So many amazing animals, so little we know about them! This is your chance to get more up to date with some rare animals. The Zoological Society has published the list of 10 most rare and unusual kinds of amphibians, threatened by extinction and to be included in new conservation programs set for 2008.
The Bubblegum sequencer is basically “a physical step sequencer that lets you create drumloops by arranging colored balls on a tangible surface.”
Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week.
More updates in the usual places:
-Enemies List
-Friends List
-Media List
-Xbox Live
-MySpace
-Facebook
3rd Video Test. This is my favorite video of Malinois’ working…I know they look like German Shepherds , they’re not. Video posting seems to be going okay now.
This is a second test to check video posting with the new software and theme update. No need to comment on the crappy video please. It was my first attempt with final cut pro on a Mac. The transitions and effects are cheesy, I know…so is the music, but it was free.
Incidentally, this was a really bad working day for my dog too, but slo-mo effects and the music seem to help…
I’m still working on the site…trying to get video and ad serving to work properly.
Below is an excerpt from National Geographic with Brady Barr, comparing bite strength among German Shepherds, Rottweilers and PitBulls. Of course, the Rottie has the highest bite strength.
As you can see…my site is kind of messed up. I’m in the middle of a live redesign (I screwed up an application update)…so, it should be fixed in the next few days.
Let me know what you think…
from engadget.
The sweet-toothed might just appreciate the Ame de Watame cotton candy maker. The $229 machine allows you to make your own cotton candy from real candy—which means you can have just about any kind of flavor you want, including cough sweets. Just toss the candy in the machine, stick a stick in the bowl and three minutes later you’re ready to roll. [Kilian-Nakamura's Japan Trend Shop]
I’m not sure how I feel about this incident in particular, but society seems to be leaning towards vigilante justice, and I can’t say it’s an entirely bad thing.
from digg:
The daughter was 8 years old. His stepson is 18. The mom posts bond for the jerk, but the dad offers to pick him up from jail. After getting his stepson from jail, the man drove to an abandoned house in Fort Worth, beat his stepson with a baseball bat and sodomized him with a metal tool, police said.
I keep getting several hits/views a month from McKeesport. If these hits are from where I think, please feel free to contact me. It might be interesting to hear from someone, then again, it might not. My email address is pretty easy to find. Or contact me on myspace..or facebook. I’d publish my full e-mail address here, but I don’t want anymore spam.
I’m back in town/home. Tired. Happy to be with wife and my puppies.
I’ll get updates and so forth to the regular sections done before the weekend. In the interim I’ll just be posting things from digg.
So, I’m still in Memphis for the ADAPT strategy session. I haven’t been on an action in a year, so it’s good to see everyone. Yesterday was planning for the 25th Anniversary of ADAPT, and today was reviewing issues and policy wonk stuff. Tomorrow is tactical planning.
I’m totally exhausted from traveling and all day meetings, but it’s good to be here. However, I miss my wife terribly. It’s nice to know that my large schutzhund/protection trained Rottweiler is guarding the ponderosa.
The highlight of the voyage though has been a trip to the National Civil Rights Museum. The museum is in the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was slain. They even have the boarding house as an exhibit, where James Earl Ray fired the fatal shot (at least according to a recent government investigation.) The whole things was rather powerful
Interestingly, there was a photo near the end of the exhibit from my friend and famous photographer, Tom Olin, that showed the disability rights movement and its relationship to the larger Civil Rights movement. It was humbling and exciting to see my friends and fellow “adapters” featured in such a prominent way, and in conjunction with the rest of the movement.
Having said that, I can’t wait to get home.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the cult(s) of personality and people’s willingness to embrace teachers, gurus, etc… and to do stupid things, really foolish crap, as a result.
I found this interesting quote from Albert Einstein.
The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives. It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them.
I’m probably guilty of this too. No, I’m sure I am. It’s something I’m going to have to work on.
from digg:
Wanted: good home for 31-ton robotic dinosaur, completely up-to-date on all immunizations and oil changes. This frisky 40-foot tall, fire-breathing bot answers to the name Robosaurus, and a traumatic youth spent crushing cars in front of thousands of rednecks means this guy needs a lot of love and attention.
From the Interwebs
Going to Memphis.