Oil is a finite resource and as it runs out, gas will be $5/gal someday, it’s only a matter of when. The only responsible objective is to find an alternative. I support a gas tax because I’d rather use that money now to help find alternative fuels and clean up the mess we’ve made, rather [...]
This is pretty cool if you’re a geek and know what telnet is. The entire movie Star Wars in animated ASCII. These people have too much time on their hands.
Jamais Cascio gives an interesting presentation called Participatory Panopticon about some of the ways in which the ability to record and archive everything will change our future. He specifically mentions something that’s been a little dream of mine, a camera embedded in your glasses that can take a picture of what you see. Although in [...]
This one is great. Rumsfeld’s former stenographer tells of her days working under “Roomie”, as they called him. My favorite part is where she talks about smacking him between the shoulder blades with the back of a brush, nothing kinky ya know. If you haven’t checkout out Better Bad News yet, this one may be [...]
I’m not sure who organized this event, but they tried to give away 1000 iBooks for $50/each at the fairgrounds in Richmond, Virginia. If you watch the video it seems like they decided who got them by who could run the fastest across a parking lot to get in line. Sounds pretty crazy, babies [...]
Today I happened across The Church Militant and noticed, aside from the interesting mix of “News Babes” pictures and transcripts from Catholic mass, he had an interesting sidebar stating the number of days since Sept 11, 2001.
First, it struck me that it had been a very long time and we still hadn’t found the [...]
Thoughts on an excellent article by Mark Morford in the SF Chronicle.
I just noticed if I use pt (points) instead of px (pixels) for the units of font-size in my CSS, the font appears the same size on both my PC and Mac. My powerbook has 96 pixels per inch, so text frequently looks really, really small. I guess pt is relative to the physical screen [...]
Here’s a great example of how our perception of colors is completely relative to the surrounding colors. Illusion #3 is pretty amazing.
The new name for creationism is most ironic, I must say. Am I the only one that sees the irony? Intelligent Design? It’s like they were sick of looking unintelligent so they decided to come up with another name, but the best they could come up with was to just put the word “intelligent” in [...]
Digital organisms that breed thousands of times faster than common bacteria are beginning to shed light on some of the biggest unanswered questions of evolution.
Good current information on how to use CSS in HTML emails.