Monday, November 21, 2005

Re: at&t now lower case...

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Dave wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:28:09PM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>> talk about big changes...
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/photo/051121/480/sa10111211630&g=events/bs/102705sbcattmerger
>
> Can you say MFJ?

I can say deathstar...

> Dave
>

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at&t now lower case...

talk about big changes...

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/051121/480/sa10111211630&g=events/bs/102705sbcattmerger

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One step closer to futurerama heads in jars (redux)...

President Bush greets the new robot overlords.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051118/481/apec82811181504

Sunday, November 20, 2005

It's Cringley so you have to take it with a grain of salt.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html

Most interested in the teu container thing (twenty foot equivalent unit) not in a taking over the internet. I've seen these in various places in Africa. Datacenters in trailers have been around since the early 70's, but tractor trailers are pretty large, and fairly delicate compared to containers, and now that basically everyone on the planet has container handling equipment, you can drop containers pretty much anywhere you want, ship them on airplanes etc.

See:

http://www.apcc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=318

for an example of datacenter in a tractor trailer.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

nothing to say...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3345912591655921649&q=

IED's again...

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/bomb.html?pg=1&topic=bomb

Bit of a prisoners' dilemma involved in being a soldier in IRAQ. US military is happy participate in a technology escalation hot-war. But not change the rules in mid-stream. We're still fighting a war of pacification, that course of action is doomed. Being closer to the action, doesn't make you any more likely to be able to change the outcome.

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

burning them out of their homes...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article325560.ece

Of course this article is totally and massivly confused on the differening effects of phosphorous vs napalm , chemical vs fire weapons, the possibility of it being a thermobaric weapon (likely since they've been used elsewhere in iraq), etc... picture and or attribution would be useful.

white phosphorous bomb

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Hans pointed this out to me...

Something to hide in the back 40...

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm#

Apparently there's a whole movement around tiny houses...

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

another take on the low cost edu pc

http://fourier-sys.com/product_data_nova.html

Basically a large screen windows ce pda, happens to have some data aquisition equipment in it as well.