“A coronal mass ejection (CME) is racing toward Earth and it could spark a severe geomagnetic storm when it arrives–perhaps tonight (Sept. 14th and 15th). People everywhere should be alert for auroras.” (SpaceWeather)
Daily Archives: 14 Sep 05
FU Cheney
See Movie, Buy Shirt: “In the past two weeks, Dr. Ben Marble of Gulfport, Mississippi, lost his house, saw his wife give birth by flashlight, and became an instant celebrity for telling Vice President Dick Cheney to go fuck himself.
…The incident, remarkable for an administration renowned for screening its audiences, was not only captured live on CNN but replayed on numerous websites and blogs, and even earned a Daily Show screening.
Marble, an emergency room doctor and indie rock musician who looks as though he were torn from the pages of Spin, said he doesn’t consider his actions heroic. ‘A lot of people are saying that. I was just mad and I lost my temper,’ he said.
Still, Marble hasn’t exactly been shy about getting his 15 minutes, either. HurricaneKatrinaSucked.com, a website Marble created to post pictures of the wreckage of his home and neighborhood, quickly sprouted a ‘Go fuck yourself Mr. Cheney’ link, complete with links to the Daily Show clip, a Cafe Press store selling ‘Go Fuck Yourself Mr. Cheney’ merchandise, and two eBay auctions, one selling permission to download his original 30-minute video for $20.” (Wired News)
Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser
“Perhaps the world does not need another web browser — but it may want Bart Decrem’s.
Decrem and a small cadre of programmers in Palo Alto, California, have spent this summer quietly readying Flock, an open-source browser, for an early October beta launch. Several members of the team, including Decrem, hail from the Mozilla Foundation, which produced the Firefox browser upon which Flock is built.
Flock advertises itself as a ‘social browser,’ meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools. The browser even promises to detect and authenticate all those user accounts automatically. It’s a clear attempt to be the browser of choice for the Web 2.0 user.
It’s no coincidence that the buzz has built rapidly to a rolling boil. Blogger and tech pundit Robert Scoble simply calls it “awesome.” Given the recent swell of anticipation surrounding Flock, the preceding stealth period seems quaint by contrast. Since an August demo at Bar Camp, enthusiastic blog posts have amounted to love letters in their enthusiasm. ” (Wired News)
