Archive for December, 2005

Guilty Pleasures

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

I’ve been thinking about “guilty pleasures” lately. Not sure what sparked it. I Googled the phrase and came up with these MSNBC articles which are amusing in that Reader’s Digest humor sort of way. My favorite guilty pleasure from an MSNBC reader:
Milli Vanilli
I love those songs! And no matter who actually sang […]

Just Say No to Mama Mexico

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Why is it that mediocre and wonderful dining experiences rarely compel one to spend time preparing a rant, but a poor dining experience is such a strong motivator? Our dinner experience tonight incited me to actually create a MenuPages.com account (MenuPages is a great resource for New Yorkers looking for a bite; I have […]

Over the mountains and through Ohio…

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Lizz, Sat and I are driving out to Michigan, leaving here shortly. We’re not 100% sure of our itinerary. We may swing out to Canton on Saturday afternoon to visit Lizz’s dad and grandparents. Saturday night we’ll be hanging with my family and probably most of Christmas day, as well. If […]

Peace, Baby

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

My cousin is the first of the five cousins on my Mom’s side of the family to get hitched and pregnant. A recent ultrasound caught the baby making a plea for the world s/he is about to join. S/he’ll fit right in.

PETA Rant

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

I am very open-minded on animal rights and animal welfare issues. The way we treat animals (who have the capacity to suffer) for our human ends deserves serious scrutiny and debate. For over a year I chose a vegetarian diet in large part because I abhor the way animals are often treated to […]

Del.icio.us Experiment Over

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

The last few days I tried an experiment: auto-posting links from my del.icio.us account (a web-based social bookmarking service) directly to this blog nightly. I often bookmark cool, interesting things with insightful comments on del.icio.us, and since few people actually use del.icio.us, I wanted people who read my blog could see what was happening […]

links for 2005-12-10

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Ophcrack 2.0 — The fastest Windows password cracker
Windows password cracker. When a Windows password gets lost, I usually just use a password reset tool. But this would work, too.
(tags: windows passwords crack)

Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 1 : Journal : Mark Boulton | Information design
(tags: design grid web)

Subtraction: The […]

links for 2005-12-09

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Google Maps Mania: Google unveils Google Transit Trip Planner
Google to launch transit-based trip planner — seems down at the moment and initially only supports Portland, OR. I hope theirs is at least as good as HopStop for NY and better than their driving directions!
(tags: transit mapping map planning travel)

menavsben.mov (video/quicktime Object)
Mena Trott (presenter) and […]

links for 2005-12-08

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

strandbeest
This guy builds and “evolves” wind-powered robots mostly out of PVC and posts videos to his web site
(tags: robots robotics windpower project video fun technology towatch)

Stats about all US cities - maps, race, income, photos, education, crime, weather, houses, etc.
Repository of all kinds of stats about US cities.
(tags: urban cities data lists reference location)

Green roofs […]

links for 2005-12-07

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

CouchSurfing - The world is smaller than you think!
Find couch to crash on. Offer couch to crash on.
(tags: travel socialsoftware cheap community budget socialnetwork)

Boing Boing: Xeni interviews Steven Soderbergh in WIRED
(tags: toblog)

The World Of Kane.
This architecture is vaguely Ahernian
(tags: architecture retro design brazillian)

Rails and Django meets in Chicago (Loud Thinking)
Dave H’s (ruby on rails) […]