Archive for August, 2004
SSH over my phone!
Rock on!
Make your own Grail Diary!
The Grail Diary, made by Indiana Jones´ father, Henry Jones Sr. from “Last Crusade”, was actually what got me into this hobby. Late on e night I was surfing the Net for a bullwhip, when I stumpled over a webside all about this diary. My first thought was “Gee, what a bunch of nerds”, but [...]
Michael Moore, reporting from the RNC
“Political conventions have become predictable rituals, four-day cheerleading sessions for both parties. So USA TODAY is offering readers an alternative perspective. Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, director of Fahrenheit 9/11, is writing daily from the Republican convention in New York. A month ago, conservative National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg weighed in from the Democratic convention.”
(Link courtesy [...]
New Apple iMac
It’s just so pretty….
(Link courtesy of Slashdot)
Las Olas Art Fair
I just want to let everyone know that Christine (my wife) is going to be showing and selling her work over at the Las Olas Art Fair in Ft. Lauderdale this weekend (Labor Day).
Those who are interested be sure to stop by and say hi!
California to open Car Pool lanes to Fuel Conscious cars
My Anti-Ford ranting continues….
Mr. Schwarzenegger does not drive a Prius, still preferring his signature Hummer. But the governor, a Republican, is poised to do something equally unthinkable – and calamitous, some detractors in the American automobile industry insist, because their vehicles do not compete with the fuel efficiency of the Prius.
Aides to the [...]
Oh and…
that last post was #200 for me.
I rule! Everyone shake your asses!
To celebrate…why don’t you go ahead and buy my comic.
Or check out my new one (coming out soon)!
Ford Sucks….
So it was a fairly simple procedure, I dropped my Escape off over at the Ford dealership for service, something I’ve done many times before. I got called a couple hours after the drop letting me know the car was ready, I told my service guy that I would pick it up today (Sunday), which [...]
The Buzz Guru
At the time, Fairey had just split with a longtime creative partner and founded his own marketing design firm, Studio Number One. After the conference he and his wife, Amanda, would visit Japan, where a couple of shops sell clothing that features his imagery. Then he would return to Los Angeles, where he is based, [...]
Tilting at Windmills v2 #7
“If you were to ask me what the single biggest problem facing the Direct Market was? That one is easy! Not enough Direct Market stores.”
Coral: The New York University Distribution Network
CoralCDN is a decentralized, self-organizing, peer-to-peer web-content distribution network. CoralCDN leverages the aggregate bandwidth of volunteers running the software to absorb and dissipate most of the traffic for web sites using the system. In so doing, CoralCDN replicates content in proportion to the content’s popularity, regardless of the publisher’s resources—in effect democratizing content publication.
Touch [...]
Protest at the Plaza Hotel
“…two men hanging off the side of the building on ropes, with tons of police cars below. So I go into my building (which is directly across the street, the FAO Schwartz building) and up to the 10th floor where I work and tell everyone what is going on. We all run to the window [...]
Hollywood, FL man burns self and Marine van
A distraught father who had just been told his Marine son was killed in combat in Iraq climbed into a Marine Corps van and set it ablaze Wednesday. He suffered severe burns.
Slow Food
Slow Food, founded in 1986, is an international organization whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life. Through a variety of initiatives, it promotes gastronomic culture, develops taste education, conserves agricultural biodiversity and protects traditional foods at risk of extinction.
(Link courtesy of my [...]
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Those Rockstar folks sure know how to make a nice looking website.
