Watch Your Sleep
My sleep cycle runs about an hour and 35 minutes. Now there's a watch that can monitor it and wake me up when I'm at the end of one, when I'm most awake.
May 30, 2005
May 28, 2005
Media, The Military, Lies
So Newsweek writes a story about military interrogators supposedly putting Korans in the toilet. Their source is wrong or lying and their screw up becomes a huge story and more supposed evidence of the liberal bias in the media. On the other hand the military deliberately and blatantly lied to everyone (sorry, "spun") and - the worst part - Pat Tillman's family, covering up his death by friendly fire for a couple weeks. They try and make him look like a hero, the all-American football player gives his life for his country. Which part of the "liberal" media is the only one really following up on this story? The Washington Post. (My heart goes out to Mr. Tillman, I doubt he died to be used as a tool.)
Update: The military now says it was a confusion of regulations, not a coverup. If you believe them.
May 27, 2005
Mr. Marbles
The son of a guy I used to work with out in California is in a ska band. Cool!
May 26, 2005
Scott Peterman
Photography I like: Scott Peterman
Jane on the Brooklyn Waterfront
Jane Jacobs writes to the Brooklyn Rail about the Greenpoint/Williamsburg waterfront rezoning:
"How weird, and how sad, that New York, which has demonstrated successes enlightening to so much of the world, seems unable to learn lessons it needs for itself. I will make two predictions with utter confidence. 1. If you follow the community’s plan you will harvest a success. 2. If you follow the proposal before you today, you will maybe enrich a few heedless and ignorant developers, but at the cost of an ugly and intractable mistake."
May 24, 2005
Learning From Paris Hilton
You can spend all you want on fancy technologies to secure data (or buildings, or airports, etc.), but if a person can still just walk in or make a phone call and convince the right person that they belong there, they can just walk out with your data. Or do what ever else they like, and the technology means little.
May 18, 2005
Correct Subway Map
The MTA subway map is distorted and not to scale so it is easier to read the stations and routes. This geographically correct subway map lets you know where you are really going.
Green Clean
Apartment Therapy and its readers take on eco-friendly cleaning products.
May 06, 2005
FCC Takes Back its Flag
Public Knowledge won a big case today against the the FCC, blocking them from putting a broadcast flag in the digital television stream. Now we will have to see if the digital TV lobby convinces someone in Congress to support a bill to do the same thing.