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By Dave, September 13, 2006 1:42 pm

Nun tried to kill priest after finding him in bed with another woman | the Daily Mail

She’s 39, he’s 70.  But they’re Italian so… 😉

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By Dave, September 13, 2006 1:38 pm

The Blog | Tom D’Antoni: Job #1 Is NOT Iraq | The Huffington Post

Damn if he ain’t right!  If you have medical insurance you are being robbed.  If you have to have medical help and have no insurance you are gonna be raped.  Kinda a catch 22 but concidering that everyone needs health care sooner or later they ARE gonna get you.  Go, read, get pissed off.

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By Dave, September 13, 2006 1:28 pm

Tracing the limits of quantum weirdness – fundamentals – 13 September 2006 – New Scientist

Since a lot of this stuff goes behind a pay wall a short while after it goes online here is the article as posted online:

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle limits what we can know about the quantum world. Now the uncertainty principle is being harnessed to see if it is possible to identify a point at which matter begins to exhibit weird quantum behaviour.

According to the uncertainty principle, measuring the position of an object always disturbs its momentum in an unpredictable way. Physicists ordinarily see this so-called “back action” as a nuisance, but a team led by Keith Schwab of the University of Maryland, College Park, decided to put it to good use.

Schwab’s team fabricated a nanoscale resonator – the equivalent of a tiny pendulum – on a silicon chip, which oscillates at 20 megahertz. On the same chip, they created a single-electron transistor and electrically coupled it to the resonator in such a way that any change in the resonator’s position caused a change in the transistor’s current.

Measuring the current should cause back action in the resonator – and it did (Nature, vol 443, p 193). In most cases, the back action caused the resonator to get noisier or “hotter” than it would have if the measurement hadn’t taken place. But when the team set the transistor voltage to a value that let electrons tunnel through the device, allowing the transistor to absorb energy, they found that the resonator cooled from the ambient temperature of about 500 millikelvin down to about 300 millikelvin.

By cooling the resonator in this way – to temperatures out of reach of conventional technology – Schwab hopes to put it into a state called quantum superposition, where it is in two states at once. The resonator would be the largest object placed in such a state. By monitoring if and when the superposition vanishes, the team aims to probe the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds.

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By Dave, September 13, 2006 12:55 pm

The Snackbox Diaries: Introducing AbuseOS from Twinksoft corp

ROFLMAO!

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By Dave, September 13, 2006 12:51 pm

WWdN: In Exile: iTunes 7 ate all my purchased music. Awesome.

Will is experiencing the JOY of DRM from Apple computer’s totally awsome(ly bad) iTunes store.  Did a sync and now all of his play lists are gone.  Poof!  No more.  You just got to hate it when that happens and after dumping quite a few bucks into it have nothing left but a bad taste in your mouth.

I don’t own an iPod but do have two iBooks.  However, when Apple started down the DRM path to total control, I quit updating my OS X’s and am waiting for Ubuntu to fix a couple of more things and then will wipe the DRM laden OS X from at least my iBook.  Cat may still use hers but then she still uses Winblows XP too.  Which I refuse to work on in either sense of the word.

I really do hope Will gets his music back, though according to Apple and Mircosloth the music they sell is not yours but only a rental.

Just remember, there is a LOT of FreeOpenSourceSoftware out there that doesn’t call you a crook and say NO if you want to play music on more than (insert # here)  authorized computers/devices.  And I don’t get pissed off at it near as much as I used to when using either Microsloth or Apple products… 😉

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By Dave, September 13, 2006 12:08 pm

Moving to freedom, one step at a time | Free Software Magazine

A journey from Microsoft slavery to FOSS freedom, one step at a time.  He makes some good points and if you just have to use Windoze then by all means move to Firefox and other FOSS programs  NOT owned by big biz.  Good read and some good comments too.

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By Dave, September 13, 2006 12:02 pm

Roq La Rue Gallery – Pop Surrealism and Underground Contemporary Art

Roq la Rue Gallery
presents
Tiki Art Now! Volume 3
Curated by Otto Von Stroheim of Tiki News magazine

Opening reception: Friday September 15th (6-9 pm)
Live set by renowned Exotica/Lounge band Lushy (7-745pm)

Also, the musical stylings of Selector Lopaka before and after Lushy

Artists in attendance: Shag, Lisa Petrucci, Heather Watts, Davey and Dawn Frasier

Exhibit runs through October 9th

Crazy Al Evans
Shrunken Head Velvet #1 in Rarotongan vs. Marquesan Cannibal Frame
acrylic on black velvet, carved wood/bamboo
24″ x 27″

Be sure to check out the online gallery – Good Stuff! Some NSFW.

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By Dave, September 13, 2006 11:45 am

Wrote them yet again.  Not expecting any answer other than a autoresponse but will keep trying and posting about their lack of response with each passing day.

Just for giggles try going to the Technoprimitive feed at Technorati  and typing in technorati.  There are 18+ posts since August that show up when searched from the search box on Technoprimitive.org but Technorati shows 0.  And they are susposed to be one of the best sources for current info on the blogging web.  NOT from my viewpoint… 🙁

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By Dave, September 13, 2006 11:17 am

Boing Boing: Cingular bans the word “Engadget” from its message boards

So if you (Cingular) don’t like what some site says about you, just ban them or their name (Engadget).  That will work right?  May help keep the word from apearing on your site but then the web picks up on your (Cingular’s) stupidity and then everyone knows what kind of idiot you (Cingular) are/is…

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By Dave, September 12, 2006 6:05 pm

Boing Boing: Chumby chairman interview: squeezable, open bean-bag computer

Open in several ways.  Strange ideas but may be the leader in future open architecture equipment.

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By Dave, September 12, 2006 6:02 pm

ARTICLE: Why Crown Vics are tops with cops (The Virginian-Pilot – HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)

Why Clown Vics are the car of choice with cops.  Way back when I was doing custom car work I hated putting the cages and stuff in anything else.  Some of the Chevys had 4 to 6 inches in the back floorboard after the cage was installed.  Crown Vics had 14 to 18 inches with the front seat all the way back and the cage in there.  Roomy cars.

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By Dave, September 12, 2006 5:58 pm

Paramount Theater – Broadway’s Best In The ‘Burbs!
Rings: A Fellowship Of Fools

Staring Mustard Man!

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By Dave, September 12, 2006 5:30 pm

Andy Ihnatko’s YellowText

Andy points to a wonderful Gutenberg etext by P.G. Wodehouse, which is one of his Jeeves books that has no US copyright.  Wonderful stuff!

Direct link to the text:  My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse – Project Gutenberg

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By Dave, September 12, 2006 12:03 am

SFGate: Culture Blog! : Moby to Bush: ‘Stay Out of New York’

😉

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By Dave, September 11, 2006 11:30 pm

The Blog | RJ Eskow: DARK MILESTONE: More Americans Have Now Died In Iraq Than Died On 9/11 | The Huffington Post

And boy, let me tell you, I feel so much safer, not!

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By Dave, September 11, 2006 10:25 pm

‘Berlin’: Rotating Fireplace of Glass and Steel – Gizmodo

Designer fireplace. Hope it is gas fired, as where would you put the wood? And why the hell would anyone want a fireplace to rotate???

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By Dave, September 11, 2006 10:22 pm

Techdirt: Is Protecting The Prepaid Cell Phone Business A Matter Of National Security?

Interesting thoughts on a serious problem we have with the word/concept Security…

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By Dave, September 11, 2006 10:20 pm

Boing Boing: Papercraft food printed with edible inks at Chicago’s Moto restaurant

Weird stuff.  Like really weird stuff…

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By Dave, September 11, 2006 10:19 pm

xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – COMPLY

New one out – Search History.  😉

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By Dave, September 11, 2006 9:46 am

Roper’s Knot Pages – Hitches – Constrictor knot

Lots o’ Knots! This link was found at Humu Kon Tiki » Blog Archive » How to Build a Tiki Bar .
Lots of closeups of knot illustrations. Good stuff!

Update: A new user, illbixby has commented on this and posted (see comments) a scan he did of a drawing of a transom lashing which he used building the tiki bar, which I will also post here for reference.  Thanks illbixby!  Not sure if knotphile is a word or not but it should be! ;-)  Also including the picture of the transom knot marlin, again for reference.

Transom Lashing