Washington Post: ‘Al-Qaeda 7’ smear campaign is an assault on American values.
“If Cheney and her group object, they should prepare a blanket denunciation of the federal judiciary. Or maybe what they really don’t like is that pesky old Constitution, with all its checks, balances and guarantees of due process. How inconvenient to live in a country that respects the rule of law.” Presumably, they’d oppose Abraham Lincoln, for his creative ‘moonshine’ defense of murder suspect William Armstrong ...
The Atlantic: Digital Rights Group Blasts iPhone’s Faustian Developer Deal.
”‘Steve Jobs has confirmed that Apple can remotely disable apps, even after they have been installed by users’ ... [snip] ... The contract also strictly bans tinkering with any Apple products, a limitation that Lohmann points out could prevent developers from making apps that work with open source software.” Perhaps a bit of FUD; perhaps not.
Bike EXIF: Cafe racer Guzzi.
”The overall effect is molto bella; the perfect marriage of classic Italian style and subtle modern updates.” And Moto Guzzis run forever, too. I would’ve given an eye tooth in college to have one of these ...
Discover: The Earth *Really* Moved.
“Studying precise GPS images of the area struck by the quake, a team led by earth scientist Mike Bevis discovered that the Chilean city of Concepción had moved 10 feet to the west. The epicenter of the quake was 71 miles northeast of Concepción, which is Chile’s second largest city.” Cued for your listening pleasure.
ars technica: Plans for .xxx top-level domain pop up again.
“The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will reconsider the top-level domain during a meeting in Kenya this week, nearly three years after it was shot down and nine years after it was first introduced as a way to identify pornography sites and hopefully confine them to their own Internet red-light district.”
Panic Blog: The Panic Status Board.
Brilliant. Via Bump’s Twitter.
Reuters: Tax soda, pizza to cut obesity, researchers say.
Cameron Moll, LLC: Colosseo 24"×16” Signed Poster (Pearl).
The Roman Coliseum, in type. Via Splorp’s Twitter.
SF Gate: Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution.
“If I’m planning to write a curriculum, and I want to write it in a way that will appeal to home-schoolers, I’m going to at least find out what my demographic is.” Once again, capitalism doesn’t give a damn about what is right ... only about what is profitable. Simple social responsibility would dictate that you’d want to encourage kids to have the tools they need to create the next engineering or scientific marvels, raising us all up ... instead, they’re being primped as Wal-Mart cart corral managers.
PHP Zone: Use jQuery With Other Libraries Like Prototype and MooTools.
Timely. I’m running across more and more sites with just about every library under the sun being called on the home page, top of the page, uncompressed, slowing everything to a crawl. A corner-rounder in MooTools, a collapsible box in Spry, navigation in JQuery, Dreamweaver rollovers ...
Miller-McCune: An Omnipotent Enemy Comforts Us.
“According to one school of thought, this tendency to exaggerate the strength of our adversaries serves a specific psychological function. It is less scary to place all our fears on a single, strong enemy than to accept the fact our well-being is largely based on factors beyond our control. An enemy, after all, can be defined, analyzed and perhaps even defeated.”
Macworld/MacUser: Are Macs really cheaper to manage than PCs?
“Macs in the enterprise aren’t just cheaper to manage — they’re a lot cheaper, according to a new survey released today by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance.” After switching back from PC to Mac a year ago, I concur wholeheartedly.
Discover: Beer Consumption Increases Human Attractiveness to Malaria Mosquitoes.
”These results suggest that beer consumption is a risk factor for malaria and needs to be integrated into public health policies for the design of control measures.” So, I suppose you stick to G&T;’s in the tropics ...
LA Times: Disney restyles ‘Rapunzel’ to appeal to boys.
”In our film, the infamous bandit Flynn Rider meets his match in the girl with the 70 feet of magical golden hair.” I hear the marketing folks, “Why, from the get-go, should we eliminate half our potential audience?”
DP Review: Tamron develops SP 70-300mm F4-5.6 Di VC USD lens.
There are no great 70-300’s, I’m convinced. Wait for more comprehensive reviews.
Reuters: Life of wine.
Politics Daily: Glenn Beck Urges Listeners to Leave Churches That Preach Social Justice.
“Communists are on the left, and the Nazis are on the right. That’s what people say. But they both subscribe to one philosophy, and they flew one banner ...” Is it a coincidence that when you Google “Jesus social justice” you get a load of Catholic sites? Curious.
Lightly Buzzed: George Clooney Shows How He Gets Through Oscar Night.
”The answer is not ‘patience.’”
5by5: The Pipeline 6: Matt Haughey.
Nice podcast interview with Matt Haughey.
NPR: The Original Fly Girls.
”Now in 1944, it is on the record that women can fly as well as men.” I was lucky enough to have known one of these fine women, who maintained her own cabin up in the Pecos Wilderness (at the end of a rocky 4WD ‘road’).
365/67.
Jemez Mountains range in storm. [If you’re a Flickr contact, you can view it at 1600px. Sorry for the Flickr filter folks, but this way I can keep a control on who gets access to my images. I used to post large images all the time, but illicit use and theft have prevented such good-natured shares. I’m working on other options in the meantime, because like today, some need to be viewed large.] “B" shot on the photoblog shows off my beard growth.
Good grief.
Don’t tell me this thing could fly. Ah, only in ground effect. Wouldn’t these be good for driving off Somali pirates?
Boston Globe, The Big Picture: Chile, nine days later.
“Nine days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake killed hundreds of people in south-central Chile, relief efforts were beginning to reach those in need, rescue missions became recovery missions, and rebuilding is already under way.”
Macworld: iPhone app purge: Are template-based apps next?
“Template-based applications can be a handy way for a small company or blogger to get a branded iPhone application into the hands of users as quickly as possible. Apple reportedly doesn’t have a problem with this in principle, and seems to be focusing on applications that have very basic functionality.”
The Atlantic: The Fall of the Internet and the Rise of the ‘Splinternet’.
“Today to reach the universe of new mobile browsers, you can’t assume that your audience is using only a laptop to access the same version of your content. So it won’t be enough to have just a magazine website. Instead you’ll need a website and a Kindle App and an iPhone/iPad app and another app for another device that has a distinct audience and requires a specific template.” Some will celebrate this, but all I see is more sour businesspeople getting grouchy over more overhead costs.
