A talented rider aboard a scooter dragging parts at high speed. You have to wait for the dismount at the end.
Monday Mar 28, 2005
A talented rider aboard a scooter dragging parts at high speed. You have to wait for the dismount at the end.
Wednesday Mar 23, 2005
This isn't a new exploit, but Slashdot today mentions millions of pages are being Google Hijacked using the 302 redirect exploit and that this could have catastrophic effects for the websites involved. I have no sympathy for whoever relies on Google to drive new revenue or are otherwise reliant on them. Surely they've heard of "single points of failure"??
Diversity is good.
Tuesday Mar 22, 2005
Those crazy innovative Japanese of WWII, with their balloon bombs and their 400 ft long subs found off the shores of Hawaii carrying diseased animals to be dropped on the unsuspecting populous:
An I-400 and I-401 were captured at sea a week after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Their mission -- which was never completed -- reportedly was to use the aircraft to drop rats and insects infected with bubonic plague, cholera, typhus and other diseases on U.S. cities. When the bacteriological bombs could not be prepared in time, the mission was reportedly changed to bomb the Panama Canal.
What other shenanigans were the Axis powers up to?
Thursday Mar 17, 2005
Wednesday Mar 16, 2005
Now here's a car I really want, the Lexus Lf-A. Beats the hassle of importing a Supra or Skyline. At 500HP, its the highest horsepower rating from any Japanese car company since they’ve abandoned a decades old gentleman’s agreement to limit horsepower to 280 ps (roughly 275 hp). One small problem- if Lexus decides to produce a car based on the LF-A, it would be priced around $125,000. Bah! Here's to hoping there's some trickle-down technology from this car that makes it to the Toyota line at a more affordable price.
C'mon Acura/Honda! The NSX is a decade old! Surely you've got something under wraps?
Thursday Mar 10, 2005
Via Roy, an interesting read on acquiring a freshly expired domain name. Basically you have no chance of securing a decent expired domain without these power brokers, kinda like getting in on the typical IPO.
And to think 6-7 years ago, I didn't register a few domains because I thought $35/year was too much to pay Network Solutions for a simple row of bits in a big Table in the Sky. If I tried to pull what Mike Davidson did (and pay $369 in the process), that would have secured one domain name for a solid decade. Sheesh.
Wednesday Mar 09, 2005
I haven't used my blog as a marketing tool to date, even for Sun products- but this device has such universal appeal I thought I'd break the rule this time. The Squeezebox 2 from Slim Devices is out. Here are the new features:
- True 802.11g wireless - Lossless compression (FLAC) support - Audiophile-quality digital and analog outputs - Enormous audio buffer - Grayscale display with more than twice the resolution - Pure-software audio decoding on a screaming fast processor - Bridging, cross-fading, visualizers, and more... Also, SlimServer 6.0b1 is now available for download. SlimServer 6 is faster, smaller, and supports the new capabilities of Squeezebox2.
I don't own one myself (yet), but the feature list keeps getting better and better...
Friday Mar 04, 2005
After a conversation with my bro about how crappy I thought my hand-me-down Look pedals are (*really* hard to clip out of even with new cleats, and the slippery plastic cleat nearly dumped me on my arse multiple times when I was walking around off the bike), he finally convinced me to switch to a more modern pedal- Speedplay's X/2, aka lolipops. My knees aren't as forgiving as they used to be, so the fact that they have a ton of float helped clinch the deal.
The weather in the bay area has been wet lately, and its wet again tonight- so I had to settle to clipping into them in the garage a few times while stationary... so far so good. I'm sure the float will take some time to get used to, but I can tell it'll be an improvement regardless. Curious as to how much rotational mass I was saving by leap-frogging a whole decade in pedal design, I busted out my recently aquired triple beam. The Speedplays weighed a mere 97g each, the Looks 228g each- or exactly 1 friggin pound per pair! Yowsa. Any physics gurus out there who can tell me how much extra energy it took to rotate an extra 1/2 lb at 100 RPM over 20 miles?
Thursday Mar 03, 2005
By way of Roy today, an excellent short article on Garry Winogrand and street photography, my favorite kind. Taking photos of random people on the streets reminds me a lot of hunting: you have to be patient, alert, and constantly hover over the shutter release. I've never tried being as bold as some of these masters suggest- just walking up to people, nod or smile, then snap their photo. If you're not awkward and you look like you know what you're doing, it seems people will just assume you do and mostly ignore you.
I wonder if having a professional looking camera would aid or hinder in that regard? People might be annoyed if you disrupt them with a point-and-shoot like an Elph, but assume you know what you're doing with something like a SLR... but on the flip side, I know people have been intimidated when I bust out my D70 DSLR- like the giant lens is going to catch their every flaw. Hmmm... time to build that pinhole camera and go incognito...
Wednesday Mar 02, 2005
What makes National Lampoon's un-PC Gallery of Children's Literature so freaking hilarious is how well they've matched up the images with the titles, in the same seamless fashion as the mash-up video clip Super Friends Meets Office Space.
Tuesday Mar 01, 2005
I think I would have opted to make a road bike rather than mountain from this material, given the sudden violent forces that are more likely to occur on the trail- but either way, Brano Meres in Slovakia gets mad style points.
