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Your week in Quickies
Oct 03 2005, 03:07 EDT [updated Oct 09 2005, 10:34 EDT]
American Science Surplus
[teddied]
Sep 29 2005, 12:19 EDT
Everything you could need for your science fair project.
[bobsalive]
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Declaration of Ownership
Sep 30 2005, 09:57 EDT [updated Sep 30 2005, 10:13 EDT]
I have always wanted to be the first one to coin a phrase or word that everyone uses. Like the media wanting to be the first to name a generation. Which never works.
So after a discussion last night about a friend of mine, we came up with a brand new w
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My Rant...
Sep 29 2005, 09:52 EDT
So way back at the end of July we had a huge lightning storm in DC. It basically hovered over my area for about an hour. Scared the crap out of the dog. (not literally) The storm knocked our my phone line and worst of all killed the modem on my Tivo. It w
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It's the end of the month
Sep 27 2005, 23:15 EDT [updated Sep 27 2005, 23:30 EDT]
11pm, Somerville, MA. I'm walking home from the T [subway] and I pass a cop on my street going car-to-car with a flashlight.
Q: Sir, should I be watching for something?
A: Yeah, parking permits.
Somerville's finest people. Protect, Serve, and Mak
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I hate my toaster (4 images)
Sep 26 2005, 00:03 EDT [updated Oct 08 2005, 11:52 EDT]
I have a $20 toaster from Target. This toaster is different. this toaster has innovations. This toaster has things I don't want in a toaster.
It looks sane at a glance. It has a lever to push down to start the toasting. It has a knob that controls ho
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Serenity, early screening for bloggers
Sep 25 2005, 12:59 EDT [updated Sep 25 2005, 13:06 EDT]
Glenn Reynolds posted that the marketers of the movie Serentiy were looking for bloggers to attend a preview screening and generate early buzz. The early buzz part is quite mandatory, but a bit of a muddle - it alternates words like "confirmed" with "to
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Google Talk
Sep 22 2005, 20:16 EDT
Google Talk is Google's new chat
service, hooked into your Gmail account. It's XMPP based, which is cool. XMPP (aka Jabber)
is an open-protocol chat system with published RFCs. You can use XMPP for
lots of presence enabled applications. Oh, XMPP is
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Your week in Quickies
Sep 21 2005, 14:09 EDT
Turn your hamster into a fighting machine
[andrewdied]
Sep 21 2005, 11:48 EDT
Rumored to be done by Jared Purrington, who is rumored to
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Badge of preparedness
Sep 20 2005, 23:41 EDT [updated Sep 21 2005, 00:11 EDT]
TDC's Firehouse USA: Boston documents firefighters in action but also lots of people standing around just watching firefighters. Regular people can be a good resource if they are modestly competent. In their advantage they are the first ones on the scen
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Local News Parodies Itself (again)
Sep 20 2005, 22:03 EDT [updated Sep 20 2005, 22:04 EDT]
Lead in teaser on Boston's Channel 10 News (WB):
Do toys guns put your children in danger? What happened today when cops found a youth with a gun like this [holds up a 1/4 scale model of an M16]
Is a "For Sale" sign a "For Steal" sign? How robbers a
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Child Abuse, now on TDC
Sep 18 2005, 17:17 EDT [updated Sep 18 2005, 17:48 EDT]
The Discovery Channel is now airing The World's Strongest Boy, the story of a six year old as ripped as Schwazenager on 'roids. While novel this is not "neat," my reaction is simple horror, as the title implies. "Baby fat" exists for a reason in childre
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Gas prices and gouging
Sep 17 2005, 19:20 EDT [updated Sep 17 2005, 19:33 EDT]
Most of the complaints about gas prices are conspiratorial and hence unprovable (cartels, Saudis, Haliburton). One that is provable or disprovable is that prices go up quickly and go down slowly. Last Friday I paid $3.10 for regular. Monday this week i
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WSJ Weekend Edition's First Edition This Weekend
Sep 16 2005, 10:14 EDT [updated Sep 16 2005, 10:15 EDT]
Six months ago I mentioned the Wall Street Journal was teasing subscribers with the new edition (WSJ is Monday to Friday only). According to this article from earlier in this week WSJ subscribers can expect a Saturday surprise. I have no idea what the c
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Commonwealth Games
Sep 14 2005, 23:22 EDT [updated Sep 14 2005, 23:37 EDT]
You've never heard of it, you'll never see it on TV, and it doesn't involve Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Kentucky, or Virginia. The Commonwealth Games is a mini-Olympics held every four years. The countries that participate are our cousins but we (the U
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Over There peddling in myth
Sep 14 2005, 22:36 EDT [updated Sep 14 2005, 23:00 EDT]
FX's miserable facsimile of US military life in Iraq rolls on. Tonight the US grunts hear that the private security detail they are escorting (Oil company men, natch) get paid 30k a month. One guy says his ex-Green Beret friend turned the job down "beca
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Your week in Quickies
Sep 14 2005, 09:55 EDT [updated Sep 14 2005, 18:38 EDT]
Dr. Grammar FAQ
[bobsalive]
Sep 14 2005, 09:54 EDT
Frequently asked grammatical questions.
[jackdied] Good list o
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Orphelia Strengthens, No Worries in Ocracoke
Sep 13 2005, 22:27 EDT
Ocracoke Island, a tiny island on the outer banks completed evacuation as scheduled on Monday. The residents are hurricane veterans as the island's position and non-elevation put it in jeopardy from every storm. It isn't like New Orleans in most every w
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Pakcet8 Goofs
Sep 12 2005, 09:46 EDT
Dear Packet8 Subscriber,
It has come to our attention that a security breach, which inadvertently
exposed the email addresses of a portion of Packet8 subscribers,
occurred last night during the electronic distribution of our monthly
*/Packet8 Post/*
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Katrina Fallout
Sep 08 2005, 20:14 EDT [updated Sep 08 2005, 20:17 EDT]
The political consequences of Katrina now seem set in stone. Nothing national happens but the mayor and governor will serve, at most, until the next election. The congressional hearings will happen but their report will be bland ("bland" is a synonym fo
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Don't speak the devil's name (1 image)
Sep 08 2005, 12:24 EDT [updated Sep 08 2005, 12:31 EDT]
I shouldn't have poked fun at MA paper pushers. I finally received that car and the minions of the Office of Traffic and Parking laid down a record three parking tickets on it in eleven hours. Invisible and unwelcome the meter maids (I don't know the ge
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Massachusetts, home of bureaucracy
Sep 02 2005, 18:55 EDT [updated Sep 05 2005, 17:33 EDT]
So I went to buy a car today so I could drive to Pennsylvania for the weekend (well, not just for that). No problem, I already set up the insurance earlier this week so I just hopped down to the dealer. I test drove a couple of the cars, and picked one.
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New Orleans: Modern Troy?
Sep 01 2005, 22:28 EDT [updated Sep 01 2005, 22:51 EDT]
Troy was a myth pursued only by the crazy. As it turns out it was a real city abandoned by the sane. They rebuilt it seven times, but not eight.
The WaPo says New Orleans could be could be the new Atlantis (free reg requied). Could the current situati
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There is no such thing as Price Gouging
Sep 01 2005, 21:00 EDT [updated Sep 01 2005, 21:19 EDT]
Every buyer hates it when the price of something doubles overnight. O'Reilly was just railing on a guy from the Cato Institute for defending gigantor prices in paniced regions because the supplier's costs hadn't changed but the prices they were charging
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