Friday, April 15, 2005
- Remember those hand-gesture-controlled virtual graphic displays Anderton (Tom Cruise) used in Minority Report? PC World discussed the possibility of such displays in 2002, and now New Scientist reports that Raytheon Corporation has developed a similar hands-off computer interface for the U.S. military. These will reportedly allow users greater control over large quanitities of information than keyboards and mice; I think these would be fantastic for CGI graphics and musical performance too, no? Would carpal tunnel syndrome still be a problem?
Pres. George W. Bush, VP Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld now have slime mold beetles named after them: "The monikers: Agathidium bushi Miller and Wheeler, Agathidium cheneyi Miller and Wheeler, and Agathidium rumsfeldi Miller and Wheeler."Naming the beetles after Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld was intended to pay homage to them, said [entomologist Quentin] Wheeler, who taught at Cornell University for 24 years and now is with the Natural History Museum in London.
Just like...slime mold beetles?
"We admire these leaders as fellow citizens who have the courage of their convictions and are willing to do the very difficult and unpopular work of living up to principles of freedom and democracy rather than accepting the expedient or popular," he said.- Sweet Thunder's Random Tape Findings each week showcases bizarre moments found on old cassettes, such as "Music Class '79/Danger Zone":
This tape is all about Tod, an adolescent, in the the late 70's/mid 80's. Side A features an enthusiastic music teacher recording a lesson for Tod. The flip side has Tod making fart sounds into the recorder and fighting with a friend or younger brother. At one point, someone breaks into a rendition of "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins.
- Today's post of note, with an I-can't-believe-I'm-reading-this Tom DeLay quote from the Washington Times: "Rough Night in Jericho," at Wither in the Light
- Useful advice on how to recover data from scratched CD's, from regnyouth texts; I recommend digging deeply into this site - there's a lot, a lot of good stuff here. I will say no more.
- In the spirit of spring and Tax Day, may we present you with a link to HTTP In Da House, a random poem generator that transforms webpage code into rap verse; rhyming, natch, with repeated submissions generating entirely different "poems." [via Kottke] Here's a sample of today's farkleberries, automatically digested:
HTTP in tha House
"Midwest id moray." What can I say...w00t w00t.
lyrics by: http://farkleberries.blogspot.com
him, especially a woman
especially a glen
br a href http bellis
activity for felis
gif border a br br
http farkleberries jar
counter js site s gobbler
com topstories cobbler
matches from a
netring ring midwest id moray
are you
the sexual woo
http www
span reg req li w
which a final constituent is
self a div div s
FARKLEBERRIES DOT BLOGSPOT DOT COM IN THA HOUSE
FARKLEBERRIES DOT BLOGSPOT DOT COM IN THA HOUSE - Before I forget: Happy Tax Day.
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