Archive for October, 2007

 

Grey on Oct 31st, 2007Iraqi IED vs USA Bomb Droid

Wired Magazine’s ‘Danger Room’ is hosting a video showing what a fight between an Iraqi IED and a US Bomb Droid looks like.
[Click here to see the video]

Photograph by Daveybot

Grey on Oct 29th, 2007Bush Exit Stragegy: Leave Through Iran

The Onion reveals George Bush’s Iraq exit strategy. From the article: “The fact is, we’ve accomplished our goals in Iraq… Now, it’s time to bring our men and women home—via Iran.”
[link to the Onion Story]

Grey on Oct 26th, 2007The Changes XML Brings Video

Michael Wesch has made a great little video about the real promise of the often-over-hyped ‘web 2.0’. I’m an old school HTML guy, but this is the first thing that’s clearly shown me what the big deal is about CSS and XML.
[link to ‘The Machine is Us/ing Us’ on YouTube]
[link to full quality […]

Grey on Oct 24th, 2007100-foot Giant Trapped in the Ground at D.C.

In East Potomac Park, D.C. a 100-foot giant has been struggling to get out of the ground for the past 27 years. The statue, by J. Seward Johnson, Jr., was intended to be a temporary exhibit when installed in 1980 but has proven so popular that the park services have overlooked the lapsing of […]