Storm abstraction

It's always the most beautiful just before the storm

Tornado storm system

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LaSalle township fire department was all hands on duty as the storm system that dropped a tornado on Ida Michigan and several on Dexter rolled right over the top of it. This was moments before the hail started. This is not the video, but some fifteen minutes earlier I had to pull over because I was driving right into it. I watched fingers stretch down and then vanish. Luckily none ever touched down.

Best pic of the trip

Fisherman's paradise

I found myself wishing I already had a packraft

Along the mohican

B Campground on the mohican river, only the fisherman were out

Tree abstraction

Backpacking with Karen

Pleasant hill lake dam

Lyons falls, mohican wilderness area

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Had a delightful weekend backpacking with a friend of mine at mohican wilderness area last weekend. Perfect weather, bugless, sitting in front of the campfire until 11pm.

Above Lyons falls, mohican wilderness area

Had a delightful weekend backpacking with a friend of mine at mohican wilderness area last weekend. Perfect weather, bugless, sitting in front of the campfire until 11pm.

Amazing old rickshaw, $150

Had someone offer this amazing 1969 rickshaw to me for $150. It's more work then I have time for, bit i thought I'd post it. Leave a comment if you're interested and I'll put you in touch with them.

Video: "Hobo" Monkey Goes to the Edge of Space

Back in November of last year Australian indie band Skipping Girl Vinegar and a team of "cowboy scientists" joined forces to launch a stuffed toy monkey by the name of Baker to the edge of space. They attached a giant weather balloon to a model rocket and added a small video camera to catch all the action. The results can be seen in the video below, which shows Baker going up into the stratosphere for some spectacular views, before plummeting back to Earth where he was recovered – apparently little worse for wear.

Lucky monkey!

via theadventureblog.blogspot.com

Science hipsterism at its finest. :)

Science has never been so cool.

Google Calls Shenanigans on MPAA's DMCA Interpretation

The MPAA has a well-earned reputation for, shall we say, "molding" their facts. But with its latest lawsuit against Hotfile, the group has apparently gone too far for Google's tastes. The search giant has just filed an Amicus brief objecting to the MPAA's "distortion" of the DMCA.

An Amicus brief is a court document filed by a third party in a case—neither the plaintiff or defendant—that volunteers information that may be relevant to the proceedings and would not have been discovered otherwise. In this case, Google's brief provided a legal opinion that the MPAA is full of shit in regards to the Safe Harbor provisions.

"Google is particularly concerned by some of the arguments offered by the plaintiffs, which distort the meaning of the statute and, if accepted, would unduly narrow the important protections those provisions give online service providers," the company wrote.

Google pointed to its own case against Viacom a few years back in which the search company successfully used the provisions as a defense. While the case has already been in progress for a over a year, the MPAA's sudden request for a summary judgement has apparently spurred Google to action. Looks like the MPAA's ploy to quietly cajole its lawsuit to fruition backfired. [Scribd, Amicus Curiae Wiki via Electronista - Image: Pakhnyushcha / Shutterstock]

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Wait. Hotfile still exists!? I guess i'm still a geek who loves the latest dirt on the copyright dust-up. MPAA bad... google... err... while I guess they're on the right side on this one.