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Antarctic Lake Actually Two in One

Antarctic Lake Actually Two in One 07/11/2004 08:04 PM

Antarctic Telescope?

Antarctic Telescope? 09/19/2004 03:32 PM

US plane in Antarctic rescue bid

US plane in Antarctic rescue bid 04/10/2004 03:46 AM
A US Air Force plane reaches a South Pole research station to airlift several ill workers.

Antarctic bl0g selections

Antarctic bl0g selections 08/18/2004 12:23 PM
BoingBoing reader and, ahem, South Pole resident F. Scott Robert points us to some short story entries on his Antarctic weblog:

* Presumably crazed from winter darkness, the station manager at South Pole punishes crewmember for Photoshop know-how: Link
* Winter Jello-wrestling at McMurdo Station: Link
* The Antarctic Scurvy Awareness Program, in which I offer rewards to Antarcticans for contracting scurvy: Link

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Antarctic Photo Library

Antarctic Photo Library 12/07/2003 04:11 PM
I wish I had found this during the summer when it was a zillion degrees outside and needed to cool off. Do you like pictures of the frozen tundra? Sure, we all do! Trot on over to the Antarctic Photo...

When the ice melts, the Antarctic 500
rolls

When the ice melts, the Antarctic 500
rolls 03/17/2005 03:20 AM
In an effort to undermine California's vehicle global warming law, the auto industry has been running an ad claiming today's vehicles are virtually emission free. The Union of Concerned Scientists says "poppycock on that!" and is seeking a FTC false-advertising inv estigation. Fortunately, no matter who's bullshooting, you can help wipe away the problem.

Design Wanted For Antarctic Base

Design Wanted For Antarctic Base 06/29/2004 03:30 PM

Helicopter Record Bid Ends with
Antarctic Crash

Helicopter Record Bid Ends with
Antarctic Crash 12/20/2003 10:59 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 20 2003 9:36AM ET

Online information to improve Antarctic
forecasts

Online information to improve Antarctic
forecasts 06/27/2004 04:41 AM
Abc.net.au - Sat Jun 26, 10:26 pm GMT

Antarctic Response to Climate Change -
Not Pragmatic

Antarctic Response to Climate Change -
Not Pragmatic 09/23/2004 05:56 PM
Early in 2002, this website published an excellent article which documented the activity among the various ice shelves on the perimeter of the Antarctic. At that time, there had recently been several significant calving events, rendering vast, floating islands of ice. Also discussed was the complete collapse, in 1999, of an ice shelf known as Larsen B, which was formerly the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula - the northernmost and warmest part of the continent. The disintegration of the Larsen B shelf was called a "profound event", because it was thought to be stable. Fortunately, when massive icebergs are calved from ice-shelves, and even when they collapse and disintegrate completely, there is no resulting rise in sea level. It turns out though, that these same ice shelves serve a surprisingly important role in "holding back" the glaciers and land-locked ice on Antarctica which, if released into the ocean, would raise the world's sea level an estimated 20 feet (7m). Now it's much clearer just how important that role is.

Will the real Antarctic Anti-santa
please stand up?

Will the real Antarctic Anti-santa
please stand up? 12/29/2003 12:24 PM
Leave it to me to botch the geographic details of recent posts about Santarchy sightings in Antarctica. Look, I live in LA. Anything south of Wilshire is a remote southern terrain, as far as I'm concerned.

Nevertheless, Oren Leaffer, a member of the National Science Foundation's United Stated Antarctic Program who is evidently stationed near the South Pole, writes:

"I just saw your boingboing posts on the Santas in Mactown, well that's not even part of Antartica (it's on Ross Island). Here at the south pole we had the anti-santa [left], who liked to point out that while Santa brings you coal if you're naughty, here a lump of coal would be a good thing. Happy newyear and whatnot."

Antarctic Craters Reveal Asteroid Strike

Antarctic Craters Reveal Asteroid Strike 08/21/2004 03:05 PM

Antarctic Glaciers Quicken Pace to Sea;
Warming Is Cited

Antarctic Glaciers Quicken Pace to Sea;
Warming Is Cited 09/24/2004 03:22 AM
Some of Antarctica's glaciers have accelerated their seaward march, suggesting that ocean levels might be irreversibly on the rise for centuries to come.

Antarctic bl0g picks, including South
Pole co-ed Jell-o wrestling

Antarctic bl0g picks, including South
Pole co-ed Jell-o wrestling 08/18/2004 06:26 PM
BoingBoing reader and South Pole resident F. Scott Robert points us to some short story entries on his Antarctic weblog:

* Presumably crazed from winter darkness, the station manager at South Pole punishes crewmember for Photoshop know-how: Link
* Winter Jello-wrestling at McMurdo Station: Link
* The Antarctic Scurvy Awareness Program, in which I offer rewards to Antarcticans for contracting scurvy: Link

Link

My Hero

My Hero 04/26/2004 07:05 PM
Davi d Bowie invites fans to remix his songs.

David Bowie has today asked fans to bootleg songs of his latest album “Reality” to create a new song (mash-up).

The British music star has given fans the right to create a new song by using computer music software to blend or “mash up” two existing tracks.

The winning song will be released as an MP3 and its creator will win a car.

”I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself,” Bowie told The Times newspaper.

[The Digital Music Weblog]

"Hero"

"Hero" 08/27/2004 01:29 PM
It took the slow boat from China, but Zhang Yimou's dazzling martial-arts epic has finally come to American movie theaters. It was well worth the wait.

My new hero

My new hero 12/31/2004 12:54 PM
DOJ coup d'etat. Ashcroft is gone. Now, six days before the confirmation hearings of Alberto Gonzales, the acting Attorney General, Daniel Levin, issues a new official memo (pdf)on torture, reversing and specifically repudiating the definitions of torture from the August 2002 memo addressed to Gonzales. The new memo states, among other things,

'we disagree with statements in the August 2002 Memorandum limiting "severe" pain under the statute to "excruciating and agonizing" pain [...] or to pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death'

Everybody Wants to be a Hero

Everybody Wants to be a Hero 01/23/2004 02:21 PM
Both Microsoft and open-source backers are claiming to be leading the charge to break down the digital divide in Third-World countries.

From zero to hero

From zero to hero 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

This is like a commercial for the atkins diet and golds gym. (quicktime mov)

Hero Helper X 1.5

Hero Helper X 1.5 12/03/2003 05:00 PM
An aid to the popular HeroGames role playing system. It helps GM’s and players during gaming sessions.

Hero Helper X 2.0

Hero Helper X 2.0 09/11/2004 12:04 AM
Aid for the popular Hero Games role playing system.

SBC is Hotspot Hero?

SBC is Hotspot Hero? 07/26/2004 12:37 PM
They're late to the game, but they're ready to party: It's a funny thing. When SBC Communications first announced their FreedomLink plans last year with plans build 6,000 hotspots over a couple of years, it seemed like yet another announcement of large numbers with no track record. Cometa was still on its 20,000 hotspots prediction and had only a handful. McDonald's hadn't decided its partner and was in limited trials. Wayport seemed stuck on hotels. And T-Mobile stayed focused--as it still does--on a few ubiquitous chains. In the space of a few months, SBC has moved from last man in, to practically first mover. Let's review: The UPS Store. They will install Wi-Fi in thousands of UPS Store outlets, which are places that business people already congregate. This will probably also necessitate a change of thinking for that mailing and business operation so that they can make it easier for people to work for periods of time in their stores. Wayport managed services. They hired Wayport to build out their FreedomLink locations instead of creating a new division with no experience in house. Wayport's Wi-Fi World and McDonald's. They're the first telco to sign up to resell Wayport's McDonald's network, which will ultimately be several thousand stores over the next couple of years. Wayport/McDonald's supplier. They're also providing DSL and other connectivity to many of the McDonald's that Wayport is disconnected, which is part revenue, part branding for them as part of the Wi-Fi World co-marketing model Wayport is pursuing. Airports, airports, airports. They have roaming agreements now for their FreedomLink users onto Concourse, Wise, Wayport, and (reportedly) Sprint PCS's airport locations. There are only a handful of major airports not represented by those networks: SFO and Boston Logan are the two that come to mind. Pushing Wi-Fi into homes. SBC is selling 3,000 Wi-Fi routers a day to their home DSL users. This will drive adoption by their users of Wi-Fi. People without Wi-Fi will buy adapters or new systems because of the ease of sharing. Pushing hotspots subscriptions to their DSL subscribers. It's a coming, and it's going to be good--SBC keeps saying in its press releases that they will offer FreedomLink at a substantial discount to their DSL subscribers. $10 per month for unlimited use? $8? $15? Who knows. But it's an audience they've already got and they can offer them nationwide service with several thousand locations...

Auntie Hero

Auntie Hero 09/16/2004 09:33 AM
20th-century American artist, Alice Neele , "The Auntie Hero": "While Uptowners were making their way downtown to have their portraits painted by Warhol, Downtowners were going up to 107th Street to sit for this bohemian, auntie-like artist." Check out seven decades of raw, sometimes amazing, but always deeply humane portraits of the often larger-than-life figures who peopled the New York art/lit scene and Neel's personal landscape, including such iconic irrepressibles as Joe Gould, Andy Warhol, Annie Sprinkle, and Bella Abzug. (NSFW)

An XML Hero Reconsiders?

An XML Hero Reconsiders? 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
Kendall Grant Clark assesses reaction to an essay by Tim Bray that claimed XML was too difficult to work with. Was Bray right, or is he out of touch?

A True Hero

A True Hero 03/19/2005 02:56 AM
Private Johnson Beharry awarded the Victoria Cross. The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for bravery in combat. It's awared is incredibly rare. The last awards were made posthumously after the Falklands War in 1982. The last living recipients were two Australians in the Vietnam War in 1969. It is said that in order to qualify for a VC, conditions must be so dangerous that only 10% of recipients survive. The actions of Private Johnson Beharry are therefore worthy of a mention.

Hero Builders.com

Hero Builders.com 12/17/2003 07:15 AM
Amusing and somewhat disturbing all at the same time .. Okay, I find this really hilarous .. Action heroes for modern times .. truly tasteless dot com .. bearded Saddam dolls .. these action figures .. als Puppen erwerben .. make an honest buck .. rest

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"Hero in Fallujah"

"Hero in Fallujah" 12/19/2004 03:21 PM

The Hero of WWDC

The Hero of WWDC 06/17/2005 04:30 PM
(Update 12 June 2005: this post has been edited so that no one person at Apple is singled out—teams are teams, and the entire Intel team deserves a huge round of applause.)

At WWDC a member of the Intel team helped me get NetNewsWire and MarsEdit building as universal binaries. It took a little under two hours. It took as long as that only because these two apps are made up of over a dozen projects, and we had to change the settings (the famous checkbox, plus some other things) and rebuild each project individually.

Code changes? Nope, just time spent mainly in various inspector windows in Xcode getting things set up correctly.

And that’s why I think this transition will be a success—because it was so easy to create universal binaries, thanks to the great work of these folks and the hands-on help they gave developers at WWDC.



I’m aware that for some developers the transition won’t be so smooth. But it will be smooth for a huge number of developers, and that’s an incredible achievement.

Dark Hero of the Information Age

Dark Hero of the Information Age 03/14/2005 06:03 PM
Norbert Wiener is known as the father of Cybernetics. His 1948 book on cybernetics is standard reading for AI and Robotics engineers even today. He was a child prodigy, wrote science fiction, and did some of the earliest computer research on chess playing algorithms (after being defeated at chess by a chess playing automaton built by 19th century Spanish scientist Leonardo Torres y Quevedo). His ideas on feedback provided part the basis for John Von Neumann's pioneering work. Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman have co-authored a new book, Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics. A New York Times book review (registration required or use bugmenot to bypass it) gives a good summary of the biography.

SARS Hero Jailed?

SARS Hero Jailed? 07/01/2004 10:23 AM

Tim Bishop: Dr. Jiang Yanyong, hero of the SARS epidemic, imprisoned in China. According to several sources, the Chinese authorities have detained Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the retired surgeon, People's Liberation Army veteran, and long-time Communist Party member who was one of the heros of the SARS epidemic. As you may recall, at a time when the Chinese government was lying and denying that there were more than a handful of SARS cases in China, and was driving SARS patients around Beijing in ambulances to hide them from the World Health Organization, Dr. Jiang Yanyong wrote and signed a letter to the Beijing TV station and Time Magazine telling the truth about the magnitude of the SARS epidemic in Beijing. This simple act of truth telling did as much as any other act to stop the spread of SARS, and to begin the process of containing the epidemic. As I noted earlier, given that the party line became that the officials who concealed the SARS epidemic were the wrong doers, Dr. Jiang Yanyong was not punished for speaking out, and was even faintly praised in a People's Daily article.

Hero PC 'to get George Cross'

Hero PC 'to get George Cross' 04/16/2005 03:01 PM
Daily Mail Apr 16 2005 6:50PM GMT

Another HERO for STERNO, sighhhhhhhhhhhh

Another HERO for STERNO, sighhhhhhhhhhhh 08/15/2004 01:25 PM
Blog Interrupted (washingtonpost.com) .. Washingtonienne .. feature story

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New Galactic Hero Images

New Galactic Hero Images 03/25/2005 12:46 PM
Rebelscum reader and local forumite Rick Schmidt found some older Galactic Heroes in the new Revenge of the Sith packaging. On the back there were three new Galactic Heroes two packs listed. The new two packs include Mace Windu with Kit Fisto, R2-D2 with Super Battle Droid, and Chewbacca with Clone Trooper! Click the thumbnails up top to check them all out!

DVD Hacker Hero Acquitted Again

DVD Hacker Hero Acquitted Again 12/22/2003 11:22 AM
CBS News Dec 22 2003 10:22AM ET

the difference between a winner and a
hero

the difference between a winner and a
hero 08/28/2004 01:24 PM
showing how Paul Hamm represents the worst of contemporary america

Greg Palast, You're My Hero

Greg Palast, You're My Hero 09/07/2004 01:26 AM
So, does posting unreported news on mefi decrease the likelihood the corporate media will pick it up? Let's find out. Greg Palast is at it again, but is anybody listening? Former Texas Lt. Governor admits pulling strings to get Dubya into National Guard and then keeping quiet for big-time money.

... now all we need is a "control group" story. Any ideas? Email me.

Home Game Hero 1.0.2

Home Game Hero 1.0.2 04/13/2005 12:06 PM
Poker timer. Choose between 15, 10 and 20 minute poker blinds timer intervals.

Canada's True Hero.

Canada's True Hero. 09/17/2004 05:45 PM
Canada's True Hero The author Douglas Coupland has a book coming out in 2005 about fellow Canadian Terry Fox. Until then, read this interesting, but heart-warming article.

The Real American Hero

The Real American Hero 03/20/2003 05:24 PM
H e's no Stormin' Norman, but his Battalion of Greeters will takedown Saddam and Rollback Prices! Check out the extensive G.I. Joe filecard gallery at Yo Joe.com to harken back when times were a little bit more simple, and our guns fired Laser Beams. Also if you have a chance see the commercial archive for the comic books (with songs for each one!). I hope you'll learn something from all of this, and knowing is half the battle.
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