The true purpose for the BellSouth building revealed!!

Space Monster: Destroy Nashville

This alarm clock was covered on MemeStreams back when it was a prototype. Now its a product you can order!

The alarm clock that runs away and hides when you don't wake up. Clocky gives you one chance to get up. But if you snooze, Clocky will jump off of your nightstand and wheel around your room looking for a place to hide. Clocky is kind of like a misbehaving pet, only he will get up at the right time.

I might have to buy one of these. I often move my alarm clock to different places in my bedroom to break wake-up snooze-hitting habits. This is also small enough to toss into a suitcase when traveling.

Clocky is now available for sale!

The complaint, available here as a PDF, charges Rombom with obstruction of justice and with witness tampering, alleging that in April 2006 Rombom impersonated a federal investigator at the request of a client who had hired him to locate a government informant who was central to the client's money-laundering indictment in 2003.

The charges have nothing to do with HOPE, and sound rather serious, in fact.

FBI Charges HOPE Speaker with Witness Tampering, Obstructing Justice - Security Fix

] Spring Commencement Shifts to Georgia Dome
] May 7, 2005 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
] Georgia Dome
]
] The 221st Commencement of the Georgia Institute of
] Technology will take place Saturday, May 7, 2005 at
] 9:00AM. This spring commencement will be held at the
] Georgia Dome in Downtown Atlanta. It will include both
] graduate and undergraduate students.

] Woo-hoo! Acidus and I are finally get out of this hellhole!

Congrats!!

Georgia Institute of Technology :: Campus Calendar & Events

] NewsKnowledge and The Hive Group have joined forces to
] bring you News Maps, visual maps of the NewsIsFree
] headline database. News Maps allow you to quickly scan
] dozens of news articles and instantly understand what's
] being reported all over the world.
]
] Each square in the News Map is an article. You can obtain
] additional detail on each article by moving your mouse
] over it. You can read an article by clicking on it.
]
] The Hive Group's Honeycomb algorithm organizes news
] headlines by source. Size and Color information indicate
] article age and popularity (described below). You can
] easily filter and rearrange you results to view articles
] that meet certain criteria, or that contain certain text.

Very cool!

NewsIsFree: NewsMaps - in collaboration with The Hive Group

Someone predicts that Microsoft will invent MemeStreams in 2008 and then it will be replaced by Google/Amazon in 2010. Very news centric in nature (as is MemeStreams), it ignores that much of the mass media consists of entertainment like movies and TV aside from mentioning Tivo. That's fine, I enjoy a good tale of the future, and this one points at in very obvious direction that most are oblivious of. Apparently some of the most significant technological innovations of the future will be branding, at least that's what I'm thinking after staring at company logos for eight minutes while being told a story.

"In 2005 people realized MemeStreams had already been there since 2001, it just didn't have the resources of Google or MSN. Wired wrote a news article, but the world continued talking about RSS feeds and BitTorrent."

EPIC 2014

Heres a bunch of fun reading if you have a lot of free time! US Military field manuals. They recently published this one:

] FMI 3-07.22. Counterinsurgency Operations 1 October 2004
] (3 MB PDF file)

This book covers new tactics being employed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Other interesting books include:

] # FM 24-18. Tactical Single-Channel Radio Communications
] Techniques. 30 September 1987.
] # FM 24-33. Communications Techniques: Electronic
] Counter-Countermeasures. 17 July 1990.
] # (C)FM 32-20 Electronic Warfare (EW) (U)
] # (C)FM 32-30 Electronic Warfare, Tactics of Defense
] # FM 33-1 Psychological Operations August 1979
] # FM 34-1, Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Operations
] 27 September 1994. [superseded by FM 2-0]

Army Intelligence and Security Doctrine

Decius wrote:
] You are about to be punched in the stomach. That sinking
] feeling is your heart wondering which direction the swing is
] going to come from.

I choose to paraphrase. "That sinking feeling in your stomach is your heart deciding which direction the swing is coming from."

I've been playing games of pool all night deciding which way the election will go. Stripes have been the Democrats, Solids have been the Republicans. You will hear the results tomorrow.

RE: Fear

] ...because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, "At
] times, to be silent is to lie."
]
] ...One actually has to be something of a specialist, today,
] to even begin to grasp quite how fantastically, how
] baroquely and at once brutally fucked the situation of
] the United States has since been made to be.

Gibson blogging again is likely a sign he has finished writing his next novel.

I get the feeling that Win Pollard's character is going to be developed more..

William Gibson is blogging again...

] The Quantum Sleeper Unit is a high-level security system
] designed for maximum protection in various hostile
] environments.

This is positively fucked up. Intruders in your home? House burning down? Biological warfare? Red Dawn? Just press a button and your bed becomes a sealed bulletproof coffin complete with entertainment system, rebreather, and optional offensive weapons systems. Sit happy and dry in your little pine box while you watch the cataclysm unfold through your one way view port.

If you really feel like you need this product I suggest that you:
A. Go back on your meds.
B. Just give the mob the money you owe them.
C. Stop watching television.
D. Move to Alaska.
E. All of the above.

Quantum Sleeper