A conservative is a radical who got his way and is afraid of losing it to someone with a better idea.
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Posted in Technology on May 27th, 2007
(Cnet) A horde of decaying zombies invaded San Francisco’s downtown Apple store on Friday evening, hunting for brains, terrifying the customers, and gnawing on iMacs. I’ve placed some photos here. I’m pleased to report that the zombies ultimately decided human brains were tastier than plastic iMacs, although it wasn’t for lack of effort in trying [...]
Posted in Squirrels on May 24th, 2007
(New York Times) The death of a monkey at the Denver Zoo from bubonic plague has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals and renew efforts to keep visitors from feeding the urban wildlife here. The animal, an 8-year-old female hooded capuchin monkey named Spanky, was the first zoo animal to [...]
Posted in Outdoors on May 22nd, 2007
My sister and her boy friend just got back from their vacation in the Hoh Rain Forest and sent me some great photographs. My envy knows no bounds. The place looks amazing and primordial.
“The Hoh Rain Forest is one of the few temperate rain forests in the world, and is also the largest. It is [...]
Posted in News on May 22nd, 2007
(ActionNews) Thick smoke settled over Atlanta Tuesday morning causing eyes to water and traffic to slow down.Winds from the southeast carried smoke from wildfires burning in South Georgia and North Florida.The smoke appeared almost like a London fog.”The winds are very light, trapping everything over the area,” said Channel 2 meteorologist Karen Minton.Drivers complained of [...]
Posted in News on May 18th, 2007
(Associated Press) Deep-sea explorers said Friday they have mined what could be the richest shipwreck treasure in history, bringing home 17 tons of colonial-era silver and gold coins from an undisclosed site in the Atlantic Ocean. Estimated value: $500 million. A jet chartered by Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration landed in the United States recently with [...]
FOSS is a great idea and a beautiful example of collective, creative enterprise… more so if more than half of it work well. I know cyberduck is going to be pissed, but their drivel of, “it worked for me” and “Microsoft sucks” really don’t constitute product documentation and troubleshooting. I think I can justifiable [...]
Posted in Environment on May 10th, 2007
(GrandForksHerald.com) Mike Olson was repairing a deck for his dad, Erling, on Monday afternoon in Thief River Falls, when he came across a sight could have come straight from “Little Red Riding Hood.” Olson was replacing the 2-by-8 studs that hold the decking and said he already had been working under the deck about 20 [...]
- How can one human being consider 550lbs of clothes and shoes to be “the essentials”.
- I always feel dehydrated and dusty after reading a chapter of The Grapes of Wrath.
- “The Project” steams ahead, powered by grammarians, historians and obsessive/compulsive sorting mania.
Posted in Bush on May 3rd, 2007
(New York Times) Senior Bush administration officials told Congress on Tuesday that they could not pledge that the administration would continue to seek warrants from a secret court for a domestic wiretapping program, as it agreed to do in January. Rather, they argued that the president had the constitutional authority to decide for himself whether [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 2nd, 2007
City by Clifford D. Simak made its way on to my reading list several months ago after an intriguing snippet of a review on NPR Books. I received my copy from my Amazon Wish List around Christmas time and have been picking it up and putting it down ever since. I rarely “power” through books [...]
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin, Jessie Stricchiola
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham