Monthly Archives: June 2006

Close Call

June 28, 2006 – 12:32 am

I was surprised to discover today that the following proposed amendment to the Constitution garnered 66 votes in the Senate. The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. That’s right, in a 66-34 vote count, the “flag burning” amendment was one vote shy of the ⅔ [...]

By Eric | Posted in Progressive Politics | Comments (0)

Begone, DRM!

June 20, 2006 – 4:57 pm

John Gruber points out something that should just be stupid obvious, but wasn’t to me. But that’s not what the music industry wants. Yes, there exist legal download stores that sell music in MP3 format (e.g. eMusic.com) — but they don’t have content from the major record labels, because the major record labels refuse to [...]

By Eric | Posted in Computers & Technology, Intellectual Property Law | Comments (0)

Zeno’s Paradox

June 17, 2006 – 9:41 pm

This Wikipedia article on Zeno’s paradoxes is one of the most interesting things I have read in a long while. What I especially like about it, and derive great amusement from, is how calculus attempts to solve the paradox, but in the end only reaffirms it. In short, trying to use calculus to resolve the [...]

By Eric | Posted in Random Links, Science & Skepticism | Comments (2)

Lightning!

June 7, 2006 – 10:42 pm

From tonight’s lightning storm. This may be the last chance I have to photograph lightning from my balcony until next year, since I’m moving into a different apartment on Saturday while they convert my apartment into the condo I’m buying. I actually went through the trouble of doing hot pixel subtraction and some manual hot [...]

By Eric | Posted in Life Stuff, Photographs | Comments (0)

Rainbow

June 3, 2006 – 11:27 pm

A rainbow from today’s rain, dust and wind storm. Update: Here’s a video of dust being blown around by the storm. Requires QuickTime 7 or some other MPEG-4/H.264 capable player. Update 2: Let’s try an embeded QuickTime movie! QT_WriteOBJECT(‘https://limulus.net/blog/media/dust_storm_02.jpg’,’320′,’240′,”, ‘href’,'https://limulus.net/files/misc/dust_storm_and_rainbow.mp4′, ‘target’,'quicktimeplayer’, ‘type’,'image/x-quicktime’, ‘controller’,'false’);

By Eric | Posted in Photographs | Comments (0)