Agony of the Feet

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Mother's agony over hit-and-run

Mother's agony over hit-and-run 06/18/2004 08:12 AM
The mother of a hit-and-run victim is calling for a change in the law after a driver receives a four-year sentence

Akamai's Agony

Akamai's Agony 07/29/2004 09:57 AM
The content delivery specialist reports strong earnings, but investors flee. How silly.

Beautiful Agony

Beautiful Agony 05/11/2004 12:08 PM
facettes de la petite mort No nudity, but not safe for work. I love it when eroticism is found where you might not expect it. Like, simple facial expression, for example.

Marathon agony for Radcliffe

Marathon agony for Radcliffe 08/22/2004 01:32 PM
An exhausted Paula Radcliffe - one of Team GB's biggest Olympic hopes - pulls out of the women's marathon.

Agony Column on Cory's next novel

Agony Column on Cory's next novel 01/05/2005 03:58 PM
Cory Doctorow: Rick Kleffel's "Agony Column" has a fun piece on my next book, and the thing I'm working on these days:

Now however, Doctorow has taken a very different track. His forthcoming novel, 'Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town' (Tor Books / Tom Doherty Associates ; May 1, 2005 ; $24.95) is in the first place coming to town a bit later in the year. The early draft I first read of this novel was nearly three times as long as 'Eastern Standard Tribe'. But the big ch-ch-ch-changes come as Doctorow turns to face the strangeness not of a science fictional future, but instead a fantastically rendered present. Alan, the protagonist of 'Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town', is a middle-aged man who moves into a bohemian neighborhood of Toronto. He only barely fits in with the college-roomie types next door, and that's even before the gal who lives there reveals to him that she has wings that grow back even if she cuts 'em off.

Alan is a sensitive guy, and he understands, because, we're told, his father is a mountain and his mother is a washing machine. This is clearly the type of reproduction that will not be taught in your hygiene classes. So, you know, when one of his brothers, a set of nested Russian nesting dolls, shows up on his doorstep starving because the innermost doll has disappeared, you can imagine that the whole family relationship issue is a bit more complex than usual. Especially since brother Davey, whom Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned, bent on revenge.

What's a guy like Alan to do but hook up with a cybergeek who plans to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet access? I've got to admit that under the circumstances set out by Doctorow, that seems like a more than reasonable reaction. Now as to how readers will react to the novel, well, that's a different matter entirely. I'm totally engrossed by this slight shift for Doctorow from the purely technological to the absurd and fantastic. That's because Doctorow writes with the kind of hardheaded humor and logic that makes one suspect this book will be a mind-boggling delight. And perhaps a bit of a revelation for Doctorow's audience, which could really grow to include a swathe of readers who enjoy literary fantasy.

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Reporters' log: Asia's agony

Reporters' log: Asia's agony 12/30/2004 11:17 AM
The BBC's correspondents report on the devastation caused by Sunday's tsunamis across the Indian Ocean.

Rugby: Farrell switch agony

Rugby: Farrell switch agony 03/24/2005 12:15 PM
England coach Andy Robinson lavishes praise on Andy Farrell after he completes his move to rugby union.

Family faces agony, duty (USATODAY.com)

Family faces agony, duty (USATODAY.com) 04/14/2004 07:45 AM
USATODAY.com - A pennant with three blue stars, one for each daughter in Iraq, hangs proudly on the front door of the Witmer home.

The New H.I.V. Test Offers Quicker
Results, but the Same Agony

The New H.I.V. Test Offers Quicker
Results, but the Same Agony 05/31/2004 05:31 PM
Waiting for results from the new rapid H.I.V. blood test involves less intense anxiety than waiting for a week.

Sun agony aunt in virus scorcha scoop

Sun agony aunt in virus scorcha scoop 12/12/2003 10:26 AM
Personal Computer World Dec 12 2003 9:16AM ET

Photos bring our agony into focus
(USATODAY.com)

Photos bring our agony into focus
(USATODAY.com) 05/10/2004 06:04 AM
USATODAY.com - One image can bring The Land of the Free to its knees: brutality. (Photo gallery: Agony in focus)

In Sri Lanka's Time of Agony, a Moment
of Peace

In Sri Lanka's Time of Agony, a Moment
of Peace 01/03/2005 11:54 PM
One extraordinary facet of the response to the disaster has been the cooperation between the two sides in Sri Lanka's brutal civil war.

Bare feet?

Bare feet? 06/21/2004 06:13 AM
Mindy wonders if anybody would notice if she took her shoes off at work (in Finnish). In the spirit of scientific exploration, I took my shoes and socks off to check what would happen.

So far it's been 15 minutes, and at least one person went by without saying anything (though she did wonder why I did not want to go to lunch yet.) I will keep you updated.

(Oh yeah, and my coworkers reading this weblog: it does not count if you read it from here first. So nyah.)

30 minutes: I'm feeling a slight chill. I'm trying to wiggle my toes to keep them warm.

60 minutes: Close to an hour. My feet are definitely getting cold. I wonder if there's "email yoga"? (By the way - I have about four Gmail invitations left, so if you want to test drive it, drop me some email.)

100 minutes: I'll now attempt to go to the toilet. Wish me luck.'

102 minutes: back. Nothing.

Two feet from Soros

Two feet from Soros 03/14/2005 05:40 PM
David Isenberg has photographic evidence that, unbeknownst to me, had George Soros sneezed as Ethan Zuckerman was talking at the Safer Democracy conference, I would have been mopping major philanthropic fluids from my pate. Damn! That's like taking a taxi ride and only finding out afterwards that you were sharing the cab with Mick Jagger. (Btw, that's privacy maestro Marc Rotenberg next to Soros.)...

Logging On at 30,000 Feet

Logging On at 30,000 Feet 08/07/2004 03:47 PM
In May, Lufthansa introduced the first full-feature, in-flight Internet service for travelers.

iChat AV at 35,000 Feet

iChat AV at 35,000 Feet 06/23/2004 10:29 PM
It’s a long flight from Munich to San Francisco, even non-stop. But recently two enterprising Apple product managers cut the distance dramatically with a few at-hand tools: iChat AV, iSight, 17-inch PowerBook G4, a Boeing 777 and an orbiting satellite. [Jun 23]

How to keep your sanity at 30,000 feet

How to keep your sanity at 30,000 feet 05/18/2004 08:57 PM
ZDNet May 19 2004 1:06AM GMT

MTV gets cold feet, or does it?

MTV gets cold feet, or does it? 05/27/2004 06:12 AM
This turns into one of those cases where researching a story gets weirder. The documentary Supe r Size Me centers on a documentary filmmaker's 30 day experience eating nothing but McDonalds. The film is doing amazingly well as a limited release documentary grossing more per screen than high-budget Troy. Here is the weird part, Reuters has picked up on a distributor press release claiming that MTV is refusing to air advertising for Super Size Me because the film is "disparaging to fast-food restaurants". The Reuters short seems to have quite a bit of legs. However a Hollywood Reporter article details MTVs side of the story placing the blame on the film's distributor. Is this really a case of a network getting cold feet? Or is it a case of distributor trying to pull the "too edgy for MTV" moneymaking ploy? And what is with the continually morphing Reuters clip that is just now being tossed onto doorsteps and stuffed into newsboxes across North America? (The film was previously discussed on metafilter back in January.

"347 square feet?"

"347 square feet?" 07/07/2004 09:30 AM

Yet another reason to bow at the feet of
the BBC

Yet another reason to bow at the feet of
the BBC 06/27/2004 06:21 AM
So, having spent this morning looking for, and not finding, a torrent of a zero-day screener rip of Fahrenheit 9/11 (and if that sentence isn't a sign of Life In The Future, I don't know what is), I'd almost given...

No More Cold Feet

No More Cold Feet 04/12/2005 02:48 PM
Rebelscum reader magic26 writes in: Today at my Wal-Mart, I found this great display...Only bad part there only kids size shoes....

Six Feet Under Season 3

Six Feet Under Season 3 03/11/2003 11:49 AM
Six Feet Under - Season 3...

Square Feet

Square Feet 01/19/2004 03:56 AM
[This is part of a series of posts on the home buying process I'm going thru. To see the full set, visit the house category archives.] After the place I saw the other day, I got to wondering how big my apartment really is. The place I saw was in the 1,500 square feet ballpark and just didn't feel very big. It seemed that I had quite a bit more room in my old 1,400 square foot house back in...

Made it to 14,000 feet today!

Made it to 14,000 feet today! 12/19/2002 06:40 PM
Normally, I won't post all my flying stuff here (most people who read my blog are into computer geeky stuff, not flying geeky stuff--at least I think so), but I wanted to mention that I had a blast flying this...

SpaceShipOne Rockets To 68,000 Feet

SpaceShipOne Rockets To 68,000 Feet 12/17/2003 07:14 PM
ehartwell writes "According to Space.com, Scaled Composite's SpaceShipOne flew its first rocket-powered flight today, the 100th anniversary of the Wright ...

"dignitaries and congressmen bow at his
feet"

"dignitaries and congressmen bow at his
feet" 06/12/2004 09:26 AM

I've been dragging my feet across my
back

I've been dragging my feet across my
back 08/19/2004 12:45 AM
The TMBG show on Saturday was flippin' sweet. We got there a bit early to enjoy some okonomiyaki at Izumi-ya,...

Thirty seven feet and two inches

Thirty seven feet and two inches 07/13/2004 01:39 AM
Hungry? How about a 37'2" hotdog? Vienna Beef was proud to feature this record breaker at Taste of Chicago earlier this month. More info over at MeatNews. Can't get enough hot dog action? Surely you saw Kobayashi< /a> chow down on ESPN 2. Still hungry? This ought to fill you up. (Note: Some of these links have gross pictures)

Antigravity has feet of clay

Antigravity has feet of clay 02/05/2005 09:26 PM
Thanks to Gnomie Paul Wright for this item. Space agency report is a downer for gravity-control researchers. “Could astronauts take a leaf out of H. G. Wells’s book The First Men in the Moon, and use spacecraft propelled by antigravity devices? Some see the idea as science fiction, but major space agencies take it seriously. In 2001, the European Space Agency (ESA) commissioned two scientists to evaluate schemes for gravity control. They have concluded that,…

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Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet

Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet 07/14/2004 01:25 PM

The earth isn't moving under their feet
just yet

The earth isn't moving under their feet
just yet 07/26/2004 04:05 PM

Wave to 18,000 Feet Today

Wave to 18,000 Feet Today 04/12/2005 03:44 AM
The wind started blowing over the Sierras just right today and we got the wave were were hoping for. I had an early flight in the Pegasus, which I hadn't flown in about a year. I managed to eventually thermal up to 10,500 feet after I spotted a pair of dust devils merging. I hit the bottom of the secondary wave a few times but never got up in it. So I tried pushing into the primary but ended up...

What You Don't Want in Your Salad at
30,000 Feet (Reuters)

What You Don't Want in Your Salad at
30,000 Feet (Reuters) 05/04/2004 09:22 AM
Reuters - An airline passenger was given a nasty fright when a frog with a taste for adventure stowed away in her in-flight salad, New Zealand authorities said Tuesday.

There's no need for cold feet over
energy efficiency

There's no need for cold feet over
energy efficiency 11/01/2003 09:42 AM
Chicago Tribune Nov 1 2003 9:10AM ET

Apple - Hot News - iChat AV at 35,000
Feet

Apple - Hot News - iChat AV at 35,000
Feet 06/25/2004 12:55 AM
videoconferenced with a coworker in Cupertino .. iChat AV at 35,000 Feet .. really taking off

apple.com/hotnews/articles/2004/06/ichat_at_35k
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Video conferencing at 35,000 feet with
iChat AV

Video conferencing at 35,000 feet with
iChat AV 06/24/2004 11:24 PM
Two Apple product managers recently video conferenced while one of them was aboard an Airbus plane more than 35,000 feet in the air using iChat AV, iSight, a 17-inch PowerBook and an orbiting satellite...

Google jumps feet-first into bl0gging

Google jumps feet-first into bl0gging 02/21/2003 11:35 AM
Instead, the practice of publishing Web logs has become as commonplace as e-mail. Families blog their genealogy and their travel photos. ...

Turkish Man Squirts Milk From Eye 9.2
Feet (AP)

Turkish Man Squirts Milk From Eye 9.2
Feet (AP) 09/02/2004 12:18 AM
AP - Ilker Yilmaz might just hold one of the world's most bizarre world records. The Turkish construction worker on Wednesday poured milk into his hand, loudly snorted it up his nose and squirted it 9.2 feet out of his left eye in what he hopes will be recognized as a new world record.

Rutan's SpaceshipOne Hits 200,000 Feet

Rutan's SpaceshipOne Hits 200,000 Feet 05/13/2004 03:23 PM

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