Karel wanted me to email this to him. I came up with this instead.
Karel
Huzzah!
Spencer Sundell – Web Developer gets jiggy wit de blog, somewheres around fifteen years after beginning his web life. WELCOME!
Cat Content!
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?
Blimp Week For a Day!
Newer readers may have noted an occasional tendency on my part to blog upon topics associated with lighter than air aviation. The faithful correspondent and expert medievalist behind Hollyism dropped some blimpy science upon me this morning:
“I saw Dynalifter, which is apparently two guys in a “plastic-sheeted hut” with an expensive 150-foot prototype. The ship’s big idea is to combine airfoil lifting surfaces with an LTA central hull. The story notes that the principals do not have an aeronautics background and met while working in the IT department of Mount Union College. The operation’s website includes decent pictures of the prototype, which is a full-fledged beam-and-girder dirigible.
That, my friends, is living the dream. Airship flights daily from Lake Union to Mount Rainier, in season!
Things on Ballard
The UK’s ever-delicious Things muses on the (personally much beloved) works of J. G. Ballard. There’s nothing like reading a Ballardian landscape in the world; it’s as delicious and dizzying as ancient Scotch.
A painting for the working man
The Flanagan offers a radical reinterpretation of Matisse’s bon mot.
Silence reigns in the Desert
Sunday at the Paramount: Demille’s Lost City and “The Ten Commandments.”
No surprise, really
Longtime Mac-lover David Pogue hates on the new Treo 700W in the NYT. The new Treo uses Windows Mobile (I think) as the underlying OS, and interestingly, reverts to the lower screen resolution of the earlier model, the 600.
Etherised
The airport is now properly configured, and I can get back to the usual business of monkeyfacing over appearing and diappearing network printers and the like. What a relief!
Feel the burn
Jim’s backish. I’m glad for this. I have continued to appreciate his personal skew as seen via linkies only, but have missed the prose.