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October 2003 Archives
October 31
Built for the Kill.
No Halloween costume? How about going as a chameleon?
deconstructing the world's deadliest killers. A game by World Archipelago for National Geographic Channel Europe.
Guide your Namid chameleon, barn owl, American alligator, grassland cheetah, and Komoto dragon around the screen using the cursor keys. Your stealth and power need to be up to capture prey or they will escape. Finally, guide your Orca around the screen using the space bar to dive under boats or attack prey that are beneath the water. When you reach the beach use the space bar to launch an attack on the seals.
(Flash and music ahead....)
posted by Dunvegan at 8:47 PM PST - 2 comments
Police find skeleton
in Oddfellows lodge. Turns out, they'd already found it, 6 years before (your guess is as good as mine why no one did anything then). Even more interesting, it's not the only one that's been found and subsequently investigated by the police around the country. Makes you wonder about those Oddfellows.
posted by tommasz at 2:06 PM PST - 26 comments
C'mon People Now, Shine on Your Hipster
"A new and disturbing trend has sprung up as of late in our great city (NYC): beating up hipsters for sport. Sucker punching Williamsburg trendsters is the new Whack-A-Mole. It's cow-tipping for urbanites. It's blowing up mailboxes, but with less angst and more anger." (more inside)
posted by dhoyt at 2:00 PM PST - 44 comments
Tour the Nasher Sculpture Garden.
Can't make it to Dallas. Big D is now home to the one of the first institutions in the world dedicated exclusively to the exhibition of modern and contemporary sculpture with a collection of global significance as its foundation. The Nasher Sculpture Center is further distinguished by a groundbreaking facility and landscaped garden specifically designed for the indoor and outdoor display of sculpture - not to mention the
"designer dirt".
(flash)
posted by sierray at 12:49 PM PST - 1 comments
CocoWeb
(
trans) is a project which has assembled 516
manifestations of the Bogeyman in Latin America. The list includes the well-known Coco or Cucuy, a dark figure who makes an appearance in the art world as
the subject of one of Goya's
Caprichos. Any Hispanic child can tell you about
La Llorona, a grieving woman who walks in the night (familiar enough to be used in a controversial
got milk? ad). In South America they can tell you about the
Sack-Man, on of the original bogeymen, who walks in the darkness, looking for children to throw into his sack.
posted by vacapinta at 11:55 AM PST - 4 comments
3d17.org
- Ian Clarke of Freenet fame has created a distributed, collaborative document editing web application. Much like a wiki, but geared more purely towards polishing and editing documents. Rather than the "build fast" model of the wiki, 3D17 doc modifications are subject a voting process before being applied. [more inside]
posted by y6y6y6 at 10:07 AM PST - 4 comments
SCO is at it again
... this time they've asked a federal judge to declare that Linux's general public license — a backbone of the free software movement — unconstitutional.
Let's hope the judge has more sense than SCO.
posted by silusGROK at 9:48 AM PST - 33 comments
Long Wait for a Taste of Home: Guatemalan Fried Chicken Draws a Crowd.
Pollo Campero's first US store in Los Angeles reached the unprecedented sales mark of $1 million in an astounding seven weeks, a daily average of $20.4 thousand. After a full weekend of operation in the Washington DC market,
Pollo Campero broke this record by selling $65 thousand in two days, a daily average of $32.5 thousand. At the franchise in Herndon (Virginia), I have personally seen the line exit the store, cross the front of the building and circle around to the back (at 3pm). Is this fried chicken really that good?
posted by probablysteve at 7:01 AM PST - 42 comments
"On a cold winter morning in 1937, a janitor grabbed his flashlight and headed down into the pitch-black basement of the Willard Library to stoke the coal furnace." And so begins the legend of the "
Lady in Grey," an apparition said to be haunting the aisles of the Evansville, Indiana building to this very day. In fact, so many have been said to have
seen her, and other ghosts, that the library has set up 24-hour
online web cams so that others may try their hand at spectre spotting. Whether real or not, the cams have revealed some
interesting, yet
creepy pictures and, some rather
silly spoofs.
posted by snarkywench at 2:50 AM PST - 23 comments
Live From Nowhere Near You
is the name of a benefit CD created in the Northwest by Kevin Moyer and over 75 musicians. Professional contributors include Mike McCready and Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam, director Gus Van Sant (singing/guitar), Squirrel Nut Zippers and more.
Might make a great Christmas present.
See also
related Billboard story.
posted by Twang at 12:03 AM PST - 2 comments
October 30
Mr. Civil Rights reaches out
Other, bigger fish ex-CEOs of companies brought down to earth by major accounting, shall we say, woes, may be keeping quiet, even if they haven't been convicted of anything. But not former
HealthSouth exec and would-be platinum
girl group-manager Richard M. Scrushy, who not only has
flaunted his wealth as of late, but produced a personal web site that plays up his humble Alabama roots and which, in a totally bizarre fashion, links his struggle to the Civil Rights Movement. (Note: The site's all screwed up on Mozilla, designed strictly for IE.)
posted by raysmj at 10:27 PM PST - 7 comments
The severed foot
: "The force of the blast propelled this severed foot over a high wall, into the yard of an unoccupied house." - In Iraq, has the US seized something similar to the West bank or the Gaza strip (but the size and population of California) in which
"The light at the end of the tunnel" casts a wan, pallid light over a future in which such events will seem routine ?
posted by troutfishing at 9:23 PM PST - 30 comments
Bad Writing = Good Writing?
The academic journal Philosophy and Literature used to hold a "Bad Writing Contest" to ridicule dense, unreadable academic prose... but a new book argues headache inducing sentences are necessary to express subtle theoretical points.
posted by gregb1007 at 8:02 PM PST - 28 comments
A friend reports that she's in lockdown in her office at
The Canon House Office Building in Washington, D.C. due to a man wielding a .38 pistol. The Canon House Office Building houses 1/3 of the members of the United States Congress. Offices are now being searched for the gunman. He is supposedly a shorter man with dark hair and white shirt. News first emerged of the gunman around an hour ago.
posted by ericrolph at 11:03 AM PST - 32 comments
Studious peeps.
A comprehensive and well documented look at the study habits and research practices of marshmallow Peeps.
"Our observations indicated that it was virtually impossible for Peeps to remove items from the upper shelves of the library stacks." Conclusion: Marshmallow Peeps have no business doing research at the university level.
posted by y6y6y6 at 9:50 AM PST - 13 comments
New form of mousepox developed.
A scientist has created an extremely deadly form of mousepox (a relative of smallpox) through genetic engineering. The new virus kills mice even if they have been given antiviral drugs as well as a vaccine that would normally protect them.
posted by Irontom at 9:35 AM PST - 42 comments
You're probably feeling safer today than you were a few days ago, and you know why? It's
Protection from Porn week, direct from the White House. Spurred on from groups such as
Morality in Media (who issued
a jubilant press release to mark their achievement) you can finally feel safe now that you've gotten out from under pornography's thumb. (note: These links couldn't be any safer for work)
posted by mathowie at 8:50 AM PST - 34 comments
Moo Mixer
is a very cool interactive music mixer courtesy of the British Columbia Dairy Foundation. Incidentally, they say that
cows are music lovers and will provide up to 3% more milk while listening to music.
posted by debralee at 6:06 AM PST - 7 comments
Neil Armstrong. The awful truth.
In 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to walk on the moon, uttering the immortal phrase, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Or did he? Previously suppressed footage discovered by blogjam shows that Armstrong's reaction was a great deal more uninhibited than history suggests, and that a hasty editing job was needed to prepare the astronaut's moment of glory for broadcast.
So here, for the first time, is the unedited NASA film from the triumphant Apollo 11 mission. [Maybe NSFW]
posted by srboisvert at 4:13 AM PST - 51 comments
October 29
All The Nudes That Are Fit To Print:
It's no exaggeration to say
La Repubblica is Italy's finest newspaper. It's liberal, modern, intelligent and independent. Along with Spain's
El Pais; France's
Libération and
Le Monde; the UK's
Guardian; Germany's
Die Zeit and Portugal's
Público, it's one of the mainstays of the European Left and Centre-Left. And yet its website offers
calendars in the, er,
Pirelli tradition of time-keeping. Imagine the
New York Times being similarly... liberal. Can soft prOn and serious reporting live together? Is it an Italian thing? The only other example I can think of is Spain's
Interviú, a magazine which in its heyday mixed superb (again, left-leaning) investigative journalism with politically incorrect - and photographically retouched - tits and ass. (
NSFW, obviously, unless you're somewhere in Southern Europe or Louisiana.)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 11:08 PM PST - 49 comments
Mathematics and art
are thoroughly explored as two intertwined fields, in this online version of a Dartmouth course focusing on patterns [more inside].
posted by edlundart at 10:03 PM PST - 10 comments
Search stock photos by color scheme.
I generally hate (hate hate hate) that obnoxious stock photography that shows up everywhere, but this is actually kind of cool. Pick a color, and find pictures that match
your site. I'd love to see this kind of tool hooked up to more personal photo galleries.
posted by majcher at 6:34 PM PST - 9 comments
Early eBook designs.
William Caxton's first two editions of The Canterbury Tales, probably published in 1476 and 1483, have been put online by the British Library.
posted by liam at 6:27 PM PST - 11 comments
Man Pleads Guilty to Raping his own 2 month old Daughter
But wait, that's just the beginning. This guy's daddy heads the state Corrections Department and part of his plea is to reduce the amount of time he's going to spend in jail for this most heinous act.
This guy is facing, if the judge agrees to the plea, only 6 months in jail! The standard sentence for first-degree child rape is seven to 10 years in prison.
He's admitted to molesting a 9 year old in Maine before and has also been convicted of orchestrating an armed robbery.
How in the heck he's going to get ANY leniency is beyond me.
posted by fenriq at 5:32 PM PST - 65 comments
Donald Luskin threatens to sue and "out" blogger Atrios.
Donald Luskin, right-wing
blogger, has threatened to sue the enigmatic
Atrios for "numerous libelous statements regarding Mr. Luskin" in a post on Atrios' blog. Particularly interesting is the threat by Luskin's attorney to use a subpoena to learn Atrios' identity -- which, as far as I know, is a pretty closely-held secret.
posted by Mid at 3:29 PM PST - 58 comments
Getchya Blacklist on
"Actor Dustin Hoffman was so dismayed to find his name missing from the NRA's shadowy 19-page list of U.S. companies, celebrities, and news organizations seen as lending support to anti-gun policies that he wrote to the powerful pro-gun lobby group begging to be included. "
You can
join too!!
posted by GernBlandston at 12:59 PM PST - 28 comments
Welcome to
Rawson, N.D.,
Population. 6. Are towns like these worth saving? Should these "areas" be allowed to go back to their natural equilibrium between man and nature? Is there a "natural" equilibrium? What does this mean for the future of small towns v. urban sprawl? Nicholas Kristof of the
New York Times and Drs. Frank and Deborah Popper of
Rutgers have an
idea.
posted by Bag Man at 11:13 AM PST - 27 comments
Web-based Humor at It's Finest
Words fail me. DeCloak sells (I'm guessing) an HTML templating system that works in tables. But they can't make it work in CSS. The good news is there's no reason to use CSS:
Q: TABLES are for TABULAR DATA and not meant for Web Page Layout . . .
A: Last time I checked, most web sites use a database. And databases are just a bunch of tables in the first place, hence tabular data.
[from Zeldman]
posted by yerfatma at 10:09 AM PST - 54 comments
The world's largest card file?
"Google is in talks with several publishers to build a service that would allow Web surfers to search the full text of books online, according to a report this week from Publishers Weekly's online site."
posted by sierray at 9:47 AM PST - 12 comments
October 28
"The Band
uses unique instrumentation: the music is performed using obsolete computer equipment for instruments. Currently they are using a 1977 Atari 2600 game console, a 1986 portable 286 PC, a 1983 Commodore 64 computer, and a 1985 Epson dot matrix printer."
posted by cody at 10:32 PM PST - 14 comments
NPR's "All Things Considered" had a great piece on the anger management industry today and it's increasingly ubiquitous presence in many
strata of American society.
This is the most well known anger management company in the biz, while programs like
this promote less orthodox techniques of trumping stressors.
Had any network rage lately?
posted by moonbird at 6:37 PM PST - 6 comments
So you've "had enough"
and you're talented? Well how about a possible
30 seconds of fame?
WARNING: This link deals with subjects of a political nature and may not necessarily represent the views of MetaFilter.
posted by LouReedsSon at 6:18 PM PST - 9 comments
Russian Prisoners Sing for Freedom
A strange take on the whole American Idol concept, prisoners in Russia were allowed to take part in a singing competition to get freed.
Of the 26 finalists, six were freed.
That only leaves just about a million prisoners left.
I'm curious about the precedent this sets.
posted by fenriq at 5:04 PM PST - 6 comments
It seems slightly scandalous that Krugman has persisted in noting that the present administration has been moving the lion's share of the money to an array of corporate interests distinguished by the greed of their CEOs, an indifference toward their workers, and boardroom conviction that it is the welfare state that is ruining the country. Krugman has been strident. He has been shrill. He has lowered the dignity of the commentariat. How refreshing. Russell Baker reviews Paul Krugman's
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century.
We have now reached a point when even the White House may be forced to sort out how a president who got elected to execute a straightforward business agenda managed to sandbag himself with the coinciding fantasies of the ideologues in the Christian fundamentalist ministries and those in his own administration.... Joan Didion reviews
Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages
by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
The New York Review of Books 40th anniversary edition is an especially good read..
posted by y2karl at 5:02 PM PST - 10 comments
Ancestry Maps from the 1990 census:
Which states have the highest percentage of people of
Danish ancestry?
Greek?
Hispanic? Who (perhaps)
doesn't realize that we almost all came here from somewhere else? Using the data provided on 1990 Census question 13, which asked respondents to identify the ancestry groups with which they identified most closely, the State of Minnesota provides us with these nifty Ancestry maps. More info
here on 'the ancestry question' from the US Census Bureau.
link via ::crabwalk.com::
posted by anastasiav at 11:05 AM PST - 38 comments
The largest solar flare of the current solar cycle
shot off the sun earlier today. After the media latched on to what was predicted to be mostly a non-event last week (probably due to a NASA article released around the same time about
a super spacestorm) , it's not making as much news this time. But you should
pay attention this time. This could be the best and last chance for a lot of us farther south to see some auroras before the sun dives into solar minimum, assuming
all the variables line up correctly this time. I recommend watching the
Solar Terrestrial Dispatch, as it is a great all around resource for solar activity and auroras that includes live data and sightings reports by the general public. Unfortunately though, no doubt as word IS spreading, that site is being hammered again and may be quite slow.
posted by yupislyr at 10:34 AM PST - 21 comments
PublicRadioFan.com
An extensive customizable list of (almost) all public radio stations that offer streaming audio and what they have playing now
and in the future.
posted by Mick at 9:31 AM PST - 30 comments
Unloved Garden Gnomes.
"A French police station has been stuck with a room of homeless garden gnomes, victims of a wave of gnome abductions, after a fresh bid to trace their owners failed." And I had never even heard of the 'Garden Gnome Liberation Front'.
posted by Slithy_Tove at 9:27 AM PST - 11 comments
U.S.S. Enterprise analyzed.
"For StarTrek [sic] fans we tested the USS Enterprise in our super-orbital expansion tube... We perform similar tests on other models investigating dissociation and ionisation processes which occur during atmospheric re-entry."
posted by tbc at 9:13 AM PST - 10 comments
Anchors Away, A Life Unmoored
An interesting, albeit sad, story about a once prominent D.C. lawyer who walked away from his life and now lives on a garbage-filled boat in the waters around Annapolis, MD. "Trash People" have always perplexed me; is there anything that society can do to truly help them?
posted by tommyspoon at 5:39 AM PST - 36 comments
October 27
Rod Roddy Dies at 66
Veteran game show announcer known for his work on the Price is Right and Press Your Luck succumbs to breast and colon cancer.
posted by dr_dank at 8:27 PM PST - 11 comments
Coming to a phone near you.
The creative entries you'll see here fit not only the small screen size, but the on-the-go nature of mobile use. Entries typically run up to 3 minutes. All are sized and purposed to work in small handheld formats.
Flash, live action, 3D animation, its all here at the World's Smallest Film Festival.
posted by Grod at 3:56 PM PST - 3 comments
At least four times in the fall of 2002, the president and his advisers invoked the specter of a "mushroom cloud," and some of them, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, described Iraq's nuclear ambitions as a threat to the American homeland... Among the closely held internal judgments of the Iraq Survey Group, overseen by David Kay as special representative of CIA Director George J. Tenet, are that Iraq's nuclear weapons scientists did no significant arms-related work after 1991, that facilities with suspicious new construction proved benign, and that equipment of potential use to a nuclear program remained under seal or in civilian industrial use.
So in regards to Iraq's possession of
the one weapon we can be certain causes mass destruction: the atomic bomb, as
Gregg Easterbrook put it, the verdict is the unsurprising (and unsurprisingly
closely held) nope, not, zero, zip, nada...
posted by y2karl at 3:43 PM PST - 21 comments
Iraqfilter.
"Sometime between April 2003 and October 2003, someone at the White House added virtually all of the directories with 'Iraq' in them to its robots.txt file, meaning that search engines would no longer list those pages in results or archive them." The robots.txt file is here. And here's the
Slashdot discussion. I guess it's hard to restore integrity to the Presidency when people can compare your statements over time.
posted by condour75 at 2:30 PM PST - 29 comments
One of my joys of going on vacation is to get off the interstate and
collect a bit of an old historic road. In California over the weekend
we managed to grab a bit of Hwy. 1 aka the Pacific Coast Highway past
nature preserves, resorts and neighborhoods. Another goal is to do all of
U.S. 50, the initial stages of which were reportedly surveyed by George Washington during his tour in the British Army.
Wired has a
nice
article about how a journalist and a photographer ignored the advice
of a Federal Highway Administration spokesperson to take a trip down
Route 1 from Maine to Florida.
posted by KirkJobSluder at 12:29 PM PST - 9 comments
I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't even play one on TV. But every once in a while, I run across the website of one of these individuals that, in its own way,
at least appears to make sense. Using photos from the US Army, the DOD and the US Marine Corps., this English translation of a French site asks, "Can
you find the Boeing 757 that 'crashed' into the Pentagon on 9/11/01?"
[Linked page scrolls to the right, not down as one might expect...]
posted by JollyWanker at 12:26 PM PST - 28 comments
Over the past few years, doping in sports has grown into an arms race of biology, chemistry, and technology as atheletes attempt to push their limits and escape detection. While it's hard to estimate how widespread the problem is or how much it actually improves one's performance, one amateur athelete for Outside Magazine
decided to test the latest on himself as he spent 8 months training for an ultramarathon cycling event. The article also notes
pro-cheating sites filled with
atheletes trading stories of their own programs. Disturbing stuff, when you think of all the records being broken in sports these days. As
Rafe says, this might be one of the most important sports articles ever written. note: it's a long article, but worth it.
posted by mathowie at 12:22 PM PST - 14 comments
Broadcast flag blues?!
The EFF seems to be fighting a losing war against the FCC's proposed
"broadcast flag" initiative (Salon), but they're making a big last-minute push to get more people to spread the news and
contact the FCC. Will the broadcast flag initiative become a "gateway regulation", leading us to a future where Hollywood dictates to manufacturers what they can and cannot create? Mass exodus to Tokyo, anyone?!
posted by insomnia_lj at 6:58 AM PST - 4 comments
Apple: Innovator & Oppressor of Independent Software:
As they once did with Karelia's
Watson software and, to a certain extent, Panic's
Audion, Apple has "borrowed" a concept from an independent, third-party developer without credit or compensation. It would seem that Steve Jobs is not as far removed from Bill Gates as he would like the Mac faithful to believe . . .
posted by aladfar at 6:55 AM PST - 31 comments
Recently, Rick Bayless has been making some appearances in Burger King ads for some new sandwiches they're trying to sell. If you've ever seen Rick's show, you know that he's a true lover of food. Why would he do an ad for BK? The money, you say?
Many seem to agree.
Here's what Rick Bayless has to say for himself:
"I decided that its time for those of us in the healthy food/sustainable food movement to applaud any positive steps we see in the behemoth quick-service restaurant chains." I have noticed that Rick looks like he's in pretty good shape, despite the fact that he occasionally cooks with "a little freshly rendered pork fat". Maybe he's for real.
posted by blakewest at 6:24 AM PST - 28 comments
October 26
Santa Ana Speeds the Spread of So Cal Fires
Five separate fires are burning in San Diego County, including several densely populated suburban areas. Dozens of homes have been burned. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar has been affected, including an FAA air traffic control installation. 16,000 people in the South Bay lost electricity when a major distribution line went down. Many San Diego firefighters went up to Camp Pendelton yesterday. (
1,
2)
posted by rschram at 3:04 PM PST - 42 comments
CEO of Russia's largest oil company in jail
The guy sounds like a crook to be sure; but its an interesting contrast to the US. When was the last time in this country someone with limitless financial resources was thrown in jail? Is
Key Lay in jail? How about
Bernie Ebbers? (Worldcom getting
Iraq contracts is of course another story)
Jeff Skilling? With all the talk of crony-capitalism anymore its easy to get desensitized. But to get a reality check on how to treat toplevel white-collar crime from Russia of all places is sobering.
posted by H. Roark at 9:51 AM PST - 23 comments
Dezain.net
is a weblog about design by Eizo Okada, with links to architecture, furniture, textiles, and other designalicious stuff.
posted by carter at 8:41 AM PST - 4 comments
Mark Lombardi
created art out of the stuff of conspiracy theories. Following the money trails,
he was just completely fascinated by connections, how one thing led to another, how the C.I.A. would back a coup in Australia, someone would be murdered in Turkey and things would happen in Indonesia."
Some of his work
here and
here, and more about his work
here.
His drawings satisfy because they address a human need for coherent order drawn from chaos. Such a need, however, is bound to be frustrated. Instead of blueprinting perfection, the works' aura of mastery arises in the context of a sprawling dystopia.
posted by amberglow at 7:42 AM PST - 13 comments
October 25
Ted Conover
is a fantastic, prize-winning author. His book
Newjack is, to quote Jon Krakauer, "a compelling, compassionate look at a terribly important, poorly understood aspect of American society." In it, he works undercover as a guard at Sing Sing. You can read the
truncated New Yorker version on the site. Additionally, there are
many other articles,
reviews and interviews, and a
pretty interesting group of e-mails from "officers, their families, and others affected by prison." And, just to name-drop once more, Sebastian Junger says: "Ted Conover is a first-rate reporter and more daring and imaginative than the rest of us combined." Check him out!
posted by adrober at 11:56 PM PST - 7 comments
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posted by crunchland at 10:40 PM PST - 31 comments
There comes a time when people at a technical conference like this need something more relaxing. A change of pace. A shift of style. To put aside all that work stuff and think of something refreshingly different. So let's talk about coding theory.
posted by thebabelfish at 8:04 PM PST - 7 comments
Examining Bush's stem cell policy, two years later.
Kinsley: Put it all together, and the stem cells that can squeeze through Bush's loopholes are far less promising than they seemed two years ago, while the general promise of embryonic stem cells burns brighter than ever. If you claim to have made an anguished moral decision, and the factual basis for that decision turns out to be faulty, you ought to reconsider or your claim to moral anguish looks phony. But Bush's moral anguish was suspect from the beginning, because the policy it produced makes no sense.
posted by skallas at 7:52 PM PST - 1 comments
What time is it?
Tonight marks the transition in many parts of the US between daylight savings and non-daylight savings time. Don't forget to set your clocks back one hour!
posted by silusGROK at 6:24 PM PST - 46 comments
Knee Defender
is a product that airline passengers can
use to keep the person in front of them from reclining their seat during a flight. They market it as an alternative to
deep vein thrombosis and
lawsuits (Warning: Flash Menu). It is creating a
stir in the
news. But people with long legs who do not want to detract from a fellow passenger's enjoyment can always save their money and consult the
Seat Guru (SG previously discussed
here).
(Via Fark.)
posted by cup at 12:17 PM PST - 77 comments
Pick your poison:
highbrow (virtual tour of 10 Downing Street), or
lowbrow (virtual tour of the White House).
Hint: one of these is funny.
posted by taz at 6:06 AM PST - 10 comments
October 24
exploring color
... online utility to help room designers (and maybe even web designers) choose the right color for their project.
posted by crunchland at 10:04 PM PST - 13 comments
Truefire
TrueFire is a self-publishing tool and open marketplace for authors and artists wishing to promote and distribute their original poetry, guitar lessons, novels, music, reference material, photography and artwork.
posted by crunchburger at 9:40 PM PST - 4 comments
The RIAA Strikes Back. (c/o arstechnica.com)
What do you do when nothing else seems to be working and you're the RIAA? Do it Soviet style! Take your message to the classroom! Indoctrinate the kiddies! Get them to rat on their friends! I don't know about everyone else, but I think that this latest RIAA tactic is particularly insidious. But what is worse is that schools apparently are welcoming the RIAA. And you thought that Coke machines in the cafeteria were bad...
posted by tgrundke at 3:48 PM PST - 37 comments
Forecasters at the NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., observed two dynamic areas of the
sun, one of which has produced a
coronal mass ejection, or CME, Wednesday morning at 3 a.m. EDT that appears to be Earth-directed. The forecasters are predicting a strong geomagnetic storm, G-3 on the NOAA Space Weather Scales, that should reach Earth on Friday, October 24. Satellite and other spacecraft operations, power systems, high frequency communications, and navigation systems may experience disruptions over this two-week period.
Auroras visible in the lower 48 states are possible tonight and tomorrow.
posted by y2karl at 1:42 PM PST - 22 comments
