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for MB: design hell
Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg
....skinny
pop up house
… agro /industrial shelter over house, shown in print edition, very cool
Once again, you're welcome Vice President Cheney.
"I just felt like I didn't come all the way to Vancouver not to pull out the big guns," White said. "I put down the tricks I've worked so hard on. It was the savvy thing to do. Saucy. Keep it weird. My coach said at the top: Don't do this unless you're going to stomp it."wapo
Diamond is now trying to get permission and funds knock down a wall at the west end of the tunnel. He thinks there may be a perfectly preserved locomotive from the 1800s behind the wall -- or even the missing pages of Booth's diary that list the conspirators involved in Lincoln's death. Next tour, Feb 28th. Think I'll take Ryley.
obama hearts unicorns
Can't find the droid thread. But got some more info. I haven't tried it, but a colleague recommended pdanet for tethering (i.e. using the droid as a wireless broadband modem for a computer). Verizon doesn't offer that feature, but this app makes it work.
Fucking Norwegians!
Your ambush is fail!
Linda spotted this Cooper's Hawk riding out the snow storm in a London Plane Tree across the street from us.
Just another night at Bay Ridge's beloved Salty Dog...
Groundhog by Spirit
Just loaded up Netflix streaming on my PS3. Woah, video on demand. Not overwhelmed with first impression of video quality (who's afraid of Virginia Woolf). They seem to have screwed with the aspect ratio to fill the tv screen. (Adding ... slightly non-linear stretch at that.) In the current vernacular: Fail.
Compression is sub-DVD, but not too bad. AVC (aka h.264) bouncing around between 500 kbps and 2.4 Mbps.
Mr. Plimpton's Revenge
A Google Maps Essay, in Which George Plimpton Delivers My Belated and Well-Deserved Comeuppance
Worst Analogies ever written in a High School Essay
Speaking of trees and houses, the wind took down a 50' Douglas Fir yesterday. Barely missed the neighbor's house. Tree guy recommends taking out a similar sized Doug Fir before it comes down. Bummer. While they're doing that, they'll deal with a smaller one down in the ravine that's been leaning against other trees since it came down in late season storm last year.
Alex, do you think this a real picture of an owl in flight? Pretty cool if so.
from Joe Dressner:
We are doing a benefit for Haiti this Saturday at Chambers Street from 4 pm.
We are going to be tasting wines from our portfolio, Kermits, Skurniks, Bowler and Polaner.
We're asking for a $10.00 minimum contribution to Partners in Health -- www.pih.org
Chambers, Polaner and Louis/Dressner will match donations.
This has all been called together hastily but the circumstances require moving quickly.