Archive for October, 2008
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
MTV Music - huge archive of linkable and embeddable music videos. Finally! MTV does something music-related!
Roanoke Robotics Society and Club - We actually have a Robotics club in little ol' Roanoke? Very surprising! In fact, they are hosting a robotics competition event at our science museum ...
Posted in music, politics, science, space, tech, toys | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
A fake flier is circulating in Hampton Roads, Virginia. It encourages Republicans to vote on November 4 and Democrats to vote on November 5:
It's amazing what people will try to do to mess with the election.
Posted in politics, scams | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 24th, 2008
My del.icio.us auto-posting doodad no longer works. Automation has failed me. *Cry*.
So, here are some hand-cranked, slow-cooked links for today.
X-rays detected from Scotch tape. Incredible. Maybe somebody will exploit this to take a peek inside of Christmas presents.
How the Weird Mars Science Laboratory Floating Sky Crane ...
Posted in computing, money, science | 1 Comment »
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Obama held a rally here in little ol' Roanoke on Friday. He is the first major-party presidential candidate since JFK in 1960 to visit Roanoke. So, Kathryn and I took the day off and waited in the cold, wet line with our friend Kelly to witness this historic ...
Posted in news, people, politics, religion | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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This morning on AOL instant messenger, I got hit with some bizarre messages out of the blue:
kemptcoho: Let's look at the world with respect to theta.
doranchak: ok, let's do that
kemptcoho: what up
kemptcoho: so who is this?
doranchak: i was going to ask you the same thing
kemptcoho: ...
Posted in bizarre, computing, meaningless, tech, toys | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
(thanks, Chris)
Posted in politics | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
"This image from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Optical Microscope shows a strongly magnetic surface which has scavenged particles from within the microscope enclosure before a sample delivery from the lander's Robotic Arm. The particles correspond to the larger grains seen in fine orange material that makes up most of the ...
Posted in food, science, space | 3 Comments »
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
I couldn't help but follow up my previous Wordle posts with some new Wordles generated from last night's VP debate transcript.
As John Hodgman said recently on Twitter during the debate broadcast: "Word salad. Word salad. Word salad. I feel like I'm hearing a spam. So ...
Posted in bizarre, meaningless, pain, politics, queasy, scams | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
It seems appropriate to follow up my previous post on politics with one about insects. We bought one of those Antworks ant habitats recently. It is filled with a NASA-developed transparent gel compound that the ants eat and tunnel through. I thought it'd be fun to make ...
Posted in animals, bizarre, science | 11 Comments »
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
I'm a little late in following up my previous post, but I was curious how last week's debate Wordle looked like broken down by each candidate.
McCain:
Obama:
Lehrer:
I wish Wordle had a B.S. detection option. But such a thing would be overworked during election season...
"We're sorry, this application is not available ...
Posted in meaningless, politics, queasy, scams | 6 Comments »