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- Pat M. Holt's CSMonitor Column takes quite a swipe at Attorney General John Ashcroft, saying he's running a dead heat with A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney general in the Wilson administration, for the distinction of being the worst in that job in the history of the United States. In Chicago Warning of civil liberties abuses similar to those that preceded the Holocaust, the City Council on Wednesday approved a watered-down resolution urging repeal of portions of the USA Patriot Act. More Here. |
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- I found this new resource by accident at one of my favorite technical book publisher's website: http://wireless.oreilly.com/ You can find lots of free information there as well as information from O'Reilly's great books. |
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- From WiFi Networking News: "Rob Flickenger's latest book, Wireless Hacks, has been out for a few weeks and I wanted to share my delight with the title. I have the privilege of having been asked to write the foreword, and so read the book completely a few weeks ago. Here's what I wrote: s my wife likes to remind me, I'm an early adopter. |
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- "Plug the HotPoint wireless routers into wall outlets around your building. In about 2 minutes, the flat boxes power up, activate their Wi-Fi WLAN radios (either 802.11b or 802.11g), and automatically create a wireless mesh network. The mesh acts as a dynamic wireless backhaul: |
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- Anna writes "Norwegian Board of Film Classification (NBFC) is clearing its archives of 90 years worth of banned films, including On Deadly Ground (1994) with Steven Seagal. "Many of these films were banned in different times. Historically there was an emphasis on moral criteria in censorship. Today professional criteria have become more important for the classifiers."" |
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- Here's A Really Neat "Ask Slashdot" feature on how much we rely on the good 'ol Net for our daily dose of news and knowledge. I've gradually abandoned almost all other sources of news, to the point where TV, magazines and news papers have pretty much disappeared from my life, but unlike the Slashdot guy, I still get a fair amount of "Information" from books. He's got a good question, and there are some really Good Answers at Slahsdot, but I'm curious about the LISNewsterz... "Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge?" From his post: |
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- Steve Fesenmaier writes "PBS' Nova series broadcast one of the most interesting investigations into a lost book I have ever seen. Archimedes wrote a book on his "Methods." For hundreds of years the book was lost, reused by medieval monks. Recently it was sold for millions to an unnamed billionaire. Researchers are discovering that Archimedes knew much more about infinity than anyone believed. |
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- If you're one of the millions of fans of Jessamyn West's Librarian.net, and you're worried sick because librarian.net [As seen in the NY Times!] doesn't seem to be working, just relax... The rarin' librarian is having some DNS issues, and has a temporary site parked at ibiblio. |
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- The Washington Post has a Nice Profile of Edith Davis, kiosk manager of The public library near a busy intersection in Northeast Washington, DC. Davis officially retired yesterday, after having worked for the D.C. Public Library system since 1986. "It's time," she said, "to move on. |
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- PC Magazine on Web Services,. If you doubt that web services have hit the mainstream, consider that the venerable PC Magazine October 1, 2003 issue cotains a full 10 print pages on the topic. And that's out of an issue that's only 150 pages total. [Blogarithms] |
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- You Just Know It's going to be a bad day when you wake up and see this out of your bedroom window: File under Stuff That Don't Fit Anywhere Else. |
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- Ballpark's moldy roof home to potpourri of organisms It's a roof..no, it's a petri dish...no, it's a pencillin factory. Actually, the roof on Minute Maid Park seems to be all of those things. Whatever the problem is, it's butt-ugly, and it's not getting any better. |
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- Google results for related articles of Sun's troubles at the current climate What I do not like are these analysts.... |
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- A man has thrown a grenade into a mosque in the Philippines, killing four people and wounding at least 17. The attack, in the town of Midsayap in the southern Philippines, is believed to have been motivated by a personal... |
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- Quand un journal veut changer la France : c'est le sous-titre du livre que publie Bernard Poulet, rédacteur en chef à l'Expansion (1). Un livre de plus sur le Monde, dira-t-on. Sauf que celui-ci se concentre sur la «face visible» du quotidien, comme le souligne l'auteur. |
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- Je suis au désespoir.Comme je suis complètement camée au joueb, je viens chercher mes doses tout au long de la journée. Avide de commentaires, LaMuche.Mais elle a beau autoriser les commentaires, rien n y fait.Y a que les blablas qui fonctionnent. |
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- Pour continuer notre exploration du code, on ne va pas procéder de façon linéaire. aujourd'hui, on va plutôt analyser rapidement les blocs les moins importants à savoir, le bloc titre, celui du menu principal (celui situé sous le titre) et le pied de page. Il restera ainsi plus que deux gros morceaux: celui contenant les blocs définissables et celui contenant les articles. |
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- juste une petite anecdote parisienne. |
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- Sweden's PM appoints former justice minister Laila Freivalds to replace the assassinated foreign minister. |
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- The World Bank says $56bn will be needed over the next three years to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure and oil industry. |
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- Pressure mounts for reform of Kenya's judicial system as a newspaper publishes a list of what it costs to bribe a judge. |
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- Cuba says that from next April Cubans living abroad will no longer need to apply for a visa to visit the island. |
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- I came across an article about the Cherokee Nation of Mexico, of which I had never heard of before, in today's issue of the Times-Picayune (New Orleans newspaper). In that article, Jahtlohi Rogers, leader of the Mexican Cherokees mentions the generosity of the people of New Orleans in the 18th and 19th centuries: When Rogers talks about our people and our city, he gushes. For him, the same spirit that led New Orleanians to take in the Cherokees in 1839 still pervades the city... He thinks this generosity of spirit has its roots in our multiracial character. |
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- NANOPANTS get a favorable review from Consumer Reports. Guess I'd better buy some.... |
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- NANOPANTS get a favorable review from Consumer Reports. Guess I'd better buy some.... |
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- Yesterday, the Half-Life 2 source code was leaked (all 100 MB of it). Today comes the news from Valve that the leaked version is indeed the real thing, and that the leak was almost certainly the result of keystroke recorders installed remotely on Valve machines using a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. [Simon Willison's Weblog] Here is concrete evidence that being dependent on Microsoft software can have direct, negative consequences for your organization. For public companies, this means that if you have standardized on Microsoft software, you're being negligent in your fiduciary responsibilities to your shareholders. If you have a major security breach, your shareholders should sue you. |
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- Peters geplante Oldie-WG bringt IG-Metall-Chef in Bedrängnis |
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- Der schwedische Regierungschef Persson hat die frühere Justizministerin Freivalds zur Nachfolgerin der ermordeten Außenministerin Lindh berufen. Lindh war vor drei Wochen in einem Stockholmer Kaufhaus niedergestochen worden. |
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- :: "3G" is "dead" :: I typed the above keywords into Google and found a lot of entries. That didn't surprise me. But, after reading a few of them I found that they essentially said the same thing. The problem is that nowhere was I able find a definition of “ |
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- The European Space Agency has launched a satellite, named SMART 1, toward the moon, Sunday, 28 September, 2003. This will be their first moon mission. This is also their first attempt at using ion drive propulsion for a spacecraft.... |
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- This week's featured content is the portal of community-based urban design at CharretteCenter.net. The site includes resources and articles, all carrying Creative Commons licenses, to help the planning and construction of future urban areas. [Creative Commons: weblog] |
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Tufte (Oct 03 2003 11:54 GMT) - Yesterday I attended one of the regularly given Edward Tufte seminars. It was an interesting day spent looking at design... |
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Keen (Oct 03 2003 11:54 GMT) - Steam is a handy little tool for OS X. It downloads (and maintains) schedules from the BBC's various radio channels,... |
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- the friday five 1. What vehicle do you drive? One very lovely 19932003 Mini Cooper S 2. How long have you had it? Since the first week of April 2003. |
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- Who's Who in Musicals great listing (data base) if you lik musicals.... |
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- It's seems it is fashionable now to ditch Internet Explorer in favor of Mozilla Firebird. I had used Phoenix (as it was formerly known) but felt it was clunky, slow and ugly. While it displayed webpages as well as Mozilla, the user experience was not that good, and the UI lacked some polish. I decided a few days ago to give it a whirl again, and it has surprised me very favorably. Its faster now, the default theme is very nice and has some features that make me give some consideration to the idea of suplanting IE as the default browser: |
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