Fri Nov 01 2002 14:51: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/021101/161/2l2zp.html&e=6&ncid=705 Can't let anything happen to the poster!

Fri Nov 01 2002 15:19: A spirited effort, for sure: http://www.prweb.com/releases/?49303

Fri Nov 01 2002 15:44: project title: "Dreamtime"

Fri Nov 01 2002 16:25: Another: "Refactorial"

Fri Nov 01 2002 19:38: Leonardonics: "You may end your turn early!"

Fri Nov 01 2002 19:40: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/10/31/subversion.html (thanks, Charles). I wonder whether or not the svn people are past the stage where you care about every little bit of coverage your software gets? Probably not.

Fri Nov 01 2002 19:45: Catfish hoagie (hoagie!)

Sat Nov 02 2002 17:54: Abomination: random css generator

Sat Nov 02 2002 21:21 asdfsd: test of massive speed

Sun Nov 03 2002 10:37: http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/soundson/genius/

Sun Nov 03 2002 15:46: //Can't happen: time travel is possible via wormholes, but wormholes to the past require huge power expenditure. Tiny tiny nanobots are sent through wormholes, record stuff, and then hide in rendezvous points (or come back through the wormholes?). This is why we don't see time travellers. Bots are too small to affect anything, but something happens blah blah blah.

Sun Nov 03 2002 15:52: Why is fictional reference material so damned reliable? Coutnerxample: Difference Engine/Zack's Shadowrun wall map map with LoAHN, Cherokee Free State, etc; exposition or different map later on shows this to be one highly partisan view of the political boundaries and not neccessarily reflective of the facts on the ground

(this idea exasperated Sumana)

Sun Nov 03 2002 17:07: http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/notma10.txt

Sun Nov 03 2002 23:16: Tell Kevin about predicament

Mon Nov 04 2002 08:55: Minimax films

Mon Nov 04 2002 22:28: fictional book title: I am the World! Also, They Want Incorrect Things (or some variant)

Tue Nov 05 2002 14:50: DON'T BUG STACK, READ ME INSTEAD: pstree -u leonardr -pl, find tomcat's parent java process

Tue Nov 05 2002 16:19: Why is nb so slow on james? Page 54. (process overhead? Is it all cgis?) Why do I hurt inside? Page 31.

Tue Nov 05 2002 16:27: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pythoncard/

Fri Nov 08 2002 07:58: http://www.a-a-p.org/ (via Josh)

Fri Nov 08 2002 11:15: Damn legal hoops: http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/27788.html

Fri Nov 08 2002 18:23: Differential reproductive strategies vis-a-vis email viruses and spam

Sun Nov 10 2002 12:43 Partial taxonomy of game objects:

	Wall	Creature
Normal	Generic ZZT or R&D wall	N/A? No, this could exist, but doesn't (generic roguelike creatures are destroyable, see below). Nethack mail daemon, but not really.
Destroyable (may require tools)	ZZT breakable wall R&D dynamitable wall Generic Nethack wall Generic Breakout brick	Generic roguelike monster
Invisible until encountered	ZZT invisible wall LBreakout2 invisible brick	Nethack piercers
Contains something valuable (must also be breakable)	R&D object-embedded wall Roguelike minable wall or rock containing goodie Breakout brick with bonus inside	Roguelike monster carrying an item
Time-generating	ZZT or R&D slime	Anything in ZZT behind a duplicator Angband spawning monsters
Break-generating	LBreakout2 generating brick (rainbow)	Zangband monsters blue horror->pink horror
[More]

Sun Nov 10 2002 16:41: "And it's completely legal to use, unless you live in VA, MN, NE, OK, VA or Washington D.C." -- Heartland America on radar jammer.

Mon Nov 11 2002 13:43: http://www.prweb.com/releases/?49847: "Thank you for turning to LoveCo for your love-related needs. We know that you have choices; thank you for choosing LoveCo."

Thu Nov 14 2002 13:32 Python "super"-like idiom : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- for super in self.__class__.__bases__:
if hasattr(super, 'method'):
super.method(args)


Thu Nov 14 2002 13:32 LoAHN competitor: The United States of Nature

Thu Nov 14 2002 13:35: When I hear the word "gun", I reach for my culture.

Thu Nov 14 2002 19:08 Future Factions: Today's faction type: greens. Hunter-gatherer anti-ag greens. Pro-ag, anti-selection greens, who collect all seeds produced and sow a random selection to avoid inadvertent improvement of the crop in a direction benefiting humans. (How internally consistent is this? Some plants don't survive to reproduce; does that matter?)

Fri Nov 15 2002 10:29:

Fevered imaginings, now with McCusker-esque dialogue interlocutor! I think I see the outlines forming. The idea is one of Stephenson/MacLeod microstates as varied in their foreign policies as real states are and as S/ML microstates are in their domestic policies. Microstates try to conquer, assimilate, or manipulate other microstates through trade and/or military force, possibly heading toward a long-term equilibrium of ministates like old Bavarian kingdoms, or metamicrostates like LoAHN and USN.

LOC: Are you sure you're not oversimplifying the S/ML microstate model? Maybe they deal with this.

Possibly, but I don't think so. I know MacLeod barely touches on it.

LOC: You should finish Snow Crash just to make sure.

You're right (bleah).

Random thoughts on this theme: exploring the edge conditions of politics. Manipulating of the microstate machinery for metapolitical gain. Mottoes: "Smash the State and try again", "The embassy is the state". Invalidating someone's email address by reincorporating their state under a different name.

LOC: The email address thing is funny, but people would just use non-state TLDs so that they wouldn't lose email.

Official government communication would still use state TLDs, and some secretary using his/her government address for personal use could fall victim to it. You're right (because you're the interlocutor), but it's plausible enough to be a plot twist.

Fri Nov 15 2002 14:44: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gjots/

Fri Nov 15 2002 15:00: replay a process: http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~fcorneli/

Fri Nov 15 2002 15:27: http://www.prweb.com/releases/?50265 NOTE: TIMELY STORY due to OUR PATHETIC ATTEMPTS to make it one
http://www.prweb.com/releases/?50077: CHEEKY WEBSITE SELF-APPLIES "CHEEKY", AROUSES WRATH WORLDWIDE
http://www.prweb.com/releases/?50099: What's going on here? (In monarchies, all industry is pork?)

Sun Nov 17 2002 19:25: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dirfreak/
http://www.uw.edu.pl/~mrudolf/linux/knowit.html
http://aibash.sourceforge.net/
http://symbio.sourceforge.net/ Maybe plug into this?
http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html (Stupid firewall)

Sun Nov 17 2002 20:59 More state names: Distributed Malay State
Pretty Good People's Republic of Nanawan
Laboratory Of Democracy, Arsenal Of Democracy

Mon Nov 18 2002 20:53: Add to sobelow theme: small dashed border around entry.

Tue Nov 19 2002 15:15: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3360-2002Nov17.html

Sat Nov 30 2002 21:19: blasphemous Gordon Korman: Son of the God

Sat Nov 30 2002 22:50: http://www.magicwebworks.com/faq.html

Sat Nov 30 2002 22:50: Sumana: "Mama mea culpa!"

Sat Nov 30 2002 23:05: couch spam subject lines

Sat Nov 30 2002 23:08: Subject: How many more have to be sacrified for the snakes' lies ?