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- The new current Temple schedule is here: http://www. livejournal. com/users/azurelunatic/2369643 html |
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- Captain Pete landed in Georgia at 5:45 AM today. That means my brother's Iraq tour is officially over. To celebrate, check out the Bath Party's homepage. |
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- If anyone in the Philadelphia area is interested in seeing Howard Dean speak, there will be a Dean rally today starting at the 4pm at the Independence Visitor Center lawn. Dean will speak at around 5pm. I was really excited about seeing him speak but then on this morning's news I heard that the Town Hall meeting with a couple of Democratic candidates is not open to the public. But, as usual, I confused myself. The two things are separate, even though Dean will be speaking at the Town Hall meeting as well. |
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- Today, the maps may read Washington Square Park, but for the better part of a century, this well-manicured plot of grass on Chicago’s Near North Side was once known as Bughouse Square, the city’s preeminent forum for free speech. At Bughouse Square, all forms of human miscellany—from anarchists to academics, poets to prostitutes, crooks to clergymen— |
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- Remember this posting entitled Sod's Law, which I posted after sending a begging email to my old university. I got... |
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- I mentioned data: URLs a while back, and said I'd written a special script to generate them easily. To celebrate the fact that Opera's latest beta supports data: URLs, something which is proving a massive help in terms of testing the product (data: URLs are an incredibly powerful tool for rapid prototyping), I've added a couple of features to the aforementioned script. |
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- This series of picture was taken on top of the Metro Tower. It shows the buildings and parks in the Xujiahui Area - one of the central business districts in Shanghai. Below: The Xujiahui Residential Area. In my previous article of Hand-Made Map of Shanghai, I said "Xujiahui is the most romantic area of the city. |
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- Mean ol' Tim of Timatolla sent me word of another Florida blog I haven't seen before, Anger Management Course from south Florida, the Jenson Beach area, I assume. Been up for a year now. Politics, economics, coding, surfing and Floridalia. |
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- IBM gets AS/400 running on PSone, according to The Register. |
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- IBM gets AS/400 running on PSone, according to The Register. |
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- Help? What IS moissanite, is it a natural stone or created, I |
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- Sega prepara novo game para PS2 e um animê, produzido pela Madhouse, está à caminho!... |
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- The paid-search company will set up a subsidiary in Australia to tap the growing commercial search market there. |
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- The other site, though, set off a lot of alarm bells for me. |
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- Open-source search: Navigation and discovery are important parts of the network. There are some great engines out there, but in many cases there's a need to roll-your-won too. This is the task Nutch attempts to solve.... |
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- The US appeals against a ruling that its steel tariffs are in breach of international trade rules. |
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- In a status report on the success rate of Bayesian spam filters, Paul Graham suggests a new technique: download the text of each URL in an e-mail and check it with Bayesian techniques. He writes: ... following all the urls in a spam would have an amusing side-effect. |
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- The GAA are set to bank E2m after Sunday's All-Ireland SHC semi-final draw between Cork and Wexford with over 60,000 expected to turn out for the replay next weekend. |
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- The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P10 5-megapixel digital camera fell to $436.05 with free shipping at Amazon.com. That's $63 off and the lowest price on...(more) |
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- Broderbund's WillWriter 2002 is back in stock at software-blowouts.com for $14.95. Apply coupon code " |
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- The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P10 5-megapixel digital camera fell to $436.05 with free shipping at Amazon.com. That's $63 off and the lowest price on...(more) |
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- software-blowouts.com offers PrintScreen Deluxe 4.0 with EZ Macros 4.0 for $6.65, the lowest price we've seen by $2. |
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- Broderbund's WillWriter 2002 is back in stock at software-blowouts.com for $14.95. Apply coupon code " |
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Connect 4 (Aug 11 2003 14:54 GMT) - While we were vacationing at the "Rock Hill" villa in Silver Sands, I discovered the game "Connect 4". All of these villas have board games and cards and things like that for the people staying there to amuse themselves, but... |
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- This whole "Anglican Gay Bishop" thing is arguably the most interesting thing happening in the church today... Its exciting stuff, man!Personally, I don't think that the Episcopalian church should have voted the Robinson fellow in for the Bishop position, because... |
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- The University Of Chicago Kicking-Tail Again! found on The New York Times (Registration Required)written by chiaboy, edited by John (Plastic) [ read unedited ]posted 2 hours, 12 minutes ago "The NY Times offers an interesting profile of economist Steven Levitt," chiaboy writes. "He wants answers to questions not typically asked by economists. For instance: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? |
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- The University Of Chicago Kicking-Tail Again! found on The New York Times (Registration Required)written by chiaboy, edited by John (Plastic) [ read unedited ]posted 2 hours, 12 minutes ago "The NY Times offers an interesting profile of economist Steven Levitt," chiaboy writes. "He wants answers to questions not typically asked by economists. For instance: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? |
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