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Because TV’s death has a deadline
July 5, 2008 in Future, Life, Past, problems, Gear, Ideas, Science, News, Politics, Business, Events, Journalism
What happens after TV’s mainframe era ends next February? That’s the question I pose in a long essay by that title (and at that link) in Linux Journal. It’s makes a case that runs …
Gap Fire, 2:35, July 5
July 5, 2008 in Places, Geology, problems, Life, News, Events, Journalism
InciWeb just updated 8 minutes ago, with this report: Fire continued creeping to the north, east, and west with limited movement due to competing wind that kept the fire from making any significant runs. On …
Gap Fire 5 July 8:15am
July 5, 2008 in problems, Places, Life, Events, News, Health, Journalism
First, kudos again to Edhat’s news list for not only gathering info from many sources, but for giving equal weight to both professional and amateur sources — and for hosting a great many …
Gap Fire progress shots
July 4, 2008 in problems, Places, Geology, Life, Events, News, Travel, Health, Journalism
I’ve loaded too many pictures onto this blog, so for this round I’m going to just point to shots elsewhere: in this case to a photo set of maps built with .kml files from …
July 4 workfire
July 4, 2008 in Life, Future, Places, Events, Travel, Journalism, News, Politics, Uncategorized
Here is a Fox News video* that tours the Gap Fire area from the air. It’s clearly submitted by an amateur using a helicopter, judging from the monolog, flavored with casual explitives. To …