What if America Wasn’t America?

The Ad Council put together a series of Public Service Announcements titled Campaign for Freedom following the events of 9/11. Designed to celebrate the freedoms that define the USA, the middle 4 of 6 clips also serve as stark warnings against allowing the campaign against terrorism to become a campaign against our civil liberties. As … Read more

I Think He’s Got a Point!

Written in response to the late 1990’s decision by the Kansas Board of Education having voted to eliminate the teaching of evolution, this Memo From God is still a good read today.

Assembled With Care

I recently built a new home computer system, though that’s not what this post is about. While I didn’t have any serious problems, I’m *sure* things would have gone even better had I used the crack assembly team this fellow used: Team Lego!

Even Celebrities Do It

enjoy fine cooking, that is. 🙂 At first I thought this was a spoof site, and I guess it is in some ways, but there’s no denying that they have many sumptious food photos: Food P*rn.

Twin Lakes, July 2002

Using the IDS, perl CGI based solution, I’ve put together a slide show: IDS: Mike & Sheryl’s PhotoBlog :: of our recent trip to the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. There are more photos here.

Insanity Test

I’m guessing this is mostly a guy (boy?) thing, but I got a kick out of it: The Insanity Test

A Perfect World

from declan’s politech mailing list: politechbot.com: Peer-to-peer hacking bill officially introduced in House ugh. my stomache just took a turn for the worse. I feel like I’m living in a bad remake of bladerunner (the overall darkness came to mind, nothing specific). “back in 03, congress wrote some bad laws which essentially allowed free-rein for … Read more

hihihi hihihi

I often think that cleverness and creativity are (when we’re not busy killing each other) two of the behaviours that strongly mark us as human. You have to follow this link to “get it”. 🙂 Google Search: hihihi

Cold Noodles With Sesame Sauce, Chicken and Cucumbers

I haven’t tried this yet, but didn’t want to lose it, and I have been in the mood to try something like this, so there you go! 🙂 Recipe: Cold Noodles With Sesame Sauce, Chicken and Cucumbers (Adapted from NY Times 6/12/02) Recipe: Cold Noodles With Sesame Sauce, Chicken and Cucumbers (Adapted from NY Times … Read more

WTC Replacement Design

Looking a bit like a SimCity creation, this is a very creative proposal for a connected complex to replace the WTC. The New World Trade Center 2002 :: Proposal for a new beginning (may not work in NS/Mozilla)