Rock Star Parking...

Nick and I watched a documentary about those fish just a few months after 911.

Barracuda: The Scotty Zaccharine Story: Part 3

"But on Tuesday night, the Finance Ministry gave the green light for the use of electronic games on condition "no financial benefit" was involved."

Finally the greek government backs down. Why is it that they clear this up AFTER raiding a bunch of people's businesses and seizing their property?

Greece lets the games begin again - Tech News - CNET.com

Wow... This IS the ultimate lego.

Star Wars: Collecting | LEGO Ultimate Collector Star Destroyer

"The Dow broke to its lowest level since October 1998 Tuesday -- and with it went investor hopes that they'd seen the worst. "

I wonder if investor experience and new information systems have replaced the panic crashing of previous decades with this slow rolling plumet. Eitherway, your farmer's almanac should tell you that rain is most likely in September. It should also tell you that October is a good month for the black plague.

Oh, BTW, the stock market is crashing....

Howard Rheingold is now running a weblog about Smart Mobs. There are some quite interesting links here.

Smart Mobs - The Next Social Revolution

"Javawalk is a two-hour walk in the city center. We start at Union Square and wind through Chinatown, Jackson Square and North Beach, the city's Italian district. While we cover the city's coffee roots (much more significant than Seattle's!) and coffeehouse culture (think beatnik), we also spend some time on San Francisco's history, interesting and arcane trivia and stories the Javagirl has collected from many years of living in the city. Truly, some things could only happen in SF! Javawalk also makes a couple of stops at North Beach cafes for a quick java jolt. Since cool weather prevails here, we need coffee year-round in the city by the Bay. Lucky us!"

Javawalk: Coffee Centric walking tour of SF

"Homeland Alert displays the current Homeland Security Advisory status for the entire country in the menu bar. Homeland Alert checks continuously for changes in this status of homeland security and updates the display as needed. [Mac OS X Only]"

Macs always have entertaining warez...

OSX Homeland Security Advisor

What they have in common is that they epitomize the elusive quality scientists call beauty. This is beauty in the classical sense; confusion and ambiguity are momentarily swept aside, and something new about nature becomes clear.

Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments

I wish I had the reply function working. In response of Dol's story I must point out:

The "independent media center" supports violent "black bloc" factions who believe they are helping the working class by throwing molotov cocktails at police officers and torching small business. They have also published a great deal of commentary in strong support of the political positions presented on the now defunct "stopamerica.org" which was operated by a Seattle Al'Quaeda member who was recently indicted and which referred to the 911 hijackers as "heros." Take everything they say and do with a truck load of salt. These people are the absolute worst of the radical left.

However, the building of infrastructure in the third world is a useful cause, and the general point of the article is taken regardless of how questionable the people involved are in general.

RE: Salon.com Technology | Building the underground computer railroad

"IFPI today announced the introduction of a new, optional logo that record companies may use to inform consumers that a CD incorporates technology to control copying."

New "hack me" logo for CDs.

IFPI announces new optional copy control symbol for CDs