I just published an album of pictures from a Moab trip in early April of this year. I also have some panoramas that I still need to upload, so watch for a future posting.

The latest commercial for the Clearblue Digital pregnancy test is the best pregnancy test commercial ever.  (or at least it's a close second). I've actually seen this commercial air on TV, so it's not just an Internet-only video.

Google Maps has a sattelite image of a cruise-missle flying over Utah.

Google Maps: 38

This is a cute commercial from GE.

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Janet Jackson hosted Saturday Night Live on April 10, 2004.  This episode included a sketch about "cork soakers".  One of the funniest sketches in years, but a definite guilty pleasure.

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Update Sept 16 2008: A much higher quality version is availble on Hulu, if you don't mind watching an ad first.

The robber of an Olympia, WA, bank apparently planned to escape underwater.  As reported in a Jan 15 article in the Seattle Times:

A bank robber who wore a wet suit under his clothes and tried to escape with scuba tanks into Puget Sound has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.

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Police saw his fleeing car crash through a gate at an industrial area on Budd Inlet. Coma got out with scuba tanks and ran toward the water.

He threw a backpack containing the robbery money into the Sound but was tackled before he was able to enter the water.

Police recovered $6,000 taken from the bank and found a loaded rifle used in the robbery.

Just added a bunch of pics to my gallery, including:

• An album of pics from a Victoria trip last summer
• An album of sunset pics of the space needle
• A couple of misc pics in my 2006 album
• A couple of new pics in the My Favorites album

This is a great stop-motion short of two friends "fighting".

The guys who did this provided the following comments with the video:

1. The video took two months to film and edit.

2. The music is available here (for now): http://www.sendspace.com/fi…

3. Nothing is fake and no green screens were used. The only computer animated part was the letters falling on the page.

4. Yes, we really did jump all those times.

5. I edited it with Final Cut Pro

6. The camera we used was a Canon GL1 with both digital stills being taken, and footage being shot.

7. It was filmed in Massachusetts in the following towns: Arlington, Medford, Upton, Gloucester

Seattle had it's worst windstorm ever on Thurs night (Dec 15).  Peak gusts downtown hit 69 mph, and it was even gustier outside of the city.  By the next morning, 1 million were without power.

The local ABC television station, KOMO, sent a crew to film at Sea-Tac airport.  They got this footage of a 757 getting hit by a gust of wind just as it was landing.  The plane had to go to full power, then go around and try again.

Hugh Laurie (star of the TV show House) recently performed a very funny "protest song" on the Oct 28 episode of SNL.

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Here's a link to the lyrics: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/06/06dprotest.phtml