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- So during my lunch outing today I walked through Love Park. Some of you may remember that in June vandals dyed the fountain fuschia, and then the city decided it was a great idea and experimented with a Tidy Bowl blue fountain. At the beginning of the month the city dyed the fountain water bubble gum pink in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From a distance, it's kind of pretty. Up close it looks nasty. |
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- "zello" der nasenformer, in: die woche, nr. 6, 1918; eine weitere anzeige dieses aussergewoehnlichen schoenheitsinstruments (zahnspangen sind nichts dagegen!); |
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java (Oct 22 2003 19:59 GMT) - ... |
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- Anonymous Patron sent us A day in the life of a library techie, reality v. fantasy: It starts like this: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 Perceived day in the life of a techie: 8: |
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- Sandra Henderson writes: "The Australian Parliament has released a major report "The Role of Libraries in the Online Environment". The report can be found here and submissions made to the Senate Committee which produced the report can be found here." |
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- "Vote may be forced on Pickering": The Biloxi Sun Herald today provides this report. |
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- For those of us that want to develop things that others will use, This observation will be useful to take to heart. |
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- Cassandra, your pear is so nice, it's almost exactly like mine, |
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Kassel (Oct 22 2003 19:58 GMT) - I have yet to begin my intended response to the already-innumerable responses to Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction. It's difficult to find the way in. But today's Guardian reinforces my resolve to find a way. We're told ā we need to be told ā |
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- The number of women and minorities in the legal profession has risen sharply in 30 years, but white men still are far more likely to become partners in major law firms, the government says in a report due out Wednesday. |
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- Guess the fake headline. Win a link to Dancing Hillary. Man cuts off penis to get sympathy from creditors Teacher... |
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RSS Weather (Oct 22 2003 19:57 GMT) - Wow.. Het weer in Nederland in RSS .. RSS weather beta :: r-win ::... |
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RSS Weather (Oct 22 2003 19:57 GMT) - Wow.. Het weer in Nederland in RSS .. RSS weather beta :: r-win ::... |
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- So wie's aussieht, werde ich nun doch nicht nach München fahren - dafür halte ich mir Ende Jänner frei... |
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- ComicsOne has announced that they have licensed the fan-service friendly Junk Force and will be releasing the first volume in January 2004. |
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Compie (Oct 22 2003 19:57 GMT) - Ik had een raar probleem: telkens als ik langer dan uur een spel speelde op mijn laptop ( enemy territory dus) dan viel hij pardoes uit. Opsturen dus die handel. Vandaag kreeg ik hem terug (ik had erbij vermeld dat ze maar eens een uurtje moesten spelen...) maar ... |
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Nextbook (Oct 22 2003 19:56 GMT) - Nextbook is a new "daily cultural news digest with links to stories and reviews, and annotated reading lists to help readers discover important works of Jewish literature and nonfiction." |
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- It has been taboo for more than 500 years. But from fcuk to Four Weddings and a Funeral, the f-word has become so commonplace it now seems acceptable in everyday conversation. Is it no longer obscene? And if it isn't, what is? Guardian reporter Jonathan Margolis investigates: |
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- Supershpere covers things you aren't supposed to see, 24 hours a day, all the time. Supersphere reflects an emerging digital environment, complete with the works, words, and projects of filmmakers, writers, artists, designers, musicians, DJs, cultural workers, activists, and media entities across the spectrum of non-mass media. |
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- An excellent puzzle game involving connecting rockets to their fuzes -- similar to a "line up the train tracks" game, but with PopCap's signature twist. One of the best games of its type that I've played in a long time, and very easy to get into. |
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fun (Oct 22 2003 19:55 GMT) - I love this picture. |
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- Kevin McGeehee has nothing to say at all.... |
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- You think you're having a bad day? At least you're not this guy. [links to a .wmv video] Got this off of www.ebaumsworld. |
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- curbing illicit small arms trade focus in disarmament committee, as eight draft texts introduced |
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- secretary-general says steps will be taken to ensure early implementation of recommendations of independent panel on staff security in iraq |
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- Slapped with a libel suit by the notorious adware company, a Web site pulls pages that called Gator's program "spyware." Will the suit cause critics of Gator-like software to zip their lips? |
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- A home-brew supercomputer, assembled from off-the-shelf personal computers in just one month, is about to be ranked as one of the fastest machines in the world.The New York Times... |
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- Is Free Wi-Fi seeing returns? ... 6 comments so far |
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- Lack of security a spammer's best friend ... 40 comments so far |
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- Is the FCC lost out in left field? ... 18 comments so far |
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- Loses battle in Georgia, at least for now ... 61 comments so far |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - "Enhanced system management capabilities, better security, support for third-party drivers and more unity among the various distributions top user wish lists when it comes to Linux..."... |
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- Hmm...this phone comes with both a mono headset and a stereo headset. Which teased me into thinking that the phone, plus a large SD card, would make an awesome MP3 player. However, using the stereo headset, the sound quality leaves something to be desired. There's pretty much no bass response whatsoever. |
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- Eric Steven Raymond has posted the complete text of his latest book, The Art of Unix Programming. While I am definitely going to buy this book, I know that I will spend hours walking through my snarphed copy.The Internet technical... |
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- They hurt going down, and probably coming back out. |
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- I'm usually always amazed at where I show up in Google rankings for certain keywords. More often then not, people searching for extremely bizarre things end up here, and I get a real kick at looking at my server's log files for Google hits. A while back, I figured out a way to isolate just the Google hits into a log file, and when I recently rebuilt my webserver, completely lost that trick. I will document it here so I never forget again. First off, I only know how to do this in Apache 1. |
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- National Review outdoes The Onion on this one! The smart and usually sane (for a believing supply-sider, that is) Bruce Bartlett goes off the deep end with an enormous SPLASH!!!!, and in the process demonstrates that his comparative advantage is not Bible commentary. He argues that the estate tax makes the Baby Jesus cry, and that Jesus was the first supply-sider, acknowledging "the value of wealthy people to society as a whole": Bruce Bartlett on the Estate Tax on NRO Financial: |
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