Mesmerizing time lapse video of over one hundred hot air balloons launching and soaring at the 2006 Reno Balloon Race (via youTube). It’s fun to watch the eccentric paths that some of the balloons aloft take.
The way that it was produced is kind of interesting as well.
technorati tags: video, youtube, reno, balloons, hotair
DailyLit lets you spam yourself with an email containing five minutes worth of reading from a classic book of your choice.
Im not sure that this would work well for me as I am really not fond of reading large amounts of text off of a screen and, in any case, I prefer to do my reading away from my desk. Your milage may vary.
technorati tags: reading, books, dailylit, email
Im a bit surprised that I haven’t heard more about this (perhaps the hysteria will whip up as we get closer to the date). The gist of it is that with the newly enacted Daylight Savings Time (DST) guidelines older Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) will not adjust for DST properly starting in 2007. The first event will happen on March 11, 2007.
If you have been looking for a reason to upgrade to JVM 1.5, this should do.
technorati tags: java, dst, jvm
Two of the strangest things I’ve seen this week:
A guy who can pop his eyes 95% out of their sockets.
And a incredible story of drinking and violence from New Zealand. I don’t know what is more remarkable, the fact that one guy drank 72(!) beers then drove home or that the other guy that he stabbed had no idea that he was stabbed until he went home and looked in the mirror.
You can’t make this stuff up.
technorati tags: news, bizarre, fun
The thing that strikes me as odd about what is happening in Michigan with regard to requiring state ids to vote is that it is focused on the wrong thing. I believe that this is a thinly disguised attempt to make it more difficult (if not impossible) for citizens to exercise their right to vote.
Until this year, the township that I live in had a very simple and effective means of verifying voter identity: you sign a block on your voter registration form that is duplicated in a ledger that you again must sign at the time you vote. Simple, effective and costs the citizen nothing. Now, they too are requiring state issued photo ids in order to vote.
Instead of trying to concoct ways of making it more difficult to vote, why isn’t there more focus on making sure that the votes are actually counted in an accurate verifiable way? It baffles me that the state of Nevada has a rigorous certification and inspection process for slot machines while there is no similar scrutiny for voting machines and processes.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at all as there is a clear line of thinking in this country of late that money (gambling) is more important that citizens rights (voting).
technorati tags: voting, suckage, diebold
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