Trade your unwanted CDs for wanted CDs. WOW how cool is that! Mark Anderson writes about his LA LA experience on wired.

Would you like to recharge your laptop battery in the space of a few seconds rather than hours? A new battery technology based on the capacitor, invented almost 300 years ago, may just be in our future!

So besides every idiot you went to school with (present company accepted), creepy guys still living in their Mother’s basement and that guy 2,000 miles ago that want to rip off your identity now the Pentagon is data mining off the site looking for god knows what…

Just more reasons not to join sites like MySpace, Xanga, Classmates Online, Friendster, Bebo or facebook. For the life of me I can’t figure out why people put themselves out on the internet like this.

The Ultimate Thing Costume

“This site is the making of my “Ultimate Thing” costume made of real rock and yes to answer your question I am insane but that’s beside the point. Your next question is likely why would I do this? well the answer is I have far too much time on my hands and have a huge dislike for that foam rubber orange ninja turtle they call the thing in the new Fantastic Four movie. So I decided to do it right, using pure rock. Now on with the “making of” oh and feel free to make a pun or two, you just can’t not pun with the thing….”

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This week I am back in New Orleans. Things on the project I am working on have slowed down quite a bit and today I had a chance to go for a drive and take some pictures of St. Bernard’s Parish (County), which was one of the hardest hit areas.

This is the approximate path I took on my drive.

Here are a few pictures that I took along the way. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and well… just look.
Welcome to St. Bernard’s Parish
Abandoned Truck in the middle of the street
House with a notice warning thieves
Typical Piles of trash along the highway
Entire neighborhoods look like this.
Buildings across the street from where I am working (note all the broken and boarded up windows.
The building I am working out of, which was under about 4 feet of water (For my fellow geeks, the sixth floor is a data center and the entire building was without power for nearly two weeks after Katrina, which obviously wasn’t good for business.)

Still there is history and beauty. I took this picture a few weeks ago of the famous St. Louis Cathedral which is basically the center of the French Quarter.

What amazed me the most is how bad things look nine months after Hurricane Katrina. The devastation in this city is incredible and the best way to describe it to people who have not been here is to imagine the entire metropolitan Milwaukee area flooded and then hit with 500 tornadoes. I’m really not exaggerating. The pictures above are not the worst of the worst, they are pretty typical of the majority of the city.