Archive for August, 2005

Build anything you can imagine – way too cool.
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Open this link in a new tab. Keep doing whatever you’re doing. Just listen as you work or surf.
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Update to yesterday’s post about the woman who got house arrest for killing a man: The federal Conservative Justice critic said Tuesday that cutting a woman off e-mail and ordering her to serve two years of house arrest for killing her cheating lover sends the wrong message. Here’s the full story. The judge says...
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Yes, yes, it’s expanding, increasing, growing so fast it’s exploding, but that’s not the subject of this post. Rastin Mehr is blogging, and that’s A Good Thing™. Rastin is in the Technology Solutions department at Premier, which I used to lead, and he’s doing all kinds of cool stuff there and on his own....
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I happen to subscribe to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Canadian news feeds, and I just got two that illustrate how absolutely unspeakably insane Canada’s laws are right now. Kill someone, stay at home Kill a man, but if you’re really quite a nice person normally, you get to stay at home. No jail, not...
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I’m doing some consulting work for The Linguist … mostly blogging at the Linguist blog, and I’ve been thinking about money-back or risk-free trial offers that make sense. Here’s one at Bigha. (I recently blogged about their Starseeker chair.) It’s for a revolutionary bike – a very expensive bike. And there’s a money-back guarantee....
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Recently at Seattle’s Woodland Zoo our youngest son Aidan jumped on a park bench and started hamming it up with an eagle sculpure. I grabbed the camera and staring shooting. Only later did we realize that – as can happen rather easily on my camera (Sony Cybershot DSCW1 5MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical...
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Two weeks ago I re-read Collapsium, by Wil McCarthy. The first book of McCarthy’s that I read was Bloom, which was absolutely mind-blowing – exactly the experience you get from top-notch science fiction. Collapsium is very, very good as well. Imagine a scientist – a shy and awkward scientist, to boot – as the...
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So, the labels want more for their songs. It’s well known that many record labels aren’t happy with the ‘one price fits all’ approach to digital music sales taken by iTunes, and there is speculation that when the contracts come up for renewal early next year some labels may not renew them unless Apple...
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… and it’s about making lots of money. Somebody, please, stop the insanity. (Via Jonathan Schwartz.)
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It’s blue. And it’s a flower. Hence the title.
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Whoa. Very, very, very cool – a rotating chair that holds your binoculars and tilts back so you can stargaze in comfort. I saw it first here, and there’s more info at the manufacturer’s site. From that site: Comfortable: A reclining chair supports your entire body Fun: Counterweighted mounting bar holds your choice of...
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This is a very cool idea – outsourcing to rural USA – that I hope catches on. The cost of living in rural USA is a quarter what it might be in a major city, so the wages can be lower, but the people are smart, local, able to communicate, and in a convenient...
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When we left Osoyoos for Seattle, we travelled down through Oroville, Washington. There’s nothing to make you feel that you’re in the (rural) US like dead deer heads in a gas station: We went down through Washingon, crossing through Leavenworth, which is a pretty prototypical tourist trap done up in Bavarian (nicer way of...
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