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"Charlie" filming halted when $half-mil
camera gear becomes chocolate-coated

"Charlie" filming halted when $half-mil
camera gear becomes chocolate-coated 07/19/2004 08:13 PM
OK, best Hollywood lede *evar*:

The remake of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory was thrown into chaos on Wednesday when a worker dropped a $540,000 camera lens in a vat of chocolate.

Link (Thanks, Mara!)

I had a great half year

I had a great half year 12/24/2004 01:10 PM
Jason says my blog is almost as good as his. I agree! Also, check out all the good sites he mentions. It's quite telling that Jason's done a best links of 2004 post, while none of the traditional media has been savvy enough to do anything more specific than the...

Teflon-coated yarn

Teflon-coated yarn 06/16/2004 10:20 AM
A Norweigan company has shipped a teflon-coated knitting yarn that sheds water and is intended for use in all-weather knitting projects.

I was curious to see if the fibers would even allow water, being coated with Teflon and all. They did, but not before showing a curious phenomenon: the water lodged itself in the pockets of each stitch, making hundreds of tiny diamond-like bubbles all over the fabric surface.

Link (Thanks, Miriam!)

Batter-Coated Fries OK'd As Vegetable
(AP)

Batter-Coated Fries OK'd As Vegetable
(AP) 06/15/2004 11:56 AM
AP - Batter-coated french fries are a fresh vegetable, according to the Agriculture Department, which has a federal judge's ruling to back it up.

"Man Arrested After Motel Room Is Coated
In Vaseline"

"Man Arrested After Motel Room Is Coated
In Vaseline" 05/19/2004 01:25 AM

WFTV.com - News - Man Arrested After
Motel Room Is Coated In Vaseline

WFTV.com - News - Man Arrested After
Motel Room Is Coated In Vaseline 05/18/2004 04:26 AM
WFTV.com - News - Man Arrested After Motel Room Is Coated In Vaseline .. charged with criminal mischief

wftv.com/news/3314503/detail.html
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Gizmo Guy: Google engineer is
half-Indiana Jones, half-mad scientist

Gizmo Guy: Google engineer is
half-Indiana Jones, half-mad scientist 01/05/2005 08:40 AM
Saratoganews.com - Wed Jan 5, 11:39 am GMT

im liking this ny times ombudsm...ur,
public editor. half the newspaper should
be bs reporting and the other half
should be used to deconstruct the
articles

im liking this ny times ombudsm...ur,
public editor. half the newspaper should
be bs reporting and the other half
should be used to deconstruct the
articles 01/05/2004 06:08 AM
we will see if they quit misrepresenting Dean remarks .. finally comments .. weighed in

nytimes.com/2004/01/04/weekinreview/04bott.html
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One Minute Recharge For Toshiba's
Nano-Particle Coated Lithium-Ion Battery

One Minute Recharge For Toshiba's
Nano-Particle Coated Lithium-Ion Battery 04/04/2005 06:47 PM
Toshiba has announced a new lithium-ion battery technology that can recharge 80% of its capacity in a single minute.

There they are! New mirrors..

There they are! New mirrors.. 12/02/2003 12:28 AM
Thank you, thank you, thank you. What a great community we have. Thank you for providing us with more mirrors. Matthew Healey member of the Western Australian Macintosh User Group and their ISP extremedsl are providing Fink with a full mirror in Perth, Australia. This is our first mirror in down under, thus I am pleased to welcome them to the family. Furthermore the UKMIRROR service has accepted us, making distfile services available for Fink on 21 load balanced server. We are very happy about this development, but we still need more rsync mirrors. Thus, once more, if you feel like helping, please visit finkmirrors.net and get in touch.

Half-male, half-female, all crab

Half-male, half-female, all crab 06/17/2005 03:35 PM
David Pescovitz: Fishermen caught a crab in the lower Chesapeake Bay that's literally half male, half female. Among other differences, male blue crabs have deep blue claws while females' claw tips look like they were painted with red nail polish. The fishermen noticed that this particular crab had one of each. Researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science say that the condition, known as bilateral gynandromorphism, is caused by a "chromosomal mishap." Studying the rare animal could increase understanding of crab sexual development and breeding behavior. From the Washington Post:

Before turning over the crab to the scientists, (boat captain David) Johnson and other watermen conducted their own experiment into its sex life, with bewildering results. They dropped a female crab, which was just about ready to mate, into its tank.

First, the half-and-half crab cradled the female under his legs, as a male crab would do in preparation for mating.

Then, the crab seemed to lose interest in the female and let her go, Johnson said.

Then a day later . . .

"He ate half of her," Johnson said.

Link to Washington Post article, L ink to Virginia Institute press release (Thanks, Vann Hall!)

More mirrors....pretty please?

More mirrors....pretty please? 12/02/2003 12:29 AM
While we welcome our latest full mirror in Norway, sponsored by Havar Valeur, we crave more. To improve our service to all of you, we would like to ask that you evaluate carefully if you maybe do have the resources to become a mirror. All it takes is a 10Mbit link, around 100MB of disk space and some bandwidth you are willing to share for Fink. The exact setup instructions for rsync mirrors can be found here. Especially mirrors in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South Europe and Middle Europe are welcome, since we have none in those regions yet. If you feel generous and wish to donate even more resources, please visit finkmirrors.net to learn about your options. The current status of all available rsync mirrors can be viewed on the finkmirrors.net pages as well. We hope to improve this service in the future, yet this depends on your willingness to help us out. We are looking forward to many new applications and thank our community in advance.

Xerocoat Zero-Fog Mirrors

Xerocoat Zero-Fog Mirrors 09/21/2004 10:38 AM

How about those scientists, always coming up with neat new technology? What with the not-being-able-to-see issue featuring prominently for many people in hot and steamy conditions, University of Queensland physicists have created a permanent coating for mirrors, glasses, and car windshields that keeps them from fogging up. If you're more into greenhouses and solar energy than convenience, the coating also cuts out reflections and thereby enables more light to get through the glass. Even more exciting, the stuff is simple, cheap, and environmentally friendly to create. All the janitors down at the coin-op strip joint are going to be so excited!

Rea d - Catalog Page [We-Make-Money-Not-Art]

Improving our mirrors. Can you help?

Improving our mirrors. Can you help? 08/03/2004 10:37 AM
Finks decision to gradually build its own network of mirrors has payed off. To make sure that we can continue to offer a high quality service we need to improve our mirror network. It has been some time since we last asked for more mirrors. It is time to do so again. Fink is very grateful for the resources granted to us by our community. To further improve our service to the community we require an even better mirror system. We especially lack mirrors in central Europe, Russia and the Far East. If you feel that you have at least two Mbit to spare for a rsync mirror or more to offer a distfiles mirror please contact us. To get a better understanding of the different types of mirrors Fink offers, please go and review finkmirrors.net. This is the official homepage for all mirror related issues. If you feel that you can offer other types of resources, web-space for testing as an example, please do not hestitate in contacting us as well.

mozdev Seeking Mirrors

mozdev Seeking Mirrors 01/22/2004 02:38 AM

Happy Halloween and welcome new mirrors

Happy Halloween and welcome new mirrors 10/31/2003 04:05 PM
We wish all of you a happy Halloween. Furthermore I would like to welcome our new mirrors to the Fink family. From Europe in Rijeka, Croatia a new full mirror joins us. This mirrors has been sponsored by the Jabucnjak Apple user group. This is our first mirror in Europe, so I hope that more will be joining us soon. Dave Schroeder from the University of Wisconsin in Madison is sponsoring a 100Mbit dedicated Master server. A. J. Wright and SunSITE@UTK are helping out with another full mirror in the United states. This raises our full mirror count to four and the rsync mirror count to five. We are happy to have such a great community back us up, but I know that more mirrors will join over time. I will not stop nagging you until Fink has its own mirror in every state of the USA. Yet, with such a brilliant community backing us up, I am not too worried about not reaching my goal very soon. Trick or treat! Our most wanted treat is more mirrors, so come forth Administrators and fill our bag. Information on how you can be a mirror can be found on the official mirroring website.

Omnivision: Smoke and Mirrors?

Omnivision: Smoke and Mirrors? 06/29/2004 03:33 PM
The digital camera chip maker is under the lens.

Million tiny mirrors

Million tiny mirrors 03/06/2004 02:09 AM

There are a few more options in large screen televisions than there used to be.  In addition to CRTs and projection TVs, LCDs and plasma have come into their own.  There are also several new options like DLP, which this thinly disguised advertisement for Samsung explores.  It turns out that Gateway also has an offering in this area, as does RCA.

I found the techology behind this fascinating.  A color wheel, a light bulb, and a million tiny mirrors.

Knoppix v3.4 Hits The Mirrors

Knoppix v3.4 Hits The Mirrors 05/03/2004 10:18 PM

Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened?

Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened? 04/01/2005 11:00 AM
The Underground History of American Education
You aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livelihood.... If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

New Business Model, Or Smoke And
Mirrors?

New Business Model, Or Smoke And
Mirrors? 04/08/2005 06:26 PM
Jonathan Schwartz of Sun is out giving his talk again about how subscription fees are the way of the future for buying anything. One of his favorite examples (he's used it for quite some time) is that people will buy cars the way they buy mobile phones, where the device/car itself is free or close to fee, but there's a regular subscription fee that's locked in (he also likes to talk about how people will download "horn-tones" for their car, but that's a different story). He goes on to point out that for a car, this fee would be $220 -- noting that the carmakers have already thought about this. Beyond asking the obvious question (um which car are we talking about here -- because I imagine that a BMW is going to cost me more per month than a Hyundai), isn't this already how many people buy cars? It's called a loan or a lease. They buy the car with a little bit of money down, but pay regularly to cover the rest of the cost of the car. In fact, I'm sure, for some people and some cars, the amount is somewhere around $220. So, this isn't particularly amazing. It's not even new. It's just taking an existing business model and changing what you call everything. Who knew it was so easy to be considered a visionary?

OpenSSH Hit with Trojan; Mirrors
Compromised

OpenSSH Hit with Trojan; Mirrors
Compromised 08/05/2002 10:43 PM
CERT warns that some copies of the source code for the OpenSSH package contain a Trojan horse. Compromised downloads may still be circulating on the Internet.

Fedora Core 2 released to Mirrors,
Bittorrent

Fedora Core 2 released to Mirrors,
Bittorrent 05/16/2004 10:41 AM

Rampage in Minn. Mirrors Other Cases
(washingtonpost.com)

Rampage in Minn. Mirrors Other Cases
(washingtonpost.com) 03/23/2005 12:54 PM
washingtonpost.com - RED LAKE, Minn., March 22 -- The 16-year-old shooter in Monday's bloody rampage at a high school on a northern Minnesota Indian reservation had earlier that day killed his grandfather and stolen his police cruiser, which he drove to the front door of the school before racing inside to begin a spasm of gunfire, authorities said Tuesday.

Mandriva (ex Mandrake) LE2005 hits FTP
mirrors

Mandriva (ex Mandrake) LE2005 hits FTP
mirrors 04/16/2005 08:58 PM
Slashdot Apr 17 2005 12:07AM GMT

Tiny Projectors: Hologram and Lasers,
Not Smoke and Mirrors

Tiny Projectors: Hologram and Lasers,
Not Smoke and Mirrors 06/30/2004 12:37 PM

Researchers from Cambridge and Light Blue Optics, Ltd. have developed a prototype pocket-sized, battery-powered video projector -- or at least the technology that should, in the mythical two to five years, lead to one. The trick is a total lack of lenses or light bulbs, but instead to display a two-dimensional hologram on a microdisplay then shine a laser through it, which scatters the light into a larger, projected picture. Projectors are great -- I'm about to pick up a cheap one, myself. If they could slip these into cellphones or PDAs, there would be no need for roll-up screens or dorky mirrorshade HUDs at all. All you'd need is a clean wall and a total blotting out of the star we call our sun.
Read - Holograms Enable Pocket Projectors [TechnologyReview]

Related
More Photos from the Society for Information Display Show [Gizmodo]
Microvision Nomad Heads Up Display [Gizmodo]

"Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser
Wars Reignite"

"Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser
Wars Reignite" 06/02/2004 08:54 AM

Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser
Wars Reignite

Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser
Wars Reignite 06/01/2004 02:27 AM
Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser Wars Reignite .. Nigel McFarlane's article at InformIT

informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=174156
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Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together!

Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together! 06/19/2004 03:13 PM
"Don't equate happiness with money"... "Exercise Regularly"... "Have Sex"...
Advice from a German investment bank on how to enjoy life. Taking CitiBank's cynical "Live Richly" ad campaign a step farther?
obilgatory joke "I remember when the bank only gave away free toasters..."
In other news, A bank in India is targeting "sex workers" as new customers,
Insert Sperm Bank Joke Here. heh heh heh... he said "Insert Sperm"...

Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP)

Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP) 04/15/2005 04:32 PM
AP - A man accused of bursting into a convenience store demanding money was in the hospital Friday — shot, authorities said, by the great-great-grandmother working behind the counter.

Bits of Swell or Dubious Advice from
Hollywood Which Most Mirrors My Life

Bits of Swell or Dubious Advice from
Hollywood Which Most Mirrors My Life 02/05/2005 10:03 PM
(From The American President) Advising prudence - "We gotta do one thing at a time." The near-zen response - "We don't have time to do one thing at a time." ...

Free Wireless Everywhere Tech
visionaries' new project mirrors roots
of Internet

Free Wireless Everywhere Tech
visionaries' new project mirrors roots
of Internet 01/23/2004 03:48 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jan 23 2004 8:14AM GMT

"The USDA, fresh from categorically
refusing to protect us from mad cow
disease, has classified batter-coated
french fries as a fresh vegetable"

"The USDA, fresh from categorically
refusing to protect us from mad cow
disease, has classified batter-coated
french fries as a fresh vegetable" 06/17/2004 11:33 AM

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before.""

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before."" 01/26/2004 03:28 AM

frederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store.

frederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store. 09/10/2004 02:11 AM
frederick-the-great.com – http://frederick-the-great.com/ announced Grand Opening the Computing and Home Office store. Frederick The Great has thousands of electronics and home office supplies which fit your need and budget. [PRWEB Sep 10, 2004]

Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters)

Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters) 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
Reuters - The Great Wall of China is shrinking as tourism and development take their toll on one of the world's most famous monuments, state media said Monday.

Great Power, Great Restraint...

Great Power, Great Restraint... 08/05/2004 02:26 PM
Anakin learns that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one in Star Wars: Republic #67, released this week. Randy Stradley, Brandon Badeaux, and Brad Anderson tell a tale that balances power and restraint as Anakin and Obi-Wan face off against the Separatist forces on the planet Zaadja, while Master Tohno infiltrates the Geonosian droid factory on a demolition mission she is not expected to survive. Ever wonder why the Mandalorians are nowhere to be seen in the Clone Wars? The answer may lie in this issue! All under a cover by Brian Ching. You can check out an online preview here< /a>.

Great Hacker != Great Hire

Great Hacker != Great Hire 08/05/2004 03:49 AM
Great Hacker != Great Hire .. Eric Sink

software.ericsink.com/entries/No_Great_Hackers.html
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"Great Hacker != Great Hire"

"Great Hacker != Great Hire" 08/06/2004 09:45 AM

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