- How the Web Was Won
Vanity Fair compiled a fascinating oral history of the internet. There’s some really cool gems in here if you’re interested in this kind of thing at all.
Tags: vanityfair, oralhistory, history, internet, arpanet, darpa, web - Video: Spider Car
Woah. Video of a car with mechanical spider legs instead of wheels.
Tags: spiders, cars, engineering, video, steampunk, art, robotics, robots - SCOTUS ruling on habeas corpus for Gitmo detainees outlines Bush administration failing
"Today the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration with a ruling 5-4 that asserted that detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba have habeas corpus rights and can thus challenge the lawfulness of their detention."
Tags: supremecourt, bush, president, politics, guantanamobay, terrorism, war, cuba, habeascorpus, legal, law, detention - A Father Is Born - Dads In the Delivery Room
"At the very moment the baby emerges from the cozy womb… along comes Dad with a big pair of scissors, wedging his way in between Mom and her nine-month soul mate and saying, in effect, ‘Enough is enough, you two.’"
Tags: birth, babies, parenting, delivery, umbilical, bobmarley, music, experience - Zoe and Maia: BFFs or WWF?
Continuing the all-Zoe love-fest this week, here’s a post from Snow, whose daughter Maia is Zoe’s best friend, describing an afternoon they spent together.
Tags: maia, zoe, snow, annie, babies, toddlers, friends - Fun.
"Go to Google reader. Hit the following keys: up arrow, up arrow, down arrow, down arrow, left arrow, right arrow, left arrow, right arrow, B and A."
Tags: video, games, cheat, codes, classic, capcom, google, reader, easteregg - The Nerdiest Sentence Ever
"Wikipedia cites Mystique as a decent example of Neutral Evil, as exemplified in my X-Men/Battlestar Galactica crossover fan-fiction."
Tags: nerds, wikipedia, mystique, comics, alignment, dandd, dungeonsanddragons, rpg, xmen, battlestar, galactica, bsg, crossover, fanfiction, quotes - "Pac-Samurai"
Absolutely genius - Pac-Man as an ancient samurai fighting oni-style demon ghosts.
Tags: pacman, video, games, illustration, samurai, ghosts, oni - Alignment Explained with Comic Book Characters.
Superman is Lawful Good. The Joker is Chaotic Evil. These are presented as motivational posters, and they’re hilarious.
Tags: dungeonsanddragons, dandd, alignment, comics, rpg, lawful, neutral, good, chaotic, evil, superman, batman, wolverine, joker - Abbreviation Venn Diagram using ABBA as an example.
In a nutshell, ABBA is both an Initialism and an Acronym, both of which are a type of Abbreviation.
Tags: html, markup, code, semantics, abba, acronym, initialism, abbreviation, venn, diagrams, accessibility - MonoPrice.com - Cheap HDMI Cables
Normally HDMI cables sell for around $30. This store sells them for $5.
Tags: hdmi, hdtv, cables, cheap, electronics, audio, video - The Sky, From Above
"One of the best features of the space program has always been astronaut photography, and I will take this opportunity to share some of the best photographs of Earth’s skies, taken from above - way above (over 200 miles to be more exact)."
Tags: astronomy, astronauts, nasa, photography, space, earth, clouds
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I don’t know about that alignments thing — the quotes were a little weak. How can you quote Mae West as an example of Chaotic Evil? Come on, Jack the Ripper and Charles Manson both said plenty of interesting things. And Louis XVI’s “I am the state” as representative of Lawful Neutral? Come on! That’s the archetypal pronouncement of corrupted power, of evil backed by law and force. Anyway. OH NO, SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:51 am