The Lion King Trailer Recut (Horror)

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbBNqNaZVc8

over packaged!

Snow art on car trunk

> One of the interesting things about living in Williamsburg is that
> when someone would normally scrawl "wash me" on the hood of a car...
> They will instead scawl a sprawling vista of a wandering shaman and
> his familiar (spiritual animal). Notice the mountains and regal
> walking stick, evidence of a man on a vision quest.
>

Tour De Warehouse: nycbikes is famous

The guys at NYCbikes fired up the hype machine and blew out a ton of merch from their secret wharehouse location this last weekend. Check out this video...

statement and evidence

both of these came to my attention this morning:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/18/MN73840.DTL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQnLCpiZAQI

collaborative geodata/mapping

http://cholmes.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/why-isnt-collaborative-geodata-a-big-deal-already/

he mentions the high cost of GIS software as one reason there is so little 'social' action on the MAPPING front...

I think that is a very valid point... but it is 1 side of the real issue of 'accessibility': this stuff is fiscally, intellectually or usability...ty complex...

Google and Sketchup is a good start, but is sort of a gimmick... the 3d models make a map sexy but hardly add to the important aspects of accuracy and 'indigenous knowledge'

when we hit the ease-of-use of CHAT and BB/forums we'll see some really 'interesting' community supported Geodatabases

style vs. substance

It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence some compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation. Unless he is certain of doing as well, he will probably do best to follow the rules. After he has learned, by their guidance, to write plain English adequate for everyday uses, let him look, for the secrets of style, to the study of the masters of literature.

the last paragraph from the forward to William Strunk's The Elements of Style. This was kindly recommended to me by a professor in a Masters program that I am considering. She actually suggested the whole book, but I was blown away by the universal truth of this paragraph. So what did I do when confronted with a most excellent passage... Steal it and stick it on my blog.

enjoy.

than

a sentence cannot start with the word "than".

it is impossible.