Speaking freely
America's Nazi Party, along with the KKK and the White Revolution, is going to hold a rally at the state capitol in Raleigh tomorrow. According to the local NPR station, their permit was for 50 people to attend. A counter-rally a couple of blocks away has applied for a permit for 500 people.
I'll try to get some pictures.
Ummm.. no.
Mel Gibson's father on the Holocaust:
So, Hilter wasn't such a bad guy after all!
Soda Hack
MacMerc instructs us on how to hack the Pepsi iTunes giveaway - complete with diagrams.
Regular turkey bacon club, plain, lettuce only, and WiFi
Schlotzsky's is going to start offering WiFi access in its restaraunts. Since I don't drink coffee, the wireless access at Starbuck's does me little good. But, I do eat Schlotzsky's turkey bacon clubs (with a root beer). This would definitely be enough to get me to stop by one of their stores, if I was travelling with my laptop.
Good for them, and me.
Revolting
Cumin and saffron flavored KitKats.
myPod
Just got my iPod. And before I even turn it on, I gotta say... Apple has the absolute, hands-down best packaging of any company I've ever seen. Just opening the box was fun. And taking each part out of the box and taking it out of its individual wrapping was fun, too. The attention to detail is astounding - even in the packaging. Each piece is wrapped and arranged in the box in such a way that it displays the part in addition to keeping it safe in transit. I can't wait to start using it. Apple rocks.
The only drawback, and it's a big one for me, is that it doesn't come with a USB adaptor; I have to order that from Apple. If my PC had a FireWire port, I wouldnt care, of course. But it doesn't. So, it'll be yet another four days of waiting - in addition to the four weeks I waitied for the eBay guy to send me the iPod...
sigh.
Twinkle twinkle
BBC NEWS reports that "twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats..."
Maybe DeBeers will be the first company to commercialize space.
Muse
In the mid 80's, when I was in my mid-teens, my mom lived in Terryville CT for a couple of years . When I would go there to visit in the summer, I'd generally split my time between fishing at a nearby pond or playing Tron at a local deli. Sometimes, though I had to walk "downtown" to the larger stores to buy stuff I couldn't find at the deli. This walk always took me past a little brick house on Main street with a sign in front that said "Lock Museum of America". I didn't believe it; a museum of locks, of all things ?? Here, in this little building, in this little central Connecticut town ? Well, one day I went in and looked around. Not surprsingly, it was full of locks and keys (!!), and I learned that CT was the home of Mr Yale (as in Yale locks).
But what I really learned, or actually what I realized, was that pretty much anything can have its own museum; and that the words "National" or "American" don't necessarily imply grandeur or enormity. This is something I should've realized earlier, having been born in the tiny city of Corning NY, home to the Corning Glass Museum, and just down Rt 17 from the National Warplane Museum and the National Soaring Museum, among others (all fine museums, of course.)
I bring this up, because I found a little entry on girlhacker about another little New England museum; this one for buttons.