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[source] The Walkmen - "On the Water" On the
water, written in invisible lines, invisible for now, are secret water countries. Ocean, river, and
nation lakes that are far older than our mere land states. Immense wars, vast campaigns of
espionage and intrigue, gruesome battles, even interminable grudges and millennial stalemates. The
countries are not stratified along lines of species, that's a classic human mistake, most ocean
states (like Br'fellia, Nochvaleee Kingdom, and The Huv) will have many whales in their fleet, but
also hundreds of thousands of jellyfish, a few dozen sting rays, and carp carp carp. We're talking
about tens of thousands of years of rivalry, trading, invasion, occupation, devastation,
deliberation, slavery, loss, love, hope. A young couple, dolphin lovers, separated like a million
others, her to fight and him to light the porch light every night. But soon, the war will come home
to him, come crashing and squeezing in from the Roof, rushing up from the Bottom, and he'll either
escape or he won't. It's really none of your concern; it never was. [Pre-order] Phil and the Osophers - "High Art" Biggest
hurdle to me even posting this at all: the band name. Biggest reason it jumped that hurdle:
"for braggin' rights, awoo-oo." [site]
Metuschélah, âgé de cent quatre-vingt-sept ans, engendra Lémec.
Quand Lemec est né, les 8 générations précédentes
étaient toujours en vie (cf. graphique de la
Bible - Aberration n°24) : Adam, Seth, Emesch, Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
Hénoc, Metuschelah
En conséquence, Adam a connu son
arrière-arrière-arrière-arrière-arrière-arrière-petit-fils.
Joli, non ? Si les rédacteurs de la bible avaient fait un petit effort, Adam aurait
pu croiser Noé et se faire noyer par lui.
It’s been a while we didn’t see news of the famous rack for HDD 2.5’’ and
3.5’’. Here’s, a new HDD Rack 3-to-1 which provides an USB Hub, a Card Reader
(SD/CompactFlash/Memory Stick).
And this one features USB 2.0 and eSATA port.
Yahoo Music just announced that it's pulling the plug on its DRM server -- that means that as of
September 30, everyone who bought Yahoo Music will lose the ability to recover it from backup or
transfer it to a new PC. Like I said when MSN Music proposed to do the same thing: "All those years
the music industry spent insisting that the only way they'd sell music is with crippling DRM
attached managed to totally discredit the idea of buying music at all." Once the Yahoo store goes
down and the key servers go offline, existing tracks cannot be authorized to play on new computers.
Instead, Yahoo recommends the old, lame, and lossy workaround of burning the files to CD, then
reripping them onto the computer. Sure, you'll lose a bunch of blank CDs, sound quality, and all
the metadata, but that's a small price to pay for the privilege of being able to listen to that
music you lawfully acquired. Good thing you didn't download it illegally or just buy it on CD! No,
you were one of the digital pioneers, and in this brave new frontier world, a few people are just
going to get malaria. Fact of life. And someone will step in a bear trap, and then it's time for
the bite rag, the alcohol, and the saw. Just the price of progress. And yes, some poor group will
get trapped in snowfall when crossing the pass, and cannibalism may or may not be involved by the
time they stumble barefoot from the mountains next spring. No one can prevent such tragedies. DRM
still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it (Thanks, Denver Jewelry Guy!)...
Modofly -- who laser-etch designs into moleskine covers -- are hosting a contest for new designs
for the next batch -- one of the themes is steampunk: Get your steampens and steambrushes (maybe
steampunked computer?) ready artists! We are looking for steampunk art in a BAD way. We are really
excited about this. We already have some of the hottest steampunk artists working with us, but
maybe we don’t know about you, we have been trying to get you, or maybe this will be your
first steampunk attempt. We are looking for artwork with airships, gears, steam engines, steampunk
fashion, anything fun and retro-futuristic (we aren’t going to get too picky as long as its
super cool). We can’t wait to unveil these books and showcase the artists, so make sure you
have a shot at the action and send your stuff in today! Link See also: Dan Hillier's tentacle
horrors -- now on moleskine notebooks!...
CNET reports about an interesting test Microsoft organized in San Francisco with a group of
Windows XP users. Microsoft showed the focus group a new OS named Mojave and the reaction of the
group was overly positive. Then Microsoft revealed to the grou...
A GPS that does it all? Well the new Garmin
Nuvi 500 is a decent candidate. No matter if you are traveling or just enjoying a relaxing
walk in the park, the Nuvi 500 will deliver what's expected of a GPS device. It has routing
capabilities, improved mapping and water proof hardware to brag about.
Dan Bartel, Garmin's vice president of worldwide sales says:
This multi-mode
nüvi is the ultimate device for those seeking portable navigation in the car and in the
great outdoors. This
product allows us to combine features from several of our most popular automotive and outdoor
navigators into one compact unit. From weekend trips to the lake, to a hike around the trail,
nüvi 500 is ideal for people seeking automotive and recreational navigation in one dynamic
device.
Whenever you exit your vehicle, change your mode to anything else. You will still be able to
monitor accurate location details.
The Nuvi 500 will offer you a 3.5 inch water proof screen, a compass page, a track log and a
removable, rechargeable battery for longer out doors activities. The "Where Am I?" feature will
always show you the current location while the Garmin Connect Photos will let you choose between
millions of geo located photos from Google's Panoramio.
BlueChart® g2 Vision, and Inland Lake Vision will help you a lot if you are traveling
by sea. You will get specific details about pot soundings, intertidal zones, wrecks, port plans,
restricted areas and more.
For more driving fun, the historic Route 66 map guide will show you specific sites and memorable
places to stop in. Preloaded with topographic maps of the 48 US states, Hawaii and Puerto Rico
the 500 version is quite a catch. There's also a 550 version which has enhanced street coverage
in the USA or Canada. The European market will receive a scooter GPS for now which will be
available as an extra accessory in other markets too.
Tim sez, "Ruth Whiting show's 'Plug In' is a show oil paintings at the Wedge Gallery in Asheville,
NC. Ruth Whiting's paintings create a luscious mythology surrounding the ordinary plugs and cables
that connect our technological lives. Liberated from their mundane function and rendered in glowing
colors, these every day objects assume an almost sacred quality." Link (Thanks, Tim!) See also: Oil
paintings of giant power-cables...
Carbon nanotubes may
very well kill you (okay, so that's very much a stretch), but you'll have a hard time
convincing the dutiful scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to stop their
promising research. Put simply (or as simply as possible), said researchers have discovered that
"networks of single-walled carbon nanotubes printed onto bendable plastic perform well as
semiconductors in integrated circuits." So well, in fact, that the nanotube networks could one day
"replace organic semiconductors in applications such as flexible displays." Granted, there is still
much to do before these networks are ready for product integration, but you can bet these folks
aren't hitting the brakes after coming this far.Read | Permalink | Email
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Our network blog last100 has an interesting interview with Nicolas Gramlich,
founder of anddev.org - an online community for Android
developers. As editor Steve O'Hear notes in his intro, there have been issues with Google's
mobile OS of late - an incomplete and buggy SDK, favoritism towards
select developers, lack of transparency, and concerns that the platform could become fragmented
and that Google has ceded too much
control to carriers. But all those problems may fade into the ether if, as Gramlich claims in
the last100 interview, "Android is for the masses, iPhone for the rich".
Android is Google's mobile operating system and competes with the likes of Apple's OSX for iPhone
and Nokia's Symbian open source OS. Gramlich told Steve O'Hear that "there will be a great
variety of Android devices all over the world, where there will always be just the iPhone." He
also dismissed the threat of Nokia and its recent acquired controlling
interest of open source mobile OS, Symbian. "I think Android will win over Symbian", said
Gramlich, "as there are so many companies behind the Open Handset Alliance."
So what draws developers like Nicolas Gramlich to Android? Gramlich says that "Android's main
attraction is its simplicity" and that this enables the rapid development of "feature-rich
applications".
Asked by Steve O'Hear what kind of apps we can expect from Android, Gramlich replied that "we
will definitely see a lot of location-aware and social-networking applications, that will try to
be the social app for Android. I've seen so many that I cannot even count them." He noted that
integration with Google Maps is especially tight, which he says doesn't currently exist on other
mobile platforms. Indeed his own Android app is a free navigation app called AndNav! (screenshot below).
Despite all the positive attributes of Android, currently it is vaporware (no commercial phones
running Android yet exist) and there has also been developer
unrest because the SDK hasn't been updated for some time. Gramlich admits that "the next SDK
has to be overwhelming to get Android back on track".
I continued my examination of the topic of apologetic methodology using the
recent debate on the resurrection as the basis on today's program. Here's the program (free/high
quality).
I can't guarantee that I will always be able to do this, but I will try. I
recorded today's program on video, and provide it here. I know many listen by mp3, and that's
great, but some enjoy watching, even when there isn't a whole lot of action going on! In any case,
here is today's DL in video format. If you enjoy this program, please remember to pray for us and
support us. Thanks!
Cat 2 hurricane hit the bottom of the queer-o state. I was privileged to go through it. My cable is
still out (it's laying on the ground), but there was someone to leach off of...
(flooding water starting to reach my car^)
My city suffered minimal damage, but my parent's house is in shambles. They have a hole in their
roof.
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama was due to arrive in Paris on Friday, one day after
speaking to hundreds of thousands of exuberant people in Berlin.
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