Author Archives: lara

Transportation News — a lit­tle moto Boeing has a new best sell­ing plane. The Scan Eagle UAV. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/boeing-uav/ The 3‑point seat belt is 50 years old. Invented by Volvo and now uni­ver­sal­ly installed. The top pho­to in the arti­cle is too retro cute for words. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/strapping-success-the-3-point-seatbelt-turns-50/ Telsa goes drag rac­ing at Pacific Raceways. I find drags with­out thun­der­ous engine noise, or … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Aug 17)”

Transportation Some peo­ple are lament­ing the loss of pos­si­ble future clas­sic cars to the cash for clunk­ers pro­gram. The NYT Week in Review pon­ders the ques­tion and comes up with 4 pos­si­ble clas­sics cur­rent­ly eli­gi­ble for crush­ing. The 88 Jag maybe. The oth­er three, I rather have a Pacer. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/weekinreview/09mayersohn.html?_r=2&hp OTOH so many of us have fond mem­o­ries of … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Aug 12)”

Because it was Gather week­end. First up — a lit­tle Jack Daniels his­to­ry. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/31151 ——————- Some sci­ence — there was  lot to choose from this morn­ing. Crows use rocks to raise the water lev­el in a con­tain­er, prov­ing that Aesop knew what he was talk­ing about and that crows real­ly are the coolest birds http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/aesopscrows/ Looking like … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Aug 10)”

Let’s see if I can remem­ber to spellcheck before send­ing this morn­ing, shall we? Photography We think of wild fires as being a phe­nom­e­na of the forest­ed west of the USA and Canada. Mediterranean coun­tries face their own fire sea­son. The Big Picture has images. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/fires_around_the_mediterranean.html More from Europe. An all com­ers heavy met­al fes­ti­val in Germany. (folk met­al?) http://designyoutrust.com/2009/08/04/wacken-open-air-2009/ …

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Aug 4)”

The world of bits and pol­i­tics is get­ting all het up again. First there’s this lit­tle mat­ter of AT&T, Apple, GoogleVoice, and the FCC. The fences around the play­grounds are com­ing down and the prop­er­ty own­ers are not hap­py. http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/08/01/att-responds-to-fcc-letter-re-google-voice-mobile-iphone-app/ Rep. Ed Markey (D‑MA) is try­ing for net neu­tral­i­ty leg­is­la­tion again. A much more pro-neutrality admin­is­tra­tion might make a dif­fer­ence. PDF … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Aug 3)”