Posted by Doug
Fri, 04 Feb 2005 14:43:00 GMT
No one can argue that high-speed ballistic photography is cool.
Here’s a set of photos posted by
spyzter to
Flickr.
By the way, I posted this blog entry using Flickr’s “blog this” utility and the
MetaBlogger? API. Unfortunately, I had to do a lot of hand-tweaking in Ecto. However, it did simplify setting up the image and getting all the URLs correct. Also, I was unable to set the category from the Flickr interface. Nor was I able to change the category in Ecto. I suspect that might be a bug in the old version of blosxom-xmlrpc.cgi I’m using.
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Posted by Doug
Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:37:00 GMT
Surprisingly,
Boing Boing pointed out
this satire (warning: that link is to the 17MB
AVI video) of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”. Usually, Boing Boing is pretty down on Christianity. Their posts usually point out the absurd things Christians are saying and doing. I’m not really a rap fan, but wanted to see what Boing Boing was saying about Christianity this time. Boy, was I surprised. This is actually a very good spoof. The whole thing is about a rapper/DJ talking about how he likes girls who read their Bible. He does make a big deal about big Bibles versus small Bibles, but I think it’s just a tool to make the spoof of off “Baby Got Back” work. He also makes a jab at girls who dress immodestly.
Anyway, I think in general, moderate Christians would find this entertaining and not offensive. Christian teens would probably find this funny and entertaining too.
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Posted by Doug
Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:18:00 GMT
Here’s the back-story. More than a few cities and municipalities are thinking about and implementing large wireless Internet networks (aka,
WiFi? networks) that basically blanket their city. The thinking is that if this is provided as a public service out of tax payers money, it will increase the overall value of the community. To citizens it sounds like a good deal. But here’s the rub. There are more than a few technical solutions to having voice communications over the Internet.
So some “neutral” research organization does a study that “
does a hatchet job” on public
WiFi? saying it’s a huge waste of tax payer’s money. Well, guess what? This “neutral” research organization is basically funded by “
Ameritech, Bell South, Comcast, Pacific Bell, Qwest, SBC Communications, Sprint, U.S. West, Verizon and Verizon Wireless”. Let’s see, did we miss any local phone companies?
I don’t think this kind of duplicity is illegal (although I’m not exactly sure in light of the post-Enron business world). However, I find it at the least unethical. I’m sure other people do too. What I’m wondering is if the companies that funded this hatchet job think that the source wouldn’t be found out? Were they naive to the ability of the public to root this kind of stuff out? Or did they just not care? I had one person say in reference to this, “it doesn’t hurt trying.” I find that attitude a little disturbing.
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