// pixelconsumption // » Custom Flash/ActionScript 2.0 project framework templates in XCode with “Test Movie”
http://blog.pixelconsumption.com/index.php?p=15
'With the tools and knowlegde from this article you will have a fully functional IDE with the ability to “Test Movie” from Xcode using the same key-shortcuts as Flash, “apple return".'
USATODAY.com - The GOP doesn't reflect America
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2004-08-30-moore-gopamerica_x.htm
"As tough of a pill as it is to swallow, Republicans know that the only way to hold onto power is to pass themselves off as, well, as most Americans. It's a good show."
RSS Merge stylesheet: Extreme Code Software
http://ex-code.com/rss-merge/manual.html
"RSS Merge 2.0 is a XSLT 1.1 stylesheet which merges several RSS 1.0 channels into one RSS 1.0 file and/or filters items by topics and subtopics. It also can remove old items to limit the number of items to 15 (or any number you specify)."
Phidgets - USB sensors, USB robot sensors, robot kits, hobby robots, robot parts
http://www.phidgetsusa.com/tutorials/tutorialhome.asp
"Build robotics, projects, prototypes, and new inventions using our USB Motor Controllers and USB Sensors built for quick incorporation into your projects."
Scobleizer: The blogosphere's reaction to Longhorn news
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/08/30.html#a8167
You know what? I think it take a lot of guts to link to all the negative posts.
Creating an RSS feed of the books you have checked out of the library
http://www.librarystuff.net/2004/08/creating-rss-feed-of-books-you-have_29.html
"The result is a Perl script that automatically connects to the web-based Dynix (aka Epixtech) OPAC and grabs a list of the items I've got checked out and the date they are due. It then creates an RSS feed that I can read in my newsreader every morning."
Mike Davidson: Introducing sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr
Damn slick replacement of select HTML elements with Flash, degrades gracefully.
NPR : Denied a Visa, Scholar Won't Teach at Notre Dame
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3879409#38;sourceCode=RSS
"Agreeing to a request from the Homeland Security Department, the State Department refuses to issue a visa to a Muslim European professor hired by Notre Dame." Score one for the good guys.
The Village Voice: Features: The 10 Ways Bush Screwed New York
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0434/barrett.php
ABCNEWS.com : Family Defends 'Hot Saucing' Kids
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Living/Hot_Saucing_Reaction_040830-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
"Melanie Butler was once given a drop of hot sauce on her tongue by her mother when she misbehaved as a child, and the memory of it stuck with her. Butler said the threat of hot sauce alone encouraged her to behave after the incident."
IL-Sen: Keyes blows his top
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/8/30/103313/259
"Watch Keyes, the Maryland resident running for Illinois Senate in Alabama, flip out on the host in this TV interview." What a loon.
phil ringnalda dot com: Her Wisdom's wisdom
http://philringnalda.com/blog/2004/08/her_wisdoms_wisdom.php
"This mess will clear up if you take that troublemaker there — What's your name? You, with the goatee — out and shoot him. Do it now." Not naming names, but if the shoe fits... Heh, heh.
Hypoglycemia & Neurosis
http://www.survivediabetes.com/hypt2.htm
"The conclusion that sugar is a defective food for people is inescapable." Been needing to get a handle on my own hypoglycemia and diet...
GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem
http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html
"GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium." Scary, but inevitable.
Doomed - presented by Newgrounds.com
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/188674
"Kill everything in this evil hybrid child of Smash TV and Gauntlet. Lots or weapons and monsters and randomly generated levels that will never be the same twice."
The Great American Shout Out | An Al Franken, Air America Radio Project
http://www.thegreatamericanshoutout.org/modules/event
"On September 2nd, 2004, at approximately 10 pm, George W. Bush will appear on television screens nationwide. For some of our fellow citizens, this will be a moment of joy. But for most of us, it will be the low point of an incredibly exasperating week."
SourceForge.net: sqlobject-discuss
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6673427
"if something you do raises a MySQL error (such as a duplicate key on insertion), SQLObject does not ever free the database connection used when that error was raised." Just ran into this...
Chill Out - Song by Youth Of Britain - Video by Rob Manuel & Joel Veitch
http://www.youthofbritain.com/chillout
KITTEN RIDING A MOTORCYCLE
The Search Engine Belt Buckle - Engadget - www.engadget.com
http://www.engadget.com/entry/6833839062762584
I think this is the signal for me to start bombing the internet.
Auto-Completing Textbox Demo
http://farm.tucows.com/2004/08/auto-complete%20demo.html
Singularity Update: Stable Plasma in a Levitated Torus :: Quantum Philosophy.net :: Linearly Accelerated Media
http://www.quantumphilosophy.net/modules.php?file=article&name=News&op=modload&sid=1438
"mmmmm, fusion doughnut"
Transporting Atom Notifications over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-saintandre-atompub-notify-00.txt
This is hot stuff. Pub-sub here we come. And I just happened to have been investigating Jabber again with something like this in mind...
GTAForums.com - I found a digital camera in the woods
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=144008&st=0
Godchecker - Your Guide To The Gods. Mythology with a twist!
http://www.godchecker.com
ClickOnDetroit.com - News - Massive Sterling Heights Sinkhole Continues To Grow
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/3672805/detail.html
"Several families remain evacuated and a stretch of 15 Mile Road remains closed Monday as a massive sinkhole continues to grow at more than one foot per hour, according to Local 4 reports." Holy crap. I used to live pretty close by there...
Science Blog - Detoxing Alzheimer's brains keeps cognitive deficits at bay
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/modules.php?file=article&name=News&sid=3766
"Now researchers have shown in a preliminary study that reducing the levels of isoprostanes, which specifically reflect oxidative damage in the brain, by draining cerebral spinal fluid can stave off future reductions in cognitive abilities. "
PostgreSQL and XML
http://www.throwingbeans.org/tech/postgresql_and_xml.html
"Here's a brief outline of the four production-ready XPath functions which represent the most complete XML support of any open source RDBMS."
You are but a fly in this man's face. And he is hungry.
http://www.expression.philips.com.br/artes/venc2003/obrasflash/rmello/o_incomodo.swf
Nick Bradbury: FeedDemon Crack
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2004/06/feeddemon_crack.html
"Please, if you're using a pirated version of my software, don't expect me to help you." Wow. Some pirates have cannonball cojones.
Weird Al Yankovic lyrics - It's All About The Pentiums lyric @ All The Lyrics
http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/weird_al_yankovic/running_with_scissors/its_all_about_the_pentiums
I much prefer Weird Al's "It's All About the Pentiums" to Usher's "Dot Com"
MapQuest: 324 S Main St Ann Arbor, MI
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?mapdata=OehTi+kPVgRJE6hPlmdAbP6vl/Jt8Oqn85F/AthMDRqnMbu/xTAhYPXhaPiOoMc8vxRmm30CMviP3+W6Ehby/K0dkXmOxEBRhK19D9hL5BqUShC7trGIgZDrhZH6Ck+fkPP8km70Xvfqt7ccOxGElK0HD+jpR6t5z7R9agwuvC2YTH0leVZvaYvjNDqbnXx4CcAdj8xFpxyrbod6WVhLPgJSQmjz0O4I0IvHK1cGxc+cnjeZeqfRX+5LRv5/dhxtBEnKzwVNt2p7sjLuy88s8N4aMPAGS1YlhP3Qus6Fyy4054GwI33+SQ1z6RhQGNrjmrsm/j7+5WVy8CMJqg5PuxvD+ABt6kjdmoVL4pN2ceNmisBxfJ/M+8CgpDzfpkb87RKW/lp7Mi5zbH/EBn9Ps+OoO+pAflTsSWZrcl0HKjuHppag4c0Ay+tK2evbaPq2nZtR/yuaUJg=&ovi=1&zoom=9
Coordinates closest to me. Anyone going to be there in a day and 6 hours? (Aug 23 7:59PM PDT, I think)
Addresses tied to "i love bees" coordinates
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/theloc.txt
I love bees
http://ilovebees.com/links.html
Longitude and latitude are appearing now. (Promotional game for Halo 2)
Knuckles vs. Zero
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/188154
Flash movies and video game sprites are the new medium for the sort of crude drawings of tanks and army guys I used to make when I was a little kid.
Biz Tech Design software comes with machine shop attached
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews/BizTech/2004/08/19/591202.html
"It's the Internet Revolution meets the Industrial Revolution: a new program that lets people design 3-D objects like car parts and door knobs in metal or plastic then order them online."
Origami Dragon
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?e=4&tmpl=story2&u=/040820/481/xjk10208201902
Tile based games
http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/tbw/index.html
"Here you can read some tutorials about making tile based games with Macromedia Flash."
BBC - Cult Television - Doctor Who - Picture Galleries - The Cybermen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/gallery/cybermen/index.shtml
original movie props from the Back To The Future trilogy
http://www.ketzer.com/backtothefuture/backtothefuture.html
Internet Archive: Search Engine "Amiga"
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=amiga+AND+mediatype:movies+AND+collection:computerchronicles
Wow. Searching for Commodore Amiga coverage in the Computer Chronicles.
Program Details for Commodore 64
http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=computerchronicles&collectionid=CC517_commodore_64
Very, very cool look back at the C64
Database snafu puts US Senator on terror watch list
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/19/senator_on_terror_watch
"It is not known exactly how Kennedy became mixed up in a national terrorist database - whether by accident, or as a practical joke, or as a Republican dirty trick to keep him out of Boston during the Democratic National Convention."
Beta: Atom support for news aggregator in Manila and Radio UserLand
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/radio-dev/message/8201
It's about time. Very nice!
Article: Language may shape human thought | New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996303
"Hunter-gatherers from the Pirahã tribe, whose language only contains words for the numbers one and two, were unable to reliably tell the difference between four objects placed in a row and five in the same configuration, revealed the study."
Article: Global warming to devastate Europe first | New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996302
"European winters will disappear by 2080 and extreme weather will become more common unless global warming across the continent is slowed, warns a major new report."
Date to Save - Missionary Dating Ministry Web Page
http://datetosave.com
"As you can probably tell, I'm a Christian who loves Jesus and cares for all humans, even the wicked. What you probably don't know is that I'm hot."
Dr. Fun for 2004/08/19
http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200408/df20040819.jpg
"Dougie annoyed the other theoretical physicists with his wasteful and unnecessary sport utility brain."
ASCII by Jason Scott: How It's Done: Digitizing and Culling
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000052.html
"I'm going to go over the process of taking my video footage to where I can edit it"
AnomicHTTPProxy: a freeware caching HTTP Proxy in Java with integrated search engine
http://www.anomic.de/AnomicHTTPProxy/index.html
This looks like what I was trying to do with Agent Frank!
Jason vs. Freddy vs. Ash?
http://www.avault.com/news/displaynews.asp?story=8182004-13330
"Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the studio is in negotiations with Sam Raimi (director of the Spider-Man movies) for a project titled Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash." This would *only* work if it were funny as hell.
ecto blog: ecto 2: And you thought you saw the last of it?
http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/archives/001087.php
"I have been working on a major upgrade of ecto for Mac OS version 10.3 or higher." Very, very nice.
glarkware :: death wears a cute bow
http://www.glarkware.com/securestore/c181846p16284892.2.html
"If women can be on the giving end of violence and doom just as much as the dudes, then they deserve their own symbol of death, lady-style."
Quirk Blog: The Chicken Riders
http://surgery-graphics.med.umich.edu/~matt/archives/2004_08_17.html#000563
"Because, after all, nothing says 'cute' like dressing up a pair of overalls so that it makes your kid look like he's riding a gigantic mutant chicken."
~stevenf: Transmit 2 PDF Service
http://stevenf.com/mt/archives/000619.php
'..."print" a PDF directly to an FTP server..."
Kempa.com: (Mariokart Double Dash)^8
http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/000570.html
"Eight Gamecubes were networked together in a LAN, and the S-video outs of each station were taken to a Video Toaster rig, which in turn had its output fed to a projector."
I Will Beat Pacman! - presented by Newgrounds.com
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/187076
I'M GOING TO GET A GODDAMN POWER PELLET AND EAT EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU GHOSTS!!!!! I JUST ATE A BANANA AND I DON'T FEEL LIKE A PRETZEL!!!
this is about atom (16 August 2004, Interconnected)
http://interconnected.org/home/2004/08/16/this_is_about_atom
"Atom says: Given everything else is in flux, here's our one fixed point. The post. The metadata of the post. The relationships between posts. That's it." This is one of the best explanations of Atom and what I love about it I've ever seen.
Article: Ancient Rome's fish pens confirm sea-level fears | New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996269
"It appears that nearly all the rise in sea level since Roman times has happened in the past 100 years, and is most likely the result of human activity."
The New York Times Technology Warner's Tryst With Bloggers Hits Sour Note
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/16/technology/16song.html?ei=5088&en=0501e86d56cb72c9&ex=1250395200&pagewanted=all&partner=rssnyt&position=
"...all four of the suspect comments had been posted from the same [IP] address... also the source of two e-mail messages that Ms. Bechtel sent to ... bloggers." Ouch. And yeah, I bet they were all from fan-employees of Warner...
Mouthful of Nitrogen.
http://www.alcaudon.com/humor/humor_nitrogen.html
"Turns out that, in accordance with popular belief, you really should not drink the stuff."
Blogcritics.org: If life begins at conception, then death begins at birth
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/16/105128.php
"Let's be pessimistic! Optimism is unfair!"
Main Page - Xbox-Linux
http://www.xbox-linux.org
"This Website is a Wiki" Hmm, making me want to check out Media-Wiki
The 25 most difficult questions you'll be asked on a job interview
http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/docs/25mdq.html
Chatango flash-based chat
http://deusx.chatango.com
Feedster Preps Paid RSS Links as Ads Expand
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1636107,00.asp
"Feedster Inc. is embracing RSS advertising with plans to add sponsored links into its feeds of search results."
BBC NEWS | Health | 'Cannabis' brain tumour drug hope
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3561686.stm
"An ingredient in marijuana may be useful for treating brain cancers, say Spanish researchers from Madrid."
ABCNEWS.com : Does Web Information Help Terrorists?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/US/internet_sensitive_info_040812-1.html
"John Young, a 69-year-old architect, was contacted a few weeks ago by Department of Homeland Security officials, who expressed concern about what he was posting on his Web site." Wow, I wondered if he'd get some attention from the spooks.
Agyris - Fantasy RPG Campaign Setting - Free and Universal Gaming
http://www.agyris.net/v3/ugt
Make your saving throws against this carpentry.
Surfin' Safari
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2004_08.html#006219
"I'm happy to report that we now have basic XSLT support working in Safari using libxslt" HOORAY!
Hello Kitty Desktop Cleaner -- Pink
http://jbox.cybrhost.com/PRODUCT/12625448
"A delightful item for your computer that could only come from Japan, this is the Hello Kitty Desktop Vacuum Cleaner."
Popular Science | Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind?
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,676265,00.html
"Awed at the pace of technological advances, a faction of geeky writers believes our world is about to change so radically that envisioning what comes next is nearly impossible."
Wired News: It's Just the 'internet' Now
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,61512,00.html?tw=rss.CUL
'Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the "I" in internet' I remember when they de-capitalized email.
turns steel into peanut brittle - S1ngularity, and why I won't be going on the rapture of the geeks. (Keeping up with the future)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/matociquala/348697.html
"Very very smart people aren't necessarily right more often than anybody else. They're just wrong faster, and in more innovative ways."
Semantic Planet Library - Rdf To Triples Stylesheet
http://www.semanticplanet.com/library/RdfToTriplesStylesheet
"...if the XML to triples production occured inside an XSLT stylesheet, many more languages could be used to build interesting RDF applications." Seems very cool.
The Onion | Kerry Unveils One-Point Plan For Better America
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4032
"Delivering the central speech of his 10-day "Solution For America" bus campaign tour Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry outlined his one-point plan for a better America: the removal of George W. Bush from the White House."
Philip K. Dick - How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (Essay)
http://purpleslurple.net/ps.php?theurl=http://www.geocities.com/pkdlw/howtobuild.html#purp296
Salon.com Technology | When machines breed
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/08/12/evolvable_hardware/index_np.html
"Evolvable hardware -- gadgets that design themselves -- can get the job done, even if humans have no idea how they do it."
Conspiracy Torrents - http://conspiracy.hopto.org:6969
http://conspiracy.hopto.org:6969
Reason: John Perry Barlow 2.0
http://www.reason.com/0408/fe.bd.john.shtml
"The Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents his body -- and his politics."
"The Cookie Monster" by Vernor Vinge
http://www.analogsf.com/0406/cookiemonster.shtml
"Someday we’ll be coming for you, Gerry. And it will be sooner than you can dream." What happens when cheap labor has thousands of years to plot a revolt.
PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook
http://pleac.sourceforge.net
"Following the great Perl Cookbook (by Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, published by O'Reilly) which presents a suite of common programming problems solved in the Perl language, this project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement t
The Metasploit Project
http://www.metasploit.com
"This site was created to fill the gaps in the information publicly available on various exploitation techniques and to create a useful resource for exploit developers."
Gmail Agent API - Mail Notifier - Address Book Importer * Johnvey.com
http://johnvey.com/features/gmailapi
"There are two distinct components here: an open source Gmail API written for the .NET framework, and a proof of concept Windows application built on top of that API that provides basic remote Gmail functions."
Science Blog - Pineal Gland May Have Evolved To Improve Vision
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/modules.php?file=article&name=News&sid=3602
Consult your pineal gland.
XML.com: Implementing REST Web Services: Best Practices and Guidelines
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/08/11/rest.html
"The purpose of this article is to summarize some best practices and guidelines for implementing RESTful web services."
what id like from (13 August 2004, Interconnected)
http://interconnected.org/home/2004/08/13/what_id_like_from
"Let's have a web-wide del.icio.us."
The Python Paradox
http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
"And people don't learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know."
CSS tabs with Submenus :: Kalsey Consulting Group
http://kalsey.com/2003/05/css_tabs_with_submenus
"I created a method of adding submenus to your tabbed navigation in which the submenu lists are nested into the parent navigation list list"
VERTIGO: WE3
http://www.dccomics.com/comics/vt_display.html?cm_vt_itemCode=we31&month=August
"The government has spent millions to fuse the firepower of a battalion with the nervous systems of a dog named Bandit, a cat named Tinker, and a rabbit named Pirate." Whoa. Twisted. Must read.
The Onion | U.S. Military Clears A-Team Of Charges
http://www.theonion.com/news?issue=4032&n=1
"After more than 30 years spent hiding in the Los Angeles underground as wanted criminals, the members of the crack commando unit Alpha Team, commonly known as the A-Team, were cleared of all charges brought against them by the U.S. military, an army offi
tolyn: Evil Squirrel
http://www.livejournal.com/users/tolyn/18009.html
"He shot straight up, flew over my windshield, and impacted me squarely in the chest."
Boing Boing: How Dotster cost me days and days of downtime: stay away from this registrar
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/12/how_dotster_cost_me_.html
"Bastards."
[IP] Is Buffy the Vampire Slayer "indecent?" FCC decides... [fs]
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200408/msg00132.html
[IP] more on Automobile "Black Box" Data Usage
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200408/msg00134.html
Actually, I keep thinking I'd like to have a CarChip, just to observe my own probably horrendous driving behavior
Japanese T-shirt "Baka Gaijin" (Stupid Foreigner)
http://jbox.cybrhost.com/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?function=product.display&id=12607661
birdhouse.org: Time != Money
http://birdhouse.org/blog/archives/001393.php
"NO! Time is not money. You can always get money back. You can never get time back."
Ferreting out copyright scofflaws
http://news.com.com/Ferreting%20out%20copyright%20scofflaws/2100-1012_3-5303966.html
It is futile to try to make The Man look cool.
eBay.com Seller List:stargateprops
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems=&page=1&rows=50&showpics=1&since=-1&sort=3&stab=0&userid=stargateprops
Random props from Stargate SG-1
Yahoo! News - Saddam gave up all Iraqi WMD after 1991 Gulf War, says former nuclear chief
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/iraq_weapons_britain
"Everything was destroyed, such that the programme couldn't be restarted at the time at all, and it never restarted," Jaffar said
Welcome to Growl!
http://growl.info
"Growl is a global notification system for Macintosh OS X. This allows any application to send it a notification, and then it displays it."
LanOSD's Homepage
http://oomz.net/Lanosd
"So, LanOSD allows you to make your own notifications, in a cool, lickable animated semi-translucent iconified Aqua Goo way."
The Man in Blue: Onclick JavaScript parameters
http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/08/05
"Unobtrusive JavaScript requires that you don't place JavaScript calls directly in HTML code." Clean HTML, separate CSS and unobtrusive JS. It all seems so slick and elegant - I wish I were doing this stuff daily.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Bonus Disc Movie Blowout
http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Media/Media.htm?CS_pid={BD3B322C-6152-488B-A5F0-99B88229CDA7}
*drool*
American Science & Surplus: Incredible Stuff at Unbelievable Prices
http://www.sciplus.com/category.cfm?category=22&subsection=2
Japan Today - News - New Tamagotchi hits U.S. market - Japan's Leading International News Network
http://www.japantoday.com/e?cat=4&content=news&id=308387
"Tamagotchi Connection, the new generation of the Japanese virtual pet Tamagotchi, went on sale in New York and San Francisco on Tuesday ahead of nationwide release Sunday." Funny, I was just looking for new batteries for my recently unearthed Tamagotchi
Sea and Sky and Land - GRRR!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mephron/349969.html
"That's NOT YOUR DECISION! I could be carrying a copy of Hustler in here, and it's STILL not your decision!"
Apple - Downloads - Demos & Updates - Airburst Extreme 1.0
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/demos_updates/airburstextreme.html
"This followup to Airburst and has been re-written from the ground up..." Modernization of Warlords, crossed with a puzzle game (sorta).
MSFN - Universal Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide - Page 1
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49
"This guide will describe the easiest way possible to slipstream (also known as 'Integrate') a Service Pack into Windows 2000, XP or 2003."
Elements or Lower :: Geekery : XML : XHTML-to-Markdown.html
http://www.lowerelement.com/Geekery/XML/XHTML-to-Markdown.html
"I’m making available this XSLT stylesheet to transform XHTML into Markdown-formatted text, under a Creative Commons license."
SciScoop || Experimental Gene Therapy Turns Procrastinators Into Workaholics
http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2004/8/11/65015/9578
One step closer to manufacturing Zipheads.
WikiPing : WikiPing
http://recentchanges.net/index.php?mind=WikiPing
"WikiPing is a standard to announce changes made in any wiki that supports this standard."
Penny Arcade! The Other Side
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-08-11
Behold! For now I wear the HUMAN PANTS!
VDARE.com: 08/04/04 - A Colossus With Weak Knees
http://vdare.com/roberts/colossus.htm
"No happy ending is possible for the US."
Daring Fireball: The Art of the Parlay, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Platform Licensing and Market Share
http://daringfireball.net/2004/08/parlay
'We might have ended up with something merely “new and improved”, which isn’t nearly as exciting as “insanely great”.'
The seder's grab bag
http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/scripts
diesel sweeties: Fatal Excretion Error
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1021
"Why is the world broken?!"
Alzheimer’s sufferers are more likely to have jobs that are less mentally challenging than people without Alzheimer’s disease
http://www.news-medical.net/print_article.asp?id=3931
"...it could be that higher levels of mental demands result in increased brain cell activity, which may help maintain a ‘reserve’ of brain cells that resists the effects of Alzheimer’s disease..." Not the only solid conclusion, but just to be safe:
Apple - Downloads - Action & Adventure - Gish 1.2
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/action_adventure/gish.html
"Life isn’t easy when you’re a 12 pound ball of tar..." This. Game. Rules.
Bush Zones Go National
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040816&s=hightower
"Once ensconced in the White House, the Bushites institutionalized the art of dissing dissent, routinely dispatching the Secret Service to order local police to set up FSZs to quarantine protesters wherever Bush goes"