Entries from October 2002
The California Coastline Project
This is brilliant. A guy who got rich during the dotcom era is photographing every inch of the California coastline from a helicopter
The camera is linked with a cable to the helicopter’s global positioning system, and to an Apple Power Book laptop. Every three seconds, he snaps a picture, and the exact longitude, latitude and [...]
One more thing to worry about: Comment spam
I haven’t seen this yet, but evidently some enterprising scumbags are now inserting spam into people’s blog comments. A detailed discussion of possible techniques to thwart this ensued.
As a side-dish, I discovered a website that will test how well e-mail addresses on web pages have been obscured to foil spambots (this page passed).
Punch-Drunk Love
Saw Punch-Drunk Love last night. Excellent movie.
Caetano Veloso
Saw Caetano Veloso last night at Bass Concert Hall with Gwen and another friend (who just happened to know the cellist). The local alternative weekly did an interesting piece on him recently.
The show was great. Although he played a number of old standards, there was nothing stale about his show, or about him. Unlike some [...]
Royale with cheese
I don’t know why, but the Samuel L Jackson Soundboard makes me laugh my ass off (Flash required)
Kung-log
Just downloaded a specialized OS-X tool for posting to Movable Type blogs: Kung-log. This is a test post using the program. Seems to work OK, although BBEdit is still a better writing environment.
The Internet and the ADA
In an important decision, a judge has ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act does not apply to the Internet. A blind man sued Southwest Airlines over the fact that their website was difficult to use with his screen reader.
What to make of this? I’m sympathetic to the plaintiff. And it would be sensible, both [...]
Hail
Austin occasionally gets a violent hailstorm. Last night was one–hailstones the size of ping-pong balls. My car now has six small dimples on the hood. Frankly, I’m surprised it wasn’t worse.
Now to figure out how to smooth out the dimples…
Towering hypocrisy?
Tower Records–playing both sides of the fence.
Orange Mothers & Meat Purveyors at the Cactus
Last night, Gwen and I saw the Orange Mothers and the Meat Purveyors at the Cactus Cafe. Gwen and I had seen the same line-up at the Continental Club when we had been dating for about two weeks. We’ve been dating for just about six months now.
The show was good. There was a bizarre opening [...]
