Hidden Landmarks, Weird Places in Meatspace

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Weird - really really weird - to see
Belle de Jour in a top ten of most
powerful people in UK New Media.
Slightly crack-fueled dreaming for that
particular journo tonight, I fear

Weird - really really weird - to see
Belle de Jour in a top ten of most
powerful people in UK New Media.
Slightly crack-fueled dreaming for that
particular journo tonight, I fear 07/13/2004 08:23 AM
at least according to the woefully misinformed

media.guardian.co.uk/top100_2004/index/0,14656,1247481,0 0.html
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Meatspace

Meatspace 12/02/2003 12:40 AM
'Tis the season for industry events, fa-la-la... I'm a few months early for South by Southwest, but before we get to that: WestCiv builds the popular StyleMaster CSS Editor and publishes the House of Style. WestCiv is hosting a...

Lost in Meatspace

Lost in Meatspace 12/29/2003 11:43 PM
Rumors of my velocitation are true. For reasons having to do with bread and bread, this correspondent has lately become a commuting, buttoned-down member of Cheever's professional archetype. Not precisely a salaryman, mind you, just a consultant on a gig that takes all his energy. It features slit skirts on city streets, glorious validation, real life and cash, and comes on the heels of a watershed. My grandfather died. He was my giant. Everything I'm worth is traceable to him....

Immersive Quake superimposed over
meatspace

Immersive Quake superimposed over
meatspace 12/16/2003 11:13 AM
Augmented Reality Quake is an Australian academic project to integrate the open-source Quake code with VR goggles and plastic guns. Basically, you put on a headset and the game superimposes enemy characters, geographic elements, and power-ups over your field of vision, so that as you run around the parking lot or football field, you play a Quake that only you can see. Check out the movies from the project. Link (Thanks, Rooter!)

Make hidden apps visibly hidden in the
Dock

Make hidden apps visibly hidden in the
Dock 10/30/2003 11:31 AM
This hint has worked fine since 10.0, so I was surprised that it wasn't on this site. You can make the items in your dock slightly transparent when they are hidden, so you have a visual cue that they aren't active. Just go in...

SimCity 4 Landmarks add-on released

SimCity 4 Landmarks add-on released 12/10/2003 12:43 PM
Aspyr today released the SimCity 4 Landmarks add-on, which lets you add notable, real-world architecture to your cities in the popular simulation game...

Aspyr offers SimCity 4 Landmarks add-on

Aspyr offers SimCity 4 Landmarks add-on 12/10/2003 02:00 PM
Aspyr Media Inc. on Wednesday offered SimCity 4 users a free add-on to help them get more out of their copies of the popular city-building strategy game. SimCity 4 Landmarks is available for download from Macgamefiles. com, Ext remeSims and MacUpdate.

Satellite radio hits landmarks

Satellite radio hits landmarks 04/05/2005 02:44 PM
Leading maker of receivers reports 5 million sold, around the same time the combined subscriber roster for XM and Sirius hits 5 million.

Geometric Mapping and National Landmarks

Geometric Mapping and National Landmarks 09/02/2004 12:20 PM

U.S. disaster plans include cloned icons: An older article, but still an interesting look at the science of geometric mapping and how it's being used to ensure we can rebuild historical structures if they're destroyed.

The bottom line: Should disaster strike, and a political decision be made to rebuild, exact replicas — or architectural clones — could be constructed fairly quickly. How do you replicate the 225-ton, 305-foot Lady Liberty? The 288-foot Capitol dome? The 60-foot busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt?

Deploying high-powered, laser-scanning technology to record the landmarks from every angle, the feds have been creating three-dimensional digital models of their complex exterior features. They also have scanned part of the ornate interior of the Capitol.

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Me TV: Time line of landmarks in
television history

Me TV: Time line of landmarks in
television history 04/11/2005 06:17 AM

Backcountry Conservative: Pakistani Man
Arrested Videotaping Landmarks

Backcountry Conservative: Pakistani Man
Arrested Videotaping Landmarks 08/10/2004 04:15 PM
Backcountry Conservative .. Just One Minute .. has the story

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That Was Weird...

That Was Weird... 07/17/2004 04:40 PM
I just posted a new item, and suddenly there were 22 comments under it -- all from another posting from more than a week ago. I deleted them, but this is just bizarre.

Weird

Weird 11/02/2003 04:18 PM

Reading about it being 71 degrees for the NYC Marathon, I was about to go running today (I did the LA marathon in 1997 and was hoping to do one next year) but was surprised to find the rain just turned to snow and is piling up on the roof and streets. New York? 70 and partly sunny. Oregon? snowing.

Weird Cats

Weird Cats 05/20/2004 01:13 AM
Feline medical curiosities. Polydactyly, conjoined-kitty-fu, "freaks of face," cleft palates, and plain old huge. (Not safe for after lunch).

Weird Swing Bug

Weird Swing Bug 06/22/2004 11:54 PM
We ran into a weird issue with Swing today at work. The small class below reproduces this. 1 import javax.swing.*; 2 import javax.swing.event.TreeModelEvent; 3 import javax.swing.event.TreeModelListener; 4 import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode; 5 import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel; 6 7 public class Blah extends JFrame implements TreeModelListener { 8 9 private JTree tree; 10 11 public Blah() { 12 setSize(150, 150); 13 setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); 14 DefaultMutableTreeNode root... (294 words)

The Weird Als of Finland

The Weird Als of Finland 06/30/2004 06:07 PM

Finland has a dance called the humppa, but it's spoken of with the same disdain that disco gets in the US these days. It's for the geezers. I have been told it is something like the German polka only without the lederhosen, which is good since I'm half German and, after a few Straßenfests where people jump around in lederhosen with buckets of beer in their hands barely able to stand up, much less dance, the costumes just don't really add much to the overall aesthetic. I had a biology professor, a Bavarian who was really into opera singing, show up for a lecture in lederhosen and dance a polka for us while we sat there speechless. Everyone thought he was nuts, but I just thought he was hopelessly homesick and I couldn't imagine him doing that dance without the full costume in his usually disheveled professor uniform. I have been spared, so far, the spectacle of drunk Finns hopping around much like drunk Germans to goofy music. So far.

While we were off at the lake for Juhannus, my ear picked up something that sounded a lot like Viva Las Vegas but....not. I was informed that it was a group called Eläkeläiset [the pensioners] who are the humppa song gods in Finland and, well, everywhere else people like to humppa. I fried a few neurons just thinking about an Elvis tune done in humpaa/polka time. I can't describe their music except to say that they are the Weird Al Yankovics of Finland. Sample the Peljätty Humppa [2.2mb] and try to guess the song they are covering and be very, very afraid. It's like Ethyl Merman singing a disco version of No Business like Show Business [yes, she really did...], as it's so bad that it transcends the badness and is irresistibly brilliant. I must have more of their music. The guys actually have a regular band, Kumikameli, but I can't really tell the difference between the samples on that web site and the humppa music so it may be just a nuance only a Finn can hear. :) The lyrics are very clever and, unsurprisingly, the music is popular with the polka loving Germans. There even seems to be an OpenBSD-Humppa connection which does help explain a few things about OpenBSD. Weird Al has done a polka album so perhaps it is time he teamed up with Eläkeläiset and did a humppa album. Disturbing thought. *zot* There went another neuron.

Weird science

Weird science 12/31/2004 04:43 PM
It didn't take long for politicized debate to get roiling over the nature of the tsunami disaster -- some of it rather murky. Steven Milloy of the Cato Institute and Junk Science.com is now blasting environmentalists for "shameless exploitation" as they "surf the tsunami tragedy" in order to bring attention to the problem of global warming. Milloy wants to give the impression that he's navigating through truer waters, but clearly he's looking to ride the wave in a direction of his own:

Weird Presents Anyone?

Weird Presents Anyone? 12/25/2003 04:20 PM

News of the Weird... NOT!

News of the Weird... NOT! 01/02/2005 09:23 PM
Though not the web institution of Jim Romenesko's Obscure Store or as overexposed as Dave Barry's Blog, Chuck Shepherd's NEWS of the WEIRD is a fairly good source for news stories that are... well... WEIRD. And Chuck's the only one who has collected a list of stories that "now occur with such frequency" that they are NO LONGER WEIRD. Quite a resource for judging how our society has changed in the last umpteen years.

In semi-related news, Barry is semi-retiring his weekly column, but we still have AutoDave, the automated Dave Barry column generator. Still, I suspect he did it just to upstage Dan Gillmor's farewell column, as he gives up the old-media columnar life in favor of "Grassroots Journalism".
To Dave Berry, 'Grassroots Journalism' is writing about the brown patch in your lawn directly over the septic tank.

Weird-o SMS behaviour

Weird-o SMS behaviour 02/05/2005 09:13 PM
Outi sent me yesterday a sweet text message about mice. True to the nature of these beasts, that SMS started multiplying: for some reason, T-Mobile (yes, I'm in Germany) has decided to deliver that message to me eleven times within the past 24 hours. Even though it has been sent only once.

It seems that every SMS sent from Finland is replaced by this same SMS message - so if you've tried to contact me, I have only seen a message about a mouse from Outi. Sorry. You gotta try and resend, if you had anything to say (or just email me).

Weirdosity++.

weird referer

weird referer 01/07/2004 04:31 PM

Recently (but I just noticed it today) I started getting HTTP referers that are a variation of the following: "XXXX:+++++++++++++++++++++++" (the number of plus signs varies). A google search with appropriate terms quickly turned up discussions like this one that suggest that the referer is someone using an anonymizer or internet security product of some kind. Without that information it smells like an attempt at an exploit of some kind... but of what kind (and if so, I've never heard of it)?

Anyone knows about this? Has anyone else seen it? I'm curious. :)

Oh the Places RSS Will Go

Oh the Places RSS Will Go 05/31/2004 11:36 PM

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Top Tip: W2K weird popups and blocks!

Top Tip: W2K weird popups and blocks! 02/17/2004 01:15 PM
I just reinstalled W2K and it all seems to be working just dandy, but I get about 100 of these pop ups per day saying 'WARNING: This message confirms your computer is vulnerable to attacks' and 'see www.MessageHackShield.com to fix this' or some site like that (there are several different ones as well as several different sized popups).

Weird sticker on my DSL modem

Weird sticker on my DSL modem 07/12/2004 07:15 PM
I just got my Yahoo! DSL self-install kit in the mail, and the modem has a red sticker on it that reads:

"ATTENTION To maximize connection speed, leave this modem on for 10 days after DSL installation is complete. Please Note: You can use your DSL service during this time. It is not necessary to leave your computer on, only the modem."

Why do I have to leave the modem on for 10 days? Is something inside it fermenting? Email me if you know.

Found, one weird buoy

Found, one weird buoy 01/05/2005 06:31 AM
David Pescovitz: This giant buoy washed ashore in Cocoa Beach, Florida and nobody has any clue where it came from or who it belongs to. From Florida Today:

"There's no identifying marks on it, so I don't know where it came from," said Jeff Galliher, petty officer with the U.S. Coast Guard at Port Canaveral. "It's just a buoy base with a tower coming out of it."

Link (via Fark)

Message from Weird Al Yankovic

Message from Weird Al Yankovic 04/14/2004 03:48 PM
Comedian/musician "Weird Al" Yankovic lost both his mother and father this weekend in an accident involving carbon monoxide poisoning. He's posted a message on his website expressing thanks to fans for their kindness and support in his time of need, and he corrects errors in media coverage on the tragedy. Condolences, and much admiration and respect to Al and his family. Link

six apart people have weird names

six apart people have weird names 08/18/2004 02:47 AM
makes me feel right at home

Weird and wonderful - the year's top ten

Weird and wonderful - the year's top ten 01/06/2005 09:48 PM
Manchester Online Jan 7 2005 1:48AM GMT

Weird Financial News

Weird Financial News 01/16/2004 11:05 AM
Did you know West Virginia was auctioned off?

Weird Science & Bad Photoshopping

Weird Science & Bad Photoshopping 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
Top 10 impossible inventions that allegedly work. Includes such conspiracy-nut favorites as a system for sending power wirelessly, an anti-gravity device, the cloudbuster and an electronic telepathy device. [Snagged from Disinformat ion.]

Weird color problem

Weird color problem 01/05/2005 10:26 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: (Click thumbnail for enlargement.) Anyone know why the body copy shows in gold in IE on OS X? It seems fine on Safari and Firefox. Please email me if you know the answer. (Also, thanks to everyone for your great design suggestions. As you can see, I've incorporated quite a few of them.)

Weird 'net problem

Weird 'net problem 11/26/2002 07:26 PM
My Internet connection went down for a little while, and when it came back up, all outgoing SMTP and WWW...

Weird Fields winners

Weird Fields winners 04/04/2005 01:18 PM
David Pescovitz: Undergrad Dan Yuan's image here was first runner-up in MIT's annual Weird Fields contest where students generate psychedelic visualizations of vector fields. (Last year's winner here.) The patterns in Yuan's visualization remind me of the background of a Tim Biskup painting.

To help students understand electromagnetic force fields, Professor of Physics John Belcher and colleagues at the MIT Center for Educational Computer Initiatives developed a computer applet into which students put the mathematical expressions that describe a given field. "It then pops out a visual representation of what the field looks like," he said.

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UPDATE: As the MIT press release and BB reader Tom Zeller point out, the Weird Fields visualizations bear a striking resemblance to sections of Gustav Klimt paintings. Link

Friends in the right places

Friends in the right places 06/22/2005 02:04 AM
How the conservative media is pushing "The Truth About Hillary."

Places Online

Places Online 01/25/2004 04:14 PM
Places Online
http://www.placesonline.org

The Association of American Geographers has gathered an array of websites that depict environments, people and life around the world. There is a high standard for inclusion in the site: the sites must be image and content heavy, and must be "primary" sites, as opposed to sites that only direct users to a list of links. Places Online is searchable, and also can be navigated by using an interactive map; the first level is by region/continent and the second level is broken down into countries and cities. Most sites are native to the region that is being explored, thereby giving a local flavor and perspective on the locales, events and experiences displayed.

These are the best places to work in IT

These are the best places to work in IT 02/10/2004 01:33 PM
Computer Weekly Feb 10 2004 5:22PM GMT

Life in odd places

Life in odd places 09/25/2004 01:27 AM
Usatoday.com - Thu Sep 23, 08:20 pm GMT

Trading places

Trading places 04/04/2005 06:46 AM
USA Today Apr 4 2005 10:53AM GMT

when faraway places f*ck up NYC

when faraway places f*ck up NYC 08/09/2004 08:08 PM
Boom! Forget terror attacks, the real reason for an orange alert in NYC has to do with ... rocks. I'll bet you've never heard of Cumbr e Vieja. In fact, if the first hit on a google s earch for something is a PDF, you know it's obscure. (It's a volcano in the Canaries). If it erupts, it'll spell the end for Washington, New York and Boston (and parts of Europe will get a bit wet.) Hoo!

Now, short of hoping it will go away, there's nothing you can do, because it will take 35 million years to dismantle the dangerous bits of rock. Instead, the boffins are talking about evacuating the east coast. Yet more obscure places you wish you could forget menacing the future of the US, hey?
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