Archive for July, 2007

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This video is super creepy but if you watch it you’ll learn a valuable lesson about bicycle safety. I would have embedded it, but wordpress is a cruel mistress.

Map of IP Addresses

Map of the Internet — Check the Compass, in Particular, for Conceptual Navigation

A blender company has created an unusual ad campaign that seems like it is picking up traction. I have lots to say about viral marketing, youth trends, and on-line distribution, but don’t really feel like writing about it right now. So without further adieu. Will it blend?

BTW, CP this is what I think about Transformers.

OK, I know that most of us in the blog are all crazy NPR listening people, many dislike TV. But those who do might really be missing out on Public Television. For example this week’s NOVA episode spoke about the science of sleep and memory, the new supercollider in Europe, and the lost histories of the Asian immigrants who built this countries transportation infrastructure. The episode was just so well presented and made me feel like I had learned so much about the world, and it only took up an hour of my life (commercial free btw).

I know that much of this can be read in scientific journals, but how many of us actually read every scientific journal we can find. This series alone is worth the cost of a TV set. Not to mention the shows Nature, American Crossroads, and Austin City Limits…

The interesting thing is, this is much like paying for HBO, a few of your tax pennies get tossed to The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which creates PBS programming. You are paying for these shows and I am saddened that so many of my very intelligent friends seem to miss all of this. So, this week while the Daily Show is on vacation, pick up the TV Guide or goto PBS and check out PBS. You might find that you love it!

will be at The Granada Sep. 17. Which makes me jealous. You guys should revel in the fact that you get more shows (that I want to go to) in Lawrence than I get in a 100 mile radius. This strikes me as odd still. And no one here believes me. Although maybe I have a preference for bands from the other side of the country.

Anyway, check out this guy. He is awesome. And he’s a professional whistler and can make sounds like a theramin.

you can listen here http://www.andrewbird.net

PS. He’ll also be in the DC area at the end of September.

What is your level of internet anonymity?

Two things:

1) I realized I am registered as “trevor.” Brett registered me, I don’t know what I would have chosen, but on other websites I prefer to remain anonymous.

2) I didn’t recognize a user and it made me uncomfortable, b/c my name was out there, I had to ask.

thoughts?

Here is me. At Quik-E-Mart. Yes, that Quik-E-Mart. Yes, that is a Squishee in my hand. Yes, it was delectable.

Unfortunately they didn’t have duff beer, but they did have squishee’s (pictured) astroman comics, buzz cola, sprinklee doughnuts and krusty o’s cereal.

Anybody else?

Ok, so for all of the enginerds out there, I need someone to look at this and call shenanigans. It is yet another supposed perpetual motion device, better known as a free-energy device, since its goal is to provide energy with NO inputs or outputs other than clean free energy.

Mythbusters dedicated an entire show to debunking these things, showing that not a single existing device actually yielded more energy then was put into the device.

Now the crazy thing here is that a company (Steorn) has been talking for months that it was creating such a device. People have been saying to put up or shut up, and they have now put up (almost). They are installing the device into a museum of motion in London (Kinetica Museum) for a public review of the device. According to the interweb, the live demo will be available via video on the Steorn website at 6PM EDT. They claim the technology utilizes “time variant magneto-mechanical interactions”. Anyone care to comment? I am VERY skeptical.

http://www.steorn.com

Bush is a piece of crap. He commuted Scooter Libby’s prison sentence. Boo. BOOOOOOOO!