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March 2004

264 bookmarks saved in March 2004

LogWrap

http://www.kazmier.com/computer/logwrap
"LogWrap is a utility that can monitor log files in real-time for patterns, generate events when those patterns are matched, and then process events in a variety of manners using event handlers to do the processing."
#tools
archive.org #2170

Veg-O-Matics Live on in Kitchens Everywhere

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040324/od_nm/life_gadgets_dc_5
"I don't think we'll ever run out of ideas," Ron Popeil once said. "There's always going to be some necessity that you never knew you needed, but you absolutely can't live without."
archive.org #2166

netalleynetworks.com - Adenosine

http://www.netalleynetworks.com/community/jgeldart/research/adenosine
"Adenosine is a language designed both to work on, and be distributed over, the semantic web. The language exploits the expressiveness of RDF whilst adopting a clean syntax based on a combination of Notation3 and ECMAScript."
#semweb
archive.org #2162

Uematsu's Music

http://www.square-enix-usa.com/uematsu/black_mages/index.html
"It all started in February 2003. Uematsu produced "The Black Mages," an album composed of FINAL FANTASY battle music arranged in rock style. He formed a group called The Black Mages and performed as the keyboardist himself."
#gaming #music
archive.org #2149

The Portable People Meter

http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100464&ref=683960
"The meter kept a perfect record of all the broadcast media the wearer consumed, making a note of the date, time, and duration of consumption."
archive.org #2146

The Importance of Fudgability

http://www.kasei.com/archives/000791.html
"We believed that we could spend a couple of days watching trained lawyers perform a highly-skilled job, talk briefly to them, and then make their jobs completely obsolete."
#compsci
archive.org #2145

Removable Media For Our Minds

http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100478
"For example, each time the wearer walks into a different room, the change in lighting triggers the camera to snap a 180-degree fish-eye shot." I want one of these.
archive.org #2140

Hack This (Please)

http://andykessler.com/wsj_hack_this_please.html
"There is a new breed of users out there, computer-literate consumers who don’t think twice about altering the look, feel and functionality of a product."
#hacking
archive.org #2139

Yo, Sparky. Yeah, You Know Who You Are.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/weekinreview/18MCCA.html?ei=5070&en=95d1271d54b8b325&ex=1080363600
"INSIDERS are admitting that President George W. Bush's penchant for bestowing his own nicknames on close associates has provoked the first crisis of his new administration."
#bush #odd #politics
archive.org #2132

Lifting the Shroud

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/23/opinion/23KRUG.html
"Of course, Bush officials have to attack Mr. Clarke's character because there is plenty of independent evidence confirming the thrust of his charges."
#politics #war
archive.org #2130

Taken for a Ride

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/opinion/19KRUG.html?hp=
"A year ago, President Bush, who had a global mandate to pursue the terrorists responsible for 9/11, went after someone else instead."
#politics #war
archive.org #2108

Bush challenges Kerry comments

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/16/kerry.leaders/index.html
'President Bush on Tuesday said that his Democratic rival, Sen. John Kerry, should "back up" his claim that a number of world leaders want a new U.S. president.' Uhh. Why, so he can then go invade their countries too?
#politics
archive.org #2084

Survey finds hope in occupied Iraq

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3514504.stm
"An opinion poll suggests most Iraqis feel their lives have improved since the war in Iraq began about a year ago." Well, that's good news at least!
#war
archive.org #2078

Kempa.com: Vinyl Data

http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/000053.html
".. there were a handful of records released in the late 70's and early 80's that contained computer programs as part of the audio." I had a lot of fun using a C64 and a 300 baud modem to decode the Information Society track when it came out
#music #nifty #oldschool
archive.org #2076

Iraq on the Record

http://www.house.gov/reform/min/features/iraq_on_the_record
"This database identifies 237 specific misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq made by these five officials in 125 public appearances in the time leading up to and after the commencement of hostilities in Iraq."
#politics #war
archive.org #2072

Deskwin

http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/deskwin/old/1.0/readme.html
Deskwin is a simple little virtual desktop manager for Win32, GNU licensed.
#tools #windows
archive.org #2043

Socket Communications: Cordless Serial Adapter

http://www.socketcom.com/product/CS0400-479.asp
"Socket's Cordless Serial Adapter with Bluetooth Wireless Technology eliminates your conventional RS-232 serial cable, providing an easy-to-use, invisible connection." Okay, this rocks. I wonder how many legacy serial port things I have laying around th
#gadgets #hardware
archive.org #2040

Robot builder could 'print' houses

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994764
"It takes instructions directly from an architect's computerised drawings and then squirts successive layers of concrete on top of one other to build up vertical walls and domed roofs."
#future #robots
archive.org #2035

Penny Arcade!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2004-03-10#1873
'Earlier that night ... his mom chastised him, saying "Clint, I think your mother deserves better than to be killed by the translocator."'
#funny #gaming
archive.org #2030

In search of the deep Web

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/09/deep_web
"The "deep Web" is the great lode of databases, flight schedules, library catalogs, classified ads, patent filings, genetic research data and another 90-odd terabytes of data that never find their way onto a typical search results page."
#informationretrieval
archive.org #2028

Op-Ed Columnist: Promises, Promises

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/opinion/09KRUG.html
"Despite a string of dismal employment reports, the administration insists that its economic program, which has relied entirely on tax cuts focused on the affluent, will produce big job gains any day now."
#economy #politics
archive.org #2026

BillMaher: Convenient Democracy

http://www.safesearching.com/billmaher/blog/archives/000157.html
"Both Iraq and Afghanistan are taking baby steps toward democracy, which has to be a good thing, although sometimes you wonder if they’re really serious about it or they’re just going through the motions in hopes that we’ll leave."
#politics #war
archive.org #2018

Doctor Who writers hired.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-03/09/09.00.tv=
"The writers behind the British TV shows The League of Gentlemen and Coupling are joining the team working on the new U.K. Doctor Who series, the BBC announced."
#scifi
archive.org #2015

Liquid Knee Repair Possible

http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-03-08-3
"A gel that's poured into joint damage and solidifies in light has shown promise for regrowing cartilage, providing support to cells as they regenerate tissue."
#future #medicine
archive.org #2009

Weird Words: Etaoin shrdlu

http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-eta1.htm
What an odd coincidence. Today, I just happened to have been reading the chapter in Gödel, Escher, Bach that discusses SHRDLU
archive.org #2003

14" Widescreen Displays

http://macintosh.fryke.com/cgi-bin/macnews.cgi/2004/03/07#20040307_pbdisplays
"According to reliable sources, Apple is planning to replace the current 12" PowerBook model with a widescreen one that uses either a 13.3 or 14.1 inch display."
#apple
archive.org #1995

Mad Mad House a bad bad show

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?c=Article&call_pageid=968867495754&cid=1078355410744&col=969483191630&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1
"After watching tonight's episode, you may decide to cast an eternal spell on the jackasses who dreamed up this madness." I miss the old SciFi channel.
#scifi
archive.org #1975

'SERENITY' GREENLIT

http://news.yahoo.com/news?cid=1944&printer=1&tmpl=story2&u=/variety/20040303/va_ne_al/_serenity__greenlit_1
'Universal Pictures has greenlit "Serenity,'' the feature film based on Joss Whedon's Fox TV series "Firefly,'' which was canceled in late 2002 after just 11 episodes.'
#whedon
archive.org #1945

Doctor Fun

http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200403/df20040303.jpg
"Silly rabbit - that starchy sugar-filled breakfast cereal stopped your digestive tract again and almost killed you. When are you going to learn that Trix are for kids?"
#bunnies #funny
archive.org #1943

TerminalColors

http://www.culater.net/software/TerminalColors/TerminalColors.php
"TerminalColors is a SIMBL plugin that patches Apple's Terminal.app to add a color picker to allow the user to edit the ANSI colors."
#osx
archive.org #1941

My experiments with Tinderbox

http://www.istop.com/~maparent/tinderbox
"...I wanted to use full XSLT constructs on data in Tinderbox files. However, some of these XSLT constructs are a bit awkward to program, and I thought about creating XPath extensions for Tinderbox. I finally did this using Python extensions to the libxml
#tinderbox #xml
archive.org #1934

Bush Seeks to Use $1M in Transition Funds

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040302/D8124PT80.html
"The proposal, which will require Congress' approval, is the first time a president has sought to use public transition funds to prepare officials to enter a re-elected administration, White House officials and others say."
#politics
archive.org #1932

RFID Tags in US banknotes? Probably not.

http://boingboing.net/2004_03_01_archive.html#107824694185791461
What a kooky way to waste $1000: "These guys microwaved a bunch of $20 bills and because the bills became scorched, they have concluded that they contain RFID tags."
#odd
archive.org #1929

Tinderbox Shell Tools

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/tinderbox
"The Tinder/tool/box allow a shell programmer to manufacture a new file of notes for Eastgate's TinderBox hypertext writing environment, or to modify an existing file."
#tinderbox #tools
archive.org #1928

The Gift of Magnetic Vision

http://www.bmezine.com/news/pubring/20040226.html
"...he’d had a small silicone-coated neodymium magnet implanted, and it turned out to be far, far more than just a party trick!"
archive.org #1925

Gallery: Commodore 64 is Alive!

http://www.analogik.com/gallery_64_myer.asp
"Believe it or not, Commodore 64 is still being used for commercial purposes. Analogik has discovered this truly rare occurrence at MYER Centre main bus station terminal - Brisbane, Australia"
#oldschool
archive.org #1912

The Contiki Operating System and Desktop Environment

http://dunkels.com/adam/contiki
"The Contiki desktop environment is a highly portable, open source, Internet-enabled, multitasking, graphical operating system that runs on a variety of constrained systems, ranging from modern embedded 8-bit microcontrollers to old 8-bit homecomputers li
archive.org #1911