Over the past couple of weeks, I've noticed two rather interesting things on my daily commute to school. The first is that I've been seeing more U.S. Government plates than I ever have before, including on my trip to Washington D.C.. I've been seeing between 2 and 5 a week. Incidentally, every vehicle that I've spotted with government plates has ( Read more... )

There was another suspicious package spotted in Boston today, which resulted in the bomb squad being called in to detonate it. What was this suspicious package? A traffic counter placed there by the department of public works. Now, for the $2 million question: Will the public worker that placed this traffic counter be arrested and charged, as were ( Read more... )

A few things have come across my desk this week that I think deserve both a little discussion and the idiot icon.

First, the MPAA was caught ripping off a freeware blogging program. While the program is distributed as freeware, it is copyrighted, and the conditions that the author imposed on his software was that you have to leave the back-links and ( Read more... )

I was reading this week's Time this morning, and it had an article about a man who was applying the equations developed for string theory to music. I found the article fascinating, and they provided the URL for his website, which you can see here. I find it amazing that the more we discover about our universe and about ourselves, the more things ( Read more... )

I've been waiting all day to use that subject line, ever since I heard the news blurb this morning about Nintendo recalling the wrist straps for its Wii controllers. Yes, I do delight in Puns a tad too much ( Read more... )

So, after 5 years of rather back-breaking labor, we have finally finished the walk-out basement patio. By my best estimate, my dad and I have moved 32 tons of 21AA gravel, two tons of sand, 7 pallets of paving blocks (each weighing 20 pounds) in order to construct the new patio. That does not include the several hundred board-feet of 4x6 inch, ( Read more... )

Yeah, this is stolen. But I like the idea, and I also need a little prodding to get me to use my camera more. So, here it is ( Read more... )

What a beautiful, great day. I don't think it can top yesterday though.

I ran across this today, and thought I'd share. While this short essay is actually in direct response to another essay that critizes Wikipedia, and other online collaborative works, I think the content of this particular piece can stand on its own, and can be applied a bit more broadly.

"I have a hard time fearing that the participants of Wikipedia ( Read more... )

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