DejaMenu 1.1 for MacOS X, a utility that clones your OS X menu bar and makes it available via configurable key-combos at the current location of your mouse cursor. Via AxMe, and to which I must say w00t.

Mount Baker Highway, an interesting drive. Anyone been here?

For years, I’d heard that there was once a real yellow submarine, beached and rotting somewhere in Puget Sound. It appears that the USS Menhaden [caution: speakers down!] was indeed a factual artifact, and even the description of her as “beaached” appears to have a basis in fact. I’d guess my recollection of this is based on news stories about the City of Everett scrapping the hulk of the Menhaden.

Manny’s very nice site design has been swiped. Today, word comes that swiper became winner: image swapping is set to follow, and Manuel has used a word that includes only the two syllables ‘tub’ and ‘girl’ to describe the images he intends to use.

Me? I’m selling the tickets and the popcorn. When’s the show start?

(Confidential to the Manster: swipee may very well be able to follow referers, in which case your prank may be in danger of exposure.)

Star Wars bit player, or performance artist?

Since Bill Kofmel doesn’t want to be referred to by his name during his performance, an obvious alternative presents itself. I suppose the Futurama guy would work too.

[Courtesy of the ineffable Danellopy.]

The New York Times – Science – Cones, Curves, Shells, Towers: He Made Paper Jump to Life:

In contrast to traditional origami, where all folds are straight, Dr. Huffman developed structures based around curved folds, many calling to mind seedpods and seashells. It is as if paper has been imbued with life.

Curved folds have occasionally whispered into my ear of their charms, structural or otherwise. One wonders if Dr. Huffman left web traces amid the paperscraps.

Clearly, he did. Someone at SGI took note (very cool pictures of Huffman at work), and the ACM has a memorial page.

UCSC maintains a ghostly faculty listing as well as an archived news item on the professor’s passing.

Interestingly, a page hosted at Rice takes a look at Huffman’s role in developing early compression algorithms, something that, at least to my analgebraic mind, appears directly related to the paperfolding activity explored in the NYT piece.

Oh, for the plans of these structures!

poupou:

If you examine popular media images of women using IT, which I did with some reservation during the final semester of my graduate studies, you will find an overrepresentation of relaxed-pose, sitting on the floor, gazing dreamily into the monitor, giggling, languidly stroking a single key on the laptop bullshit.

The pleased and amused me no end, and reminded me of one of the reasons I enjoy poupou’s friendship so very much. Bring it!

Nader or Cobb, wonders Editor B. He is on his way to the Green convention. Appears he deems Ralph undesirable, for reasons of the man’s poor tactical sense.

Ed. Beta threatens to blog the convention. I’m thinking, from up in my tower of dark terror, I will direct a warming beam of sun-lamp-like vigilance in his direction. Fellow perspicatores are invited. B. has a fine track record and if history serves as a guide he will be videotaping every gol-darned secont.

Stops – The Bus Schedule Database for Palm OS Handhelds may be a useful stopgap for the apparent lack of a Seattle-based resource publishing Metro schedules in a palm-readable format.

C’mon, Metro! You already do a great job with getting the data online. Give us some RSS or Atom or something that can get into an AvantGo channel, at least!

Grumble.

Jonh appears to have already written a scraper, but it’s a personal tool and oriented to PDF.

QuickTrip may also be a bit less daunting to set up and use than Stops, I think.

Still, what I really need, I suppose, is a table-viewing application for my decrepit old Vx.

Dancing Bananas, with Ape, spotted by eclecticism’s Michael Hanscom.

They dance, alright. Later they possed up.