Archive for the ‘Stuff I saw’ Category

Conductor Mulder?

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Oh, how I love the BBC.

E-mail visualization

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

An e-mail archive visualizer, caught by the eye of Warren Ellis (or someone he knows…)

Traffic Tracking and Cell Phones

Friday, March 10th, 2006

This is making lemonade given lemons.  Traffic reporting via cell phone tracking.  I mean if people are dumb enough to turn the things on every time they get behind the wheel, and governments are going to track them…
As with many wonderful things, Warren Ellis saw it before me.

Flupocalypse Now

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

The end times are truely upon us.  A cat has died in Germany.

It’s the big one

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Typical.

Maybe this will keep the damned things off planes.

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Rod loves new phone toys, but I doubt he wants this one.

Going for the runway incursion trifecta at LAX

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

I’ve heard of controllers clearing 2 planes to use the same runway, but clearing 3 to be on there at the same time is really impressive.

For the home that has everything…

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Ah, Rod, what would I do without you?

How could I live without knowing that toilet paper was available with astronomy facts in Japanese on each sheet. It is certainly a fascinating world.

Yipe!

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

From jtw:

“Failure is not an option.”

Ikea vs Isben

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Via Educated Guesswork:
Ikea vs. Isben quiz

I’m particularly delighted by the domain name this is served by.