Archive for January, 2007
January 31, 2007
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“What do the words ‘it had me on the edge of my seat’ really mean? Or ‘cruelly underrated’? Or ‘comic genius’? Find out in our special guide to critic-speak.”
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“A few other domains have already disappeared, including East Germany’s “.dd” and Zaire’s “.zr” after the country became the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“.cd”).”
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“a compilation of loads of my little bits and bobs set to one of my tunes”
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“Don’t worry, he’s running a Linux file server on it.”
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January 30, 2007
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“I was standing quite near to a wall. I turned my attention towards it for a few moments. Having done this for several seconds I turned away from it and carried on doing something else.”
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“A duck which survived being shot before spending two days in a refrigerator has now overcome major surgery – despite briefly dying on the operating table.” Zombie duck!
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“5. Act friendly. We think we act because of the way we feel, but often we feel because of the way we act. So act the way you want to feel. This is uncannily effective—just try it.” Existential!
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January 29, 2007
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“The creator of the virus, who goes by the moniker “Anonymous Longhair”, modified the well-known Melissa virus to download and install Linux on infected machines.”
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Wiki meets GraphViz.
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“Don’t worry, there’s plenty of gaping holes in the kernel too.!”
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“Stored stuff has an amazing bread-dough quality—it rises to fill the space available, and then makes a sticky mess as it slops over the sides of the container.”
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January 28, 2007
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“At the end of the show, I concluded with this remark: ‘The weirdest thing about weird people may be how normal they are.’”
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As title.
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“Besides, there are a lot of good amateur photographers at Microsoft who would be thrilled to have their work displayed on millions of computers all over the world.”
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“This colorful cotton Lego block belt by Paul Frank will add character to your basic jeans & a t-shirt look!” For the geeks, y’know.
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January 27, 2007
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A very interesting flash visualisation tool that creates animated graphs for certain statistics on international development.
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“Welcome to BrickGun, the world leader in custom Lego weapon models.”
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“Alexander Hosch looks at the uneasy marriage between autocrats and star architects.”
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January 26, 2007
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“Interesting, it seems when you make a master key for voting machines it’s not a good idea to put a photo of the key that’s good enough to make a physical copy of…”
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“Bacterial Orchestra is a self-organizing evolutionary musical organism. It consists of several audio cells. Every cell listens to its surroundings and picks up sounds trying to play them back in sync with what it hears.”
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“Russ Reynolds, that’s me. You probably remember my name from when I ran the country for three days. Wasn’t that a wild time?”
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January 25, 2007
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As the title.
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“…there are still in-person interruptions that can occur since your presence cannot be seen as people walk up to your desk. We recognized this problem internally and have added USB LED signal lights to some workstations”
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“It turns out that the sensors and lights are just the beginning of a system that is designed to direct drivers to available parking slots efficiently without the need to drive up and down aisles looking for that elusive open spot.”
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“This site is a collection of stories regarding Honeybees and beekeeping. In each one I present a bee’s eye view of major events in the life of colony of honeybees.”
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“After the HD-DVD crack, I realized that things where “unbalanced” by having just one format cracked, so I did Blu-Ray too.”
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January 24, 2007
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Info on blogging and all that jazz.
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“Jelliffe … never explains why Microsoft never took the opportunity to contribute to ODF to resolve such issues. So, while claiming to counteract FUD, he engages in it in his announcement.”
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January 23, 2007
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“What happens when you detonate a spherical metal honeycomb over five hundred miles wide just above the atmosphere of a habitable world? Regardless of specifics, the world won’t remain habitable for long.”
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“Ongoing research into the language and aesthetics of mobility, which aims to build a mobile transportation unit that moves along a disused railway track.”
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“Sometimes I get dangerous thoughts in my head, like ‘I wonder what it would look like to see every ad in Times Square all on one page.’”
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“The more we tighten our grip the more software will fall through our fingers. ….Oh wait, which ones are we Linux guys again, Rebels or Empire?” “Microsoft is the Empire. Apple is the Rebels. We are the Ewoks.”
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OMFG. It’s ADVENTURE TIME!
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January 22, 2007
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“First Life is a 3D analog world where server lag does not exist”
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“In all, 57% of the teenagers had not used contraception, and 51% of the older women – and this small difference was not statistically significant.”
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