Chasing My Own Tale
A woman saw that no one was running for a Soil and Water Conservation District position, so she asked for people to write her in… Through a Portland-oriented LiveJournal group.
Because I can’t stand that empty feeling
Well this should be interesting to watch. Voted in by LiveJournal readers. I’ll have to keep an eye on her journal to find out if she won or not.
(Can you tell I’m voting tonight? Why? Because Oregon Votes!)
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William Bragg has a post called No words necessary that displays a very readable chart of the federal gov’s Budget deficit since 1992.
Fiscal responsibility? Ha. (Sob.)
KNRK just played the Lightning Seed’s “Pure”.
This radio station is scary. I like it.
I (um… accidently!) clicked on a ThinkGeek banner at Slashdot and ended up finding lots of cool toys, but two that really stood out for me:
First up is this Macally Bluetooth Mini Mouse which might be the closest thing to the Bluetooth mouse I’ve been looking for. It may be too small though. It’s only 3.7″ long as opposed to the 4.3″ long Pocket Mouse Pro Wireless from Kensington, which IMNSHO is the perfect balance between portable and comfortable. (Come on Kensington, get with the program.)
The other doodad is this USB to PS/2 Adapter which would be cool to have, simply because I keep seeing these cheap old keyboards that look like they’d be cool to try out on my Mac, but they’re all PS/2 port-based, which is a non-starter on my Macs. This specifically says that it’s Mac compatible, so it would be great to have around for this stuff.
Maybe someday. A couple more pieces of crap to add to the wish list, right?
Michael Stipe demands ringtones for electric cars:
The idea came to Stipe when he nearly got totalled by a battery-powered vehicle in Los Angeles. He then experienced a blinding moment of clarity in which “I suddenly thought to myself: ‘This is going to be a big, big problem. People will be run over by electric cars all the time. They make no noise. No sound. They’re silent!”
Stipe quickly rejected the idea that electric jalopies should mimic the sound of a petrol-driven engine on the grounds that it would be “stupid”. “And then it struck me - ringtones,” he says. “People will program their car, as part of the insurance policy that states: ‘Don’t run people over with your silent car’, with ringtones.”
[Did anyone catch the double meaning in the title of this post? Yeah, I thought so.]
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