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- And now for a contrarian take on the flash mob phenomenon... Anil Dash, the VP of Business Development at SixApart, thinks that flash mobs are a trend whose time has come -- and gone: Mobs are truly the flagpole-sitting of the new millennium. As Joshua astutely observed, Flash Mobs are striking in that they are an affinity event for people who have no affinity group. A Meetup for people who like Meetups. |
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Java Poop (Aug 12 2003 21:59 GMT) - Java Poop. As captured by phonecam on my lunchtime trip to Powell's technical bookstore. |
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Fotos (Aug 12 2003 21:59 GMT) - Hab eben im Fotokarton gewühlt, alte Fotos angeschaut. Warum habe ich so oft die falschen Sachen fotografiert? |
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- Iomega Introduces New 2.5-Inch Removable Hard Disk Format This sounds like a real loser. Will you really trust 35 gigabytes of your data to the company that brought you the "click of death"? They're aiming this at the "server backup market," apparently: While pricing for drives and cartridges will be announced closer to release time, the company said the expected cost will be about half that of a comparable tape solution. |
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- Google's ranking algorithm takes into account much more than just the infamous PageRank. In fact, they claim to use over 100 factors in determining the order of results returned for each query made. The specific features and weightings that go into this calculation are the special sauce that makes Google so wonderful. One of my jobs recently has been to explain to various branches in the Division of STD Prevention here at the CDC the meaning of their rankings, and how to structure their site to be most effectively indexed by engines like Google. For example, I was posed with the question of why a searches for different STDs show the Division pages at different rankings: |
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FCC Lunacy (Aug 12 2003 21:58 GMT) - The Federal Communications Commission's equal time provision is stupid, if you ask me. Films and television shows featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and other celebrity candidates in California's gubernatorial recall election will likely not be broadcast in the state for the next few months so that stations can avoid having to give rival candidates equal time. The airing of "Total Recall" or another Schwarzenegger film, or a repeat of a " |
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- Freddy vs. Jason 2. No, that's not the good rumor. The good rumor is, bringing Ash from Evil Dead 2 in to referee, or something. Admit it. |
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- Dat er stroom tekort is weten we, maar ik wist niet dat ze daar geen openheid van zaken hoeven te geven. Volgens dit stuk van anp zegt aanbieder Essent over een uitgevallen centrale: "Uit concurrentieoverwegingen doen wij nooit mededelingen over individuele centrales of eenheden.'' Nou, daar zijn we lekker mee. |
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- Some folk unlock their car door before stepping out of their car. Other, unlock their door as they make their... |
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- [5 mentions.] Paperback, 28 February, 2002 |
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- Pixel artists are sigular folks. They straddle both modern graphics techniques with retro-style artwork and resolutions. There's just something very clean and good about 8 bit graphics :) Anyway, check out this artist's great work - I hope this person get's a nice job doing CRPG's or something. --- Note: |
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- Here's an interesting Isometric RPG which is looking for playtesters right now. The RPG is called ANITO: Defend a Land Enraged. It reminds me of a Diablo-style RPG with some graphics enhancement. Note: |
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- Here's a great way to keep up to date on happenings at Macromedia. This is a rss reader embedded in a web page which you can use to track various MM blogs. Nice UI. |
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- When you find out why the big price difference please let |
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- frugalprincess, I agree 100% with what you posted. I just posted something |
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- rv, Michael-ish seems to be Michael |
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The Mentors (Aug 12 2003 21:55 GMT) - Please do not dispute |
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- THE OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION is making clear that civil rights laws don't support speech codes on campus: Some colleges and universities have interpreted OCR's prohibition of "harassment" as encompassing all offensive speech regarding sex, disability, race or other classifications. Harassment, however, to be prohibited... |
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- THE OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION is making clear that civil rights laws don't support speech codes on campus: Some colleges and universities have interpreted OCR's prohibition of "harassment" as encompassing all offensive speech regarding sex, disability, race or other classifications. Harassment, however, to be prohibited... |
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- I've been busy packing away stuff out of one of the bedrooms so we can actually start using it again.... |
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- As county officials are warning of major problems in staging the vote, a total of 247 people have filed candidacy papers for the Oct. 7 recall election, the secretary of state said Tuesday. |
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- An Internet-borne infection incapacitated tens of thousands of computers on Tuesday, snarling company networks and frustrating home users as it spread across the globe. |
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- Scott Peterson's defense team has taken tissue samples from the bodies of Laci Peterson and her unborn son, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department. |
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- The University of New Hampshire community wants police to find out who is snipping off the clothes of female students while they sleep. |
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- A Redwood City man is set to be arraigned today on charges he used an elaborate camera rig to videotape up women's skirts. |
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- Five people were hospitalized and 10 to 15 others were sickened after eating a batch of spoiled fish at a dinner in Marin County. |
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- Bulletins are being posted nationwide for missing Redding woman Heather Marie Carpenter. |
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- A possible arson fire at a local church this morning has caused an estimated $175,000 in damage, according to Pleasant Hill fire officials. |
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- Phil Wolff: "a klog apart: The syndicated blogosphere will reach 300 million feeds in 3 years" covers the basic architectural scaling issues related to widespread adoption of RSS. Polling a single site can't last forever. New protocols for publish, subscribe,... |
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- Buena Vista announce a rental release for The Hot Chick |
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- Why do I have the feeling that Nerd Wrangler will be on the next T-shirt offered by PvP?... |
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E Idol (Aug 12 2003 21:53 GMT) - Another Swall creation - Do you think he's trying to tell me something ;-)... |
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MBSA (Aug 12 2003 21:53 GMT) - MBSA or Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer is a great tool which is necessary for all sysadmins. It uses the HFNetChk tool technology to scan for missing security updates and service packs for Windows, IE, IIS, SQL, Exchange, and Windows Media... |
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- While Blaster worm is discovering vulnerable windows machines as fast as possible, I did what I had to do very long time ago, and it was blocking NetBios in our network border: edge#show access-list forbid Extended IP access list forbid... |
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- I was heard of Intel's HyperThreading technology, but I didn't know what exactly is it, before I receive our brand new SuperMicro Dual Xeon server. It was equipped with two Intel 2.2Ghz Xeon Processor, packet in a two unit chassis.... |
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My Heroes (Aug 12 2003 21:53 GMT) - These guys are my heroes: - Jon Postel of ISI - Steve Jobs of Apple - Bill Gates of Microsoft - Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems... |
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- An open letter to sun, that complaints about their reaction on security incidents: More than most times, I usually cannot find a single thing on Sunsolve referencing the latest security threats (using a paid support account with access to all... |
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- Dealing with printing in Unix is fun. Especially when you need to print a PDF document from your FreeBSD desktop to a shared HP LaserJet printer on a Windows XP machine behind NAT router! In this special case you should... |
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- Spammers' new trick: Sign your mail with PGP and most of spam filtering programs (like SpamAssassin) will not recognize it. This way spammers make sure that you receive their mails. Technically speaking, spam filter programs consider signed messages as authticated... |
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- I didn't know that MovableType is already in FreeBSD ports collection! You can find it at /usr/ports/www/MT Its cool! just get into its directory and type make. and you will have a complete MovableType installed on your system. Highly recommended.... |
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Experience (Aug 12 2003 21:53 GMT) - Seen this on someones email signature: "experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones." Truth... |
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- This new Cisco IOS bug was not too dangerous itself. The emergency upgrade process was more dangerous. I am sure there was many long time outages during internet reboot night. People were upgrading all their routers, especially when the exploit... |
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