William Reardon’s Blog

Yahoo! 360 is live. Beta, anyway. You can find my page at:

http://360.yahoo.com/wdr1

I still have a bunch of invites left, so if you’d like one feel to just drop a comment below. (No IMs please.)

So here’s a question: who’ll move off beta/invite-only to production first — orkut or 360?

The only thing hated more than Microsoft is spam, which makes this so cool:

E-mailer says suits drove it bankrupt

On the flight back today I finished reading a good article on Scalia in the New Yorker. It’s slightly biased against him in some of the language, but by and large, presents a pretty fair picture. There’s a Q&A with the author, but the article itself doesn’t seem to be online. Check it out if you can.

There seems to be an upward tick in coverage of Scalia, probably not too surprising considering Rehnquist’s failing health & talk of him being a possible replacement as Chief Justice. (If Bush nominates Thomas instead, so help me, I’ll be that much closer to not voting for him again.)

Reading the aritcle, I was surprised to find out that he’s close friends with Ginsburg. That in of itself is a microcosm of why I like him so much. Far from a partisian hack, Scalia sticks to his views and is unwilling to bend them to get the result he personally would like. He feels strongly that the Court should not assume powers of the Legislative branch by creating new interpretations of existing laws. How often do you find a member of our government seeking to limit their powers?

Holy Awesomeness: mp3s & pdfs of the 3 volume fenyman lecture on physics:

http://mafihe.hu/~bnc/feynman/

(For those without wget in crowd, you may want to check out downTHEMall.)

What do you do after inventing the AK-47?

Make your own vodka, of course.

Just back from Death Valley. Quite literally on the “just” part, as I’ve been in my apartment under 10 minutes. I’m not sure why, but after 72 hours of being in a land where you can’t even get a radio station let alone Internet, I felt oddly drawn to the computer.

We lucked out on the weather. Despite forecasts, we didn’t get much rain, save a little bit on the drive out. Weather was almost perfect the whole time we were out there, not too warm, not too hard. And the foliage was just beautiful. Despite being named Death Valley, there were endless fields of green & dazzling yellow followers.

One thought — I’m pretty sure the Race Track is an insider park ranger joke. Moving rocks my ass.

Okay, time to shower. After a few days of not being able to, my hair is pretty nappy to say the least. I’ll post some photos latter.

Updated:

• My Photos
  
• Rick’s Photos
  

Well, I’m off to Death Valley for camping on an extended weekend. Still not sure if this is a good idea. I’m going to feel really stupid if I die. The name alone feels like a hint & a half. The good news is there’ll be a bunch of us, and as we all know, when times get tough, having friends around is good, as they can readily be converted to food sources.

You scored as Sci-Fi/Fantasy. You scored Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Depending on the movie this might not deserve a “Congratulations”, but you’re interested in the future and imaginary worlds far from your own. You probably wish you could be somebody else, or live in one of the worlds from your favourite movies. Check out: Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, Star Wars, The Matrix. Sci-Fi/Fantasy 90% Mindfuck 90% Mindless Action Flick 70% Sadistic Humour 55% Romantic Comedy 55% Drama/Suspense 45% Artistic 30% Movie Recommendation. created with QuizFarm.com

Overall, not bad. The recomendations are spot on.

Neb & Misa, you guys need to take this one too.