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Planet Dave! Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Pig Cam?
(From BoingBoing) A German game park has a web cam up that watches a family of wild boars. It's actually really cool. I work in a cave. So we have to improvise. In place of windows, we have fish tanks. So the other day, I connected to this rather than stare at the windowless walls. I ended up leaving it on in the background. You can hear birds, wind, and the occasional scuffling and snorting of the wild boars! (The babies are really cute, too.) Keep in mind, Germany is six hours ahead of us. So if there's less than six hours until dusk, you're probably not going to see anything.
Backstage Photos from Rebel Without A Cause
Colleen has a photo journal up with backstage and rehearsal photos from Ann Arbor Civic Theater's production of Rebel Without a Cause. Who is that dashing gentleman in the kilt?
Catching Up With Jamie
It's been a while since I updated everyone on Jamie's Web surfing. Last week he sent me the Alternative Naked Mile, saying there are too many good quotes in there to pass up. He also sent me Rhino Love. (Wasn't that a Deathtongue song?) Wow. Rhinos are more near-sighted than I thought. And today he sent me the CIA Kids website. He said a comment about this site was overheard in his office: "What's up with the eagle in the KFC bucket in the backround?"
Monday, April 26, 2004
It's Over!
Well, the last showing of Rebel Without A Cause was yesterday. It was a real blast, but I'm looking forward to having some free time in the evening. I've promised myself that I wouldn't get involved in another show for a while, take some time off. (Whether or not I stick to that will of course depend on how much I miss it in the coming weeks.) That also means I won't be neglecting my online public any more. (For the time being.) Stay tuned here for news on Colleen's photo journal from her new teaching position in Japan.
Sedna's Missing Moon
From /., "Soon after the announcement of the discovery of Sedna, the solar system's furthest object and planet wanna-be, the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at it to answer some of the many questions its discovery generated. The photos were released today and are surprising for what they don’t show--a moon. Astronomers were certain it had a moon because of its slow rotation. "I'm completely baffled at the absence of a moon," says Michael Brown, Sedna’s discoverer. Story and photo at Universe Today, hubblesite and NASA press release." There's also a thing over at Science@NASA.
Is the Universe Shaped Like a Funnel?
From /., "A new theory of the shape of the Cosmos posits that the Universe may be shaped like a medieval horn, according to Frank Steiner at the University of Ulm. This theory, if true, could explain several strange observations about the microwave background radiation. The Universe would be stretched out at one end into a long tube and flared out into a bell at the opposite end. The technical name for this shape is a 'Picard topology'. To quote the article, '...our Universe is curved like a Pringle, shaped like a horn, and named after a Star Trek character. You could not make it up.'"
Howtoons
When I was little, my mom would scour the library for books like this. In addition to the toons, there are some videos from other little projects. I have to try that vacuum cleaner hovercraft.
Money That Grows On Trees
/. pointed me toward this article on plants being used to soak up soil contamination from mines. The plants are then harvested for their metal. Apparently it's difficult to make much of a profit doing this, but the soil cleanup pays for itself with a little left over for environmental education for the locals.
Interactive Fiction Competition Opens
From /., "The 2004 Interactive Fiction Competition has opened for business. The yearly competition, now celebrating its tenth anniversary, is for short pieces of interactive fiction. At this point IF authors can sign up to take part in the competition, and everyone can learn how to judge the games when they are released in October of this year. If you're not sure what interactive fiction is, take a look at Slashdot's recent review of Twisty Little Passages, a book on interactive fiction from Adventure (and earlier antecedents) to present day." I wonder if Brad's ever contributed to this. I know he modeled his dorm hall in interactive fiction.
Extreme Yo-Yoing
From /., "Unless you're a dedicated yo-yo fan and a serious competitor, I doubt that you'll hand over $400 for a yo-yo. Even if it's a state-of-the-art hogh-tech yoyo made with a forged-magnesium-alloy and coming with the latest in axle technology. With this one, you can use the freehand style, meaning that your hand is not connected to the yo-yo, but is replaced by a small counterweight. In 'Reinventing the Yo-Yo,' Science News Online says 'its balance is ensured with precision tooling to micrometer tolerances by a computer-controlled lathe.' This long article doesn't solely focus on this luxury item. Instead, it looks at the history and the physics of the yo-yo, and includes many references. A good read for a weekend! This overview contains other details and extra references about the Freehand yo-yo."
What is this thing?
From BoingBoing, "This thing is from Amherst's Archives and Special Collections. No one there knows what it's purpose is, and they are asking for readers to help." I'll bet it's some sort of clock. A ... walking clock. ... That was probably used in navigation. Or music. ... Or not.
Cool Retro Decoration
You know what would look cool on the fireplace mantel? A Floating Arm Trebuchet!
EPA: Nuclear Missiles Dangerous
Yep. Nuclear missiles are bad for the environment. I'm glad we have the EPA around to tell us these things. More specifically, the rocket engines would be a bad source of pollution. From the article, "In order to comply with EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) regulations, and at a cost of about $5.2 million per ICBM, the rocket motors on 500 Minuteman III missiles will be replaced with new ones. These rockets will emit less toxic chemicals when used. ... EPA regulations do not apply in foreign countries, so no changes are being made to reduce the harmful environmental effects of the nuclear warheads."
Taking The Onion Seriously
You may or may not have heard about when the Beijing Evening News reported on how the United States Congress was threatening to walk out if they didn't get a new Capitol building with a retractable roof. Their only source was, of course, The Onion. Wired has a cool write-up on this suprisingly common phenomenon. The last quote had me laughing out loud.
Uproar Over Economic Study
I had an economics class in high school. All I remember about it is that if I didn't get any sleep in econ, I was grumpy in Lit, the next hour. You wouldn't expect people to get all emotional over an economics analysis. (At least, I wouldn't.) But when Koleman Strumpf wrote a paper that disagreed with the Recording Industry's lawyers, quite a few people got pretty livid.
The Proper Way to Paint a Transformer
More communities should have little touches like this. Of course, in America these probably wouldn't remain unvandalized for very long.
Saturday, April 17, 2004
My New Favorite Singer
Ben Newman has a gift. It's not may people who can write a romantic love ballad about a comet. (Lyrics) He's got a whole bunch of stuff like that. Ben, if you ever put together a CD, let me know.
2004 Jefferson Muzzle Award Winners
From /., "The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has released the muzzle awards for people who forgot that "free speech can not be limited without being lost". Check out the 2004 "winners". Famous winners include The U.S. Department of Defense and CBS."
Daily Show video clips
From BoingBoing, "Lisa rein has posted a bunch of great clips from recent Daily Shows to her blog, covering spam, Tyco's birthday party write-off, Richard Clarke's appearance, and the GOP response to the Clarke testimony."
How To: Cheap Steadicam
From /., "Always wanted to film one of those cool 'walking' sequences, where the camera stays rock-steady as you trudge along? Well, so did Johnny Chung Lee, except he didn't want to lay out major cash for a professional Steadicam rig, so he built his own for $14. He further claims you can do it in about 20 minutes if you know what you're doing. What more could a cheap, impatient Spielberg wannabe ask for?" Josh here at work built one of these for his upcoming film project. After he's used it for a bit, I'll let you know how it works.
Artificial Flies on the Wall
From /., "Science Daily reports that thirteen teams from the United States, Korea and Germany will be in Tucson April 9-11 to compete for $6,000 in prize money during the 8th International Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) Competition. MAVs are tiny, radio-controlled airplanes that carry video cameras."
Mars Rovers Still Going Strong, Mission Extended
From /., "The Mars rovers' missions have been extended from 90 days to about 250 and have been upgraded with some new software to give them extended single run distances as well as other features. Yahoo has a similar article, also at Reuters. I think it's great that these initially plagued robots are doing more than expected and are still going strong, mostly thanks to engineers figuring out how to make the most of the software and hardware onboard and figuring out how to diagnose an unfunctioning, unresponding machine millions of miles away. The whole project amazes me and I'm happy for NASA to be getting some good news for a change."
Messenger Spacecraft Prepared for Mercury
From /., "NASA's first orbiter to the planet Mercury is shown today in cut-away, revealing the parasol design that will protect it from intense heat. Twenty layers of aluminized Kapton will be its sunshade. Curiously since the innermost planet is so close to the Sun, the Mercury mission itself will look for (cometary) water-ice preserved on the less baked north pole."
Screwed Up Weather
Hurricanes are frightening enough. But a hurricane where it shouldn't be, that's just scary.
Apocalypse
From Marty, "My words would do little justice to describe what you will see and read in this link. Save that it is how I always envisioned humanity's end on this planet." It's a photo journal of a motorcyclist's rides through the conutryside near Chernobyl.
Latest From Jamie
First off, there's the Stick Man Fighter. It's a little animated gif of a stick man attacking a door with anime cliches. (I think they covered all of them.) He also sent me Passive Aggressive Companies. Hmm. Deja vu.
Friday, April 16, 2004
Get a Carbon Monoxide Detector
If you haven't heard, Weird Al Yankovic's parents died last week in an accident that could've been prevented by a carbon monoxide detector.
Tiny Programs
From /., "For those of you old-timers who spent days & nights trying to get your code fit into 64Kb, here's the first beta of
The Truth about Camel Spiders
BoingBoing has a pretty scary picture of these things, as well as a link to an article that debunks some of the more popular rumors about this critter. Wow. I don't care how harmless they are, that picture's going to give me nightmares.
Real Life X-Files in Italy
From /., "According to MSNBC, ever since mid-January, various electronic devices have been spontaneously combusting in the now evacuated town of Canneto di Caronia, Sicily; at this point, the fires are almost daily. The town has been disconnected from the larger electrical grid and was hooked to a generator, but that, too, caught fire. Even unplugged items have succumbed. Nothing seems to have burst into flame except where there is someone present to witness it, but the police no longer suspect a prankster -- after witnessing wires catch fire without cause. Scientists have yet to explain the phenomenon (although unproven theories abound), leading many people to look to supernatural causes." I'll bet they could create quite a tourism industry there if they play their cards right.
Metroid the Movie? John Woo?
Granted, that would rock as few things have rocked before. But I'm not holding my breath. Hmmm... I wonder who would play Samus Aran?
The Royal Tit Watching Society of Britain
They've even got a web site. Nice-Tits.org Very educational.
Super Mario Brothers Theme on a Guitar
From BoingBoing, "This is an absolutely stellar video of Japanes guitar virtuoso KeiicHi performing a rendition of the theme from Super Mario Brothers, hendrixing power-up and coin-grab sound effects by wringing his axe's neck with long and clever fingers. Tasty." Andy, I expect you to have this down by your next trip to Michigan this summer.
Real 'Akira' Motorcycle
From /., "At Tokyo Motorcycle Show in Japan (2/3/4 Apr.), the official licensed model of the motorcycle in the anime movie Akira (poster) is displayed. This Kaneda bike is not a mere replica, but a full working model (more pics at ITmedia) with twin-steering system and 249-998cc water-cooled 4-cycle engine, and on its cockpit is DVD-navi-system + trackball & ten-key + custom computer-controlled LED meters - all licenced by the author and the publisher of Akira. Though at the show only miniature figures are sold and real price or release date is unclear, you can check out the manufacturer's website for later info." I always figured that if I ever got a motorcycle, it'd be a Harley. I may have to rethink that.
A Tour of a Robotic Parking Garage
(From /.) Get this: A 74 space carport on a 60 x 106 foot lot. I want one of these in my driveway. Better yet, replace the pole barn with one. That'd do away with our storage space problems.
For sale: Eurotunnel Tunnel Boring Machine. Cheap
(From /.) Well, the drill used to dig the Channel Tunnel was sold last week for 40,000 pounds. BBC had a thing on it. So... What are they going to do with it?
Yeah Senator Daschle!
A little bit of sanity on the senate floor for a change. The executive summary, Senator Daschle rips into the Bush administration for abusing its power to wage personal attacks on all who disagree with Dubbya.
Friday, April 09, 2004
The Grossest Cake I've Ever Seen
(Mom, skip this post.) Now, after reading through the baking procedure, this sounds quite yummy. But it looks absolutely unappetising. It's a cake designed to resemble a human thoracic cavity. Ulgh. No matter how good it taste, I just can't imagine looking at this and still being hungry.
Installing Linux on a Dead Badger
I get the impression that few of my readers will get nearly the entertainment from this site that I did. (Heck, I think the pictures alone are worth the link.) You may disagree on this point. But, as I've stated many times before, it's my website. I'll post whatever I damn well please. Now move along before I tell you the Bacon Tree joke again.
Passion of the Easter Bunny
I got this article from Wil, and this one from Jamie. In a nutshell, "A church trying to teach about the crucifixion of Jesus performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs, upsetting several parents and young children." I applaud their desire to move the focus of the holiday away from corporate creations, but doing so by psychologically tormenting small children is... well, funny as Hell. I don't know, maybe some of these people were never actually kids themselves.
Secrets of the Magic 8-Ball
We truly live in an age of amazing discoveries. Humans have uncovered incredible revelations into the inner workings of the universe. Beware, though. This forbidden knowledge is not for the weak of heart.
How E-Voting Threatens Democracy
A scary article from Wired on electronic voting. Did you know that back in January 2003, you could fix a vote on Dibold machines with Microsoft Access and an Internet connection? You wouldn't've even needed a password.
Forth Amendment Take Another Hit
From the J-Walk Blog:
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
News item: Court Opens Door To Searches Without Warrants. "It's a groundbreaking court decision that legal experts say will affect everyone: Police officers in Louisiana no longer need a search or arrest warrant to conduct a brief search of your home or business. Leaders in law enforcement say it will provide safety to officers, but others argue it's a privilege that could be abused."
Will this power be abused? "New Orleans Police Department spokesman Capt. Marlon Defillo said the new power will go into effect immediately and won't be abused."
Well, as long as the Police Department says it won't be abused, then I guess it's OK.
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Daily Show's Coverage of 911 Hearings
If you missed the Daily Show's coverage of Richard Clarke's testimony before the 911 panel, go check it out now.
Banished Thoughts Resurface in Dreams
A new study from Harvad U. suggests that we are most likely to dream about things we try to block out when we're awake. Weirdness.
Enryu rescue robot in action
I remember posting something about this battlemech-like rescue vehicle. But now I've got videos!
One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Giant Shrimp
From BoingBoing, "Arrr! Line up for your giant bottom-feeding sea bugs ye swabs! Although NASA's announcement of evidence of ancient seawater on Mars came a bit late, Long John Silver's is going to go ahead and give away a free giant shrimp to all comers on May 10th." Go ahead and eat them, you Godless heathen.
Surreal Hotel of the Day
If you're ever in Berlin, you should spend a night in the Propeller Island City Lodge. I'd steer clear of the Symbol Room, but the Cloud Room looks very tranquil.
Latest From Jamie
Catching up with Jamie, he's recently sent me Marital Hijinks, Programming Lifecycle, and Anger Management. (That last one had me laughing loud enough to piss off some co-workers.)
What the Hell is a Jesus Nut?
Ron sent me a picture of a rather important piece of hardware. On a UH-1 helicopter, the main rotor is held on by ONE part. A single nut. It's been dubbed the Jesus Nut. As I was gazing at the picture, slowly absorbing the importance of this single part, an involuntary "Jesus" escaped my lips. And thus was the obviousness of the name origin made plain to me. I guess it makes some engineering sense. If there's a part that simply can not fail, there are two ways to approach it. Make several redundant parts, or make one part and over-engineer the Hell out of it.
Python's 'Life of Brian' to be re-issued
Marty sent me this CNN article, and the story also hit /.. From CNN, "Inspired by the runaway success -- and public furor -- over Gibson's portrayal of the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus, the creators behind the 1979 biblical satire about an anti-Roman activist who spends his life being mistaken for a prophet are planning a 25th anniversary re-release next month. "Life of Brian" will open at the end of April in Los Angeles and New York before expanding to other cities across the country." Trailers are going to start on Good Friday. I'm so there.
Pledge of Allegiance
Ron sent me this infomative little site. After the ruckus about students being forced to say it dispite religious beliefs, it might suprise you to hear the original form of the Pledge of Allegiance. "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Sony To Launch E Ink-based eBook In April
From /., "Sony will launch an ebook based on E Ink technology in Japan in late April. The screen is about as big as half a paperback book and has a spatial resolution of ~170ppi. The device includes various edictionaries and audio playback functionality." From the article, "This "first ever" Philips' display utilizes E Ink's revolutionary electronic ink technology which offers a truly paper-like reading experience with contrast that is the same as newsprint. The Electronic Paper Display is reflective and can be easily read in bright sunlight or dimly lit environments while being able to be seen at virtually any angle - just like paper. Its black and white ink-on-paper look, combined with a resolution in excess of most portable devices at approximately 170 pixels per inch (PPI), gives an appearance similar to that of the most widely read material on the planet - newspaper." Another cool thing, the display only uses power to change the display. While holding a page, it consumes zero power. And they claim it can change the display more than 10,000 times on 4 AAA batteries. This is so going on my with list.
Brian Greene In Ann Arbor Wednesday
Brad sent me a heads up that Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, will be signing books at the Shaman Drum (in Ann Arbor) tomorrow. (Wednesday April 7th.)
Underwood Case Mod
Another cool Mini-ATX case mod, this time involving an Underwood typewriter. At first, I was a little bothered by the destruction of such a cool piece of antique hardware. But then I checked eBay, and they're all over the place. Hmmm. I may have to get one.
Thebroken Videos
From /., "The guys over at thebroken have put together a fun hacking videozine ( .torrent here ). This episode covers Windows password hacking, destroying your hard drive with 3,000 degree molten iron, console modding, and an interview with Kevin Mitnick. Think "The Man Show" meets computers. Divx Required."
Constitutional Amendment Regarding Marriage
Here's something that I hope will put a little perspective on Bible inspired laws about marriage. (I'm proud that it's being hosted by a protestant site. You don't have to be a freakish zealot to be religious.)
Homeland Insecurity
You've read the articles, you've seen the press releases, now play the game! If you get curious about how they thought up some of those rediculous game spaces, click on them and it'll take you to a footnote describing the real life event that inspired it.
Cool Jupiter Portrait
Here's a photo of Jupiter taken by Cassini. From the description, "This true color mosaic of Jupiter was constructed from images taken by the narrow angle camera onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft starting at 5:31 Universal time on December 29, 2000, as the spacecraft neared Jupiter during its flyby of the giant planet. It is the most detailed global color portrait of Jupiter ever produced; the smallest visible features are ~ 60 km (37 miles) across. The mosaic is composed of 27 images: nine images were required to cover the entire planet in a tic-tac-toe pattern, and each of those locations was imaged in red, green, and blue to provide true color. Although Cassini's camera can see more colors than humans can, Jupiter here looks the way that the human eye would see it."
Saturday, April 03, 2004
Low Tech Innovation
I have a deep respect for low tech solutions to problems. Simplicity is my favorite form of elegance. Problem: in northern Nigeria over 90% of the villages are without electrical power. With no refrigerators, food goes bad pretty quickly. Solution: A cheap, easy to make fridge that works without electricity. The inventor got a Rolex Award for it. The effects of this are already being felt. More girls are attending school because they don't need to spend every day selling and buying food.
Live Action Anime?
From /., "Apple Japan is hosting the trailer (Quicktime required, of course) for an upcoming movie called simply CASSHERN. There have been many attempts at so-called 'live-action anime', but this is possibly the most impressive attempt I've ever seen. Part 'Final Fantasy', part 'Brazil', with CG and green screen work that puts even 'LoTR' to shame." No doubt it'll be completely bastardized before it gets to the US. It sucks that movies like this are almost never available in the US in their original form. Any way I can think of to see the original in the US would break one or more of the now numerous anti-piracy laws.
Other movies I'm excited about, I, Robot will either be awesome or terrible. I sincerely doubt it'll be middle of the road. It actually looks like it's the story from Caves of Steel, with bits of I, Robot thrown in. (By the way, I, Robot is required reading for any PlanetDave regulars. You can borrow it from me if you'd like.) Hellboy just came out today. Er, yesterday. We'll see if I get around to seeing it in the theater or missing it. (I'm not sure they could've done better than Ron Perlman in that role. Should be way kewl.) Now, the Original Godzilla, that one I'll have to see in the theater.
Friday, April 02, 2004
Computer Games Without the Computer
I'm honestly not sure what this is saying about society. They're talking about making a board game based on Doom. WTF? What's next? A Zork game based on Quake?
Thursday, April 01, 2004
Upcoming Holidays
I don't have time to do a proper update today, but I'll take a minute to point out a few holidays you may have missed. You're probably aware that today was April Fool's Day. Also known as Internet Obfuscation Day. What you may not know is that it's also National "I'm Embarrassed by My President" Day. Celebrate by wearing a brown ribbon. This ribbon (obviously) represents the stream of bullshit being spewed by the White House.
Coming up on Tuesday is Tartan Day. As I mentioned last year, a little known Tartan Day tradition is to give me presents. And what could be more appropriate a gift than one of these? (34", short, Tan) And anyone who points out that this kilt has no tartan, I will quickly distract with this little bit of Tartan Day trivia. Tartan Day itself was created in 1998, but like many holidays it has traditions rooted farther back in history. The above mentioned Give Dave Gifts tradition dates back to 1974. Wow, that's a long time ago.
April Discussion
New plan. I'm going to try the PlanetDave.net discussion thing on a monthly basis.
What do you think? 1,Marty,04-03-2004,01:05 PM,"I try not to."
2,Marty's Evil Twin,04-04-2004,08:12 AM,"What do I think about what?"
3,His Daveness,04-05-2004,12:50 PM,"For the record, my posting about the pot-in-pot fridge (http://planetdave.net/NewArchives/2004_04_01_Archive.html#108100246316734370) was online before the story hit /. (http://science.slashdot.org/science/04/04/05/021244.shtml?tid=126)"
4,Marty's Evil Twin (again),04-07-2004,08:44 AM,"Hmmm. If this is going to be a random discussion page, I'll just say that I got up at 5:26 this morning. Deal with it."
5,His Daveness,04-07-2004,10:05 AM,"That's... That's not right."
6,Marty's Evil Twin (again),04-08-2004,10:44 AM,"I just had the greasiest omelette at the IHOP last night. Chock full of sausage, bacon, ham, beef. mmmm. good food. No cheese, though."
7,Marty,04-08-2004,02:24 PM,"Didja ever have one of those days at work where you stare off into space....for hours at a time? I've had three in a row. Fortunately I can punctuate periods of listlessnes with periods of unauthorized web-browsing. Fun Fun Fun."
8,Marty's Evil Twin (again),04-08-2004,03:42 PM,"I'm starting to have those days again, myself. I think I've done about 50% 'productive' 'work' and 50% unauthorized web browsing and emailing. It's easy when all of my assignments are ''critical' as-builts'. I also actually spent 5 minutes mosey-ing (one way) to the convenience store here for a snack. I think the high point of my evening is going to be when I ride home and gorge myself with food as I....Surf the web more."
9,Marty's Evil Twin (again),04-09-2004,07:41 AM,"Didn't surf the web last night :( BUT! I did but buy this neat calculator. It's not graphing, but I can do calculus operations with it...And solve 3 simultaneous linear equations! Simple pleasures."
10,Russ,04-09-2004,11:38 AM,"Neat link on Casshern - anyone have any contacts in Japan who could get us a DVD???"
11,Scot,04-26-2004,10:27 PM,"I don't want you all to think I'm avoiding posting my comments."