How Do You Beat Heavy Competition?

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High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics
Competition

High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics
Competition 03/30/2005 02:05 PM

Heavy shit at end a heavy year

Heavy shit at end a heavy year 12/22/2004 01:09 AM

Mark Pesce - Out Of Control: The Sequel - Hollywood does it again

Adam Rifkin - W eblications (the Web Way and the web as a platform) - this guy just doesn't stop!

Mark Cuban - Hey Chad, get a blog! - in which Mark clues Chad Pennington into how to deal with the media

David Weinberger - Selfless Social Networks - ah, that's why

Barry Diller - Spins off Expedia - 'bout time - DLA for travel

Scott McMullen - Google/Internet Archive, Meet Mr. Event - can you say OpenEvents? Hey Scott - let's do it!

Joi Ito - N o more friends on Orkut - the end game

- New Media timeline - how can you have a New Media timeline without Director? Have they ever heard of Flash? Where do they think that came from? Rob Burgess? Kevin Lynch? Norm Meyrowitz?

Competition Equalizer Crushes the Google
Adwords Competition

Competition Equalizer Crushes the Google
Adwords Competition 03/14/2005 04:41 PM
Unlock the secrets of the top producing affiliate sellers on Google Adwords. Competition Equalizer gives an advantage to smart affiliate marketers so that they can dramatically increase their affiliate sales by staying one step ahead of their competitors. [PRWEB Mar 13, 2005]

Has tech gotten top-heavy?

Has tech gotten top-heavy? 04/23/2004 05:34 AM
USA Today Apr 23 2004 9:16AM GMT

Heavy Management

Heavy Management 09/27/2004 08:57 AM
Constructech Magazine Sep 27 2004 1:27PM GMT

She's So Heavy

She's So Heavy 08/12/2004 09:14 AM
Obese Florida woman melds with couch after laying on it for six years. Meanwhile.

Heavy Metal FAQ.

Heavy Metal FAQ. 12/24/2004 12:21 PM
Heavy Metal FAQ. (More inside.)

heavy metal oil

heavy metal oil 09/13/2004 03:02 PM
The paintings of Josh Kil. Click the gallery link.

Some Say ICANN Too Heavy-Handed

Some Say ICANN Too Heavy-Handed 04/18/2005 11:23 PM
NewsFactor Network Apr 19 2005 12:40AM GMT

Schwarzenegger Plays the Heavy

Schwarzenegger Plays the Heavy 05/20/2004 08:29 AM

NY Times: Schwa rzenegger Files Suit Against Bobblehead Maker. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's film production company filed a lawsuit last week against a small Ohio toy maker, claiming that the company's $19.95 Schwarzenegger bobblehead doll illegally exploits his image for commercial purposes. The suit says that Mr. Schwarzenegger is an instantly recognizable global celebrity whose name and likeness are worth millions of dollars and are solely his property.

What he's claiming here, essentially, is that his past stardom in Hollywood means that political parody can be shot down using our increasingly idiotic "intellectual property" laws. What an arrogant stance. Schwarzenegger's lawyer cites "very strong laws that protect celebrities," but fails to note that this celebrity chose to run for political office. He's a public figure in a different arena now, where this kind of bullying is unacceptable, or should be. Besides, this doll is arguably satire. And satire is protected from such nonsense, period, as the doll company's lawyer notes in the Times story. The governor is playing the heavy in this role. I hope he loses, big-time.

Jet are 'too heavy to take off'

Jet are 'too heavy to take off' 05/16/2004 03:29 AM
MoD admits "concerns" that fighter jets costing £35m each are too heavy to take off from warships.

Do not operate heavy machinery...

Do not operate heavy machinery... 05/10/2004 11:46 AM
Forklift training video. Poor Claus just can't get the hang of this furshlugginer contraption. WMV file, German language--things start getting interesting around 2:30. (via, via)

Soulless, Maybe, but Dig the Heavy Metal

Soulless, Maybe, but Dig the Heavy Metal 02/18/2004 09:23 PM
With Captured! By Robots, or C!BR, 32-year-old Jay Vance has created an entirely mechanical touring rock band.

Keep me away from heavy machinery
today...

Keep me away from heavy machinery
today... 11/17/2003 04:25 PM
I've managed to screw up an amazing amount of trivial shit today. I don't know what's up, but you won't see me anywhere near a backhoe or crane. I left my visa pictures at home. So I drove all the way back to get 'em. Then I walked over to the travel office to drop off my visa stuff. 95% of the way there, I remembered that I left the signed letter that goes with my visa application on my...

Dependence on IT Exports Heavy

Dependence on IT Exports Heavy 06/20/2004 11:07 AM
Hankooki Jun 20 2004 2:39PM GMT

AP: FBI's DNA Database Gets Heavy Use
(AP)

AP: FBI's DNA Database Gets Heavy Use
(AP) 03/08/2004 11:10 PM
AP - The FBI's DNA database, filled with genetic samples from prison inmates nationwide, has helped local authorities identify suspects in more than 11,000 cases in what is becoming the 21st century equivalent of fingerprinting.

David Brooks: A Burden Too Heavy to Put
Down

David Brooks: A Burden Too Heavy to Put
Down 11/05/2003 07:30 AM
New York Times column today .. Required Reading .. tour de force .. provides .. Burden .. column

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Heavy Betting on Election Domains

Heavy Betting on Election Domains 06/21/2004 06:08 AM
Domain-name speculators and satirists find new opportunities, thanks to John Kerry's drawn-out quest for a running mate and George W. Bush campaigners' decision to buy only a few websites containing variations on the president's name. By Joanna Glasner.

Analysis: Some say ICANN too
heavy-handed

Analysis: Some say ICANN too
heavy-handed 04/18/2005 06:44 PM
United Press International Apr 18 2005 7:57PM GMT

Pakistan fear heavy losses

Pakistan fear heavy losses 02/13/2004 10:29 AM
The Pakistan Cricket Board will seek compensation if India cancel their tour.

Light bl0gging, heavy machinery

Light bl0gging, heavy machinery 07/02/2004 08:05 AM

This week, I've been spending a lot of time in the yard. Today, we had neighbors over helping us fix our front entrance and the day turned into a community assisted day of heavy work and heavy machinery for me.

We recently fenced off an area of the yard for Bo and Pookie. The problem is, it is a dirt area and they get all muddy. Mizuka and I decided to make half of it grass and half of it gravel. I asked on DogReader about whether to use wood chips or gravel and I got good advice that I should use pea gravel. We went to the hardware store and bought some gravel. It was very heavy and expensive... (relatively speaking)

I got my wheel barrel and shovel out and was preparing to lay the gravel and the neighbors laughed at me. They said that I definitely didn't have enough gravel and that it would be too expensive to cover the whole area with enough of the pea gravel. They recommended that we get some cement gravel and lay it down first. It sounded liked a good idea.

One of the guys jumped into a truck and came back with a few tons of gravel. He looked at the fenced area and went and got another few tons. Sitting in our front yard was about 4 cubic meters of gravel, a wheel barrel and a shovel. I remember reading about how French farmers protest against the government by dumping tons of manure at the front gates of government buildings. It's the battle between those equipped with heavy machinery and those who are not.

As I started loading up wheel barrel after wheel barrel, images of forced labor flashed through my mine. "Put your back into it!" As I moved wheel barrel after wheel barrel from the front yard into the fenced area, the neighbors who were working on my front entrance watched me with pity.

"Do you know how to work a excavator?"

"Umm... No..."

"OK... wait a sec. We'll get someone to bring one over. He'll help you load up the wheel barrel."

Soon the beautiful excavator arrived and I was promoted from shoveler/barreler to barreler with excavator assistance.

After several hours of barreling, finally I had moved several tons of gravel about 20 meters and spread it out a bit.

"You're going to need to flatten it out a bit. Have you ever used a forward plate compactor?"

"Umm... No..."

"OK.. wait a sec."

Soon a forward plate compactor showed up.

"Here's the choke, here's the throttle. Wet the gravel a bit and use the compactor to flatten it down and even it out."

"Umm... OK..."

Soon, I found myself behind a roaring plate compactor. Lucky for me, I had my new Sensaphonic custom molded ER 9 ear plugs. I could keep my ears from being blown out and still hear what people were saying.

Anyway, I'm quite tired in a pretty healthy sort of way, but unfortunately, I'm too tired to blog. So instead of something political, all you get is this silly diary post. ;-)

Denmark Prisons Ban Heavy Dumbbells (AP)

Denmark Prisons Ban Heavy Dumbbells (AP) 01/23/2004 04:12 PM
AP - Pumping iron — at least heavy dumbbells — will be banned in Danish prisons following complaints by wardens who feel threatened by inmates turning themselves into "monster men," officials said Friday.

US deploys heavy armour in Iraq

US deploys heavy armour in Iraq 04/29/2004 03:34 AM
The US sends extra heavy tanks and armour to Iraq to deal with a surge in attacks on its forces.

Heavy Little Objects -- a virtual museum

Heavy Little Objects -- a virtual museum 09/09/2004 04:24 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Mack sez: "I've posted a rich trove of new heavy little objects, including early mass-produced potted-meat propaganda, a rare bronze life-cast of Walt Whitman's hand, an anthropom orphic turn-of-the-century stapler and F. Scott Fitzgerald's very own water-clo set pull handle." Link

Build Your Own Heavy Metal Server

Build Your Own Heavy Metal Server 05/01/2004 09:34 PM

Torrid: Hot Topic for heavy girls

Torrid: Hot Topic for heavy girls 04/06/2005 02:05 AM
Cory Doctorow: Salon has a fascinating piece on Torrid, a growing chain of alterna-clothing stores for "XL-teens" (overweight kids, apparently mostly or all girls). This is the sister-store to Hot Topic, a wildly successful chain of mall-goth stores that aggregates head-shop wares, hipster tees, Nightmare Before Christmas tchotchkes, etc, and brings them from the Haight to the mall.

The social factors inherent in selling large-sized clothes to teens are really complicated (when a group of girls goes shopping together, do the skinny girls join their heavier friends at the Torrid?) and the article does a good job of turning them up, including a coda about whether a plus-size fashion botique encourages obesity ("You don't lose weight by tough love, whether from your mother or your local clothing store. It's a personal choice, and a difficult choice -- and if I can't do it for myself, I'm not going to do it for the Gap.")

For some girls, even one piece of clothing can mean the difference between enjoying a party and hiding in a corner, or not going at all. Erica Santiago, a 17-year-old with orange-streaked hair, giant rave pants, and zipper-pull earrings, was shopping recently in Torrid's Staten Island store. While fielding calls on her pink cellphone, Erica, who says she feels "really comfortable" with herself at about 185 pounds, described the thrill of finding a trendy bathing suit that fit. "Before, I wouldn't even dare try them on. I would just guess, get home, have them not fit, and then return them," she says, noting that those that did fit were hideous. If forced to go near the water, she'd wear a T-shirt over whatever abomination she'd settled for. At Torrid, however, she found a suit she loves, black with star-shaped studs near the neck. She's now done away with the coverups, she says. "I feel more confident -- really good. It feels great to be able to go to a pool party and actually wear a bathing suit." (Torrid also does big business at prom time and Halloween.)...

But here's the problem with shopping online -- and off -- for teens, though: For many of them, shopping is inherently, or at least ideally, a group event. "Girls especially are incredibly social about shopping," says Callender of Teenage Research. When they shop online, they miss potential hangout time with their friends. But when they shop in an actual store, one that's not wall-to-wall plus sizes, it sucks. "I typically avoid certain stores because the people that work or shop there make me feel uncomfortable, says Savannah Rios, 16, of Las Vegas (who wears size 14 to 16). "There have been a few times where I'll be at a store and I'll ask for my size and they give me a weird look and tell me they don't have it. It's frustrating." But at Torrid, she says, "You feel comfortable when you're in there because you don't have girls looking at you weird because you're not a size zero."

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Heavy fighting for DR Congo town

Heavy fighting for DR Congo town 06/02/2004 04:02 AM
Dissident fighters battle the army for control of Bukavu, threatening the peace process.

Iraqi heavy metal band

Iraqi heavy metal band 08/18/2004 12:23 PM
Looks like they've found those weapons of mass destruction. WSJ article about Iraqi heavy metal outfit Acrassicauda, and what life is like trying to obliterate audiences with satanic soundwaves after the fall of Saddam.

The members of Acrassicauda honed their English by singing along to black-market Megadeth and Metallica CDs. They developed their stage moves by copying what they saw on pirated videotapes of American rock concerts. Now they're learning a different lesson: the difficulties of reviving culture and entertainment in a society ripped apart by war.

The four members of Acrassicauda, which means Black Scorpion in Latin, hope they can prove just as resilient. The young men -- Mr. Talal, bassist Faris al-Lateef, drummer Marwan Mohammad Riyak and guitarist Tony Aziz -- met as high-school students and formed the band, along with another member, in 2000. Scions of prominent families, they were drawn together by their love of Western heavy-metal bands like Slayer and Judas Priest, which appealed to their feelings of isolation and disillusionment.

"It's about feeling powerless and lonely and wanting to scream out because no one else is paying attention to what you're feeling," says Mr. Lateef, 23, who has spiky hair, a goatee and tinted sunglasses that he wears indoors. "The songs were sung by Americans but they could easily have been written by us as Iraqis."

Link (paid registration required), more here via Channel One News (Thanks, Ollie)

Heavy metal umlaut: the movie

Heavy metal umlaut: the movie 02/01/2005 08:52 PM
Today's screencast traces the evolution of Wikipedia's Heavy metal umlaut page. I noticed it when both Tim Bray and David Weinberger pointed to it, but the page actually dates back to April 15, 2003. ...

Steel Dynamics' Heavy Hint

Steel Dynamics' Heavy Hint 07/16/2004 11:48 AM
The American steel company initiates a dividend before releasing earnings.

Sirius Sags Under Heavy Losses

Sirius Sags Under Heavy Losses 04/21/2004 10:14 AM
TheStreet.com Apr 21 2004 2:12PM GMT

N Korea crops hit by heavy rains

N Korea crops hit by heavy rains 08/02/2004 12:59 AM
Torrential rains severely damage crops in North Korea and leave hundreds of people homeless, reports say.

Site note: heavy usage

Site note: heavy usage 06/17/2005 05:03 PM

DreamHost reports that this site is using excessive CPU time, so I've added some usage limits. When the load is too high, some content may be unavailable. I will continue to monitor the usage over the next few days to determine if any permanent limits will be needed.

Gifts for the Gay Heavy Equipment
Operator

Gifts for the Gay Heavy Equipment
Operator 04/19/2004 04:19 AM

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Kevin Scanlon's heavy industry
photography

Kevin Scanlon's heavy industry
photography 12/22/2004 01:30 AM
Xeni Jardin: Photographer Kevin Scanlon has spent the last thirty years chronicling the elegance of railroads, steel mills, and heavy industry throughout the country. He shoots steel mills -- active and silent -- West Virginia coalfields, and the dwindling railway systems in America. As the gallery intro says, "His images capture an important historical era that spans the end of the twentieth century into the new millennium." He loves this world, and chronicles it with a sense of belonging.

He's also my uncle, and he is the person who first taught me to love photography -- and appreciate the grace of machines. I've enjoyed his work since before I could walk, and I'm overjoyed to see it online now, where the rest of the world can find it more easily. I'm a biased critic, but I really love my uncle's work. He says:

"I am still a child. I have always been fascinated with big things, especially big machines. My photography has tended toward industrial subjects. In the 1970s I started photographing steel mills as a documentary project. Over the years I found that I was reacting to the mills, especially the blast furnaces, more from an emotional than a documentary viewpoint. Something about their tremendous size is both scary and attractive, and ultimately magnificent."

"Standing near an operating blast furnace is like becoming that child again watching a robot monster movie on Saturday afternoon. The mill looms above. The men working around the bottom move cautiously and wear protective clothing. There is a constant roar from the blast stoves, the unique smell of hot metal-and there is the light. Molten iron emits a glowing light that is mesmerizing. You want to reach down and scoop up a handful of this flowing strand of light."

Image: Sunrise, Edgar Thomson Works. Link to gallery home, Link to steel mill photos (these are my favorite!), link to Pennsylvania railroad photos, Link to Appalachian railroad photos.
Merry Christmas, Uncle Kev, and thank you for capturing the soul of endangered machines.

Hanjin Heavy Industries wins orders of
$1 bln

Hanjin Heavy Industries wins orders of
$1 bln 09/22/2004 09:59 AM
Maekyung Internet Sep 22 2004 1:39PM GMT

Snigel heavy industries Servlet server

Snigel heavy industries Servlet server 05/04/2004 06:18 PM
Constant development and updates

Tail-Heavy Cargo Plane Tips in L.A. (AP)

Tail-Heavy Cargo Plane Tips in L.A. (AP) 05/27/2004 09:31 PM
AP - A cargo plane being unloaded at Los Angeles International Airport tipped backward Thursday, stranding seven workers 40 feet in the air for about an hour.

Tech-heavy Nasdaq falls on first trading
day of '05

Tech-heavy Nasdaq falls on first trading
day of '05 01/03/2005 09:45 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 4 2005 12:17AM GMT
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