Sunday, March 9, 2008
- @trey How you gonna get that stuff off of your upholstery? :) #
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Saturday, March 8, 2008
- living the hype. Angela and I just got a pair of iPhones. #
- @trey. Thanks. I’ll try to add something meaningful. We kept our old AT&T plan and just added iPhone data basic. #
- Watching the snow here in Franklin. About 3". #
- Watching Angela play Rayman Raving Rabbids on the Wii. Funny stuff. #
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Friday, March 7, 2008
- @postpostmodern: I still can’t believe that Cookeville - of all places - has citywide Wifi. #
- I wonder how @leolaporte feels about ZDNet filing Chapter 11. Also, how he feels being asked about it over and over. ;) #
- @postpostmodern As opposed to all the high quality citywide WiFi across the country? I think bad wifi > no wifi. #
- Why can’t I add Amazon MP3 downloads to my Wish Lists? #
- Golf now has it’s own Michael Vick http://tinyurl.com/2pbw98 #
- Every once in a while you find a site that makes you say "this is why the internet exists." http://brickarms.com #
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[0 # ]- Ever heard the one about all the scientists in the seventies who claimed the planet was cooling and that’s why we can’t trust scientists who now claim the planet is warming? Yeah, me too. Well, next time you hear it, you can point out it was never true in the first place. The consensus back then was that the planet was warming. We’re just more sure of it now after three decades of research.
Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center surveyed dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles from 1965 to 1979 and found that only seven supported global cooling, while 44 predicted warming. Peterson says 20 others were neutral in their assessments of climate trends. The study reports, “There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed into an imminent ice age. “A review of the literature suggests that, to the contrary, greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists’ thinking about the most important forces shaping Earth’s climate on human time scales.”
The journal article can be found here [.pdf]. via RealClimate [0 # ]
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
- From Wired:
Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, according to Stephen Chenault, CEO of Troll Lord Games. Gygax designed the original D&D game with Dave Arneson in 1974, and went on to create the Dangerous Journeys and Lejendary Adventure RPGs, as well as a number of board games.
Gygax’s legacy is that he helped to create much of what we now call gaming - be it with dice, on a computer, or on a console. His game was played by pretty much everyone my age (well, the males, anyway). He certainly won’t be forgotten.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
- I suppose no one should be shocked that the state that calls “Music City” its capital would end having clashes between music fans and copyright owners. Now, a state bill seeks to get state-funded universities to do some of the dirty work. From ArsTechnica:
A new bill proposed in the Tennessee state senate aims to reduce copyright infringement at universities by forcing the schools to become antipiracy enforcers. If passed, the bill would require universities that receive funding from the state to analyze all traffic passing through their networks in order to track down and stop infringing activity. Under the proposed bill, universities could lose state funding if they refuse to implement network analysis systems or if they receive ten or more infringement complaints from content owners during a single year.
Given much of a higher-learnings tainted record of on-campus law enforcement, I frankly don’t trust them to handle it from either side of the copyright issue. However, playing CSI - IT isn’t the universities job and we shouldn’t be putting the schools’ funding at risk to make them play along. [1 # ] - I can’t classify this as one of the greatest jobs in history, because the chance of getting killed is way too high. However, if you’re looking to read a story on some real bad-ass action heros, check out the current issue of Wired Magazine and their story on how Titan Salvage rescued a cargo ship full of Mazda cars.
They’re a motley mix: American, British, Swedish, Panamanian. Each has a specialty — deep-sea diving, computer modeling, underwater welding, big-engine repair. And then there’s Habib, the guy who regularly helicopters onto the deck of a sinking ship, greets whatever crew is left, and takes command of the stricken vessel. He’s been at sea since he was 18, and now, at 51, his tanned face, square jaw, and don’t-even-try-bullshitting-me stare convey a world-weary air of command. He holds an unlimited master’s license, which means he’s one of the select few who are qualified to pilot ships of any size, anywhere in the world.
Should Hollywood attempt to portray these guys, at least get Tommy Lee Jones to play Habib. And kids, stay in school. You’re going to need to learn some math to be a bad-ass like Rich Habib. [1 # ]
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
- This pretty much sums up, well, everything. Even if you think you know how to behave on the internet, you should probably watch it anyway.
How To Behave On An Internet Forum [1 # ]
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
- Cable and telcos side with Comcast in FCC BitTorrent dispute. From ArsTechnica:
But other parts of the private sector have sent the FCC urgent requests for protection from potentially unfair ISP behavior. Sony Electronics, which now offers a wide variety of legal content for its web-enabled TV sets, wrote to the Commission on February 13 asking for a clearer definition of “sensible” or “reasonable” management practices.
Yea, Sony!? Politics does make strange bedfellows. It’s good to see Sony on the right side — for once. [0 # ]
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
- One of the best parts of my childhood was Lego’s line of space kits. If you asked either of my brothers, I think they’d say the same. That’s why it was so cool to learn about Bjarn Tveskov, who got a job designing those kits for Lego in his late teens:
My LEGO career started when I was 17 years old; I saw an ad in the Sunday newspaper, they were looking for designers for the Space product line. No formal qualifications were required so just for fun I applied. They sent me a big box of LEGO bricks and asked me to create a Space model from imagination. Still got the model I made back then. At the interview I realized that the job was a full-time position in Billund, initially I thought that maybe it could be a freelance gig, but no. So when suddenly I was offered the job I had to ask my parents if it was OK if I quit high-school to become a Spaceship designer.
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