Tue Jul 16 2002 08:24:
Well, my computer died. Hopefully there is just some problem with the hard drive, which is partitioned in a very strange way that I don't remember doing. My mother is clamoring for a new(er) computer so I'm probably going to buy a new one, use it to fix this one, then install Windows on it and give it to her.
Tue Jul 16 2002 08:31:
An economics joke:
Q: What do you have when everyone is bored with regulating prices?
A: Blasé-faire.
Tue Jul 16 2002 11:05:
Spam: Incredible Tahitian Perls...Starting at $1.00!
Tue Jul 16 2002 11:33:
Did you know it's possible to measure the temperature of a web page? Thermodynamicists have succeeded in locating the hottest spot on ibm.com!
Tue Jul 16 2002 12:41:
I would have more interest in the movie The Bourne Identity if it were about a mathematician named Bourne who discovered an interesting identity property.
Tue Jul 16 2002 14:10:
I thought of a morbid story idea for an Onion-alike satiricon: Ironic Death Rate Plummets:
Much of the drop was due to new health and safety regulations. Fewer
industrial workers than ever before were crushed in the gears of the
machinery destined to replace them, and not a single chemical company CEO met a gruesome demise in a vat of his company's toxic product.
Tue Jul 16 2002 15:07:
The Nethack bibliography (found via Zack) is cool, but it only covers the database; it doesn't have citations for all the quotes in the source code. Perhaps I'm exaggerating the number of quotes in the source code, but I remember there being a nontrivial number, mostly used to justify weird features involving vampires or whatever.
Tue Jul 16 2002 15:45:
The obvious followup to this (so obvious it took me a whole day to realize it): Future-slang spam and Newspeak spam. *** DOUBLEPLUSLOW PRICES! ***
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