the world is your acorn

I think B uses this, but I was just reminded of it again by a post on the davis_square group on LiveJournal. Boston.com offers a pretty good street sweeper reminder service via email at Boston Sweeper.
thanks, dirty_devlin!

• 12 noon: Flag Raising at Boston City Hall Plaza

Saturday, June 4

• 12-6pm: Boston Pride Day at Faneuil Hall at Fanueil Hall
• 9pm-12:30am: Freedom Womens Boat Cruise around Boston Harbor at 60 Rowes Wharf in Boston

Sunday, June 5

• 9:30am-3pm: AIDS Action Committee’s AIDS Walk at the Hatch Shell
• 3-7pm: Pride T Dance for LGBTs and Friends at Brookline Holiday Inn

Monday, June 6

• 3-4:30pm: Town Hall Meeting for LGBT Elders and Boomers at Sprout Hall at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Boston

Tuesday, June 7

• 7-9pm: PRIDELIGHTS at Boston Center for the Arts Plaza

Thursday, June 9

• 7-9pm: Boston Idol Competition at Club Café
• 10pm-2am: Jammy-Jam at Queeraoke at Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain
• 10pm-2am: 2005 Boston Pride Opening Party at Embassy Nightclub in Boston
• 8pm-2am: Women’s Pride Opening Party at Tribe at Felt in Boston

Friday, June 10

• 6pm: Boston Dyke March starting at the Gazebo on Boston Common
• 9pm-1am: Dykenight’s Dyke March After Party at Toast in Union Square, Somerville

Saturday, June 11

• 10am: Pride Interfaith Worship Service at Old South Church in Boston
• 12 noon: Pride Parade at Copley Square (and around) in Boston
• 12-6pm: Pride Festival at Boston Common in Boston
• 2pm-7pm: Esmé’s Pride Block Party at Boylston Place in Boston
• 7pm-2am: LiQuid at VENU – The Official Esmé After Party at 100 Warrenton St. in Boston
• 9pm-2am: Bounce Pride Party at Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain

Sunday, June 12

• 1-8pm: Stuart Street Block Party at Stuart Street in Boston
• 12-6pm: Pride Women’s Street Party at Perkins Street in Jamaica Plain
• 6pm-1am: Women’s Closing Party at Milky Way Lounge in Jamaica Plain
• 10pm-2am: Pride Closing Party at Avalon in Boston

Lots of farmer’s markets opening up around the boston area around now. Of course there is Russo’s in Watertown (most, not all if the produce is locally grown) that is around all year, but there are a bunch of neighborhood market areas that bring in a bunch of different stands from local farms. The one in Davis Square (Somerville) starts today, although the weather is not the greatest. It runs every Wednesday from around noon-6pm, although the time changes a little as daylight hours fluctuate throughout the summer. Or should I say “summer”?
For a comprehensive listing of the markets around Boston, check out The Federation of Massachusetts Farmers’ Markets website. It may not feel like summer, but we can certainly eat as if it is!

In January a federal judge in Atlanta ruled that stickers placed on textbooks in Cobb County, GA are unconstitutional because they violate the separation between church and state. The stickers let all unsuspecting young readers know that evolution is a theory, not a fact. This week, fourteen temp workers have been hired to scrape the stickers off. The school system is appealing.

Evolution Theory Temporarily Not Harmful to Your Health [Wonkette]
Anti-evolution stickers on schoolbooks removed [Boing Boing]

Seattle’s Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame displays things like the robot from Dr. Who, R2D2, the Queen Alien from Aliens, and a figure of Charleston Heston from Planet of the Apes.

…within this phantasmagorical array of memorabilia, film and collectibles, a portrait of the history of the future does begin to take shape. The opening exhibit room, wrapped in a band of stars like a planetarium, offers a timeline of science fiction as the exhibits survey its preoccupations, its overlap with real science, its concerns with society, its fans turned practitioners.

Sci-Fi Synergy [New York Times]
History of the Future [New York Times Slideshow]
Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame Homepage

Cybernet’s Navigaze software gives Windows users the ability to control the cursor using head movement and eye blinks, through a webcam. I guess it must be similar to the way EyeToy for PS2 works, although I don’t know much about it. If it is, then it can’t possibly have the precision that a regular mouse has. Anyone know?

Navigaze software brings gesture recognition to PCs [engadget]

A beer truck overturned this morning in Nashville where I-65 and I-40 meet near the downtown area. Everyone grab your straw!

Beer truck wreck shuts down I-65 in Nashville [wmctv.com]

via Wired Magazine:
I so need one of these. The Cooper Cooler chills cans of soda/beer in 1 minute, 3.5 minutes for bottles, and 6 minutes for a bottle of wine. It goes for $90 and can be picked up through amazon.com, target online, best buy online, and some others. Not too shabby, I think.

via Slashdot:
Over 670,000 customers at Bank of America, Wachovia, and other banks have had their account numbers and balances illegally sold to collection agencies. I guess the banks are offering free credit monitoring for a year to customers who were “affected”. Clearly that’s enough to make up for the breech.

Bank security breach may be biggest yet [CNN]

haha. Just look at it.
Try Harvard! [The Onion]