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- James Lileks discusses Fantasia and the music therein. "People had come to expect light jokey whimsy from Disney; they expected animation miracles the same way... |
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- Of all the astounding claims made by the present administration -- and from the economy to the war in Iraq, there have been plenty -- the one I find utterly incomprehensible is the frequent comparison to Ronald Reagan. Its hard to imagine two Presidents less alike in American history than Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. |
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- The Toyota PM. Check out this hyperfuturistic single-person concept car that Toyota showed off at the recent Tokyo Motor Show. Besides looking it's traveled back in time, the Toyota PM (which stands for "Personal Mobility") has a floating virtual holographic display for accessing vehicle data and a system for communicating with other PMs so that they can travel all together in a pack. Read [Thanks, Adrian]... [Gizmodo] |
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- An interesting article on blog advertising, featuring commentary and observations from BlogAds God Henry Copeland. Of course, the biggest advertising opportunity on blogs is through jackasses spamming their fly-by-night ads in the comments section. Not a day goes by without... |
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- DES MOINES -- Howard Dean issued the following statement in response to reports that the bipartisan 9/11 commission could soon be forced to issue subpoenas to the White House and other executive branch agencies because of continuing delays by the... |
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- Hopefully all of you who are attending the PDC are now holding a copy of Brent Rector's Developers' Guide to Longhorn in your hands. Brent was kind enough to send me a soft copy of his book, so I got to read some fun stuff from our old Essential COM days back at DevelopMentor that didn't make it past the editors (they just don't get it, do they, Brent?) This is an excellent book. Brent delivers a very clear and organized introduction to the vast API space of Longhorn. There's detailed coverage of XAML, MSBuild, WinFS, data binding, Indigo. |
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- Slate: The Best Search Idea Since Google. Steven Johnson. For logical reasons, Amazon seems to have designed "search inside" to help readers find text in books that they haven't bought yet. But there's just as much opportunity to apply "search inside" to books you already own. |
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- The Senate Judiciary Committee will tomorrow hold a confirmation hearing for Fourth Circuit nominee Claude A. Allen: I had previously promised to explain why some are likely to oppose this nominee. An article published this past Saturday in The Richmond |
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- Much of the information content of Apple's iTunes Music Store is provided by Muze Inc., a source of entertainment product information for music, books, videos and games. And the company's founder and CEO, Paul Zullo, feels that the online music experience will only improve in the days ahead. [MacCentral] Good quick read... |
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- Citizen Smash has all you need to know about the California fires, with plenty of links, photos and current information. BigWig has an Afterlife Dormitory Roommate List. It must be hell, because I see that Tom Tomorrow is bunking with... |
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- "The Consequences of Casual Conversations: Michael Schiavo's argument that his wife wants to die stems from an off-hand remark she made while watching a movie. It isn't the first time this has happened." Wesley J. Smith today has this essay online at The |
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- Devo tornare ancora una volta su Kill Bill. Mi ero doppiamente sbagliato: il duello giapponese si svolge sulle note di una canzone di Toto Cutugno. (pregasi compulsare l’apposito sito) |
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- OK. This is just too good. To my colleagues: you know who this is. [Dilbert] |
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- Similar in theme to "The Stand", but much funnier, we have JOOOS!: You probably are wondering why the Jews... |
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- Bigwig is moving along on his intended goal of scanning interesting and important essays that haven't made it to... |
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- I'm actually surprised it took this long for someone to come up with a Lego Cthulu. "How odd it... |
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Score! (Oct 27 2003 20:46 GMT) - Alfa wons its 7th European Touring Car Championship! Woo-hoo! ETCC is about as close to NASCAR as Europe gets...... |
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Bus (Oct 27 2003 20:46 GMT) - Scott and I saw this bus in D.C. outside of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. We did not take... |
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- The T-shirt reads "Rotten". Kinda says it all, eh? Doomed I tell you... doomed...... |
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- Fark linked up this bizzare account of the discovery of 400 lb + boulders perched high in the branches... |
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Ultra Rice (Oct 27 2003 20:46 GMT) - BBCnews has this article on what could be the absolute ultimate in ricer tech... a guy in Bangladesh who... |
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- The civet cat has long been highly prized for its tender meat, which is reputed to help blood circulation,... |
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- Created in 1928 by Walter Deimer, an accountant in Philadelphia, the perennial treat was pegged Dubble Bubble by its... |
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- wxPython can be installed on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) after installing MacPython. However, the installation of wxPython will fail.... |
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- After flying in last night on a viciously cramped Spirit Air flight, I can understand why people would want to buy the Knee Defender, a simple device that prevents the person in front of you from reclining. They've reduced... |
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- After flying in last night on a viciously cramped Spirit Air flight, I can understand why people would want to buy the Knee Defender, a simple device that prevents the person in front of you from reclining. They've reduced... |
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phew (Oct 27 2003 20:45 GMT) - okay. got my class attribute fix. /* target="_blank" workaround */ function externalLinks() { if (!document. getElementsByTagName) return; |
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- CNET: Cyberpiracy north of the border. The Recording Industry Association of America is suing hundreds of Americans for allegedly sharing copyrighted music on peer-to-peer networks. But so far, their Canadian neighbors have not been targeted for file swapping, even though networks such as Kazaa, Grokster and Morpheus appear to be just as popular north of the border. |
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- Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Steyn tries to get a chuckle out of the following story. As you'll see, it turns out remarkably forced, ignorant and culturally insensitive. "Last month mass hysteria apparently swept the capital city, Khartoum, after reports that foreigners were shaking hands with Sudanese men and causing their penises to disappear. One victim, a fabric merchant, told his story to the London Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. A man from West Africa came into the shop and 'shook the store owner's hand powerfully until the owner felt his penis melt into his body. |
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- Ron DuFresne (Oct 27 2003) |
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- SGI Security Coordinator (Oct 27 2003) |
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- SGI Security Coordinator (Oct 27 2003) |
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- SGI Security Coordinator (Oct 27 2003) |
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- Stefan Larsson (Oct 27 2003) |
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- CARNIVAL OF THE CAPITALISTS, a collection of economics- and business-related blog posts from all sorts of bloggers, is up.... |
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- CARNIVAL OF THE CAPITALISTS, a collection of economics- and business-related blog posts from all sorts of bloggers, is up.... |
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- Reuters meldet, daß Microsoft ins MP3 Player-Geschäft einsteigen will: »Microsoft Corp. said on Monday that it would launch software for a new portable media device to be launched next year that will allow users to listen to music and watch movies on the road.... |
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- »Der häufigste Grund für PC-Stress sind laut Symantec «PC Pests», alltägliche Systemfehler wie Langsamkeit, Systemabstürze oder Aufhänger. Ein hohes Aggressionspotential bergen auch Spam-Mails, Pop-Up-Werbung, Viren oder versehentlich gelöschte Dateien. -- Laut Symantec sind die User für den Frust oft selbst verantwortlich. Nur elf Prozent der Befragten benutzt Software, um die Geschwindigkeit des Rechners zu erhöhen und nur neun Prozent nutzten einen Spamfilter.« [mehr bei... |
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- Following is a statement by Sen. Patrick Leahy in reaction to Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell's suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its final New Source Review rule changes, published today: |
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- I once read that flying in Concorde was the equivalent of getting a chest x-ray if you did the crossing during a solar storm. Not a good idea for the staff. My favourite site for Northern lights has a magnetometer . Look at www.northern-lights. |
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- Well, that took longer than we expected - the Boston Red Sox has released grady Little. (Yes, the article says... |
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- Alan, Brian, and D'Arcy are still at it: Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Trackback, and Weblogs. Excellent. Done with Macromedia Breeze. If RSS and blogging makes no sense to you (especially in an educational context), this presentation will clarify things.... |
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- A leading human rights organization is urging that Afghanistan's new constitution include support for women's and human rights. |
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