Things are only impossible until they’re not.
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Posted in Outdoors on Jan 25th, 2004
Saturday the 24th, two friends and I set off for a dayhike in Georgia’s Fort Mountain State Park. Fort Mountain is one of several north Georgia parks I’ve bookmarked for dayhikes or overnight hikes and plan to systematically visit and revisited as time, weather and whim permit. All three factors more or less converged this [...]
Posted in Technology on Jan 23rd, 2004
Not your normal google look up, this one build clever, quixotic and amusing statements based on your preferred user name. Try it for yourself at: http://www.googlism.com/ . See mine below…
Posted in Technology on Jan 23rd, 2004
(Wired) A new gadget designed to help people shape their nightly slumber means dreams could be full of whatever the sleeper desires — whether it be a date with a movie star or winning gold at the Olympics. Standing 35 inches tall, the supposed nightmare banisher has been dubbed Yumemi Kobo — Japanese for “dream workshop” [...]
Posted in Political on Jan 23rd, 2004
(Boston Globe) Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe. From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jan 22nd, 2004
Fresh from reading and truly enjoying How the Irish Saved Civilization, I eagerly undertook Thomas Cahill’s next book in the Hinges of History series, The Gift of the Jews. In the series, it is Cahill’s stated intent to illustrate the crucial and often overlooked influences and underpinning of various aspects of Western civilization. After [...]
Posted in Technology on Jan 22nd, 2004
Here’s a versatile little gizmo from Asus. The 802.11b WL-330 can fit in your pocket yet act as an access point, or using a little switch, work to connect to an existing wireless infrastructure using your Ethernet connection. The unit itself is slightly bigger than a Swan Vestas box of matches, comes with a very [...]
Posted in Technology on Jan 22nd, 2004
(Wired) The Recording Industry Association of America is suing 532 more individuals it says are illegally sharing copyright music over peer-to-peer networks, the group announced Wednesday. It’s the largest group of copyright-infringement lawsuits that the music trade group has filed since it began its crackdown on file traders in September. The latest batch of traders [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jan 21st, 2004
Ok, who wouldn’t like to easily and portably turn their bike into a paddleboat? I mean, isn’t that right up there with flight as one of the basic human dreams? Well maybe not, but it was someone’s dream and as unlikely as it seems I find myself somewhat enchanted with the concept.
Posted in Technology on Jan 21st, 2004
The folks at Google have recently added several new tricks and utilities to their search behemoth. I’ve listed these along with some of my long time, but often under recognized favorites below. Hope the infomancer in you enjoys them as much as I do.
Posted in Reviews on Jan 16th, 2004
This link is popping up quite a few places, but I was pleasantly surprised and utterly enthralled to watch the transformations of figure, form and expression that the artist takes you through. The creator, Ferenc Cako, is an artist from Budapest with numerous works to his name, which, in my shameful ignorance, am currently unfamiliar [...]
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