a long article that talks about china's attacks on US networks, and how they may have caused a large power outage in florida.
ruh-roh!
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20080531_6948.php

am i the only one that didn't know there are still tribes living deep in the amazon that have never had contact with the outside world? check out the pictures on cnn where they try to shoot the passing airplane with arrows.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/30/brazil.tribes/index.html

more pictures for your viewing pleasure.
http://www.bryanzimmer.net/pics/main.php

i feel so naked now that i'm mustache-less after a month's worth of growing. what can i do to regain my masculinity? lift weights? buy a muscle car? become a lumberjack?

here's a visual representation of gas prices around the US and the world.
http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2008/05/how-painful-are.html

looks like the kids at google maps have been driving a lot recently in their little camera car. check out the expanded coverage in blue, then zoom out to see the rest of the country. they even have some in alaska! do you think they pay contractors to do drive around, or do some lucky/unlucky interns get to do it?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=36.998166,-121.857605&spn=0.912521,1.593018&z=9

i have some old electronics and stuff that i want to get rid of. does anyone want to make some easy money by selling it for me on ebay? i just can't get myself motivated to do it, and i haven't been able to find any stores around here that offer that kind of service.

the subject line of a spam i just got: "donkey may become habit-forming"

the nsa has an exhibit on hobos at the national cryptologic museum. awesome.
http://www.nsa.gov/museum/hobo_2007.cfm

it won't be long before these self-reassembling robots come looking for john connor.
"jawhn get dohwn!!"
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/04/shapeshifting_robots.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

some guys broke into the epilepsy foundation's website and posted animated flashing pictures to try to induce seizures in people who visited the site.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_22481.aspx

sitting on the couch at the end of the day, surfing the web, drinking a lonely corona in honor of our mexican brethren.

maker faire was full of nerdy goodness. i'm so going back next year.
here are my pics.

i finally put some stuff in my flickr account. i'll still keep all my pictures on my server, but will use flickr to host the ones i think are more purty.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18889598@N00/sets/72157604886874619/detail/

for those who have tried to convince me of the error of my ways in my last post (there were several of you), see the clarification i added. i was trying to say that i hate podcasts that cover data-heavy technical topics, when they would be much more effective in a written form. i know i said i hate all podcasts in the first sentence, but that was just to stir the pot and make me seem like even more of a curmudgeon than i already am. besides, this is the internet. who checks facts and logical fallacies these days? i could write a post about mother teresa's roller derby days if i wanted to. ahh freedom.
the internet: more american than hot apple pie and baseball.

i hate podcasts. they're the worst thing to come out of the internet, except for geocities web pages with flashing yellow text on a white background.
"but why?" asks the innocent netizen, clutching his (or her) favorite podcast close to their chest like a wounded kitten. i'll tell you why. i'm not going to waste half an hour or more listening to a podcast, putting up with some yokel interjecting allegedly witty banter to get to the meat of the episode. even assuming the hosts were cut and dry like newscasters i would still need to listen in real time to get the content out of the podcast. and don't come at me with your new-fangled fast-foward and such, there aren't any markers of significant topics to automatically fast-forward to. i'm basically listening to a reel-to-reel when i could just read the newspaper, skimming topics and lines as i desire. boo audio. huzzah text.
now where's my slate and chalk?

update (5/3/08 11:05pm): i was thinking that the only type of podcasts that redeems themselves are ones like npr's all songs considered. it's a podcast that lets you listen to new, relatively undiscovered music. good concept, good medium, good delivery. i still don't recommend listening to podcasts to get any sort of hard facts or large amounts of data.

going to maker faire with my dad saturday. yay!