I’ve added DrikoLand to the GeoURL database. Click on the icon at right to see my neighbours…
CotD
Today’s color is whatever you want it to be. It’s the color of someone with so many colors racing through his mind that he can’t pick any of them. If you’re in a good mood, I suggest yellow, the color of the daffodils that are beginning to bloom. If you’re in a bad mood, you might try an anguishing mixture of hideous colors based on the feelings of those at war. Personally, I can’t decide today, so I’m going to help a friend cut down trees in his yard. My color might be sort of a sweaty, chainsaw smoke grey.
The Museum of Unworkable Devices
The Museum of Unworkable Devices is a very informative and entertaining site specializing in depicting and debunking perpetual motion devices. The author does a good job explaining in laymans’ language the laws of physics that prevent such machines from working. The site includes galleries of proposed devices, the appearance of physically impossible devices in art and optical illusions, and a lot more that I haven’t even explored yet.
CotD
Today’s color is bright sky blue. It’s the color of a perfect day in Washington. I’m going out to enjoy it, because it’s a rare thing indeed.
Fictional Histories and Timelines
Edgar Governo has collected dozens of “online chronologies, timelines, and histories” for TV shows, movies, books, games, and comics. For example, there are sites detailing the chronological events of the Star Wars and Star Trek universes as revealed in all of the related movies, books, and comics, as well as sites chronologically summarizing the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert Jordan. Most of these sites are quite thorough to the point of obsession, but I suppose I shouldn’t be throwing stones. 😉 Still, they do seem to have a lot of “time” on their hands. Get it? Yeah, I know, that was pretty bad…
Cooking For Losers
Cooking For Losers presents a great recipe for authentic Mexican tacos that even I could handle. I think.
Aluminum Can Art
Tesscar Aluminum Craft showcases lots of models of airplanes, ships, cars, and more made out of aluminum cans. I have a couple of airplanes similar to those shown here that I bought at airshows, but most of these models look much cooler. Plans for making your own masterpiece are available for $10 per model; it might be fun, although I’m sure they’re a lot harder to make than they look.
CotD
Today’s color is suspicious purple. (Why purple? It just looks suspicious.) Our troops in Iraq and civilians here are being forced to become more suspicious of everybody. U.S. soldiers attacking our own troops with grenades, Iraqis pretending to surrender before they open fire, it seems you can’t trust anybody these days. Then we have the electronic highway signs telling us to report suspicious activity. This Washington Post article tells the story of a reporter who was detained because he was curious about a metal box set up near the Jefferson Memorial. A tourist saw him looking at it and taking notes, so she called the police. When the reporter had the chutzpah to ask the cops about the box, they called for backup, seized his notebook, and gave him the third degree. I’m a believer in “better safe than sorry”, but it’s a shame we’ve been reduced to this.
75th Academy Awards
For those of you who didn’t stay up to watch all of the Oscars or who just couldn’t watch every minute, here’s a recap of last night’s winners. I watched most of the ceremony, although I had to take an hour off to watch Six Feet Under. I’m glad I got to see Adrien Brody’s acceptance speech, which was the most surprising and moving I’d seen in a long time. Roman Polanski winning best director for The Pianist, the film for which Adrien Brody won his Oscar, was also quite a surprise. I really want to see Adaptation; Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep were nominated for their roles, and Chris Cooper won for Best Supporting Actor, supplying another moving acceptance speech. Finally, although I don’t necessarily with agree with Michael Moore, who got booed off the stage when he protested the war (although I agree with his assessment of the last election), I still admire him as a filmmaker and as someone who had the balls to say what he felt.
Update: ESPN’s Page2 has a damn funny recap of the entire ceremony that I just now read. Take a look…
Warblogs
I figured that this war would get good coverage on the Internet, and it appears to be true. The Command Post – A Warblog Collective is a very timely and informative blog updated every couple of minutes whose purpose is “to post news and links, with no personal commentary…in one convenient place, and not all over the web.” They’ve done a good job so far, and I like their graphic… 😉
Kevin Sites was doing a great job as a CNN correspondent/war blogger, adding a personal touch lacking in some of the news sites and blogs. However, apparently it was too good to be true, as he was “asked to suspend [his] war blogging for awhile” as of last Friday. Hopefully he’ll be back online soon…