May 2004

Monday 31 May

  • TV Phone (22:22) - After reading about the world's smallest tv tuner chip (7mm x 7mm) I started to wonder where the TV phones were at. I can't think of a better use for the fancy color screens all our new phones are sporting....
  • Airport Security "Fast Pass" (22:05) - The TSA is going to start a "fast pass" trial to allow registered travelers to pass through airport security quicker and without worry of secondary checks. To become registered travelers will have to go through an extensive background check and...

Saturday 29 May

  • Familiar Strangers (09:35) - Jabberwocky is a piece of software for bluetooth enabled mobile phones, developed by the familiar stranger project out of Intel Research at Berkeley. The idea behind the software is simple: on any given day in the city you pass thousands...

Friday 28 May

  • The Onion Infographic? (02:11) - Nope. ABC News. ...
  • Proof That Racial Segregation Is The Way Of The Lord (02:04) - In what's being called a local wardrobe malfunction, area resident and Klansman Arnie Stevens showed up at his latest Ku Klux Klan rally in a pink hood and a pink robe. "They say it happened because I didn't separate my...
  • Zero Cool (01:18) - Has "zero cool" entered mainstream usage? If Thesaurus.com, which uses Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, is any indication then yes, it has. For a street definition, visit Urban Dictionary. Apparently, it was also the title of an early Michael Crichton book....
  • The False Controversy of Stem Cells (01:07) - Death or deep freeze is the fate of any embryo spared by the Bush policy from the indignity of contributing to medical progress. To the nonabsolutist, it ought to matter a lot that restricting stem-cell research doesn't actually spare the...

Thursday 27 May

  • PC Cassette Deck (22:42) - The PlusDeck 2 is a full-logic cassette deck for your PC. Use it to archive your old cassette tapes of 80s hair bands into digital media files for playback on your PC. Or better yet, archive your favorite audio...
  • Geeks looking for something to do (22:37) - Smart? Bored? Check out http://www.geekdiy.com/ and build yourself a catapult, or a G4, or a stungun. Or a catapult that launches G4's that stun people... The site looks a bit new, but a blog dedicated to geek projects seems promising....
  • Sony Hi-MD (02:07) - I've always been a fan of the minidisc. I think it is one of the most underrated devices out there. In January Sony announced the Hi-MD format. The Hi-MD format uses 1Gb disks that are capable of storing up to...

Wednesday 26 May

  • Categories! (18:48) - Obviously there is a new look to the site, but now categories are finally working. When you write a new article, make sure to select (or create) a category. I will try to go through all the past articles and...
  • The state of support for John Kerry (10:51) - John Kerry is a douchebag but I'm voting for him anyway, the mantra of http://www.johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com/. Here you can read top notch articles like "Instances of Doucheitude and Why it Doesn't Matter" and "How Fucked We are Right Now". Enjoy....

Tuesday 25 May

  • Silk from a sow's ear (17:00) - As I was sorting through journals this morning, the cover story of The Laryngoscope caught my eye. My understanding is that you can take some ear cartilage from a pig, add enzymes and shake well, put it in a human...
  • Rumsfeld bans camera phones (12:42) - In a comment to an earlier post I had mentioned how the advent of digital cameras has brought us many photos from the war that we are not used to seeing. In an attempt to keep us from these images,...

Monday 24 May

  • M A C G Y V E R I S M S (23:12) - At MacGyverisms you will find an episode by episode list of amazing feats that MacGyver pulled off to save the day. Looks like he started to fall off later in his career, check it out: 001 PILOT Disarmed missle with...

Saturday 22 May


Friday 21 May

  • Nick Berg's Killing Anomalies (13:02) - I usually don't dig on conspiracy theory (I think we went to the moon, etc etc), but there is a write up over at kuro5hin regarding the Nick Berg beheading. Among the anomalies, I find the video analysis to be...

Thursday 20 May

  • PHILADELPHIA 5, TAMPA BAY 4 (22:54) - YOU LOVE IT!!!...
  • Talk about a massive "dump" (15:23) - MMSD stands for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. They have a "deep tunnel" That carries the city sewage into the seepage beds, however when there is alot of rain...there is some run-off into lake Michigan. This is usually not significant...
  • Good luck to Microman! (14:29) - Microman moved to London today. I just thought I'd wish him luck and farewell. To help fit in, I present to you The American's guide to speaking British. Oh, and you owe me and polamex about 12 quid!...
  • Jon Stewart's Commencement Address (01:45) - I am honored to be here, I do have a confession to make before we get going that I should explain very quickly. When I am not on television, this is actually how I dress. I apologize, but there’s something...
  • Seattle's new library is made out of candy and aliens (00:21) - Mountain-climbing gear and the diamond framing make window washing fairly easy. The overhangs have hooks that washers can clip to as they clean. ...

Wednesday 19 May

  • OSX under Windows, mac classic under Flash (13:04) - "OS News has an article by a user who successfully installed Mac OS X using the 0.1 version of PearPC, the PPC emulator for x86 machines. He said it took 5 hours to run the first install CD but he...

Tuesday 18 May

  • For Hockey Nuts Only (18:48) - I thought some of you might be interested to know that tickets to the World Cup of Hockey are still available. Some of the games for the North American pool are in Minneapolis (3 hours from me) but I think...

Monday 17 May

  • DNA and Consumerism (18:23) - A U.K. supermarket chain commissioned a DNA sculpture made out of shopping carts....
  • Two reasons to vote for Kerry (16:13) - Has anyone seen this photo of Alexandra Kerry (John Kerry's daughter)? I would have to think he must be upset about her wearing such an outfit to a film festival when he is in the midst of running for President....
  • "The Link" and misperceptions about FNC's "misperceptions" (13:39) - The liberal group Program on International Policy Attitudes recently conducted a poll designed to discredit the Fox News Channel. One of the questions was: "Is it your impression that the U.S. has or has not found clear evidence in Iraq...

Thursday 13 May

  • wrong number (09:51) - I get a lot of wrong number calls on my cell phone, but this one takes the cake. Earlier this morning someone accidently left a voicemail on my cell phone that is amazing. I edited this post -- I used...

Wednesday 12 May

  • Road tests of hybrid cars show inflated MPG ratings (22:21) - There are quite a few reports surfacing regarding the true milage gains achieved by hybrid vehicles. I find this terribly dissapointing considering my recent excitement over Toyota's hybrid technology. "Data from independent product-testing organization Consumer Reports indicates that hybrid cars...
  • Commentary Requested (13:39) - First, I would love to hear all of your comments on this Air America Column. Second, I was hoping for sincere and honest answer to the following question: "If the 4 Al Queda terrorists who cut the head off of...

Tuesday 11 May

  • Boohbah (14:37) - I think boohbah is for kids and recreational drug users....
  • Using the Ohio sniper as a marketing tool (14:29) - Why fix that bullet hole in your truck when you can use it as a marketing gimmick for selling your truck on ebay. Description: 2 DOOR 4X4 LOADED!! OHIO SERIAL SHOOTING VICTIM ...
  • An entry all about me (11:46) - First, and most importantly I got new glasses. My glasses mysteriously disappeared at Barton Springs. Being blind without them, I bought a two new frames that were buy-one-get-one-free. My old ones reappeared, so now I have three pairs! No more...

Monday 10 May

  • Hand Drawn Maps (17:43) - Some guy decided to save all the maps people have given him to assist with directions to here and there. Eventually he had enough to call it a collection of hand drawn maps....
  • How to take down Big Blue in Chess (17:33) - Chessboxing In a chessboxing fight two opponents play alternating rounds of chess and boxing. The contest starts with a round of chess, followed by a boxing round, followed by another round of chess and so on. In a contest there...
  • Everyone's a Genius After-the-Fact (almost) (13:35) - In the interest of fairness, I should notify you that Ann Coulter is an extremely biased conservative columnist. Hopefully, that won't keep the readers here from considering her great point. After-the-Fact criticism is fine, so long as your own philosophies,...
  • Mega Man's Maker (04:37) - According to Wired Magazine, tomorrow is ol' Rocky's 15th birthday. Well, actually, he celebrated that in December of 2002. In any case, the creator of the original Mega Man gets interviewed in Play Magazine and you can read his special...
  • NYTimes Article about IRC and piracy (01:31) - Thanks go out to Colin for finding this gem. The New York Times ran an article about the "Wild West" of the Internet, IRC (Internet Relay Chat). According to the Times, IRC is where the criminals of the Internet go...

Sunday 9 May

  • Morning Show Contest goes Wrong (21:53) - An Atlanta morning show had a grape stomping contest, one contestant didn't fair so well. (14M video) My favorite quote: "oooooh oooooh ooooooh ooooooh ooooooooooooooooooooh...... I can't breathe."...
  • A stencil in my back yard (17:04) - Take a look....
  • NES Controller Belt Buckle (17:02) - It's a belt buckle made out of a NES controller! I guess it's cooler than my 4-button NES/DNA controller jacket. ...
  • Quik House (16:49) - Awhile ago I had started collecting links for prefab housing stuff like the Loft Cube and LOT/EK. Quik House was another one that I was planning on posting all together but, as usual, forgot to. The advantage of Quik House...

Friday 7 May

  • Scientists start search for Noah's Ark (16:31) - The CIA calls it the "Ararat anomaly". Mountaineers call it the peak of the unforgiving range on the Turkish-Armenian border. But some scientists think it might hold a far greater historical significance as the great archaeological mirage -- the remains...
  • The Google IPO (10:32) - Unless you live under a rock, you should know the Google IPO is just around the corner. Reminds me of the good ol' days.. RedHat, VA Linux.. It will be interesting to see what the public does with this IPO....
  • Rush Limbaugh's Response to Torture (10:02) - I wanted to go a day without politics, but this one is just too hard to pass up. From Limbaugh's May 4th show regarding the torture of Iraqi troops: LIMBAUGH: Exactly. Exactly my point! This is no different than what...
  • GBA Messenger (09:55) - "Today, Majesco revealed a new device the company will be producing for the Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP: the GBA Messenger. According to the company, GBA Messenger lets users chat or send text messages to each other...

Thursday 6 May

  • See me on Conan O'Brien Tonight (22:36) - Ok.. I wasn't really *on* the show, but I was at it. Me and Tracy were seated about 4 rows up, behind the band.. I think the only chance of seeing us will be right before they cut to commercial....
  • LOT/EK Shipping Container Housing (18:09) - Here is an article about the shipping container housing I mentioned in a comment in the previous post. I'm not sure what kind of shopping malls they were looking at for inspiration in the United States, whether enclosed or strip....
  • Loft Cube (12:12) - Being in the market for buying a place to live, the loft cube interests me. At about 387 square feet it is a bit small, but no smaller than your average Manhattan studio. The cube has some innovative and functional...
  • U.S. Falling Behind in Science (09:19) - I guess it happened quietly. I won't go as far as saying this is a sign of a declining empire. But I think sustaining America's economy in the future will require more than just rhetoric about how tuff Americans are....
  • PacManhattan (06:38) - The name says it all. Live action Pacman played on the streets of New York. As seen on boingboing, /., et al. ...

Wednesday 5 May

  • Surplus Science Equipment (18:51) - Here is a long list of surplus science equipment shops. Need something to do with all this equipment? Go to the amature science hobbyist....
  • Aaron Russo, Presidential Candidate, Pot Smoker (16:45) - Who says smoking pot makes you less ambitious? This guy is running for President. You know what would make for a really ambitious President though? Cocaine!...
  • How old do you think I am? (16:39) - At ageproject you can try to guess people's ages by looking at their photographs. I found it entertaining, maybe you will too....
  • Sky Ear (00:20) - What happens when you release a thousand helium balloons that have cell phones and electromagnetic radiation detectors inside of them? What happens when you call those phones up that are floating through the sky? I have no idea, but these...
  • Are you a neocon? (00:10) - Christian Science Monitor has a survey with the answer. I like the statement at the bottom "Results are not scientific." It told me I was a liberal. What do I win?...

Tuesday 4 May


Monday 3 May


Sunday 2 May

  • Polyphasic Sleep (15:21) - I've heard about Polyphasic Sleep for a while, but a recent post by my friend Dan has resparked my interest. Polyphasic sleep is the practice of sleeping for short periods of time during a set number of intervals each day....