2008 Jul 9, 9:59Lively is apparently a coming soon Google app that's like a web page embeddable version of Second Life.
via:felix42 second-life lively google webservices web2.0 2008 Jul 7, 5:26"888-8888. This was his new cell-phone number, and his greatest philonumerical triumph. The number proved unusable. It received more than a hundred wrong numbers a day."
apple prank wired article phone education steve-wozniak 2008 Jul 7, 11:38Many sets of twins board a subway and act innocent forming a sort of mirror on the train.
humor prank video subway nyc performance-art via:boingboing 2008 Jul 7, 10:44"My sons Arthur, 5, and Gustav, 3, are obsessed with the New York City subway system."
humor art nyc subway via:ethan_t_hein 2008 Jul 4, 8:18Trailer for Flying Saucer Rock-n-Roll.
movie trailer eric-callero video 2008 Jun 30, 3:57"Firewalls, packet filters, intrusion detection systems, and the like often have difficulty distinguishing between packets that have malicious intent and those that are merely unusual. We define a
security flag in the IPv4 header as a means of distinguis
humor rfc security ipv4 ip 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 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 24, 10:03
sequelguy posted a photo:
canada tree sarah victoria hallway 2008 Jun 24, 10:02
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I thought the phrase 'Im seein robots' was funny.
canada graffiti victoria robots 2008 Jun 24, 9:59
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We ate at Camille's on our trip. It was a bit dressier than we had anticipated but the food was very good.
Camille's
45 Bastion Sq.
Victoria, BC V8W 1J1
Phone Number: (250) 381-3433
canada restaurant victoria camille 2008 Jun 24, 9:51
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canada garden victoria hallway 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, 4:21Funny quotes + Billy Mays coverage! "He appears to be saying 'I am a carnie huckster, you know it and I know it, but that's OK because this product is that good.'"
tv infomercial advertising article 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 19, 2:49
Sarah received her Wii Fit a few weeks ago. The Wii Fit is a game for the Wii and a
balance board accessory that can tell how you're standing on it: leaning forward, standing on one foot, leaning backward and mostly on your left foot, etc. The game puts you through various
exercises grouped into the categories of aerobic, balance, strength, and yoga. It also lets you set goals and keeps track of how well you do, how long you play, and a graph of your weight.
The portion I didn't expect were the mind games. Sarah turned it on after not using it for a day and it said something to the effect of 'Oh, didn't have time to exercise yesterday? Huh.
Interesting....' I'm paraphrasing of course but the Wii Fit was definitely trying to lay down some guilt. In another instance when starting up the Wii Fit Sarah was asked 'Did you know that Dave
has been using Wii Fit?' She selected yes and it then asked her how she thought I was progressing giving her four options. She selected the worst one, that I was getting worse (jokingly I hope) and
it told her to tell me that, but not to use those words. In conversation Sarah should mention to me that I've been "living large". Now I'm not paraphrasing. It reminded me a bit of this xkcd comic 'Zealous Autoconfig'. Hopefully this is the extent of the manipulation and mind games that the Wii Fit will perform.
xkcd wii-fit sarah guilt nontechnical wii 2008 Jun 19, 11:57I saw '"Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl", an installation by Mandy Greer' at Bumbershoot and again at the Bellevue Arts Museum with some other of Mandy Greer's work. I must resist urge to roll
around on the yarn everytime.
photo art mandy-greer bumbershoot 2008 Jun 18, 4:44More photos of reverse graffiti created by cleaning images onto dirty public walls.
art graffiti photos cultural-disobediance 2008 Jun 18, 12:44Bruce Schneier writes about LifeLock for which you've probably seen the comercials of the CEO parading around his SSN. I was wondering what LifeLock actually did.
bruce-schneier identity fraud credit article wired security privacy lifelock 2008 Jun 17, 12:32Some of my favs: UFOs creating pyramids, a periodic table of elements consisting of 'Air', 'Water', 'Fire', etc., and satin in overalls burying fossils. I'm surprised by the lack of FSM.
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