"I talked to the own of Cafe Coco today, and we have come to an agreement concerning a barter - to work for food. He has several outdoor tables that are in disrepair, and are in need of new and more durable tops. So, I will be covering them with mosaic tile. It's a chance for me to be a little creative, as well as earn more of my keep. "

There are some interesting thoughts in here about the difficulty of working out of homelessness, panhandling, etc..

The Homeless Guy: Blog run by Nashville area homeless guy

"Last year," I told him, "I picked up a woman in labor who had three contractions in 12 minutes in my cab. We made it to the emergency room just in time. Her husband told me they'd been calling for over an hour. You had to wait only 40 minutes."

Why Is It So Hard to Get a Cab in San Francisco?

This is a famous picture. You've seen it before. It is the inauguration of LBJ aboard Air Force One immediately after JFK was shot. The man kneeling in the back left just above the head of the woman taking the oath is Jack Valenti. Just FYI.

An interesting picture

Since no deal has been announced, HR 5469 is back on the floor and will be voted on THIS MONDAY."

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Darwin recently recommended what is probably my favorite historical quote. A more complete version of which is provided here, along with some other interesting thoughts on the matter.

"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."

Thomas Jefferson on 'Intellectual Property'

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"It's the ZipZaps micro RC car-it's fast and it looks like the full-size Porsche-only it's pocket-sized! Customize it with hub caps and other accessories. Tune it with optional performance upgrade kits, faster motors, gears and suspensions! It's easy! Comes with all the factory parts, tools and instructions for quick assembly. Then, put it on the compact charger for about a minute and zoom away! "

This thing is very interesting. Its a matchbox sized RC car:

Needs:
1. A more powerful radio. (Difficulty: Easy)
2. An FM wireless transmitter. (Difficulty: Easy)
3. A way to make it less noisy. (Difficulty: Medium/Hard)

Add these three items and you have a very entertaining remote surveillance tool.

Matchbox sized remote control car

"Astronomers have fashioned an Earth-sized virtual radio telescope that can distinguish celestial features 3,000 times smaller than the those observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The device, which uses atomic clocks and a custom supercomputer to link together radio dishes on three continents, is the most powerful radio observatory ever, according to scientists.
"The resolution achieved by this telescope is the equivalent of sitting in New York and being able to see the dimples on a golf ball in Los Angeles," astronomer Sheperd Doeleman said this week. "

I don't know why amateurs don't do this using C-band dishes and distributed computing.

CNN.com - New telescope as big as Earth itself - Oct. 2, 2002

Turkish officials said they did not know whether the uranium was refined weapons-grade material or naturally occurring uranium, which would have to be refined before it could be used in a weapon. However, they said they did not believe the material posed a radiation danger. "

Turkeys. CNN clearly said "weapons grade" yesterday, next to a big ole image of a radiation symbol on their front page. Make sure you check this clarification. At least they didn't burry it.

US media overblows another story.

"According to Ishikawa, we'll see major arrests in October of people who have been illegally (and flagrantly) sharing movies. With the evidence already gathered, the game is afoot, meaning this week is too late to stop sharing those movies and expect to get away with it. This might be a good time to get a lawyer. "

Interesting article about a company that investigates internet crimes. The guy obviously isn't too bright. He preannounces a large raid on movie priates here. If this occurs I think it will be the first time the cops have gone after people specifically for P2P file sharing. I'm sure the cops aren't too happy that the internet has been tipped off. And then one wonders, what if Ishikawa isn't as stupid as he sounds...

BayTCP, the copyright cops