Wikipedia’s “List of stoffs“.
I wonder if it would have been easier to have different sized openings (and different sized nozzles) for the T-Stoff and C-Stoff tanks, instead of a “complex testing system”. But maybe I’m missing something.
(Hattip: TJIC on the Twitter.)
Some of these are things I promised other people I’d send them a link to, some of these are things I wanted to note in passing.
Here’s the Merlin Mann “Flocked Up” video from the “Worst Website Ever” panel at SXSW 2008. This is where “your (x) is one of the three to fifteen most important things to us” comes from.
HouChron article about women in the brewing profession, complete with photos of the Saint Arnold Brewing Company’s female brewer. The photos in the slide show aren’t quite as good as the one they ran on the front page – the one that made me click through to the article – but they do make me want to try more of the fine products of the company.
I haven’t linked this previously, since many of the people in my circle had already seen it. It turns out that a few haven’t, so: the Ars Technica “I am calling you from Windows” story about Indian “technical support” scammers.
The first set of verdicts came down late Friday in the Austin nightclub trial. (Previously.) I’d also commented that I didn’t think the trial was going all that well for the prosecution: as a matter of fact, the defense rested without presenting any evidence or calling any witnesses, which you have to figure is a sign of confidence that the prosecution does not have a case.
Two of the three Yassine brothers were found guilty of money laundering: Hussain Ali, known as “Mike”, and Hadi. Mohammed Ali Yassine, aka “Steve” was acquitted on the money laundering charges; however, the Statesman says he’s going to be tried on drug charges later.
Basically the only evidence the prosecution had was the word of one of the Yassine cousins, who was a paid federal informer, and who confessed to drug use and theft under oath. My record so far in predicting trial results is mediocre at best, but I would not be shocked to see the convictions overturned on appeal.
And I didn’t actually bring this up, but it came up, and would be useful to link, so: the Wired article about “Cow Clicker”.
The problem is that Think Progress, Huffington Post, and BoingBoing are full of shit.
—Ken @ Popehat
I commend this post to your attention, as not only does it masterfully dissect the idea that the law should be what we feel it should be, rather than what it actually is, but it also points out gross misconduct by Antinous, a Boing Boing moderator.
More from Ken:
(It is probably worth pointing out that this has some relevance to the Mirkarimi situation. Yes, he thumped his woman. Yes, he was convicted of a crime. But the arguments of the people who opposed his firings are that the mayor doesn’t have the authority to fire Mirkarimi, and that his crime took place before he was in office, so it shouldn’t count. I don’t much like these arguments, but I’m having trouble sorting out whether I don’t like them because that’s the way I feel the law should be, rather than the way it actually is, even if “the way it is” is stupid in my opinion.)
I was going to the destination for Saturday’s Saturday Dining Conspiracy. So, of course, I put the address into the new IOS6 mapping application on my shiny new iPhone 5.
The phone routed me to a shopping center across a major highway and, I’d estimate, about .3 miles from where the restaurant actually was.
Oh, wait. Did I say “IOS6 maps” and “shiny new iPhone 5”? I’m sorry. I meant to say “Google Navigation” and “my two-year-old HTC EVO running Android”.
Point being: Apple’s new Maps may not be up-to-spec, but I’ve personally run into problems with Google Maps/Google Navigation on my phone as well. Apple gets all the attention now, probably because new! shiny! but the claimed perfection of Google does not exist.
(As I said above, I use an HTC Evo on Sprint. Now that I’m off contract, I am considering an iPhone 5, mostly because I’m not totally happy with Android as an environment and as an ecosystem, as well as not very much liking the Sprint add-ons. As I’ve said elsewhere before, I work professionally with Windows and UNIX based operating systems, my main home computers are Macs, and my laptop is a netbook running Ubuntu. I don’t have a dog in the platform wars, and I don’t really give a damn what you use, or what you think of other people who use a different platform.)
Ben Sprecher is a theatrical producer. Most of his work has been off-Broadway, but he’s trying to put on a Broadway musical version of “Rebecca”. (I know what you’re thinking, but according to the NYT, this was done in Vienna in 2006, and played well.)
Anyway, Mr. Sprecher estimates that he needs $12 million for this. Mr. Sprecher had an investor – a man named Paul Abrams – who was putting up $4.5 million. That’s a lot of money for one person to invest in a Broadway show. But wait, it gets better!
But wait, it gets even better: Mr. Sprecher never met or spoke to Mr. Abrams at all. There are questions as to whether Mr. Abrams ever even existed.
Mr. Sprecher is trying to raise money to fill the gap. But if he fails and the musical doesn’t open, he’s on the hook to his other investors.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, bat cave!
Obit watch: Edwin Wilson. Remember Edwin Wilson? Former CIA guy? Convicted of shipping plastic explosives to Libya? Spent 20 years in prison?
Yeah. That guy.
Debacle? That seems strong. But I didn’t watch the game. “Debacle” may not be strong enough.
Donuts. Is there anything they can’t do? Well, they can register domains. But Donuts, Inc. has close ties to Demand Media…
The current theory on convicted sex offender and fugitive from justice Prakashanand Saraswati seems to be that he’s in India now, having been spirited out of the country by his followers. And the US Marshals don’t have an office in India.
Maybe they could send some BATF guys from Reno to India.
This is a surprisingly hard question to find an answer for, but the best information I’ve been able to find seems to point to Cuba moving steadily westward as the Atlantic Ocean widens and South America pushes upwards towards North America, until eventually (some 250 million years from now) the continents reassemble themselves as Pangea Ultima and Cuba is sucked under what’s left of the Atlantic Ocean.
Then again, that may not have been the question the NYT had in mind…
The street finds its own uses for things.
Oh, look! Julie Taymor and the “Spider-Man” producers have settled their lawsuit out of court.
Quel frommage!
The worst Division I football program in history?
Savannah State is playing Oklahoma State and Florida State in the first two games, and will collect $860,000 (“which represents about 17 percent of the Tigers’ modest athletic budget”) for those games.
By the way, last year was a “1-10 season that included losses by scores of 63-6, 41-6, 47-7, 45-3 and 59-3, in addition to a defeat at the hands of a team that had lost 29 conference games in a row.”
There’s an interesting piece in the LAT about George Perez, former city manager and city councilman in Cudahy. (Previously.) Perez has not been charged with any crimes, yet, but is a major figure in the criminal cases against other Cudahy officials:
Perez started out as a janitor in Cudahy and worked his way up to the city manager position
And this is kind of interesting:
So there were concerns twelve years ago, but nothing happened? Quel frommage, again!
I can’t find a good way to embed the NASA videos in a post, and I don’t want to link to the ones on YouTube, which are dubiously sourced. So here’s NASA’s Apollo 11 video page. And another page containing some restored Apollo 11 video.
Ad astra per aspera. Godspeed, Dr. Armstrong.
More specifically, a random assortment of things that turned up in my Post Office box today, or that I found while I was out and about. Not that I’m bragging, but I think some folks might be entertained, amused, or interested in some of these items.
The first issue of “Infowars: The Magazine” (as Gregg Easterbrook might say, “Published on Earth: The Planet”).
I’ve got big balls. (Also acceptable: “Ah, but the strawberries. That’s where I had them.“) (Previously.)
The only political party that can actually change things this year. (Get yours here.)
Finally:
My USB TV receiver from Germany is here! (Previously.) More when and as I get a chance to dink with it.
40 years ago today, John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Natuarale tried to hold up a Chase Manhattan bank branch in Brooklyn. I believe this is what that location looks like today:
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Wojtowicz and Natuarale botched the robbery, and ended up in a 14 hour long standoff with police. The NYT has a retrospective.
And why does this matter, other than it being kind of a big deal at the time? Well, the robbery inspired a Sidney Lumet film:
Obit watch: Victor Poor, an influential early chip designer for Intel.
Noted:
Edited to add: Thanks to Borepatch for reminding us it is also the 20th anniversary of the shooting of Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge.
Here are a bunch of random links that I promised various people, collected in one place, so I can email one link rather than half-a-dozen.
“Stupid Idea Of The Day: Let’s Nationalize Facebook!”. This was also in TMQ Watch, but buried, so I’m breaking it out here. Note that this goes to Forbes and not Slate, because I refuse to give Idiot Boy any linkage.
Obit from EE Times for Hans Camenzind, inventor of the 555 timer IC.
Rap music is becoming less homophobic.
“Many hip-hop artists, too, noticed when Jamaican dance hall artists such as Buju Banton, whose lyrics are violently anti-gay, saw lucrative tour dates canceled as a result.”
The latest in Buju Banton’s legal case, or “You got 10 years. Would you like to go for 15?”
“What will 2011 (the Year of the Rabbit) hold for Buju Banton?” Somehow, I don’t think the answer was “Federal prison”.