Did you blow a capacitor?

The White Stripes playing with Tesla Coils is hot.

Full Circle

The last show ended, as the first show started, with laughter.

As Antonia packed, I found myself watching the last episode of Star
Trek: Enterprise, as long ago I had also, along with her, watched the
first episode, back in Ann Arbor.

Back then, we laughed at the theme song, so ... weak.

Now, we were forced to laugh at the audacity, the sheer mediocrity,
nay, the utter disaster that was the last episode of a once promising
show.

My sadness was less with the end of the show than with the poorness
of the script. My conception of a series finale is an episode that
can bring some sense of closure, with an opening for future character
development. In short, leaving open the possibility of that
proverbial 21st chapter that science fiction shows are leaning
towards these days, the motion picture sequel.

Instead, the script writers settled for a play within a play device
that not only killed off principal characters, but also in a spirit
of true hollowness, merely referenced the possibility of great
moments. A show chastened by the reality of its cancellation,
ignominiously slinking off of televion without exit with dignity. The actors deserved better.

For the first time in memory, there will not be new episodes of Star
Trek coloring the horizon. Orson Scott Card puts it best. Sigh.

B & S news...

Unsuitable for children

(Via Click opera.)

Graduating Friends at NYU Law and their Sundry Related Ilk

This after Sarah & Vince's going away dinner at the Thai Spice on University Pl.

Also, blogger photo blogging is busted.

Back to flickr...

Oh Cruel Fates!

Antonia just received Black Adder on DVD, and her movers come on
Monday morning to take her stuff.

Word of the Day

Nebbish

Thanks Antonia's Mom! (via Antonia...)

Minesweeper Widget for Tiger.

Please don't hurt me.

google ad fun on gmail

Just imagine what kind of message could have resulted in this correlation. Thanks Caitlin.

gmail ad:
Wild dogs no match for the man from Yass
Armidale Express - May 3, 2005 - WILD dogs have nowhere to run or hide as a targetted trapping ...

Germans Dominate Robot Soccer

You had to see this coming...

The first biological rationalization for homosexuality I have seen (and this is embarrassing.. I found it in the nyt.)

Gay men have fewer children, meaning that in Darwinian terms, any genetic variant that promotes homosexuality should be quickly eliminated from the population. Dr. Hamer believes that such genes may nevertheless persist because, although in men they reduce the number of descendants, in women they act to increase fertility.

Best description of Neil Gaiman ever:

“the world is made out of stories, mine’s a nice cup of tea”

Allen used the phrase "Not Guff" in conversation correctly this morning.

I feel so proud.

This child will have superpowers.

Dog cared for baby: "David Pescovitz:
A stray nursing dog in Nairobi, Kenya discovered an abandoned baby in a plastic bag and carried her back to its other puppies. It's not clear how many days the dog took care of the infant before she was found. From the Associated Press:

The stray dog carried the infant across a busy road and a barbed wire fence in a poor neighborhood near the Ngong Forests in the capital, Nairobi, Stephen Thoya told the independent Daily Nation newspaper....


But the 3.3 kilogram (7.28 pounds) infant 'is doing well, responding to treatment, she is stable ... she is on antibiotics,' Gakuo told The Associated Press. Workers at the hospital are calling the child Angel, she said.

Link"

(Via Boing Boing.)

The phrase "revisionist mythology" has such a nice decadent, collegiate charm to it.

The Sequel to Dan Simmon's Ilium comes out in July. The First chapter is up.

Bob Cringely points out that Apple's long term strategy hinges on the ability of iTunes to be the dominant content delivery and management platform.

If you've used iTunes and felt the same vendor lock-in chills you get when using an Exchange server, your thinking along the right lines.

iTunes leverages several technologies already available separately, and bundles them all into a sweet smelling irresistible package. The users buy in, and then realize that there are no competitors that offer all of the capabilities, such as syncing with iPods and leveraging song metadata.

Alternatives NEED to be created before Apple owns this field. The fear is that once Apple gets enough of a grip on the market, it will start implementing far more egregious DRM on portable video and audio, not just because it can, but because it is ingratiating to the MPAA/RIAA flacks.

Not only that, but the leading music player app being so closely tied to one product does limit you to using apple music players. Gatekeepers are bad in any industry, and we don't want one in the portable music player market, the online music distribution market, or the movie distribution market.

Considering Apple's past behavior, I don't think we should give them a chance.

Mira Nair is filming an adaptation of The Namesake, one of my all time absofuckinglutely favorite books.

The lead who plays Ashoke Ganguli is none other than Kal Penn of another of mmy favorite movies: Harold and Kumar go to White Castle!

And he has a filming blog...

sunday cloudy sunday

mail to blogger attachment test.

So Google announced Blogger Mobile, which lets you send pictures from your phone to blogger, like flickr, if your phone can send pictures using MMS or email using your phone's provider email address. If you have your phone setup to send mail through your own ISP's mail server (such as Umich, gmail) to avoid the silly message surcharge that the phone providers are trying to make money off of (though it usually requires a data plan on your phone) then send mail through Mail-to-Blogger, which now supports picture attachments, which get stored on gooogle's picasa/hello servers.

So I can say now "Look Ma! No Flickr!"