Keeping America Safe From the World’s Most Dangerous Poi Spinner
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Bioethicists Concerned
That’s it. That’s the whole story… Just “Bioethicists Concerned”. They’re always concerned about something, aren’t they? Man, I want to be a bioethicist. That must be some easy money. What do they do besides be concerned?
Sharlotta de la Playa Belly Dance Workshop: July 21st
Yay!
Come dance !
I am giving a workshop this Saturday….
Come to a Middle Eastern Dance Workshop in the Mission. See several dances performed, hear about a bit of the background, and learn a few basic moves!
This event is free so……Come watch and come dance!
Sharlotta de la Playa — Saturday, July 21, 2007 10am-noon in the theatre
http://www.missionculturalcenter.org/calendar.htm
2868 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110
In addition to the workshop, that I am giving this Saturday, I am starting a dance group in the Mission–join us, just bring your desire to dance! No experience necessary! Want more info?
email me (write dance in the subject line)“Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.” – Maya Angelou
“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”
“We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” Kisa
“There are two ways to live — one as if nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein
Fire Arts Festival Photos and Videos
We just finished running the Serpent at the Fire Arts Festival. It was a blast!
A terrific (47mb) video by Olivier Bonin of the Serpent at the Crucible’s 2007 Fire Arts Festival The thing to watch!!
SF Chronicle coverage here and here (article title: “Hot-and-heavy sculpture gets artists warmed up Enormous flame-breathing creations at Fire Arts Festival are prelude to Burning Man. Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer. Friday, July 13, 2007”)
WED: Jess THURS: Rebecca FRI: Jess SAT: Cherl
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THURS JULY 12 |
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1. Jess 2. Caroline Miller (plumbing) 3. Michael Prados (head) 4. David Ellsworth (elec) 5. Cheryl Fralick (FSM) 6. John Devenezia (EGG) 7. B’anna Federico 8.Karen Tarapata 9. Indira Allfree 10.Olivier Bonin 11.Rosa Anna di Fellipis 12.Yasi Maus Khan 13.Michelle Palmer 14.Stella Rubenstein 15. Cathy Lynch |
1. Rbca Anders (plumbing and in charge) 2. TBD 3. Michael Prados (head) 4. Tad (electronics) 5. John Devenezia(Egg) 6.Jordana Joseph FSM 7.Oona Squire(plumbing) 8.Paul Walker 9.Chris Gerbik 10.Aerin 11.Louis B 12.Judy Castro 13.Wendy 14.James Stauffer 15.Mark Farrier |
1. Jess (elec and in Charge) 2. Rbca Anders (PLUMBING) 3. Lee Sonko (head) 4. Tasha Berg (FSM) 5. Oona Squire (egg) 6. Yasi Maus Khan 7.James Stauffer 8.Will Bartlett 9.Sara Peyrot 10. Brent 11.Laura Barron 12. TBD 13. Tristan Savatier 14.Amy Tse 15. |
1. Cheryl Fralick (In charge) 2. Caroline Miller(plumbing) 3. Michelle Palmer(FSM) 4. David Ellsworth (ELECTRONICS) 5. Ray Sykes (head) 6. Marlies Tallman(egg) 7.Steve Nelson 8. Kezia 9.Josh Hunter 10.Lynn Bryant (FSM) 11. Dave X 12.Judy Castro 13.Jill (plumbing) 14.Jeff Henise 15. Karl Seifert |
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Gigapan
Neato
A friend is on this project to use a regular digital camera, a tilting base, and stitching software to make gigapixel cameras.
Got Milk ads don’t work
I had a little discussion with someone at my new job a few days ago. We were talking about how “obviously successful” the Got Milk ads have been. I recalled mention that they generated a lot of recognition but not so much in the get-people-to-drink-milk category. I did some homework and was amazed to find out how true that is.
It would appear that the $20 million+ per year Got Milk ad campaign has pretty solidly failed. It is called the “Milkpep” program and it started in 1995. Take a look at the chart to the right to see how effective the program has been. There was a blip the year after the program started but per-capita and total sales of fluid milk have continued to fall pretty much continuously since it’s inception. Notably, the rate of change of per-capita consumption hasn’t changed. In other words, it’s very hard for them to say “Well, people would have been drinking even less milk if it weren’t for the ads.”
I found this information in the Dairy Facts Book 2006, put out by the International Dairy Foods Association. (local copy)
D&D Laughs
Trav pointed out DM of the Rings. It’s right-on.
This scene had me laugh so unexpectedly, I sputtered out a laugh and spit all over my monitor. I suppose it isn’t really the funniest of them, but it hit a chord.
How to stop mediawiki spam
We started getting spam on a Mediawiki based project I belong to, SWARM. I installed the ConfirmEdit extension and haven’t had another spam yet.
- Wiki first launched March 2007.
- First spam May 2007.
- Last Spam… that same day. :-)
Update 4-4-08: eventually, I started getting spam through this. So I had to lock down the wiki. I disabled registration and made it so only logged-in users can edit. No more problems.