November 29, 2005

Here comes Winter now!

The first Twin Cities snowfall happened during the Thanksgiving break, and was mostly gone by the time Monday arrived. Holiday travel was slowed, but the regular workday communte was not really affected. Welcome to Tuesday. The MN State Patrol reported "hundreds" of cars in the ditches along the freeways of Northwestern MN. Here in the Metro I saw one ditch driver on my way to work this morning. We already have somewhere between 1 and 3 inches, depending on where you are; we are supposed to get another 1-3 today and tomorrow.






November 28, 2005

InfoWorld TechWatch | InfoWorld | Total Recall body scanner becomes reality | November 22, 2005 02:09 PM | By E. Schwartz

I have to wonder what the "privacy" concerns are and how private your privates really are? This thing makes a 3D image of your body similar to the X-ray in Total Recall, but maintains your privacy? How?





November 17, 2005

The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles - Popular Science


This guy is from Minnesota, and shows a huge amount of dedication to his passion. He is described as a person that finishes what he starts, and is usually starting something. Pretty cool stuff.

Sadly, John Hodgman cannot see you.

John Hodgman was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight. Funny guy, check out his site, which includes the .mp3 version all 700 Hobo names from his book, read by the author.

November 15, 2005