RetroZone - USB Atari Adapters
http://www.sealiecomputing.com/retrozone/retropadatari.html
"Works with 1 and 2 button digital joysticks for Atari 130, Atari 800XL, Atari 800XE, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Commodore 64, and many more systems!"
John Carmack: "This sucks."
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/20040728-4048.html
"Claiming patent rights not just on a specific piece of code, but on an algorithm is hardly different from claiming to hold a patent on the quadratic equation."
Virginity Rules!
http://www.virginityrules.com
Er. Hmm. I guess that's what the hip kids are doing these days?
Mouthful Gets Metro Passenger Handcuffs and Jail (washingtonpost.com)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22456-2004Jul28.html
'Farbstein said Willett violated the rules. "Chewing is eating," she said.' Reg required, thank bugmenot.com
Metal Gear Fiesta - The Twin Tacos
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/173404
Okay, now this made me spew coffee.
Proximity - presented by Newgrounds.com
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/183428
Pretty cool little strategy came in Flash, involving laying tiles of various strengths on a hex grid and capturing territory
Alien Hominid First Look - Alien Hominid Previews for PlayStation 2 at GameSpot
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/alienhominid/preview_6103739.html
"The brainchild of Newgrounds founder Tom Fulp and artist Dan Paladin, this simple game was a funny and surprisingly hardcore shooter that put you in control of an alien and asked you to blast everything in your path." Looks amazingly fun.
Manish Vij: Damn furriners: State political party thinks Indian script sure is funny-lookin’
http://www.vij.com/archive/damn_furriners.html
"Basically, someone decided to type in some random text in English and change the font to Punjabi." Wow. Disgusting. Makes Michigan look WONDERFUL.
Believing in Hell Has Its Benefits
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?section=news&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5799023&type=oddlyEnoughNews
"In countries where large percentages of the population believe in hell, there seems to be less corruption and a higher standard of living" Well... I guess if you have to believe in something...
Achewood - July 28, 2004
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=07282004
"OH HEY ARE YOU THE THING THAT CRAPPED BY THE GAS STATION" "YEAH DID YOU LIKE THAT" "IT MADE A LOT OF SENSE TO ME:
GameDev.net -- Designing Games for the Wage Slave
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/design/features/wageslave
"Make every moment count. I don't play games to punish myself. I play them to be entertained, rewarded, and challenged." *applause* Here, here.
MirrorMask (2004)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366780
"MirrorMask centers on Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life..." Directed by Dave McKean, Written by Neil Gaiman. Whoo!
watch: Efficiently run a script on file changes on OS X with kqueue
http://michael-mccracken.net/blog/blosxom.pl/2004/07/28#meetWatch
"It uses kqueue to watch the files on the argument list. If a file is modified, watch prints out the name of the modified file and runs your script."
notes on: perl lightning talks, impressionistically rendered
http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2004/07/28#1091064480
"Randal Schwartz (looks like Randal. Certainly wearing Randal-like clothes. He's the Hooter's guy, right? I always get him and Tom Phoenix confused. Okay, definitely Randal.)"
Incessant popping noise
http://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2004/07/incessant-popping-noise-few-days-ago.html
"a few days ago the speakers on my 12" Powerbook started making an incessant popping noise that sounds very much like a spike being sent to them, seemingly at random." Same thing happens occasionally on my 12" PowerBook.
MICHAEL MOORE/O'REILLY SHOWDOWN AT CONVENTION
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2004/07/28/20040728_004802_dnc4.htm
"M: Say ‘I Bill O’Reilly would sacrifice my child to secure Fallujah’ O: I’m not going to say what you say, you’re a, that’s ridiculous" Heh, heh. Looks like Michael Moore handles himself pretty well here.
EFF: High-Definition Personal Video Recorder Cookbook
http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/hdtv-introHY.php
"So you want to build your own HDTV personal video recorder before the broadcast flag mandate takes effect on July 30, 2005, leaving you with nothing but devices laden with Hollywood-imposed restrictions?"
ZopeZen - Why the hell hasn't Page Templates taken over the world?
http://www.zopezen.org/Members/andy/news_item.2004-07-28.7377536964
'So how do we make Page Templates take over the world? Like Mutt: "All templating languages suck. This one just sucks less."'
Baby Bunnies
http://forums.paw-talk.net/showthread.php?p=188699#post188699
These pictures have broken the cute-o-meter.
Cat droppings yield chic coffee
http://www.aboutcoffee.net/2004/07/cat-droppings-yield-chic-coffee.html
"A food scientist has cracked the secrets of the world's most expensive coffee, Kopi Luwak, whose beans pass through the intestinal tract of an Indonesian civet before being roasted and savoured."
NNTP syndicated weblogs for everybody!
http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/6704.html
"RSS and bring some real syndication to weblogs."
A vote for Kerry is a vote for Teresa Heinz
http://radiofreeblogistan.com/2004/07/27/a_vote_for_kerry_is_a_vote_for_teresa_heinz.html
"The woman was amazing, spectacular, and truly inspired."
You Know What Part » Ann Arbor Idiocy - Now They’re Banning Grills
http://youknowwhatpart.com/index.php?p=155
"Of course, in Ann Arbor, things like this are done in the summer, so as not to invoke the wrath of students."
helmintholog: Where the money went
http://www.thewormbook.com/helmintholog/archives/001242.html#001242
"Using the figure for March this year, the average worker would have to work for two months without spending any money at all on anything, or paying any taxes either, before they had paid off the average credit card debt."
Jon Udell: Kimbro Staken's XPath-searchable blog
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/09/16.html
"I just love this idea of incorporating XPath into RESTian URLs"
mnot’s Web log: Dictionary as API?
http://www.mnot.net/blog/2004/07/26/xmlfragment
"There are a lot of details to work out here, of course, but I must say I like the feel of using a dictionary here." Looks like quasi-idiomatic Python access to REST resources.
the early days of tech support
http://strangeplaces.net/weirdthings/techsupport.html
"Me Lorto. Help. Fire not work."
These web sites are identical—or are they? [phnk]
http://phnk.com/design/survey
"What is hence noteworthy is that all these designs resemble themselves very much." Er, well, they *are* all blogs, aren't they? I mean, variety yes, but one would expect a lot of commonalities between blogs.
More phone users are hanging up land lines
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/life/2004/07/23morephoneusersa.html
"More and more people each year are cutting the cord as cell-phone plans become cheaper, reception becomes better and phones come equipped with more functions like text messaging." I haven't had a land line in about 2 1/2 years.
USAO/CDCA Press Release: CINCINNATI MAN CHARGED WITH STREAMING ILLEGAL COPIES OF SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SHOW OVER THE INTERNET
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cac/pr2004/050.html
"As early as 2001, McGaughey provided visitors to his website the opportunity to download copies of Stargate SG-1 episodes." Hmm, still disgusting that the PATRIOT Act was invoked, but this sheds some different light.
SG-1 Archive Forums - SG-1 Archive Charged with Copyright Infringement
http://www.sg1archive.com/forums/index.php?s=fe7addd31c72c7a3733190261f1fdc21&showtopic=6807&st=216#entry212094
"The REAL reason for this lawsuit was that divx bootlegs of nearly (all?) every episode, up until a couple years ago, were available here for download. THAT'S why he got raided." Hmm, further down the rabbit hole.
Stargate Information Archive - Federal Charges Filed Against SG-1 Archive
http://www.sg1archive.com/nightmare.shtml
"Federal charges were filed against Adam McGaughey, creator of the popular SG1Archive.com website - a fan website devoted to the MGM-owned television show Stargate SG-1." And I just was just watching SG1 as I read this. Absolutely disgusting.
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
http://www.9-11commission.gov
"The Commission has released its final report, available below in PDF format."
Fighter pilots could command drone 'swarms' | New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996200
"Jet fighter pilots could command a whole swarm of planes from the air, using a system developed by a British aerospace company." Sounds like "options" from Gradius :)
Voyage to Our Hollow Earth
http://www.voyagehollowearth.com
"Would you be interested in a once-in-a-lifetime chance to discover Our Hollow Earth first hand?"
Steampunk: Victorian Adventurers in a Past that Wasn't
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9094/STEAM2.html
Tread lightly: Interesting links: Fortress America
http://maikimo.net/weblog/sideblog/archives/2004/07/index.html#003383
"The evil spell / mass delusion that’s been gripping many of us in the U.S. these last four years, causing us to support these Bush guys against our interests and better judgment (and in the case of us Christians, against our bedrock theology), can’
we went for a tour (25 July 2004, Interconnected)
http://interconnected.org/home/2004/07/25/we_went_for_a_tour
I love reading Matt Webb's entries, especially since they seem very hypertextual to me, and every link deserves an exploratory hover to reveal a commentary title before clicking through.
www.AndrewSullivan.com: The Conservative Party (Kerry's Democrats)
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/print.php?artnum=20040725
"At almost every juncture, where prudence might have been called for, Bush opted for winging it. Whatever else his methodology is, it can scarcely be called conservative."
Rands In Repose: Brains in a Bucket on Alpha Centauri
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2004/05/19/brains_in_a_bucket_on_alpha_centauri.html
"If your goal in life is to be influential... to attempt to change the world. You should be weblogging."
Tofu jerky
http://www.chairthrower.org/tofujerky
"This page is currently 14th when you search Google for tofu jerky. Most of the pages in front of it are actually cribbed versions of mine."
Joi Ito's Web: Roger Ailes complaing about Outfoxed
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2004/07/26/roger_ailes_complaing_about_outfoxed.html
If someone thinks CNN or Al-Jazeera is doing a bad job, they should say it.
Russell Beattie Notebook - My NASA Mac
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007933.html
"A nastygram from NASA that my computer is a government computer and well, they're watching me." Odd...
How to design an interactive RSS scraper
http://frassle.rura.org/howToDesign
"I hope this motivates someone to build a better scraper. We could use one! And if you want my input/assistance on such a project, let me know."
Inspirational Technology: XPath based Python Dictionaries
http://www.xmldatabases.org/WK/blog/1964_XPath_based_Python_Dictionaries.item
'In my "secret" efforts to finally make some real progress on Syncato I just added a pretty cool feature to the Syncato XMLFragment API that allows you to treat an XML document sort of like a Python dictionary.'
Juha’s KITT dashboard project
http://www.pp.htv.fi/jterho1/drawings/kitt
"The second oldest Knight Rider page on the Web – Online since October 24, 1995"
Bush's reckless indifference to the nightmare scenario.
http://corrente.blogspot.com/2004_03_07_corrente_archive.html#107893834539678659
"Tell me again why the Republicans are so good on national security? I keep forgetting"
Say, has anyone noticed that Bush has decided to fight a dirty war against 1.5 billion Muslims?
http://corrente.blogspot.com/archives/2004_07_11_corrente_archive.html#109007935830735781
"...the United States is going to lose its character as a constitutional republic, plant the cultural seeds of fascism, and lose a city or two to nuclear weapons through blowback."
Culture Wars
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/culturewars.html
Use a Smart Playlist to make regular backups of your music in iTunes
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93474
"You can use a Smart Playlist in iTunes to make regular, incremental backups of your music."
Museum Considers Excrement Power
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?section=news&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5680650&type=oddlyEnoughNews
"Britain's Science Museum says it is considering a radical way of paying its hefty energy bills -- using visitors' excrement."
Democracy in the Balance
http://sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&article=040810&issue=soj0408
"How do we nurture the healing side of religion over the killing side? How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?"
Shirt Folding Video
http://mobile.ajou.ac.kr/k31001/video/cloth_folding.mpg
Okay... so I'm WAY late to seeing this one. But now that I've seen it, I want to take my shirt off and try folding it.
Your data is at risk - from everything
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/14/your_datas_is_at_risk
Googledorks!
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews
"googleDork (gOO gôl'Dôrk) noun 1. Slang. An inept or foolish person as revealed by Google.Entries by Category"
Client Side PHP in Internet Explorer
http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?ct=1&id=181248
"While messing with PHP 5.0.0 figured it's finally time to take at Wez Furlongs Activescript SAPI for PHP."
Red Wine Compound May Extend Life
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/science_aging_dc
"The compound that makes red wine a healthful drink may also hold the secret to a longer life, scientists reported on Wednesday."
DrunkenBlog: Evan Schoenberg of AdiumX
http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000306.html
"Another special treat for my 12 loyal readers: Evan Schoenberg, co-lead developer on AdiumX was gracious enough to sit down for another lengthy chat about a whole range of topics."
Something in the way she moves
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2004/07/05/something_in_the_way_she_moves?pg=full
"Author on women's issues takes a look at chess and the position of the queen"
The Hacker's Diet
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet
"How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition"
Area businesses, U-M do battle with 'stencil graffiti'
http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1089729713117560.xml=
"...some residents do not want to see the graffiti removed and worry about what could replace it." Personally, I loved the graffiti in Ann Arbor
bo logh
http://bologh.blogspot.com
Er.. um.. oh.. it's.. well, you see it's a blog written in Klingon. Yes, that's right: in Klingon.
Fire department bars book-burning
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/07/12/no.book.burning.ap/index.html
"A church's plan for an old-fashioned book-burning has been thwarted by city and county fire codes." Awww.. too bad. Though, really, I would prefer that they'd be allowed to do it.
morons.org - What some of our country's founders thought about Christianity
http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?id=5308§ionid=3
'The "founding fathers" were not devout Christians despite what the religious right likes to claim'
Web Development Restarts (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001379
"The train to the future is starting up again!"
the Complete works of H. P. Lovecraft
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft
Working Big Screen Television - Lord Jim's Dollhouse and Minis
http://lordjimsdollhouses.safeshopper.com/30/1400.htm?492=
"Your dolls will never have to miss their Soap-Opera's again, or the local news and weather."
The Real Enemy Staring Us in the Face
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/opinion/12HERB.html
"I don't know what the administration was thinking when it invaded Iraq even as the direct threat from bin Laden and Al Qaeda continued to stare us in the face."
10 are shot in 8 hours in city
http://www.freep.com/news/locway/guns12_20040712.htm
"Ten people were shot in an eight-hour period during the weekend in Detroit -- a number that police said was not excessive." Again, happy to be working here.
Word Soup: Downstream
http://www.wordsoup.com/word/archives/001503.html
"I maintain a pretty deep rooted disgust for people who make the easiest choice, with no awareness that all of their dead kittens eventually flow downstream."
The Onion | Nation’s Liberals Suffering From Outrage Fatigue
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4027&n=3
"According to a study released Monday by the Hammond Political Research Group, many of the nation's liberals are suffering from a vastly diminished sense of outrage" Heh, heh.
Blazing sofas
http://www.michigandaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/40ea3fa2029c2
"As early as July 19, the Ann Arbor City Council could vote on and approve a measure to ban all porch couches, claiming they present a fire hazard and should not be allowed for the sake of safety." Nearly every house rented to students has a couch on the
Buy a GBA Flash Advance Linker Copier for Gameboy Advance
http://www.linker4u.com/pp/linker4u.asp
Hmm. I would actually like one of these so that I can tinker around with programming on a GBA.
Buy Gradius V - Play-Asia.com
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-r-70-2qk-15-Gradius.html
"The Vic Viper returns in Gradius V - Konami's classic space-shooter series that has been specifically designed for Sony PlayStation 2."
July Surprise?
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040719&s=aaj071904
'"it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any] HVT [High Value Targets] were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July"--the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Boston.'
NBC10.com - News - Cameras Catch Car Thieves On Tape
http://www.nbc10.com/news/3503464/detail.html
'The special cars called "bait cars." They have keys left inside, and the cars are loaded with cameras, and GPS satellite trackers.'
Roland FR-7 V-Accordion :: Overview
http://www.roland.com/products/en/FR-7
"Announcing the World's First Complete Digital Accordion" HAH!
Buy one kia, get one free
http://mesh.diaweblog.com/item?id=11943
"finally found printed proof that they actually do sell cars this way in PA (and MD too I guess)" Wow.
Plastic: Canadian Rock Invasion Possible? Or Will It Be Stopped At The Border?
http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=04/07/07/17004492
"Some of the top Canadian rock bands of the last several years have found the world's longest unarmed border to be a greater barrier to popularity than expected." I am, of course, a gigantic Rush fan.
Synthetic Serendipity, by Vernor Vinge
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jul04/0704far.html
"In this futuristic tale, Mike Villas is good at playing games. He's about to find out if he's any good at playing people"
USB FM Transmitter
http://www.engineeredaudio.com/products/aurius.html
"Think of it as your very own radio station on your desktop"
XSLTs for RSS and Atom Feeds
http://manalang.com/archives/2004/06/17/xslts-for-rss-and-atom-feeds
"Just in case anyone out there is ever looking for examples of an XSLT to transform an RSS or Atom feed to HTML, here they are."
Surgery without a cut to the skin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3874437.stm
"A new technique might allow surgeons to operate on internal organs without making any cuts in the skin, say US researchers."
Programming doesn't begin to define computer science
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04186/341012.stm
"The tech meltdown ... caused a decline in computer science enrollments at colleges and universities across the country. This wouldn't happen if people understood the real goals of computer science."
Computer Science Isn't Programming
http://www.windley.com/2004/07/07.html#a1317
Why I'll use Dashboard: Quick Reference
http://michael-mccracken.net/blog/blosxom.pl/2004/07/07#Dashboard
"I just thought of a killer kind of widget that I'll be using constantly - the quick-reference card."
In Detroit, 5 die in a 6-hour span
http://www.freep.com/news/locway/guns6_20040706.htm
"7 shootings, 1 stabbing mark holiday weekend" Fuck, now this makes me happy to work in Detroit.
XML is tough [dive into mark]
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/07/06/tough
'You know what I want for Christmas? Markup Barbie. You pull a string and she says “XML is tough.”'
Bitflux Blog :: Spotlight-like live search added
http://blog.bitflux.ch/p1735.html
"Inspired by Apples new Spotlight feature, I implemented something similar using JavaScript with XMLHttpRequest and a little bit of PHP on the serverside." Holy crap, it's fast!
extisp.icio.us - deusx
http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi?name=deusx
Tags I use on del.icio.us, sized by volume, scattered around.
LaughingMeme: Cascading Prerequisites
http://laughingmeme.org/archives/002157.html#002157
"...the game is to find the single module with the largest dependency tree, that will bring in the highest number of high quality libraries on a virgin install." All hail the mighty CPAN
CSS Pencils v3.1
http://www.designdetector.com/tips/csspencils.php
"THERE ARE NO IMAGES ON THIS PAGE!" This page features a small image entirely composed of colored div pixels. MY HEAD A SPLODE.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Crash Landing)
http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/carcrash01.asp#add
"Video shows car striking another vehicle in an intersection, sending the second car into a pedestrian." Ouch.
Achewood - Variety Hour - Recipes: Neapolitan Shooter
http://www.achewood.com/variety.php?allnav=&date=08142003
"Man, it took me FOREVER to figure out how to layer a drink so that all the layers don’t just mix together into some brain-lookin’ thing!"
Statement of Jim Wallis to the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee
http://maikimo.net/weblog/sideblog/archives/2004/07/index.html#003357
"God, how my faith has been stolen."
Moore's Public Service
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/02/opinion/02KRUG.html
'And for all its flaws, "Fahrenheit 9/11" performs an essential service.'
Into the Abyss
http://www.d-n-i.net/creveld/into_the_abyss.htm
"As some people predicted even before it all started, the American War against Iraq proved so easy as to make one wonder why it had to be fought at all."
New Tool: w3c xhtml validator to RSS
http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/2004/07/02/new_tool_w3c_xhtml_validator_to_rss.html
"Well, I’m finding it useful anyway."
Artificial Sweetener May Disrupt Body's Ability To Count Calories, According To New Study
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040630081825.htm
I always did feel like diet pop and such screwed with me almost like I'd had *too* much sugar
Language Log: Just so!
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001145.html
"Infant pacification may have led to the origin of language"
Sam Ruby: Knot Theory
http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2004/06/29/Knot-Theory
I take a perverse pleasure in integrating disparate things too. I really need to find a company that'll take me and let me put "Perverse Disparity Integrator" on business cards.
Depp Voices Corpse Bride
http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,42722363,178,f
"Johnny Depp, who has collaborated frequently with director Tim Burton, will provide the lead voice in Burton's upcoming stop-motion fantasy film Corpse Bride at the same time he stars in Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Daring Fireball: Dashboard vs. Konfabulator
http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/dashboard_vs_konfabulator
"… when a utility is designed to compensate for a hole in Mac OS X, the developer should not expect the hole to remain unfilled by Apple forever." Tired of hearing about this whole Konfabulator-stolen-by-Apple thing, but I'm glad John Gruber nailed i