http://www.nwyhstockimages.com/ Business-related stock images. (e.g. equal opportunities.) 00:39
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This month: 22 entries.
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001036.html Astronaut Dale A. Gardner—in space at great expense—seems to have spent quite some time putting handsome letters on his sign. 23:19
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands Curious: you have to read this through a Wikipedia filter (i.e. take best guess when hit with inconsistent information), but as it turns out, it’s actually illegal to sell or grow marijuana in the Netherlands … it’s just more-or-less officially—and consistenly—unenforced. (Mostly because of various international treaties to which the Netherlands is a signatory, it seems.) 20:32
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/arts/design/23tran.html Difficult-to-descibe art: a large wooden box (filled with people) functions as a replicator—put something in a slot in the side, get a copy back. 03:39
http://www.punch.co.uk/galleries/animals/05.html I don’t know—I love this cartoon. 10:25
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1605007,
00.html Architect Shigeru Ban—who’s currently
working on a Pompidou outpost—has several unconventional
ideas, including a love for building with paper, and of working
for charity. 08:33
http://www.slate.com/id/2130607/ A willingness to overturn precendent (Roe, maybe?) is not necessarily a bad thing: Bowers v. Hardwick needed to be overturned to get Lawrence v. Texas. 22:13
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4445060.stm One hell of a kill switch: to discourage a secondary “grey market” for that (much-hyped) $100 laptop, “the machine is disabled if not connected to the network after a few days.” 21:31
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/
11/08/AR2005110801109.html Anne Applebaum has a nice Le Monde catch: “Katrina’s devastation points
the finger at Bush’s system … Issues forgotten for years are
back to the fore: poverty, the state’s absence, latent
racism.” Oops! (Le Monde, September 5th.) 05:52
http://www.state.gov/m/ds/immunities/c9127.htm The different levels of diplomat, and their respective levels of privilege/immunity. (They can always be issued with traffic citations.) 00:16
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5128933997167560481 Thrilling Pikes Peak run. (Another car movie, this time through Paris.) 20:24
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4392964.stm “I would like to create a playground for children … a normal playground is flat but I want an undulating one, with bumps.” The ambitions of the creator of Katamari Damacy, an apparently successful video game in which the player rolls around a sticky ball, which picks up all sorts of random bits and pieces, making a bigger and bigger ball. (?) 00:59
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/08/google_print_piracyp.html Cory Doctorow ranting again, this time about Google Print. I do find it odd that the people who are all for Google Print appear to have no problem with the DRM that locks you out of the full-text. If it can be copied, it should be copied, right? Isn’t that the principle? 23:46
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1108-33.htm Alternative town planning: Curitiba, a midsize Brazilian city, is a surprisingly nice place to live. (Sounds suspiciously idyllic to me, though it’s probably nice in the scheme of things, and I’m interested in town planning in general.) 21:13
http://news.google.com/news?q=sarkozy racaille Is racaille, as used by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to describe the rioters in Paris, better translated as rabble or scum? Sarkozy’s racaille is widely considered to have been unnecessarily provocative, but to me rabble (which the BBC is using) isn’t an especially strong or offensive word. Given the reaction, scum (which the NY Times is using) seems a much better fit.. 01:37
http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/audiophile.htm Stupidly expensive “audiophile” products … like the $485 volume knob and the $1500 power cord (“apparently the miles of lowly aluminium high voltage lines that brought your power to your house are of no consequence”). (Does anyone take these seriously? Or is it a “legal” penis-enlargement scam?) 22:33
http://groups.googlegroups.com/group/NewsoftheWeird?gvc=2 Chuck Shepard’s News of the Weird column. 05:37
http://www.slate.com/id/2129105/ Apparently, “literally” has been used for emphasis for ages. 02:39