Amazing 360 degree panorama of Toronto:
This is a composite of downtown Toronto, Centre Island and lake Ontario, put together from photos taken from the CN Tower skypod, 443 m above the ground.
Three rows of 18 photos (54 photos total) were used in the composite. Final processing was about 8 hours on a P3/1GHz/1GB.
Motorcycle Mayhem, a new (to me at least) one from My New Filing Technique is Unstopable.
Frank Luntz lists 14 words Republicans are not to say.
"No, man," I told him, "I hate those things, all that paper and those rubber bands. But I like you. I don't need to read it. Just tell me a little about it and I'll give you the blurb."
It was one of my best: "a howl of laughter from the abyss of horror, a comic nightmare from the sick, troubled sleep of this century's desolate end." And it appeared directly above Cubby's blurb.
-n tosches
It was one of my best: "a howl of laughter from the abyss of horror, a comic nightmare from the sick, troubled sleep of this century's desolate end." And it appeared directly above Cubby's blurb.
-n tosches
file under: iPod, reverse engineering
Robotwisdom is back. Riothero is back.
Sadly, neither lemonyellow nor sevencrabrangoon are back although the above blasts from the past did make me check.
Sadly, neither lemonyellow nor sevencrabrangoon are back although the above blasts from the past did make me check.
superfriends do office space
"Am I boring you?" Dr. Gene Scott RIP. I don't want to think how many hours I spent watching this dude on late night TV in the 80s.
gannongate : its worse than you think
the dubya tapes
Now would be a really good time for me to revitalize the Syria page, but work precludes it. The US is going to use the assasination as an excuse to bash Syria, whether or not they are behind it. At this point, with an unpredictable tyrant in charge, it's hard to predict what the US will do.
brian lehrer wrestling with the lack of meaning issue / spoiler : ultimately he's seduced by the uplifting experience
NY mag : quiet! genius at work
NY mag : quiet! genius at work
more on another public spectacle coming our way.
surge in jonestown reference use
term useful to dems ? as in "we wont drink bush's kool-aid anymore" bumpersticker ?
term useful to dems ? as in "we wont drink bush's kool-aid anymore" bumpersticker ?
an oldie but a goodie
Slashdot: In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?
Neal Stephenson: You don't have to settle for mere idle speculation. Let me tell you how it came out on the three occasions when we did fight.
The first time was a year or two after SNOW CRASH came out. I was doing a reading/signing at White Dwarf Books in Vancouver. Gibson stopped by to say hello and extended his hand as if to shake. But I remembered something Bruce Sterling had told me. For, at the time, Sterling and I had formed a pact to fight Gibson. Gibson had been regrown in a vat from scraps of DNA after Sterling had crashed an LNG tanker into Gibson's Stealth pleasure barge in the Straits of Juan de Fuca. During the regeneration process, telescoping Carbonite stilettos had been incorporated into Gibson's arms. Remembering this in the nick of time, I grabbed the signing table and flipped it up between us. Of course the Carbonite stilettos pierced it as if it were cork board, but this spoiled his aim long enough for me to whip my wakizashi out from between my shoulder blades and swing at his head. He deflected the blow with a force blast that sprained my wrist. The falling table knocked over a space heater and set fire to the store. Everyone else fled. [more...scroll down]
Slashdot: In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?
Neal Stephenson: You don't have to settle for mere idle speculation. Let me tell you how it came out on the three occasions when we did fight.
The first time was a year or two after SNOW CRASH came out. I was doing a reading/signing at White Dwarf Books in Vancouver. Gibson stopped by to say hello and extended his hand as if to shake. But I remembered something Bruce Sterling had told me. For, at the time, Sterling and I had formed a pact to fight Gibson. Gibson had been regrown in a vat from scraps of DNA after Sterling had crashed an LNG tanker into Gibson's Stealth pleasure barge in the Straits of Juan de Fuca. During the regeneration process, telescoping Carbonite stilettos had been incorporated into Gibson's arms. Remembering this in the nick of time, I grabbed the signing table and flipped it up between us. Of course the Carbonite stilettos pierced it as if it were cork board, but this spoiled his aim long enough for me to whip my wakizashi out from between my shoulder blades and swing at his head. He deflected the blow with a force blast that sprained my wrist. The falling table knocked over a space heater and set fire to the store. Everyone else fled. [more...scroll down]
the 9/11 report is out
you know this one jim ? picturephoning
Weblog dedicated to Christo's Central Park exhibit The Gates.
NBC News just did a spot on the owl invasion in Minnesota. The Boreal Owl in Central Park recently was a big deal; it’s probably the hardest North American owl to see. But we haven’t been getting the more spectacular (and seeable) Great Gray and Hawk Owls that have been showing up south of their normal ranges this winter. This report from near Ottawa sounds amazing: over 20 Great Grays in a day. Check out these pictures; I particularly like this one taking off; it reminds me of the Jabberwoky.
(And don’t miss the rest of Jody Hildreth’s kidwings site; turn a youngster on to virtual owl pellets.)
(And don’t miss the rest of Jody Hildreth’s kidwings site; turn a youngster on to virtual owl pellets.)
any opinions on raid array ?
