Entries from June 2004

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

Burning Porcupine

I just go back from Burning Porcupine aka The Porcupine Freedom Festival. I had a blast. I missed my initial flight, so by the time I got into town, it was about 1:40 a.m. on Friday morning. I didn't want to wake anyone up, so at first, I tried to park in a nearby hospital [...]

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004

Superman needs to cut back on the Kryptonite margaritas

Via : Every summer, Metropolis, IL hosts the Superman Celebration. For the past two years, the fine people of Quixotic Crap have captured on film some fine specimens of the “Super-dudes” who attend:

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004

Marriage and beauty

Is anyone aware of studies that have been done on the failure rates in marriages in which one of the partners has undergone a severe disfigurement that left them otherwise mentally and physically intact, i.e. a severe facial burn?

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004

Down the Memory Hole

Tim's Essay used to be on the Freestateproject.org's website. After the FSP got some bad publicity from one of the FTP member's http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:onzt4AQv6qcJ:www.freestateproject.org/about/essay_archive/freetown.jsp+free+town+project&hl=en Finding the Free Town in the Free State By Tim Condon • 2/18/04 Free State Project Porcupines all support Jason Sorens' excellent idea: Why not geographically concentrate the (relatively) small number of [...]

Sunday, June 20th, 2004

Mozbike designs

Mozbike has some interesting bike designs, including the 150 kg capacity long bike: …and the tall bike:

Sunday, June 20th, 2004

Bicycle Bill's Pedal Powered House

From the November 22-29, 2000 issue of Metro Santa Cruz. http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/11.22.00/nuz-0047.html Pedal Powered For bicycle mechanic Bicycle Bill, riding a stationary bike isn't just exercise–it's a way of life. Bicycle Bill lives downtown in a pedal-powered home he designed and built himself. The structure, which is 15 feet long, 3 feet wide and 8 feet [...]

Sunday, June 20th, 2004

HouseBike

http://www.omsi.edu/bikeusa/log/0602.htm “…After Bike-E, we stopped at a cafe and met this other guy on a house-bike! The most incredible thing I've ever seen on two wheels! This guy, Brian, built a 20 foot house on two wheels. Granted the house part is the size of a two-man tent, but it was still incredible! All styrofoam [...]

Sunday, June 20th, 2004

A Tree-less Tree House

http://pages.areaguides.com/ubuild/TreeHouse.htm

Friday, June 18th, 2004

[TECH] SQL query for LJ brain trust

[Note that unless you have an interest in SQL, this post will probably bore you to tears. It probably will even if you do. Beware.] Suppose you have a table that contains multiple loginnames and email addresses. All loginnames are unique, but two or more loginnames may be associated with the same email address. For [...]

Friday, June 18th, 2004

Escape Velocity: Why the Prospect of Extreme Human Life Extension Matters Now

http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0020187 Escape Velocity: Why the Prospect of Extreme Human Life Extension Matters Now Aubrey D. N. J. de Grey Abbreviations: AEV, actuarial escape velocity Aubrey D. N. J. de Grey is in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. E-mail: ag24@gen.cam.ac.uk Published June 15, 2004 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020187 Copyright: © 2004 [...]