June 30th 2007 - begining

Trailer Meets Scurge
Originally uploaded by TomHiggins

Vancouver WA to WSLF Farms SD and back again. vroooom

Purple Hacksaws are Here

two great memes

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Lonesome No More

'At Last!'
Originally uploaded by The One True b!X.

Once more into the chronosynclasticinfadibulator

Monks Of The Xiaolin Octagon

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Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

Training Days....wax on wax off

the secret life of machines - combustion engine

I have been gathering material for use in my little Dojo Of Anti Dumbness (the home school for my 4 year old and eventualy the youngest) and came across something I should have known about years ago and thanks to the glory of the googlesphere now am in full possession of (burnt on dvds complete with websites and text of related material for each episode...)

Boycott the RIAA in March

What To Boycott? Anything that would put money in the RIAA's coffers
When? The Month of March Why? Predatory Practices and Skulduggery

"DRM - what is it good for absolutley nothing...say it again"

In the last few days I have read all manner of pro and con DRM issues spurred on, in large part, by the utterances of one Steve Jobs. Jobs has built a little empire on selling devices that tie into a DRM locked content delivery system and has now said that he would be willing to tear down his DRM Curtain if the content management companies would let him.

As Andy Armstrong put so well "He’s an opportunistic hypocrite. DRM allowed Apple to create the iPod monopoly. Just a few months ago he was vocally pro-DRM. So what? The fact that he’s one of the most prominent rats leaving the sinking DRM ship doesn’t disguise the fact that it’s sinking."

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the companies Jobs is looking to for the green light on being a good boy are still spending millions to develop and deploy DRM content. They are also very much working the legal system to make it a crime to not purchase their content at the price they set.

On the other side of this are the truly brave and forward looking efforts have been moving along to make DRM Free content available as well as to break the DRM with 2$ sharpies a day after the DRM Curtain companies unveil their million dollar schemes.

To paraphrase the Gipper ...If you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the artists and the consumers of their content.. Come here, to this gate. Mr. Job, open this gate. Mr. Jobs, tear down this DRM. Eleswise, your just anotha victim..see.

From the amazing Greylodge you can find this gem of viewing..."As the centrepiece of BBC Four’s Science Fiction Britannia season, this three-part documentary explores how UK writers pioneered and remained in the vanguard of one of the world’s most popular literary genres." Part 1 - From Apes to Aliens Part 2 - Trouble in Paradise Part 3 - The end of the world as we know it

ChickenMan, yes that amazing power of yore, can now be heard thanks to the dedicated folks putting Old Time Radio shows up at archive.org.

[bstewart] I do wish castro would make a public appearance just to announce that chavez is an asshole wannabe

This article over at the Guardian begs the question..Jesus Vs Zeus? Ill take a ticket for that one:)- "After a break of 16 centuries, Greek pagans are worshipping the ancient gods again - despite furious opposition from the Orthodox church. Helena Smith asks them why they're so keen to revive the old religion "

Religion not Harmful To kids?

Once a year a blade is thrice run across the heads of all males form as young as 1 month old. Why? To remember a killed religious person..and for one young boy,"God will make me do well in school" Look into the face of religion and then ask yourself why.

The Proper Reaction to DoHS and living in the Terrordome?

1-31-07 Never Forget!

StickFigure Ben

Get Ready For....Vietraq II

because, ya know, Mission Accomplished on part the first and all that......yeeeesh "January 23, 2007 Today, the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) begins a week-long advertising campaign aimed at educating the American public about the growing threat posed by a nuclear Iran. The ad campaign consists of two 30-second spots that began running Tuesday on CNN, MSNBC, Headline News and the Fox News Channel in Washington, DC, Maryland and northern Virginia. " and then add this WP piece "The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program, according to government and counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of the effort."

Cardiac Paper Computer Take One

Cardiac Paper Computer Take One Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

I printed out the PDFs for making a CARDIAC and crafted this of plain paper and tape..man this needs much better makings. The next version will probably be coated/laminated so you can write on it with a dry erase and then wipe when you are done with that run.

If you are wondering what this is....

"I had one of the real deal CARDIAC's back in 7th grade(1977ish) , I was already hooked on the bit tip but this thing showed me some of the ways and means of the root issues. I found mention of it a few years back on boing^2 but lost the scent. The desire to teach my little ones that computers are not all about bloat and legaly constrained guis made me go and find the makings. What I lack now is the orginal manual that came with it, there is a meatspace source for it that I am tracking down.

This was a paper trialto see if it worked, it does. Paper thoug is teh flimzy so I am goingto make the next one out of sturdier stuff, maybe cardboard with the text laminated on...I dont know yet. Any ideas?

For more info on the CARDIAC go to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_-_cardboard_illustrative_aid_to_computation "

What A Drag It Is Getting Old

It seems the CWN (community wireless network) group I am part of , that being the Personal Telco Project, is going through another bout of growth/contraction/selfexamination/reinvnetion that happens to groups . After 6 years of hard work and a shifting landscape this comes as no surprise. The thread linked to has some good WhereToNow ideas. Any ideas? Toss em in. Upshot of this, many of us will be at the Recent Changes Camp being hosted in Portland to see if we can do more than just post about things to the list(not that many are not already doing things, we just need more folks, myself included, doing more)

Legalized Torture and The Death of The Rights of The Accused...American Style

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: "The provisions of Bush's new torture law mean that Americans have lost the key, constitutional right on which Anglo-American criminal law (and criminal-law procedures in true democracies in general) is founded; that's the basic right of an individual to know why he or she is being apprehended and detained. Now, technically, as in Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany, Mao's China or Pol Pot's Cambodia, anyone labeled an 'enemy combatant' - again, by whom; by Bush? - can be whisked away and never heard from again. That kind of authority, in the hands of corrupt or untruthful politicians, may or may not be an effective tool in some kind of 'war on terror,' but it certainly can be a useful tool when it comes to silencing their opponents."

Young Ben On Tantoine

Comicly Truly Sadly

You Looking At Me

Ben Head
Originally uploaded by The One True b!X.

What He Said

What Time Is It Eccles?

Bob And Ray

Archive.org has become the central archive for several Old Time Radio groups. Over the lasst few weeks hundreds of shows have been posted up. In the next year or so I figure the bulk of many collectors archives will be up online for anyone to listen to or grab. One newer entry is the amazing collection of about 230 Bob and Ray shows. The humor is dharp, dry and dead on. They skewer the media of their time (radio, tv and the movies) as well as the culture in general. If Matt Neffer, Boy Spot-Welder is not some one you know then warm up your harddrive and grab these shows.

Timeless

"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful." Edward R. Murrow Add the computer to that and you got one great quote for today.

Public Access Hollywood

(found on greylodge) "With this minor complaint aside, Public Access Hollywood is still a fun and interesting look into downtown Hollyweird. From David Hart’s twisted religious puppet show to the Threee Geniuses’ psychotic TV freak out, there’s a lot to discover here for cult film enthusiasts. While there isn’t necessarily an easy way to get the film right now if you don’t live in L.A." Download Torrent

YouTube videos ripper/converter Bash script

This is a damn sweet bit of code. It will rip and convert to mpg any piece of YouTube video. Now to make it handle batches of requests:)- #!/bin/bash bu='http://youtube.com/get_video.php?';mkdir -p ~/YouTube;cd ~/YouTube;read -p 'YouTube url? ' ur;read -p 'Name? ' nv wget ${ur} -O /tmp/y1;uf=${bu}`grep player2.swf /tmp/y1 | cut -d? -f2 | cut -d\' -f1`;wget '${uf}' -O /tmp/y.flv ffmpeg -i /tmp/y.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 ${nv}.mpg;rm /tmp/y.flv; rm /tmp/y1;rm gmon.out; exit"

Tour de Crepes in the WillyWeek

Brenda gets a good write up in the WillyWeek. If your in Portland and want crepes give her place a visit.

GO

It started a year ago when my youngest son was born. A friend of the family gave me a copy of Shoen Jump to pass the time. For the most part it was swords and skirts; one story though caught my interest. Hikaru No Go is the story of a young kid who comes to have the ghost of a one time Go master live in his head. The ghost guides the kid into playing Go and the kid in turn gets hooked. Which in turn gets me hooked on Go. Sure, I have played Go a few times in my life but this is a more studied affair. You can find me on the IGS servers getting schooled by anyone 22kyu and above.

Aside from learning the games depth , more so than I do now at least, I have got it in my head I need to build a good goban of my own.

The Pinball Hall Of Fame

Jason Scott has posted about his finding of Pinball Mecca. Lets hope some of this shows up on the Arcade documentary he is currently shooting. "The Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas has only come into the world this year. It is the work of a number of people but primarily Tim Arnold, a fervent collector of pinball machines who has been credited with having nearly 1,000 in various states, but with over 400 in good shape. He's had this collection for decades, having been an arcade operator or involved with them about as long as I've been alive. His dream was to have a place loaded with pinball machines, a museum where you could both see these artifacts of the latter half of the 20th century but also be able to play them. And not just play them, play them at the original prices and have a great time. Currently, that dream has come true"

Bob Is Everywhere

Freedom River (1971)

35 years down the road and what shape is Freedom River in?

Thank You Masked Man

Thank you YouTube!

Radio McGuyver

Need to make an AM radio on the fly?NEODUX breaks it down in the simplest possible terms. Some wire, a razor blade, a saftey pin and your well on your way to listening in on AM Number Repeater Stations.

Studio A GoGO

  

ZenNomadStartupScreen

Bob!
Originally uploaded by lee_3dhighway.

Seeing as I have a zen nomad as well can it be too far a time hence that I will have the greatest salesman of all time poping up on my very own screen? (no)

30$ is all it takes to be saved from damnation folks and with a tripple your money back guarntee how can you say no. Run, go, be saved....

Wireless Aint Just For Networking

Tom and his new Mutant Turtle RC Car
Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

Do you have wife that gets you a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle RC Car for the holidays? Praise Bob , I do. There is a park not 3 blocks from our house that has a RC course...what are the odds of that...who knows. Anytime folks want to put it down to the line yall just come on down. vroooooom.

Tofurkey After Being Deep Fried

Tofurkey After Being Deep Fried
Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

Deep Fried Tofurkey

OMG the Yum

Up and Out

It happened, it really did. More please?

WishList

Simple, small, swarmable.... installable anywhere.... Yes Please.

StoryCorps - The Story of Dawn and Tom Higgins

StoryCorps MobileBooth - Interior
Originally uploaded by storycorps.

Back on Dawns Birthday (Sept 29th) I took Dawn down to the StoryCorp Mobile which had just opened that day for its Portland visit. We sat down in the mobile studio and told our tale.

Ready fo the Winter

Ready fo the Winter
Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

ben says

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Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

cheseeee

Hobbit In The Wild

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Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

The Great Outdoors

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Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

Heather and Isaac kickin back in the wilds near Detriot Lake

Isaacs First Rage Burger

Raging With The Newest Higgins
Originally uploaded by The One True b!X.

While not partaking directly of a rage burger he has gotten an indirect fix via the mama. The family that Rages togther...does something togther that Im not too sure of yet.

He Of The Pipe

bob
Originally uploaded by fourthirtythree.

Bob though calls all to hear and all to give and all shall pay...which makes perfect sense. Confusion confusion.

Bob vs FSM ?

Flying spaghetti monster

Flying spaghetti monster
Originally uploaded by Hil.

Have I been wrong my whole life? My search for placement in the world, the dead ends of bogus organized relgious mobs and spiritual crime syndicates..now only to be shown the face of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Old Song, New Venue

ToneCall

by tomwsmf

from Music for Dozens

Isaac Comes Home

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Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

Mothers Milk and Mothers Decaf

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Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

Isaac made it to the Urban Grind not long after his being home. Dawn is still on the decaf as Isaac is on Dawn. The things we do for our kids.

Aug 3rd - Hello Baby

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Originally uploaded by TomHiggins.

Isaac Higgins enters the world, podcast and blog to follow.