“I’m finning hard along the shallow sandy bottom of bathtub-warm Pemuteran Bay in northwest Bali, trying to keep up with Naryana as he tracks the cable to the first structure. He’s taking me on an underwater scuba tour of a unique coral-regeneration project. A truck-sized triangular metal frame appears through the bright cloudy water. On it are dozens of colonies of hard coral neatly arranged like hanging flower baskets. Colourful clouds of orange and purple damselfish dart in and out of the corals.”
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straight.com – Vancouver news & entertainment
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Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | Tenacious B
A White Stripes song bashes out of speakers wired to his iPod. On the table in front of him is a bottle of Gatorade, a paperback copy of the Dalai Lama’s Path to Tranquillity and a magazine about trucks. It’s two in the afternoon, the time that Black is usually getting out of bed.
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Wired News: Jet Defense: What’s the Holdup?
This could be a huge waste of money.
“First, there’s the cost — anywhere from $1.5 million to $3 million per plane to install the systems, according to independent estimates, or $10 billion to $20 billion for the whole U.S. fleet.”
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HP and Apple Partner to Deliver Digital Music Player and iTunes to HP Customers
HP and Apple Partner to Deliver Digital Music Player and iTunes to HP Customers HP IPODS? Sounds shitty.
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Turn your handwriting into a font
Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a computer font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica.
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Who Owns What
Columbia Journalism Review: A guide to what major media companies own.
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Mini Ipods
These new Ipods are sweet. I still like my old Ipod though.
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Apple – QuickTime – Macworld San Francisco 2004 Keynote – Live
Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs deliver the Macworld Expo keynote address from Moscone Center in San Francisco. See the live webcast right here onJanuary 6 at 9am PT exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4. It’s an event you won’t want to miss.
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Fimoculous.com: Feeding Time
Fimoculous’ Best Blogs of 2003
It’s more difficult to make a “best of” list for weblogs than for any other cultural catagory. Blogs are inherently meta — they span the entire range of contemporary human existence and thought. Nonetheless, defiant in the face of cacophany, here’s my annual list of 30 Best Blogs of 2003:
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CNN.com – NASA rover lands safely on red planet – Jan. 4, 2004
The $400 million rover Spirit, designed to conduct unprecedented geologic and photographic surveys on the Martian surface, transmitted a simple hello to Earth minutes after landing.