Yearly Archives: 2003

We don’t need no stinkin’ blimps

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Nope, we don’t need Goodyear or any of the myriad of other named blimps to get cool aerial photos. Just get out your kite and that expensive digital camera and you will have it covered.
Well, you will have it covered if you are Scott Haefner. Check out his Kite Aerial Photography site.
This picture of Bryce Canyon will give you a good sense of the power of this type of photography. And you can spin the 360 degree panoramas fast enough to get dizzy.
Seattle folks will enjoy these unique views of Seattle Center and Gasworks Park.
Via Tegan at Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog

Voting Machines

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Please do not forget that there are issues with electronic voting machines that must be resolved before these machines can be trusted.
John Williams of Thudfactor has posts here and at OSPolitics (which includes a neat simulator) that discuss some of the issues.
Ask for audited open source software and clear paper trails now.
Via Notes on the Atrocities.
Update: Talkleft notes that Florida will not require paper trails (surely no one is surprized by this) and Jeralyn provides several links to good reference material.

Will Boeing Survive 10 Years?

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Perhaps not in the commercial airline business:

In the mid- to late 1990s, when Boeing should have been raking in money as airlines clamored for new aircraft, its screwed-up production lines instead lost millions of dollars on each aircraft.
That’s just one reason why Boeing finds itself the current poster child of bad management.

This Slate article paints a potentially gloomy picture for the once dominate company.
Via the Talking Points Memo.

Limbaugh Special?

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Rush and his attorney seem to think that Rush is special:

Earlier, Limbaugh’s lawyer accused Palm Beach County prosecutor Barry Krischer of having political motives for investigating whether Limbaugh bought painkillers illegally.
“They are looking to publicly embarrass him and affect his radio program,” Roy Black said on NBC’s “Today Show.” “Why is Rush Limbaugh the only person treated like this in America?”

Apparently they live in a different America then the rest of us. I encourage them to visit the courts and jails that process and imprison the millions of Americans who have been victimized by the so called war on drugs.