Can we please stop calling it “The New Currency” everytime we release a new kind of money? I’m getting confused about whether this is the new $10, the last new $10, or the one before that. They need version numbers or years or funny names like Hurricanes have.
Bonus points for scoring “moneyfactory.gov” though!
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney/main.cfm/currency/new10
That’s cool. It’s wall paint that changes color with temperature fluctuations.
Can someone tell me what’s compelling in any way about a Treo running Windows CE (or whatever they’re calling it these days), especially one with only a 240×240 screen? Sure, it’s got EVDO and 64MB RAM, but you probably need that extra to run Windows, and besides, those are hardware enhancements.
Apparently, the Office integration was rewritten by Palm and it isn’t using the built-in windows mobile implementation (and one would assume they could just as easily have done so for PalmOS or Cobalt or whatever), so… what’s the upside here?
“Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.”
Booyah.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1577753,00.html?gusrc=rss
Wow, there’s all sorts of good info in this amazingly comprehensive Canon SLR FAQ. Mostly it covers film cameras, but almost all of that is applicable to dSLRs too.
I’ve noticed that with increasing frequency, I’ll search for something on one of the search engines and be directed to some forum post where the answer is “google for the answer”.
How do you think I found you in the first place?!?!
If it’s possible that your page will turn up in the search results for the thing you’re discussing, please include the answer (or at least, a specific URL where the answer can be found).
I don’t know if it’s really a PDA replacement, as they claim, or that PDAs have failed, as they also claim (my Treo takes that pretty personally). But this does seem like a useful little thing anyway, for shopping lists or whatnot. I like their paper folding method.
It looks pretty interesting. It’s a one-handed, modular, expandable (to two hands in various configurations), wireless, motion sensing, rotatable kind of stick thing.
That’s good. I like console games, but I really hate the standard console controller, and have pretty much since I ever picked it up. I’ve gotten used to it, but I still find it very clunky and unnatural for many kinds of games. My gut says this is a good move.
Robert Wise died yesterday.
Forget the moment of silence, give me a few minutes of the opening theme against a flickering starfield.
I just got my first piece of SMS spam (verizon wireless). Anyone know who I should be reporting this to? The VZW customer support people don’t seem to know.
Brilliant.
Here’s how it works: You decide on the amount you would like to pledge for each
protester (minimum 10 cents). When protesters show up on our sidewalks, Planned
Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania will count and record their number each day from October 1 through November 30, 2005. We will place a signoutside the health center that tracks pledges and makes protesters fully aware that their actions are benefiting PPSP. At the end of the two-month campaign, we will send you an update on protest activities and a pledge reminder.Example:
If you pledge 30 cents per protester, and PPSP has 100 protesters in October and 160
protesters in November, your donation would be 78 dollars for the entire two-month campaign.
Obviously, this won’t be an alternative to oil field extraction, and I believe we should move to alternative energy sources as quickly as possible. But infrastructure shifts like that take time, and this may provide a needed buffer to ease the transition.
Some counter comments on the original article are here:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200509/msg00203.html
Um. Holy shit.
Shell has come up with a way to extract oil from oil-bearing rock instead of oil fields.
Drill shafts into the oil-bearing rock. Drop heaters down the shaft. Cook the rock until the hydrocarbons boil off, the lightest and most desirable first. Collect them.
Please note, you don’t have to go looking for oil fields when you’re brewing your own.
On one small test plot about 20 feet by 35 feet, on land Shell owns, they started heating the rock in early 2004. “Product” – about one-third natural gas, two-thirds light crude – began to appear in September 2004. They turned the heaters off about a month ago, after harvesting about 1,500 barrels of oil.
While we were trying to do the math, O’Connor told us the answers. Upwards of a million barrels an acre, a billion barrels a square mile. And the oil shale formation in the Green River Basin, most of which is in Colorado, covers more than a thousand square miles – the largest fossil fuel deposits in the world.
And it gets much better than that. Go read the whole article.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4051709,00.html
My most frequent complaint about the Windows interface, all flavors of it, is that the open file dialog has this little row of quick access icons, and they’re not programmable. My folder arrangement doesn’t match the default, so this makes me work just a little bit more than I should have to nearly every time I open a new file. I recently switched to using the Adobe open file dialog for CS2, and was stunned to find that it shares the defined favorite folder settings with Bridge.
Nice.
Thank you!
(Activate this by pressing the “Use Adobe Dialog” button in the file open dialog – you can switch back anytime you like.)
I’m thoroughly underwhelmed by the ipod phone.
It might be useful if it would let you stream your itms songs to the phone without having to have downloaded them first, or even better, stream your whole collection to the phone.
As it is, it’s yet another example of “convergence” devices that are really two different things pressed together and not integrated.
http://onlinestorez.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/itunes_ROKR.html
The ipod nano looks cute though.
Kottke has a post about how to make microwave popcorn without a microwave. Letting aside the possibility that this is just a sick joke of some kind, it’s wrong for a number of reasons.
Bruce Schneier has a link to the digital-er list, for discussion of technical solutions to emergency response and crisis situations. There are some other resources in the comments as well.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/09/digital-er.html
Keith Olbermann decides that Michael Chertoff’s mistaking Louisiana for a city is just one step too far.
You must watch this.
http://camworld.com/katrina/movies/MSNBC-Olbermann-Rant-090505.mov
Transcript here:
Sploid has written a blistering critique of the federal government’s response to Katrina.
http://www.sploid.com/news/2005/09/03/homeland-security-4-years-after-911-123745.php
I still haven’t seen anyone come out and say “If you voted for Bush or you didn’t vote in the last presidential election, you virtually begged for this response, and we told you so.”. This, the complete and total failure to respond to an expected national disaster in a way that even approaches sanity, isn’t the fault of the administration – we knew they sucked. This is the fault of every single red dot on that election map, for letting them still be in charge (for whatever that’s worth) when another problem finally rolled around.
A rising tide lifts all boats, my ass. A rising tide strands and drowns those who can’t afford boats in the first place.
This book has, quite frankly, revolutionized everything I know about dealing with color in Photoshop. If you do any kind of photo editing, you need it.
I don’t think it’s a substitute for understanding color and contrast correction in RGB or CMYK, but if you already do, it provides an alternate way of looking at things that yields MUCH better results very quickly, and in some cases does some things that single-color channel correction can’t really do.
If you don’t already have a solid understanding of how color channels work in RGB or CMYK, you’re likely to be confused by what’s being explained in this book. Learn that first, then come back to this.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321356780/buyadam-20
Bush tours gulf coast, says “the results are not acceptable”. I feel bad for the guy. I mean, he’s only one man, right?
If only there was something he could do to help out.
If only he could have gotten some advance warning.
If only there was some sort of trained, well-equipped organization that could begin to handle this sort of emergency.
I heard mention of this yesterday, but didn’t see a link.
Here’s a link. He’s in an office building on the 27th floor, in the datacenter with generators and food and stuff. There’s also a live video feed out the window.
Cool!
“LEGO is starting a new program called LEGO Factory where you can download a desktop application that allows you to create a custom brick design. You can take the designs you create using the LEGO Digital Designer software, upload them to the LEGO website, and actually order a kit of LEGO bricks that will make the design you spec’d out.”
“We have experimented with amputating or damaging several different organs, such as the heart, toes, tail and ears, and just watched them regrow,” she said.
Via my friend jdb:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16417002%255E30417,00.html
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