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By Dave, July 12, 2005 11:39 pm

Myths might be related to earthquakes

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If they say so. More info please! Maybe add a few links. Something more than this with a title like that…

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 11:35 pm

Greek island hosts three-day conference on Atlantis myth

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Cleaning out the tabs I had meant to read over the last two or three days and haven’t gotten to yet.

I wonder why this was posted on PhysOrg. And come to think about it I don’t know why I am linking to it. Oh well…

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 11:31 pm

Good Connections Are Everything

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My head hurts now. Think I will look at it again tomorrow.

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 11:30 pm

Boing Boing: Water pump driven by kids’ roundabout

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Multi use. Fun and work. I like!

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 11:07 pm

The Huffington Post | The Blog
A wonderful thing happened 110 years ago today…
…on July 12, 1895 R. Buckminster Fuller arrived on board Spaceship Earth.

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Didn’t realize it had been that long. He was born around the same year as my grandfather. Bucky had a unique way of looking at everything. I have read several of his books and articles and he was one of a kind. Here’s to you, Bucky!

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 9:33 pm

Carny Lingo from Welcome to The Fair

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This is cool! And funny, and sad… But mostly cool!

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 9:23 pm

WeatherTalk :: General Thoughts :: Times Are A Changin’
Looking back at Dennis one more time…

I am beginning to realize that we broke lots of new ground in relaying weather information to the masses. We had not one, but two meteorologists “blogging” from the Alabama Gulf coast with laptops and wireless Internet access.

My associates Brian Peters and Bill Murray posted to this blog before, during, and after the arrival of Hurricane Dennis. And, the blog reached more people than some TV stations during the event! The number of people reading the ABC 33/40 weather blog here peaked at 71,342 last Friday, followed by 67,394 Saturday and 55,333 on Sunday. Just a year or so ago most people around here never heard of a blog (short for web log). Astounding.

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Astounding, yes, and I for one am grateful that they are moving in this direction. We don’t have cable tv (internet yes. You have to decide on your priorities…) and haven’t for years. The only news or weather information we get is over the internet and during Dennis we were able to keep track of things a whole lot better than ever before. I have hits counted there on all three days. As well as most other days. Tis always an interesting and informative read.

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By Steve, July 12, 2005 9:23 pm

This one is interesting. I am posting the Slashdot listing because the comments give a better understanding of what is going on here than anything else I have found on this issue. Apparently several of the slashdotters have known about this for quite a while, and have been in communication with either Intel, or AMD, or both, about this. IANAL, but AMD’s case is looking better all the time. Sabotaging your compiler to make your competitor’s processor run slower than yours may not be against the law, but when you deny it in the face of what the code says, it sure ain’t going to help your monopoly court case.Slashdot | AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code

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By Steve, July 12, 2005 9:17 pm

Hewlett-Packard reinvents the inkjet, and lowers the cost of ink refills. Sounds good, but didn’t other manufacturers have printers that didn’t incorporate the printhead in the ink cartridge? Or is the fact that they can us photolithography to make the entire printhead assembly the breakthrough? IANAE (I Am Not An Engineer), so I can’t really say. Paying less for cartridges sounds good, though, but the printer is more. (Of course)HP Finally Delivers On ‘Invent’ – Forbes.com

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 7:35 pm

The Doc Searls Weblog : Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Anals of Customer Service, Part 235, 673,458,319

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Gotta love the unbending mind…

My favorite from the tech support end: This woman comes in. She’s from Piedmont. (This tells folks around here a lot about what comes next)

Anyway, she starts off by spending about 5 minutes telling me how much she knows about computers and how she has been using AO-HELL for over 2 years now and knows everything about a computer.

So I stand and listen and then she finely gets to the point. Her problem is that the computer was acting slow and taking a long time to connect.

2 year old machine with her and 3 others on AO-HELL. Running win 95 with 16 meg of ram and a 200 meg hd. Out of space. She can look at this and bring it in if she can’t clear some stuff herself… Yea right…

So I start with telling her to go to the My Computer icon on the desktop.

Now we are face to face. I wish it wasn’t so as this is a 250+ pound 5 foot 4 inch female in a dirty torn tee shirt and stretch pants (also dirty also torn). Bathing didn’t seem to have taught in the school, where I suspect she spent most of her learning years playing hooky, either. She also smoked. And drank. But back to the moment.

So we are standing there and she gets a funny expression on her face and is silent for just a minute so I repeat myself and tell her to go to the My Computer icon on the desktop. More silence and then she goes:

What’s an icon?

I had to turn and walk away for a minute to prepare for this one. And to snicker and chortle. Then turn and spent 30 minutes talking her through everything only to have to do it over the phone again later. And then to have her take the equipment somewhere else to be fixed…

Some days I think about getting back into the biz. Then I think of this and a few other similar episodes and suddenly feel much better about being gainfully unemployed…

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 5:48 pm

UF Researchers Take Pulse Of Hurricane Dennis

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Cool!

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 5:28 pm

LinuxWorld | Linux thin clients get a Trim

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Am I missing the link to the product under discussion in this article or do they just leave the reader hanging. Me thinks that we have a print only mentality here…

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 5:24 pm

Sony, Riken Develop High-Resolution, Rollable Display Panel @ Industry News (AdvancedImagingPro.com / Advanced Imaging Magazine)

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Color or Monochrome? Either is impressive at this resolution.

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By Dave, July 12, 2005 7:11 am

GROKLAW
The Stupidest Lawsuit Since the World Began Tuesday, July 12 2005 @ 07:14 AM EDT

I know. You think you already know the stupidest lawsuit since the world began, and indeed I once described it that way to a journalist myself. Then recently, we saw litigation efforts that knocked it down as king of that mountain. But now I have the winner, for sure.

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This is truly stupid. Even for the french. I mean it’s even worse than the english food thing…