No schadenfreude in death
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12/25/2003 04:20 PM Slashdot personals. Sure, your options are endless....if you like
annoying and stupid teenage geek boys....
Not Life After Death -- Email After
Death
Not Life After Death -- Email After
Death
09/25/2004 09:08 PMWeb Zen: Zen of Death
Web Zen: Zen of Death
08/31/2004 01:55 PM
Xeni Jardin:
streatham cemetary
death
masks
blog of
death
celebrity
death beeper
dead or alive
who's alive who's
dead
a
strange ghost
ready teddy
death
death clock
Image: The
death mask of English poet John Keats.
web zen home,
web zen store,
(
Thanks, Frank).
PC Mag Says Death to 802.11b (Almost)
PC Mag Says Death to 802.11b (Almost)
04/29/2004 04:15 PMPC Magazine rounds up several 802.11g routers, and says they're cheap
enough, they're good enough: 802.11b no longer enjoys a large enough
(or any) price differential for quality Wi-Fi gateways that include
WPA encryption support, PC Mag says. So while you can still find
802.11b devices on the market, they recommend new gear have 802.11g
built in. The overall package of reviews and related stories in the
issue starts here; use the table of contents at the right of that
story to navigate through their guide to 802.11g, advice for buying,
and reviews of individual routers. The Linksys WRT54G gets top marks
for 802.11g with a score of 4.5 out of 5 points; but six other
gateways received 4 of 5 points, showing how the entire Wi-Fi world
has matured into more usability....
Being towards death
Being towards death
06/25/2004 10:37 AMBeing towards death Hanan Cohen intertwines the mortality of blogs
with our own mortality: We think that we will live forever. We think
that the files we have stored on machines powered by electricity will
also live forever. Our files have no other purpose than to be online.
We think that if our files are not available to the web, they are
dead. In a way, thinking about the death of our files is like thinking
about our own death. Meanwhile, over at Ereignis, the English-language
Heidegger site, there's a link to Christopher Ellis' article that
argues that Heidegger's ideas...
Death of a dot-com
Death of a dot-com
09/24/2004 05:16 AMUSA Today Sep 24 2004 9:07AM GMT
a death
a death
12/31/2003 07:23 PM Elliot
Smith : Murdered. Some
may
say.
Another death
Another death
03/31/2005 12:10 PM
Mitch Hedberg is said to
have died of an
apparent heroin overdose (
Howard Stern confirms). Mitch was a fantastic
comedian, and it's sad to think that he won't get the attention he
deserved because he shares a death day with someone else. You can
hear clips from his CDs
Mitch
All Together and
Strate
gic Grill Locations on Amazon. (
Previous MeFi thread
on Mr. Hedberg)
to the death!
to the death!
07/02/2004 07:50 PM
battle for the sudan -
some friday flash fun for your playing pleasure. this is a fun game,
but it takes a little practice to figure out the strategy. i
recommend playing the computer until you can always beat it before
playing other people. also, try out the suggested starting positions
before trying to make your own.
A Cruel Death
A Cruel Death
06/06/2004 10:03 AMI hope Ronald Reagan's family is finding a measure of solace today
after the death of the former president. His 10-year battle with
Alzheimer's disease testifies to his physical strength in the face of
one of the most terrible illnesses anyone can face. The cruelty of
Alzheimer's is felt perhaps most by the family members who have to
watch, and care for, a loved one whose mind is taken away. I wish them
peace.
Death and the data
Death and the data
12/26/2004 01:30 AMUSA Today Dec 26 2004 4:53AM GMT
The death penalty
The death penalty
12/25/2004 04:49 PM
From today's paper...
Tegucigalpa, Honduras (AP) -
Unknown assailants opened fire this week on a public bus in northern
Honduras, killing at least 23 passengers and wounding 16 others ...
The assailants left a note that said they represented a revolutionary
group that opposes the death penalty...
Beijing (AFP) - The Chinese authorities have sentenced two Hong
Kong men to death for smuggling digital player components into the
southeastern city of Xiamen...
I don't want to be
judgmental or anything, but killing 23 people to protest the death
penalty and sentencing to death people for smuggling digital player
components both seem a bit extreme to me...
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Death be not proud
Death be not proud
12/19/2004 02:59 PM
« Nathan Wood, Marine LCpl age 19, in Kirkland, WA. »
Aaron Huey sent me this photo
that is featured on Sunday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer's
front page and asked that I share it. My father was a Marine in the
signal corps in one of those wars few remember and even fewer remember
what the war was about. Fortunately, he didn't come home in a box as
this teenager did. There just aren't words that describe what war is
really all about better than a single picture. War is death. Death of
people you know and love. Something to think about this week as
families come together for Thanksgiving, some with an empty chair or
two at the table.
I took this photo yesterday at the funeral of Nathan Wood, Marine
LCpl age 19, in Kirkland, WA. Nathan was killed November 9 in
Fallujah. His best friend, Garrett Ware, also a marine fighting in
Falluja, was injured and sent home with a purple heart. In this image
Garrett hugs Nathan's father, Rex Wood, at the funeral in Kirkland
yesterday.
Death to Peterson
Death to Peterson
12/17/2004 06:31 PMThere are something like 15,000 murders every year in the United
States. Why is this the one that is headline news for months? I just
don't understand it....
Downloading death
Downloading death
05/13/2004 06:18 PMMillions will watch Nicholas Berg's tragic murder online not for
prurient reasons or to gain insight into evil. They will watch because
of the overwhelming urge to be in the know.
Death and Breasts
Death and Breasts
01/27/2004 01:47 PMWhen I die, I want something from the the Cofani Funebri 2004
Calendar. I mean: look at the handles on that one. Also, note the
tasteful September 11 motif. Marvellous country, this....
Bus death man sentenced
Bus death man sentenced
09/10/2004 07:22 AMA man who grabbed the steering wheel of a bus causing it to crash,
killing a fellow passenger, is jailed.
Tree of death
Tree of death
09/14/2004 11:17 AM
David Pescovitz:
Capsula Mundi is a design
for a biodegradable coffin made from starch plastic that holds the
deceased in a fetal position. The stunning artwork was created by
Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel:
"Capsula Mundi is planted in the earth like a seed. Above
it, to signal the presence of occupied space, is a shallow concave
circle dug out of the ground. In the center of which, a tree is
planted, the essence of it chosen in life by the dead one, the care of
this tree is the responsibility of everyone. The aim is ecological
burial, literally a more natural way to decay.
The cemetery will, then, acquire a new look. No longer the
overpopulated urban environment with congested architecture, it will
be a natural one in contact with the earth, enveloping expansive
areas, entire hills consecrated to the cult of the dead. Summarizing,
it is a different landscape devoted to the worship of our ancestry: a
sacred forest."
Link (via
Aeiou<
/a>)
Budgeting for death
Budgeting for death
02/01/2005 10:02 PMThere's good news today for U.S. troops serving in Iraq. No, the
president won't offer
a timetable for bringing the troops home when he delivers his
State of the Union address Wednesday. But at least the Pentagon wants
to pay more to the families of soldiers who die fighting there.
Death by Mushroom
Death by Mushroom
09/23/2004 09:07 AM
« Mushrooms that resemble the Lauttasaari water tower. »
Finland has a thing for
mushrooms because, I suppose, they grow pretty well here and they
are plentiful this time of year. The first time I visited Helsinki, I
fell in love with the Lauttasaari water tower because I thought it
looked like an alien space ship or mushroom that had an eerie blue
glow at night. The water
towers in Finland frequently resemble mushrooms or other fanciful
shapes, but the Lauttasaari space mushroom remains my favourite.
On one of the first grocery shopping trips I noted a wide array of
mushrooms in the produce section and Jarkko pointed out the false
morels that he said were deadly unless
cooked properly [I will add here that there is a marvelous Nordic and
Russian languages food glossary as well as a very beautifully done
Finnish/Russian
collection of recipes on the same website]. This, of course, was
noted next to the harmless looking fungi, but only in Finnish. I
suppose that I was shocked to think that anything in the grocery might
actually be deadly, especially for some city kid like me who wouldn't
know my ass from a poisonous mushroom if let into the woods on my own.
My German mother loved to drag us out into the woods to hunt for
morels as well as for blackberries to make into jams. The only problem
with this was that if you didn't put at least 3 rubberbands/elastics
around your sleeves and pant legs and wear gloves on your hands and
plastic bags over your socks, you'd be in agony for a week or more due
to the dreaded fuckingus chiggerius. These guys are invisible and invite
5000 of their closest friends to dine on your digested flesh, they
make mosquitos look good. My choice whether to forage in the woods
with the flesh eaters vs. shopping in the grocery in later years was
pretty easy.
I also immediately thought of the liability insurance and lawsuits in
the US arising from all the deaths of people who couldn't be bothered
to read the warning signs next to them. Perhaps this is passive
Darwinism in Finland at work since kids here are trained in the art of
identifying mushrooms and berries, even the Latin taxonomic names,
from birth so the unsuspecting foreigners who go to the shop and think
they look yummy and eat them raw, get removed from the gene pool. I
wonder how many cases of death by toxic mushroom happen every year.
The woolly milkcap above, a.k.a. Lactarius torminosus, is toxic if not
parboiled before eating. I have to admit that its peach colour with
furry texture wouldn't lead me to pick it and eat it without the onset
of starvation. I think I'll stick with shopping in the grocery and
eating only those things that I recognize and am sure won't kill me.
:)
The
Baltic herring market [note to port of helsinki webmaster: 20
lines of plaintext in a .doc format is really aggravating.] is coming
soon so we should all prepare for the herring breath and seagulls. A
friend who lives in LA composed a lovely poem one night on IRC about
herring that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Burning Herring by Conrad
My herring burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But oh my friends
But oh my friends
It is a fucking FISH on FIRE!
I've decided to work with B&W film a bit more since I actually
prefer it to colour film but the cost of developing it is mysteriously
double the cost of developing other films. So, I'm going to start
developing the film myself and use my cheap negative scanner for
displaying them on the net. The equipment needed is actually pretty
simple and the instructions from Ilford make it seem very hard to fuck
up. I've always wanted to try developing film so why not? Hey, I'm a
chemist, I should be able to manage this...I think. If anyone knows of
the secret place where one can get development equipment and
chemicals, aside from fotoyks, in a one-stop kind of shopping orgy,
I'd be much obliged for any information leading to the stinking-up of
our sauna-soon-to-be-darkroom.
Addendum: I was thinking why the varmints are called chiggers and
went to look it up in the Dictionary of American Regional English and
thought I'd share. :)
chigger n Pronc-spp cheeger, chego chigo(e), chigre,
chigroe [Alter of Cariban chigoe] CFjigger Note:
since both chigger and jigger are used of two similar
tiny parasites, a mite (sense 1 below) which is widely distributed in
the US, and a flea (sense 2 below) found chiefly in the South, there
is overlapping both of the creatures' occucrrence and of the names,
with some popular confusion.
1 A harvest mite (Trombicula spp.) Also called
jigger,redbug
2 also chigoe flea: A flea (Tunga penetrans) that
burrows into the skin. Also called jigger.
The first citation is from 1851 but I'm pretty sure the native
Americans had a few choice words for them as well. It's interesting to
note that the false belief that it 'burrows into the skin' remains
even in the recent DARE definition.
The death of the laptop? Not quite yet
The death of the laptop? Not quite yet
12/09/2003 12:07 PMWeird. Not one, but two remarkably similar articles last week (one by
Duncan Martell of Reuters, the other by Kevin Laws of VentureBlog),
about how...
death illustrated
death illustrated
02/15/2004 01:05 AMversion 0.6 of death illustrated
"Solar death ray"
"Solar death ray"
03/25/2005 11:36 AMDeath in the family
Death in the family
06/07/2004 10:42 AMIn "The Sopranos" season finale, Tony preserves the peace in his
kingdom the only way he knows how.
Death and Taxes
Death and Taxes
01/04/2005 12:25 AM
Death and Taxes:
A Visual Look at Where Your (U.S.) Tax Dollars Go The Death of the Mannequin
The Death of the Mannequin
01/03/2005 02:43 PMInternetRetailer.com Jan 3 2005 6:43PM GMT
The Death Of Macworld
The Death Of Macworld
01/07/2004 06:16 PMSure, there was a lot of new and improved, but that is an everyday
event at Apple. By Steve Consilvio (MyMac.com via MyAppleMenu)
The Death of Environmentalism
The Death of Environmentalism
02/01/2005 09:04 PM
 Some of you are probably
wondering why I didn't follow through with my promise to publish my Green
Movement Manifesto on ChangeThis!,
the new and wildly popular site for the posting of manifestos and
other
lengthy and provocative 'thought pieces' on urgent and fundamental
issues. There are two reasons:
- When I ran the Green Movement Manifesto by a number of
people, the 'environmentalists' liked it, the progressives who don't
have the environment at the top of their agenda were neutral to it,
and
the conservatives didn't like it at all. So I worried I was just
preaching to the choir.
- When I went to ChangeThis! I found another
manifesto called The Death of Environmentalism
already there. As much as the title infuriated me, I read it and I
basically agree with the authors. In light of their arguments, which I
summarize below, the Green Movement
Manifesto needs some serious work.
The authors of The Death of
Environmentalism, Michael Schellenberger
and Ted Nordhaus,
have worked for various environmental organizations most of their
lives, and featured prominently in some of the environmental
movement's
greatest successes in the 1960s and 1970s, which brought in
legislation
that is only now being seriously undermined by Bush and others. They
have taken a candid look at the almost uninterrupted history of
failure
of the movement since the mid-1970s -- thirty years -- and its
increasing marginalization and inability to galvanize public opinion.
Though you should read the whole 50-page manifesto, here's the gist of
it:
- Support for environmental protection is broad but
shallow
-- the large majority believe it's a good thing to do, but very few
list it in their 'top 10' priorities for needed change.
- The
movement has erred by defining, in people's minds, the 'environment'
as a thing, separate and apart from the human world.
- Framing
problems as 'environmental' problems doesn't work
since in most people's minds it has the effect of trivializing them,
making them abstract and impersonal.
- Focusing political effort on technical remedies and
tactics
doesn't work -- it fails to engage people, provide a sense of urgency
and immediacy to the problems, or define them as political, 'people'
problems.
- As a result, the three mainstay activities of
environmental
organizations -- analysis, organization and PR -- are increasingly
ineffective: In a world that is in a moral war over core values, our
rational appeal to be good
stewards of this 'other' thing called the environment just gets
lost.
- The media therefore have largely stopped covering the
movement, so radical environmentalists (PETA, ELF) have used
anti-social acts as a means to get attention, and garnered some
(mostly
unfavourable) media coverage, while mainstream environmentalists have
been unable to get any media coverage at all.
- While the
environmental movement therefore blames the media
(unfairly -- if the people don't care about the issue, why should the
media?), the consequence of the invisibility of the mainstream
movement
has been that nearly half of
Americans surveyed now agree that "most people active in
environmental groups are extremists, not reasonable
people."
- Environmentalists, who are rationalists at heart,
have a
propensity to be reductionist and stop their analysis at root causes:
"The global warming problem is at root a carbon emissions problem, so
we must have legislation to reduce these emissions", when what they
should be doing is identifying the practical, real-world obstacles to
achieving such legislation, and how to overcome these obstacles, such
as:
- the control of all three branches of government in the
US by the extreme right
- trade policies that undermine
environmental protections
- their own failure to articulate an
inspiring and positive vision
- overpopulation
- the
influence of money in US politics
- failure to craft
'environmental' legislation that shapes the debate around core
values
- poverty
- acceptance of dubious assumptions about
what the real problem is, and isn't
- In 1991, the
environmental movement stupidly agreed to
withdraw its drive for a much-needed US fuel efficiency standard in
return for an auto industry agreement to oppose drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge (which is now likely to be drilled anyway) --
this was because of short-range, tactical thinking and mis-framing the
debate as about 'protecting the environment' when it should have been
framed as about salvaging the viability of the US auto industry.
- The movement has been too short-sighted and
idealistic to
form practical alliances: The #1 reason the US auto industry is less
profitable than the Japanese industry is the exploding cost of health
care, which in the US is paid for by the industry ($5B/year by GM
alone), yet environmentalists have never considered helping the auto
industry lobby for universal public health care in return for an
agreement to raise fuel efficiency, because "health care isn't an
environmental issue".
- So the movement is now in a quandary:
It's focusing its
effort on short-term, tactical efforts and technical solutions that it
believes could be politically successful even in the current US
political climate, while at the same time acknowledging that even if
these quick fixes and incremental improvements succeed they will be
far
short of the change that is needed immediately to avert ecological
catastrophe.
- The authors co-founded the New
Apollo Project (which my fellow environmental blogger Richard Kahn
criticized
as idealistic) which they say provides an "inclusive and hopeful
vision" and is at least an intelligent first step to get
environmentalists out of the 'special interest' mold and into the
practice of building win-win alliances -- and not just with other
environmentalists and progressives. "It is our contention", they say,
"that the strength of any given political proposal turns more on its
vision for the future and the values it carries within it than on its
technical policy specifications".
- The best way to achieve
significant change in the
environment is to focus less on regulation and more on investment:
Encouraging planet-friendly investments siphons dollars away from
polluting and wasteful investments.
- What especially backfires
is environmentalists' PR focus on
raising awareness of the problem: Bombarding the public with bleak
news
when they are desperately seeking reassurance and less to worry about
(that's why I rarely report environmental set-backs and other bad news
on this blog -- it doesn't accomplish anything).
So: Vision and values first, and then build the movement and its
agenda on that. In my Green Movement
Manifesto
I really started with the agenda for what I described as a coalition
of
the disenfranchised. That agenda was about communicating, teaching,
recruiting, political (proportional representation), social (boycotts,
think-tanks, demonstrations) and economic (tax shifts, new measures of
well-being) activities, and creating Model Intentional Communities,
new
progressive media and Natural Enterprises. I used the term 'Green'
instead of Environmental or Ecology because I thought it was more
inclusive, more about us than
just about it.
Suppose we take a step back and describe the vision and values of the
Green Movement first, and then review the agenda and see if it
fits?
Yesterday I produced what I believe to be a statement of universal
human values:
Happiness as a product of good Health, Home (including Environment,
Belonging, Self-Sufficiency), Connection (Community, Relationships,
Family, Love), Discovery (Learning, Creating, Forming Beliefs), Work,
Peace (Freedom, Justice, Absence of Stress), Play, Awareness and
Self-Esteem. I freely admit that these may not be the best terms,
which, along with their organization have an implicit progressive
'frame' to them. But whether you want to combine Home and Connection
into one core value (as environmentalists are wont to do), or elevate
Family from an aspect of Home and Connection to a core value in its
own
right, I think you'll agree that this is a reasonable broad-brush
summary of human values (and, if you're an environmentalist, of the
values of all life on Earth).
If we're going to build a Green Movement on values and vision, do we
need to focus on or emphasize certain values, the ones that are
currently least fulfilled by today's non-sustainable and devastating
culture? The New Apollo Project report focuses on two values: good
jobs
(Work) and energy self-sufficiency (Self-Sufficiency being an aspect
of
Home). Its thesis is that two massive current problems in the US -- a
lousy job market and energy dependence -- can be solved by a single
set
of solutions, a single agenda. That agenda is about encouraging
investment in renewable energy innovation and development. Its
side-benefits include Health, a better Environment, and greater
security (Peace).
But New Apollo is a project, not a movement. It seems to me a movement
needs to be built on a strong and cohesive, relatively complete
set of values. So I'm tempted to keep the entire set. We need of
course
to go beyond the 'shorthand' of these one-word terms and explain
exactly what these values mean. So the first part of the Green
Movement
Manifesto should be about these values. We need to try to articulate
their meaning and reinforce their universality by expressing them in
new 'frames' that are compelling to all -- progressive and
conservative, libertarian, environmentalist, fundamentalist and
agnostic alike. No easy task.
The next part, the Vision, will be easier. The vision is ultimately an
achievable story in which the Values are
realized and fully manifest. Hence, Manifesto.
The key challenge here is to create a sense of urgency. The Vision
needs to transport us into the realm of the possible, and make us long
for its realization, ready and eager to be part of making it
happen.
Another challenge will be ensuring that a wide variety of people
perceive the Vision to be achievable. We live in such a cynical
society
that it's become easy to shrug off our responsibility, and our lack of
courage, by simply saying "It can't be done, so there's no point
trying." An unachievable Vision is worse than no Vision, because it
merely raises anxiety and brands its authors as hopeless idealists.
The
line between a vision that is too incremental, and one that is
perceived to be impossible, is often a fine one.
Is that enough for the Manifesto? While setting out the Agenda would
certainly be beneficial -- it would show How the vision could be
achieved -- it would also be controversial because, as I mentioned
yesterday, the 'How' is extremely frame-dependent. My sense is that
we're over-burdening the Manifesto by putting the Agenda in it. The
Agenda is Stage Two. Besides, stories are subversive -- we may be able
to use the Vision as a tool to allow people with different frames to
see the 'Value(s)' of achieving the Vision -- and that Vision alone
may
be enough to get them thinking about other, imaginative ways to
realize
it -- changing their own frames.
And there remains the problem of the name -- Green Movement. I like
the
name, because it's simple, visual, positive, instinctively resonant.
It's also tailor-made as a brand, something people can associate with,
call themselves, belong to, talk about, even wear (a woman I know
makes
unisex bracelets, and is intrigued by the idea of making something
that
Green Movement members could wear, give, share -- a conversation
piece). And what's more, Green is neither Red nor Blue.
But it does have associations with the Green Party, which, in North
America at least, is associated with the left, with fringe thinking,
and with single-issue politics. We need to think about whether on
balance it's an asset or a liability, and if it's the latter we need
another name. We also probably need a logo and a catchphrase.
Why am I saying 'we'? Because tomorrow I'm going to present a draft of
a new Green Movement Manifesto, with a Value statement, a Vision, and
possibly a new name, logo and catchphrase. And no Agenda, at least
yet.
But I wouldn't presume that my draft will be more than something for
the rest of us -- you -- to
shoot at. If the Green Movement Manifesto is going to be enough to
galvanize a billion or two people into thinking about, believing in,
and striving for, a better, sustainable way to live, it's going to
need
an enormous amount of collaborative effort -- the Wisdom of Crowds,
the
Power of Many, and the Magic of the Collective Mind and Soul. From the
ashes of Environmentalism we will build something new. So sharpen your
critical and creative thinking, here we go!
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Temple of death
Temple of death
12/31/2004 10:14 AMThe temple of Lom Kaen in the devastated tourist hub of Phuket,
Thailand, is for many the last stop in the search for missing loved
ones.
Electric Arc of Death?
Electric Arc of Death?
01/16/2004 11:02 AM Maybe you've seen
the Electric Arc of Death video. OK, so maybe it's just capable of
death if you get too close. But, if you work in the power industry
like I do, I was amazed to see this rather impressive
video of a
switchyard problem. Electric arcs involving switchgear for
transmission lines are nothing new, and this link provides an
excellent analysis of why this arc is occuring. Make sure you turn
the volume up for an extra charge of excitement.
The Blog of Death
The Blog of Death
05/21/2004 03:50 AMobituaries, powered by movable type
Pharmaceuticals and the Death of Art
Pharmaceuticals and the Death of Art
03/17/2005 03:49 AMOne of the leading causes of artistic and creative decline is the
modern view of mental illness, and the treatment methods used to
prevent or minimize it. If one views creativity as a form of madness
(or deviance), then the modern view that all forms of psychopathology
must be eradicated will be detrimental to societies body of great
artistic works.
Cake or death?
Cake or death?
06/20/2004 11:59 PM
Amazing Cakes («flash link) from the
food networks
Wedding Cake Challenge. Whether it's
Mikes Amazing
Cakes,
Michelle
Bommarito's Cakes, or
Colettes Cakes,
these are all some
awesome cake
s.
Aloha to Death Row
Aloha to Death Row
03/19/2005 02:47 AMhttp
://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/national/17peterson.html is an
interesting NY Times story because it features Laci Peterson's
stepfather in a Hawaiian shirt talking about Scott's trip to Death
Row. One does not see that ever day. The article also
contains
In a wrenching display toward the end of the hearing, Ms.
Peterson's mother, Sharon Rocha, assumed the roles of her daughter and
the grandchild that was never born, pleading aloud in a trembling
voice for "Daddy" not to kill "Mommy and me."
Assuming the role of a cerebral palsy baby was one of John
Edwards's favorite courtroom tricks. Perhaps this will be
commonplace now.
Solar Death Ray
Solar Death Ray
03/22/2005 04:46 PM
Straight out of a (low-budget) Bond
flick is the Solar Death Ray, a combination of particle board, 112
mirrors and, of course, Sol. Each of the mirrors are pointed towards
one area, focusing the sun's rays onto a target easily heated up to
930-1100 degrees Fahrenheit. The project page contains bunches of
science facts and enough instruction to build your own, Popular
Science style. In all seriousness, though, watching it melt through
some of the "targets" in their gallery is a bit disconcerting as I
imagine hundreds of maladjusted youth attempting to build their own as
an easy yet tragic way to score a new cat.
Project Page
[SolarDeathRay via MAKE:Blog]
Update: Alexander reminds us that giant fresnel
lenses are also affordable.
death of the alternafest
death of the alternafest
06/22/2004 12:28 PM
After 14 years of highly successful nationwide tours that began the
trend of the multi-stage, summer super rock fest,
Lollapalooza 2004 has been
cancelled due to low ticket sales. I went to a 1991 show, and
attended half a dozen other similar fests in the past ten years, but
as I've gotten older I've become a bigger fan of the intimate club vs.
the gigantic rock festival. Still, Lollapalooza being cancelled comes
as a shock, especially considering the stellar line-up on both stages.
the death of lincoln
the death of lincoln
06/09/2004 06:58 PM
the death of
lincoln. Originally from June 1865. "The murder of President
Lincoln aroused a feeling of regret deeper than was ever before known
in our history. Men and papers who had opposed his policy and vilified
him personally, now vied with his adherents and friends in lauding the
rare wisdom and goodness which marked his conduct and character."
Hmmmm... sounds familiar.
The Web Death Penalty
The Web Death Penalty
01/22/2004 02:10 PMThere are a few things that a Web site can do that are unforgiveable
and should not be forgiven. For example, I just unsubscribed from
MacNN (as in CNN, get it?) because on
one too many occasions, I followed a pointer there and there was this
fiolently offensive banner ad, flashing multiple colors at a high rate
of speed, and saying “If the link above is flashing, you have been
selected as a Winner! Claim here.” First of all, this is a lie, I
have
not been selected as a winner. Secondly, it hurts my
eyes. Any Web site that runs this ad will receive no more visits from
me, it is way, way, way beyond the bounds of what’s acceptable.
The Solar Death Ray
The Solar Death Ray
03/23/2005 08:06 PMGrok Description matches for No schadenfreude in death
GrokA matches for No schadenfreude in death
No schadenfreude in death
