Archive for July, 2008

“Choke Q&A”

by @ Thursday, July 31st, 2008. Filed under movie reviews and thoughts

Chuck Palahniuk & Clark Gregg talk about the screen adaptation of the film. You can see the full “PG” trailer here

M1911A1 Assembly Remix

by @ Saturday, July 26th, 2008. Filed under Guns and such

Cool video, but explains why I won’t buy one.

The Ship Cemetery of MD’s Green Manor Estates

by @ Friday, July 25th, 2008. Filed under Misc

See it on Google Maps here. You can read the story of how these came to be here.

Business idea #2471 – mail analog to digital

by @ Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008. Filed under Misc

So here’s an idea for a business: ———— – You have your mail all forwarded to a virtual PO box at a company – The company scans all your mail into PDFs and shreds the physical items – Company sends you a daily email with picture and sender/recipient address and name summaries – Company archives [...]

A blind eye to Guantanamo

by @ Sunday, July 20th, 2008. Filed under Misc

According to Mayer, the analyst estimated that a full third of the camp’s detainees were there by mistake. When told of those findings, the top military commander at Guantanamo at the time, Major Gen. Michael Dunlavey, not only agreed with the assessment but suggested that an even higher percentage of detentions — up to half [...]

Final – streaming shoutcast radio to my phone

by @ Saturday, July 19th, 2008. Filed under Misc

Finally, the functionality I’ve been looking for, for years.

The Watchman trailer is out

by @ Friday, July 18th, 2008. Filed under movie reviews and thoughts

And it’s fucking brilliant. http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/ I really hope they can maintain the quality and feel of the graphic novel(s).

The Flesh-and-Blood defense

by @ Wednesday, July 16th, 2008. Filed under Conspiracy Theories, The Courts

From the Washington Monthly website comes this strange story of four Baltimore murder defendants who attempted to use a racist/seperatist doctrine claiming the invalidity of the 14th Amendment as their exemption from the federal justice system. Too Weird for the Wire

BMW Kinetic Sculpture

by @ Tuesday, July 15th, 2008. Filed under Art, Technology

IFail at IPhone

by @ Monday, July 14th, 2008. Filed under Misc

Whee, big Fail Whale for me. On Friday, I went to two AT&T stores – both had sold out hours ago. On Saturday I went to a third one, which hadn’t had any new phones since the day before. Saturday evening I went to the mall and saw the apple store had a line – [...]

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