Posted in Movies, Music, Social Software on Aug 27th, 2004 10 Comments »
BarterBee looks like a most interesting service. I thought about what it might take to build a service like this a while back and even discussed it with a DVD-swapping programmer friend (right Steve?) but alas, we never did a thing with it and I sell all my DVDs that we don’t want on Amazon [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Music on Aug 27th, 2004 1 Comment »
Griffin EarJams look like exactly what I want to be able to use the earbuds that came with the iPod. They don’t fit in my tiny ear canals as they are and this look like a great solution.
Posted in Politics on Aug 26th, 2004 No Comments »
The Connections between George W. Bush and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Posted in Photography on Aug 26th, 2004 2 Comments »
Pbase contributor Vincent Thian has a series of pictures on Olympic Journalists’ Cameras that’s quite amazing. I see more Canons than Nikons when I look closely and more big image stabilized lenses than not. Man, that’s a lot of expensive equipment. (via gizmodo and boing boing)
Posted in Politics, Social Software on Aug 26th, 2004 No Comments »
WIRED News has an article on the history of MoveOn.org: Weapons of Mass Mobilization
Posted in Social Software on Aug 26th, 2004 No Comments »
WIRED News has a story on RSS Attracting Really Serious Money in the form of early VC investment and growing public interest in both RSS and the blog world.
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on Aug 25th, 2004 No Comments »
Things Google knows about you will make you squirm. Check the comments too, more stuff there.
Posted in Ideas on Aug 25th, 2004 No Comments »
Wikipedia has a great list of Company Name Etymologies. Here are a few that caught my eye just now: AltaVista – Spanish for “high view” Canon – from Kannon, the Japanese name of the Buddhist bodhisattva of mercy. The name was changed to Canon to avoid offending religious groups. Cisco – short for San Francisco. [...]
Posted in Adventure, Places, Stories on Aug 24th, 2004 3 Comments »
There was a time when I did stuff like this. In fact, this picture is me doing the famous Tyrollean traverse off of the tip of the Lost Arrow Spire in Yosemite Park. My first experience doing a traverse like this was off of Monkey Face at Smith Rock in Eastern Oregon. Climbing the west [...]
Posted in Ideas on Aug 24th, 2004 No Comments »
In Vancouver, BC, they like their Art Underfoot. Good for them.
Posted in Macintosh on Aug 24th, 2004 No Comments »
DealMac Site Is Mac Daddy of Apple Deals.
Posted in Macintosh on Aug 24th, 2004 No Comments »
Vital Source makes big sale of its content which will be bundled onto Macs sold to US schools. I’m not sure how I feel about this as they’re using public domain content and if they’re indexing it in a proprietary way… But, having better access to it will surely make it more useful.
Posted in Places on Aug 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
The DC Flyby map is incredibly useful. I think I like this type of view better than a top view only, even with color coding or color overlays. I first started seeing this type of illustration in early issues of MacWorld Magazine and that was because the square pixels on the early black and white [...]
Posted in Places on Aug 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
I’m not sure what was burning holes in these leaves or if the current beginning of a seasonal change had anything to do with it but the holes and colors on these leaves caught my eye.
Posted in Places on Aug 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
While kayaking on Gritman Pond in Warren yesterday I was yearning for a polarizing filter for my camera because my sunglasses gave me a view of both the water’s surface and the life underneath that was spectacular. This is the best I could do without a polarizer.
Posted in Humor, Politics on Aug 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
WIRED News has a great collection of weblogs and other kinds of web sites that poke fun at both Kerry and Bush: Satirists Skewer U.S. Candidates
Posted in Birds on Aug 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
We decided to take our kayaks up to a local pond here in Warren which is more of a swamp than a pond. But, we thought we might see some wildlife there as swamps are where it’s at. Well, we paddled out to one of two little islands in the middle of the “pond” and [...]
Posted in Drumming on Aug 22nd, 2004 2 Comments »
Was up at Joy Brown’s studio yesterday for our first annual udu clay drum workshop. We watched a video on playing them, played some early attempts that folks had made, then got to work making our own. This is my first effort: two chambers connected in the middle. Hopefully it will hold together through drying [...]
Posted in Politics on Aug 21st, 2004 No Comments »
How not to fight against terrorism It sometimes takes a high profile incident like Ted Kennedy getting on a watch list to get something in the news cycle although I’ll be dollars to donuts that this does not stick and nothing happens (Kerry and Edwards voted for the Patriot Act, remember). Where has the media [...]
Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Resources on Aug 20th, 2004 1 Comment »
dpreview has the overview on all of the new Canon cameras. Wow, amazing. Canon EOS 20D and preview Canon PowerShot G6, preview and samples Two Canon EF-S lenses and a flash Canon PowerShot S70 There are more but these are the ones in my sights… Wow.
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