And here i thought eagles were just big rats with wings who only scavenged. Perhaps Alaskan eagles are more lazy? These golden eagles are rather ambitious – warning to some – this footage is rather graphic so watch at your own risk : = c
sourdough starter
My friend Jennie the Potter hooked me up with my first sourdough starter and i’ve been waiting patiently for it to stabilize so i can feed it to double it in size in prep for baking. you can make a starter from scratch or acquire one from any number of places. once you’ve got a…
robot rebellion is alive and well
Via Gizmodo : “The army’s machine-gun wielding, insurgent-slaying robot SWORDS is no longer spraying foes with hot doom in Iraq. Actually, it never got the chance to notch a single frag, and never will. Apparently, there was an incident where “the gun started moving when it was not intended to move,” meaning it totally pointed…
Buckley : Legacy
I just finished watching Tim Buckley : My Fleeting House, produced by my friend, Rick Fuller, a superb documentary about a true and fearless artist who resisted industry sensibilities and even Western culture at large and who remains a testament to the creative gifts that have influenced music. His son, Jeff Buckley, inherited these gifts…
buttwhack.com
buttwhack.com is LIVE! From the site’s about page : “We, here at buttwhack.com, are interested in our collective struggle as human beings to make good choices. As much as we’d like to believe we are always superior beings, the truth of it is we are a race of ups and downs, with the downs often…
Make a MUX!
Ok, enough complaining about this consumer state! We’re still free to make mixtapes! well, sorta ; ) Have you ever made a muxtape? Do it NOW while you still can! Or, try mixwit! It’s as fun as ever sharing music with pals. = c
Deep Packet Filtering
As if the infiltration of our privacy by advertisers hasn’t been bane enough, we no longer have to fear *the cookie* as the new evil is deep packet filtering being conducted by many ISPs into the activities of their customers, relaying this info to marketers’ and advertisers’ perusal. I can’t even begin to express my…
OpEd : Dally
The latest issue of OpEd is out, featuring this month’s word : dally. We’ll be taking a leave of absence as the gatekeeper, Dave, [of DaveNSarah] embarks on the second half of a journey around the world [pretty sucky life, huh?] and will resume publishing upon return to the States, uh, whenever they get around…
Screenshots!
i think it’s cool when geeks post and trade screenshots of workspaces to show off *rad* customizations made to desktop configs, themes, et al. i took this on a mac today and thought i’d post it for posterity : = c
Don’t Forget to be a FAN
Below is a fan-made video for a Modest Mouse song that is better than most videos the band has paid money to have made [this is just my opinion, of course]: Bands, companies, et al have more to look forward to as User Generated Content [UGC] continues to propagate for better or worse. They have…
Keep ’em Moving!
Researchers promote starting children young when it comes to exercise and healthy eating Pamela Cowan, Leader-Post Published: Saturday, March 29, 2008 Over indulgence in computer games, TV, processed food and fast food. You just shortened the life of your child. Dr. June LeDrew couldn’t sit still and watch kids morph into “extreme screenies” — those…
Machinima
Some of you may remember this rather unorthodox, though, significant event in online history : Machinima (pronounced /məˈʃiËÂÂnÉ™mÉ™/ or /məˈʃɪnÉ™mÉ™/), a portmanteau of machine cinema, is a collection of associated production techniques whereby computer-generated imagery (CGI) is rendered using real-time, interactive 3-D engines, such as those of games, instead of professional 3D animation software. Engines…
Banned : Nerf in Bowling Green
The University might hamper the second round of BG Undead’s game play after the announcement was made last week to place an immediate ban on the use of Nerf guns on campus. The game, a version of Humans versus Zombies, is still going to be played but it’s going to be more difficult for the…
EMR and You
Have you ever wondered what, if any, effects all our WiFi and Broadband and cellular energies flying around might have on our physical bodies? Certainly, most of us heard the rumblings during the emergence of cellphones that they may cause problems in some people and other related stories that are always presented as nothing to…
Wifi that Works?
By Peter Kaplan and Eric Auchard WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc on Monday unveiled plans for a new generation of wireless devices to operate on soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves, and sought to alleviate fears that this might interfere with TV broadcasts or wireless microphones. In comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the Internet leader…
The Big and Bad are going Down, Down, Down…
When i was just 11 or 12, i remember my dad telling me that having loyalty to a company was detrimental to my success because companies have no loyalty to people. It goes against their very goal. This made sense as i watched him change jobs and watched companies fall and new ones rise all…
Bon Iver : Flume
[from wikipedia] : Bon Iver is the stage and recording name of indie folk singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. He independently released his debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago in 2007, the majority of which was recorded while spending four months in a remote cabin in Wisconsin. Vernon still resides in Eau Claire. Vernon’s debut album garnered…
VTTBOTS
I don’t believe i ever saw this as a kid but it still holds up well : even as a kid pretending to be an adult : = c
Farewell to a Giant
His visions of space travel and computing sparked the imagination of an entire race. Without him, the world would be a very different place today. For example, he started the buzz about geostationary orbit in a paper entitled “Extra-Terrestrial Relays  Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?“, published in Wireless World in 1945. In…
And So It Goes…
The New York Times warns against the growing use of high-end architecture as a tool for self-promotion? Oh, puhleeeeeze. Our economic SYSTEM is nothing if not a continuing tribute to the low self-esteem of ostentatious wealth, trying to pass itself off as a quiet, behind-the-scenes-type who only has attention drawn to them because, uh, their…
MPLS
Click on the image below for a quick tour of Minitropolis : [qt:/video/mpls.mov /img/mpls.jpg /video/mpls.m4v 320 180] = c
Now, That’s Cool!
Every now and then some hype comes around that is, well, worth it : The applications for such stuff are mind-boggling! Who can hardly wait to have wallpaper that is capable of projecting video feeds – raise your hand [image of me raising my hand, hardly able to stay in my seat] Minority Report, here…