Ataxia is the thing with feathers.

NASA

President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law on July 29, 1958, thereby creating NASA.
Happy 50th, NASA!

Font Conference

I know just about everyone has linked to this already, but I couldn’t let this go. I just love a good font joke!
Font Conference

Things I Am Not Fooled By

From: “Canadian National Lottery”
Subject: HOLLA!!!!!!
Seriously, spammers. You’re not even trying.

Firefox 3!

I’m very very happy to see that the old Netscape tradition of coding in goofy about: pages is alive and well.
Sadly, about:jwz hasn’t been put back in.

All Streets
All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population. The pace of progress is seen in the [...]

Comments

I removed the requirement to register/log in or use OpenID to post comments. I’ve decided to trust Akismet to filter allllllll the spam I get. Which is pretty much none.

A web-based playable version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game by Infocom, located beyond this hyperlink. I spent countless hours in the Beaver Dam Community Library on an Amiga 1000 playing that game. I just spent about 2 hours playing it right now.
As an aside, the City of Beaver Dam’s web [...]

Steal This iPhone followup

The Eagle-Tribune published a follow-up story on the iPhone thefts, which is mostly a “how they did it” article. Read it here.
It also features a photo of my old (and clearly now ex-)manager dressed up in Arraignment Orange.
Yikes.

Steal This iPhone

One of my managers when I worked at the Apple Store Rockingham Park was arrested yesterday for stealing 332 iPhones from the store with his accomplice and Rock co-worker. (The former manager in question is the younger of the two mentioned in the article.)
I feel that this makes a good excuse to break out [...]

Where for art thou, FiOS?

Not in Dot, that’s for sure. But soon, FiOS will be available in some place in Massachusetts called “Monroe” which has a population of 93. Ninety fucking three.
I bet a lot of them sign up! Whoooooo doggie!
Other WMass metropolises where Verizon will be deploying include New Ashford (pop. 247), Rowe (351), Florida (676), [...]