Friday, July 04, 2003


Links for a very hot day


  • Happy Independence Day, my fellow ‘Merkins…
  • A couple of links courtesy of one of my favorite weblogs, Jeremy Hedley’s Antipixel. Looking over to my right, I find that for some reason, I’ve never listed him in my link sidebar. Corrected.
    • A truly fascinating screensaver for OS X, called 20th Century Voyage (English, Japanese) 20th century events, quotations, and milestones float serenely past and through each other, as if painted on pale gray-green sheets of translucent glass, while a globe slowly rotates beneath them. This description hardly does it justice, though. It’s a great example of someone taking advantage of the power of Quartz and using it to so something aesthetically breathtaking and intellectually worthwhile.
    • The Quiet American presents:
      One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else.
      The sounds are beguiling, and descriptions are just as wonderful.
  • More proof that, when it comes to their vehicles, a lot of folks are just stone cold freaks.
  • via the BBC

    The Pakistani city of Lahore has banned kite flying for three months after a number of people were killed by sharpened strings.

    …

    At least a dozen people have had their throats cut over the past year by strings that are either metallic or coated with abrasive materials.

    (link)

  • via MSNBC

    Look, sea monster!

    SANTIAGO, Chile, July 2 —  A huge, gelatinous sea creature found washed up on Chile’s coast has stumped scientists, who have sent samples to a specialist in France for help in identifying the mystery specimen. The blob was mistaken for a beached whale when first reported last week, but experts who went to see it said the 40-foot-long mass of decomposing lumpy gray flesh apparently was an invertebrate.

    (link)

  • The press is catching onto the huge racket being run by inkjet printer manufacturers.

    Consumers are getting a raw deal when it comes to the ink used in printers, according to research by Which? magazine.

    With the top brand names costing more than vintage champagne, it is an unnecessary waste that people can ill afford, said the campaigning magazine.


:: Dave Walker 18:28 (EST/EDT) [+]

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"Why did you spend so much time parked in that fellow's car last night?" demanded the irate mother. "I could hear the giggling and squealing for a good half hour." "But, Mom," answered her daughter, "if a fellow takes you to the movies you ought to at least kiss him good night." "I thought you went to the Stork Club?" countered the mother. "We did."