From Boston.com (The Boston Globe) one of many amazing photos from today’s demonstration in Iran. See all of them here or just click the photo.
The Healing Power of Web 2.0
Assorted thoughts on communication, personal photojournalism, new media and health. As if I could ever limit it to that.
An outstanding animation. If water matters to you, so should this.
Animal Services: (Excerpt of an email from Meadowmont Homeowners' Association
Animal Services: (Excerpt of an email from Meadowmont Homeowners’ Association)
Dogs must be leashed, in a vehicle or in an enclosure when off the dog owner’s property. A dog on its owner’s property must be restrained or enclosed with a fence, proper chain*, etc.; or attended by a person who can control the dog. Dogs, leashed or unleashed, are not permitted in playing fields in any parks.
Dogs and cats older than four months must be vaccinated against rabies. Dogs and cats older than 3 months must have current tags available through the Chapel Hill Animal Control Office. Households are limited to having a maximum of four dogs over three months of age.
Chapel Hill Animal Control Officer: 967-7517
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So, shouldn’t Meadowmont be a little bit kinder to our dogs and utterly reject chaining them? And shouldn’t we have our own rule regarding leaving a dog in a parked car (not allowed for more than a few minutes,) or driving through our streets with a dog in a truck-bed?
*Italics mine.
Hollywood Computer Laws
Hollywood Computer Laws
Word processors never display a cursor.
You never have to use the space-bar when typing long sentences.
Movie characters never make typing mistakes.
All monitors display inch-high letters.
High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, will have easy to understand graphical interfaces.
Those that don’t, have incredibly powerful text-bases command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain english.
Corollary: you can gain access to any information you want by simply typing “ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES” on any keyboard
Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing “UPLOAD VIRUS” (see “Fortress”)
All computers are connected. You can access the information on the villain’s desktop computer, even if it’s turned off.
Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn’t go faster than you can read. The *really* advanced ones also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer.
All computer panels have thousands of volts and flash pots just underneath the surface. Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks, and an explosion that forces you backwards.
People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data.
A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries.
Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function (see “Demolition Man” and countless others).
Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. Movie modems usually appear to transmit data at the speed of two gigabytes per second.
When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen (e.g. “Clear and Present Danger”).
If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automagically asked for a password when you try to access it.
No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it’ll be readable by any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all computer platforms.
The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has (“Aliens”). However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren’t labelled.
Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, active animation, photo-realistic graphics capability.
Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY Supercomputer.
Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face (see “Alien,” “2001”).
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...an appliance we ordered from Amazon.com in April of '08 arrived...yesterday.
Talk about delayed gratification. And on top of everything, it was the wrong size. Amazon’s records showed it had been delivered a year ago. But they were still willing to take it as a return. Props to Amazon.comPosted via web from Business Must Be Booming When… | Comment »
...I stop the guy mowing my neighbor's yard, ask him to leave me his card and a bid and I get...zilch.
It’s been well over a month. And no, he wasn’t my neighbor, yes he speaks English (natively) and yes, I pointed out my house to him. Just a guy with a yard-maintenance business who seems not to have learned to recognize a business opportunity.Posted via web from Business Must Be Booming When… | Comment »
...the Domino's driver screams because I'm having trouble with a bad gate-opener..."Move it! I've got pizza!"
I’m trying to deliver a friend to her home in a cosmetically gated apartment complex, and the keypad is broken. I’m punching the thing to no avail. The Domino’s driver behind me is screaming and cursing. I know she will have to pay for the pizza if it’s delivered late, but she couldn’t open it either. Finally, someone manages to, and we all snake through the gate. Then a new line of cars starts to pile up. I see them as I’m leaving, and I see the police arrive. So much for security.Posted via web from Business Must Be Booming When… | Comment »
...the plumbing supply rep sells me a vanity and sink and fails to tell me faucet in the pic isn't included.
When I ask her why she never sold me a faucet she says “I just assumed you already had one.” A plumbing supply salesperson, no less. She also never mentioned that the vanity would arrive in about 17 pieces that would need to be assembled, or that it would not match the standard locations of the water supply and drain in the wall. And this is one of the two best plumbing supply places in the Chapel Hill area. Yoiks.Posted via web from Business Must Be Booming When… | Comment »
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Now here is a news service I’m going to add to my news-reader. What do we have to do to encourage editors to look for these sorts of stories. Or Tweeters to Tweet about them?
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