BurningbirdLike it says, just stuff.
As I wrote in comments to the last post, I think we’ve discovered the Rosetta stone for English, and it’s {}. These are curly brackets, squiggly brackets, worms, curlies, curly parenthesis, and braces. Conversely, braces are suspenders, or pairs of pheasants. I wrote, seeking a map, and discovered a journey, instead. How serendipitous, then, to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Stop the Cap! is a web site and weblog dedicated to the fight against broadband caps. From the Mission Statement: We feel the current usage caps being considered by broadband providers are unreasonable, some moreso than others. Those below 10GB per month are outrageous. Others which may run above 100GB […]
Exposing science fiction writers to science David Levine writes about Launch Pad, NASA’s program to expose science to science fiction writers. Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets lists great ocean weblogs. Photojojo covers strange photo projects. The squished people don’t do anything for me, but I do like the little people, big world photos. You’ve all watched the Large […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Popular Mechanics has an excellent article of the dirty little secret of HDTV: that there are no true standards or specifications in place defining what exactly is “high definition TV”. Because of this, the article’s writer, Glenn Derene, writes, the quality of broadcast we get from providers, varies. Considerably. For instance, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. From GigaOM: There are other participants, some that are well known, like HP with its HP MediaSmart Connect, or TiVo. And some are upstarts, like Vudu, Zv, Verismo and Sezmi. But the future belongs to Amazon, Netflix or Apple. It’s still too early to tell which one will win the race […]