According to the Post-Dispatch, getting a driver’s license in Missouri is getting a whole lot more difficult and time consuming. From the article: To renew Missouri drivers license Beginning Friday, customers at Missouri license offices must provide proof of citizenship, proof of identity and proof of residence. The fee for a regular drivers license is […]
Search gets personal
The Google blog contains this article, Search gets personal, about “remembering” what you searched for and clicked on and using those data to improve your search results. It’s very early but very interesting. Definitely worth a look. Click to check out Google Personalized Search.
Real Zombie Dogs
From News.com.au comes Boffins create zombie dogs about draining the blood from live dogs and replacing it with saline solution that is just above the freezing point. Three hours later, the saline was replaced with blood again with no ill effects. During the interrim, the dogs were clinically dead: no brain activity, no heartbeat, no […]
Google Video. Now with … hysterical samples
From my limited perspective, the most fun pieces of Google Video. Now with … video! from the Google Blog are the sample videos. You do need to install Google’s video player but it’s a small and easy installation. And, unlike the Windows and Real players, it just plays video… without taking over the rest of […]
Bride of the Fat White Vampire
For a fun, vampire guided romp through New Orleans, check out Andrew Fox’s Bride of the Fat White Vampire. I am certainly enjoying it.
What Makes a Man?
Even the advertising industry seems to be noticing that we men are human beings and not caricatures, as evidenced in this Reuters article, Male-targeted ads found to be in no man’s land. If you feel confused about what you should “be” as a man, you are not alone. The Leo Burnett advertising agency, which created […]
ManKind Project Changes Men’s Lives
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about The ManKind Project. Men say training has made them better men was written, in large part, from the experiences the reporter had while visiting my I Group (no pride here! 😉 ). [Ed. The P-D’s on-line version of the article has aged off their web site so […]
Spectacular Conjunction
On Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights, you will be able to see Saturn, Venus and Mercury practically on top of each other in the night sky. The show begins on Saturday evening, June 25th. Step outside and look west toward the glow of the setting sun. Venus appears first, a bright point of light not […]
Diamonds in the Rough: RSS Aggregators
Would you be interested if I told you that you could have your own, personalized newspaper, for free, cleanly organized, with up-to-the-minute information, and with sources from the local paper, the newswires, the web sites that you like, and people “in the know” who you trust? Get interested because you can have all this. The […]
Seed of extinct date palm sprouts after 2,000 years
From the San Francisco Chronicle: When the Romans invaded ancient Judea, thick forests of date palms towering up to 80 feet high and 7 miles wide covered the Jordan River valley from the Sea of Galilee in the north to the shores of the Dead Sea in the south. The tree so defined the local […]
Garmin Quest GPS
For years, I poo pooed the fancy-dancy expensive GPS navigators appearing in people’s cars. I’ll admit it; I was wrong. I got a Garmin Quest GPS a couple of weeks ago and am simply amazed at how useful it is and how accurate the database is. It is obvious that the Quest has benefited from […]
Cats use fax as toilet, spark Japan house fire
This is just too bizarre to be fiction! I’ve got two cats and a dog. Thank goodness none of them has ever tried to “use” the laser printer. 😮
Inside Tornadoes Multimedia
Words fail me. Go watch this video from inside a tornado. Inside Tornadoes Multimedia @ National Geographic Magazine
Cindy & Geoff’s First House
I try not to fill my blog with personal drivel of no interest to anyone besides me… but even iron-willed Art can’t pass this by. 🙂 Cindy and Geoff (my wife’s daughter and her husband) just bought their first house. They found a hundred year old beauty (in need of a little TLC) on a […]
Mission to build a simulated brain begins
New Scientist ran an article on Monday titled, Mission to build a simulated brain begins. It opens with, An effort to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, right down to the molecular level, was launched on Monday. The “Blue Brain†project, a collaboration between IBM and a Swiss university team, will […]
2-Year OpenOffice High School Case Study
NewsForge has an article about University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy’s conversion from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org. Unlike previous articles, this one looks back with two years of perspective. From the NewsForge article: The cost analysis was compelling — the Linux option could be implemented for around $21,000, more than $100,000 less than […]
Noodling: Catch a Fish by Hand
Bored? Try noodling. From the STLtoday article: The catfish chomped down on Jimbo Anderson’s ankle with a mouthful of teeth like tiny needles. Pain spun in his head, but Anderson thrust his bare right arm into the murky water, reaching into the hole where the catfish hid. The intrusion was met by the catfish’s teeth. […]
Straight Line Designs
Boing Boing gets credit for bringing this to my attention. Straight Line Designs creates some of the most unusual furniture I have ever been delighted to see. Coincidentally, their Flash animation is stunningly wonderful! I wish I had that talent. The intro page is cute but the main site menu make wonderful use of both […]
Load Acrobat Reader Faster
Forever Geek has a great tidbit on how to make Acrobat load faster on Windows. This made a world of difference for me: Find the Acrobat Reader folder. On my system, with Acrobat 6 installed, this is C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader Open the plug_ins folder. Move all of the files and folders to the Optional folder […]
Co-existing With a Web Designer
I found this on Craiglist and figured that it was alternately hilarious and thought-provoking. I wish I knew who the original author was so that I could give credit where it is due. Oh, yes, before I forget. If you find yourself taking this too seriously, breathe and get a clue. 😛 Enjoy! I’ve been […]
