Thursday, September 30, 2004
New $50 bill begins circulating
A new $50 bill with touches of red, blue and yellow hit the streets Tuesday and a new $10 bill is in the works. It would be the third greenback to get colorized to cut back on counterfeiting. -MSNBC
Ford Tri-Motor Crash at Airshow
| FULLERTON – A sightseeing plane that operated out of the municipal airport here slammed into the ground seconds after an erratic takeoff Saturday, injuring four people and narrowly missing dozens more. Note: BugMeNot.com to enter site. |
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Dinner with Crate & Barrel Photographer
In an effort to get another full-fledged national dinner tour off the ground, I have carefully placed my name and cell phone number on a piece of furniture in the Fall 2004 Crate & Barrel catalog...
Overstock.com Auctions
There are several advantages Overstock has that the many failed eBay alternatives did not have. Brand recognition is a huge advantage... Overstock.com receives more daily website traffic than most new eBay alternatives receive in one month.
Close Call
Dear subewl,
Hi. I see that ebay user "tristanhendo" won an auction of yours
recently. I am one of many ebay sellers (possibly as many as 1,000)
who have been victimized by Susan Herndon, who writes checks on a
closed account, and is a repeat offender on ebay...
Link to website and Yahoo Group. I'm embarrassed to say that I'd have probably missed it, if she'd tried to pay. As it is, I filed FVF credit, granted immediately due to her being NARU.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Original Apple-1 on eBay
| This computer, as is documented, was bought from Steve Job's parents garage. The checks for the purchase and the original manual are included. The checks are in fact made out to and endorsed by Apple Computer Company. They were not yet incorporated. |
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Monday, September 27, 2004
Sunday, September 26, 2004
Economics 101 by Philly IT Director
"The reason we won't just let the market do this is that there are societal needs that aren't inherently part of the capitalist system."
Aircraft Cargo Loader
Just think of all the fun you could have with this baby! And it's C-5A & C-141 transportable.
Friday, September 24, 2004
Cleaning Pennies with Taco Sauce
| When I was in high school back in the 80s, I worked at Taco Bell. Work was not really tough at Taco Bell, so I had lots of time to goof off. |
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Seven Deadly E-mail Sins
A poll of 750 office workers across Europe, commissioned by palmOne, has identified seven deadly sins of e-mail, including blitzing, tactlessness, sloppiness, ignoring e-mails and lying about them.
Thursday, September 23, 2004
A Biographical Behemoth Is Ready to Bend Shelves
- 11 feet of shelf space
- 280 pounds
- 60 volumes
- 60,000 pages
- 60 million words
- 10,000 contributors
- 54,922 essays
Hurricane Ivan?
AFTER CONSIDERABLE AND SOMETIMES ANIMATED IN-HOUSE DISCUSSION OF THE DEMISE OF IVAN...IN THE MIDST OF A LOW-PRESSURE AND SURFACE FRONTAL SYSTEM OVER THE EASTERN UNITED STATES...THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER HAS DECIDED TO CALL THE TROPICAL CYCLONE NOW OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO TROPICAL DEPRESSION IVAN. WHILE DEBATE WILL SURELY CONTINUE HERE AND ELSEWHERE...
Campaigning at the Post Office - Video
"USPS does not acknowledge the authority of the Bush administration."
Snowbird's Big Diamond from Snowbird #5
| Mark Wuennenberg of Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) sent AvWeb this terrific perspective shot, taken from Snowbird #5 as the glorious Snowbirds approach center stage in the "Big Diamond" formation at Andrews Air Force Base. |
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The Bowie High School Marching Band
Baldy rejecting traditional funding sources -- bake sales,
car washes, and parental checkbooks -- the James Bowie High
School Marching Band is selling performances through an
eBay broker.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Another life for sale
Or, how to use all these keywords in a listing and it NOT be spamming:
Sony, Jeep, Xbox, Ikea, Pottery Barn, Martha Stewart, Guiness, Eddie Bauer, Trane, Ralph Lauren, Jimmy Buffett and Budweiser.
Sony, Jeep, Xbox, Ikea, Pottery Barn, Martha Stewart, Guiness, Eddie Bauer, Trane, Ralph Lauren, Jimmy Buffett and Budweiser.
The Voice over IP Insurrection
It remains uncertain whether telecom's incumbent carriers and equipment makers will continue to dominate or even survive as the information technology industry absorbs voice as a simple application of the Internet.
Trooper pens 205 mph ticket in Minnesota
WABASHA, Minn. (AP) - With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a motorcyclist hit the throttle and possibly set the informal record for the fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph.
13136 Bottles of Beer
For Sale! Largest collection of beer-bottles world-wide: 13 136 originally bottled items from 158 countries and 2 511 different breweries. Mentioned in the Guinness book of records for 18 consecutive years.
MSNBC Article on eBay, Vero & Trademarks
I appreciate eBay's stance on this one. If the "rights owners" are given free hand, they'd shutdown even legal auctions using their trademark.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Hurricane Ivan - Before & After
On Friday September 17, 2004, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted an aerial photographic survey of the barrier islands in Alabama and Florida that were impacted by Hurricane Ivan. The photographs have been compared to pre-storm photographs to illustrate extreme coastal change.
The Eye of HAL9000
| HAL 9000 from the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey" is available. HAL 9000 is the Cinerama 160 degree Fairchild-Curtis lens used to film the actual scenes from HAL's point of view for "2001". It also doubled as the prop, the eye of HAL 9000. |
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A Blogger's Creed
"Bloggers have no checks and balances. It's a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas."
~~JONATHAN KLEIN, former senior executive of 60 Minutes, on Fox News
Well, last week, the insurrectionary pajama people—dubbed "pajamahadeen" by some Web nuts—successfully scaled one more citadel of the mainstream media, CBS News.
~~JONATHAN KLEIN, former senior executive of 60 Minutes, on Fox News
Well, last week, the insurrectionary pajama people—dubbed "pajamahadeen" by some Web nuts—successfully scaled one more citadel of the mainstream media, CBS News.
Orders of Magnitude
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
"A Regular Old Standard Typewriter..."
"One of the interesting things about a changing economy is that our workers are more productive than ever before. That means instead of using a hoe, you use a backhoe. Or instead of using, you know, a regular old standard typewriter, you use a computer. In other words, that's an example of becoming more productive."
~~ President George Bush speaking to a campaign rally in Charlotte, NC on Friday.
~~ President George Bush speaking to a campaign rally in Charlotte, NC on Friday.
It's a Vuck
It's started life as an E350 one ton extended van but has since been turned into a V350, as we call it. It's a VUCK. Not quite a van, not quite a truck, it's a Vuck.
Monday, September 20, 2004
Rick Browne's Beer Butt Chicken
| Host of public television's Barbecue America, Rick Browne, the "Godfather of Beer-Butt Chicken", guarantees that the odd-sounding, but incredibly easy-to-prepare recipe will not only wow party-goers with its unique appearance, but with its lip-smacking, incredibly moist, and virtually unmatched flavor and texture. |
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Eddie Adams Dead at 71
Eddie Adams has died at 71. Just last week the NPPA sent out a poignant message warning of his looming death from Lou Gehrig's disease. Who is he, you ask? The photographer who took the iconic image of an on-street execution in Vietnam and who set up the Eddie Adams Workshop. Top video here.
Wikipedia Breaks 10^6 Articles
The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia, its project to create a free, open-content, online encyclopedia. Started in January 2001, Wikipedia is currently both the world's largest encyclopedia and its fastest-growing, with articles under active development in over 100 languages. Nearly 2,500 new articles are added to Wikipedia each day, along with ten times that number of updates to existing articles.
New Record In Atomic Resolution Imaging
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers, using a state- of-the-art microscope and new computerized imaging technology, have pushed back the barrier of how small we can see--to a record, atom-scale 0.6 angstrom.
Preparation Is The Key To Cutting Risk
Q: You’ve been compared with Trump. Are you a clone?
A: You won’t catch me in a suit, you won’t catch him out of one. His businesses are built on other people’s money and doing deals. My businesses are built on sweat equity and building businesses. He dismisses his casino partners’ problems as not his; I can’t sleep at night if my partners aren’t successful. I play basketball, he plays golf. I go to sports bars, he goes to black-tie dinners.
Outsource University Administration
Within our lifetimes it is likely that the cost of a college degree will exceed the cost of a twin-engine business jet airplane (in the 1950s four years of tuition cost about the same as a new Chevrolet).
Sunday, September 19, 2004
eBayer Buyer Goes on Malicious Bidding Spree
An eBay buyer using the ID "Bleastwood" went on a bidding spree on Thursday, purchasing 16,000 items, and apparently paying for none. Bleastwood used eBay's Buy It Now option to end the auctions. Items ranged from a one-cent "War of the Worlds CD" to a $798,886.86 airplane.
Nasty car wreck caught on live TV
Of course, the reporter and satellite truck had nothing to do with it...
Sherpa Autonomous Parafoil Delivery System
With conventional airdrops, the Marines have to fly low, around 2000 feet, to make sure the goods are delivered accurately. And they have to do it fast, to make sure they don't get hit with enemy fire. Sherpa's satellite-enabled accuracy lets the Marines cargo plane fly slower and higher -- up to 25,000 feet, avoiding shots from below.
Benefactor - Behind The Scenes
The Benefactor is not about who I like the most. I know exactly what I am looking for from each test. These are tests for success, not who I want to have a drink with. This is a single elimination event. Who ever is standing at the end gets 1mm dollars.
Friday, September 17, 2004
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
What's outside your window today?
What if only your imagination limited what you could see outside your windows?
Monday, September 13, 2004
Possibly Too Much Truck. Like That’s A Problem.
| "We can see it as a vehicle for business people who want to make a distinct impression. For personal use, it's for people who want to make a statement." What a real PowerSeller would drive. |
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100 Photographs that changed the World
| Having been in the business of presenting stirring, revelatory photography since 1936, LIFE has a vested interest in claiming for photojournalism a place of high importance. |
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Online shoppers to 'feel' clothes
Software using a series of interactive virtual reality animations has been developed by a fashion student at Nottingham Trent University. Nicola Davison designed the programme, called Click 2 Touch, "to make shopping online fun and rewarding," she said.
Saturday, September 11, 2004
1992 Dodge Custom Mini Cargo VAN
This is a Very fun van a must have for a Collage Student or anyone who like things a little different.
You think he's referring to an Art major?
The Shot Heard Round the World
The idea that the intellectual resources of a major news agency are always superior to the blogosphere is given by lie by citing these two separate lines of analysis which, though proceeding from different starting points, both led to the conclusion that the documents which Dan Rather relied on to question the Bush National Guard record were faked.
The Face of Tomorrow
| The large metropolises of the world are magnets for migrants from all parts of the planet resulting in new mixtures of peoples – many never seen before. What might a typical inhabitant of this new metropolis look like in one or two hundred years if this diversity settled down into something more uniform? The Face of Tomorrow attempts to find this face by taking photographs of the current inhabitants and compositing their faces to create a typical face. |
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Typewriter Art
Paul was born in Philadelphia on September 21, 1921. Although severe cerebral palsy kept him out of school, it hasn't kept him from having a remarkable life!
Friday, September 10, 2004
eBay Bans Book
The controversial new book "Why Is America So FAT?", which criticizes the pharmaceutical industry for causing the obesity epidemic, has been banned by online auction company eBay. Auctions listed for the book by Internet retailer InterNutrition.com were repeatedly cancelled by eBay with the only explanation being that the auctions violated eBay's guidelines.
Probably some low level clerk mishandling policy, but eBay better wake up. Monopoly litigation is just around the corner.
My War Continues...
I am officially no longer writing about any of my personal experiences here in Iraq on this website. For two reasons...
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Hotel del Lago
Photographs of the Hotel del Lago in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Many moons ago, I ran a business out of that building.
The Data Fountain
This fountain is connected to money currency rates on the internet. It is realtime! Refreshed every five seconds. This mobile fountain measures 5x4x3 meters. The relation between money and water is evident. On our datafountain we display the Yen, Euro and Dollar (¥€$).
NASA's Genesis Capsule Crashes
NASA's Genesis return capsule crashed into the desert Wednesday morning due to an apparent malfunction in its parachutes.
1500 sq.mi. WiFi HotSpot
Covering parts of Walla Walla, Columbia, Franklin, Benton and Umatilla counties, Columbia Energy's 1,500-square-mile Wi-Fi hot spot is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
"Wow," said Dianah Neff, chief information officer at the city of Philadelphia when told of Columbia Energy's Wi-Fi system. "Certainly, 1,500 square miles is very large."
2002 Chevrolet 3500 Express Dual Rear Wheels 4x4
| Just gorgeous... maybe a diesel, and extended body, but why quibble? |
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Cuban on Apprentice vs. Benefactor
The Benefactor ’s success will depend on how the audience responds to a 2nd grade teacher with satanic like tatoos , a black gay bartender who carries around a picture of Oprah and asks it what Oprah would do , a womens professional football player who wants to kick everyone’s ass, a super hot beauty queen, who is far from as innocent as she tries to come across….. and 12 others, who are incredibly competitive and realize that for a million dollars, the game is always on.
Pre-Paid Cellular Comparison
I've never seen this detailed a comparison. I'm on AT&T's Free2Go, which turns out to be the least expensive.
NetFlix / TiVo Off?
Spokespersons for Netflix and TiVo dismissed a Newsweek report Tuesday that the two companies were planning a joint venture...
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Fanwing Aircraft
It may look like a combine-harvester but a plane designed in a Tuscan farmhouse is being hailed as one of the great breakthroughs in aeronautical history.
Monday, September 06, 2004
The emerging two cultures of the internet
There are two cultures growing - those who can filter, and those who can’t - and it may well be up to us who can to help those who can’t to join the modern world, lest they drag everyone back with them.
NetFlix / TiVo
Later this month, NEWSWEEK has learned, the companies plan to unveil a simple but significant partnership that could shake up the media world.
Skype VoIP
Skype's distinction is that, for now at least, it is the easiest, fastest and cheapest way for individual customers to begin using VoIP. It works this way...
Terminal Man
He always ate a MacDonald's egg and bacon croissant for breakfast and a McDonald's fish sandwich for dinner. (Perhaps one day McDonald's will have the wit to sign Alfred up for a celebrity endorsement.) He always left a tip. Alfred was not, to put it bluntly, a bum.
Sunday, September 05, 2004
Stuffed Nose
Normally I tell people that Chinese isn’t really as hard as they think, and that characters are actually pretty easy to remember once you get the hang of it. And then something like this comes along and kicks me in the ass.
Saturday, September 04, 2004
Rhapsody Radish
This looks like THE place for Rhapsody playlists. I'm listening to Essential Movie Soundtracks.
Friday, September 03, 2004
Gates response to Apple's critique
In an interview this week with BusinessWeek magazine, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates rejected the notion promoted by Apple CEO Steve Jobs that portable video isn't important.
"Ask kids in the back of a car on a two-hour trip, 'Hey, would you like to have your videos there?' My kids would," Gates said. "I guess Steve's kids just listen to Bach and Mozart. But mine, they want to watch 'Finding Nemo.' I don't know who made that, but it's really a neat movie."
Shania Twain Stinks
Shania Twain uses music as a means of personal expression. Scentstories by Febreze enables her to use scents in a similar way, creating the multiple scent experience of a real environment at home or on the road.
Thursday, September 02, 2004
53 Million American Adults are IM Users
A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that fifty-three (53) million American adults are Instant Message users. Some 42% of online Americans use instant messaging, and 24% of instant messengers say they use IM more frequently than email.
Echo Company - 'Magnificent Bastards'
An emotionally trying account of an ambush in Iraq this past April that took the lives of twelve Americans and who knows how many Iraqis, from two journalists who were there. Included is a timeline, audio & video, photogalleries, and reactions from the friends and family they left behind. You can read a USMC account of the memorial service here.
Panoramic Protest
In front of Madison Square Garden on Seventh Avenue, site of the Republican National Convention, United for Peace and Justice marshals keep a buffer zone between protest marchers and the news media.
Kennedy Space Center is a Ghost Town
We are securing the facility and the Shuttle Orbiters for the storm. For everything up to a catagory IV hurricane we have a "ride out" crew on the base during the storm to do what they can safely do to protect the Flight hardware. However for catagory IV and V the hardware is on it's own. No one will be on the KSC property for this storm which is expected to remain a stron Cat. IV.
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Saudis Kill To Go Swede
Hundreds of shoppers crammed into a brand-new Ikea store as it opened in Saudi Arabia, crushing three or more people to death.
Microsoft Music
Microsoft opens the store early. Go to:
http://beta.music.msn.com/
$0.99 songs, Radio, no subscriptions. I think Real's Rhapsody is a better deal.
http://beta.music.msn.com/
$0.99 songs, Radio, no subscriptions. I think Real's Rhapsody is a better deal.
Rooms for Rent: Maid Service, Hot Meals, No Men
NEW YORK -- When 22-year-old Brigette Abercrombie moved to Manhattan two weeks ago from her rural hometown of Dahlonega, Ga., her father was allowed just a fleeting glimpse of her new third-floor apartment. He saw his daughter and her six suitcases to the room and then, accompanied by a building employee, was escorted back to the lobby.
Logitetch Laser Mouse
If you thought smooth tracking optical sensors were an advancement over mechanical ball-based mice, let us introduce you to the mouse that takes precision and performance to a whole new level: the Logitech® MX™1000 Laser Cordless Mouse, the world's first laser mouse.
Philly Considers Wireless Internet for All
PHILADELPHIA - For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot.
The ambitious plan, now in the works, would involve placing hundreds, or maybe thousands of small transmitters around the city — probably atop lampposts. Each would be capable of communicating with the wireless networking cards that now come standard with many computers.
How To Beat The Big Guys
Just answer your E-mail.
Among key cross-industry findings:
- A shocking 41% of the companies did not respond
- Only 39% of the overall sample sent an answer within 24 hours
- Only 15% of companies sent any form of acknowledgement, a very simple tool used to set customer expectations and maintain interest
- Only 17% of the companies in the overall sample responded with an accurate and complete answer
- 6% did not offer any form of email contact
The Listology
It all started with two observations:
- Most folks like to create and share "best" and "worst" lists relating to movies, books, and music, and,
- Comparing lists and finding people of similar tastes is a great way to find new things to watch, read, or listen to.
Stolen Vehicles Rating
- Daimler Chrysler Neon
- Daimler Chrysler Dodge Intrepid
- Daimler Chrysler Dodge Stratus
- Suzuki Esteem
- Daimler Chrysler Sebring
- Daimler Chrysler Dodge Neon
- Honda Acura Nsx
- Mitsubishi Montero
- Mitsubishi Galant
- Mitsubishi Mirage
- Mitsubishi Montero Sport
- Ford Motor Co. Ford F150 Pickup
Audio Blogging
"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which
distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means
to an unimproved end... We are in great haste to construct a magnetic
telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have
nothing important to communicate."
I demand four minutes and twenty seconds of your life...
Audio and Text
Audio and Text
eBay: Sold on Grid
The next vision for this thing is to give the 450,000 people who make their living in whole or in part on eBay information from the data warehouse to help them understand what products are selling the best and what they should put more of on the site.
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