Damn, this is so cool. I would have loved to have seen this happening. The second picture is the better one I think.
Ten thousand superballs rolling down a San Francisco hill-street
Cory Doctorow:
These photos document the release of 10,000 small superballs at the San Francisco hilltop corner of Filbert and Leavenworth. Wow.[via Boing Boing Blog]
Mark Twain
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” [Quotes of the Day]
The Billings Gazette has an article up about how Evel Knievel has Ideopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).
TWIN FALLS, Idaho – Evel Knievel may have finally met his match. And he’s not going to clear this hurdle.
Renowned for his death-defying stunts, Knievel has now landed in major medical trouble. He says his doctors give him three to five years to live.
Knievel suffers from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that scars the lungs, replacing the air sacs with scar tissue. As the scars form, the tissue becomes thicker, reducing the lung’s ability to absorb oxygen. There is no cure. [BillingsGazette.com]
Here’s sending my best, it’s a horrible disease.
Though I’m sick of all the news surrounding the hidden sex scenes in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas I enjoyed this column over on sfgate.com:
There’s Sex In My Violence!
What’s this lame soft-core porn doing in my ultraviolent “Grand Theft Auto”? I am outraged!…
Suddenly that downloadable patch you installed last night kicks in and there’s, like, a lame and badly animated sex scene, right there, right between the graphic bloody part where you bazooka’d the police helicopter and the part where the gang-banger gets his lame ass beaten with a large handgun, and suddenly you’re like, what the hell? Who stuck this lame badly animated sex in here? Where’d my soul-numbing ultraviolent racism go? I am outraged. [sfgate.com]
After reading about the pilot for a TV show called Global Frequency over on Heath Row’s Media Diet my curiosity went into overdrive. I read up about it some on the net and then hunted down a copy of it. One of the best pilot episodes I’ve seen ever I think.
But what is just as interesting is how this leaked pilot has really generated interest in the show. People are asking “how can we help get this show to TV”. The site FrequencySite has coverage of what’s going on with it (though they don’t suggest you go out and download the show, that would be bad :)). But imagine if a network were smart enough to use this as a way to promote a new show. Especially one that might be a bit of a risk (as this one may be). Then see how strong the feedback is, and they might get an idea of how successful it could be.
Anyways, if you get a chance to see this, definitely check it out. I now kind of hope that it does actually get picked up after all.
Now Playing: Love at First Sight from the album “Black Sea” by XTC
Originally seen over on LJ:
Call to turn exam failure into a qualified success
By Alexandra Blair, Education CorrespondentA RETIRED primary school teacher has called for the word “failure” to be banned from the classroom and replaced with “deferred success”.
Liz Beattie, who taught for 37 years, said that children’s aspirations to learn are crushed as soon as they are deemed failures and that they should be praised instead.
The motion to remove the word “fail” from the educational vocabulary will be put formally to members of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) at the union’s annual conference in Buxton, Derbyshire, at the end of the month. [The Times]
Bah. I think this school teacher is an idiot. While I don’t think you should necessarily yell “MY GOD YOU SUCK” to a student in the middle of class, getting rid of the concept of failure is a horrible idea. And just how are you supposed to praise the kid who got a zero on a test? Good job Billy! You got the lowest grade in the class, a new record! Keep up the good work!
Now Playing: D-tecnolife from the album “D-tecnolife Single” by UVERworld
LJ user terrajen points to today’s New York City edition of the Metro describing how to recognize terrorists.
So if you see someone sweating a lot during the summer and avoiding eye contact in Manhattan call the cops!
Adrants has links to two videos from AOL promoting their new service AIM mail.
To promote its new AIM Mail, AOL has a couple of strange online videos, created by ATTIK. One has a receptionist drifting into a daydream which consists of superhero midgets…oops…dwarfs…oops…little people giving her a tickle attack. The other has a pair of sushi falling in love only to have one killed by getting eaten. Both end with @aim addresses and no other form of linkage.
Once at the AIM Mail site, there are blogs that promote the videos. The videos can be viewed HERE and HERE. [Adrants]
No real point here, just some links I found interesting today.
Daily Star: “Trainspotting meets A Clockwork Orange!”
Actual line: “This glum, violent drama about a Scottish thug ruined by drink is written and pretentiously directed by Richard Jobson whose approach  Trainspotting meets A Clockwork Orange  is bad enough to drive you to drink in no time.”
Now I’m off to try updating this blog to MT 3.2.
Gertrude Stein
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” [Quotes of the Day]
