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Should you land here from a search page, curiosity or sheer accident, you are seeing a Web site in development. The site is just an outlet for personal expression, so there's no need to pull the veil over the development phase. You can register if you like; I may add a facility to add comments if I find people actually alighting here. There is no launch schedule, which is one of the joys of a personal project if, like me, most of your working life has been constrained by deadlines. So, watch this space...

   

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29 Apr, 10
There's an award-winning cosmetics company called Tengen that uses volcanic ash from the Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima — called shirasu — to make skincare products. The sediment that Tengen uses is 400,000 years old and found in a secret location. They then combine it with oil and sodium hydroxide to make facial cleansers, gels, and face creams.

via Channel News Asia

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There's an award-winning cosmetics company called Tengen that uses volcanic ash from the Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima — called shirasu — to make skincare products. The sediment that Tengen uses is 400,000 years old and found in a secret location. They then combine it with oil and sodium hydroxide to make facial cleansers, gels, and face creams.

via Channel News Asia

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29 Apr, 10

How horribly ironic!  The screen above is grabbed from a USCG video showing the demolition of Alaska's tallest structure, a Loran tower that might have hosted an eLoran backup to GPS, maybe already was.  Just three weeks earlier, Intelsat let it be known that it had "lost control" of one of the two WAAS satellites, and that it would "drift out of orbit over the next two to four weeks."  And Alaska will be the place that suffers the most loss of WAAS, though all North American navigators should take note that WAAS redundancy just went away.

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How horribly ironic!  The screen above is grabbed from a USCG video showing the demolition of Alaska's tallest structure, a Loran tower that might have hosted an eLoran backup to GPS, maybe already was.  Just three weeks earlier, Intelsat let it be known that it had "lost control" of one of the two WAAS satellites, and that it would "drift out of orbit over the next two to four weeks."  And Alaska will be the place that suffers the most loss of WAAS, though all North American navigators should take note that WAAS redundancy just went away.

The Twitter Stream


29 Apr, 10

I love Twitter. I tried it when it first appeared but I didn't get it at the time. But it takes time for human behaviour to wrap itself around new media. The first enthusiasts would fill the 140 character void with word burps like "I just had a shower and I feel good." It was really the same response you see when people enter an echo space; they'll say anything at all just to hear how it sounds. I have a low threshold for verbal trivia so I walked away from Twitter.

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The Twitter Stream

I love Twitter. I tried it when it first appeared but I didn't get it at the time. But it takes time for human behaviour to wrap itself around new media. The first enthusiasts would fill the 140 character void with word burps like "I just had a shower and I feel good." It was really the same response you see when people enter an echo space; they'll say anything at all just to hear how it sounds. I have a low threshold for verbal trivia so I walked away from Twitter.

But I'm back as a penitant. In its couple years of accelerated evolution, we've seen Twitter transformed into a medium of great vitality. I use it as a news alert service, as a way to stay in stay in touch with friends both far and near, but most interestingly, to follow a few Tweeters who have developed a new kind of authorship that is a stream of serial bursts. Roger Ebert (ebertchicago) has found a replacement voice in Twitter. He's expansive, generous and and endlessly curious. Astronaut Soichi Noguchi (astro_soichi) sends hallucinatory daily photos from space. Doug Saunders (dougsaunders), foreign correspondent for the Globe and Mail, sends world-weary dispatches from all over that are rich with outrage and irony.

I'm not an habitual tweeter; I'll cast a pebble into the pond every day or two. I offer my own Twitter stream below. You can read my follows at left.

My Recent Tweets

 

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Left and Right


11 Nov, 09

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Left and Right

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Four Columns


11 Nov, 09

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Four Columns

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