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Via BBC-
A 7 foot wide Stingray
It is one of the rarest giants of the ocean, and it has been caught on film for the first time.
An underwater camera crew filming for the BBC has recorded a smalleye stingray swimming off the coast of Mozambique.
The smalleye stingray is the largest of all 70 species of stingray, attaining widths of more than 2m.
The elusive creature, first discovered in 1908, has only ever been seen alive off Tofo in southern Mozambique.
It was pointed out to me this morning that the GOP launched their new website this morning. GOP.com or RNC.org
They say it’s in BETA, but WOW is it really bad in my opinion. This not as a critic of the GOP, this is criticism from a guy who manages 2 websites every day and has 2 personal side project websites.
They are clearly trying to put a younger face on the GOP, note the annoyingly large faces they are using in the top of the page. But the overall layout and UI is large and bombastic… not to mention oddly laid out.
Perhaps the most ironic part is that their Future Leaders page… has no one on it! Kind of ironic really.
And they did one of the things I have MOST about some websites. After going to the home page, Michael Steels walks out onto the webpage and starts talking. I HATE those stupid flash video things. They annoy me to no end.
My opinion is that this should have been kept under wraps until it was done… and for the love of God… hire a real web designer. I’m a hack and I could have done better with a off the counter Drupal template.
I hate to sound like I am piling on the GOP, but this is a really bad website for a major political party.
What major project in Chicago, in recent history, has gone at or even NEAR budget? “The Bean” was 4x OVER budget and it was just a metal sculpture! Let’s not mention that it takes 3 different union workers to carry a box from the loading dock to your display McCormick Place. Millennium Park was projected to cost $150 million, but went on to cost $475 million and was delayed 4 years. Imagine how much a $4-5 BILLION Olympic project will go over budget.
They say they wont pass the cost onto the tax payers, but can they really be trusted? The Olympics will run way over budget… book it. And they will find a way to pass that along to the tax payers… an no, not just Chicago. They will find a way to say “hey, see how it effected all of Cook County? Yea, we need you to pay up too!”
Daley will use this as yet another power grab. If he can plow over Meigs Field literally in the dark of night with no warning or authority, imagine what in can do in the name of the Olympics.
The idea of hosting the Olympics sounds great, but not when you look at who is running it. In about an hour we will find out who hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics. As for me, let the Rio chant ring load!
UPDATE: Chicago got eliminated int he first round. WOW! No one saw that coming!!
The Looking Glass – Alice – Alternate Realities
JasonGrandt on August 16, 2009 in Jason's Blog No Comments »On the most recent episode of The Lost Postcast with Jay and Jack, they talked at length about the possibility of there being TWO timelines / realities caused by the nuclear explosion at the end of Season 5… assuming that is indeed how the season ended. One reality is what we have been watching the past 5 seasons, and our island story continues on uninterrupted. The other reality involves Oceanic 815 landing in L.A. and all passengers leaving as if nothing happened at all. And I got to thinking…
Ok, so in the book “Through the Looking Glass“, Alice goes through the looking glass into an alternate world… or you could say… an alternate reality. A few seasons back, we learned of an underwater hatch named…. The Looking Glass. We all assumed, at the time, that this station was simply a communications station with the world off the island. But, what if it is more? What if The Looking Glass station was really built to communicate with and/or observe alternate realities?
Via Wikipedia-
At 02:56 UTC on July 21 (9:56pm CDT, July 20), 1969, Neil Armstrong made his descent to the Moon’s surface and spoke his famous line “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” exactly six and a half hours after landing. Buzz Aldrin joined him, describing the view as “Magnificent desolation.”
A website (DollarReDesign.com) has taken up the call to redesign the dollar bill. Some of these ideas are REALLY good, some not so much, others are just jokes. But check it out. I like the idea of getting away from the “dead presidents” model for the US Dollar. Below are a few of my favorites:
