Wed Sep 01 2004 07:41 NST8NDT Futurismic: Fiction:
I feel like that a lot of the time, though hopefully I am not psychotic. (Also, I like the idea of Stack-like AIs calling you "boss", though these AIs are un-Stack-like in their sycophancy).
Wed Sep 01 2004 08:34 NST8NDT:
From piracy report: " Three robbers boarded a chemical tanker at anchor and demanded money from master. Alert crew repelled robbers and forced them to jump in to their boats. Robbers made makeshift incendiary devices by filling gasoline in glass bottles and threatened to ignite these and throw them on deck. Crew responded by activating fire hoses. Master then heaved up anchor and moved to open sea."
Wed Sep 01 2004 08:52 NST8NDT:
The time he spent writing recipe card holders and hacking Apache to give dumb response codes like 506 Server Hates You.
Fri Sep 03 2004 09:04 NST8NDT:
"These guys have brought the prices down up to 1000% of the recommended retail
prices." Wow, that's amazing!
Fri Sep 03 2004 15:25 NST8NDT naseeb.com - muslim social networks:
"Fortunately, considering the advent of Internet speeds, the process need not take that long and, besides, you are not alone, you have the world's most seasoned transformers on your side."
Fri Sep 03 2004 20:56 NST8NDT Bobby Darin.com: Bob White:
Early trash talk, from an era when birds loved to lord it over humans
Sat Sep 04 2004 07:18 NST8NDT Documentation [Universal Feed Parser]:
Docs complete to the point where you wish they were slightly incomplete, like Royce Hall
Tue Sep 07 2004 08:08 NST8NDT Unqualified Offerings:
Best critique of separation of powers I've ever seen.
Tue Sep 07 2004 10:36 NST8NDT The J2EE(TM) 1.4 Tutorial:
"Today, more and more developers want to write distributed transactional applications for the enterprise and thereby leverage the speed, security, and reliability of server-side technology." Why yes, that's me to a tee!
Tue Sep 07 2004 11:40 NST8NDT Ron Wade Political Campaign Buttons/Pins & Historical Memorabilia:
This is really neat but also kind of creepy (I wonder how much I could get for my Clark stuff?)
Wed Sep 08 2004 08:14 NST8NDT American Prospect Online - ViewWeb:
Intentions over actions part 2 or 3 (this is the politician's stock in trade for campaigning; the problem is that Bush thinks it also works for governing)
Wed Sep 08 2004 12:39 NST8NDT Wired 12.09: Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom:
Very interesting. I thought pebble-bed reactors were already being used but clearly I was wrong and don't know anything.
Wed Sep 08 2004 13:25 NST8NDT Hypothetical Planets:
I never noticed before that looking for hidden planets to explain weirdness in orbits is very similar to the "hidden variables" interpretation of quantum mechanics
Thu Sep 09 2004 07:03 NST8NDT MARC Code List for Languages:
If you think there are too many skinnable MP3 players, whatever you do, don't look at this list of HUMAN LANGUAGES.
Thu Sep 09 2004 11:09 NST8NDT Euro Foo Camp: Simon Wardley - 3D Printing (Phil Gyford: Notes):
"half-remembered story about a wood lathe which you weren’t allowed to make another wood lathing machine with"
Thu Sep 09 2004 11:47 NST8NDT Colophon:
Satisfied customer. Ce site web n'est pas une publication officielle du Collège militaire royal du Canada ni du Ministère de la défense nationale.
Thu Sep 09 2004 12:13 NST8NDT:
New software niche: Ass Management Software, Ass Relationship Management, etc.
Mon Sep 13 2004 14:40 NST8NDT www.mnftiu.cc | home:
Needs to be dadified; great test case for my panel recognition algorithm (which is unstoppable)
Mon Sep 13 2004 15:28 NST8NDT:
average minimum weighted path/average weighted minimum path
Tue Sep 14 2004 07:31 NST8NDT Nuts and Bolts:
This is clever (Oh! And centuries old! Sign me up!)
Tue Sep 14 2004 10:14 NST8NDT Yes, I can even teach you, to draw.:
I guess that 'draw basic shapes and fill them out somehow' thing is really how they do it
Tue Sep 14 2004 14:15 NST8NDT:
Saving from seth: I don't think anybody knows what a public domain dedication should
actually look like. Cory Doctorow has been using the one written by
Creative Commons, which tries hard to make sure the intent of the
dedicator is clear.
I periodically like to remind people that the Copyright Act itself
does not contemplate any means of abandoning or destroying copyrights,
so any sort of public domain dedication is a matter of lay people's or
lawyer's intutions or wild surmise...
Tue Sep 14 2004 19:08 NST8NDT:
This is the UTF-8 document that always makes Seth's advogato import break.
Per me si va ne la città dolente;
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore;
per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Giustizia mosse il mio alto Fattore; fecemi la divina Potestate, la somma Sapienza e 'l primo Amore.
Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create, se non etterne, e io etterno duro: Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch' entrate.
Thu Sep 16 2004 14:22 PST Geosphere:
Rotatable earth in a Java applet
Thu Sep 16 2004 14:58 PST XML Namespaces:
The XML saga: explains why namespaces lead to XML Schema
Fri Sep 17 2004 08:56 PST The Global Puzzle:
I wonder if there are 600 pieces because all the islands of eg. Japan have their own pieces
Tue Sep 21 2004 08:00 PST Turkey City Lexicon:
In case I didn't post it already, a bestiary of SF cliches
Tue Sep 21 2004 08:37 PST:
Jeff was lately slow to respond because he was trying to hide the fact that he was suffering vivid, momentary hallucinations in which the people he knew asked him reasonable-sounding questions.
Tue Sep 21 2004 09:51 PST CoolGov :
Perfect companion to my big-ass feed
Tue Sep 21 2004 13:06 PST benlast: Olivia Newton Coleridge:
Lucis explanation of Ted Nelson and nelson-like phenomena. Rather than correct that typo I have decided that "lucis" is a word: a combination of "lucid" and "precis".
Wed Sep 22 2004 10:45 PST Salon.com Books | Kinky sex secrets of the lobster:
Another explanation for that old picture of fishermen with the enormous lobsters: it's not that lobsters are overfished but that there's now a size limit
Thu Sep 23 2004 08:34 PST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Soda:
Whew, I wasn't making this up. And looking back, everyone reacted just as they were supposed to (including the authors of that entry, and probably me)
Thu Sep 23 2004 11:09 PST:
His favorite thing in the whole world was when two quantities cancelled each other out, even if this happened by definition.
Thu Sep 23 2004 11:34 PST:
I guess what I am saying is, how about you and I collaborate on a project to launch him to Alpha Centauri
i have a better idea
yes?
let's have him develop a project to launch himself to alpha centauri
that will give him something to do
and advance science
and get rid of him
and i won't have to do anything
Thu Sep 23 2004 14:04 PST Snap!:
Eventually people will start implementing my *good* ideas before I get around to it
Fri Sep 24 2004 13:46 PST Welcome to PublicRecordSources.com!:
Nothing makes money like giving access to public documents
Fri Sep 24 2004 14:13 PST OpenTTD:
Pay me to staff these model trains
Mon Sep 27 2004 10:02 PST The Mana World :: Home page:
Oh, I thought "ElvenProgrammer" was a character class in the game
Mon Sep 27 2004 14:49 PST http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/:
Only in my best moments do I have this genius for creating neccessity and then making a virtue of it.
Tue Sep 28 2004 16:54 PST gazingus.org - Anatomy of a Bookmarklet:
Dr. Straub has made a remarkable discovery--but one I feel cannot be published, not yet.
Tue Sep 28 2004 17:01 PST http://serialized.net/pyclouds.py:
Never thought that in my lifetime I'd see anything I understood that had an item to "fix the plasma generator"
Wed Sep 29 2004 09:55 PST IronAngel Forge - Feast Crossbows :
"In the 15th century, it was discovered that these were a bad idea... but now they're back, by popular demand!"
Wed Sep 29 2004 10:04 PST 0x800ccc0d:
All that's missing is someone reading these numbers over the radio
Wed Sep 29 2004 10:06 PST Base conversion method or module :
This is genius. Python's int method takes a second argument which is the base of the string to be converted into an int
Wed Sep 29 2004 11:28 PST Pi-Search:
Finally putting that theorem to good use. Only one thing puzzles me, Holmes; if that formula was published in 1996, how did it end up in the calculus textbook i bought in the summer of 1996?
Wed Sep 29 2004 12:08 PST ESA Portal - Focus On - Massive merger of galaxies is the most powerful on record:
Why is "perfect storm" still a catchphrase? Also, don't look now, but this is also happening to OUR OWN GALAXY.
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