In line the the "no god" shirt, a uninal in a sub shop here in Cincinnati carries an advertisement for a church right at the bullseye.
--Mike

They're probably hoping an agent will contact them for the book and film rights to "The Bigfoot Hoax: The Greatest Sham of the 21st Century." That sort of thing is why they perptrated the original hoax.

Why can't thsse people come up with something that's at least entertaining and lasts more than a month?
--Mike

It's the same in dealing with government employees; they get paid whether they do a "good job" with you or not. Telling the employeee that you NEED their help (or that they're the only one who can help you) also works.
--Mike

Kevin,
I think "Weblog" rolls naturally--as a sound and visually. It's so familiar that we probably perceive it more as a shape than a pattern of letters.

But I feel that with "Web site" it is better to have the reader parse two discrete concepts, as the term still battles with "Web page" and "Home Page" in general usage.
--Mike

So THAT's why we're all crazy!
--Mike

This is absolute bullSHIT! The clowns who trained this Wal-Mart employee had an edict from on high to "use your own judgment" and claim that everything that looks like it might be IS copyright. That way, the company figures, they won't risk a lawsuit, which to them justifies losing the five-buck sale.
--Mike

Dr. Bressler's background is very interesting; she's a real achiever. I agree that contaimination is promoted by how foodstuffs are handled. And now they are handled more often than ever before. At the same time, I believe that the companies and individuals handling food take shortcuts in the interest of saving money and out of apathy (just like those responsible for building cars and keeping elevators safe, among other things). Education and compliance checks are needed, if corporations and indviduals aren't going to do what has to be done.
--Mike

She aged predictably, and well.

This is a good example of why one should not count on the Internet. I've been hearing people rave about Google Docs and the other apps, like "convenient ... exciting ... wave of the future ... "

Well, it's anything but convenient to be locked out of your work, or just lose it due to aggresive human stupidity or online failure. Ditto your communications and storage.

Reminds me ... I've heard a number of people talking about Google Adsense getting out of paying people by mysteriously cancelling accounts. Others have been cut off when their account just disappears (i.e., Google refuses to recognize it).
--Mike

Has anyone tried this with multi-stages or high power (E or more)? It would be tough to lose it. I have one and it's a nice, cost-effetive design.

I used to fly the Astrocam with the camera/nosecone reversed. Use the right delay motors, and you get photos looking downward and not obscured by the fuselage and fins. The net effect was like the late 1960s Estes CAMROC. I'm going to do that with this model.
--Mike
Michael A. Banks
http://www.michaelabanks.com

One word: Ginseng

--mike

Questionable, at best. As I understand it, they're offering him a bribe. Might as well create a market site for positive feedback, where online retailers can bid for customers' positive feedback. Or just display what they're paying for positive feedback next to the merchandise's price.

If they're holding money they owe the guy on the condition that he remove the negative, it's bullshit.
--Mike

Vinegar and baking soda propel small toy rockets nicely. When I was 8 or 10, we could buy a 2-inch rocket filled with candy beads. The beads were stale, so we dumped those. But the rocket, which looked a bit like a V-2, was designed so you could put baking soda in the base, vinegar in the top, put 'em together and wait for blast off!
--Mike

Ha! This will provide the incentive for someone to create the first program to pass the Turing test.
--Mike

Damn! I hope they're dedicating those fines to some neighborhood parking garages.
--Mike

Back in the wretched, creaking, unwired "old days," when PR flacks used street mail, they sent out useful novelties to get writers' and editors' attention. E-mail flackism eded that.
--Mike

Go for it, Gary! Your comments present a unique slant, even though as you read the entire book you will see several collective themes emerging. The strongest of these themes was quite a surprise to me. Whether people buy the book or borrow it from libraries, it will be interesting to see whether the samples move people to get the book in order to have the neatly packaged chapters, as Chris Anderson notes.
--Mike

One of the proposed covers had a guy in a red suit and yellow cape.

Thanks for pointing out the "web logs" goof, Jordan. I can't believe someone did that (nor that I missed it)! I've put in a request to the folks at Wiley to fix that.
Cheers,
--Mike