IANAL, but does it change anyone's mind that DEVO runs their own store selling energy domes and energy-dome-related knick knacks?

Not to be Captain Bringdown, but boingboing seems to be obsessed with obituaries. I don't wish to negate any of the achievements of Mr. Hagen. I really do appreciate his contributions to the arts. But, I can't go one week reading boingboing without two or three obits. It's morose. What's more, the RIPs are typically covered many, many other places. (e.g. Pollack) Don't take my word for it, though. Here's the past month (assuming I didn't miss any):

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/06/rip-morgan-sparks-tr.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/13/robert-rauschenberg.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/15/will-elder-rip.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/22/rip-robert-aspirin.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/22/steve-cisler-digital.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/26/film-director-sydney.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/27/earle-hagen-andy-gri.html

MAN ON PINK CORNER - I'll save you the lecture and let you read about it yourself:

http://www.linguistlist.org/ask-ling/accent.html

FERTBERT - It is a common misconception that "there is no x accent". Everyone who speaks has an accent. Period. Accents are relative. While other Americans may have trouble figuring out exactly which accent you have, a Brit, for example, would very much think that you have an American accent. Likewise, Americans would have no problem identifying you as an American. Why do you think that is? Because you have an American accent of some sort.

In German, "überall" means "everywhere".

Just point a tv remote at your laptop's built-in camera (like an iSight, sorry Mac dude here). You can easily see the remote's IR LED via the camera.

Someone should write a poesybeat for her.

poesybeat.org

Actually, I don't think it gives you "full root access". More like full admin access (unless you're logged in as root, which is generally a big no-no).

This kind of thing has been available for the Mac for awhile:

http://sonicamigos.com/noodlereader.php

http://sonicamigos.com/noodleflix.php

My least favorite thing about reading on the internet these days is how I have to read obituaries constantly. Every damn week.

RIP RIP!

Is that the Bush family?

Actually douchenfreude would be more accurate (joy at watching a douche).

Hey OM, the hams never wanted the CB people to join their ranks. Hams follow rules, CB'ers didn't. I honestly don't think the anti-code-requirement-whiners had much to do with it (for crying out loud, I passed the FCC code tests as a child). Rather, computing exploded in the 80s and 90s. All the people that were into electronics, communication, engineering, hobbies, etc… bought Commodore 64s instead of radios.

This is a fun entry, so I'll elaborate some more… I'm likewise a ham and got my Novice ticket at age 11 in the early 80s. My first rig was a CW-only radio that ran off a lantern battery and I had a string of copper wire along the roof for my antenna (a dipole antenna). With that meager 2W setup I was able to log numerous contacts across the US and other countries. These cards are sent from one station to another to document a transmission, so it became a game to collect as many as you could. There were "awards" for contacting every state, every continent/country, for doing it with low power, and many other reasons. But mostly it was just for the fun and satisfaction of communicating with the world pre-internet.

I bet many in the modern internet world would be surprised to know what can be and was done with radios… e.g. make phone calls from the 2M radio in your car (like a cell phone), sending photographs (fsk, SSTV, etc) - like a JPEG email attachment?, bouncing signals off the moon, etc… and like the internet, all for free.

73s,
KA9MPY

For any non-hams out there… 73 means best regards and 88 means love and kisses. Hams (and CB'ers?) use all sorts of crazy abbreviations. Some of this was out of international practicality (language barriers) and some was probably stems the fact that everyone used to use morse code. Do a google on codes like QSL, QTH, etc… to see what I mean. Nice post!