WOW! This is not Rummy's week.
TIME is reporting this exclusive about charges being brought against Rumsfeld for human rights violations. I have a feeling that Dick Cheney is going to be taking Rumsfeld Dove hunting soon, if you get my drift...
Friday, November 10, 2006
Rain, snow expected in Pacific Northwest
El Nino, perhaps!?....
Hey, as long as it doesn't make the Seahawks lose this weekend then all's well. Well, that and I hope no one gets hurt...
Police Brutality Video
Police Brutality Video stirs up YouTube.
If anyone knows how to properly beat down people, it's the L.A.P.D. Not that I blame them. I mean this guy is nuts, totally out of control.
- Polygons On Google Maps And Google Earth
- Geography 101: An Overview of Geography (About.com)
- Also, the SADDAM HUSSEIN hanging has sold out in India.
- Al Qaeda internet audio clip boasts of 12,000 terror 'troops' - An audio clip purportedly recorded by the leader of Iraq's al Qaeda wing, has been posted on the internet gloating over the resignation of US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and boasts that the group has 12,000 armed fighters ready to ...
- Britain Spy Agency Tracking Terror Plots - British authorities are tracking almost 30 terrorist plots involving 1,600 suspects,...
- Ed Bradley, The News Pioneer Who Never Lost His Cool
- Hizbullah man killed in cluster blast
- Fomer Nazi denied honorary doctorate
- Cox Cuts Deal for NFL Games
CURSE OF THE RED STAPLER!!! - Office Space as a Horror Film
The weekend's coming up and I just know you could use something to pick up the spirits (non-alcoholoic version, that is).
So, here you go:
Sometimes Thursday rolls around and you really have no idea what it will bring you. Could you have ever imagined watching Office Space cut to look like a slasher flick? God bless the wonders of modern-day technology and the internet. What the Maynard? has recut scenes from Office Space into a trailer that makes it look horrifically good as a fear-inducing movie starring Milton as the killer. Come on, he's creepy, he mumbles, is misunderstood and he carries a red Swingline stapler. What's not to fear? He's a horror film baddie just waiting to be unleashed on the unsuspecting masses.
In fact, I've watched this trailer several times now (that really says a lot about me and how I spend my time, but I don't want to take away from the quality of the people who worked on this edit, so do your best to now ignore this entire parenthetical) and it gets better each time. It makes me want to see this version of the movie. Although they could have just as easily made Michael Bolton the bad guy if they used the footage from when he goes to town on the printer. That's scary enough in the normal version of the movie, although not quite as scary as fat David Herman in Idiocracy. Yikes. Check out the trailer
Bridges in Virtual Earth 3D
It's always fun when a new program hits the users. For awhile, all of us have been hearing about the potential of Virtual Earth 3D and now that it is out we get discover all the neat features that we didn't know about. Here's one that shows the bridges in Virtual Earth 3D that is posted by James Fee. Huge 'hurricane' rages on Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet -- a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's South Pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.
"It looks like a hurricane, but it doesn't behave like a hurricane," said Andrew Ingersoll, a member of Cassini's imaging team at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. "Whatever it is, we're going to focus on the eye of this storm and find out why it's there."
A hurricane-like storm, two-thirds the diameter of Earth, is raging at Saturn's south pole, new images from Nasa's Cassini space probe reveal.
Measuring 5,000 miles (8,000km) across, the storm is the first hurricane ever detected on a planet other than Earth.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Is El Nino toying with us?
The time has come to bat around questions about the world of El Nino. The latest word about the tricky phenomenon is that El Nino is expected to continue into 2007. Already, scientists are starting to warn of heavy effects this winter on a much small scale than the last phase. So, as weather systems shift there are good aspects(quick-how many hurricanes hit the U.S. this year?) and bad ones. With the massive floodings of the last week in the Pacific Northwest, the issue of El Nino is once again steaming toward the main stream headlines.
Flooding Still Threatens Pacific Northwest - Record rainfall that brought heavy flooding to the Northwest, killing at least one person, causing evacuations and damaging roads and houses...
Recognizing El Nino - pretty much all you need to get caught up on the pesky system.
El Nino expected to continue into 2007 - a typical El Nino condition would be wetter than normal in the U.S. Gulf Coast and Florida and drier than average in the Ohio Valley and Pacific Northwest...
Agriculture dept, farms move to ease effects of El Nino - With the coming of the El Niño, Nilo said below normal rainfall had been experienced in affected areas ...
Indonesia Says El Nino May Endure Through Next Year - Indonesia may be affected by ``moderately intense'' El Nino weather conditions that could last right through next year...
Forecasters predict an El Nino year (Alaska) - The shift changes air pressure and weather across the world. Much of Juneau's weather can be credited to -- or blamed on -- two weather patterns.
Advertising in Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D
With the arrival of Virtual Earth 3D there had to come the creation of ad revenue somehow tied into the new, virtual world. Microsoft has come up with potential ads in their 3D world. Check this post by James Fee for a screenshot.
What's Coming in ArcView 9.2
With ArcGIS 9.2, ESRI continues to focus on quality, usability, and performance.
View the ArcGIS usability enhancements.
This presentation covers various enchancements to help make the ArcGIS 9.2 a more efficient program for the user. Keyboard shortcuts, "My Place" tool, new zooms, and various other improvements are covered.
Thanks to Jason @ Flordia GIS Data Blog for this heads up.
ED BRADLEY OF '60 MINUTES' FAME DIES
I was reading the lengthy story into the death of former NFL Arizona Cardinal Pat Tillman's murde....I mean accidental death when the news of Ed Bradley passing came through. Mr. Bradley was a fixture on "60 Minutes" since 1961 and was CBS's first black White House correspondent. Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai, CBS News announced.
San Francisco 49ers move to Santa Clara ?
Could it be?
Could the San Francisco 49ers leave San Fran for Santa Clara?
Well, talks for a new stadium have not gone good. The S.F. Giants have a nice, new stadium built on the needles of Barry Bonds. So, without a winning season (again) it's harder to bring in the money to justify a new, multi-million $ stadium. So, the 49ers are turning to the suburb of Santa Clara for a possible new home.
Google Earth Meets Windows Live "Virtual Earth"
More on the "Virtual Earth" as Microsoft gives its Google Earth rival and new facelift.
- Google Earth Meets Windows Live "Virtual Earth"
- Best Inventions fo 2006 - Guess who's #1
- A Voter Rebuke For Bush, the War And the Right
- Democrats seize control of House
- Rumsfeld Resigns as Defense Secretary After Big Election Gains for Democrats
- Rumsfeld replaced after poll loss
- Take the Idiot Test (FUN!)
- ABC gamble: 'Lost' splits season in 2- goes on 13-week vacation
- B-1 Bomber's landing gear gets locked up - Photos!
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
A Floating Chernobyl?
The first reactor-on-a-barge will bring power to Russia’s electricity-starved Arctic
While the U.S. hems and haws over reviving nuclear energy as a less expensive alternative to oil, Russia has dug back 30 years in our nuclear history to find a solution for some of its own energy woes: the floating nuclear power plant.
The Russian nuclear-energy company Rosenergoatom is planning a mobile plant to deliver electricity to hard-to-reach northern territories near the White Sea, where harsh weather makes regular coal and oil fuel deliveries unreliable and expensive. The $200-million floating plant—slated for construction next year—could provide relatively inexpensive, reliable electricity to 200,000 people.
Although the concept of a water-borne nuke plant might sound outlandish, it isn’t new, nor did it originate in Russia. Westinghouse Electric Company considered the idea in the 1970s and built an immense dry-dock facility in Jacksonville, Florida, where plants would be launched and floated north along the Eastern Seaboard, con- veniently doling out power to towns in need.
IRISH DRINKING SONGS FOR CAT LOVERS. . .
Not only is this a real site and CD but you can go to iTunes and sample it before you buy it. There's just not much to say about this. It is what it is: an Irish guy singing Irish drinking songs with cats in the background. I'm stunned...
http://www.catdrinkingsongs.com/ RUMSFELD OUT...
Bush Says Rumsfeld Is Stepping Down
By DAVID ESPO and LIZ SIDOTI
WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped down as defense secretary on Wednesday, one day after midterm elections in which opposition to the war in Iraq contributed to heavy Republican losses.
President Bush said he would nominate Robert Gates, a former CIA director, to replace Rumsfeld at the Pentagon.
Asked whether his announcement signaled a new direction in the war that has claimed the lives of more than 2,800 U.S. troops, Bush said, "Well, there's certainly going to be new leadership at the Pentagon."
GIS PILOT Update
I have updated GIS PILOT with a new page of GIS and Mapping Links dedicated to our friendly neighbor to the north, CANADA. Overall, I was able to churn up enough links that they needed their own home. One link of note, Oxford County Ontario has a direct link to their county GIS site with about 6 GIS links there to choose from.
Terrorists use Google Earth
The Mid Term Elections have come and gone but there will be a few more days to tally some recounts. Doesn't matter as long as the commercials are off the TV I'll be happy.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
MAPPING NEWS : Microsoft launches Google Earth killer
I wanted to follow up with yesterdays post on the Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D program which is designed to go right after Google's online mapping application, GOOGLE EARTH. The availability of actual pictures and not boxes allows Microsoft to take a quick leap ahead of GOOGLE EARTH. I've found a couple of article including a small review to help you understand the new product.
The CNet reviewer sums up the Virtual Earth 3D programs with these words:
"In a word: Wow. Microsoft is doing with its Earth program what I've wanted from Google for a while: Making one integrated mapping and globe-exploring service, not two products with different interfaces. With Virtual Earth, you get all of Microsoft's Live Local features (traffic data, email integration, bookmarks) with the additional capability to zoom around the 3D planet and see your locations from any angle. "
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