Thanks to Daring Fireball I don’t have to rewrite that failed post. Let’s call this link “Everything you always wanted to know about the OS X shell script vulnerability but were afraid to ask.”
Archive for February, 2006
I seem to have won a spanking paddle or flogger. The
first question is where do I have it sent? The second is where do I keep it? The third has been answered, I’m going for the paddle. The fourth is will I have to update my superhero costume for it? Anyone want to help me make a holster for it? Badass Paddles spanking paddles and floggers: they’re what all the homeless geeks are wearing this year!
this got way mangled when i tried to post it. will patch it later in the meantime it’s being removed…
Well, it ain’t much (and you deserve so much better), but
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BEN!
And Many More!
A prominent Chicago lawyer reminded me again today that it’s the lawyers who are busy saving us from the revised Patriot Act, while I waste my time grousing about Dick Cheney. He reminded me again of what a good job they were doing, especially the sterling work of the ABA (amerikan bar association). So I headed up to their home page and saw the sterling work their doing. Despite no mention of the Patriot Act on the front page, I can see how proud they are of their sterling work, especially pluging Dell computers (not like the ACLU for instance, where they’re positively embarrassed about all the things they’re doing for Amerikans).
So while I see that the current administration really does have it in for the legal profession (shit the VP is shooting them down like dogs,) I can also see how well the lawyers are protecting the Amerikan People’s Interests, so this blog is leaving such things entirely to them. Keep up the good work guys. I’m going to concentrate on things I know about.
Camino, the OS X native version of the Mozilla/Firecox browser has just shipped it’s 1.0 relrease. get it from the link in the right hand sidebar, or get an optimized release here.
Public Hearing
Dvorak Park, 1119 W. Cullerton
Monday, February 13, 6:30 pm
Pilsen and Little Village Speak Up on Coal-Fired Power
Residents.
On Monday, February 13, there will be a public hearing about the emissions of the two coal-burning power plants in Chicago, Fisk Generating Station (1111 W. Cermak) and Crawford Generating Station (3501 S. Pulaski). Both facilities are owned by Midwest Generation and supply electricity to ComEd. According to the EPA, these two plants emit thousands of pounds of toxics each year. Their most recent data from 2003 show they emitted:
269 lbs of mercury, which causes brain damage;
17,765 tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide (2004 numbers) that cause ozone and acid rain; and
260,000 lbs of particulate matter (soot) that contributes to asthma.
At greatest risk from this pollution are the residents of the largely Latino neighborhoods of Pilsen and Little Village, where the plants are located. The Clean Power Coalition considers this an environmental injustice concern because of the disproportionate amount of pollution falls on a densely populated area of low-income minority residents.
Congressional investigations reveal the white house new the levee had broken the night it occurred:
Representative Thomas M. Davis III, Republican of Virginia, chairman of the special House committee investigating the hurricane response, said the only government agency that performed well was the National Weather Service, which correctly predicted the force of the storm. But no one heeded the message, he said.
“The president is still at his ranch, the vice president is still fly-fishing in Wyoming, the president’s chief of staff is in Maine,” Mr. Davis said. “In retrospect, don’t you think it would have been better to pull together? They should have had better leadership. It is disengagement.”
I’ve wanted this since before I first read Science Fiction. Adaptive lenses, that adjust to the aberrations of your eyes and the your eyes surroundings (yeah, that’s important). Here’s a Wired article with links to two different companies, one of them pushing for Supervision:
These ophthalmic lenses use a proprietary combination of chemistry, electricity, and other components to create optics heretofore impossible to create.
There are no moving parts. These lenses will provide the ability to see more naturally and clearly. They are “dynamic” (changing optical power) vs. lenses that are “static” (fixed optical power), which are found in current ophthalmic product offerings.
These lenses dynamically adjust and provide ongoing optimum vision to patients for the correction of presbyopia, and other visual disorders, as well as in the future may provide an entrée to SuperVision (the ability to see better than 20/20).
Yeah, screw the supervision, I’ll be happy if either of these systems work. Not just because it’s the end of bi and tri focals, but selfishly because I’ll finally be able to wear glasses with both lenses the same size. And if the supervision claims are born out, hell, it’s help lots of people with critical impairments. (yes, I admit it, this is one wear i want to believe the hype-my father is getting to the point were he needs light amplification devices and quadfocals, and i just want to be able to read again.)
With the recent (as in don’t tell me Google is a platform when the Mac version ships 2 years later and their ain’t a Linux version) release of the the Mac version of Google Earth, the fun things you can see with it has come up a few times in the past few days in conversation and email. Remember of course that the pictures weren’t all taken onthe same day, so it is possible to see your self in multiple places, if you are large enough and a good color to be seen from orbit (grey volvos blend in, burgundy ones stand out).
Here’s the Register’s Black Helicopter contest winners from last year, which include everything from a U2 in flight to a couple of Blackbirds to Black Helicopters. Make sure you go through all the pages. And here’s there the WW2 bomber in flight.
