Here’s more cool stuff. These are among my all-time favourite case mods.
1. Steam punk screen and keyboard — Hieronymus Isambard “Jake” von Slatt
Lots of details on how they were built at the Steampunk Workshop links above. This must be just about the funkiest pair of projects I’ve seen in years.
Thank goodness for the left-liberal rabble. Watching American politics would be so tedious without them. The YearlyKos convention is an event organised by Markos Moulitsas, a blogger who believes “the medium” — as opposed to the message sent from his own little sulking corner for disillusioned Deaniacs and Netroots nuts — must be defended against “right-wing attacks”.
Expressing their solidarity and self-importance, and their scorn for anyone to the right of Stalin, some attendees booed Hillary Clinton, despite her dinkum socialist and activist credentials. Granted, she’d cancelled a meeting with bloggers, but her campaign called it a “misunderstanding” later: turns out she wasn’t going to make that meeting in the first place. Also, she consorts with… lobbyists!
It would have been farcical enough, without the headline over the accompanying photograph at Salon.com: Cheerful boos for Hillary (non-subscribers must watch Flash ad). Earth to Salon.com: when someone gets booed, the mob does not mean to express cheer. Even if The Party’s pet pamphleteers can’t bear the thought that a Democratic presidential hopeful might face hostility from someone other than the vast right-wing conspiracy.
The Angry Left is clearly nothing to sneeze at. Anyone have other clever ideas what that expression might signify?
If you’re looking for the spike, that is. I’ve moved everything across from the wordpress.com site, and all should be working over here now. Please update your bookmarks, blogroll and feeds accordingly. The new feed addresses are alongside…look to your right. Lots of new features, with many possible points of failure. If you spot one (a failure, not a new feature), I’d be grateful if you’d alert me in a comment, or e-mail me: ivo (at) hivemind (dot) net.
Either way, let me know what you think. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some sleep (and work) to catch up on.
