Thursday
…which means that tomorrow is Friday. Today wasn’t bad. Unless you count the stupid driver who tried to start a multi-car pile-up on I-15. Right next to/in front of me. *sigh* Some peoples’ children.

NPR and PRI Stories
Talk of the Nation – Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking
Talk of the Nation – Pete Rose Controversy
All Things Considered – Think Tank: White House Fudged WMD Report
All Things Considered – Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty
All Things Considered – CD Blends Jewish, Persian Music

Stray Toasters

  • Blown glass rayguns. They look like something out of a 40s or 50s sci-fi movie.
  • 42.857142857142854% of me is a huge nerd! How about you?
  • The Emergency Broadcast System and the Emergency Alert System. The EBS was around when I was growing up. You’d hear the warning tone and the message “This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System…” and then you’d go back to your regularly scheduled programming. The EAS does the same thing, but it uses a different tone. Same brand, different flavor. Emergency Broadcast System alert sound was a two-note tone, very similar to the “Off-Air” sound that some television stations use at the end of their broadcast day. The Emergency Alert System alert sound is more modern – it sounds like a dial-up modem connecting to a server.

    If I remember correctly, the new tone – along with the name change – was chosen to be something “easily recognizable” and something that would get peoples’ attention. I wonder if the modem-like sound was chosen since the Internet was gaining popularity. I also wonder if the older EBS sound was chosen because it was “familiar” to those who grew up in a time when broadcast television stations actually went off the air… and would thus be recognizable and attention-grabbing.

  • BicycleSafe: How to Not Get Hit by Cars
    Simple. Straight-forward. Even chock full o’ common sense. Which means that there is bound to be tons of people who don’t think about this kind of thing.

  • Gene Colan’s Virtual Studio Check out the galleries.
  • Powerpuff Girls Portrait Studio
  • Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto
    Mata ah-oo Hima de
    Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto
    Himitsu wo Shiri Tai

  • Looking to get published? RoseDog.com

Namaste.