Listening to:  Bytes - Epsilon Blue

Found on BoingBoing.
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Photos of snowflakes… circa 1890s. Just breath taking:

Not only are they visually stunning… but I find their age to be amazing.

Listening to:  One In A Million - Epsilon Blue

The photo of the day has to be (a very, very stark contrast to yesterday’s gut-wrenching photo
of the day… also of a daughter):

For me it describes the Bush reign… kinda gormless. Anyways BoingBoing is doing
a good bit of business on the horn hurling daughter of Dubya:

• Jenna
  Bush, Spawn of Satan

• “Jenna
  hearts Satan” T-shirts

There is just something poetic about it all.

Listening to: Understanding - Epsilon Blue

Found on /..
An XML.com article on XSL and CSS in printing:

Anyway, the pronounciation of CSS’ printing ineptness gives us a splendid opportunity
to explain why CSS is a better language than XSL for most printing needs. As we have
just used CSS to style a 400-page book which will be published later this year (Cascading
Stylesheets, designing for the web by Håkon Lie and Bert Bos, 3rd ed, forthcoming
from Addison-Wesley, this year), this is not purely an academic excercise in stylesheet
linguistics. So, would-be authors should continue reading.

Being a person who uses both these technologies on a daily basis I don’t really get
the beef to tell you the truth. CSS is the obvious candidate for printing needs. But
you need the XSL to get into a position to get your info right. Still and interesting
read.

Listening to: Dissolving - Epsilon Blue

Found on BBC World.
Sponge Bob and tolerance is just another liberal plot:

US conservative groups are up in arms over a music video featuring children’s
TV heroes such as the cheerful cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.

Focus on the Family and other groups say the video - a remake of the Sister Sledge
hit, We Are Family - is a vehicle for pro-gay propaganda.

*Yawn*

Listening to: Dissolving - Epsilon Blue

Found on Salon. A tale of
a copy editor for a porn mag. Amusing but not really work safe.

Another benefit was that my computer was developing street smarts. I had loaded
into its spell-checker all manner of esoterica such as “suckfest” and “cockhead,”
which it thereafter allowed without so much as a red flag. And I myself was becoming
proficient in certain arcane areas of copy editing that otherwise might have escaped
my expertise, such as the difference between “lie” and “lay.” Thus, the buxom blonde
lies spread-eagled, but the muscle-bound black lay down in the leaves.

Listening to: not too sure… this was computer generated.

Where
Balloons Come From

Originally uploaded by Green
Destiny.>

Found this on Flickr… appeals to me muchly.

Listening to: Forever And A Day> - Ian Brown

Found on /.:

The ultimate technology to emerge from the field may be a quantum computer
so powerful that the only way to protect against its prodigious code-breaking capability
may be to deploy quantum-cryptographic techniques.

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Listening to: Romeo & Juliet> - Dire Straits

Found this on LonghornBlogs.com:

No long post today, just a thought… Avalon is Microsoft’s new desktop
rendering system. It is reasonable to assume that Microsoft-developed applications
targeting Longhorn will use this system. So, the question becomes… what will be
the difference between Oulook on the desktop and Outlook Web Access on the web? Why
would you even need a desktop version, when a XAML version served up from the web
would have the exact same capabilities?

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Listening to: not too sure… this was computer generated.

mother
of pearl

Originally uploaded by flash5.>

My Mother of Pearl has come back from the cutters.

Listening to: not too sure… this was computer generated.

in
car keyboard

Originally uploaded by flash5.>

It’s a little hard to see… but this dude has a keyboard installed between the driver
and passenger seats. He was just doodling away while he waited for a customer.