I know that I’ll probably be stuck on some terrorist watchlist for posting this, but when you find the description on a DIY flamethrower, you just have to pass it along. Besides, I haven’t had anything filed under “Mad Science” in quite some time.
Daily Archives: 7/1/2004
This Day in Baseball
On this date in 1990, the New York Yankees were playing against the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park. The Yankees pitcher Andy Hawkins gave up no hits, and ended up losing the game and never being credited for the no-hitter.
In the eight inning, the Yankees gave up four unearned runs on three errors and two walks. The White Sox didn’t have to bat in the bottom of the ninth, since they were in the lead, and a commitee decided a year later that since Hawkins didn’t pitch a full nine innings, he did not warrant a no-hitter.
Baseball is a kooky, kooky game. You can look at the boxscore and play by play from retrosheet for more details.
BBC R&D – Dirac
As part of my brother’s ongoing experiments with streaming video, I’ve become somewhat more interested in the world of streaming video. Interestingly enough, the BBC has released an open source video codec called Dirac which is available under the Mozilla Public License and also the GPL. It is supposed to be competative to modern codecs, but is unencumbered by the patents and licenses which plague MPEG-4 and many other video codec technologies.
I’m already a big fan of the Ogg Vorbis format for audio, and am enthused that free license video codecs could be on their way. They are needed.