America: First in technology

but thirteenth in broadband adoption.

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Mark with an "X" ?

"It's not the voting that's democracy,
it's the counting."

-Tom Stoppard


A view shared by these folks.

Hunter S. Thompson on the 2004 Campaign

One of my favorite Hunter quotes (on describing Hollywood) is:
"a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There is also a negative side."

His current Roling Stone article is here.

Jon Stewart aims for a killshot on CNN Crossfire

Jon Stewart rips into Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala. A must see.


From BoingBoing:

The iFilm version currently has 99,228 views. Sites don't make Blogdex without 250,000 views. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe 350,000 is more viewers than the original Crossfire interview probably had. (I can only find that CNN averages 757,000 viewers during prime time).

Update: From the time I posted this until the time I finished an email with similar content, 40,000 people viewed the iFilm version of the Crossfire interview. Everytime I've checked BitTorrent, there have been more than 100 people sharing the file.

Another Update (10/16/04 7:56 PM): Leonard Lin is saying there are 4,000 BitTorrent seeds and his Apache server is now "handling 100+ simultaneous connections and avg'ing 7.0MB/s right now, 25GB/hr"

Yet Another Update (10/17/04 7:47PM): The Stewart/Crossfire torrents are now number 5 on Blogdex and has 291,863 on iFilm. The BitTorrent page lists 54,206 download, but I can't imaging how they're coming up with this number.

Download available here.

UPDATE: The NY Times comments on the incident here.

Way cool Sushi USB Flash Drives

Yakitori, sashimi, MP3's, digital photos, yum!

Link.

Finding Nemo

Very cool underwater digital camera housing.

Link via Gizmodo.

Mount St. Helen's web cam

Check out the US Geological Survey's live webcam.
Mmmmmm..... liquid hot magma!

WIPO... WIPO GOOD!

Good news from Geneva and recent developments at the World Intellectual Property Organization.

via BoingBoing.

Speed Blades

Best feature on this gadget:

no brakes.

Link.

Hand Shadows from 1859

Pretty cool.

Link via BoingBoing.

From LA to NY

Check out this French artist/musicians video of a trip from LA to NY.
Absolutely amazing. Link.
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R.I.P. Twinkies

Oh, well... the existing inventory will still be around in a 1,000 years.

BusinessWeek story here.
Newsday story here.
via BoingBoing.

Fish sticks for life...

A beginers guide to whaling.

Buddy, can you spare a dime?

A short but interesting article about how much an artist actually makes from a 99 cent iTunes download. Turns out to be around a dime.
Some things never change.

Link via Red Ferret.

Cat Stevens: RED ALERT!

A plane bound for Washington from London was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after passenger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as pop singer Cat Stevens - showed up on a U.S. watch list, federal officials said. One official said Islam, 56, was identified by the Advanced Passenger Information System, which requires airlines to send passenger information to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's National Targeting Center. TSA was then contacted and requested that the plane land at the nearest airport, the official said.

Interesting that a peace activist would pose a threat to national security.
Link.

Cool Science Zoom-o-rama

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

WARNING! : DO NOT smoke a big fat doobie before viewing this page.


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Ivan Buster

Hurrican Ivan busting beach house.
Pretty slick pad... and it only weights 850 Tons.

More links here via MetaFilter.

This Blows

An amazing NOAA satelitte photo from Sept 12 1:45PM EST.
Another one from the same time and date here.

9/11 Tribute

Jook Leung's brilliant 9/11 tribute. a full screen QuickTime VR (QTVR) Panorama of the "Tribute in Light" of March 2002.

Link via BoingBoing.

Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum:

it's a Pirates life for me :-)





I tell ya, for $24 million this thing better have an on board Shark tank I can drop my enemies into :-)

Welcome to "Wally" World.

Product page here.