If you’ve ever watched Alton Brown’s show Good Eats, then you know how awesome his Kitchen Aid mixer is. This website claims to give you the same hot rod Kitchen Aid look for around $20 instead of the $150 custom paint shops charge. Using vinyl stickers you can instantly transform your mixer into something Alton would approve of.

FlameKA.com: Custom Kitchen Aid mixers

This is what I see out of my east facing window every morning.

I went to a horse show in Burbank, CA this week. On the drive from Phoenix to L.A., I saw miles and miles of these wind turbines near Indio and Coachella. Pretty nifty.

Not the best picture since it was taken while I was in the backseat of the semi’s cab (notice the bug splats on the windshield). Here are some much better images of the turbines if you are interested.
I also saw the Cabazon Dinosaurs that were used in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, but I couldn’t get a clear shot of them.

I’m back in the desert again, and have been since the end of last week. Everyone always asks me if it’s hot here. Well I don’t think the earth’s axial tilt has changed at all, so yes, it is still hot here and will be all summer. One of the more exciting things about coming out this time is that my cell phone now works out past Alma School Rd. Thank you AT&T…another reason to get an iPhone.

Here are some pictures to tide you over.

Edit: Sorry about the size of the pictures. I have a slow connection out here!

Even though no new hardware was announced in the Jobsnote today, there still are a few shiny things over at Apple.com. For starters, the whole website has been overhauled in order to coincide with the new look of Leopard. Nice sleek buttons and sidebars plus a Spotlight-esque search bar! Would we expect anything else? Head over and check it out, and while you’re there download the new public beta of Safari 3 (for Mac, Windows XP and all 25 editions of Vista!)

Safari 3 Free Public Beta
Download Here

The universal sign of new Apple-y things to come.

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I Stumbled Upon this website a few days back and found it fascinating. Before I read the Overview, I didn’t realize that these photographs were actually from the 1940s. I thought they were just some conceptual art project (e.g. “What if we always had color photography?”). The photos are so clear and vibrant, it’s almost hard to imagine such great prints coming from 70-year-old technology. Seeing these scenes in color makes them more real (to me) and allows us to see what everyone else saw in the time after the Depression and during the Second World War.

From the page:
“Bound for Glory: America in Color is the first major exhibition of the little known color images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI). Comprised of seventy digital prints made from color transparencies taken between 1939 and 1943, this exhibition reveals a surprisingly vibrant world that has typically been viewed only through black-and-white images.”

2 children playing with model airplane/Robstown, Texas, January 1942

South Water St. depot of the Illinois Central RR/Chicago, Illinois, May 1943

A reality TV show about tanning?? Now if they would only turn it into a reality tv show/competition…

It’s official. I was just watching 60 Minutes and this commercial came on.

I just arrived in Philadelphia, and I’m pretty underwhelmed. So far, all I’ve seen are the dirty parking lots and industrial areas visible from the highway. Hopefully Philly will redeem itself tomorrow with its wealth of American history. Until I have some nice touristy pictures to post, I direct your attention to the menace that is the WiFi Router.

Wifi Routers: Silent, Blinking Death?

(Don’t you just love the little angry face on the router?)