Dowbrigade: "Unfortunately, his trajectory took him directly through the power cable for the iBook, which was yanked off the table top, spinnning wildly in the air like a white frisbee, only to land flat on the cobblestone floor. For a moment we stared in stunned silence."
I've been subscribed to the Mars Rover Blog for a while and enjoy the analysis of the hundreds of picture the rover is sending back to earth on a daily basis. Normally I don't go for the blog's little green men theories, but this one is pretty convincing. At a minimum I'd like to hear from someone [@ NASA?] explain the black dots.
Europe has been enthralled with the european soccer championships, which is as much a sporting event as it is a political one. It's kinda like the superbowl of europe, except all countries duke it out over a two week period. Gert-Jan has posted a chart of several country's football soccer psyche.
Michael Moore was on Letterman promoting his movie Farenheit 9/11. Here's a BitTorrent of the segment. (also added as an enclosure for outfitted aggregators)
We had actor James Michael Tyler on the morning show today. He's been in Europe for the past few weeks promoting the final season of Friends DVD. He plays Gunther on the show.
He's also a musician and has a band-thing happening on the side with some other folks I know, like Vivian Campbell of Def Lep and Dio fame. Check out Red Felt Pig.
Yesterday I called in sick for the show, which was a bummer since Kenny Loggins came in for a visit. We met about 14 years ago in the states and played a round of putt-putt golf together. Kenny certainly remembered and passed his message to me in an innovative way, see the picture :)
"The Creative Archive is fuel for the creative nation," said Paula Le Dieu, co-director of the initiative. "It allows people to download these excerpts and be able to edit them and incorporate them into their own creative works."
The producers of "Gilligan's Island" are teaming with the producers of the "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" to bring you The Real Gilligan's Island.
This all-new version of the classic sitcom will feature real life versions of the original show's characters: a real-life skipper, first mate, millionaire couple, movie star, professor and Kansas farm girl. And one of them could be you!
I was surprised to find that a new aggregator Dave pointed to is also available for the mac, albeit in beta and lacking some of the cool features just announced in the latest windows update.
It's concept is simple and efficient. A single-pane aggregator that displays the information in an outline.
It feels reasonably responsive and easy to navigate, it has some keyboard support for users like me, who reach for the mouse as little as possible.
The interface forces you to create collections of weblogs and other RSS sources, so each node (represented by a folder icon) can contain any number of feeds. Upon first use, the program asks if you want it to auto configure several feeds. Each folder keeps track of the number of updated feeds within and displays that number.
It would be nice to have new feeds hoisted to the top of the outline, bumping the previous #1 story down a notch, just like weblog posts.
I couldn't find a way to import my OPML subscription file, but the subscription wizard does autodiscovery and offers several options for detecting new content.
Watch Lists allow for filtering new items based on keywords. Nifty!
The mac version recognizes enclosures, which is great, but there's now download button. ofcourse I'd really like the program to download these in the backgound, preferrably overnight. Would be nice in combination with a Watch List.
This may look like a review, but it isn't, it's an excited user's request list :)
In an interview broadcast on BBC radio, Janis Karpinski, the U.S. general in charge of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was told by a military intelligence commander that detainees should be treated like dogs. You can hear parts of the interview here.
The BBC is running a story about weblogs in schools. Nice to see Peter Ford and I influenced a few folks when we started schoolblogs.com at the British School of Amsterdam 3 years ago.
All 25 member states have cast their votes, with final votes cast yesterday in the European Parlimentary elections. Almost all governing parties were severly punished, boding lots of changes for each member states' national elections.
CNN is running a story about the elections, but they completely missed what happened in Belgium.
Belgium is interesting, since the Parliment is seated in Brussels. Additionally, voting is mandatory in Belgium. Not voting will result in a hefty fine. A whopping 17.43 percent voted for the extreme right wing Vlaams Blok, bringing them to the second place in local government. These guys are pretty radical and a bit frightening to be quite honest.
All 25 member states have cast their votes, with final votes 
