Monthly Archives: December 2007
links for 2007-12-28
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good overview of image resolution
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If TSA allows you to pack a spare battery, the terrorists will win. You don’t want the terrorists to win, do you??
links for 2007-12-27
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Ron Paul is kind of like a LARP — seems like it might be entertaining… but also disturbing and weird. And the people involved are waaay too deeply invested.
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If the CCD remains small, then at a certain point more pixels will mean more noise
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The Republican Party is rife with homosexuals. The Nazi Party was rife with homosexuals. Does Jonah have to draw you a picture??
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figure 8 around the devil horns
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The whitest frame from 1500 different cinematic explosions has been taken and compiled together to make a minute long white flickering movie
links for 2007-12-24
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He told me he was keeping watch for pies with cream and custard fillings. Anything that could be construed as a “gel.” He’d already turned away a pumpkin pie.
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No, not videos — 8-track tapes, like from the 70’s.
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using Circular Treemaps to visualize disk usage.
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It’s not simulating drowning, it is drowning. It felt like dying. I can’t put it any other way.
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Lefty paranoids have been talking about this for years. Not so paranoid… Phones mics really can be turned on when phone is hung up and turned off. “Security-conscious corporate executives routinely remove the batteries from their cell phones”
links for 2007-12-23
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watching the animation for 30 seconds causes the world to ooze(tags: psychology illusion)
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Weekly manga commentary, featuring horror, gag & erotic-grotesque nonsense
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flashy timeline system. includes centry zoom level for historical events
translation
notch and shintaro-kago at araum
links for 2007-12-22
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cold constructed typewriter parts(tags: machine.poetics test)
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Wii are scarce in America because the dollar sucks?
links for 2007-12-21
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A momentary pause in the flow to earth through the body—produced entirely by mind concentration—is followed by an upward surge of sufficient intensity to cause a series of relays to operate.
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commie pagan rocket santa
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Textbook publishers are the next to evaporate in a puff of irrelevance. Good riddance
links for 2007-12-20
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Lane Hartwell: legally wrong, ethically right. How sad when people get these things confused…
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How did a relatively simple and common copyright dispute become such a tremendous controversy and how can other artists avoid it?
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getting tough on copyright infringement and trying to build legal walls in cyberspace certainly doesn’t work. Above all, it just seems highly unlikely that the healthy future of poetry rests in trying to stifle and suppress,
links for 2007-12-19
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She had sex with 12 yer old boyfriend — both are charged with sex crimes against each other. Utah.
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They believe that “antioxidant compounds” in the Guinness, similar to those found in certain fruits and vegetables, are responsible for the health benefits. Dogs given lager did not get the same health benefits.
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Rock is most common, so people throw paper. So throw scissors and you win. (But now everyone knows that, so you better throw rock…)(tags: game psychology)
links for 2007-12-18
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There are so many scopolamine cases that they usually don’t make the news unless particularly bizarre. One such incident involved three young Bogota women who preyed on men by smearing the drug on their breasts and luring their victims to take a lick.
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Create your own tag cloud from any text to visualize word frequency.
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ColorSync Utility can create new Quartz filters.
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10 tips that can save your life and the lives of your fellow Colonials
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Huckabee believes that pedophilia and necrophilia are “publicly endorsed and institutionally supported”
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Anti-sex Princeton student who claimed he was beaten unconscious by black-clad assailants admits that he beat himself up, and sent e-mail death threats to himself, three other anti-sex students, and a conservative professor. Kinky little monkey!
links for 2007-12-17
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confusion between bad manners and legal rights
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Hey evr’body! I’m a Republican propaganda tool! I spent my entire life attacking the principles of reason and evidence! Oops!
links for 2007-12-15
links for 2007-12-14
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Copyfraud is everywhere. False copyright notices appear on modern reprints of Shakespeare’s plays, Beethoven’s piano scores, greeting card versions of Monet’s Water Lilies, and even the U.S. Constitution.
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This holiday seasnon, the National Republican Senatorial Committee just wanted everyone to know that they’re really really really out of money
links for 2007-12-13
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Guantanamo Bay deletes detainee ID numbers, labels Fidel Castro “an admitted transexual” and more.
links for 2007-12-12
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The Bible cited as proof that dinosaus were actually fire-breathing dragons.
links for 2007-12-11
links for 2007-12-10
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“We have reviewed and changed our ad standards guidelines and made the decision that our policy will apply to content only and not to a referenced Web site. Based on these amended standards the Freedom’s Watch ad will begin to run as early as Sunday.”
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a scholarly workshop examining the history of the subterranean American West… Topics or themes might include archeology, mining, hydrology, geology, seismology, the history of cemeteries or burials, etc.
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Virtual worlds are being put to serious real-world uses—and are starting to encounter some real-world problems
links for 2007-12-09
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tips for print stylesheets
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The Title says it all.
links for 2007-12-08
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GoDaddy and Network Solutions have quite the dark empire
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damn straight
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Police officers in the Campagnia region, famous for its mozzarella, stopped cheese delivery vans and forced them to hand over cheese or face a hefty fine.
The police are thought to have used the cheese for their own consumption.
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She killed hotmail in 1999 by not renewing the domain name. Now chargedharges that she raked in more than $1 million during a four-year period by falsifying expense reports she filed for domain name registration charges.
