the end is nigh?
A bit of a gloomy story from a few days ago, but it brings together a lot of the separate comments I’ve heard recently. Is everything spinning out of control? Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices...
Monthly Archive: June 2008
Are you an early adopter or just a jerk?
I was reading this story over at Engadget that tells of an online study — It’s always some online study these days, isn’t it? Whatever happened to the malls and clipboards? — reporting that most tech heads are high in...
“In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.”
Irreverent US comedian George Carlin, who became known as a voice of the 1970s counterculture and was one of the country’s best known funny men, died on Sunday aged 71 “I don’t want to go around describing myself as a...
geeking out: I’m becoming a HTPC convert
Living in Alexandria, my mornings usually consisted of making coffee, having a little something to eat, cleaning up the apartment and listening to shows on NPR. My NPR addiction was mostly caused by having a car and a long commute...
in DC: the sounds of hot monkey lovin’
I was up early and decided I needed to shift my ass and take a walk through the zoo. When I map it out, it comes to about 3 miles through and back which may not sound like a long...
Few too many?
I’m moving a little slowly this morning after a lovely evening with friends last night. As mentioned before, there is such a thing as too many gins, but it’s so much fun experimenting to find out just what that number...
Light, Refracted.
A small coffee break to post about the rainbow we got in DC after a quick shower moved through the city. I looked out my window and saw the perfect unbroken double arc outside. So I naturally grabbed my camera...
politics: Aww, redneck racism is so charming!
I read about this button yesterday and thought I shrugged it off. Just like I thought I shrugged off the sock monkey puppet and Curious George t-shirt, but give me a f**king break people. I think this joke was born...
where clouds, design and typography meet
Cute site Wordle creates word clouds from text you copy in or it will generate one using a del.icio.us username. It randomly generates the cloud and you can select fonts, color schemes, layouts. It’s fun, though the image above is...
Little things mean a lot
The other night I watched a documentary about the decline in the honeybee population and while I’d heard snippets of information before, it really hit home just how much things would change. There really is no viable substitute (yet) for...