Month: May 2004

  • Still alive.

    Yes – I’m still alive – I know I haven’t updated in over a week! The conference I’m going to in Orlando next week said they’d include a demo CD of my blogging class if I brought enough copies so I’ve got a CD factory in the apartment. Only 50 more to go! Burn baby […]

  • Tongue-Controlled Game Boy

    Simmunity Corporation has created an interface to control a Game Boy Advance with only a tongue! Young quadriplegics are using it to play their favorite games. I think that this is too cool. (via Slashdot)

  • Marriage in Mass.

    Eyewitness reports on the historic gay marriage event in Massachusetts: I think the rice is out of my hair Trip Report: Cambridge Gay Marriage

  • Secret Agent

    Been enjoying this audio stream quite a bit: Secret Agent It mixes lounge and Bond film samples and lots of other retro-ish flavorings.

  • Anti-Virus Disables HIV

    The therapy itself is a virus. The Lawrence professors created a virus altered to latch onto HIV and mute its ability to become AIDS. They’ve tested the theory in a computer model and in cells in a dish. The results have been promising, and if they continue in that vein, the researchers could begin animal […]

  • Vonnegut Goes ‘Cold Turkey'

    Leave it to an octogenarian to sum it up wholly and succinctly: Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

  • Vonnegut Goes ‘Cold Turkey'

    Leave it to an octogenarian to sum it up wholly and succinctly: Here?s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

  • Videotape of Al-Queda Beheading American Contractor

    Update: If you are looking for discussion regarding the June 2004 murder of Paul Johnson please click here. The circle completes itself for another repetition: The video showed five men wearing headscarves and black ski masks, standing over a bound man in an orange jumpsuit – similar to a prisoner’s uniform – who identified himself […]

  • Reality Jamming

    Improv Everywhere took over their local Starbucks. They repeated the same set of events and interactions repeatedly for over an hour. I love this! Bystander: Here it comes, here it comes! Actress: (rushing out): I can’t believe you’re doing this. Actor: Come back … come back! Katie! (exits) Bystander: See, I told you! “Come back, […]

  • Racism Alert

    Ron just called from Toronto – he’s watching the hearings about the prisoner abuse and keyed me into the subtle condescending racism towards Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba – the high-ranking Filipino who wrote the damning report that got leaked. Notice how they treat Taguba like he’s lucky to be an American and they gush […]