a crank’s progress

I have a multiple day camping trip planned with my fifth grader and 40+ others, and was considering renting a DSLR to document the whole thing, maybe make a little keepsake book from it. But the best price I saw today to rent a Nikon D50 was $60/day. It wouldn’t take too many days renting [...]

is this the new business model?
Radiohead has a new album coming out called In Rainbows. It’s only available from their site for now, either as a download (released Oct 10) or as a “discbox” that includes the CD, a bonus CD, two records, and assorted photos, books, etc. (released Dec 3). (via rex)
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So the folks [...]

Official Gmail Blog: “M” is for…mute:
Just like you, I get a lot of email. Much of it requires my reply, some is simply FYI, and some is the result of overactive mailing lists, like the one for Google’s San Francisco commuters. I take the shuttle to work, so I need to stay on top of [...]

The last Ice Age went out with a roar, not a whimper. The result is one of the most dramatic examples in the world of what climate change can mean, and Congress has plans for a “trail” to commemorate the little-known story.

McCarthy.vg | How The War Was Won: “President Hamid Karzai offered Saturday to meet personally with Taliban leader Mullah Omar for peace talks and give the militants a high position in a government ministry as a way to end the rising insurgency in Afghani
Wonder if he’ll have Osama on his staff as an advisor?
(tags: osamabinforgotten [...]

Radiohead ditches iTunes to keep album complete - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):
The album isn’t some sort of artistic medium that must be upheld. It’s a marketing/production vehicle, created by the record industry. Nothing but a collection of songs.
Also, the headline is wrong, as Radiohead never have used iTunes, due to their aversion over having [...]

Scaife demands documents from Post-Gazette:
Court documents list Mr. Scaife’s monthly income from nine trusts at $3.9 million.
I guess it was easy to fund the witch-hunt into Bill Clinton’s private life, with that kind of change rolling in. As pointed out here, Scaife’s actions are no better than Clinton’s, especially when one considers his marriage count [...]

A Blackwater Bouquet
Natural born killers, all in the employ of you and me, the American texpayer. Michael Vick is being judged more harshly than these bastards. That’s wrong.
(tags: corruption gop worstpresidentever mercenaries blackwater)