AF

I have to respect this position.

Straw Poll

Reasons that normal, rational people should ignore the straw poll:

• It takes place at a state fair (butter cows, anyone?)
• Tickets are $35 -- yes, you pay to vote
• …except that very few people pay: the candidates buy blocks of tickets and bus people in.
• It is a fundraiser for the Republican party. No, this is not my lefty humor; it really is a fundraiser.

This sort of stuff cheapens the race.

Who built this totally cool self-propelled skiing camera?

2001

Excellent photos from 2001.  One of my favorite films.

Snap

I seem to have missed this when it came out.

Sony is basing its Snap framework on GNUstep and Objective C. Interesting.

Are they thinking that some of these people writing iPhone applications will expand into widgets for Blu-Ray players and TVs?

Dumb

This is probably another good time to remind you all that all of us were carrying actual assault rifles, and some of us were also carrying pistols.

So we’re in line, going through one at a time. One of our Soldiers had his Gerber multi-tool. TSA confiscated it. Kind of ridiculous, but it gets better. A few minutes later, a guy empties his pockets and has a pair of nail clippers. Nail clippers. TSA informs the Soldier that they’re going to confiscate his nail clippers.

Whoops