Not that I was prior to now but I really can’t continue to rely on Boing Boing’s science reporting… There seems to frequently be critical details missing -OR- they’ve grossly (even dangerously) over-simplified the case. W/r/t/ “the orgasm article”, it seems they’ve done us all the great favor of verbatim posting Holstege’s description as “women […]
Smarts Mountain Climb (4) Originally uploaded by found_drama. A & I got in a short spell of vacation… We rented Hinman Cabin through the Dartmouth Outing Club this past weekend… The idea was good but things crapped out for us… /sigh A gas leak in the cabin required us to cut our trip short … […]
How far must it go before the copyright battle becomes a war? Via Boing Boing: Copyright cops crack down on cooks over cakes currently playing: a.Nov “Soda Walker”
From the IKEA website…: When you love pets there’s no way they could ever be too much. That’s almost a sentence. And almost as good as: Our pets may not have the best table manners, but that doesn’t matter with these practical solutions for feeding time. Since when has “feeding time” required “solutions”? I mean, […]
(Via Boing Boing) … “Prequel Generation Questions A New Hope”… The predictable aside (“Wow! Is the Death Star done already? I guess that’s how you know that a long time has passed.” How about the fact that Obiwan is much older? Or the fact that Luke is at least “man size” (if not yet a […]
About 6 months ago (you may recall), Google announced their Google Suggest beta project – – the idea being that they’ll “suggest” the top hits for a given string. So, with my interest piqued, I blogged the alphabet according to Google. More of a curiosity than anything else… I guess I’m not surprised that it’s […]
With a little help I made my first Dashboard Widget: the Oblique Strategies widget This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. For those unfamiliar with the Oblique Strategies, may I recommend Gregory Taylor’s site on the subject. Short version? Musician Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt, faced with the “creator’s block” […]
Took me a while to work up to this article in the most recent issue of Wired. But J Allard is now my new hero. First: But Allard insists that his plan is different […] To him, hi-def is about more than screen resolution [it’s about] a persistent, evolving online persona regardless of which game […]
No sooner do I get Malkovich set up than Apple makes the announcement at WWDC ’05. har har har The comment thread on Engadget’s livecast was worth a good gander. The same mix of uninformed knee-jerk reactions and “oh yeah!” insightfulness one would expect from that crowd. But the two most interesting [p]reactions were on […]
Recent criticism aside, sometime I just fucking love Dilbert.