Notes

Great collection of tips for urban bicycle riders: Paul Dorn’s Bike Commuting Tips: Introduction (thanks, Jeremy)

Blind since age 3, this kid taught himself to see using echolocation … which is sensitive enough that he can tell the difference between a car and a pickup truck: The Boy Who Sees with Sound : People.com (via Scot)

Another Ohio item: Where I come from is, it turns out, deep in the heart of “pop” country. Where I live now is “soda” land. No wonder I feel so alienated sometimes. (via Mark)

deep cleveland books is the keeper of the flame for beat poet d.a. levy and home of the Cleveland-centric e-zine, the deep cleveland junkmail oracle. Yes, there is intelligent life in Ohio!

I’m definitely adding some of these tunes to the “some day learn to play on ukelele” list. I love the Miro-like album covers too: Singing Science Records

Big, eclectic, wonderfully easy-to-use collection of ukulele tabs: Ukulele Boogaloo

I love it: A bunch of librarians (and EFF) are helping Google fight a porn publisher for the right to make thumbnails of their dirty pictures: EFF: Perfect 10 v. Google, here’s the press release

HP’s working on a 4 megabit RFID chip half the size of a grain of rice (most RFIDs only hold a few kilobits). TR goes ga-ga: Technology Review: Wireless Wonder Chip

“Gee, what a beautiful sunset! If only I had an inspiring Zen poem to make this moment last forever.” Mr Haiku (from the engaging Duke of Uke)

After pulling my hair out for a few hours, I learn that Internet Explorer doesn’t render table widths exactly as you specify them in the “WIDTH” properites, unless you add “table-width: fixed” to the table’s style sheet. Aarrgh. IEBlog : Table Rendering

Kyle MacDonald started with a single red paperclip, and, through a series of trades, managed to exchange it for a whole house: one red paperclip

Excellent guiding principle: “Concrete is much easier to work with before it is poured.” Todd Lappin – 15 Minutes of Madness