Archive for July, 2005
Monday, July 11th, 2005
Ebbers Settlement Gets Preliminary OK - Yahoo! News
This guy is a crook and better serve some time. How many more people did he hurt and destroy compared to Martha Stuart. Where is the justice.
judge gave her blessing Monday to a civil suit settlement under which former WorldCom chief Bernard ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
| Curiously Strong |
Interesting
Curiously Strong transforms 250 individually passive objects into a single living machine. The piece plays on the sequential movement of a typical domino chain and is implemented with actuated Altoids%u2122 boxes. Each box is equipped with an actuator mechanism that opens and closes the box%u2019s lid when ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
Circuit Monitoring
Fun hack. Might think of doing this when I get settled in TX.
Have you ever wondered how much power that microwave takes to pop that bag of popcorn? What about your toaster or coffee maker? How much power does that 'energy efficient' refrigerator actually use? And does it ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Google Search: george.w.bush.isnt.stupid
Google knows...
Did you mean: george.w.bush.is.stupid
[update]
Appears that google has removed that suggestion.
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Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Playlist: Listen without wires
Short roundup of bluetooth solutions for the iPod. Doesn't look to me like there is an acceptable solution for a reasonable price yet. Keep waiting...
Since the day the first iPod was introduced, people have asked for a way to listen to their music without dangling, ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2005
MAZDA LAPUTA
Mazda makes an interesting choice of names for this little car in Japan.
Look up Puta on Urban Dictionary.
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Friday, July 8th, 2005
The Onion | Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?
I'm not going to quote anything from the article because I'm probably already pushing the NSFW line with the title of this post, but this article is really funny. If you are in a tolerant environment and the ...
Posted in Apparel, Health, Humor, NSFW, Politics | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 8th, 2005
ReportDangerousDrivers.com
See, it HAS all been done before.
With a searchable database that requires only the license
plate number and the state of the plate, you can search for
violation reports on
...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2005
Well, Detroit is in the final preparation stages for the All Star Game next week. Trees are planted on Washington Boulevard and Woodward Avenue, new streetlights from downtown to New Center, new traffic signals going in, bus routes in swing, and security on the rise. Really the only ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2005
Talkr -- Letting blogs speak for themselves
Pretty interesting .. I guess if you don't have time to read your sites, and you have the listening time, this is the way to go. The text-to-speech is pretty good. It knows 'CSS' is 'see-ess-ess' not 'csuss' like older software would. ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2005
Abston Church of Christ
A very very detailed church made entirely out of Lego.
I got back into LEGO building in June, 2000, shortly after adopting Precious, my third cat. She loved to be amidst my building from the start. She didn't disturb partially assembled LEGO objects, or even piles of bricks, ...
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
VOA News - Fourth of July Fireworks Cascade Into Washington's Sky
I was one of those hundreds of thousands Monday night, but I have to say that aside from a few rather amazing shells, the fireworks were much less than spectacular. I didn't time the show, but It seemed much ...
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Friday, July 1st, 2005
Well written article, but make sure to check out the sidebar too.
Detroit's U.S. ranking drops
Kurt Metzger, director of the Michigan Metropolitan Information Center at Wayne State University, said Detroit's drop to 11th place is a blow that's more symbolic than substantive.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said Wednesday that he doesn't ...
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