This week Haiti was destroyed.
Most of the country. Haitinot without it's problemsbefore have now overnight lost about 100,000 people. To put it in scale that's over 50 times the number of people who died in hurricane Katrina, and that's only in the first few days.
The U.S., China, and the EU are all stepping up to help and give aid. The country will need to be rebuilt. This will be the first time I'm going to get to watch a country be rebuilt …
I'll rewrite this post when I'm more educated. The heightened "random" security restrictions on air travel bothers me immensely. We can now more then ever be restricted from travel for any reason. I'm waiting to hear 3rd party candidates delayed from attending rallies. (There's a story from Russia to this effect.)
I'm angry, but I'm even more angry that it doesn't matter how angry I am.
-Francis
I've been sitting on this one a while. Its a story about how not to act in a newsroom.
This American Life #348: Tough Room - Act 4: Malcolm Gladwell
I like to think RAW images are a far superior way to take images because you get more data and can mess with the white balances etc. The problem always being I don't know how to mess with the data to get better photos. And when I tout "Oh well don't worry we'll just use Raw" when referring to light conditions etc, I often get jeered because I don't know what I'm talking about.
It's true, but I'm not wrong.
Using nothing but "auto" settings, I've …
I write more for other people's blogs then I do my own.
When I think of the Kindle, I think of an awesome device (the big one is wonderful to use) with a free data connection that needs to be hacked to be useful. Hacked to remove the ability to remove books. Hacked to allow browsing of the web. Hacked to allow my own content to be freely placed on the device. The hacking negates the free data plan because the device no longer functions along Ama…
She is beautiful.I got to hear her first cry.I just spent a long 26 hours away from home and like everybody else who's heard of pregnancy I've become an expert. Every mother is different, every baby is different. So it goes.. I've learned a few things.
I learned a few more things. For example, after being part of a birth you don't need more than an hour or two of sleep for over a day. And that Zip Car is invaluable if you need a car at 11pm on …
The Whore of Mensa
A Short Story by Woody AllenFrom his book "Without Feathers", Random House, 1975 (tr.it.: Citarsi Addosso, Bompiani, 1976)
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One thing about being a private investigator, you've got to learn to go with your hunches. That's why when a quivering pat of butter named Word Babcock walked into my office and laid his cards on the table, I should have trusted the cold chill tha…
I'm cross posting this from Facebook.
It's that time again, We're moving and I'm calling in all favors. Move in the past year? We probably helped you. If not, we certainly would have. Now we're asking for help ourselves.
If you've helped before you might want to know...
The major difference is we're already half moved!
That's right, previous moves have sucked so very fucking much that we split it up into two weekends. A half month of rent was wor…
I found a really cool jQuery graphing plugin over atThe Filament Group. They constantly pump out great little toolkits they make for their clients. I'm just a consumer at the moment, but I'm loving the idea that I can cultivate what I learn into something I can share back. All in time. Another iFrame today. If you can't see the table and graph below (or if you want to check the source) check out theoriginal document
This fancy post needs iframe…
I just read a short comic that caught my eye. It's a story about a guy around my age and how he manages to change his situation. Apparently it's a bit old and had dissipated for a long while. He's got a license on his site that allows me to make a backup copy. So when you click on the image below and the link is broken, you use my copy of "The Guy I Almost Was".
Walking With a Ghost is a mostly live album (EP) by the White Stripes. The title song "Walking With a Ghost" is a nice cover of Tegan and Sara. The musical style is reminiscent of their album "Get Behind me Satan" which was released just previously. It's somewhere between "Blue Orchid" and "Icky Thump". Having not heard the original song I would have thought it was the natural evolution of their style and sound, but listen to Tegan and Sara's ver…
On a side note trying to put html/js in a wordpress post is a bad experience. If the iframe doesn't work try ithere.This post requires javascript and now uses an iframe so you may have trouble viewing it in an rss reader.
Torrent Freak writes about a counter measure:
Yesterday we reported that a provision in the revamped French “3 strikes” bill will allow for the punishment of ISP account holders for the copyright infringing actions of others. Now a group of hackers has set out to compromise WiFi routers en masse, in order to create an environment of plausible deniability.
I very much like this idea. It goes to show they're missing the point. They can't stop peo…
I felt this was an appropriate rebuttal to my last post. I also love Pictures for Sad Children
(if that link ever breaks)
