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.
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X
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.
Bellydancers and Harem Girls – A Historical/Cheesecake Gallery
Great American Pinup
Cellphone gun
Cellular: Fires four .22s.
Apache and PHP on a Mac
“If an A-Bomb Falls” and “The H-Bomb and You”
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.”
Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter
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.
Magazines Galore
Galactic Central is the mother lode of magazine archives, with publishing information and cover art, including a prodigious pile of pulp magazines.”
How Products Are Made
Link: Explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products.
Litter tax proposed for fast-food places
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.”
Helicopter shots of Mexico City neighborhoods
Link: A former Mexico City helicopter pilot has posted a gallery of his aerial photos of the city and environs.
Notable properties of specific numbers
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.