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Why $2 Gas Is Amazing
Why $2 Gas Is Amazing
05/22/2004 03:24 PM
Why $2 Gas Is
Amazing Gasoline is now selling at more than $2 a gallon, which,
after inflation, is higher than it's been since 1981. But that's not
the amazing part. Actually, there are three amazing parts.
The amazing napper!
The amazing napper!
04/13/2004 08:49 AMSince last Monday -- no not yesterday, Monday April 5th -- I have
had a nap every afternoon lasting in duration from one to over two
hours! That's eight straight days of napping, and frankly I'm about
done with all the tiredness. I'm ready to get back to the business of
living.
Amazing Animals
Amazing Animals
08/18/2004 06:30 PMAmazing Inova X-5 at 25% off
Amazing Inova X-5 at 25% off
09/02/2004 05:54 AMThe Mother of all Torches at a bargain price
An Amazing Feat
An Amazing Feat
07/25/2004 12:21 PMLance Armstrong, winner of his sixth consecutive
Tour de France may
be the
best athlete of our times. A great champion.
Apple I: the Mac is amazing
Apple I: the Mac is amazing
01/07/2004 02:43 PMSo months after wondering what this integrated "Rip, Mix, Burn"
technology in OS X is all about, I finally got around to making a
movie --
Mr.
Willem's First Christmas. It was astonishingly easy to make. It
took a couple hours of shooting with a Sony DV Cam, and then a couple
hours editing. Sound directly integrates with iTunes. Photos directly
integrate with iPhoto. And the result directly integrates with iDVD.
All that's missing is a simple way to integrate
Creative Commons licenses, the
way, e.g.,
MT does, and
Adobe will (as announced at our party, at
which the latest cool
Flash!
was shown as well).
An amazing Year!
An amazing Year!
06/06/2005 12:01 AMA Year ago I was laying in a hospital bed overseas having just come
out of surgery that resulted in some stainless steel in my back with 4
wicked screws, and a severely damaged vertebrae. This would be the
start of 13 days in the hospital, being fit with a full body cast,
then graduating to a clam shell device that cost my insurance company
7k, and a heavily medicated patient for 8 weeks following the
surgery.
The day I quit my pain meds I went cold turkey on a Friday, told my
Doctor on Tuesday after having a very agonizing 3 days, and nights. I
obviously needed the pain meds early on, and having remembered laying
on a hospital emergency room bed screaming for about the first 9 hours
because the morphin they gave me didn't really help I was reluctant to
go down that road again.
I returned to work after 8 weeks off and within a week, was back in
a Airplane on a 6 week business trip. My Doctor lost his mind but hey
when it was time to get back to work you have to dive back in. The
hardest part for the 3 months was the clam shell was not being able to
pick my kid up.
Finally in Feb of this year, I was given the green light to start
light exercising. I podcasted my hospital experience and you can find
the audio clip on this p
ost you can take a look at the h
ardware I carry around here.
I am not complaining, as I am very blessed to be walking, and even
though I live in a constant state of low level pain life is good.
The wife had expected me to be rolled off the airplane as the initial
prognosis was really bad and instead I walked off.
One thing though because I flew back from the middle east only 15
days after being injured, I had to lay flat as much as possible so I
enjoyed 1st class on 3 consecutive flights and enjoyed the food but
had to decline the liquor, as the Roxicet and the Oxycodone I was
prescribed was enough bad stuff in my blood stream.
Thus having spent my 40th birthday in that hospital bed
contemplating life, and having really looked forward to 2004 being in
my rear view mirror the road ahead is a bright one and I am happy to
be have faired as well as I have. So their may be times when I get
excited about stuff and jump in with both feed but the reason for that
is simple I was given a second chance to make profound changes in my
families and people I come in contact withs life.
My Wife, and Kids were champions and my extended family and friends
prayed and took car of my wife when I was half a world away. Thank you
for being here during the past year also.
Todd..
Amazing Images
Amazing Images
06/29/2004 07:29 AM
Amazing
Images - the BBC has a series of 10 pictures of fetuses at various
stages of developments. There's no information about how they were
obtained, but they are pretty striking. I imagine they must have been
taken with one of the new ultrasound techniques (which are apparently
called
4D
imaging now).
20 Amazing Facts About
20 Amazing Facts About
12/31/2004 12:54 PM
20 Amazing Facts
About Read this and cry. Or move to another country.
More amazing Down and Out news
More amazing Down and Out news
12/18/2003 01:03 PMThis week's Entertainment Weekly lists the 10 Best Novels of 2003.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is number five. It's also one of
Sunday, December 28th's NYT's "New and Notable"
paperbacks.
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The view from up here is amazing
The view from up here is amazing
04/11/2005 02:45 PM It's truly incredible what you can see when you look down from the
heights of idiocy -- the vistas are breathtaking. Right now I'm
looking at a wad of virus-generated mail bounced back to me because it
failed an SPF check at the receiver's end. Yep, that's right. Someone
configured their mail server to check and see if inbound mail had a
forged From address and, if it found that it was, bounce it back. Back
to the forged from. You know, the one you just checked and found
thatit didn't come from. Some days people truly puzzle me....
Viacom's Amazing Race
Viacom's Amazing Race
07/06/2004 09:53 AMTonight's debut of the reality series' third season has more than
Viacom racing for the finish line.
Egenera and its amazing technicolor IPO
Egenera and its amazing technicolor IPO
06/25/2004 07:06 PMMade to order vendor
Amazing action figure art
Amazing action figure art
06/23/2004 01:53 PM
Amazing action figure art When I
first saw the photos of this stuff, I thought they were taken from
life. I've never been into war-toys based on humans, but this is
really really breathtaking...
The most amazing salad in the world
The most amazing salad in the world
08/01/2004 01:15 PMThe other night, as Jason already reported, I had dinner at Craft. One
of the highlights of the meal for me was the special heirloom tomato
appetizer we ordered. It perfectly accentuated the range of
intoxicating sweetness to be found in these delightful vegetables
(fruits, whatever).
As a fairly recent victor in Battle Tomato, I was surprised by how
much I enjoyed it, and found myself on Friday buying over a pound of
heirloom tomatoes at the Greenmarket to attempt an at-home recreation
of the dish. I'm happy to report that my Craft's Heirloom Tomato Salad
was a huge success (coupled with fresh corn on the cob, it made for an
all-Greenmarket-veggie dinner). So delightful was it that Saturday
morning on my way home from a run, I stopped again at the Greenmarket
to use my last few dollars to buy three more tomatoes. If you enjoy
tomatoes and have access to nice ripe heirlooms, you couldn't ask for
a better way to enjoy them.
The amazing Steve Ditko
The amazing Steve Ditko
06/06/2005 12:00 AMSpider-Man's reclusive co-creator went into hiding decades ago, but
his spirit continues to haunt the best of today's comics
The Amazing Shrinking Google IPO
The Amazing Shrinking Google IPO
08/18/2004 10:53 AMCBS News Aug 18 2004 2:33PM GMT
"The quite amazing true story"
"The quite amazing true story"
09/07/2004 02:01 PMSurvivors tell of amazing escapes
Survivors tell of amazing escapes
12/29/2004 02:17 PMBritish survivors of the Asian tsunami have been involved in amazing
rescues and heroic acts of bravery in the aftermath of the disaster.
Amazing microscopic photography
Amazing microscopic photography
12/30/2004 10:00 PMMark Frauenfelder:

Nifty gallery of microscopic
nature photographs. Shown here: cross section of a lavender leaf.
Link20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA
20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA
01/01/2005 02:39 AM20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA. #1. 80% of all votes in
America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. 12/4 ..
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What’s So Amazing About the LatchTool
PowerCylinder™?
What’s So Amazing About the LatchTool
PowerCylinder™?
03/14/2005 04:09 PMThe Latchtool Group Hosts Contest to Find Hot Applications for its New
Force Amplifiers. [PRWEB Mar 9, 2005]
It's amazing what you find in a mess
It's amazing what you find in a mess
03/14/2005 05:38 PMSome of the things I had no idea were on my computer's desktop,
discovered while cleaning it up:
A recipe for Pickled Oysters with English Cucumber "Capellini" and
DillA map of the Madaket (Nantucket) bus routeVarious torrents of
things I never listened to, like Jon Stewart's Crossfire
appearanceMore strange .pdf files that I must have inadvertantly
downloaded than I care to admitAn Excel spreadsheet from 4/2003
comparing the costs of purcasing an espresso machine to going to the
local coffee shop to making due with my French Press pot at homeMy
brother's "updated" résumé from early 2004
From here on out, I resolve to be neater! Next job: cleaning up the
6,935 emails in my inbox (all either read or skimmed), oldest dating
back to 9/13/01!
"this story and amazing picture"
"this story and amazing picture"
06/04/2004 05:03 PMThe Amazing Properties of Aerogel
The Amazing Properties of Aerogel
01/22/2004 02:10 AMSlashdot Jan 21 2004 10:54AM GMT
Copy Editors Are Amazing
Copy Editors Are Amazing
03/06/2004 02:09 AMI spent a fair chunk of time this weekend going over the latest draft
of the book. The figures are now in it, the layout is mostly done, and
the copy editor has made a lot of changes to it. Those changes are
often quite subtle but have a very obvious effect: they make the text
readable. It's not that what we turned in wasn't readable, but
compared to what we got back from the copy editor, it's like night...
Unreal 3's amazing detail
Unreal 3's amazing detail
04/14/2004 05:02 PMHere's a 12 MG Windows Medis video clip of Unreal's fantastically
detailed world.
LinkThose Amazing Talking Computers
Those Amazing Talking Computers
03/20/2003 01:05 PMThe concept sounds great: Give voice commands to your computer, like
ordering an obedient
servant to bring you a cocktail. No more fumbling with an aging mouse
or awkward
trackball, no more slow typing on a keyboard. But so far, speech
technology is a
solid example of an idea well conceived but poorly executed.
jarvis on mcgeevey's amazing outing
jarvis on mcgeevey's amazing outing
08/12/2004 04:27 PMmaybe somebody could set him up with John Rowland
zell reads his spam? amazing.
zell reads his spam? amazing.
09/03/2004 04:11 PM
Zell
Miller obviously doesn't read Snopes or else he would have known
that Kerry didn't ever intend on arming our military with
sticks
and clubs spitballs.
the
Martini Republic reminds us that in July snopes
debunked the heart of miller's attacks that he delivered in his
keynote on wednesday.
Amazing Heinlein discussion on
Electrolite
Amazing Heinlein discussion on
Electrolite
01/10/2004 10:48 AMRespected science fiction critic John Clute
reviewed
Heinlein's long-lost, unpublished novel,
For Us, The Living, for SciFi.com, giving it a rave -- saying
that this was the kind of science fiction that, if it had been
published in its day, might have actually yeilded a generation of
futurists who more-or-less accurately described the
present-day-future.
The 140-comments-and-still-going discussion of this on Electrolite is
just about the most fascinating literary/political/historical
discussion I've ever read. You've got heavy-duty writers,
ex-space-program people, major editors, Heinlein trufans and assorted
others really digging into this idea: how much did Heinlein get right,
what did he get wrong, since when are sf writers supposed to predict
the future anyway, how did his politics change and how did he change
politics? Meaty stuff.
As I said in another thread on another Nielsen Hayden's blog, I
recently re-read "Friday," and then immediately picked up "For Us, the
Living" and read that next. "Friday" was published in 1982, and FUTL
was written in 1937-38. In both novels, Heinlein writes about a
world-spanning information network. The 1982 "Friday" version looks a
lot like the Internet of today; Heinlein's characters sit at
"terminals" and "punch" requests for information -- they can get
everything from the history of the city of Memphis, Tenn., to musical
recordings, to astronomical data. One character removes a "portable
terminal" from her purse and punches for her family financial records,
which she can examine in depth while sitting out in the garden.
Change some of the buzzwords there and you have an accurate portrayal
of the Internet in 2004.
Heinlein's Internet ca. 1938 AD was way cool for fans of retro
futures: users called operators on videophones (I forgot what Heinlein
called the videophones) and the operators sent documents on their way
via pneumatic tube; the tubes could reach from one coast to another.
Whoosh! (Why doesn't the world have long-distance pneumatic tubes,
dammit?!) At one point, a character in the 2085 wants to look up a
newspaper article from 1938; she calls the operator and has a
photostat in her hands within a few minutes.
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#1
Marvel.com - dotcomics - Amazing Fantasy
#1
09/25/2004 04:02 AMposted a Flash-based copy of Astonishing X-Men
#1
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Amazing card-stacking photos
Amazing card-stacking photos
12/30/2004 04:48 PMCory Doctorow:

Kevin sez, "Bryan Berg is famous for stacking playing cards. He is the
Guiness record holder and tours the world stacking cards. The web site
for him is sweet and simple and lets outstanding photography tell the
story."
Link
(
Thanks, Kevin!)
The amazing world of my French class
The amazing world of my French class
04/07/2005 10:43 AMOn the very first day of French class, Madame spent the good part of
our first hour together having everyone state their name, where they
were from, what they did, and what hobbies and/or activites they
enjoyed. I was surprised (and relieved) to discover that I was the
only American. And in fact, one of only two North Americans! I tried
to jot down as best I could everyone's name and hometown. Roughly
here's the summary by country:
America (1) me!
Brazil (3)
China (5)
Columbia (1)
Japan (3)
Korea (1)
México (1)
Poland (1)
Russia (2)
Spain (1)
And what's even more interesting are the cities the group represents;
the list reads like a "Great Cities of the World." Beijing, Moscow,
México City, São Paolo, Shanghai, Tokyo...And of course,
we're all in Paris learning French. It's pretty amazing.
Also what's even more amazing is our teacher, who seems to be able to
speak nearly all the languages of her students. Sometimes she'll
translate something to English or Spanish (which today tripped up one
of the Chinese students, who started to ask about a word and the
teacher said, "No, that's Spanish!"), when she isn't using French to
define things. But she also cracked some joke in Chinese that got the
Chinese students chuckling. And yesterday she surprised us all when
she went to the board and started writing in Russian! Madame le
professeur est incroyable!
Dyer and Bowyer in amazing punch-up
Dyer and Bowyer in amazing punch-up
04/02/2005 11:30 AMNewcastle's Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer are sent off for fighting each
other in the 3-0 defeat to Aston Villa.
Amazing week in EFF's history
Amazing week in EFF's history
12/20/2003 04:52 PMThis was a red-letter week for EFF, with three critical victories
coming each on the heels of the last:
* Under pressure from EFF and a broad, bipartisan coalition of
organizations we led, the U.S. Forest Service announced that
it would drop plans to block messages from web action centers.
* The Dutch Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision protecting
peer-to-peer software provider KaZaA from liability under Dutch
law for copyright infringement by its users. EFF's Fred von
Lohmann will argue a similar appeal in the MGM v. Grokster case
in January, and while the European law is different, the decision
provides a positive context within which to argue that the higher
court should uphold our victory before the lower court last
Spring.
* Finally, the DC Circuit ruled Friday to uphold Verizon's right
to protect its customers' privacy from subpoenas issued by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) under the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). EFF helped lead a coalition of
44 privacy and consumer groups, plus a host of ISPs, in an amicus
brief in support of Verizon.
A reminder: EFF is a member-supported charity -- and you've got just
over a week left to throw some money at a worthy charity before Uncle
Sugar will take it away from you.
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Amazing Video of Dancing Humanoids (WMV)
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Viewsonic’s Amazing 10GHz Tablet PC
Viewsonic’s Amazing 10GHz Tablet PC
03/23/2005 01:31 PMViewsonic's Amazing 10GHz Tablet PC
Viewsonic's Amazing 10GHz Tablet PC
03/23/2005 09:30 AM
This
Viewsonic TPCV1250S may not seem all that impressive at first, but
when you read its description on Amazon, you'll discover that this
demure Tablet PC holds inside a 10GHz Athlon and a 30,000GB hard disk.
Amazing! And if you read the reviews (and you should), you'll discover
that the desktop nuclear power supply isn't nearly as inconvenient as
you'd think. Some users find the warping of time and space around the
unit to be somewhat distracting, to say the least. Still, at only
$2,200, I'd say it's a bargain. Someone at Los Alamos must have a boat
mortgage to pay off.
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