Archive for July, 2006

Safety Enhancements for Smart Car on the Way

I dunno about ya’ll, but I’d personally still be a little bit scurred to drive one of these things.AA Monster-truck status or not, you could get beasted by a Geo Prism, papi.AA

Smart Car Mod via: TreeHugger

The Art of ChAAhAA: Secret Message Glove

A glove that electronically passes secret messages.

This exemplary piece of ninja arsenal, The Secret Message Glove, was spotted in the wild on Engadget. We have no idea who leaked this vital implement in the art of ChAAhAA, but we’re sure it was the same malignant element responsible for the 1989 Area 51 cover-up. But either way, check it out. And check out the photo gallery of their Innovation Conference.

Story Via: Engadget

Beantown Pride at The Brilliant Mistake

So on a recent trip back to my stomping grounds in the Beantown, I met this cat Mike who has a blog that’s strictly holding it down for anything ill, especially what’s poppin off in Boston. He’s got dope photos and all sorts of insider info. Peep him sonny!

The Brilliant Mistake

What Music Looks Like

Having trouble seeing all those hi-hats? Have fun with this musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book "Digital Harmony." If you fail to subscribe to the back end of music visualization, check out "The Shape of Song," which outlines composers like Bach and Glass.

Thanks to Ian.

Sign to Unrelease Jdilla from MCA

Geffen Records (now merged with MCA) has an entire album of Jay Dees sealed in the vaults- sign this petition to help un-release this eminent masterpiece.

Thanks to Ian for sending this in.

Uncertainty about Weapons Inspector’s Suicide

A member of pariament (Norman Baker)AAyesterday challeneged a judiciary committee’s conclusion that a whistle blower weapon’s inspector took is own life.AA The evidence surrounding the death definitely seems a little strange given that Dr. Kelly does not fit the MO of suicide victim.AA The news story provides several challenges to the official explanation of the suicide.

If you were following the British news two years ago you will remember Dr. Kelly as the ninja who accused Tony Blair of "sexing up" intelligence in Iraw.AA Check out some of the excerpts or read the full article.

"Baker also said that paramedics who attended the scene where Kelly’s body was found in Oxfordshire noticed that he had lost little blood and was "incredibly unlikely" to have died from the wound they saw.

Police said that 29 tablets of pain-killer coproxamol were missing from a packet in his home, but all that was found in Dr Kelly’s stomach was the equivalent of one-fifth of a tablet, Baker said.

Volunteer searchers who found his body said he was slumped against a tree, rather than lying prone, as police stated."

Article Via: Yahoo News

Adobe’s Platinum Status

"Electricity consumption has been reduced by 35 percent; irrigation water use has decreased by 75 percent."

No, Abode hasn’t sold a million copies of Photoshop [actually, they probably have, but that’s not the point]. It has, however, finished work on its headquarters in San Jose, Cali., and received the USGBC‘s LEED [Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design] Platinum rating. Not only is this the highest status currently awarded by LEED standards, but the Adobe headquarters is the first commercial building to receive the rating.

Now, I know what you’re thinking…our government funds a green building initiative? I had a hard time believing it myself, but its true! Of course, it was established during the Clinton/Gore years, so no props to the oil hungry Bush administrtion on this one.

Article from ArchRecord

Independent Mega-Cities?

Shanghai
"London mayor Ken Livingstone is the latest civic leader to hanker after independence. Is the nation state under threat from the rise of the super-city?" [link] from the BBC.

With cities of tens of millions of people, continuously growing, some speculate that these mega-cities will continue distancing themselves from the countries within which they are located, increasing the powers of the city-state. And you thought foreign relations were hectic now…my ninja, please.
"The most important place to London is New York and to New York is London and Tokyo," Prof Sennett says. "London belongs to a country composed of itself and New York." [same link].

Welsh MC Devvo and Shady Pies Hold It Down

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I’m not sure what that is, but knowing those Carthridge mothas, all is good- just takes a couple minutes to take itAAin. Repping what would be known as "Chav Culture," MC Devo talks about the studio and "Shady Pies" then plays a track for the Devvo to rap over.

Last line of video: "I ain’t givin’ you me number cuz we ain’t got one!"

[ed: I don’t know if these cats are elite… or patently ridiculously, you be the judge.AA But definitely watch through to the end, as that’s when the music video comes on, idd’nit?]

http://www.fat-pie.com/