The Consumerist has more on the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007. People Over Profits has an email campaign but it also helps to contact your Congressional rep directly. A letter of phone call also works wonders. How important is this bill? There is no bill pending in Congress that scares Corporate America more than this one. There is no […]
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Traced Botanical tour
I grabbed my camera and my GPS handheld yesterday to get some test data for application development. The recorded track isn’t the best, primarily because the containing field was small, and the terrain was flat. I also realized from the track that I tend to meander when walking around, taking photos. I can assure you, […]
People over Profits has a campaign under way to encourage Congress to support this bill. It’s important to let your Congressional representative know you support the Arbitration Act of 2007. Ars Technica and Tortdeform both write on the recent, and important, decision of Douglas v. Talk Ameria in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In the decision, the court ruled […]
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Image Magic
I’ve been experimenting around with software tools and utilities, and for this batch I used ImageMagick’s command line tools to create the thumbnails and add a signature. The shell script to add the signature is: #!/bin/sh for name in *jpg do echo $name convert $name -font AvantGuarde-Demi -pointsize 24 \ -gravity SouthEast \ -fill maroon […]
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Fish from hell
Cephalopodcast has found a couple of terrific old films on the ‘fish from hell’ from the Prelinger Archives. As the Cephalopodcast mentions, it’s not the footage so much as it is the accompanying voiceover. It’s also an interesting study in our earlier ‘science’ investigations, and the fact that in these old ‘science’ films, the scientists tend to […]