a crank’s progress

Battery Exchange Program iBook G4 and PowerBook G4:
Apple has determined that certain lithium-ion batteries containing cells manufactured by Sony Corporation of Japan pose a safety risk that may result in overheating under rare circumstances.
The affected batteries were sold worldwide from October 2003 through August 2006 for use with the following notebook computers: 12-inch iBook G4, [...]

Anthony Mantova Embarrasses President Bush:
Paul Beard of Seattle got the top spot in the Eureka Reporter’s Letters to the Editor today:
Dear Editor,
Patrick Bell complains that a recent column, written by a former paratrooper, was “unhinged” in its criticism of a young war supporter who refuses to serve in a war he supports. Bell suggests Mr. [...]

After watching this shredding, I wondered what on earth I was doing with my lo-fi noise.
Not that I let it stop me.
I decided to try some stuff to see if I can get GarageBand to behave. I created a garageband user account with no applications running (no browser, no mail, nuttin’). It worked [...]

rambling post on the virtual world’s appeal over the physical, for some. This passage — RTWT for context — brought Brave New World to mind. Add in Xeni Jardin’s regular updates on teledildonics and we’re all going to be in little boxes pushing levers like monkeys or rats, but with more direct results than a [...]

One of the more prolific posters at f295 has a blog, and posted a long piece, from which I excerpt below.
Unmediating the Media:
Photographs are proxy-holders. They possess an Orwellian Newthink duality whereby the viewer simultaneously holds two diametrically opposing views to be equally true: that, on the one hand, the photograph possesses the power [...]

boy

Originally uploaded by paulbeard.

I found a roll of undeveloped film a few months back. This, along with a bunch of others of my son and heir at the same drooly age, was what I found.
Seemed a good image to play with Flickr’s new geo-tagging [...]

a wooden boat waits

Originally uploaded by paulbeard.

Found this by chance yesterday. I considered cropping it but I like the context of the other boats and the dock, to say nothing of the red canoe.

Brad Delong cites Hal Varian on why gas prices rise on the news of a potential oil supply contraint:
To spell out the argument, imagine that you own a storage tank full of gasoline that is currently worth $2 a gallon at wholesale prices. It is widely believed, however, that the price of gasoline will be [...]

Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky:
“I used to believe in god before I found out he was crazy.”

So take this fascinating improvement:
Wired News: New Engine Combusts Old Ideas:
If your next car gets twice the gas mileage of your current vehicle, and belches out only a fraction of the pollution, you may have Carmelo Scuderi to thank.
Scuderi, a Massachusetts engineer and inventor, started tinkering with the fundamentals of the internal combustion engine when [...]