washpost frontpage on odyessey's quandry
somewhat sensational, but not completely unbalanced. still, it is the usual tone of ‘whoo hoo buried treasure.’ while jim delgado from INA is quoted in the piece, they didn’t really get into the treasure hunting vs. archaeology issue. Will Finders Be Keepers of Salvaged Treasure? – washingtonpost.com funny, they aren’t so kind to poachers. essentially [...]
noaa's deep diver
Bob Ballard is testing a system planned for use aboard NOAA’s new vessel Okeanos Explorer, scheduled to go to sea next year as the first U.S. government vessel dedicated to exploring unknown parts of the ocean. NOAA vessel to explore undersea unknown – Yahoo! News
nutty professor
Ok — so you look at this link below, you may notice a new name there… mine. :: Faculty & Staff – Faculty Directory ::AU School of Communication I’ve been teaching multimedia journalism as an adjunct at american university for a couple of years now. this summer, we started talking about me joining the faculty [...]
Jerry Garcia's kitchen sink for sale on ebay
Kitchen Sink – Jerry Garcia House – (eBay item 290143668963 end time Aug-19-07 12:00:00 PDT) hat tip to dave b. for this one.
wikia is coming, is it a meteor?
Will Google Be Destroyed By Open Source Search Engines? – Mobile Blog – InformationWeek doesn’t this have some serious implications? first of all, wikipedia has the hands down best search engine optimization of any site, ever, in history, period. it is consistently in the top ten results of just about any search i ever do. [...]
express puzzles are depressing
either that or depressed people do puzzles in the free distro tab from the washington post, express. today was an exception, which is why it jumped out at me. the image from below (yesterday’s edition) is more like it: usually the puzzle page has a rail of ads for depression trials, debt problems and the [...]
dana and henry
great shot of our friends from the neighborhood, dana and henry on the wash times fishwrap blog: henry and loke were great buddies. he’s an awesome dog, smart as a whip, and now quite famous after his other owner, peter, got into a bit of a legal flap over henry’s leashless walking. The Washington Times, [...]