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This is a cool story in any measure of science or sci-fi. Over the past several months of cruising around the dusty Martian surface, the solar panels on the rover Spirit have become increasing obscured by red dust. In a chance encounter, a dust-devil has given our rover a new lease on life. [...] In a story from YaHoo News, the government in India has employed terrorizing tactics to force homeowners to pay up their property taxes. “After many residents ignored repeated demands to settle overdue property taxes. authorities in a city in Andhra Pradesh state have sent 20 groups of drummers to play outside offenders’ houses [...] I debated whether or not to blog about this. But what the hell. The post immediately preceding this one shows the vanity license plate I applied for and received on Friday. Mike’s already got the “DRGNPAGE” (or something like that) plate, so I thought I’d step up and drop down the twenty-five smackers for the “PODCAST” plate. I’ve never had a vanity plate before, but it seemed like a cool thing to do- in a very geek sort of way. Wishing to share my geekness with my fellow podcasters as well as viewers of this blog, I posted a link to the previous post to the Podcasters mailing list I belong to. It’s a place where heated To see the pic of the plate, scroll down a bit. To see my non-family-friendly reply pick to the dickwad that insinuated the above, click the “keep reading” link below… I have been granted the first podcasting license in the state of Arizona. OK, so it’s a license plate. I can still dream, can’t I? But seriously, how cool is this? Dammit. Completely and totally forgot to update the podcast.xml and index.xml feeds to include the changes made to the blog. So for those of you who missed out on your DP fix this week, you should be getting updates ASAP. Sorry! Well, I’ve managed to get most things on the site functioning normally. Everything links to a detail or individual entry page and everything should be commentable (think I just made up a word.) Feel free to poke around and email me with reports of screwups. Some pending changes to keep in mind before you [...] A Stormtrooper with Photoshop skills? Whoda thunk it? Thanks to TD-0013 (contributor to our new “Different Point of View” segment) for the killer new graphic for the Wingin’ It! show! Yes, I’m updating the site. Yes, I know it’s all fucked up. No, you’re not helping. Yes, I’d like you to fuck off for a while. You may all be asking, “what’s up with the new name?” Well, since we no longer have our show on KFYI, we really don’t have anything to put this show ‘between’. So, we came up with a catchy new title to go with our flashy new show. Yes folks, get ready for a brand-new, [...] Podcast: Play in new window | Download |
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