a crank’s progress

Some places have gotten warmer, a few cooler. What should worry people — farmers and the customers, you know, people who eat — is the change in hardiness zones, ie, where you can grow stuff.

What if you can’t grow your cash crop because it needs chill hours it’s no longer getting (peaches, apples, cherries, etc.)? [...]

Harper’s Index for April 2006 (Harpers.org):
Percentage of U.S. adults in 1985 who said they found overweight people less attractive than others: 55
Percentage who said this last year: 24
Estimated number of Marshmallow Peeps that will be consumed around Easter this month: 800,000,000
Estimated number of pigs who died to make them: 125,000
I’ll argue the first three are: [...]

William Henry Fox Talbot was one of the pioneers of photography, capturing the first images to light sensitive paper, as a way of recording what he was unable to draw or otherwise record. This image — his Oriel Window – is the oldest surviving artifact of the negative to positive film process, dating back to [...]

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MPG Calculator > Sierra Club:

The biggest single step that automakers could take to reduce the cost of driving is to use existing technology to make our cars, SUVs, and light trucks go farther on a gallon of gas. This simple step would also curb global warming pollution and move America closer to energy independence.
To say [...]

Last in has to get out on his own

Originally uploaded by eszter.

Leave the captions at Flickr.

This is exactly what happened to me. I had a several page Word doc with 30+ images, all of which I needed to extract. Even doing it one at a time was going to take forever, given how slow Word is. You’d think I could drag and drop to the Desktop: no such luck. This [...]

Img02_1

Originally uploaded by pdb206.

Going through a lot of old pictures with the Young Uns tonight, I realized a lot of my more esoteric, ie non-obvious pictures were in the family album. So I hooked up FlickrExport and squandered the rest of my monthly bandwidth allotment [...]

“Media Matters”; by Jamison Foser:
The defining issue of our time is not the Iraq war. It is not the “global war on terror.” It is not our inability (or unwillingness) to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable health care. Nor is it immigration, outsourcing, or growing income inequity. It is not education, it [...]

rocks a-glimmer

Originally uploaded by pdb206.

The more I look at this, the more I like it, though it is not what I intended to do at all.