Bin Laden Alive
UPI: Bin Laden is alive and has operations planned for August.
Wednesday - 07.31.02
BattleMech Fort
Overly ambitious father builds children a 38% scale battle mech fort.
Phone, Circles, Triangles — One of these does not belong.
Its a trimode cell phone. It’s a Palm OS PDA. It’s a modem. It’s a GPS. Its a fax machine. Its an MP3/media player. It’s in full color. It browses the web! It has accessories! It even makes julian fries. It’s the Kyocera 7135 smartphone. It’s not available yet. That’s ok, a cell phone is not in my budget yet. But I’ll be darned if I don’t want one. [props to: SourJayne for the link]
In a pseudo follow up to the crop circle story, you can read a bit more about it at Yahoo news: Local - Daily Herald. And, while putzing around Ned’s dandy little set of crop circle links I came across this photo from Lucy Pringle of my favorite crop circle so far this year. Quite impressive. Some day I’m going to go to england and camp out circle watching.
Remember this Mysterious Triangle Area puzzle from a few days back. Well it no longer hurts my head, as I have figured it out. It is more of a mean trick than a puzzle. Let me know if you want a hint.
Monday - 07.29.02
Miners rescued
CNN: Miners rescued after being trapped for 77 hours.
Free fallin'
Wired News: Retired french army man plans to set some new skydiving records this fall. Including the highest altitude skydive, the fastest speed reached during free fall if he breaks the sound barrier, and the longest free fall in history.
I wonder if his insurance premiums are about to go up.
Super cool
New Scientist: Scientists discover A natural food additive with 35 times the cooling power of menthol--but no minty flavour whatsoever.
Sunday - 07.28.02
Prosthetic chase.
Daytona Daily News: Police chase ends when suspect's prosthetic leg falls off.
Saturday - 07.27.02
Hershey’s pay obese.
The Onion: The five-state class-action suit accused Hershey's of
knowingly and willfully marketing rich, fatty candy bars containing chocolate and other ingredients of negligible nutritional value.
Friday - 07.26.02
Austin’s power.
I am an intermittent, site-specific extrovert. — Mike Meyers
Crop circles go local!
Our very own chicago area crop circle. It happend last night in a field in naperville. Which is only about 25miles from our apartment. Read NBC5’s full coverage (as full as local a TV station’s coverage can get). Maybe Ned had something to do with it. He lives over that way.
Hershey no more.
Milton Hershey School Trust sells Hershey’s Chocolate marking the end of non-profit control of the company. The Price is expected to be around 13 billion dollars.
Thursday - 07.25.02
News aggregators and browsers. Oh my!
I’ve been using Amphetadesk for my syndicated news aggregator needs. A a bit clunky but it kept me from having to personally visit a whole slew of sites. Then I discovered NetNewsWire Lite. And oh wow. It is the first program that has fundamentally changed the way I interact with the internet since the web browser. One of the coolest features is that it will go and check all of the news feeds that you are subscribed to, and highlight the headlines you haven’t read. Very Slick. Combined this with the new release of Chimera v0.4 (A Mac OS X specific port of Mozilla). Which allows incoming page requests from other programs in new tabs in the same window. Grab all the headlines of interest, and read them all at once. Cuts down aimless surfing by 50%. Has to be used to be really appreciated. And if you don’t run Mac OS X, there is always Amphetadesk and Mozilla.
My brother named his latest post to his weblog Polly wolly doodle all the day. He is cool.
And just for the record. This riddle hurts my head.
Fat man. Blame game.
Deftly sidestepping personal responsibility, an obese man sues McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and KFC
Mind games.
William Wu gives us Riddles. Lots of riddles, but no answers.
Chicken computers.
Microchips made out of chicken feathers. Good bye silicon. [more...]
Wednesday - 07.24.02
Switchback!
UbergeekTV offers their amusing take on Apple’s new Switch campaign. “Move to Iceland.”
MintChanges!
There are a couple of big changes that I’ll be blaming the current dearth of activity about these parts on. First, for those of you who don’t already know. MintChaos has recently switched hosts. Our new home is provided by the good folks at phpWebhosting. We likes them.
But the bigger news is after 6 months of semi-aimless job searching, furniture moving and unemployment. I am officially and permanently self-employed. And I have been spending most all of my time getting things off the ground. It is very exciting and I already have a good amount of work lined up. MintChaos - Professional Services. Offering web, design, artisitic and consulting services of all kinds.
And life is grand.
Friday - 07.12.02
Thursday - 07.11.02
Gormet cream of wheat.
I made cream of wheat. I used A&W Cream Soda instead of water.
Update: It is good. Try it.
Monday - 07.08.02
Returnication
We’re back after a crazy mad fun holiday week of visting the entire state of Michigan. I spent the 4th relishing small town holiday festivities including people riding cows and a nearly indiscernable firework spectacle. I did get to play with Ann’s father’s digital camera and snagged 221 pictures in one day. So there will be an illustrated weekend write up coming soon. And i have new wallpaper fodder. Sweet. I played video games with Michael, ate great food with my parents, watched MIIB with Shaun, and Chris. It was good.
I have added a grand little script from Andrew Clover that should fix the way win:IE handles fixed position elements. Which should make the alternate Slugish stylesheet work in all versions of IE. So if any of you windows people want to check it out. Let me know if it works. If it does I will probably switch Slugish to be the default stylesheet.
Oh, I musn’t forget joke number 23
Andrew Clover
Andrew Clover offers up exceptionally handy javascript modules. Including one to fix CSS position:fixed in win:IE, another that generates codeless DHTML drop-menus.
All too flat
All Too Flat is all too amusing. Featuring myths debunked. Complete with cost analysis.
Wednesday - 07.03.02
Happy 4th.
We’re taking off. We have a crazy fun filled weekend of double parental visits, jetskiing, photoshooting, wedding attending, friend visiting, and a whole lot of driving. We’ll be back on Monday. See you on the filp side.
There will be a new wallpaper on friday.
Where my webspace is at?
With the uploading of today’s wallpaper. The Mintchaos wallpaper archives are officially full. I got more up than I thought I would. I fit 60 multi-sized wallpapers in 20mb. I will continue to put up new wallpapers. But until I get a hold of a new hosting service (that should happen by the end of July) I will be temporaily removing some of the older wallpapers from the archives to make room for the new ones.
Freak Watching
The Freak Watcher's Textbook tells it like it is. Alphabetized and cross referenced. [more...]
Tuesday - 07.02.02
Even worse.
Our car’s tire went all flaty flat yesterday. We don’t know why. It’s just flat.
Good: We I have AAA road service.
Bad: It expired in may.
Good: I checked the paper work. The Tires are from Sears and I did get the road hazard option. If i can get the car to Sears they will fix it for free.
Bad: That means I have to put on the spare.
Good: That’s OK, I can do that.
Bad: The spare went flat before we even got out of the alley.
Good: I managed to find all of the yellow lums in Rayman 2 this morning.
Bad: Nothing special happened. No secret level. No special ending. Just a 100% next to my save file.
Telemarketer are evil! Like satan.
I don’t like telemarketers. I don’t like them so much I moved to Blowing Rock, NC and was the 212th person to sign this petition to stop them. Err.. Wait. No I didn’t. That man stole my name! Jerk.
I am however within 34 yellow lums of achieving 100% in Rayman 2.