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Tuesday, January 29 2002

Television addiction

Slashdot discussion of a Scientific American article on "TV addiction" - does it exist? How is TV addiction like drug addiction? And what is it really?

Plastic.com redux

The Online Journalism Review on the beginning of Plastic.com, the discussion/news site that brought multiple onlnie brands (Suck, Feed, NetSlaves, etc.) together for a Slashdot-style (Slashcode-based, anyway) site. To be followed by an article on its decline.

Tuesday, January 22 2002

Spellcasting 101

A guy tries to learn to cast spells based on the Harry Potter books and Dungeons & Dragons game. Funny.

Saturday, January 19 2002

Volcano eruption in the Congo displaces hundreds of thousands

A volcano eruption near Goma, Congo, has sent lava into the city, killing dozens of people and displacing hundreds of thousands. Reports are available from Voice of America, the Kinshasa Daily and other news outlets.

French family biking around the world (since 1985)

SFGate reports on a French family of three (including a 7-year-old-boy) that has biked more than 66,000 miles since 1985, going from continent to continent (presumably by boat or plane). Apparently, though, their tourist visas in the U.S. are going to expire before they make it to Canada (and the U.S. refuses to extend the visas); "their visa will expire somewhere in southern Washington and they will be subject to arrest and deportation."

Googlin' Sylvie and Alain Soulat (the couple) comes up with a bunch of French web pages. (And at least one Spanish page, from their stay in Nicaragua.)

Friday, January 18 2002

Huge greenhouse in Cornwall

Wired News has a neat article on the Eden Project - a series of large, fairly lightweight domes in England replicating climates from around the world. They've got domes with climates and habitats from every continent except Australia.

Pictures available for sale here.

Sunday, January 13 2002

MLK Day article from 1985

Seattle Times has an (abridged) article from 1985 regarding the fight to have Martin Luther King's birthday declared a national holiday. 1986 was the first year it was observed.

The date of the holiday: 3rd Monday of January - January 21st, 2002, for this year.

Thursday, January 10 2002

The Difference tween Enron and Whitewater

CBS Marketwatch column on the Enron scandal, and how it'll affect Bush.

Movie Mistakes

Movie Mistakes catalogs mistakes from movies - continuity errors, inaccuracies, etc. One of the Matrix's 138 mistakes:

"In the first scene in which Neo appears, we see him from above, sleeping in front of his computer. The keyboard he is using is a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro with the atypical curved key configuration. When messages begin appearing on his screen, he tries to stop them by hitting various keys, but the closeup of the keys show keys from a standard keyboard that are clearly not the keys on a Natural Keyboard Pro."

Sunday, January 6 2002

Political assasssin is actor in "Kandahar"

Apparently, one of the actors in Kandahar, a critically-acclaimed Iranian film, assassinated a critic of the Iranian government in Bethesda, MD in 1980.

Would you see a film in which a murderer had a part? Would you read a genuinely good, kind-hearted book by a violent segregationist? Would you eat cereal (Post), cream cheese (Kraft), or other food sold by a tobacco company?

Friday, January 4 2002

Online job sites aren't very effective

MSNBC running a WSJ article: online job sites aren't an effective way of getting a job.

Thursday, January 3 2002

Vivien Thomas, heart surgery pioneer

Wired News article on a PBS video/website about Vivien Thomas, "an African-American medical researcher who was half of a team that pioneered heart surgery in the 1940s."

A short biography of Mr. Thomas. (Does getting an honorary doctorate make him a doctor?)

Two good Wired News articles on Macs

Wired News has two good articles on Macintoshes, in advance of the MacWorld Expo next week: one on the hype around the expo, and another on running multiple non-Mac OS's on the Mac.

Rapidly-expanding universe bodes poorly for "life"

According to current theories, the universe is expanding at an incredibly rapid pace. Which means that outside the few galaxies in our local area, much of the universe will remain out of reach, and eventually out of sight, to our descendants, if the expansion continues.

About this site

This is the personal web site for Edward (Ed) Piou. Consisting mainly of a blog (operational since 1999) and various photos.

Some online projects I'm working on

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A while ago, I decided to put my money where my mind is on a (roughly) monthly basis and give to:

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Public events documented through pictures...