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Friday Five (Apr 18 2003 23:59 GMT) - Normally only squishy diarybloggers do this sort of thing, but both Acidman and Venomous Kate posted today's so I think it's safe to without being considered a wuss ;-) 1. Who is your favorite celebrity? Jackie Chan. He has Real... |
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- I'm impressed so far. Especially, I like the pull-quotes, but the links, the design, the leanings and some of the... |
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Dial-A-Cam (Apr 18 2003 23:59 GMT) - malloci writes "CNet has this article describing Nokia's new wireless camera. Unlike other webcams though, it is designed to communicate via a GSM network, ... |
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- Salon: The secret society. Under Attorney General John Ashcroft, America is becoming an Orwellian state where people are locked up and no one can find out why -- least of all a compliant Congress. [Salon] |
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- I have two boys playing ultra-violent video games in the Crackerbox and I just dosed them both with caffiene-saturated Mountain... |
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- [via Philip Greenspun]: A wired article: The Lab That Fell to Earth. Quote:The house that Negroponte built is dealing with a nasty postboom hangover. |
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- Having just barely survived a near-deadly encounter with the worst case of the trots in Imperial Memory (and our Imperial... |
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- ..following through on that last post was just thinking about people giving off electronic signatures and thinking about muggers electronically sniffing people to see if they've got anything worth stealling mmmmm 80211.g |
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- A few things are happening at the minute in my life. I've been to various marches against the war, I've been writing on my blog and I've been reading more widely. The combination of these things is leading me to discover an... |
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New blog (Apr 18 2003 23:55 GMT) - There's a lefty feller called Darren that sends me some very polite and thoughtful e-mails from time to time (polite... |
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- Misha may be a bit more 'colorful' than I usually feel is appropriate for us here but he is SPOT ON 100% GRADE "A" CORRECT in his screed on what... |
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- The WNBA and its players' association reached an agreement in principle for a new five-year contract, but the league said there were still issues to be negotiated. By The Associated Press. |
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- A nuclear reactor in Texas is leaking cooling water from the bottom of its giant reactor vessel, a development that experts view with concern. By Matthew L. Wald. |
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Good Move (Apr 18 2003 23:54 GMT) - National Baseball Hall of Fame - Statement - April 11, 2003 Dale Petroskey is apologizing for being a Big Dummy.... |
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But not yet (Apr 18 2003 23:54 GMT) - US comes out against ridding the Middle East of WMDs. Film at 11. Yeah, I'm simplifying. But not much. Syria... |
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PDF U 1.2 (Apr 18 2003 23:54 GMT) - PDF U allows users to easily activate the PDF services menu in OS X 10.2.4 and higher. Release notes: Added a new feature to only copy the scripts to a currently existing PDF Services folder. |
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PDF U 1.2 (Apr 18 2003 23:54 GMT) - PDF U allows users to easily activate the PDF services menu in OS X 10.2.4 and higher. Release notes: Added a new feature to only copy the scripts to a currently existing PDF Services folder. |
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- Zwan's Pajo & Paz have a livejournal... |
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More on VSS (Apr 18 2003 23:53 GMT) - From the comments of my VSS blog entry: Title: re: VSS Name: Anon Posted Date: |
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- Well, it hasn't been weekly, but I'll try. Hardened Veterans are an incredibly versatile unit. They are a match in most areas for the versatility of the Black Templars Squad, and in some ways even more versatile. With a BS... |
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- Well, it hasn't been weekly, but I'll try. Hardened Veterans are an incredibly versatile unit. They are a match in most areas for the versatility of the Black Templars Squad, and in some ways even more versatile. With a BS... |
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- What's about IE7 or few thoughts about browsers in coma... errr... in maintenance mode. : SlavoF's WebLog Also linked are some thoughts on Mozilla/Netscape's future, I find it incredibly funny that the next major NS release is codenamed "Buffy".... |
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- Planning for the Next Cyberwar Wired - Buoyed by its decisive win in Iraq, the Pentagon is betting billions that the information technology system that helped defeat Saddam Hussein will evolve into a more potent weapon than cluster bombs and howitzers. Department of Defense futurists call it network-centric warfare. Other military strategists simply refer to it as the digital war. The first Gulf War was analog, they say. This one was digital. |
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- Went to Churchgate along with my brother and cousin sis. They bought some stuff from FS, I looked like an escort to them :-) It's a pain walking in this oh, so hot weather. In the evening we spent some time at Marine Drive. I was car-gazing all the while; |
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- But don’t think too hard. Because Nature’s already done it for you.... |
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Symphony (Apr 18 2003 23:51 GMT) - Yesterday, my hipster-friend Ray happened to have an extra ticket to the symphony. And he was kind enough to... |
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- Fried in oil, that is! I was attempting to join a secret cabal (go figure), but in order to... |
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- I heard an interview with cellist Yo-yo Ma yesterday on National Public Radio. He was discussing how the clash of... |
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- As I sit here at the Mercuriosity Shop I am surrounded by many projects both possible and actual. There are... |
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- Immediately one of these arms slid like a serpent down the opening and twenty others were above. With one blow... |
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- I was going to save this story for next Christmas, but I had an insistent request from an ingenue I... |
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- The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies. —Basil O’Connor... |
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- Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange... |
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- And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that... |
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Ocean Sea (Apr 18 2003 23:51 GMT) - Though the weather has been cold and damp here at the Mercuriosity Shop, it is the weather that suits... |
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Veil of Fog (Apr 18 2003 23:51 GMT) - The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then... |
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- Or should I say, very futuristic art. At least this is what everybody thought back in the late 1950s. An... |
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- Who doesn’t enjoy looking at very old art? Let me restate that. I enjoy looking at very old art. And... |
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March Hares (Apr 18 2003 23:51 GMT) - Feed your head. —Jefferson AirplaneMarch is here, and spring will be springing up soon at the Mercuriosity Shop! To... |
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- PHP 4.3 added the ability (ok, it's been there earlier than 4.3, but now it's built by default) to invoke PHP from the command line. Now, not only can you invoke PHP from the command line, but you can also writes scripts that are executable from the command line like you can in Perl. For example, the following simple script saved in a text file with its executable bit set: |
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- Every day Julie asks if I can bring her by the pet shop and every day I say no. This... |
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- Get your groove on: Don't just listen to music, FEEL it! Audi-Oh (TM) is a revolution in stimulation technology for men or women. Sound is converted into infinitely variable pulses of pleasure. Audi-Oh* can use ambient sound, like the music in your favorite club, or direct audio input from devices such as portable CD players, MP3 players, your PC or home audio and video systems. |
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- The Doc Searls talks a bit about GlobeAlive. A new idea in search engine technology. Instead of searching for static content, you search for experts on a given topic, then ask them questions in real time. I gave it a quick try and thought the experience interesting but I have to wonder about the scalability in terms of volunteers and... |
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- Wired Magazine examines the new statistical trend - the well distribution - It's like the normal / gaussian distribution turned... |
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- Tim Robbins has discovered that he's being oppressed by the VRWC. Crap! Our cover's blown!... |
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- Garbage in, black gold out Imagine a machine that can turn almost any waste product into light crude oil: used computers, animal carcasses, tires, household garbage, you name it. In fact, according to an enthusiastic article in Discover, such a machine has just been made. And it's not the proverbial mad scientist who makes wild claims, it is a project supported by both private and public serious investors, and a prototype is being demonstrated. |
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salzamt (Apr 18 2003 23:48 GMT) - 19.04.2003, 00:48h CET |
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- Sometimes it's useful to write short introductions to long essays, rather than blogging an entire essay on the main page of a weblog. A good case might be a weblog-based home page for a small consultancy, where short news items and intros are used to keep content updated, with links to the more detailed stories for those who are interested. Writing useful introductions can sometimes be a challenge. In journalism it's called the "head-deck-story" structure -- you try to inform at each level while successively providing more detail. James Robertson points to a very helpful article on Blurbs that includes explanation, instruction, and examples of both good and bad usage. |
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- And what a simplistic mess it is. No security. No way to have titles for posts. No way to have categories for posts. I guess the first guy on the block often does win, because this thing is awful |
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- Smalltalk Solutions 2003 Announces Show Committee and Keynote SpeakersCARY, North Carolina April 18, 2003 - The Smalltalk Industry Council (STIC) is proud to announce the conference committee for Smalltalk Solutions 2003. Smalltalk Solutions is the premier forum for Smalltalk users, developers, and enthusiasts. This year's conference will be held on July 14-16 in Toronto, Canada. Please direct your questions and comments about this year's show to the appropriate conference chairperson: Conference ChairpersonAllen Davis, Knowledge Systems Corp. |
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