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(84 Words. February 02, 2012, 07:50 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I wish someone would explain to me how it is that making Google products less useful improves Google’s projected profitability. It sure as hell make me pissed off every other day. That link is to an explanation of how to access actual useful search results on a tablet, missing since August. The key is an override in the results URL,…

Wednesday: SNOWMAGGEDON
(10 Words. January 16, 2012, 04:43 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
“eight to fifteen inches” overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning. Maybe….

Connections
(369 Words. December 21, 2011, 04:29 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
A day well spent crawling on the floor amid cables, wrestling with KVMs and trying to grok all the myriad favors of DVI. A used DVI KVM picked up cheap works great but not with the equally cheaply acquired Apple DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI. The adapter is supposed to show some sort of firmware info in a system info panel…

deactivation
(71 Words. December 07, 2011, 06:59 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I have deactivated my facebook account, because instead of feeling interest in my friends, I want to pick fights with them, or anybody. It is a similar feeling to that which led me to deactivate my MetaFilter account. I am sure it will pass. With any luck I will be interested enough in this blog to work on some code…

ex gReader PM weighs in on UI redesign
(225 Words. November 01, 2011, 04:13 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Brian Shih on the new gR UI: Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision? Google released the previously announced set of changes around G+ integration and UI updates today, and boy is it a disaster. … …it’s as if whoever made the update did so without ever actually using the product to, you know, read something. When you log into…

Zero History
(291 Words. April 29, 2011, 10:34 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Finally started Gibson’s Zero History, which I had been putting off for months. I’m happy to report it is entertaining me very much. The book is about industrial espionage in the global clothing industry. A major supporting character is introduced wearing a ridiculous suit in International Klein Blue, and the hardback’s boards are this color. This little joke make…

Things noted or lernt
(112 Words. December 07, 2009, 04:34 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
1. My fret hand’s calluses are less than shipshape. Work is called for. 2. Longjohns are a thing of transcendant beauty 3. Small calico cats with street time in their lives are fast, fast, fast and sneaky, sneaky sweet. They come home for dinner though. 4. Swiss chard does not take to the freezins, instead going all pear shaped….

Twenty
(1638 Words. June 04, 2009, 05:03 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
initially posted as a comment on MetaFilter earlier today In summer of 1989 I was in college and had been taking some summer courses. In one class I was taking, a drawing class, a fellow student and I were the most accomplished draftsmen in the class. Interested in each other’s work and one another, we struck up a casual…

Seeker
(3 Words. May 03, 2009, 09:50 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Happy birhday, Pete….

Goodbye, Caleb
(691 Words. April 24, 2009, 07:32 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Last night I learned that my acquaintance Caleb Schaber had killed himself in Gerlach, Nevada about a week ago. I met Caleb here in Seattle sometime in the 1990s. He was living in a space called ‘the Ballard Playhouse’ that had once been a neighborhood theater; he was living in the former projector room. He was pals with my…

gone
(10 Words. April 23, 2009, 11:11 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Caleb Schaber apparently offed himself in Nevada last week. Bummer….

Rest in peace
(27 Words. March 26, 2009, 09:50 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
A colleague of my father’s and a dear family friend passed away in Switzerland overnight. His family was with him. We will be remembering him fondly today….

Fog
(35 Words. January 20, 2009, 06:34 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Oh the clammy fog clings close and thick tonight. Strange that on this day of hope and triumph a ghost story would be the best tale to whisper tonight in and on the Puget Sound….

Once again
(8 Words. November 15, 2008, 10:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
S. Clay Wilson down, recovery uncertain. Fuck….

Jesse wept.
(56 Words. November 04, 2008, 09:33 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
On this moving night, one which challenges my deep-seated cynicism and negativity, the psychological moment of the evening that most engages me is encapsulated in the tears of Jesse Jackson in Grant Park. I wanted nothing more than to grasp him and hold him in sympathy, in recognition of the transparency and complexity of his emotion….

Goo
(57 Words. October 13, 2008, 10:50 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
LOVING World of Goo. If Tim Burton and Dr Seuss had been admirers of Lemmings, This might be something they could have made. It reminds me of Oddworld, to an extent, and also the Neverhood, my favorite ’90s computer game. Less in the particulars than the feel with respect to Neverhood, I guess….

Trumpeter
(36 Words. October 07, 2008, 08:34 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
My ex-bandmate Karel apparently died yesterday. It’s sad news. Here is a portrait I took for a demo cover back in 2001. He was wearing his guitar - you can see the strap on his shoulder….

hunh
(15 Words. September 26, 2008, 05:22 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Well, wasn’t that a week? I want to see some ass kicking tonight. Fingers crossed….

best!
(28 Words. September 17, 2008, 06:27 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The halo, as seen in news pics of politicos, has been commented upon in these pages before. This would appear to be the post-modern culmination of the art….

Not again
(13 Words. August 30, 2008, 06:44 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Seriously. PLEASE, not again. Gustav’s MeFi thread. The Times-Picayune’s NOLA site….

Water
(30 Words. August 19, 2008, 09:52 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I am loving this rain. Supposedly we’re in for 23 mph winds later - man, I hope so. The air is still not clean from the heat wave this weekend….

Cool
(19 Words. August 09, 2008, 05:07 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Remarkable. It’s barely 55 degrees Fahrenheit and raining under cloudy skies. This installment of the two-week summers looks closed….

Heat
(67 Words. June 29, 2008, 05:02 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
SOL INVICTUS has banish’d FALSE WINTER at long last. LET THE PROLETARIAN RESISTANCE TO HEAT BEGIN! I mean, I’m ready for the sun and all but my mist-clad veins prefer the wan light which heats with gentility and manner, in opposition to the wanton, savage rage of the flaming orb currently wilting plants to the far-flung corners of my…

Booger.
(53 Words. June 22, 2008, 10:59 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
RIP, George Carlin. I originally constructed this post with no content but the Words proper. Then I thought of the 69 year old I am corresponding with concerning genealogy who complimented me on my website. So I’ll wait a while. On the other hand, Mr. Carlin was 71 when he died….

BLIZZARD
(18 Words. April 18, 2008, 06:56 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
OK, in the past ten minutes, half-an-inch of snow has accumulated, and if anything, it’s snowing harder. ….

NOT AGAIN
(11 Words. April 18, 2008, 06:45 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
My corn. Yes. Sigh. Again. My lettuce and broccoli and onions….

Obfuscatory elisions
(99 Words. April 13, 2008, 11:45 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Certain of my esteemed readership have decried with confternation a recent addition to this publication, viz. In particular the emotive and affected tone of urgenfy, in combination with a most genteel lack of germane or illuminating detailf, has raised alarums in the heartf of certain more senfitive personf among the readerfhip. Thus, a clarification: neither illnefs nor emergenfy has afflicted…

The Modern World
(72 Words. April 11, 2008, 07:20 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I just received news which has me in a state of utter discombobulation, but which should not, really. I lack a behavioral model to appeal to. I think I know how to be gracious in the situation. My goodness. I can’t think of a single person I know who has ever been in this situation. My situation, that is, not…

the black of night swirled down before his eyes
(5 Words. March 28, 2008, 08:17 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
NYT: Robert Fagles dead. RIP….

That's enough now
(14 Words. March 28, 2008, 02:45 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
That will be enough winter weather, thank you. Please, feel free to leave now….

Fire
(99 Words. December 19, 2007, 07:14 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Fire in White House Complex. The affected office apparently is part of the Vice Presidential office suite. No-one’s ever gone wrong believing the worst of this administration, so: Could it be arson? Could some records be destroyed by the fire? Could it turn out that the arson, if found, was at the direction of unnamed members of the executive branch?…

Flood
(118 Words. February 25, 2007, 05:45 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Thanks to Mugu Brainpan, I wonder if the triumph that is the They Might Be Giants LP Flood moughtn’t relate to the ‘hermetic artist’ Robert Fludd. In a previous online life, copious speculation on a graphic-design email list I belonged to led to the enunciation of a postulated theory of hermetic design, as modernist design principles are closely founded…

Islamic geometry
(80 Words. February 24, 2007, 10:01 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Here’s the Beeb on that story about the advanced geometry of Islamic art I was flappin’ my gums about at Greg and Stacey’s t’other day. The coverage doesn’t capture the “NO SHIT, SHERLOCK” sense I had as I listened to the coverage, but the last time I really had the same sense of the obvious was listening to Colin…

Laughter ensued
(24 Words. February 16, 2007, 11:11 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
nyt_02162007.jpg 1008×1117 pixels (via BB): Oh, they don’t look all THAT divided. Perhaps some fresh black metal ‘zine subscriptions would pick them right up….

Apple Torrrent
(131 Words. February 16, 2007, 07:44 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Cringely pulls some amusing speculation outta his piehole on why a) iTV has a hard drive and b) iTV, Mini, and the new-model Airport all are designed as stackable components. Where others would boldy solve the conundrum with cries of ‘design obsessives!’, der Cringler connects the dots via Unca Stevie’s recently declared jihad on DRM and foresees Apple edging…

Yoornalista
(166 Words. February 14, 2007, 06:44 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
I totally missed the memo, but TCJ editor emeritus Dirk Deppey has bravely picked up the banner of the sorely missed Journalista chez fanta. Several years ago, Dirk launched the site embedded in the upolished confies of the Fantagraphics website and within months, due simply to absurd internet diligence, had transformed the site into not only the single-best comics…

I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive and it loves me
(481 Words. February 11, 2007, 12:01 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I received an email (presumably due to these blog posts) from the owners of Tacoma’s hallowed Java Jive at the end of January and promptly forgot to post it here. Forthwith: “I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive and it loves me”. Those words have been the life story of the little Coffee Pot on…

NM Me
(69 Words. January 23, 2007, 06:43 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
As the prez describes his enemies I have to remark that his delineation of an implacable enemy of liberty, driven by a narrow and inflexible ideology which celebrates the sacrifice of humanitarian value in the pursuit of an hegemonic dominance under the banner of a fundamentalist creed, I hearken to what appears to me a thoughtful self-portrait of the…

Oh, man.
(31 Words. January 05, 2007, 06:14 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Somehow Bart’s feed fell off my feedreader and when I dug up b.rox.com this evening I was horrified by what I read. My deepest sympathies to everyone affected by this….

Pinochet
(625 Words. December 10, 2006, 05:46 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Gen. Augusto Pinochet, dead at 91. My family and I lived in in Viña del Mar, Chile during the year 1969, and many of my earliest memories are set in our house and nearby. I recall playing outside in the wintry June air and various details of life in Chile in those days, details that reveal much about Chile’s…

Cold and Hot
(7 Words. December 04, 2006, 09:54 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
There’s good news and bad news….

The industrial complex inside an eggplant
(240 Words. October 27, 2006, 10:27 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
“Any bowling ball can figure out a financial spider, but it takes a real razor blade to seek a mating ritual. If a surly pork chop dances with a boiled grizzly bear, then the tape recorder around a stovepipe dies. Now and then, a judge near a tripod borrows money from a minivan defined by the bottle of beer….

DJ Matty sees the bars
(12 Words. October 18, 2006, 05:59 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Matt Uhlmann spent some time in Orleans Parish Prison this weekend. Unbelievable….

FG retail
(47 Words. October 18, 2006, 05:47 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Eric Reynolds chez local pornographers Fantagraphics notes the impending arrival of the Fantagraphics Mega Mart, which, sadly for me, is within easy walking distance of my workplace. Happily for al, it’s also within easy walking distance of Jules Maes, Smarty Pants, and 9 Pound Hammer. Ahhhh….

SeWa Cell Phone Tfx Maps
(46 Words. October 18, 2006, 05:41 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Seattlest hips us to the DOT traffic maps gettin’ jiggy with the cellies. Which reminds me, the League passed a motion last time to extend the tipsy olive branch to Seattlest honcho Dan last time. It may be too late with respect to this week’s convocation….

yubnub
(9 Words. October 15, 2006, 02:55 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
yubnub, “a (social) commandline for the web.” interesting….

680 @ 199! I think perhaps maybe so!
(102 Words. October 12, 2006, 06:30 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Palm announced the lowball Treo 680 today with a street price of $199, low enough to drive my decision, once I’ve reviewed the specs. The lower-rez 320x320 screen is one issue; the press release elides mention of the OS but the screenshots appear to display Palm OS apps. The device comes with a paltry 64mb on-board memory (twice that…

Dawn of Aces
(668 Words. September 28, 2006, 09:02 PM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
Only those who don’t know me as intimately as a spouse or sibling will be surprised that once, about five years ago, I spent all of my spare time online in a massively-multiplayer combat flight sim known at the time as Dawn of Aces. The sim, based on World War 1 air combat, appealed to a specialty audience, and…

Cringely on Apple iTV
(122 Words. September 24, 2006, 11:59 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Cringley has some interesting things to say about Apple’s announced iTV strategy. He makes a big deal out of using iTV to bring video-based iChat to the living room TV set and talks some trash in Redmond’s direction. What’s funny about this to me is that I have my Mini set up with my old Firewire iSight for just…

Hilarity ensues
(37 Words. September 20, 2006, 05:58 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Chávez Calls Bush ‘the Devil’ in U.N. Speech - New York Times. This made me laugh so hard while driving home from work I nearly had to pull over, blinded by tears. Hey, what’s that smell?…

Too early, too late, what good's the money if you ain't got the time
(241 Words. September 04, 2006, 05:18 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I was looking at the rumor that Palm will release Q4 Cingular-only EDGE-enabled Treos this fall, and came across a forum post claiming that Cingular salesbots are noting that the release has been pulled. However, now I can’t find it and there are numerous posts on a multiplicity of sources claiming a European release date of September 12 followed…

JP not Patches
(422 Words. August 22, 2006, 09:47 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
I was saddened this week to hear of the passing, at 76, of my former professor and friend and all-around character J. P. Darriau, at home in Bloomington, Indiana. J. P. grew up in NYC during the war in a Jewish neighborhood, and one of my favorite memories of him is this grey-headed child of French Catholic emigrants to…

Zilliness
(392 Words. August 19, 2006, 12:55 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I have been keeping an eye on Zillow’s valuation of our house this summer, largely for morale-reasons. Currently the site lists the home as valued at well over 100K more what we paid for it in October. Anecdotally, I have heard that Zillow tends to err on the side of inflating reported values. It’s certainly what I expect the…

Delete!
(21 Words. July 04, 2006, 11:27 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Apparently Gmail is finally rolling out a delete-all feature for the spam bucket. Hope it shows up in my account soon!…

Winds
(20 Words. April 03, 2006, 06:07 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
ES over at …pickhits… comments obliquely on the weekend’s outbreak of Midwestern tornadoes, which apparently also struck his farm….

Echo
(140 Words. March 28, 2006, 10:49 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
It’s weird to be back on the Hill for the first time since the shootings. The Stranger just published their minute by minute account online, and the headlines of both the P-I and the Times banner news of the dead. Walking by Rainbow Grocery on the way to eat from Group Health, I glanced inside and saw an old…

Vidpod
(236 Words. March 12, 2006, 11:06 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I have spent a portion of my weekend messing with RSS and The Democracy Player, per the instructions linked, and so far, so good, although my DSL speed is slow enough to consign this to permanent experiment until I finalize the LAN setup and shanghai one of the G4s as a dedicated media server. The Times has a look…

Boom
(22 Words. March 07, 2006, 07:47 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
First Paul, Then MetaFilter note an Aviation Week story covering what may be a now-cancelled black-ops operational orbital space plane….

Container ship aground south of Tijuana
(41 Words. February 24, 2006, 07:49 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
[via Monkeyfilter] The full-laden containership M/V APL Panama beached in northern Baja Mexico on Christmas day. The ensuing mayhem has been amusingly & anachronistically CHRONICLED by correspondents unknown upon the PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN TO ME web-site of Countryman & McDaniel, attorneys-at-law….

Speeding Mortorcycle
(14 Words. February 19, 2006, 08:59 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Daniel Johnston, back in the news, this time as NYT-dubbed ‘rising gallery star.’…

Carded
(11 Words. February 19, 2006, 05:56 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Currently squirreled away somewhere in move boxes: my library card. Bummer….

Game
(9 Words. February 15, 2006, 09:08 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin’s The Hunting Party….

Comet Crash?
(50 Words. February 15, 2006, 06:34 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Hannah Levin asks about rumors concerning the sale (and imputed demise) of the sainted Comet, chez Slog. Commenters finger Caffe Vitta as the likely culprit. On a side note, Slog, please adopt conventional article-and-comment linky pages such that your occasional flashes of wit may become more widely disseminated. Thank you….

Yarrr
(55 Words. February 15, 2006, 06:23 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
NYT: A Cancer Drug Shows Promise, at a Price That Many Can’t Pay: “Genentech plans to charge about $100,000 a year for the drug Avastin as a treatment for breast and lung cancer.” It certainly shows evidence of a well thought-out marketing program when you name your only-for-the-wealthy drug after a pre-boarding pirate cry….

OG VP
(97 Words. February 12, 2006, 01:09 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
KUOW just said that Dick Cheney has accidentally shot someone while on a hunting trip. It appears that the news is too fresh to have any links yet. I wonder if the shootee happened to say “Go fuck yourself” either prior to or shortly after eating hot vice-presidential lead. The shootee, Harry Whittington, is described as a 78 year…

Rara Avis
(195 Words. February 04, 2006, 11:35 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
An NYT article on a pair of long-lived diabetic brothers, 86 and 90, respectively - both men contracted the disease as children - notes the relative paucity of long lives among Type I diabetics: “They’re a little bit obsessive about their records and their diets,” said Dr. George L. King, research director of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston…

Olive live
(7 Words. February 03, 2006, 08:44 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Olive, a “console mode RSS aggregator.”…

And the winds do blow
(41 Words. February 02, 2006, 06:33 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Paul at notes that the National Weather Service is predicting a major windstorm for Western Washington Friday and Saturday, including “sustained winds (lasting around a minute) of 40 MPH or wind gusts to 58 mph.” Tree and line damage is mentioned….

Scene Report
(23 Words. February 01, 2006, 08:03 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Matt, wishing he wasn’t a tourist: Back Home again in New Orleans. What is it that we mean when we say “home?”…

Oh, and one more thing
(477 Words. January 28, 2006, 11:42 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
While Viv and I were at the nordic behemoth’s caves, I received a voicemail from an old friend in Bloomington, someone I knew in high school and later in the music scene: he and his wife and kids have moved into my childhood home on the far east side of town. Far out. I have no idea how he…

Matt's going back
(107 Words. January 25, 2006, 09:12 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Matt Uhlmannn, who moved away from a decade-plus stint as a doctor of the cool in New Orleans to Philly a couple months before Katrina, is headed back to the Crescent City for a gig. I’m a bit concerned for him; he was obviously depressed and out of sorts after the move and adding insult to injury, was inbound…

Licatamania!
(29 Words. January 23, 2006, 09:05 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Seattle swoons over Sweet Nick Licata’s trumpsh as City Council Prez today. What? There’s some sort of sporting swindle distracting folks from this good news for the paroletariat? Shocking….

Savage Ball
(50 Words. January 22, 2006, 06:49 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Dan Savage is liveblogging the Seahawks game. He’s amusing, unsurprisingly: UPDATE IV: Miller Light. Coors. Budweiser. What, no commericals for Lillet, l’aperitif de Bordeaux? Am I the only man in America drinking a chilled glass of Lillet during the game? Now, where are the Pioneer Square webcams at?…

Sacco
(20 Words. January 21, 2006, 02:11 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Eric at Fanta points out a new Joe Sacco piece published online by the Guardian as an 8-page PDF ….

End of the day
(27 Words. January 21, 2006, 02:08 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Brian Chin posts to his P-I Buzzworthy blog, announcing that the online version of the P-I is abandoning their staged, time-based publication strategy (“dayparting”) after two years….

Geordie or Cylon?
(41 Words. January 15, 2006, 12:07 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
MyVu personal media viewer, on show at MacWorld SF and slated to ship in March. For your video iPod. Much more attractive, although these things are relative, than the single-eye version from a Seattle manufacturer I mocked earlier this month….

Hikikomori
(28 Words. January 15, 2006, 11:52 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Shutting Themselves In - New York Times. Young Japanese men retreat to bedrooms for years a time. I can relate. Mom! Can I have some more ramen?…

Skepticism
(86 Words. January 12, 2006, 08:29 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Unsanity.org provides some shielding against the effects of the reality distortion field (via Manuel). Some valuable skepticism, but aslo some silly carping about New Things such as the built-in iSight and the remote. The writer’s analysis concludes that the new intelMacs were likely rushed into production and chalks up some of the downgraded features on the new machines to…

Buried
(25 Words. January 10, 2006, 09:40 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Amidst the mostly tiresome and predictable bash-and-fete chez MeFi was the news that Google Earth for Mac is out today. Today, not next March….

intelMac
(278 Words. January 10, 2006, 07:26 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Well, not that this is by any means some sort of unique, oracular reflection on today’s semi-surprise announcement of Intel-powered Macs - the scheduled ship date is a tad early - but I might was well offer my thoughts. This weekend I had a pleasant drink or two with a good friend who was complaining about his current Dell…

Hail to the Cheif
(31 Words. January 06, 2006, 09:16 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Tom points out a hot one making the rounds in Redmond: Bill Clinton to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft’s president. Please note, this rumor is passed along for infotainment purposes only….

Cat Content!
(43 Words. January 05, 2006, 09:01 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
NYT: “DNA Analyses Offer New Insight on Cat Evolution and Migration: Researchers have gained a major insight into the evolution of cats by showing how they migrated to new continents and developed new species.” What? No pictures of the contributor’s beasts?…

iPatch
(24 Words. January 02, 2006, 02:35 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
P-I: EyeBud can turn video iPod into big-screen TV for one. Man, that picture is hilarious. Arrr. Don’t steal music - steal TV!…

Wrist
(15 Words. December 08, 2005, 10:21 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Huh, an RSS reading feature referred to as ‘clips’ appeared in my Gmail today, interesting….

Type
(40 Words. December 04, 2005, 01:17 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Halfway through the New Yorker thing on type designer Matthew Carter, I check to see if it’s online. Alas, no dice. Note to self, readers, and bitwise archaeologists: I will have to save my mag to give to Stacey B….

Footie
(54 Words. December 01, 2005, 07:31 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
About damn time. I’ve personally been calling for an outbreak of Bigfoot sightings since I moved here in 1990, first tying the phenom to a poor national economy and then to an overheated local economy. Currently I hold that such outbreaks are largely tied to inflationary housing markets. Bring on the mystery anthromorphs!…

Not in the cards.
(282 Words. November 30, 2005, 09:35 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Upon inserting the Elph’s 1gb card into my card reader, only a subset of the files I knew were there appeared in the Mac OS. Upon reinserting the card into the camera and hitting playback, I was pleasantly informed that there was “No File.” So I shot some more test pix. I had been planning a card experiment anyway,…

Ha!
(52 Words. November 18, 2005, 06:50 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Several months ago in Now Playing I published a long piece about Star Trek fan films, for which I spoke with several persons from various Trek fan projects. Today, when Wired arrived, I was amused to note a cover-featured story about one of these projects in particular, the East Coast-based New Voyages….

Fun Resoundingly Defeated
(222 Words. November 08, 2005, 09:47 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Excerpted early-return election numbers: MONORAIL: Endless gridlock: 28,821, 67% Monorail: 14,143 32% I voted for the light rail project for the first time in 1990. It was projected for completion in 1995. Do date, not one track has been laid, and the downtown bus tunnel, which opened that same year with rail built in, is closed, so that they…

And the Winds do Blow
(51 Words. November 06, 2005, 08:16 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
16 dead in Indiana tornado, 200 injured, more casualties expected in deadliest Hoosier tornado outbreak since April, 1974 (I’ve written about these tornadoes and my recollections of that April day but, of course, the blog’s d own). Tornadoes in November? That ain’t right. Update: 22 Dead, sayeth the NYT….

Happy Birthday, Suzy.
(182 Words. October 28, 2005, 05:32 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Today my sister would have been 35. So not only is it Fitzmas. I paid my first gas bill today; I can already tell that I dislike the utility company, which is clearly untrustworthy - a six dollar ‘convenience charge’ to pay via card, an online billpaying option that cancels the paper bill: the unmistakable spoor of evil. My…

offline!
(17 Words. October 27, 2005, 11:42 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Phones are down as of 10/27 - looks like DSL will be back up on November 1….

GAOLgle
(32 Words. October 12, 2005, 08:35 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
NYT: Google, Comcast hanker after AOL. A little bird told me about some impending uncertainty at AOL. I wonder if this news would have a positive or negative impact on that uncertainty?…

there it is, then
(49 Words. October 12, 2005, 07:03 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Yesterday we signed for the house. Viv gets the keys tomorrow morning. I’m deeply unhappy and upset about it. I feel like I’ve just murdered someone, a friend. I don’t really wish to write about it, but it seems wrong to let it simply pass by without a mention….

Sweet!
(125 Words. October 11, 2005, 12:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Local software company Ranchero just sold its’ creamy-smooth RSS reader, NetNewsWire, to RSS agglomeration juggernaut Newsgator. Paid users, TidBITS reports and NewsGator confirms, get a bonus: As part of this deal, existing NetNewsWire full-version customers will receive a free 2-year paid subscription to NewsGator Online. More details will be announced with the next release of NetNewsWire, which will include…

Awakening
(24 Words. October 09, 2005, 11:39 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Michael Lewis entertainingly and at length recounts some of the absurdities of his New Orleans flood, and finds reason for hope for his city….

Echo
(185 Words. October 08, 2005, 10:25 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The Greatest Bus Driver in the World takes a moment to note the 50th anniversary of ‘Howl’. He notes that he sports a tatoo dedicated to the pome, something that interests me. Years ago I noticed that the first line of ‘Howl’ can be disassembled and reassembled, essentially at random, without appreciably diminishing the verbal power of the line….

What We Did Is Public
(149 Words. October 02, 2005, 07:56 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Incredibly, word has belatedly reached me of the wrap on a Darby Crash biopic, which will apparently lead to a Germs reunion tour. Don Bolles, later of Nirvana and in between his Germs time and that with Kurt, was the original drummer for 45 Grave, who also recently were slated for a revenant tour, but have apparently dropped out….

Wilson
(236 Words. October 02, 2005, 04:25 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
August Wilson died today, say the wires. Wilson lived in my neighborhood for most of the time that I have, I think. He was a familiar face in the local coffeeshops, most recently Victrola. My recollection is that he wrote much of his work while sitting in these cafes. He always had a yellow legal pad with him, at…

via sumit: boom selection RIP
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Sumit notes the demise of boom selection….

The first shoe
(11 Words. October 01, 2005, 10:59 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Google offers free Wifi to SanFran. Do it here next!…

Returning home
(13 Words. September 28, 2005, 08:03 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Bart and Michael returned to New Orleans this week, and took pictures….

Ejaculation
(30 Words. September 22, 2005, 09:13 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
You know, it’s a beautiful thing when a news editor pitches a news item to a publication’s senior editor and the senior editor’s response to the pitch is “Holy crap!”…

Dhalgren redux
(227 Words. September 13, 2005, 03:15 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Editor B sends along a link to this essay on Delany’s Dhalgren and New Orleans by Bishda Bannerjee at reason.com. As Americans struggled to grasp what was unfolding in New Orleans, the word “unimaginable” recurred frequently—even though the catastrophe had been imagined, and envisioned, many times. Thirty years ago, science fiction writer Samuel Delany wrote, in high detail, about…

How deep's the water momma?
(28 Words. September 12, 2005, 10:53 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
The New Orleans Flood Map reports that the 2800 block of Calhoun Street is currently under 2.1 feet of water, with an estimated maximum depth of 5.6 feet….

Frangipana
(44 Words. September 09, 2005, 08:45 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
MeFi calls my attention to a first-hand account of Katrina and aftermath in New Orleans written by a former Indiana Daily Student editor and published in the same paper. Meanwhile, Bart and Matt appear to be moving into the rest of their lives….

Wrong number
(138 Words. September 07, 2005, 09:45 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
As expected, today’s Apple fooraw generated a big yawn from me. Another iPod! Imagine that! Whoop-de-doo! And a phone with iTunes but no other Apple-designed user-interface features, except, I guess, the ability to synch contacts with Outlook. Which, one supposes, bemuses the Mac-owning folks out there that have been using Address Book over Outlook lo, these many years. The…

Flotsam
(84 Words. September 07, 2005, 09:08 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Someone highlighted a long list of the MetFilter threads on Katrina, and someone else added the comprehensive, longer list (ninety-three and counting) to the MeFi wiki. Meanwhile, AZ links to two interesting New York Observer pieces on, respectively, how the Times-Picayune managed to do such a gripping job of covering the disaster (apparently, the blog post on the NOLA…

...One More Thing
(63 Words. September 06, 2005, 09:29 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
In light of recent developments, I can reveal this about tomorrow’s Apple hoopla: if it’s the iPhone, i’m iNterested. If it’s what it probably will be, a sub-gig iTunes phone with no embedded PDA or OS, I won’t even look at it. The only bright spot in the rumor mill to date have been the tales of ramped-up production…

Walking out of New Orleans
(153 Words. September 05, 2005, 05:17 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Bart has linked to his neighbor Michael Homan’s blog post about his experiences getting out of New Orleans over the past few days. They promised they would take us to Baton Rouge, and from there it would be relatively easy for me to get a cab or bus and meet the family in Jackson. But then everything went to…

Not Dead Yet
(281 Words. September 05, 2005, 06:30 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
A few folks have corresponded with me via email about this, but I feel like I should address it here as well. This was originally posted to Siffblog; I try to crosspost here as well. Tablet has announced that the current issue, #103, will be the final edition of the magazine. While Siffblog has been affiliated with Tablet, I…

Independence
(161 Words. September 04, 2005, 03:42 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form…

Wash day
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Taking a break from doing laundry, I noticed that one P. J. Murhpy of Wexford, Ireland had posted his chord transcription for Lousiana, 1927. I can finally scratch an itch I have had for several days. I wonder if Mr. Murphy is any relation to celebrated Father Murphy of song and story? At New Orleans as the storm was…

It's a twofer!
(2 Words. September 03, 2005, 08:33 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Rhenquist dead….

Helicopters
(120 Words. September 01, 2005, 06:49 PM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
Five years ago, helicopters hovered over my neighborhood for a week, night and day. At first, they were a novelty, of interest to me because of my love of flying and flight technology. Then, they became a signpost in the sky - I could find whatever absurd police/protester/neighborhood interaction was taking place by looking for the choppers. Finally, after,…

A Miscellany
(504 Words. August 30, 2005, 10:47 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
ITEM: Both Matt and Bart have updates. The Royal Pendletons are playing a gig this evening in Memphis, which seems a perfectly sensible way to deal with the fate of the band’s city. Bart and company are safely ensconced in a rainy Bloomington. ITEM: Having nothing at all to do with the topic du jour, high school co-conspirator and…

Water's rising
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The Times-Picayune bloggers are packing up and leaving. The tuesday edition of the paper is available as a PDF here. This is in the wake of overnight news of a breach in the 17th Street Canal levee, which may be allowing Lake Ponchartrain into the streets. Blogger Brendan Loy, with help, has been blogging the hell out of national…

Flooding and Looting
(67 Words. August 29, 2005, 01:57 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I’m finding the Times-Picayune breaking news weblog to be the most informative and reliably updated web-side news source on the aftermath of the hurricane in New Orleans. Unfortunately, as a local paper, they haven’t seen fit to prep and post maps of the city and affected parishes. The dual MetaFilter threads have continued to proffer interesting data and updates,…

Willya looka that
(122 Words. August 25, 2005, 09:05 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Seattle P-I: “From Seattle’s lively blogosphere, a group is born - Chapter that meets monthly may be the biggest in world.” On a map of the blogosphere, Seattle would probably stick out as a blinking hot spot for push-button publishing. Blogs of all kinds emerge from computers all over the city and its environs. Some cover urban culture (Seattlest.com),…

Pass
(48 Words. August 20, 2005, 06:28 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Reluctantly, we’re passing on the house we were bidding on. Inspection revealed a slew of first-year expenses which we have concluded that we cannot develop informed estimates upon by the time we need to close the deal, which would force us into a buying-in-ignorance situation. We’re passing. Dammit….

Under the Boardwalk
(3 Words. August 19, 2005, 06:21 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Judge Carter found?…

How do you say Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang in Portugese?
(169 Words. July 24, 2005, 01:10 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Britain Says Man Killed by Police Had No Tie to Bombings. [NYT]: “LONDON, July 23 - Scotland Yard admitted Saturday that a man police officers gunned down at point-blank range in front of horrified subway passengers on Friday had nothing to do with the investigation into the bombing attacks here. The man was identified by police as Jean Charles…

This is London
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As might be expected, sumit says some sensible and determined things about today’s events….

time
(93 Words. June 09, 2005, 09:52 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
after an in explicable interregnum, bloglines is operable upon the Treo, thanks be to God. My newly longer commute allows nearly twenty-four hours of blog postings to be despatched whilst en route. Alas for the limitations the Palm broswer places on moblogging. Note to the League: I will post links to moblog tools I use. I believe our inductee…

Siffy
(37 Words. June 08, 2005, 11:20 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
You know, I’ve mentioned this before, so forgive me. The SIFFbloggers are really going to town over there - four, five posts a day, comments, building traffic, the whole schmeer. It makes me so proud. Sniff….

oh yeah
(50 Words. June 06, 2005, 10:30 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
In other news, Apple squeezes underperforming chip partner by making public announcement confirming years of rumors. Mac geeks dispirited; Intel, Apple, IBM stock down. So far no one I have read has asked: what does this mean for the G5 Xbox? It won’t be me, because I could care less….

two k!
(28 Words. June 06, 2005, 10:21 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
whoo dawgies! sometime in the last, um, hour, the two-hundred-thousandth site visitor looked in upon us, presumably in response to the previous link-oriented post. Welcome, post-two-kay site visitors!…

Sasquatch
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Further news in the Canadian Bigfoot invasion includes the information that ex-Runaway Cherie Currie is in on the hunt….

Moving
(46 Words. May 26, 2005, 05:23 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
We are moving at work, which is exciting. Soon, I will have a desk at work located in a room with a window in it for the first time in about ten years. Tomorrow morning I will be attempting to get to the place via bus….

RIP Jason Sprinkle
(124 Words. May 25, 2005, 10:13 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
The PI’s Buzzworthy notes the death of Jason Sprinkle, who instigated a bookended pair of guerilla art projects here in Seattle. I read the obit in the paper today, and I felt quite sad as I read the news. Sprinkle’s first art prank, a ball-and-chain attached to the foot of SAM’s Hammering Man downtown (to my surprise, over a…

bloglore
(211 Words. May 19, 2005, 10:51 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I wrote a 500-word-plus meditation on the changing fortunes of Broadway in my neighborhood today. I was sitting in Cafe Septieme waiting for Viv, watching the street as cloudburst after cloudburst cycled between sun and wet. Alas for me, my Palm-based blog app lacks an autosave and due to a moment of inattention on my part, poof, away it…

CC WiFi
(43 Words. May 18, 2005, 10:41 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
The P-I’s Buzzworthy notes the launch sites for a City of Seattle municipal WiFi pilot project: Columbia City and the U. I suppose this may well make Chris, Sabrina, and Dan’s lives easier. Say, when was that Minutemen movie again?…

Diabetes Origin Theory
(192 Words. May 18, 2005, 12:57 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
NYT: New Theory Places Origin of Diabetes in an Age of Icy Hardships When temperatures plummet, most people bundle up in thick sweaters, stay cozy indoors and stoke up on comfort food. But a provocative new theory suggests that thousands of years ago, juvenile diabetes may have evolved as a way to stay warm. Hm. Not sure I buy…

Indiana
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NYT: New Arrest Adds Unexpected Turn in Child-Killing Case: A little girl was murdered this summer in Southern Indiana, and authorites arrested and charged a methamphetamine user with her death. Mid-week, another arrest in the case has upset the understanding of what happened. I have a vague memory of seeing the initial coverage of this because of the way the…

A Wolf is Gone
(122 Words. March 31, 2005, 10:38 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Matt notes today’s passing of one of his favorite “rock and roll brothers,” Billy (Hideaki Sekiguchi), the bassist for the very kick ass Japanese band Guitar Wolf. Guitar Wolf was in the midst of a US tour, now cancelled, and had recently played both Seattle and New Orleans, where Matt is located. Matt has posted a great picture, taken this…

no wifi for you
(86 Words. March 25, 2005, 02:39 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I went to the Elysian for lunch on my way home from work, hoping to get some work done, and was puzzled by the repeated failure of my computer to connect to the wireless signal, which is clearly visible under the name “Elysian Free Wi-Fi.” The formerly open access point now required a password to join. Inquiring with my…

Pot, meet kettle
(351 Words. March 21, 2005, 05:24 PM, Comments: 6) MORE >>>
On the bus ride home, my AvantGo feed of Wired News presented me with this astonishing information. Apparently, TOKYO — Your eyes probably hurt just thinking about it: Tens of thousands of Japanese cell-phone owners are poring over full-length novels on their tiny screens. In this technology-enamored nation, the mobile phone has become so widespread as an entertainment and…

Custom
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Google News: now offering customization. Add your own saved searches, delete sections (bye-bye, Sports!) rearrange the pagelayout. And no login. Pretty cool….

Eruption
(171 Words. March 08, 2005, 07:45 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Mount St Helens erupts, notes The Australian. The USGS notes that the event took place at about 5:30, sending ash up to about 36,000 feet. Based on images I saw on TV, the eruption was clearly visible from downtown Portland as the sun began setting on an amazingly warm spring day. I poked through the Volcanocam recent images archive and…

February made me toasty
(444 Words. February 25, 2005, 06:58 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I read the paper on the back porch in my shirtsleeves yesterday evening under a bright and cloudless sky. In the sun, it must have been seventy degrees. While Southern California is experiencing an unprecedentedly wet winter (with the concomitant landlslides), we’re facing an imminent drought. Twice so far this winter we’ve experienced long sunny stretches that essentially melted nearly…

HST RIP
(138 Words. February 20, 2005, 09:07 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He was 67. “Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that…

posse possiblity
(139 Words. January 27, 2005, 10:10 AM, Comments: 6) MORE >>>
I’m roping some sort of posse in for vague social activities, probably in the University District, this Saturday. I wanted to throw the floor open for self-inviters who are regular readers. I don’t have the time to ride too much herd on this, however, so in all probability, after a brief consultation with my brain trust, I will name a…

Hits and Misses
(101 Words. January 25, 2005, 07:19 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
So here is how I did. Strikeouts represent incorrect predictions and italics represent the film or person nominated instead. Director: Marc Forster - Finding Neverland Mike Leigh - Vera Drake Film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Ray Lead Actor: Paul Giamatti - Sideways Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby Lead Actress: all correct Not bad! I have the impression…

Ice and Fire
(55 Words. January 25, 2005, 06:55 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
So a Snowstorm among the century’s worst has dumped gobs of snow on everyone between Chicago and New York City, and a subway fire has limited service on two lines in the City. Meanwhile, here in Seattle, the sun was up before I left home yesterday morning and the mild, sunny weather smelled of spring….

Nomination predictions
(300 Words. January 24, 2005, 07:25 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
For a project I’m working on, I had occasion to compile reasonably comprehensive lists of award nominations and winners for the film industry this year. The lists are not as extensive as the lists maintained by the Oscars Guy, but they are pretty decent. I developed a simple formula that weights the nominees based on how well the associated film…

Mini
(375 Words. January 12, 2005, 04:31 PM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
The Mac mini is making a big noise, predictably enough. Rob from Macosxhints had the good sense to shoot a pic with his mitt on the coffee-warmer for scale. Others immediately saw the unit as the long-rumored Mac media center; of course, one question in that incarnation is “How do you get NTSC out to the tube?” Apple’s thoughtfully provided…

About time
(230 Words. January 11, 2005, 09:57 AM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
According to current coverage of today’s Stevenote, iPhoto has added movie support. About freakin’ time! iChat will have the expected conferencing features: up 10 audio participants and up to 4 video participants. Given how often my family uses iChat video, this is likely to sell some more iSights. I’ll probably update this after getting some work done. “Mac Mini” rumors…

plagued
(62 Words. December 29, 2004, 01:11 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
So, given the climbing death toll in the tsunami and the probable development of widespread disease as a result of sanitation problems, here’s a scary thought: the bird flu that we hear annual alarums about gets some sort of foothold in the affected populace. Just a little nugget of positive thinking to kick off the New Year! How are those…

The Thing
(290 Words. December 20, 2004, 07:59 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
A Dinner in Ukraine Made for Agatha Christie [blogerated NYT link] Toxicologists say dioxins are tasteless, although Dr. Schecter pointed out the provenance of this assertion is uncertain; he knew of no one who had ever tried tasting them. From the end of the article, which is devoted to a) debunking the Youschenko “dinner” poisoning thesis, which is the word-of-mouth…

iSight tomfoolery
(287 Words. December 06, 2004, 08:56 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
King5 just promo-ed a scare story about someone hijacking an iSight. First I’ve heard of this, might take a look when the news comes on. UPDATE: This is absurd TV news bullshit. Here’s the (incredibly annoying registration forwarded) link to the King5 website’s version of the story. The footage for the show featured an Apple G4 with iSight active,…

gasp
(20 Words. November 23, 2004, 08:17 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Oh, and by the way… it’s been rather busy here. I’ll try to do a wrapup, maybe sometime next week….

Hopkin Explained
(1295 Words. November 22, 2004, 07:09 AM, Comments: 88) MORE >>>
Where to start? As I noted here previously, sometime around September of 2003 some fliers appeared in Seattle, proclaiming the loss of what appeared to be a small boy’s frog. “Who took my frog?” the author asked, plaintively. Concluding with a determined “P.S. I’ll find my frog,” the fliers were noted and remarked upon by at least a couple…

Craig Thompson Awards Sweep
(327 Words. November 21, 2004, 04:37 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
In my inbox today is a press release from Portland-based Top Shelf Comix, properly tooting their own horn on a first time eent in the history of comics. Portland-based comics author Craig Thompson swept the comics industry awards this year, winning every award he was nominated for in recognition of the stunning accomplishment of his second graphic novel, the…

Custard Bottles
(465 Words. November 19, 2004, 07:44 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
So, this year, This American Life has run a fascinating show recorded largely in occupied Iraq, titled I’m From the Private Sector, and I’m Here to Help. As I type this, I just now realize that the title is a snark aimed at the hilarious - and offensive, to me - ad that ran back in the Clinton era…

PNWned
(37 Words. November 05, 2004, 10:21 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
A reminder. Monkeyfilter / MetaFilter / Bloggish thing at the Elysian, 7p on Saturday. Open invites, no signup, just come on down if you want to! Contrary to the rumors, there will be no free beer….

Iko Iko
(22 Words. November 02, 2004, 11:58 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
New Orleans is displaying a customary level of political competence, it appears (kidding, Crescent City readers!). Commentary from the locals is welcome!…

More Dreams
(551 Words. October 24, 2004, 01:09 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Lat night, I looked out of the windows of a building that exists only in my mind, at the windows of another building. The facing wall was old, and brick, and the windows set in the brick were dark. Multiple layers of glass blurred the reflections I saw in them. The curious thing was that the windows did not…

Spell Baiting on the Rise
(6 Words. October 16, 2004, 11:34 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
What’s Tony Bair’s position on this?…

Snap
(96 Words. October 11, 2004, 07:37 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Arguments for and against Armageddon, one of an infinite series. Heated political discussion on the shores of Green Lake. Evidence in favor of a healthy democracy. Argument against! Topic of the argument: war in the Middle East involving Americans, Israelis, and Arabs. Argument for! Verdict: A draw. An in-store display of orange, green, and purple pumpkin-shaped trick-or-treat lootbags. Argument…

The Seated Battle
(546 Words. October 05, 2004, 08:24 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Personae dramatis BOB, a meathead sports announcer out of central casting GOLDIE, a person of ethnicity with a background in sports bookmaking Setting: The television coverage of a second-rank mid-size purse wrestling match, with a title at stake, sometime in the nineteen-seventies. — BOB: Goldie, who’s your pick here tonite at the big Veep Smackdown? We’ve seen that “Big…

MSH reference links
(115 Words. October 03, 2004, 01:51 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This is a link-collection entry for quick access to Mount Saint Helens stuff. Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam: already linked in the temporary image seen in the sidebar. It’s interesting to note that Johnston Ridge Observatory, which hosts the camera, has been evacuated. US Geological Survey MSH site. USGS MSH Current Activity page. Northwest Interpretive Association. Gifford Pinchot National Forest…

1 2 3 4
(31 Words. September 15, 2004, 09:44 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Johnny Ramone Dead, reports CBS. First spotted here, via MoFi. Well, kids, that’s a wrap. Kind of a drag. Ramones message board, for those a-feelin’ it….

Galveston
(751 Words. September 15, 2004, 07:32 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
On Septemer 8, 1900, 8,000 Americans perished in the worst hurricane of the century, in a small town off the coast of Texas named Galveston. Here’s a map - the Galveston storm is the topmost track. Given the worried eye I cast upon the fair city of New Orleans today, I thought a bit of historical fear-mongering was well called…

Ooooh Nooooo!
(81 Words. August 22, 2004, 12:04 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Stolen from Museum in Norway [NYT] OSLO, Norway (AP) — Edvard Munch’s famous paintings “The Scream” and “Madonna” were stolen from an art museum Sunday while stunned museum-goers watched armed men threatening the staff at gunpoint as they took the artworks to a waiting car, police said. As an art historian, several things come to mind: The Scream should be…

A New Thing
(217 Words. July 28, 2004, 07:48 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I live in a heavily rental-oriented neighborhood in downtown Seattle. Renters are not, by-and-large, voters, and thus they are not generally campaigned to. This evening, I stepped outside to take the trash to the dumpster. I’ve been listening to the Democratic convention speeches all week, generally with interest and sometimes with criticisms. Tonight, as I carried my dripping bag of…

Tant Pis
(7 Words. July 23, 2004, 03:04 PM, Comments: 6) MORE >>>
So. It’s hot. Minimal posting shall ensue….

Serendipity
(74 Words. June 27, 2004, 11:54 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Viv is in the living room watching TV. Ebert and Roeper are on, reviewing Fahrenheit 9/11. ABC News breaks in to report that the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq will occur on Monday, two days ahead of schedule. Then Ebert and Roeper return to discussing the movie. I’m thinking that a) these things are not coincidentally linked and b) that’s…

SIFF '04 RIP
(579 Words. June 20, 2004, 06:36 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
I pointed this out a few times early in the festival run, but I want to prompt Seattle-area readers or ex-locals to stroll through the amusing doings the various Tableteers got up to over at the Siffblog. I still need to fix an IE display bug which centers everything, but on the whole I think the experiment worked out well….

MeFiPNW Listings
(424 Words. June 19, 2004, 04:37 PM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
AttendeesJerry Kindall (kindall) of jerrykindall.com. Christine, who was there with Christian Beaudroux (christian) of Infliction.org. Vincent (vito90) of juxtapositions. Noah Malmstadt (mr_roboto) who lists no site on MeFi but was googled at ideotrope. Roman (Stoatfarm), who provides no personal site info on MeFi and lacked business cards. Tom Harpel (tomharpel) of Tandoku.com. Mike Whybark (mwhybark - me) of mike.whybark.com. Caitlin…

Klueless Kerry Kampaign
(1124 Words. June 12, 2004, 09:14 PM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
The NYT has been running a series of flash ads for the Kerry kampaign that vie with the Keystone Kops in overall lack of professionalism, effectiveness, and attention to detail. In lieu of my $50 donation to a kampaign that I regard as literally the last, best hope for representative democracy in America, I have bravely volunteered to correct the…

THANKS
(8 Words. June 07, 2004, 08:40 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
A big TYVM to JF. Coming to MeFiPNW?…

Lizard juice treats diabetes
(52 Words. June 07, 2004, 08:14 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Lizard Spit Drug Treats Type 2 Diabetes, notes WebMD. Type 2 only, which assuages paranoiac concerns on my part - that means only you multiplying adult-onset types are in line to become the zombie army of the Lizard King. Another comforting point: lizard spit is not derived from pituitary glands….

Everything but the Wooden Spoon
(72 Words. May 19, 2004, 07:43 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
The New York Times > Books > The Curious Incident of the Boxes: An auction of a lost cache of Conan Doyle memorabilia may have led to the grisly grottong* garotting death of Lancelyn Green, a collector of Holmesiana. The Grey Lady takes a look. I recall this being mentioned by none other than the eagle-eyed oldtimey at the time…

Heavens they're tasty
(97 Words. May 18, 2004, 03:18 AM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
Man ill after gorging on sauteed cicadas Associated Press May 15, 2004 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A man who cooked and ate nearly 30 cicadas sought medical treatment after suffering a strong allergic reaction to the sauteed insects. The man showed up at a Bloomington clinic Thursday covered from head-to-toe in hives, and sheepishly told a doctor he’d caught and ate…

Sunday Reading
(64 Words. May 16, 2004, 08:49 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > John Kerry’s Journey | The Early Years: Prep School Peers Found Kerry Talented, Ambitious and Apart: the NYT opens their big fat JFK bio. The Gray Zone: Seymour Hersh’s third chapter in the ongoing torture mess. It should come as no shock that the soldiers being prosecuted right now are…

Bummer
(114 Words. May 13, 2004, 10:32 AM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
According to the new licensing structure that Six Apart announced today, I’ll need to pay them $600 to operate under a license for the new release that grants me the freedom to create unlimited numbers of weblogs with unlimited numbers of authors if any of the blogs is a commercial blog - which, arguably, mine is. As is a resume…

Meet the New Blog
(37 Words. May 10, 2004, 10:06 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
MetaFilter notes that Blogger has relaunched. Single entry archives! Does this mean that Ken is going to mess up his template again and come around looking for help? Let’s consult the Mystical Smoking Head of Bob….

Pulling the plug
(12 Words. May 09, 2004, 04:03 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
US powerless to halt Iraq net images - or is it?…

Long-time companion
(25 Words. April 09, 2004, 09:02 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
When I told Chloe that we’d been friends a lot longer than I had thought, she did start purring. But then, she’s always liked me….

Bob-a-loo
(121 Words. March 31, 2004, 08:59 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
KUOW is among the NPR stations pushing for changes “A host, when news is breaking, actually needs to be able to interact live with a reporter on the scene and do live interviews with analysts as a story is unfolding,” said Jeff Hansen, program director for KUOW (94.9) in Seattle, and an independent coordinator for news-focused radio stations that carry…

News Roundup
(382 Words. March 23, 2004, 04:15 PM, Comments: 11) MORE >>>
‘Walking zombies’ threaten subways - New York Newsday. It’s a deal of trouble keeping them off the tracks. Walking dead have a lot to tell the living - Cleveland Plain Dealer. Gems of wisdom such as ‘ooouargh’ come to mind. Recording industry web site downed, possibly by zombies - USA TODAY [via BoingBoing]. If the RIAA is downed by the…

More Taipei Talk
(300 Words. March 23, 2004, 11:34 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Correspondent number 2 weighed in last night. Here’s what Blake Carter has to say: Ni hao Mike— I suspect you’ve heard more about the craziness than I have. My boss likes the KMT because he says its’ policies are economically more stable. Foreigners and musicians all like the DPP (President Chen’s party) because he’s big on Taiwan as Taiwan. My…

Taiwanese turmoil
(422 Words. March 20, 2004, 01:47 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Taiwan’s Leader Wins Election; Tally Is Disputed [NYT] TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 20 — President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan was declared to have won a second term by a razor-thin margin on Saturday, but the opposition Nationalist Party called for the election to be annulled and suggested that the president might have staged an 11th-hour assassination attempt to get votes. I’ve…

NYT on Chabon comics
(177 Words. March 17, 2004, 08:26 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Mild-Mannered Literary Guys Transform Into Comics Writers [NYT]. The article highlights the appearance of literary writers as comics writers, framing it as a trend. Mmmm. I’d say it more reflects a broader openness to brand-based experimentation in the Houses of the Supes, which is not to say that the work produced isn’t valid artistic experimentation. The brands that open the…

Lorca
(703 Words. March 14, 2004, 08:32 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
LLANTO POR IGNACIO SANCHEZ MEJIAS, a setting in French, Spanish, and English, with images. By Frederico Garcia Lorca - Images by August Puig (from different sources, an extract in English. From “3., Cuerpo Presente.” Full original Spanish text here. this English translation appears to have been made by a native Spanish speaker and is very literal gramatically while containing an…

Where is Salam?
(22 Words. March 02, 2004, 10:59 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Salam gives us the skinny on the Iraqi Shia festivals. Later, after the explosions and mortars, the ever-elusive Raed weighs in, worried….

How high's the...
(21 Words. March 01, 2004, 09:44 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
NASA to announce ‘significant’ finding - tomorrow. Hm, could it have to do with the recent rock-drilling thing they were doing?…

Rrralphie!
(1031 Words. February 23, 2004, 06:18 PM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
Aw, Ralph. Not this year, OK? That said, today’s tizzy of handwringing and fingerpointing is profoundly irritating. Nader did not cost the Democratic Party the election four years ago - the Supreme Court did, Al Gore’s listless campaign did, and most importantly, the helpless floundering of the Democratic Party as it cut and ran from the actual long term interests…

beyond iSight and iChat
(113 Words. February 19, 2004, 07:02 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Videophones Revisited, by Way of the Modem [NYT]: David Pogue takes a look at a desktop DSL-based videophone that uses the H.263 protocol. Limited install base, as with the iSight, means limited utility. Again, like iSight, the phone uses a standard and can theoretically link up with inputs from alternative video-chat sources. (Note that the link is to a co-sponsored…

HEY!
(12 Words. February 13, 2004, 01:59 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
It’s Friday the thirteenth. Just wanted to point that out there….

Screwhead
(39 Words. February 06, 2004, 10:32 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Tiny corkscrew in brain could help stop strokes. I actually don’t care about the article so much as the headline. Man, that is a headline. Speaking of heads, this may help to minimize your pre-lunch cravings….

Win AIM now iChat AV video compatible
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AOL links with Apple on video IM | CNET News.com. Oh, what a relief! I was expecting to have to handhold my folks through some gnarly NetMeeting pain! They’ll hate the ads, though. Hm……

Great Names in the News
(66 Words. February 04, 2004, 08:00 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Inmates’ Elaborate Plans to Escape From Sing Sing Are Thwarted [NYT] Mr. Zimmerman, a rapper from Queens who recorded songs under the name Puzz Pacino, hatched the plan to escape last year with a guard he met in Sing Sing named Quangtrice Wilson, according to investigators. Sing Sing! Puzz! Quangtrice Wilson! Of course, my gnomic glee is tempered by the…

Speaking of Steve Jobs
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Pixar Sees End to Its Disney Partnership [NYT]. Well. Someone’s clearly lost their marbles. I recall seeing joking speculation that Apple would buy Disney if something like this came to pass… I’m sure the next few weeks will have some entertaining developments. I wonder, does this imply that Jobs has been spending a great deal of time paying attention to…

MS settles with Mike Rowe
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P-I MSBlog: Mike Rowe settlement. Mike gets some toys, a conference visit, and some free training, this time in technology rather than negotiating tactics. Looks like a nice recovery by Redmond, if dirt cheap….

Is Spirit dead on Mars?
(99 Words. January 22, 2004, 01:28 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Spaceflight Now: Spirit rover suffers ‘serious anomaly’ After a day of troubleshooting, engineers have not yet been able to restore communications with the Spirit rover, which stopped beaming back science and engineering data Wednesday. Project manager Pete Theisinger at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., described the situation as “a very serious anomaly,” but said it was too soon…

That special time of year
(98 Words. January 16, 2004, 10:36 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Record-tying cold has us under wraps , notes the Staten Island Advance, beating out other Big Apple-based publications in Googlejuice for coverage of today’s chilly weather in the vicinity of the Big Apple. Buck up, City people! The Nets might move to Brooklyn, after all, and Jersey’s looking at recognizing same-sex commitment ceremonies, and just to top things off, a)…

End Times, end times
(59 Words. January 09, 2004, 04:58 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Man Killed by Mountain Lion Identified [LA Times]: A cougar attacked two cyclists yesterday in Orange County, California, at different times. One of the victims is dead and the other is hospitalized. Floods, fires, killer flu, wild animal attacks: keep an eye out for plague and quake, California. Arnold is the antichrist, clearly. If you’d only elected me….

Snow Day Stragglers
(37 Words. January 09, 2004, 11:35 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
FOKG Patrick Murphy weighs in with some photgraphic updates on the Denny Way Sled Resort. I’m sure you’ll concur that they are worth sharing. Oh, ingenius! Diabolical! Somewhere a child weeps. Note: this is NOT a donkey….

Mars plus
(30 Words. January 08, 2004, 10:55 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Bush to Announce Ventures to Mars and the Moon, Officials Say: NYT. Well, here’s hopin.’ I’m not holdin’ my breath - my skepticism of the family is quite boundless….

B^2's guide to the Dems
(39 Words. January 08, 2004, 03:47 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
B2’s Dear God Damn Diary offers a helpful guide to the Democratic contenders, much needed and of unquestionable worth. It’s things like this that help to demonstrate the meaningful contribution that blogging can offer to the mediasphere….

Still Snowing
(5 Words. January 06, 2004, 11:22 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Man, it’s just coming down!…

checking in on the Stevenote
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Five-part iLife (iLife 04), $49, release Jan. 16. Not sure what the parts are. Steve refers to Garageband, the rumored music-prooduction tool. Addons include a $99 music keyboard - Apple branded? Uncertain from listening. Shit! I wanna go out in the snow, but I want to know what the ‘one more thing’; is gonna be! Mini-Pods? Good marketing theme add-on…

mo' sno'
(90 Words. January 06, 2004, 09:56 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
It’s dumping! Made it down to the courthouse to find that the courts were closed! I walked home through the low-visibility snowstorm - windless, thankfully. It’s an hour later and the snow is still coming down. I’m going to go back out and shoot for a bit. The silence of the city is interesting, no-one honking, the sidewalks featuring a…

The Flyer
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The original Wright Flyer, at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, late November 2003….

Great Balls of Ice
(181 Words. December 11, 2003, 10:14 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Mysterious ice balls falling from heavens By MICHAEL WOODS THE (TOLEDO, OHIO) BLADE BARCELONA, Spain — A Spanish-American scientific team is monitoring ice events in the United States this winter following research on a baffling phenomenon first detected here. They are not watching for ordinary ice storms or slick roads, but incidents involving “megacryometeors,” great balls of ice that fall…

Recently
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Late November. Dusk with hazy moon over National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D. C. More here and here….

A Remembrance
(444 Words. November 13, 2003, 07:57 AM, Comments: 6) MORE >>>
Tom Donohue, a longtime Bloomington music scene supporter, passed away in Indy yesterday (November 12, 2003) from cancer at age 52. Most recently he owned and ran the record store TD’s CD’s and LP’s, just off Kirkwood. Tom trained Eric and me at the cable radio station WQAX when it was up in the Union, either late ‘78 or ‘79….

Maher Arar to Canada:
(154 Words. November 05, 2003, 08:55 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
CBC News Indepth: Maher Arar’s statement, given to a press conference yesterday: They told me that based on classified information that they could not reveal to me, I would be deported to Syria. I said again that I would be tortured there. Then they read part of the document where it explained that INS was not the body that deals…

Remember that rain?
(210 Words. October 26, 2003, 02:14 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Uh, never mind. It’s sunny and 78. There’s a faint tang of woodsmoke in the air, and although this is the first time I can recall the leaves staying on the trees in a Puget Sound fall long enough to prove it, apparently deciduous trees here are, in fact, physically capable of brilliant displays of color. If only there were…

Solar storm inbound
(154 Words. October 24, 2003, 10:38 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
On MetaFilter, Class 3 Geomaganetic Storm Likely To Spawn Aurora, notes the ever-reliable, Seattle-based (but sadly blog-free) y2karl. Time to go for a walk, methinks. For once we’re in for a spate of clear autumn weather. I have actually seen the aurora here in town - it was literally dancing up and down the broadcast towers on Madison at the…

Forgive me, Emmett Watson
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I feel constrained to point out that although more rain is predicted, at the moment I write this, it’s very sunny….

How high's the water mama?
(120 Words. October 21, 2003, 02:35 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Oct. 20: FIVE INCHES / Nov. 20, 1959: 3.41 inches. Mount Vernon in danger of flooding as Skagit river expected to crest at nine feet over flood stage. UPDATE: Skagit River expected to crest above 1990, 1995 levels at the Skagit Valley Herald. The article has a photo overview of the edge of the river. In the image, the river…

Sure does rain a lot 'round here
(53 Words. October 20, 2003, 08:24 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
You know, this morning when I splashed through two inches of standing water to retrieve my hermetically sealed Seattle Post-Intelligencer from the courtyard, I recall thinking, huh: it sure is rainin’ a lot here. I was not expecting to learn that today would be Rising river prompts Skagit evacuations; Seattle’s wettest day” href=”http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Wash%20Storm”>Seattle’s wettest day. And it’s still raining….

Two on VeriSign
(219 Words. October 16, 2003, 08:31 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
CNET News.com: VeriSign to revive redirect service VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many .com and .net domains, company representatives said Wednesday. AND (no coverage on this yet that I’ve seen) I got a notification email from VeriSign announcing the sale of Network Solutions, the registrar part of…

Bart---
(69 Words. October 15, 2003, 07:00 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Waxy.org takes a look at the Cubs Fan brouhaha. He’s even linked to a Usenet search of the poor sap’s postings. This is by way of the amusing and insightful thread over at MeFi. I also called Ken who pointed out that we now know, with certainty, who is the single-most passionately rooting person in favor of the Cubs to…

Go! Go! Go!
(40 Words. October 14, 2003, 09:27 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Yahoo! News - China Launches First Manned Space Mission ” href=”http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20031015/ap_on_sc/china_space”> China Launches First Manned Space Mission: I’m very disappointed that I was unable to Google up a midi version of “The East is Red.” As the Mefi poster put it, Godspeed, Yang Liwei. Don’t miss the Yahoo slideshow….

pfooo
(25 Words. October 09, 2003, 04:35 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Well, we shipped, and I’m beat beat beat. I think I have to take a nap so I can be awake for the show tonight….

Memo to california:
(222 Words. October 07, 2003, 10:02 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
WTF is wrong with you? (UPDATE: Look how you treated your sometime pal - he’s heartbroken!) You mother and I have decided if you’re not going to follow our rules, you can’t live in our house any longer. You go right ahead, see what it’s like to live on the streets, experimenting with anabolic steroids an’ shit - but don’t…

Interview
(505 Words. September 24, 2003, 04:01 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
I interviewed Ezra Clatyan Daniels today at Zanadu II in the U-District for the next Ink and Pixels (for the first issue out in October). It’ll be the first time I try to move beyond the unsuccessful set-questions format I’ve been using. I have a good forty-five minutes of tape to boil down to 400 words. I’m sort of not…

Hurricane watch
(270 Words. September 18, 2003, 10:55 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Today is my dad’s birthday, and he spent it partly at work and partly at home in North Carolina watching the power flicker and treelimbs fly by the house. They finally lost power at around 6pm, my mom says, which places that event at about the time thet Isabel’s center was as close to them as it got. I spent…

But is it a flash mob?
(193 Words. September 13, 2003, 04:23 PM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
Some of you will have heard about the Doonesbury-inspired “flash mob” at the foot of the Space Needle this morning. To summarize, Trudeau depicted a character in the strip calling for a flash mob via her computer on Monday. Well, by the time Seattle got out of bed on Monday morning, someone in Connecticuit, so it’s said, had used the…

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Your turn!
(81 Words. August 28, 2003, 03:40 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
London Halts Trains” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/28/international/28WIRE-LOND.html”>Brief Power Failure in London Halts Trains By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) — Power went out in parts of the capital and southeast England on Thursday, bringing much of the London Underground and many regional trains to a halt and trapping rush hour commuters in the tunnels. Ooh, luverly. First Seattle, then the Eact Coast,…

Frankenstein UPDATE III
(1442 Words. August 15, 2003, 02:55 PM, Comments: 6) MORE >>>
The still-dark website of Paul Frankenstein is not matched by his winking cable modem, and so we were able to get a blog entry from him in the heart of Manhattan via the wonders of iChat. I recieved this from him less than one minute ago, and he may have more: Well, as I write this, some twenty-five-and-a-half-hours after the…

The Donk UPDATE II
(160 Words. August 15, 2003, 12:52 PM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
The Illuminated Donkey: back on the air. Ken called me from his work this morning to note that while HIS power was back on, sections of Manhattan remained dark. This means that as of that time, Paul Frankenstein remained offline. I’m not sure if Paul self-hosts or if hs hosting provider is out as well, but it’s well within his…

The Donk UPDATE
(76 Words. August 14, 2003, 05:48 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
As we finished expunging typos from the previous entry, the preternaturally cheery Mr. Goldstein telephoned with an update, barely understandable due to spotty cell-phone reception. Listening hard through the static, we made out the following phrases: “I’m in my room it’s dark.” “I had to use my cell phone as a light to walk down the hall.” “One or two…

The Donk NEWS FLASH
(518 Words. August 14, 2003, 04:55 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Roving reporter and East Coast Whybark California Gubernatorial Campaign Chairman Ken Goldstein was reached via newfangled wireless telecommunications device and filed this eyewitness report on the largest electrical blackout in history: “The area I am in – It was sort of amusing to me at least – I actually left work early for a dentist appointment.” Goldstein recounts. He’d left…

BLACKOUT II! (um, but it's daytime still)
(96 Words. August 14, 2003, 02:18 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Power Outages Reported Along East Coast Power Outages Reported Along East Coast By THE NEW YORK TIMES Power outages were reported today throughout the Northeast. Blackouts were reported north to Toronto, south to Maryland and west to Cleveland, Detroit and Toledo. Guess it’s New York’s turn! I tried calling Ken but the lines are all busy. Also: DETROIT?! Geez. I’d…

Whybark announces
(508 Words. August 13, 2003, 12:01 AM, Comments: 6) MORE >>>
Dear readers: I read the papers. I listen to the radio. Sometimes I even watch television. I even, God help me, read the blogs. While it is true that my long-time residence in Seattle’s harmonious and bustling Capitol Hill neighborhood has kept me from spending as much time at my primary residence, in Laguna Beach, California, of late, I have…

Cynthia Doyon dead
(360 Words. August 07, 2003, 12:22 AM, Comments: 21) MORE >>>
Cynthia Doyon dead at 48: She hosted KUOW’s ‘Swing Years’, notes the P-I. I’m really bummed out. Ms. Doyon is an apparent suicide. She was the Saturday evening host of a retro radio show, “The Swing Years and Beyond,” and I have spent many Saturday nights happily learning about that era of American popular music in this gracious and knowledgeable…

More Fantagraphics info: Warehouse sale
(119 Words. June 19, 2003, 03:17 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I also received official notification from Smilin’ Eric Reynolds, Director of Schmoozing for Fantagraphics, that there’s a warehouse sale in the offing. It’s Saturday, June 28, noon to five. Chez Fantagraphics Warehouse 3667 1st Ave So. (100 yards south of S. Spokane Street) Seattle, WA 98134 (206) 467 4940 Discounts range up to 30% for big orders and damaged books…

Palm eats Handspring
(36 Words. June 04, 2003, 10:39 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Palm Announces Acquisition of Handspring (Palm press release, via Dvorak in his BoingBoing guestblog). Huh. I’m thinking this is probably not such good news for Palm users, and of course it’s bad news for Handspring peeps….

Simulated 'Dot-Com' Attack in Seattle Tests Preparedness
(681 Words. May 12, 2003, 03:44 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
(See the NYT’s AP story Simulated ‘Dirty Bomb’ Attack in Seattle Tests Preparedness) SEATTLE (ASP) — A national economic terrorism drill for hundreds of technology workers, press and other underemployed workers began Monday with the mock meltdown of a highly-hyped “dot-com” in a south Seattle industrial warehouse space, converted into startup-style loft offices. Meanwhile, volunteers at Pacific Lutheran University near…

MT gets VC
(367 Words. April 23, 2003, 03:30 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Six Apart Milestones is MT parent company Six Apart’s public announcement of a hosted blogging service based on MT, to be called TypePad.. The very first trackback notes that FOAF will be a part of it. The new venture also brings Ben and Mena VC money, which translates into bodies, all of which also appear to be bloggers (Joi Ito’s…

Meigs Field closed in secret wartime strike
(152 Words. April 01, 2003, 11:04 AM, Comments: 7) MORE >>>
Chicago Tribune | Daley rips up Meigs runways in surprise raid: Chicago’s Mayor took backhoes and bulldozers to the small lakefront airfield in downtown Chicago in a nighttime suprise strike intended to bring the doctrine of shock and awe home to the Gold Coast, multiple sources report. I thought this was some wildly excellent April Fools joke when I saw…

The sky is falling!
(36 Words. March 27, 2003, 12:14 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Meteor Chunks Crash In South Chicago Suburb, Light Up Night Sky - [NBC5.com, via MeFi] Does this mean that the end of Da Machine is in sight? Maybe it’s more evidence of the End Times….

"Where is Raed?" updates
(40 Words. March 21, 2003, 09:38 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Where is Raed ? updated at 6:05p Baghdad, 7a Seattle, about two hours ago. He notes that is about two hours until the B-52s arrive, and as I write this, reports of intensified anti-aircraft fire are on NPR and CNN….

Iraq Sat Pix
(52 Words. March 20, 2003, 05:41 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Near Real Time Satellite Images of Iraq - [via The Agonist, whose mind must be nearly gone by now: keep up the good work, Sean!]. Smoke plumes, perhaps? Don’t I recall hearing that last time, it turned out the oil well fires were actually the result of Allied shelling? Must investigate….

At least the weather's nice
(168 Words. March 20, 2003, 03:13 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Four news choppers over my neighborhood - it borders the freeway, and the P-I reports that the freeway-blocking tactic is in use. I hate hearing ‘em over the house - it means beatings and tear gas. Even if it means that I have not see the haul-away vans that often show up when the choppers do. I’ve heard that lots…

and the curtain rises... twice
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The New Yorker March 17, 2003Harper’s April, 2003Guernica, Picasso Art director’s chagrin strikes again….

Sponge
(162 Words. March 08, 2003, 12:25 PM, Comments: 3) MORE >>>
Women Gleeful at Return of Sponge Contraceptive [NYT] best quote from the article: In 1998, Gene Detroyer, a businessman who had started out developing disposable plates and cups for the maker of Hefty bags, heard that the rights to the sponge were for sale. He said he told his partner at Allendale, a scientist who exclaimed, “That’s a great product!”…

Libeskind plan selected
(122 Words. February 26, 2003, 05:58 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Libeskind Plan Chosen for World Trade Center Site (NYT) - which pleases me, I must say. The design struck me as head-and-shouldrs above he other designs. I thought I’d blogged the designs back in December, but apparently not. In a reading experience simply PACKED with synchronicities, last night, after watching a terrifying NOVA devoted to the charmingly low-tech “Dirty Bomb,”…

Duct Tape secrets revelated
(38 Words. February 23, 2003, 12:08 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Boing Boing links to a Washington Post article that reveals links between the GOP and America’s largest manufacturer of duct tape. Which made me think of a few things I joked about, why, just the other day!…

"A show of lunacy"
(43 Words. February 17, 2003, 09:04 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The Beeb just bannered the EU turnabout with the phrase “EU leaders put on a show of unity over Iraq” which I heard as “EU leaders put on a show of lunacy over Iraq.” Which made me pay some attention, I must say….

Finally, the world stands together
(243 Words. February 17, 2003, 11:43 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
US to punish German ‘treachery’: in a poorly sourced story, the Observer reports that The US will withdraw all its troops and bases from there and end military and industrial co-operation between the two countries - moves that could cost the Germans billions of euros. which echoes the long excerpt from Jim Henley’s site that Scott ran the other day….

My word: googleization
(542 Words. February 16, 2003, 12:18 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Google buys Blogger: what can possibly be said about this that hundreds aren’t already saying? It’s a milestone. Blogger service-disruption issues and ad-based hosting plan were significant determinants in driving me to investigate self-hosting… I may have service outages but I’m not helpless before them, and I can keep ads off my content. An additional decision point was that I…

Phil Spector arrested
(78 Words. February 03, 2003, 12:42 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Phil Spector held in murder - body found at home. Spector is the legendary - and legendarily volatile - record producer behind “Be My Baby”, the Righteous Brothers, and the classic Ramones album, “End of the Century.” Tales have circulated since the Ramones gig of his holding singer Joey at gunpoint in the studio until the lanky frontman delivered a…

Mauldin memorial arrangements and family requests
(310 Words. January 25, 2003, 07:28 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
As regulars wil be aware, my site inadvertently became a clearinghouse for messages to Bill Mauldin and for messages of condolence in the past few days. Mauldin family members found the site via Google and correspondents requested information regarding the cartoonists’s funeral. His grandson, Bruce Mauldin, has asked me to post the following information. I’ll add it here and in…

Post edited to reduce antisocial content
(58 Words. September 27, 2002, 07:39 AM, Comments: 8) MORE >>>
Allow me to summarize: Our current administration does not inspire in me feelings of trust or confidence, but rather profanity-inducing ill-humor. Said profanity and ill-humor does not mesh with my editorial goals. My apologies to any readers with blistered eyeballs. I’ll think once, think twice, think chicken soup with rice before I pop off so colorfully next time….

ah, to be a sleeepy headline writer
(29 Words. September 25, 2002, 07:18 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Bottled Baby Octopuses Turn Out to Be Pygmies (NYT) Oh, wait, technically, I AM a sleepy headline writer. You’d think the lack of tentacles would have given it away….

maya-rama
(426 Words. September 22, 2002, 08:23 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Maya Carvings Tell of 2 Superpowers. At the NYT. Fascinating. The article notes that the full story is coming out in the next ish of National Geographic, which probably means lotsa cool pix too. I studied the heck outta mesoamerican culture and history (what was known at the time) at the end of college, around ‘89 or so; back then…

Hey! We get one too!
(55 Words. September 13, 2002, 03:03 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
No coverage yet, but a radio traffic reporter who works out of the tallest building in downtown Seattle just informed her audience (on KUOW, the local NPR station) that the building is being evacuated… More as soon as I hear about it. Apparently it’s some sort of bomb threat. UPDATE: an apparent false alarm, thankfully….

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Jason gets the boot: Seattle Times
(132 Words. September 09, 2002, 08:58 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
The Seattle Times: Bumbershoot favorite busted, then banned A brief article on Jason’s banishment from Bumbershoot. You know, the reasons to live here are thinning out. I sent a note to the address provided here expressing my disappointment in the situation, but someone’s having DNS trouble, it bounced from the info@onereel.org address. Just to add insult to injury: I COMPLETELY…

Happy Birthday, Ken
(103 Words. September 07, 2002, 08:01 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
As the Portly Texan points out, it’s Buddy Holly’s birthday, a distinction shared with Ken. I thought perhaps despair.com might have a nice e-card, but no; so I sent a condolences card from Apple’s soon-to-be-no-longer-free dot-Mac services (which, is, um, the second time I’ve used that service in two years? But enough about me). What really would like, though, would…

Of course I'm thinking about it.
(46 Words. September 07, 2002, 05:45 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
No really. Just like you are. But the inevitable anniversary media coverage is not helping me reflect, come to terms with, or otherwise cope with it. It’s just making me irritated with the media. Which means I suppose I’ll be listening to more music than usual….

Stumpy's back!
(198 Words. September 05, 2002, 10:42 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Couple’s deformed pet squirrel safe at home after road trip “MACHIAS — A squirrel with half a tail and no left hind foot is back with his caretakers after 10 days on the lam. Stumpy the squirrel was found six miles from the residence of Steve and Marcia Carter, 52 and 51, who fought back tears when he was returned.”…

Big DAMN NEWS!
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Three-legged squirrel missing, owners upset Stumpy! Come, back, Stumpy! Oh, what’s gonna happen to pore lil Stumpy!…

great headline
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The front page of today’s P-I features (in the banner that previews their weekend magazine) a headline about Ozzfest, featuring, of course, Ozzy: “TV dad headlines metalfest” Which I must admit, I find pretty hilarious and a sterling example of headline writing. Too bad Sharon isn’t named Harriet….

Tall Ships starts thursday
(210 Words. August 14, 2002, 07:42 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Not that this charming vessel is one of the ships coming to town. But there will be a passel of multi-masted, wind powered vessels entering our fair city, and staying for the weekend. During the weekend, there will be cannon battles on Lake Union between the Washington State based Lady Washington and the Hawaii based Hawaiian Cheiftan. Readers of the…

More area ink on Ujaama case
(272 Words. August 11, 2002, 07:23 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Man accused of online terror recruitment freed; Ujaama case continues is the headline that the P-I ran this NYT wire story under. It details the apparent failure of the British case against the UK-based business partner of Mr. Ujaama in their efforts to set up a terror-training adventure travel business. Also, on Sunday, the Seattle Times published two stories covering…

Seattle's shameful failures of governance
(828 Words. August 09, 2002, 11:54 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
When I moved to Seattle in 1990, I felt as though I’d come home. From excellent examples of progressive local governance to the burgeoning high-tech economy, I felt that this was where America’s real future had to lie. Great, well-funded public transit; an urban culture that encouraged abandonment of automobile-based transportation, a political culture that was commited to transparency and…

PI article on Ujaama case
(153 Words. August 09, 2002, 11:09 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Ranch’s efforts at terror training detailed presents a detailed investigation, based mostly on an interview with a former tenant of the Oregon ranch the Feds allege Seattle-area activist James Ujaama helped lease with an eye to turning it into a terrorist training camp. According to the article, Ujaama’s involvement has been accurately described in prior stories about the investigation -…

NYT covers EQ con
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Where Warriors and Ogres Lock Arms Instead of Swords …and… Cinescape’s managing editor just told me that ComiCon in San Diego attracted 75,000 people this time, including the full weight of the Hollywood star machine due to upcomoing comics-based flicks. When comics events become more popular than sporting events and the paper of record covers a player con for a…

tangent.cx
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Tangent.cx offers inter-site auto-linking, a concept of interest to wiki-ons and/or warp-ites. I suspect….

information wants to be free, part the nth
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(via Deck Chairs on the Titanic) BookCrossing.com is kinda like Where’s George for books, but with more of the Diggers’ white bicycles. As an inveterate book giver, I like the idea. Where are the umpteen friend-foisted copies of Delany’s Dhalgren, still America’s masterpiece of sf? Whatever happened to my first set of Zelazny’s Trumps books? I realize that’s more George…

I'm sorry, did I say $2b? I meant SIX!
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Xerox Revises Revenue Data, Tripling Error First Reported A HA HAA HA HA HA heh heh hah HA! Oh man! This is gettin’ GOOD! Who’s next?…

And in today's huge corporate accounting errors
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Xerox too? Copycats. And I have been informed via crypto-Masonic corespondence that I am obligated to clarify my anti-Economist outburst of recent days: said outburst was purely self-satirical in nature and was in no way intended to be a sexual invitation to the news magazine The Economist, employees thereof, or readers. Besides, I heard the guy they have covering our…

What's all the Fuss About?
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Apparently, the World Cup engaged in some accounting chicanery. I don’t get it. First, how can soccer generate the kind of dough that is being described as missing? Second, I thought that the tournament was over. Boy, was I wrong! So, does the winning team have to make up that $3.8 billion? Also, why is the stock market acting like…

Sources reveal KG-DT defense in the works
(454 Words. June 19, 2002, 12:40 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
NEWS FLASH!!! An anonymous source high within the executive hierarchy of the “least grating” of the NYC/NJ blogs, Ken Goldstein’s Illuminated Donkey, has revealed to mike.whybark.com that Mr. Goldstein (or “Kenny-Boy” as he would be known to President Bush if they ever meet) is hard at work defending his claim to be Deep Throat as covered here yesterday. Our source,…

Deep Throat: Pat Buchanan?
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via Romenesko’s freakin’ indispensable Obscure Store this very long story at Spike covering the process, evidence, and results for a three-year investigation conducted by University of Illinois journalism students into the identity of Deep Throat, the secret source for Woodward and Berstein’s epochal Watergate coverage. the June 14 Dateline NBC will apparently be devoted to the story. After reading the…

Poker-playing Dog Artist gets his due
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Artist’s Fame Is Fleeting, but Dog Poker Is Forever Cassius Marcellus Coolidge was an entrepreneurial whirlwind with a painter’s eye who seemed born to his nickname, Cash. After leaving the family farm here in the early 1860’s, he bounced around the northeastern United States and Europe, trying his hand at myriad trades: he ran a drug store, founded a…

NYT coverage of Martinsville arrest
(158 Words. May 18, 2002, 07:11 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
After Arrest, Town Shamed by ‘68 Killing Seeks Renewal An interesting article, which provides some opinions that support my own: Martinsville has acted as a scapegoat for the intolerant history and heritage of Indiana politics. This is not to say that I didn’t subscribe to this idea while resident in Indiana, nor is it to say that Martinsville has not…

Naturally, I blame Enron.
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At the San Fran Chronicle via Romenesko’s Obscure Store: Roomie shot and killed in spat over $1,000 utility bill 35-year-old Oakland musician and pot grower was killed by his roommate, who was angered by a $1,000 utility bill for the home they shared. <sarcasm>Yes, indeed, it was clearly the dot-coms that jacked these poor saps’ rates up that high. </sarcasm>…

Friedman: Internet makes us dumb
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“> The Internet is making people dumber faster - By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN “At its worst, it can make people dumber faster than any media tool we’ve ever had.” To which I really must say, if you click on the link, you’re in danger of making his opinion into fact. What a pompous windbag. Is he one of the…

Enron charged with Price-Fixing
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Well now, here’s a shock. Lets’ see now, I’ve been speculating bitterly about this since, um, MY F***ING ELECTRICITY BILL TRIPLED. Get ‘em! Hang ‘em high! Horsewhip ‘em! Brand ‘em on both cheeks! Ride ‘em out of town on a rail! Boil that tar - I’ll bring the feathers! Sounds like Washington pols are scrambling to clamber aboard the California-launched…

Hometown Firebombing
(239 Words. May 09, 2002, 10:57 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
May 4, 2002 “Truck firebombed at poultry company Undetonated incendiary devices recovered from under two other trucks” BLOOMINGTON, IN - An early-morning explosion that damaged a truck at a wholesale poultry plant was deliberate, an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms said Friday. - www.hoosiertimes.com here’s a link to a mailing list posting of the article,…

Luke Helder v. John Walker Lindh
(281 Words. May 09, 2002, 10:04 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Yow! Lotsa stuff in the real world last week! Item: Minnesotan art student runs amuck, pipebombing mailboxes for no apparent reason. Alice in TV Land has more, including a link to a mirror of the kid’s band site (they are called “Apathy”). Here’s what I’d like to know: why is John Walker Lindh such a lighting rod compared to this…

... and another wreck, much less interesting
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In January of 2001, a blimp owned and operated by Las Vegas-based Airship USA slipped the surly bonds of Earth and man and wandered the skies of the greater San Francisco metropolitan area before finally crashing into a Bay Area restaurant. Remarkably, no one was hurt in the incident, and even more remarkably, no one interpreted the event as an…

STONES on BLIMP WEEK Coverage
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Just so my gentle readers don’t think I was yanking anybody’s chain, here’s a wire story with photos about Tuesday’s Rolling Stones - Blimp Week cross promo: Yahoo wire photos which will undoubedly change, and here’s the story proper: “Rolling Stones Announce Yet Another”. I thought about nicking a shot or two, but I’ll wait till the Stones site has…

*EXCLUSIVE* STONES ANNOUNCE BLIMP WEEK GRAND FINALE
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According to Reuters, “Rolling Stones to Blimp New York”. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones plan to drop in from the sky next week to announce their first tour in three years, according to a U.S. government official. The veteran rockers will commandeer an airship and cruise into Van Cortlandt Park, New York City’s third largest park, in the…

More LTA
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Later the same day I dribbled the two scanty grafs on airships headlined “The goodrich blimp?”, this crossed the wires: “Cargolifter buoyed by Boeing partnership” - Reuters Cargolifter, which aims to develop zeppelin-like airships to transport heavy plant and construction loads, said it had signed a letter of intent with plane maker Boeing (NYSE:BA - news) to examine potential business…

ENRON: Skilling "agitated"
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/24/business/24ENRO.html “When shown records that laid out the details of the financial returns during his testimony several months ago before the S.E.C., Mr. Skilling was said to have grown agitated as he described his opinion of the information. Had he known the magnitude of the profits, Mr. Skilling was said to have told the regulators, he would have immediately summoned…

Hmmm... MS profiling not dead yet?
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A few days ago I noted that Micorsoft had quietly laid their online Persona project to rest, as detailed in the NYT, because of partner resistance to data-sharing and dependency. In short, potential commercial partners with Microsoft were reluctant to cede adminstrative and (in all probablity) legal control to our buddies in Redmond. Well, endless source of hilarity that it…

P2P v. "portal privacy" ?
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As I’m sure you’ve noticed by now, spam is OUT OF HAND, and getting worse. Here’s a NYT story about Yahoo’s recent decision to run the old switcheroo on user privacy preferences. If you are registered with Yahoo as a client, you recieved a notification email sometime in the past couple days concerning the change. Missed it? Me too. ALL…

WAS IT SOMETHING THEY SAID?
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NYT: Microsoft Has Shelved Its Internet ‘Persona’ Service excerpt: “There was incredible customer resistance,” said a Microsoft .Net consultant, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified. Microsoft was unable to persuade either consumer companies or software developers that it had solved all of the privacy and security issues raised by the prospect of keeping personal information in…

TERROR DEFENSE ATTORNEY INDICTED
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Terror-Indictment.html <sarcasm>Well, this certainly won’t have a chilling effect on our judicial system. Might be worth a quick hop into to wayback machine to see if this sort thing happened to defense attorneys for, for example, the Black Panthers, or SDS….

IS IT HOT IN HERE, OR IS IT ME?
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I assumed the whole world was losing sleep over this, but when I mentioned it at a recent gathering, not ONE person had even heard of it. So here goes: In early March of 2002, an Antarctic ice shelf the size of RHODE ISLAND collapsed into the sea, an apparent result of, um, melting ice. Amazing pix: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?group=events/sc/032202iceshelf&i=index&e=1&tmpl=sl So, uh,…