http://birdhouse.org/blog Like a chicken with a jewel in its beak. Fri, 16 May 2008 15:44:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My first thought was "Wow, nice clay snail sculptures." But nope - nature makes these. Amazing psychedelic nature in all its infinite potentiality will make everything conceivable - on some planet somewhere - if it hasn't already on this one. They're called nudibranchs, and they're as toxic as they are ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/16/nudibranchs/ Recently at Stuck Between Stations, Roger Moore on Barack Obama's attempt to shake his image as a closet Pink Floyd fanatic and the "Us and Them" mentality that has dogged Roger Waters. Meanwhile, Floyd's inflatable pig floats out of control into a neighboring golf course. Hillary Clinton noted that “there ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/14/obamas-big-pink-problem/ To celebrate our recent upgrades to CentOS, Apache 2, and PHP 5, the launch of a new specialized student hosting plan, and reduced hosting rates and increased bandwidth offerings for all users, Birdhouse Hosting is proud to launch a brand new Birdhouse Hosting web site. The entire site is ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/13/new-hosting-plans-rates-bandwidth/ Amazing/moving video from Amnesty International: "Your signature is more powerful than you think." http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/12/signatures/ Birdhouse Hosting welcomes marilynberlinsnell.com, a portfolio site for journalist and editor Marilyn Berlin Snell. I'm a San Francisco-based journalist and editor. Partial to Vladimir Nabokov, who said that “curiosity is insubordination in its purest form,” I've utilized my predilection for nosiness, most recently, on political and investigative stories related to the ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/11/marilynberlinsnellcom/ The new J-School server has arrived! Spent half the day developing a migration strategy to transition sites and services for the school off of OS X Server and onto a Linux/cPanel solution more tuned to the security ravages and configuration needs of pure web hosting (if cPanel ran on OS ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/09/gross-negligence/ Miles has been building "projects" at home for so long that I've become used to coming home and finding a creation like this one almost completely blocking the door. We step over assemblages of Lego, Playmobil, wooden blocks, trains, Star Wars figures, beanbag chairs, and stuffies like they're part ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/08/i-forgot-their-names/ Deets on recent iTunes weirdness and attempted solutions, mostly for people asking about it on Twitter. I've been storing my music collection on an Infrant ReadyNAS RAID system for more than a year. Aside from slow write speeds over a lame 10 megabit connection, it's worked really well, and it's comforting ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/07/itunes-and-network-attached-storage/ Birdhouse Hosting welcomes arabist.net: The Arabist is dedicated to covering the politics and culture of the Arab world. It is published and maintained in Cairo, with contributions from journalists and researchers working in the region. On the same hosting account are two additional popular blogs covering Arab culture and politics: Hatsheput, on ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/06/the-arabist/ Awesome day, as always, with Miles at Maker Faire yesterday. Arrived early and glad we did - heard that by early afternoon the traffic and lines were so bad that people were turning around on the highway and returning home. This was our third year at the show, and somehow ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/04/maker-faire-2008/ One of the excellent things about being a parent is the endless opportunity to re-live your childhood. In high school, Gumby was mostly the subject of satire... we had grown up watching 1950s/60s Gumby shorts in the 1970s. In the 80s, mocking Gumby was fun because it had been ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/01/gumbopiture/ Great tip from J-School multimedia instructor Jeremy Rue: "If you ever want to find the longitude and latitude of a location on Google Maps, simply center the map to the location you want to find. You can even search an address and this will work. Then paste in this code into ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/05/01/get-latlong-from-google-maps/ Something has happened to PBS favorite "Charlie Rose." The erudite conversations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule. The one-on-one interview between Charlie and his guest begins as usual but quickly goes awry, so much so that Charlie is ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/04/29/charlie-rose-by-samuel-beckett/ Birdhouse Hosting welcomes Harvard Right to Serve, a site promoting a student-developed program at Harvard University to put an end to the U.S. military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. "Don't Ask Don't Tell" is perhaps the most discriminatory law in our country today. Since President Clinton signed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/04/28/harvard-right-to-serve/ Miles (5.5) especially quiet as we were getting back in the car after an afternoon riding rides at the zoo. I asked him what he was thinking about. "Oh, nothing." Then, two minutes later: "Daddy, did you ever feel like everything in the world is just your dreams and ... http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/04/27/brain-in-a-vat-2/