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Some Quickies. Lots of 'em. Something for everyone.
URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000184.html
Date: 2002-09-19T21:59:17-08:00
It appears that hfb has an evil toilet. It's a good thing that Josh never met
it. She also found some amusing lines to use at work. I could use a few of
those myself. It's not like we didn't...
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Keeping up with The Sims: Managing Large Scale Game Content
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-3,7506698,159/
Date: 2002-09-04T02:10:04+01:00
With project budgets in the multiple millions of dollars and virtually no
margin for error, more and more development teams are under tremendous pressure
to come out on top of the entertainment software market's cutthroat
competition. No team manager wants to contemplate dropping the ball when
creating the vivid graphics necessary to help make a game a success. Electronic
Arts' The Sims franchise is an excellent example of this pressurized situation.
This article highlights the critical issues that govern the high volume asset
production needed for today's most demanding games.
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Lonely iguana discovered in Salford
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8279860,215/
Date: 2002-09-26T15:44:55+01:00
*The Northerner:* Subscribe to our free email round-up of the best of the
northern English press.
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kitty wants to play "eat your head"
URL: http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=59390
Date: Not supplied
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=59390
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Self-denial of the literary sort
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8263548,215/
Date: 2002-09-26T04:32:57+01:00
*Books:* Fay Weldon may have opted to be writer in residence at the Savoy Hotel
in London, but Will Self has chosen a different kind of residency.
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Phoenix Suns owner dons dreadlocks to help sell tickets
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8274142,1717/
Date: 2002-09-26T12:27:20+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/sbb.gif ([Sports by Brooks])]
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Whatever-Dude.com Needs $300 Quick to Get Their Freed from their ISP
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8264811,1717/
Date: 2002-09-26T05:19:10+01:00
(whatever-dude)
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Haunted Mansion movie inches forward
URL: http://boingboing.net/#85497407
Date: Not supplied
Disney's put up a little brochureware site about its forthcoming (and very
exciting!) film based on the Haunted Mansion ride, a followup to the Country
Bears movie (I may be the only adult in the world who enjoyed that one). All
that's there now is a downlaodable poster, which is pretty keen, except for
this supercillious bit of legal crapola you have to click through to get at it.
[IMG: http://www.craphound.com/images/hmsign.jpg] Disney Pictures hereby
grants you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable, one-year royalty free
license to use and display the Images on your site in accordance with the
terms below. Nothing herein by implication or otherwise, shall grant you
any rights other than as explicitly set forth below.
You shall receive HTML code and GIF file (the "Files") from Disney Pictures
to incorporate the Images into your site. You agree not to modify the Files
in any way. Acceptance and use of the Files indicates acceptance of these
terms of use. If you do not accept these terms of use, you must not use or
display the Files. This license will commence when you receive the Files
and will terminate automatically, one year later, or immediately upon any
violation of these terms of use. Also, we reserve the right to terminate
this license at any time, in our sole discretion, upon notice to you.
Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Amanda[3]!_)
[1] http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/hauntedmansion/index.html
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/rbEFbqvNpUSV
[3] http://monkeygirl.blogspot.com/
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Rats' intestines and pigs' teeth
URL: http://boingboing.net/#85497383
Date: Not supplied
This is the headline of the month, possibly the year: "Doctors Grow Pig Teeth
in Rat Intestines." Do we even need to read the story to understand it? It's
like a freaking _haiku_ of near-singularity, future-shocky wonderment!
U.S. doctors said on Thursday they have managed to grow living pig teeth in
rats, a feat of biotechnology that experts said could spark a dental
revolution.
Researchers at Boston's Forsyth Institute said their successful experiment
suggests the existence of dental stem cells, which could one day allow a
person to replace a lost tooth with an identical one grown from his or her
own cells.
"The ability to identify, isolate and propagate dental stem cells to use in
biological replacement tooth therapy has the potential to revolutionize
dentistry," said Dominick DePaola, president and CEO of the institute that
focuses on oral and facial science.
Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Dave[3]!_)
[1] http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=1&cid=585&u=/nm/20020926/sc_nm/health_teeth_dc
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/88cUs6CumjiX
[3] http://www.remtullaeurorscg.com
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Japanese kids spend a day in school jumping in the swimming pool
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8305901,1717/
Date: 2002-09-27T09:52:32+01:00
(The Japan Times)
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Ugly-ass, rare baby rhino born in Australian zoo )
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8294463,1717/
Date: 2002-09-27T00:42:17+01:00
(Some albino rhino)
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Luggage falls from plane onto Salvation Army scattering used
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8293089,1717/
Date: 2002-09-26T23:40:19+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/abcnews.gif ([ABC News])]
| 0 |
Skateboarder drives-through Subway. With his face
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8296987,1717/
Date: 2002-09-27T02:45:51+01:00
(DeKalb Daily Chronicle)
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Hollywood out of crack, has started smoking tiling grout: "Grease 3"
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8288879,1717/
Date: 2002-09-26T20:37:17+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/aicn.gif ([AintItCoolNews])]
| 0 |
Yoga & Painfree Bliss
URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/26.html
Date: 2002-09-26T16:16:43-08:00
Last week my hands and shoulders were starting to really act up on me again.
The pain. I will spare you the details of my emotions when work all day with
pain and discomfort in what feels like my whole body. Tuesday I dragged myself
to yoga class at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of Los Angeles. Actually, that's
not quite true. Viridiana dragged me there. Look how messed up that is. I only
go when I'm in pain, and...
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Canadians are knockin' boots less, or just not getting any
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8304313,1717/
Date: 2002-09-27T08:51:29+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/cbc.ca.gif ([CBC])]
| 0 |
Hooters Air concept crashes and burns
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8290377,1717/
Date: 2002-09-26T21:38:23+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/cnn.gif ([CNN])]
| 0 |
Americans are becoming more spiritual
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8304314,1717/
Date: 2002-09-27T08:51:28+01:00
(orlando sentinel)
| 0 |
Man finds lost marbles after 70 years....
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8305902,1717/
Date: 2002-09-27T09:52:31+01:00
(Stuff.co.nz)
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Gambler wins �7,000 - and spends it all on horse shiat
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8293091,1717/
Date: 2002-09-26T23:40:17+01:00
(Bath Chronicle)
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Y! Finance RSS Feeds Off
URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000197.html
Date: 2002-09-26T21:06:10-08:00
As many of you have noticed, the feeds are off now. Will they be back on? I
hope so. Soon? I'm not sure. What I will (and can) say is that the experience
was very valuable for us....
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Sourceforge sells out
URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/24.html
Date: 2002-09-24T02:35:59-08:00
You are not still using sourceforge, are you? If you have any hopes that they
are anything but yet another business giving away a free service, then see
this: Selling Microsoft VisualStudio on the "open source development platform".
Nice touch. Click on the image for the original screenshot....
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Giant otter statue to be built
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8296986,1717/
Date: 2002-09-27T02:45:52+01:00
(Some Guy)
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26-hour days...
URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000198.html
Date: 2002-09-26T23:32:18-08:00
It seems that my body runs on a 25-26 hour clock, usually tending closer to 26
hours. This really drives me nuts sometimes. Scheduling is a real pain in the
ass at times. Like when I'm not even close to...
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Smurfs: The Pasta. Thank Goodness for Chef Boyardee
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-5,8298180,1717/
Date: 2002-09-27T03:46:29+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/xent.gif ([X-Entertainment])]
| 0 |
Ecstasy users 'risk Parkinson's disease'
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8289788,1440/
Date: Not supplied
People using the drug for just one night could be affected, researchers claim,
but others experts are highly sceptical
| 0 |
UFOs in the Sky!
URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/20.html
Date: 2002-09-20T17:10:35-08:00
Yesterday Viridiana came to my place and dragged me out to look at the sky. It
was beautiful. Odd colors and light. Obviously we wondered what it was. Today
Jim explains it. (It was a rocket test from the Vandenburg air force base).
Very neat. It was a bit too blurred out when I saw it, and there was too much
street light to make a good photo, so I am happy to have found the photo from
NASA...
| 0 |
ATT Wireless Location tracking
URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html
Date: 2002-09-12T04:04:00-08:00
It seems like ATTWS will offer a service that'll tell you where your friends
(or children or spouse or whatever) are ... I haven't seen it announced, but
from their "Explanation of Rates and Charges. "Find Friends service will only
locate a compatible mobile device with mMode service that (1) has granted you
permission, (2) is turned on, (3) is registered on the AT&T Wireless GSM/GPRS
network, and (4) has not activated Be Invisible. Location services only provide
the location...
| 0 |
Mac OS X browsers
URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/07.html
Date: 2002-09-07T22:25:08-08:00
Rael is plagued by MSIE instability on Mac OS X. I use a recent nightly build
of Chimera as my default browser. 0.4 has some issues with plugins (or with
QuickTime anyway) on 10.2, but the 0.5 builds are working great. Fast too!
Mozilla is ugly. MSIE is slow and unstable. Opera (on OS X) doesn't render too
many pages. OmniWeb and iCab are not keeping up. Chimera rocks. I have used
ChimeraKnight to do the updating. It also makes...
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Advanced CSS lists
URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/27.html#advanced_css_lists
Date: 2002-09-27T23:22:56-05:00
_Mark Newhouse_: CSS Design: Taming Lists[1]. “I'll demonstrate how to
use CSS to bring unwieldy lists under control. It's time for you to tell lists
how to behave, instead of letting them run wild on your web page.”
[1] http://www.alistapart.com/stories/taminglists/
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Last-ditch talks aim to halt tide of violence engulfing West Africa
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357895,215/
Date: 2002-09-29T00:39:59+01:00
*World latest:* Ivory Coast coup could involve rest of the region in a
bloodbath.
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YOUR a STUPID Idj0t
URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/20.html
Date: 2002-09-20T16:13:37-08:00
Jeremy writes about people who ignore basic language rules I entirely agree
with him. Writing "how r u 2day." is the best way to make me shift my attention
and respect away from you really fast. Another pet peeve: I have only been
speaking English on a regular basis for a bit more than three years, and even I
can grok the difference between "you are" and "your". As mjd wrote on clpm and
said in the YAPC movie: "You...
| 0 |
Of Muslims and Morris men
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357893,215/
Date: 2002-09-29T00:40:02+01:00
It wasn't just the lack of wellies that made this protest different - it was
the mix of the marchers, writes *Euan Ferguson*.
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Blair attacks new culture of cynicism
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8358764,215/
Date: 2002-09-29T01:41:02+01:00
PM rules out compromise on public service reform in hard-hitting pre-conference
interview.
| 0 |
The secret passion that staggered Westminster
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357896,215/
Date: 2002-09-29T00:39:58+01:00
*Politics:* She was vivacious, he was Mr Grey. Theirs was a love no one
imagined.
| 0 |
New exam fury puts Morris's job in danger
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357894,215/
Date: 2002-09-29T00:40:00+01:00
*UK latest:* Sacked regulator accuses her of 'unbearable pressure'.
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A matter of opinion
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357899,215/
Date: 2002-09-29T00:39:55+01:00
*Media*: It only took one column in a newspaper by Rod Liddle, editor of
radio's flagship new show, to put the BBC under pressure. Jamie Doward and
Vanessa Thorpe report on unease within the corporation's top brass - and how
the affair could shape its future
| 0 |
A Windsor in the soup
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357897,215/
Date: 2002-09-29T00:39:57+01:00
*Comment:* Prince Charles's attempts to meddle in politics show how detached he
is from real life, says *Nick Cohen*.
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Carcooning
URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html
Date: 2002-09-12T23:03:40-08:00
If you've been in Los Angeles for long enough to read this sentence, chances
are you've spent more time stuck in traffic than you would care to consider.
That annoying fact of Southern California life is only going to become more
annoying and more of a factor with time, which is the point of "Car Trek,"
tonight's edition of "By the Year 2000" at 7:30 on KCET (Channel 28) [which]
also looks at the phenomena of "carcooning" in which...
| 0 |
Oracle of Google
URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html
Date: 2002-09-12T17:08:46-08:00
The Oracle of Google can answer multiple choice questions amazingly well ...
Who is the author of Perl?, What family lives next door to the Simpsons?. As
the author points out on the about page; this thing would be really useful in a
"Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" type contest. =)...
| 0 |
Kanu at the double
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357898,215/
Date: 2002-09-29T00:39:56+01:00
*Football:* Kolo Toure was among the goals as Arsenal gave Leeds a good hiding
at Elland Road.
| 0 |
Don't laugh. This is the real Office
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357900,215/
Date: 2002-09-29T00:39:54+01:00
*Euan Ferguson* spends two days at the headquarters of a stationery supplier in
Slough and finds the team is much nicer than Ricky Gervais's gallery of
grotesques.�*Sketches of pain*[1]
[1] http://www.newsisfree.com/Observer/review/story/0,6903,800788,00.html
| 0 |
Mice born from rat-matured eggs
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-6,8341698,1440/
Date: Not supplied
Using one species to develop the eggs of another could in future help
endangered species and even women
| 0 |
New iBooks and PowerBooks
URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/07.html
Date: 2002-09-07T06:10:55-08:00
I am thinking about getting a new Mac. Not any good reason for it though. I'll
try to wait it out for one of the new iBooks rumored for next spring. No new
PowerBook next month if new models come out. No. I said no! Stop thinking about
it. Don't do it. I said don't do it. No. No, it's a really bad idea. Don't.
Geez. Stop it! No, not even if it has an even cooler monitor. Or a...
| 0 |
Apple Switch parodies
URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/24.html
Date: 2002-09-24T02:31:20-08:00
This Monkey Switch Ad is too funny. Huge smile on my face. :-) It was the
winner of a competition MacRumors had set up. (Via Nathan)...
| 0 |
The Ryder Cup
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-6,8355996,215/
Date: 2002-09-28T23:38:59+01:00
*Dan Rookwood* and *Lawrence Booth* on how Europe and the United States ended
all-square to set up a tense final day.
| 0 |
Dooce
URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/29.html#dooce
Date: 2002-09-29T23:40:06-05:00
Reborn[1].
[1] http://www.dooce.com/
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Quickly
URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000619
Date: 2002-09-30T00:33:14-06:00
Anyone have a copy of Gill Sans or Bell Centennial I can borrow? I wonder if
I'll ever have $250 to spend on fonts. *Update:* Kevin Marks[1], who is
stupendously incredible for far more things than I can list here points out
that it's _included with OS X_. I knew Mac OS X included a lot of grat fonts[2]
, but I don't know how I overlooked this. (Matthew Carter, I'd be happy to pay
you the two cents in royalties you probably get for selling $100 worth of
fonts.)
Tufte notes: Terrie Miller[3].
First ammendement beer bash.
iSync Beta[4] (guess they learned a lesson from iCal) is out.
[1] http://epeus.blogspot.com
[2] http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/font.html
[3] http://www.oreillynet.com/~terrie/tufte/
[4] http://www.apple.com/isync/
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Turkey City Lexicon
URL: http://boingboing.net/#85506002
Date: Not supplied
After the talk at UT Austin, I spent Saturday at the Turkey City science
fiction writers' workshop at Bruce Sterling's place. Turkey City is a venerable
science fiction workshop that has spawned many good writers and a lexicon of
science fiction critical terms that is the de facto standard for understanding
what works and what doesn't in a work of science fiction:
Squid on the Mantelpiece
Chekhov said that if there are dueling pistols over the mantelpiece in the
first act, they should be fired in the third. In other words, a plot
element should be deployed in a timely fashion and with proper dramatic
emphasis. However, in SF plotting the MacGuffins are often so overwhelming
that they cause conventional plot structures to collapse. It's hard to
properly dramatize, say, the domestic effects of Dad's bank overdraft when
a giant writhing kraken is levelling the city. This mismatch between the
conventional dramatic proprieties and SF's extreme, grotesque, or visionary
thematics is known as the "squid on the mantelpiece."
Card Tricks in the Dark
Elaborately contrived plot which arrives at (a) the punchline of a private
joke no reader will get or (b) the display of some bit of learned trivia
relevant only to the author. This stunt may be intensely ingenious, and
very gratifying to the author, but it serves no visible fictional purpose.
(Attr. Tim Powers)
I had the cold from hell all weekend and I'm jetlagged, but I wanted to get
some links up before I hit the sack. Until tomorrow! Link[1] Discuss[2]
[1] http://www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.html
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/cgivZf3AAhKkk
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My talk at UT Austin
URL: http://boingboing.net/#85505995
Date: Not supplied
I've been in Austin all weekend. On Friday, I spoke at the University of Texas
about EFF issues. Jon Lebkowsky was there -- hell, he organized it -- and he
blogged the hell out of the talk:
Entertainment industry has tradition of attacking technology: the piano
roll, the radio (sued by vaudeville), television (would destroy cinema!),
"the Betamax affair"... the latter being the first consumer VCR. In Betamax
case, argued that the ability to make a full copy of a broadcast work would
not be a fair use (in terms of copyright). It was illegal enough that the
VCR should be kept off the market, they argued. The Supreme Court got the
case, and the thing that shook out of it was the Betamax principle: a
technology is legal so long as it has substantial non-infringeing uses.
This principle is under attack.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 1998. Illegal to defeat a copyright
measure. Regionalization system for DVDs. This is a control that limits
distribution. John Johansen in Norway figured out how to break the content
scrambling system and allows you to move from one region to another,
override copy protection. It was called DeCSS - Johansen is facing trial
for creating a piece of code.
Link[1] (Wes blogged it, too[2]) Discuss[3]
[1] http://www.weblogsky.com/2002_09_01_blarchive.html#85500802
[2] http://wmf.editthispage.com/2002/09/27
[3] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/4rEePy7RSm38x
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Underwater high-voltage photography
URL: http://boingboing.net/#85505975
Date: Not supplied
[IMG: http://www.craphound.com/images/electricball.jpg] Stefan sez: "My
brother's friend Sue plays with high voltage. The linked-to page shows the
gadget she used to photograph high voltage discharges in *water*." Link[1]
Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Stefan!_)
[1] http://community.webshots.com/album/8426665GzkjEytinE
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/uzUstBTSpq7K
| 0 |
Trust me on funding, says Brown
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381139,215/
Date: 2002-09-30T03:05:04+01:00
No retreat on PFI, unions are warned.
| 0 |
Adams linked to IRA death squad
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381140,215/
Date: 2002-09-30T03:05:03+01:00
Sinn Fein president accused of setting up IRA cell to kill 'informers'.
| 0 |
Priceless Rubens works stolen in raid on mansion
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381145,215/
Date: 2002-09-30T03:04:58+01:00
*Arts:* Fourth art raid on philanthropist's home once targeted by the IRA and
Dublin gangster Martin Cahill.
| 0 |
Equitable mis-sold policies
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381147,215/
Date: 2002-09-30T03:04:56+01:00
*Money:* Struggling mutual insurance society admits to scale of mis-selling.
| 0 |
Global call for extrasolar planet watching
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8365765,1440/
Date: Not supplied
Professionals are asking amateurs to sign up and help them glean valuable
information about planets orbiting distant stars
| 0 |
The green man
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381141,215/
Date: 2002-09-30T03:05:02+01:00
It is eight years since botanist David Bellamy made a TV series. What went
wrong, asks *Simon Hattenstone*.�Quizzes[1]�| Crossword[2]�| Interactive guides
[3]�| Steve Bell[4]�| Weblog[5]�*Other news and comment**'Biggles Airways' plan
to put RAF into tourism business*[6]
[1] http://www.newsisfree.com/quiz/0,7476,349695,00.html
[2] http://www.newsisfree.com/crossword/0,4406,180778,00.html
[3] http://www.newsisfree.com/interactive/0,2759,192055,00.html
[4] http://www.newsisfree.com/cartoons/0,7371,337484,00.html
[5] http://www.newsisfree.com/weblog/0,6798,517233,00.html
[6] http://www.newsisfree.com/military/story/0,11816,801625,00.html
| 0 |
IMF shores up debt defences
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381143,215/
Date: 2002-09-30T03:05:00+01:00
*Business:* City and Wall Street are sceptical of plan to prevent more
countries slipping into Argentina-style crisis
| 0 |
Major's shame over affair leaves Currie indignant
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381144,215/
Date: 2002-09-30T03:04:59+01:00
*Politics:* Edwina Currie 'sad and indignant' at hearing John Major's admission
of shame at their four-year affair.
| 0 |
Are you being Freeserved?
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381146,215/
Date: 2002-09-30T03:04:57+01:00
*Internet news:* Can Freeserve hold on to its position as the ISP that most
Britons dial up to, asks Kate Bulkley.
| 0 |
Stupid for a Day
URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000202.html
Date: 2002-09-29T12:01:43-08:00
I like Kasia's latest idea. Let's all try that. But not on the same day. Maybe
we should all use our birthdays as the basis. Since I was born on June 4th,
I'll be stupid on the 4th of every...
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Early Start and Peter Gabriel
URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000200.html
Date: 2002-09-29T10:59:19-08:00
Strangely, I managed to get up before 9am (on a Sunday!) without the aid of an
alarm clock. Not sure how that happened. I had some breakfast (muffin with
jelly and peanut butter, and strawberry drink) while catching up on...
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Linux Software RAID Fun
URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000201.html
Date: 2002-09-29T11:52:44-08:00
I forgot to write this up yesterday and didn't feel like forging the blog entry
date. Anyway, while taking a break from writing the book, I tried to finish up
the work on friends.zawodny.com before I ship it off to...
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US forces Israel to lift siege of Arafat
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381142,215/
Date: 2002-09-30T03:05:01+01:00
*World latest:* Israel pulled its tanks and soldiers out of Yasser Arafat's
West Bank headquarters yesterday.
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Colophon 3
URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/01.html#colophon_3
Date: 2002-10-01T00:23:58-05:00
_Dean Allen_: About the author[1]. “The funniest thing Dean has ever
witnessed was some footage of narcoleptic dogs in a Nova documentary on sleep
disorders.”
[1] http://www.textism.com/about/
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Colophon 2
URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/01.html#colophon_2
Date: 2002-10-01T00:22:28-05:00
_Heather Hamilton_: About[1]. “I am that girl.”
[1] http://www.dooce.com/about.html
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Colophon 1
URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/01.html#colophon_1
Date: 2002-10-01T00:11:05-05:00
_Jason Gurley_: Rap Sheet[1]. “I once played drums in a band with no name
that never played a single gig anywhere.”
[1] http://www.deeplyshallow.com/archive/000426.html
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2000+ year old Greek computer reinterpreted
URL: http://boingboing.net/#85507259
Date: Not supplied
The Antikythera mechanism, recovered off a sunken ship in Greece in 1900, is
thought to be a clockwork device to calculate the orbits of the celestial
bodies. New analysis of the remaining fragments shows that it was wicked-cool:
The Greeks believed in an earth-centric universe and accounted for
celestial bodies' motions using elaborate models based on epicycles, in
which each body describes a circle (the epicycle) around a point that
itself moves in a circle around the earth. Mr Wright found evidence that
the Antikythera mechanism would have been able to reproduce the motions of
the sun and moon accurately, using an epicyclic model devised by
Hipparchus, and of the planets Mercury and Venus, using an epicyclic model
derived by Apollonius of Perga. (These models, which predate the mechanism,
were subsequently incorporated into the work of Claudius Ptolemy in the
second century AD.)
A device that just modelled the motions of the sun, moon, Mercury and Venus
does not make much sense. But if an upper layer of mechanism had been
built, and lost, these extra gears could have modelled the motions of the
three other planets known at the time�Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. In other
words, the device may have been able to predict the positions of the known
celestial bodies for any given date with a respectable degree of accuracy,
using bronze pointers on a circular dial with the constellations of the
zodiac running round its edge.
Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Mark!_)
[1] http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1337165
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/UKW9AAQCsFibH
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I mean why not
URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/01.html#i_mean_why_not
Date: 2002-10-01T00:06:36-05:00
_Kevin Fanning_: Hallmark vs. Successories[1]. “At Successories you were
mostly left alone. There'd be brainstorm meetings to come up with new topics to
tackle ("Howsabout 'Diligence'?" "No I think we did that one already, didn't
we?") but mostly you could just hang around, bang away at whatever ideas you
had, show your manager what you were working on, and he/she'd give you
feedback, encouragement, tell you to keep at it, point to the poster of
Stick-to-it-iveness on their wall (Yes, we had our own brand of Successories
posters hanging everywhere. I mean why not.) and give you the thumbs up.”
[1] http://www.whygodwhy.com/archive/000071.html
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Dan Gillmor responds to Jack Valenti
URL: http://boingboing.net/#85506950
Date: Not supplied
Dan Gillmor interviewed Jack Valenti[1] last week in his column and did the
impartial thing, representing Valenti's beliefs as fairly as possible. This
week, Dan takes Valenti's arguments apart, looking at what Hollywood's agenda
really entails:
So the movie and music companies are going back to Congress for another
helping. They are asking for laws that would force technology innovators to
restrict the capabilities of devices -- cripple PCs and other machines that
communicate so they can't make copies the copyright holders don't
explicitly allow. Amazingly, the entertainment industry also wants
permission to hack into networks and machines they believe are being used
to violate copyrights.
Here is what it all means. To protect a business model and thwart even the
possibility of infringement, the cartel wants technology companies to ask
permission before they can innovate. The media giants want to keep
information flow centralized, to control the new medium as if it's nothing
but a jazzed-up television. Instead of accepting, as they do today, that a
certain amount of penny-ante infringement will occur and then going after
the major-league pirates, they call every act of infringement -- and some
things that aren't infringement at all -- an act of piracy or stealing.
Saying it doesn't make it so.
Link[2] Discuss[3]
[1] http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/4132447.htm
[2] http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4175607.htm
[3] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/WDUVXyKf9qUj
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Un
URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/30.html#un
Date: 2002-09-30T23:57:43-05:00
_Paul Ford_: East River Unconsecration[1]. “There are a lot of hearts
under the East River, and it took a long time for it to find mine.”
[1] http://ftrain.com/east_river_unconsecration.html
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"I meditated in a cave for 12 years and now I'm here to tell you
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8424915,1717/
Date: 2002-10-01T09:35:16+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/salon.gif ([Salon])]
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Automotive software Easter Egg discovered
URL: http://boingboing.net/#85506836
Date: Not supplied
Slashdot's reporting that according to the current ish of Popular Science, an
Easter Egg has been discovered in the transmission control software for the BMW
M3:
...the proper combination of commands to the electronically controlled
manual transmission will cause the car to rev up to 4000rpm and drop the
clutch...
Are we sure that this is a feature and not a bug? Link[1] Discuss[2]
[1] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/29/2232249&mode=flat&tid=126
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/SVZhehqjGbC
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Motel holds mans wheelchair ransom.
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8410271,1717/
Date: 2002-09-30T22:21:10+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/nandotimes.gif ([NandoTimes])]
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Brown budget plans in disarray
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418823,215/
Date: 2002-10-01T04:34:02+01:00
Treasury admits that growth targets set in March have been destroyed by the
worsening global economy.
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Bank robber gets the loot, makes it out of bank, shoots self in
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8412057,1717/
Date: 2002-09-30T23:25:23+01:00
(TBO)
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Cat shot through eye with horse dart tranquilizer roams
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8412058,1717/
Date: 2002-09-30T23:25:22+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/local6.gif ([Local6])]
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The plight of Qadir Fedayee
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8404899,215/
Date: 2002-09-30T19:25:01+01:00
*Sydney dispatch:* An Afghan boy whose family was killed during massacres in
Mazar-i-Sharif has been denied asylum in Australia, says *David Fickling*.
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Space shuttle ready for return
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8399728,1440/
Date: Not supplied
After months of repairs to cracked fuel lines, the shuttle prepares for
lift-off - an onboard video camera will relay live footage
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Drug halves genital herpes transmission
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8397801,1440/
Date: Not supplied
The antiviral drug significantly reduces the spread of the incurable infection
through sex
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Saddam set to let inspectors in
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8417796,215/
Date: 2002-10-01T03:33:02+01:00
Iraq muddles US resolve with 'positive' talks in Vienna.
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The new trailer for the Lord of the Rings comes out today on AOL
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8417754,1717/
Date: 2002-10-01T03:29:20+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/aicn.gif ([AintItCoolNews])]
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Portillo dig at Blunkett in fringe double act
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418826,215/
Date: 2002-10-01T04:33:58+01:00
*Politics:* Michael Portillo strode into the hostile territory of the Labour
party conference in Blackpool last night to mock David Blunkett as an
authoritarian rightwinger.
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Show-and-tell nearly extinct because it might hurt children's
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8423194,1717/
Date: 2002-10-01T08:34:11+01:00
(St. Petersburg Times)
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How I made Edwina tell all
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418824,215/
Date: 2002-10-01T04:34:00+01:00
*Julian Glover*, who worked on John Major's autobiography for two years, on why
Edwina Currie wasn't in it.
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Randy Moss smokes ganja
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8390121,1717/
Date: 2002-09-30T11:09:21+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/yahoonews.gif ([Yahoo])]
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what is the sound of one knee jerking?
URL: http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=63598
Date: Not supplied
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=63598
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Toddler falls from a first-storey window, saved from injury by
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8398676,1717/
Date: 2002-09-30T16:15:15+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/iol.gif ([IOL])]
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100 not safe for work pics for chicks. WEENERS.
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8413685,1717/
Date: 2002-10-01T00:26:14+01:00
(Some depraved farkette)
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da bomb
URL: http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=63309
Date: Not supplied
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=63309
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Wedding etiquette
URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/30.html#wedding_etiquette
Date: 2002-09-30T12:16:54-05:00
_Margaret Berry_: Don't Be Rude: Part IV, Weddings[1]. “There's a lot of
room for error with invitations. It's helpful to think of them as petite social
landmines with quaint wax seals.”
[1] http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/editorial/dont_be_rude_part_iv_weddings.shtml
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Think before you leap, man flies powered parachute into
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418808,1717/
Date: 2002-10-01T04:30:17+01:00
(The Cincinnati Enquirer)
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Truck driver leaves trail of smelly pizza waste along major
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8402896,1717/
Date: 2002-09-30T18:17:08+01:00
(charlotte.com)
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Scientists prove that shoe size and penis size are not linked.
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8406746,1717/
Date: 2002-09-30T20:19:11+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/reuters.gif ([Reuters])]
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Bush orders Sharon to obey UN resolutions so US can gather
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8390119,1717/
Date: 2002-09-30T11:09:23+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/smh.com.au.gif ([smh.com.au])]
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Synthetic vitamin boosts bone growth
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8412855,1440/
Date: Not supplied
The modified form of vitamin D could be an effective new treatment for
osteoporosis, says a US team
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Quickly
URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000619
Date: 2002-09-30T00:33:14-06:00
Anyone have a copy of Bell Centennial I can borrow? I wonder if I'll ever have
$100 to spend on fonts. (Matthew Carter, I'd be happy to pay you the two cents
in royalties you probably get for selling $100 worth of fonts.)
*Update:* Kevin Marks[1], who is stupendously incredible for far more things
than I can list here points out that Gill Sans (which I was asking for earlier)
is _included with OS X_. I knew Mac OS X included a lot of great fonts[2], but
I don't know how I overlooked this. _Awesome!_
Tufte notes: Terrie Miller[3].
First ammendement beer bash.
iSync Beta[4] (guess they learned a lesson from iCal) is out.
[1] http://epeus.blogspot.com
[2] http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/font.html
[3] http://www.oreillynet.com/~terrie/tufte/
[4] http://www.apple.com/isync/
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Family's "pet" raccoon attacks baby in crib
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8417752,1717/
Date: 2002-10-01T03:29:22+01:00
(ClickOnDetroit)
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TV sports babe in trouble for locker room antics
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8421063,1717/
Date: 2002-10-01T06:32:13+01:00
(Some TV Guy)
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West Coast port closures may cancel Christmas.
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8398677,1717/
Date: 2002-09-30T16:15:14+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/sacbee.gif ([SacBee])]
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