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January 2004

303 bookmarks saved in January 2004

For want of a word

http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp;jsessionid=KNBHENHKEGCH?id=ns24321
"Imagine how different politics would be if debates were conducted in Tariana, an Amazonian language in which it is a grammatical error to report something without saying how you found it out - as Alexandra Aikhenvald tells us its speakers tell her."
#language #linguistics
archive.org #1624

About 2 Million to Use Up Jobless Benefits

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/unemployment_benefits
"Nearly 2 million people are expected to exhaust their state unemployment benefits in the first half of the year without access to more government aid or a regular paycheck, according to a study released Thursday."
#economy #news
archive.org #1613

Papal blessing for break-dancers

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/01/26/pope.breakdancers.ap/index.html
"In an unusual spectacle at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II presided over a performance of break-dancers who leaped, flipped and spun their bodies to beats from a tinny boom box."
#odd #oldschool #pope
archive.org #1612

Apple G5 Converted to A PC

http://www.overclockers.com/tips1133/index02.asp
"When I showed my friend, who happens to love Apple, he looked sick. He did not say anything to me. He just put his hands on his head and was in shock. I wish I had a picture of that." Oh God. Uhh. What an expensive PC case. What nice parents. What a
#apple #morons #osx #pc
archive.org #1611

Neil Peart speaks about lyrics

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/01/27/112314.php
"I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes. I can tell. Craftsmanship speaks."
#music
archive.org #1604

birdhouse.org: 1% Pays 34%?

http://birdhouse.org/blog/archives/001201.php
" common right-wing rejoinder to the leftist claim that the rich don't pay their fair share of taxes is that'The top 1% of earners in this country pay 34% of all taxes.'"
#economy #wealth
archive.org #1600

Artificial Intelligence and the Game of Go

http://goai.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_goai_archive.html#107503696117864929
"Computers have great difficulty with the Game of Go. The field of Artificial Intelligencehas conquered chess, but still has difficulties with Go. This blog will contain information about advancing the state of the art Go AI"
#ai #computers #go
archive.org #1596

Professor Zork

http://nomediakings.org/games/professor_zork.html
"For IFComp 2003, I've decided to play the part of judge, as can anyone who logs on towww.ifcomp.org before Nov. 15..."
archive.org #1588

Penny Arcade!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2004-01-16#1793
"I feel like some ninety year old man mystified by his microwave oven. Come to think of it…what the hell is a microwave, and how does it make my soup so fucking hot? Truly we live in the world of the future!"
#funny
archive.org #1585

Planet Apache

http://www.planetapache.org
Leech some sw33t mods and maps from Planet Apache! er.. wait.. that's not it
archive.org #1572

Democracy crumbles under cover of darkness

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/Editorial%20/%20Commentary/9ABAC0D463E4626F86256DF9003E0D2A?Headline=CONGRESS+Democracy+crumbles+under+cover+of+darkne&OpenDocument=
"House Republicans bend rules, press for votes during wee hours to escape the light of accountability."
#politics
archive.org #1568

[IP] Not the future we expected

http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200401/msg00185.html
"the most rapid innovation in American history occurred not in the booming 1990s ... but in the period between the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 - the period we still call the Great Depression."
#economy #future #history
archive.org #1560

The Nature of Order

http://futurepositive.synearth.net/2004/01/15
"The concept of the "order" of information is important here, as it is not the same as the opposite of disorder."
#kurzweil
archive.org #1549

Secure RSS | MySmartChannels

http://myst-technology.com/mysmartchannels/public/item/13011
RSS feeds over SSL behind HTTP auth is hype-worthy? Oh yeah, I forgot. Everyone likes to reinvent HTTP. Though maybe, just maybe, this particular implementation has some interesting things about it.
#http #rss #syndication
archive.org #1539

Osamatober

http://www.benhammersley.com/dparchives/008015.html
"Noun. An event, where an incumbent reveals a remarkable victory to the nation, one month before an election."
#funny #politics
archive.org #1535

Rands In Repose: Editor Religion

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2004/01/16/editor_religion.html
"Further proof that all you need to see to understand the origin story of a programmer is what colored background they use in their editor: Black = Unix or DOS. White = Windows / Mac."
#metablogging
archive.org #1513

Nanotubes grown on plastic

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/011404/Nanotubes_grown_on_plastic_Brief_011404.html
"Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have devised a way to grow vertical forests of carbon nanotubes on flexible plastic."
#future #nano
archive.org #1501

mnot - cgi_buffer

http://www.mnot.net/cgi_buffer
"cgi_buffer is a group of libraries (for Perl, Python and PHP) that automatically handle performance-improving HTTP features that most Web servers don't implement (at least for scripts)"
#perl #php #python #webdev
archive.org #1490

Accessible contents menu?

http://www.clagnut.com/blog/277
"Clagnut’s global navigation is a JavaScript-driven drop down (the Site contents button graphical browsers will see top-right). An accessibility no-no, you might think, but I reckon otherwise."
#css #webdev
archive.org #1485

Don't we want our food to have stories?

http://www.diepunyhumans.com/archives/006933.html
"...and some granola-crunching hippie who probably lives on rectum-paralysing medication to stop them constantly fountaining a stream of seed-riddled diarrhoea makes what they think is a point."
#funny
archive.org #1476

The Awful Truth

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/13/opinion/13KRUG.html
"...these irrational Bush haters are body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freaks who should go back where they came from: the executive offices of Alcoa, and the halls of the Army War College."
#politics
archive.org #1475

Toyota Prius Bluetooth

http://john1701a.com/prius/prius-bluetooth.htm
"Prius models equipped with "Bluetooth" offer the ability to interface with Bluetooth-enabled cell-phones, providing a convenience well beyond just a hands-free connection."
#cars #mobile
archive.org #1464

Duct Tape Wall Tapings

http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/walltapings/index.html
"If you are going to do a wall taping, please remember that this CAN and IS dangerous unless you know what you are doing. You can actually crucify someone if they are not properly supported during the taping process."
#ducttape #odd
archive.org #1460

2003-PA-0013, or No Primary in Michigan in 2004

http://www.michiganlegislature.org/printdocument.asp?objName=2003-PA-0013
"Except in 2004 when no statewide presidential primary shall be conducted, a statewide presidential primary election shall be conducted under this act on the fourth Tuesday in February in each presidential election year."
#politics
archive.org #1456

TunesAtWork

http://www.tunesatwork.com
TunesAtWork lets you listen to your personal iTunes music collection while at your office or lab, even though your iTunes collection resides at home.
#music #osx
archive.org #1453

SipIntro

http://www.toyz.org/cgi-bin/sipwiki.cgi?SipIntro=
An Introduction to the SIP Protocol for the Impatient Technologist
#sip
archive.org #1451

Faith in the game

http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/technology/game.html
"What's the difference between knowing something and just knowing the name of it?" Oh, where are you, disenchanted.com? We miss you.
#religion #science
archive.org #1442

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http://www.bordersunion.org/phpBB_14%20index-action-viewtopic-topic-803.html
archive.org #1422

Evolution's Debate Dodgers

http://www.trueorigin.org/debatedodgers.asp
Sure... right... I'll front $10,000 to prove evolution is science and creation is religion in front of a judge. I'll get $20,000 if I win! Otherwise, I'm a "debate dodger".
#religion #science
archive.org #1412

Friedrich the Great

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/01/11/friedrich_the_great
"...a forerunner of cognitive psychology, information theory, even postmodernism."
archive.org #1410

JVM Assembler is Fun

http://www.electricanvil.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2004/01/11#java_asm_is_fun
For awhile, I was considering tinkering with 6502 assy for nostalgia in an emulator. Tinkering with JVM assy might be more interesting...
#java
archive.org #1401

Blended-metal bullets

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/bullets
"Under most circumstances, a 5.56mm bullet striking a person’s buttocks wouldn’t be expected to create a fatal wound."
#war
archive.org #1336