Potent Playthings for Plain People

Lest we fall into wondering how evolved humans are, consider whether we can differentiate between toys and tools ... up on this with the Jaws of Life ® and similar hydraulic devices for car wrecks and the like. There are a few cases ... and more quickly stepped out or even on the wrong car , but the rescuers just had to use the toy — and ruin [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 13:41:00

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Greek media under threat from terrorists

From the Guardian: Amid growing fears that Greece could become a centre of terrorism in Europe, ... it had eradicated guerrilla warfare, came as counter-terrorism experts intensified the search for another group ... , extremists have used guns, hand grenades and explosive devices to target police, media outlets [more...]

Date: 2009-02-22 10:14:12

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/16/2008

A woman will lead Muslim prayers in Oxford. The EU bans incandescent bulbs. The FBI launches an investigation of ACORN.But the story about the subduing of the drunken hijacker on an airliner bound from Turkey to St. Petersburg is my favorite, because of this quote:“Surprisingly this hooligan was not British,” said an official at Pulkovo [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 03:55:00

Life of Riley Week 90

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone ... from the Middle East. It wasn’t bad, but didn’t really go anywhere I was interested in going. It was sort of like being in the car for two hours, only to find out that you’re going to buy school clothes. Monday [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 02:45:41

A Do-It-Yourself Christmas: 34 Great Gifts You Can Make Yourself

Last month, I asked readers to share their favorite frugal Christmas ideas. You responded with over a hundred fantastic tips ... all together, we made about 15 boxes of truffles (9 truffles each box) for under $30. And we used good ... old classic at your nearby Goodwill or used bookstore. Glue the pages together, use an X-Acto knife [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 13:00:59

Screenplay Junkie #6: The 2008 Black List

Adam Volk is a wannabe screenwriter trying desperately to break into the industry and cram his hack drivel down Hollywood’s gaping maw. Each week he examines one aspect from the wonderfully demented world of screenwriting. Two years ago — or so the story goes — a young executive at Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 14:03:07

After Ten Years of Renting, I Finally Have Insurance

I don’t know what I was thinking. I am getting older. I finished my undergraduate education with a graduation ceremony about years ago. Since graduating, I’ve moved from apartment to apartment, first with a $400 per month one-bedroom place near my college, then back to New Jersey, sharing rent with a variety of roommates [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 22:30:31

Uncharted 2 Among Thieves First-Look Preview

If you has asked me what I'd expect to see in a demo for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, I might have said, " ... . I'm used to Nathan ducking behind fallen pillars, or jumping across precipices -- but not seeing him unload a shotgun from behind a car onto some military dudes, or scrambling up an array of street [more...]

Date: 2009-02-03 23:18:00

links for 2009-01-31

Ten Republicans To Watch - From Rob Portman to Sarah Palin The Fix is spending his Friday ensconced in the Capital Hilton as the Republican ... Daschle Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver ABC News has learned that the nomination of former ... Services has hit a traffic snarl on its way through the Senate Finance Committee. The controversy deals [more...]

Date: 2009-01-31 08:02:47

Weekly Digest, 3-1-09

Trevor's Links How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data After some deliberation, we decided to implement a "schema-less" ... developers. Fit to be used We tend to think of usability as applying only to interfaces. But it’s so much more than that. It’s about delivering something that’s fit to be used. That means it’ [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 01:43:31

MY LIFE STORY

MY LIFE STORY By VIKRAM KARVE Tension There is tension brewing in my house. My brother, my sister, even my mother, all are trying to convince my father to sell off our lovely spacious bungalow with a huge compound surrounded by plenty of greenery on the banks the Mula river near Aundh [more...]

Date: 2009-01-22 18:12:39

The 7 Elements of a Viral Video Campaign

The biggest problem most websites have is that they are instantly forgettable. They sell or say the same thing as hundreds or thousands of other sites; to an audience that is so quick to click-away that a large percentage of their traffic never appreciates why they should buy anything or listen to what’s being said [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 08:22:39

Derleth Be Not Proud, Part Two: Cry ‘Havoc!’ and Let Slip the Hounds of Tindalos

Part One: Hypersensitive, Not Hyperborean Part Three: Autochthonic Masses Howling and Wet-Mouthed If you decide to write a Conan pastiche, chances are you are going to wind up having the mighty Cimmerian swear “By Crom!” a few more times than Howard did per story. You will probably increase the quotient of “skull-cleaving” blows, etc [more...]

Date: 2009-02-22 20:10:40

Have a Question? Ask a Fluther: BP Interviews Fluther.com Founder Ben Finkel

“I hate my mind, how can I fix it?” This question was posted on Fluther.com, a hybrid chat/forum Q&A site, not too long ago ... your car questions, eight Aunt Marthas to ask about astronomy and six Grandma Gerties to advise ... was really what I view as a missing piece on the Internet. Somewhere between search, newsgroups [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 18:53:11

Why Newspapers Are Dying

I read this piece in Wednesday's L.A. Times and it went down like a 5 day old tuna sandwich ... from Shanghai. What was irksome, if not insidious, about Rainey's piece was that he rather transparently used ... , car ads, and sports stats? There are lot of "nouveau" and citizen journalists, pajama-clad [more...]

Date: 2009-02-12 08:55:25

about it recently, but this weekend's festival is actually a pretty big deal. Historically, local giant fests don't go so well when set up near New York, but this one seems to have the backing and support to actually get done right. First off, it certainly helps to have a band like Radiohead headline two nights [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 18:53:54

MyMoneyBlog 2009 Upcoming Financial Projects

While Suze Orman has her Action Plan, I have also been thinking of my own. The first is general but the rest should be good blog fodder ... with cheaper housing? How about when I retire? Should I install a solar water heater? Buy a new car and drive it into the ground, or buy used? I also feel I should prioritize all expenses.Project [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 10:39:38

Ready, Fire, Aim

When last I posted, and it was a while ago, I was searching for an application to develop that would teach me some of the subtleties of AIR ... to view patterns, search the database, enter new patterns and generally work with the pattern data ... of a back end system A central database of patterns that can be used to update the local software [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 17:56:01

The Pale Blue Dot

For Christmas this year, I received a superb book. ← The Varieties of Scientific Experience.Written by Carl Sagan ... with these words:When you buy a used car, it is insufficient to remember that you badly need a car. After all, it has to work. It is insufficient to say that the used-car salesman is a friendly fellow [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:07:00

State of the Search

So... I've been holding off on this post for a few days now because I couldn't determine if this information was "in the wild" yet ... is doing a Wal-Mart rollback on ESP (FAST Search) for SharePoint!  If you have an EA with Microsoft ... the client access to said server.  So why is that cool?  Let us count the ways: Unlike MOSS Search [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 15:08:00

Regular Expressions in C# - The Basics

One of the most common coding tasks is to take an input, munch it around and turn it into something different altogether ... . Are you looking for the characters “car”  in “cartoon”, “carbonate” or  “carton” ? Do you want to only match when the word “car” is standing by itself as in  “car sales for 2009″ ? Or only [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 03:49:22

The Fulfillment Fallacy

Fulfillment, it seems to The Equuschick, is much like contentment. It has much more do with your state of mind than your actual circumstances ... we remember that our mothers used to say "Only boring people are bored?" Or do we think this only applies ... ourselves and others if we limit our search for fulfillment to a search for a job.Just a week [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:31:00

2008-2009 Winter Activities in Anchorage

I frequently get emails from people planning trips to Anchorage asking what kinds of things there are to do--here's a list to answer that question. Hope you don't mind the cold! Unless otherwise stated these activities are free.1. Go ice fishing. The 21st Annual Ice Fishing Jamboree out at Jewel Lake is free with poles, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 08:00:00

Get Involved In Free Classified Ads Craze And Enjoy The Rewards

By Alex WuIt seems a bit unfair that we have to pay to sell stuff in this era of communication and online technology ... . Its not just about job search, houses and cars. Its an extension of your life, community and hobbies ... , this is The place. You can either do a quick search or an advanced search. Also know what people are selling [more...]

Date: 2009-01-27 04:35:00

L0ve

The first thing that I saw hung on the wall of his office was a framed verse of revered Pushto poet Khushla Khan Khattak ... of my practical life were very hard. I had come to Lahore in search of an opening ... and employed me for loading his newspaper bundles. I was so weak that my co-workers used to object [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 14:51:00

Sierra Highlights #10

My Occasional DaybookWeather:The rain turned to snow... only about 4 inches though... manageable!Watching:Toy Story II. One of Aidan's nurses, who was from China, used to sing "When Somebody Loved ... the name. I'm reading Lovey now. I read her book Dibs: In Search of Self when I was babysitting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-27 03:27:00

Internationally coordinated stimulus policies

For Business World’s Yellow Pad, Filomeno S. Sta.Ana III writes for internationally coordinated stimulus packages even as he worries how Gloria ... . Will that lead to the definitive stimulus? If we liken the search for a solution to the recession ... made-in-USA products. Oh well, she used the US$600 to shop at Rustan’s, buying assorted high-end [more...]

Date: 2009-03-01 18:58:41

The battle for local: The players

With LR’s new focus, I wanted to lay out the landscape in “the battle for local” - and look at some of the strengths and weaknesses of each ... . They traditionally knew who their competitors were and focused on on big advertisers like car dealers ... newspapers used to subsidize their news gathering not with the ads that ran next to the news stories [more...]

Date: 2008-08-17 18:36:10

Joe Rospars Fianna Fáil website launch

Joe Rospars , one of the main guys behind Obama’s online presidential campaign, was in Dublin last night ... who has genuinely used technology to change the face of the political world was doing a talk/Q&A for bloggers ... to be a hypocrite here, I often wear a suit myself, but these were starchy shiny, sell-you-a-car [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 11:02:32

Tanya Vlach's quest: 'I want to be a superhero — I want a bionic eye'

Long story short: The one-eyed 35-year-old San Francisco artist may yet achieve her goal ... toward her dream. •••••••••••••••••••• The Eye of A Dream Beheld You used to need hubris, millions ... Francisco, wants a new computer eye to replace the natural one she lost in a car accident. So, being [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 04:52:00

stuff i think of ...

... when the computer is broken. * The library let me watch the video Juma sent me about Gas-Right Strips, but it reported me for trying to open my email drafts folder. * If you send my dad a postcard about beef jerky, you might have to define beef jerky for him. He's never had it. Even before dentures, or lack thereof [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 15:57:27

DrumBeat: August 8, 2008

Oil sinks to 3-month low Crude ends near $115 a barrel on a slumping global economy and after disrupted supply from a pipeline attack in Turkey is rerouted. Light, sweet crude for September delivery settled down $4.82 to $115.20 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was the lowest close since May 1, when oil finished at $112.52. .. [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 12:25:54

Hipster Sleek and Flea Market Chic – Modern Day Baby & Kid Rooms

Today we are hitting the fast forward button from the pictures in yesterday’s blog post about 30 years. I love the look of the kitschy 70’s baby rooms as much as I do the sleek modern looking ones of today. Which do you prefer?When I was a little girl if Jonathan Adler had designed this bedroom for me I would have been a total recluse [more...]

Date: 2009-01-27 16:31:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/8/2008

As of tonight the news feed has been up and running every day for three months (except for when I’ve been away).I’ve received a few complaints about it. Some readers don’t like to have to scroll through the headlines to get to the good stuff, and others don’t want me to waste space on American news stories which are being covered thoroughly [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 03:43:00

An Update on the Bailout….

and yes, after doing some more reading on it, I do still consider it a bailout. I’m going to put a copy of a post that Yves at Naked Capitalism wrote in italics and then my comments will be interspersed in bold print and then I’ve got more thoughts at the end. Hope this helps you understand it better [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 15:33:45

Portrait of an abuser: this is the scary-ass freakazoid the twits at Slate feel sorry for

I’m just going to quote from the report in the LA Times on yesterday’s court appearance : Asshole needs to be behind bars ... Park. In the affidavit attached to a search warrant for phone records, Los Angeles Police Det ... , the detective wrote, and Brown shoved Rihanna’s head against the window of the car. He then began punching [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 07:09:36

Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/25/2008

USAClinton Dismisses McCain Ads CanadaThe Taliban Letter to the Canadian People Europe and the EULocal Councils Accused of Spying on Residents’ Sex LivesMulti-Cultural Festival in OsloItaly: Former Leader Renews Attack on Palestinian Militant GroupFailed Asylum Seekers Going UndergroundMinisters Accused of ‘Leaving Black Youths to Die’ as Three [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 00:49:00

Could Americans’ Discontent Turn Violent?

We are only a few thousand points and runaway inflation away from a potential societal explosion. March 9, 2009 - by Bob KrummPage 1 of 2  Next ->At what point does discontent turn to violence?Economically, we may or may not be close to hitting rock bottom, but policy-wise, this market still has a long way to fall [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 07:02:14

Unsecured Credit Cards in Canada - Are they the Right Decision

by Danny Griswald If you have held a Canadian credit card before, you may be familiar with the terminology involved with them, such as secured, ... to sort through the varying promotions, interest rates, terms and conditions, etc ... to make purchases on your credit card only being charged a low annual interest fee per month [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 21:13:10

Redefining Innovation: Incremental, w/ Side Effects & Transformational

I don’t know of many other words quite as abused as innovation. Maybe the word strategy, but that’s about it ... popularized by the Japanese car manufactures, for example arranging parts so that they are closer to each ... . Another example of a incremental innovation is “related searches” you see on the Google search results [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 07:57:45

TV and Games are UK's most searched for subjects

For our second guest posting on the UK blog, I’d like to hand over to Richard Seymour , Hitwise UK Client Intelligence Analyst, ... variety – not video games bought for consoles or PC’s) with 13.9%. Travel, Sport and Finance complete ... and fansites . The top games terms were ‘games’, ‘free online games’, ‘car games’, ‘cooking games’ and ‘ [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 14:18:09

Federal Court Rules Driving with Air Fresheners is Suspicious

A federal appellate court ruled last week that police can delay a routine traffic stop as long as necessary to conduct a search for drugs. In its decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld ... that the defendant, "knows the law... so getting in the car is going to be difficult." White replied [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 09:33:00

FOI disclosure stories 9-15 February 2009

Britain's 35 serial killers.. who will never be released from jail - The Sunday Mirror 15/2/09 “The full list of the 35 serial killers, ... them to his flat in North London.” Force spent £548,477 in search for Madeleine – Press Association ... into Madeleine McCann's disappearance, it was revealed yesterday. Leicestershire police's part in the search [more...]

Date: 2009-02-16 12:08:00

Discover How to Become a Photojournalist

Breaking into the field of photojournalism usually takes time and a lot of effort. It’s a competitive business, controlled by editors who are often over-worked and centers around what is widely considered a subjective product. In this post Photojournalist and photo editor at www.WeSay [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 14:10:37

Feast 3 Review

Quit Jerking Me Around A Reel Time Review of Feast III: The Happy Finish / Brian Prisco I often lament the state of horror movies these days. If it's not a remake of some schlock splatterhouse flick from the 70s or 80s or a derivation of a foreign concept, it's some trite excuse to flash tits covered in buckets of gore [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 20:01:06

links for 2009-03-09

Resolver Systems The Python powered spreadsheet. Microsoft Excel™ compatible. (tags: python software free opensource ) ... Used To Be Worth The Inflation app simply allows you to input a figure and the year you bought ... your first car in 1981 for $500, it would be equivalent to $1,184 today. So, maybe that 5-cent movie really [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 04:05:25

OhGizmo Review: Clarion MiND

By Evan Ackerman The Clarion MiND (which I will herein capitalize as normal) is supposed to be a lot of things. It’s supposed to be a GPS, an internet tablet, a media player, and more… All stuffed into one sleek and portable package. It’s a brilliant idea, an idea that a lot of companies have been trying to make happen for a long time [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 13:05:47

Update On Renditions in U.S. Terror War in Somalia

Read More Add Comment (19) Hits: 414 Wed 01 Oct 2008 Silent Surge: Bipartisan Terror War Intensifies in Somalia Written by Chris Floyd "The soul of a nation is under the knife...." -- Bob Dylan In the recent presidential "debate," both candidates expressed their eager, unstinting, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 14:55:31

Plastic Surgeon Runs Car on Fat

This is a story too gross to make up. A plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills is in trouble for modifying his engine to run on liposuctioned fat ... used for his benefit. Apparently this isn’t the first time something like this has happened or else ... to power vehicles. Whatever happened to appreciating the search for alternate fuel sources? Link [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 01:50:06

Trying to Be Middle-Class on $500k

Okay, yesterday I couldn't face commenting on recent news stories, but I have to tackle this one: ... earning $50,000 in Houston... Let's say you have a family of 4, and you want a 3-bedroom home, and one car ... people in other areas might consider the bare minimum of a middle-class life. I did a quick search [more...]

Date: 2009-02-10 11:27:11

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