sagas of icelanders

maisonneuve :: eclectic curiosity: The first step is to accept walking as a legitimate form of transportation, one that is equal—or even superior—to vehicle transport.

Apple Developer Connection: Simply put, Ruby on Rails is an open source tool that gives you the advantage of rapidly creating great web applications backed by SQL databases to keep up with the speed of the web.

Omphalo-Stepses

Great American Pinup

Cellular: Fires four .22s.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Ethan Persoff: “Two interesting snapshots of 1950s atomic anxiety. Full of bombs, communists, ducking, covering, charts, maps — and useful instructions for removing those pesky cancer-causing radiation fallout stains.”

Yahoo! News: Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets. Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was “alert and doing fine” in a Corpus Christi hospital Sunday after he was shot by Cheney on a ranch in south Texas, said Katharine Armstrong, the property’s owner.

Galactic Central is the mother lode of magazine archives, with publishing information and cover art, including a prodigious pile of pulp magazines.”

Link: Explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products.

OAKLAND: “Fed up with kids dropping burger wrappers, beverage cups and french fry cartons on the streets and sidewalks surrounding the city’s schools, the Oakland City Council is poised to take the unprecedented step of taxing fast-food joints and convenience stores to help clean up the mess.”

Link: A former Mexico City helicopter pilot has posted a gallery of his aerial photos of the city and environs.

MROB: 1394 — The number of ways to pick 5 numbers from 1 to 25 (with no two the same) and have them add up to 65.