http://www.expendablewords.com No guarantees on quality or cohesiveness. Read at your own risk. Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:14:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The photo from my July 31st tweet "Senseless Killing" has been adapted to work of art by @dcjenn! Here's the original and the painting is below. Love it! [caption id="attachment_182" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Senseless Killing"][/caption] http://www.expendablewords.com/2009/09/26/tweet-art/ Just upgraded from WordPress 2.6 to 2.8 (which I have been putting off forever) and it was cake! Kudos WordPress! I also switched to a new theme that's kind of Tumblr-esk, so I just merged in my Tumblr posts so everything is in one place. http://www.expendablewords.com/2009/07/25/upgrade/ [caption id="attachment_154" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Bank of America Building"][/caption] The building that glass keeps falling from. Yikes. http://www.expendablewords.com/2009/02/08/the-building-that-glass-keeps-falling-from-yikes/ I LEGO N.Y.: So simple, but so creative. I think my favorite is “Man on subway platform, seeing a critter on the tracks”. http://www.expendablewords.com/2009/02/03/i-lego-n-y/ [caption id="attachment_156" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Will Ferrell - You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush"][/caption] http://www.expendablewords.com/2009/01/20/inauguration-night-plan/ Saw the masstransiscope for the first time last weekend. Didn’t realize it was something they just restored. Here’s a story about it in the New York Times. http://www.expendablewords.com/2009/01/17/saw-the-masstransiscope-for-the-first-time-last-weekend/ E-Mail Note: 'I Landed in the Hudson' : Great story in today’s New York Times. One passenger said “It felt like we were landing at the airport,”. Huge kudos to that pilot. http://www.expendablewords.com/2009/01/16/e-mail-note-i-landed-in-the-hudson/ Luke Winslow-King, As April is to May - Saw these guys at Superfine in DUMBO during brunch on Sunday and going to see them again at Union Hall tonight. I love this song. http://www.expendablewords.com/2009/01/14/luke-winslow-king-as-april-is-to-may-saw-these-guys-at/ This week’s episode of the Security Now podcast was one of my favorites… it includes an explanation of how security researchers successfully forged a root certificate authority by brute forcing md5 with Playstations, a great story about an early PC called the PDP-8, and some information on a new small(er) ... http://www.expendablewords.com/2009/01/06/this-week%e2%80%99s-episode-of-the-security-now-podcast-was-one-of/ Pulsar: Absolutely loving Pulsar, the new XM/Sirius player for the Mac by Rogue Amoeba. I use it to listen to XM while at work, and also through my Apple TV at home (via Airfoil, another Rogue Amoeba product). Best of all I got Pulsar for free as an existing Rouge ... http://www.expendablewords.com/2009/01/05/pulsar/