Gas and Republicans
I think it’s now pretty obviously true what people were suggesting in the month before elections. All of a sudden, gas, whose high prices had been a thorn in the side of the Republicans, took a dive in price. The truth (no conspiracy) is that Republicans are in bed with Big Oil. Bush and others own oil companies or are on their boards and stuff like that. The conspiracy was that the gas companies were helping them out by lowering prices. (They could afford to with the huge profits they were raking in that summer)
flickr adds search by camera
Looks like flickr’s been listening to me. I kept asking them for ability to search by camera. Others kept rebuffing me, but I guess others shared my passion as well, because they now have Camera Finder. As you can see on the current graph of most popular camera, my camera, the Canon Digital Rebel XT, is the most popular. This is no surprise to me as I see it EVERYWHERE I go! In fact, checking out the Canon stats page I found that, as far as they can tell, there are 8 MILLION photos taken with that Camera and 2300 daily users on average! All I need now (and it may be there, waiting for me to discover it) is to be able to search my own photos by camera instead of EVERYONE’S.
Spiderman Predicts the future
It’s interesting how Science Fiction often predicts future technologies and trends. For example, this morning on CNN they were talking about a research group that is trying to switch on the gene in humans that would cause limbs to regrow. Apparently they haven’t seen what happens when you do that (I say tongue-in-cheek). Peter Parker’s favorite professor was trying to regrow his arm and his technique, which I believe involved splicing reptilian DNA, turned him into one of Spiderman’s fiercest foes, The Lizard.
