, alarm clock that I never did anything with,
except to write down the phrase "earplug / headphone / alarm clock" on a list that I just now found. In retrospect, I think this problem might be too specific to result in my earplug alarm clock
selling well.
idea earplug headphone alarm clock random nontechnical 2008 Jul 9, 10:30"Shows how a gold-mantled ground squirrel at Crater Lake National Park has learned to solve problems connected with getting food." Very camp but enjoyable and cute
google video squirrel cute animal 2008 Jul 3, 12:17Humorous Obama bumper sticker that says: "Re-elect *SENATOR* John McCain 2008 [Arizona Flag]"
politics humor bumper-sticker via:boingboing 2008 Jul 3, 10:12"Fast hashing of variable-length text strings", from Source Communications of the ACM archive Volume 33 , Issue 6 (June 1990) Pages: 677 - 680, Year of Publication: 1990, Author Peter K. Pearson,
Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA
hash programming acm reference 2008 Jun 30, 3:55FCC wants nationwide free wifi that's free of porn. They should read this. "Periodically there are proposals to mandate the use of a special top level name or an IP address bit to flag "adult"
"unsafe" material or the like. This document explains why thi
domain dns rfc ietf internet porn government politics censorship 2008 Jun 30, 3:46Opera's solution to minimal security domain determination: "The drafts describe 1) Opera's current "rule of thumb" implementation that uses DNS in an attempt to confirm the validity of a domain, and
2) a proposed new HTTP based lookup service that retur
opera rfc ietf cookie http internet browser dns domain 2008 Jun 25, 2:50A few interesting interface ideas for a dual-display reading device.
video book interface ui 2008 Jun 25, 12:26
The weekend before last was Sarah's birthday and as part of
that, last weekend we took a trip to Victoria, BC. I've got a map of our trip locations and photos. Not all the
photos are on the map but they're all in the trip photo set on Flickr. It turns out there's a lot of tourist intended
activities right around our hotel which was in the inner harbor and downtown Victoria area. As such we didn't get a rental car and did a lot of walking.
On the first day we checked out the Royal British Columbia Museum which had
some interesting exhibits in it and the Undersea Garden which was interesting in that its like a floating aquarium but was a bit grimy. There was a group of Japanese tourists next to us during the
undersea show in which a diver behind the glass in the ocean would pick up and parade various animal life. The group all repeated the word starfish in unison after the show's narrator and one of
the tourists was very excited to see the diver bring over the octopus. The diver made the octopus wave to us while it desperately tried to get away.
We flew in and out of the Victoria International Airport
which is a smaller sized airport. Although we needed our passports we didn't need to take off our shoes -- what convenience! The US dollar was just a bit worse than the Canadian dollar which was
also convenient. The weather was lovely while we were there and I only got slightly sun burned.
victoria canada vacation nontechnical 2008 Jun 19, 6:08Argh!! "Unfortunately for its users, the mail-rental outlet has decided to kill the profile feature in just a couple of months, a move that is already prompting an outcry around the Internet."
netflix article movie lame customer-service 2008 Jun 19, 4:25Its the 90s version of the information economy: "He has noticed a new behaivor among his native hosts. If they are young, they want to borrow his phone and mine if for goodies they can copy."
mobile phone data technology blog kevin-kelly 2008 Jun 19, 4:07"An elevated walkway through the trees by Marks Barfield Architects has opened at Kew Gardens in London." Brings up memories of so many intricate treehouse drawings as a child.
nature london design architecture tree 2008 Jun 16, 3:57An awesome and frightening photo of a tornado.
photo nature tornado weather news via:swannman 2008 Jun 10, 4:52"...we were able to generate hundreds of real DMCA takedown notices for ... nonsense devices including several printers and a (non-NAT) wireless access point."
security bittorrent copyright dmca legal mpaa piracy printer research riaa washington 2008 Jun 10, 3:34ArsTechnica has an interview with FCC commissioner Jonathan Adelstein. Talks about policy in general with an eye towards net neutrality.
interview fcc jonathan-adelstein arstechnica article 2008 Jun 10, 3:10Interview with guy from "the Seasteading Institute, the brainchild of two Silicon Valley software developers, aims to develop self-sufficient deep-sea platforms that would empower individuals to
break free of the cozy cartel of 190-odd world governments a
community politics seasteading society article arstechnica
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