athf quote links

links to a bunch of athf quote lists

http://www.geocities.com/audrahammer/athf.html

cs paper generator

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/

tiki bar opening review

http://www.tikibars.net/tiki/tikisolo.html
The Tiki Bar in Solomons Island is not a huge tropical paradise like Kona Kai (Chicago, IL) or The Tonga Room (San Francisco, CA), but it has a certain charm that makes me want to rate it more highly than it might otherwise deserve.

nintendo got a restraining order

http://www.nescapades.com/gameroom.htm
some dude's insane videogame room with assloads of systems and games

hitchhiker's jokoid to the galaxy

http://planetmagrathea.com/longreview1.html
First, although it sounds like it might be a wacky and zany idea, it simply isn't funny at all, either in its concept or its execution. (It's what Ken Campbell calls a jokoid - something that has the shape of a joke but is not actually funny.)

Hitchhiker's is not so bad that it's good. It's just miserably, depressingly bad. It misses the point by a light year. Is it a good movie? No. Is it a good version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Definitely not. It is ill-conceived, badly written, poorly directed and worst of all staggeringly unfunny. It is a travesty of a film. I mourn for it, I really do.

canada has an RIAA?

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/geist/
This article examines CRIA’s claims by conducting an analysis of industry figures. It concludes that loss claims have been greatly exaggerated and challenges the contention that recent sales declines are primarily attributable to file–sharing activities. Moreover, the article assesses the financial impact of declining sales on Canadian artists, concluding that revenue collected through a private copying levy system already adequately compensates Canadian artists for the private copying that occurs on peer–to–peer networks.

islam simplified

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/sermons/allah.html
Sermon by Pastor Deacon Fred
Most members of this congregation have never seen a Mooslim in person. You've seen them on the news, blowing up buildings, and in movies, stealing babies and killing Christians. I've seen a few of these so-called "people," up close when I've visited the Holy Land. You don't want to get too close, because they don't use deodorant and they sweat garlic. It's not pleasant.

oracle analytic functions by example

http://www.orafaq.com/articles/archives/000060.htm
oracle select over syntax
This brings out the main difference between aggregate and analytic functions. Though analytic functions give aggregate result they do not group the result set. They return the group value multiple times with each record. As such any other non-"group by" column or expression can be present in the select clause, for example, the column EMPNO in Query-2.

http://www.akadia.com/services/ora_analytic_functions.html
Analytic functions compute an aggregate value based on a group of rows. They differ from aggregate functions in that they return multiple rows for each group. The group of rows is called a window and is defined by the analytic clause. For each row, a "sliding" window of rows is defined. The window determines the range of rows used to perform the calculations for the "current row". Window sizes can be based on either a physical number of rows or a logical interval such as time.

10 life/work suggestions

http://www.miltonglaserposters.com/news/pub_10.htm
All I ever wanted to do was to make images and create form. This instinct for form-making seems to be something that is very characteristic of our entire species. It’s one of the things that almost defines humankind. I like the idea of cultures that do not have an idea of art as a separate activity from their daily life, such as many African groups, where there isn’t a word that approaches the idea of art. They are very interested in containing magic but that is another thing. Among the Balinese, there is no word for art. They just say ‘we do things the best that we can.' Which is a nice way to think about what we all do. I am going to tell you everything that I know about the practice of design. It is a sort of collage of bits and pieces that I have assembled over 50 years. It includes a lot of things I’ve said before but I’ve repackaged them rather attractively. This is what I’ve learned...

britannica takeover of wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:April_1%2C_2005/2005_Britannica_takeover_of_Wikimedia

mitch hedburg quotes

http://hometown.aol.com/valleygirl1983/mitch.html
http://www.mitchhedberg.net/

"I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long."

"I type 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language."

"It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa! Where's my wallet? But, hey this song is funky."

"I wrote a letter to my dad- I wrote, I really enjoy being here. But I accidently wrote rarely, instead of really. But I still wanted to use it, so I crossed it out and wrote I rarely drive steamboats, Dad. There's a lot you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator. This letter took a harsh turn right away."

"And then at the end of the letter i like to write P.S.- This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated."

"The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how much I play, I'll never be as good a a wall. I played a wall once. They're relentless."

"When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away."

"I like rice. Rice is great if your hungry and want 2000 of something."

"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it."

"I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad a turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastromi,.Some one needs to tell the turkey, man, just be yourself."

"I lke refried beans. I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time."

"This product that was on TV was available for four easy payments of $19.95. I would like a product that was available for three easy payments and one complicated payment. We can't tell you which payment it is, but one of these payments is going to be hard."

"I was at this casino minding my own business and this guy came up to me and said your gonna have to move you're blocking a fire exit. As if there were a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you are flamable and have legs you are never blocking a fire exit."

"I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me they just say "Mitch," and I say "What?" and turn my head slightly."

"My friend said to me "You know what I like? Mashed poatoes," I was like, Dude, you gotta give me time to guess. If your ging to quiz me, you must put a pause in there."

"An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You would never seen an Escalator temporarily out of order sign, just Escaloaor temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience."

"I was walking down the street with my friend and he said "I hear music" As though there's another way you can take it in. Your not special. That's how I recieve it too. I tried to taste it, but it did not work."

"I was at the airport and this guy came up to me and said I saw you on tv last night. He didn't say if I was any good. He just told me where I was. So turned away for a minute and said Hey I saw you at the airport a minute ago. You were good."

I can't get into flossing, I can't. People who smoke say you don't know how hard it is to stop smoking. Yes I do. It's as hard as it is to start flossing. You seem jittery. Yeah, I'm about to floss.

"One time a guy handed me a picture of himself and he said. "Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture of you is when you were younger. Here's a picture of me when I'm older. How'd you pull that off? Let me see that camera."

"Alcoholism, is a disease, but it's the only disease that you can get yelled at for having. Dammit Otto, your an alcoholic. Dammit Otto, you have Lupis. One of those two doesn't sound right."

"I was walking by a drycleaner at 3a.m. and there was a sign that said Sorry, we're closed. You don't have to be sorry. It's 3a.m. and your a drycleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I'm not gonna come by at 10 and say, hey I was here at 3a.m and you guys were closed. Someone owes me an apology."

"I've been working the colleges and I always buy the shirts from the college, because they're quality shirts. But people always get the wrong idea. I'm walking around wearing a Washington U shirt and someone says "Hey Washington U, Did you go there?" Yeah! It was a Wednesday."

"I opened a yogurt and underneath the lid it said "please try again" they were having a contest that I was unaware of. I thought maybe I had opened the yogurt wrong.Or maybe Yoplait was trying to inspire me. Come on Mitch, don't give up! An inspirational message from your friends at Yoplait, fruit on the bottom, hope on top."

"I brought a donut and the guy gave me a recieipt for the donut. I don't need a receipt for the donut, I give you the money, you give me the donut, end of transaction. We do not need to bring ink and paper into this. I can not imagine the senerio where I would have to prove that I broughrt a donut. Some skeptical friend. Don't even act like I didn't get that donut. I got the documentation right here."

"When you go a resturant on the weekends and it's busy so they start a waiting list. They say Dufrane, party of two, table ready for Dufrane, party of two , and if no one answers they'll say the name again, Dufrane, party of two. Bu then if no one answers, they'll move on to the next name. Bush party of three. Yeah, but what happened to the Dufranes, No one seems to care, who can eat at a time like this? People are missing. You people are selfish. The Dufranes are in someone's trunk right now ,with duct tape over their mouths and they're hungry.That's a double whammy! We need help! Bush search party of three. You can eat once you find the Dufranes."

why we lie about money and debt

http://www.bankrate.com/overkeyword/news/financial-literacy2004/debt-psychology.asp
Seventy-five percent of respondents, for example, claim they don't make any major purchases on credit cards unless they can pay them off immediately. But 74 percent say they are concerned about being able to pay their credit card bills every month.

letters from warren buffet

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.
SHAREHOLDER LETTERS

button-down striped shirt

http://www.thephatphree.com/features.asp?StoryID=239&SectionID=11
Look at my button down striped shirt! Fucking look at it! This shirt means one thing! I’m coming home with some pussy tonight!

stfu (politely-er), cell phone user!

http://www.coudal.com/shhh.php

invader zim soundboards

Gir1.swf
Gir2.swf

cotton factory t-shirts

http://store.cottonfactory.com/graphic-t-shirts-all.html
bunch of random-ass vintage-looking tshirts

on plug-ins and extensible architectures

http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=286
In a world of increasingly complex computing requirements, we as software developers are continually searching for that ultimate, universal architecture that allows us to productively develop high-quality applications. This quest has led to the adoption of many new abstractions and tools. Some of the most promising recent developments are the new pure plug-in architectures.

What began as a callback mechanism to extend an application has become the very foundation of applications themselves. Plug-ins are no longer just add-ons to applications; today’s applications are made entirely of plug-ins. This field has matured quite a bit in the past few years, with significant contributions from a number of successful projects.

This article identifies some of the concepts around the foundation of pure plug-in architectures and how they affect various stakeholders when taking a plug-in approach. The intention is to discuss the general issues involved, but the article also presents some lessons learned from Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) to better illustrate some of the concepts.

cassete tape digitizer

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/6908/
title says it all

criminalize to stifle innovation

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,19509-1542213,00.html

"Uh-oh, this is more efficient than our disproportionately expensive (to the person who buys it) distribution method. Let's NOT offer it for sale, let's criminalize it and threaten everybody who thinks about it (and some who don't even do that)."

Yes, most of the traffic flowing through the peer-to-peer networks involves breaches of copyright. And yes, music sales did fall by almost a quarter in the five years to 2003, as fans realised that technology offered a free alternative to extortionate CD prices. But the roughly 10 per cent of “legal” file-swapping on these networks allows programmers to swap code, academics to exchange learned papers and little-known musicians to gain a fan base. Why should the music industry be able to close such communications channels? Just because technology comes along and disrupts existing business models, should copyright owners not find clever ways to adapt, rather than suing 12-year-olds and fighting software developers in court?

If the studios do win, it will be the consumer who loses. The next generation of digital music players, internet telephony, TV recording equipment — all will suffer from a new legalistic caution that will stifle progress. The music lobby may have more star names on its side: a Sheryl Crow and a Brian Wilson for every Terence Trent D’Arby on the software companies’side. But if the music lobby wins, you might as well swap your iPod for a Thomas Edison wax cylinder.

graffeety on da innanetz!

http://www.grafedia.net/make.php
Grafedia authors can make hyperlinked text at any time in three easy steps. Simply

1. choose a word.

2. send a media file from your cell phone to that chosen word plus '@grafedia.net' . This combination, the word + '@grafedia.net', becomes your grafedia link for that word.

3. write, draw, paint, tatoo, or print that grafedia link anywhere in the real world in blue with an underline, to allow others to access your media files.

ourmedia: free public web storage

http://www.ourmedia.org/mission/faq
The idea is pretty simple: People who create video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media can store their stuff for free on Ourmedia's servers forever, as long as they're willing to share their works with a global audience.

terri schiavo's blog

http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/
brutal.

copyrighting ideas

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050225223848129
a good explanation of why you can't copyright ideas and the legal basis for that

CHUG! the Jesus Juice

http://www.cafepress.com/dogs_of_war/290939
jesus juice shirts
"Jackson was pouring a clear liquid into cups for the brothers and offered her a cup, she said. She described the liquid as tasting "funny and weird" and said she didn't finish it... The prosecution has accused Jackson of giving the accuser and his younger brother alcohol, putting what he called "Jesus juice" into empty soft drink cans..."

transparent screens

http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637
desktop backgrounds of what's directly behind the monitor

life after the oil crash

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
The effects of even a small drop in production can be devastating. For instance, during the 1970s oil shocks, shortfalls in production as small as 5% caused the price of oil to nearly quadruple. The same thing happened in California a few years ago with natural gas: a production drop of less than 5% caused prices to skyrocket by 400%.

Fortunately, those price shocks were only temporary.

The coming oil shocks won't be so short-lived. They represent the onset of a new, permanent condition. Once the decline gets under way, production will drop (conservatively) by 3-6% per year, every year.

id theft risk assessment

http://www.idcops.com/
"Identity Cops is a cutting-edge company tackling a very serious and growing problem, identity theft. Our unique PrivacyProBot technology searches hundreds of electronic databases you cannot get to alone. We find information that may invade your privacy and lead to identity theft - information you did not know was out there! We then notify you and provide options to fix the problem, before more harm is done."

Programming Languages 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 the solutions in other programming languages.

molten core guide

http://conquest.teamgbu.com/strats/moltencore/why.php
The purpose of this section of the website is to fully disclose each and every strategy and piece of information we (Conquest) use while raiding [in World of Warcraft], as well as host full videos of the fights showing that we do indeed follow the strategies we post. Blizzard CS launched a public campaign against us to tarnish our reputation and cause people to question our raiding practices. These pages will contradict their lies.

how to pwn onyxia

http://pacifistguild.org/onyxia/
Your chances of success go up exponentially with every ninja and/or pirate at the run. Also, when your MT dies the only way to beat her is by having a paladin pirate start tanking and furiously smash his win button while dancing.

comments about motorola v710

http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007961.html

also: how to edit mp3s in itunes:
To edit MP3's in iTunes... I'm using iTunes version 4.7 on the Mac. 1. Open iTunes 2. Right click on a song (or ctrl click) to bring up the menu. 3. Choose "Get Info" 4. Choose "Options" page 5. Set a start time and stop time (check both boxes and set times) 6. Click "OK" 7. Click on Advanced->Convert Selection to MP3 (if this is not an option that is showing up you have to go iTunes->Preference->Import-> and change it to MP3 encoder) 8. You will now have 2 versions of that song in your library - if you look in the time column one will be only 30" or whatever time you told it to start and stop at. 9. Right click on the song again and choose "Show Song File"

why verizon can kiss my ass

http://www.nuclearelephant.com/papers/v710.html
Code As Law, as implemented by Verizon:
BellSouth is the local telephone company where I live. Ironically, they don't seem as much concerned about the features of my home phone or answering machine as Verizon is about my mobile phone. Why is that? Could it be that BellSouth realizes the equipment belongs to me? Yes! Before things were broken up by the courts, AT&T (who owned the network at the time) used to charge their customers equipment rental fees just to own a telephone. In fact, it was at one time illegal to plug anything into your phone jack that wasn't sanctioned AT&T equipment. Asinine, huh? Well, not as much as repeating history. Unfortunately, Verizon doesn't need the courts to outlaw competing technologies - they're able to do it themselves now by blacklisting ESNs, as Ms. Raney gladly explained to me.

Apache::AuthCookie

http://search.cpan.org/~barracode/Apache-AuthCookieDBIRadius-1.19/AuthCookie.pm
a centralized authentication mechanism at the webserver level as opposed to the app level

code as design

http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design_main.html
The following essays by Jack W. Reeves offer three perspectives on a single theme, namely that programming is fundamentally a design activity and that the only final and true representation of "the design" is the source code itself. This simple assertion gives rise to a rich discussion—one which Reeves explores fully in these three essays.

World of Burgercraft

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=1892023&p=1&tmp=1#post1892023
WoB: Welcome to World of Burgercraft. Would you like a PVE value meal, a PVP value meal, or an RP value meal?

Car 1: What is the difference between the PVE and PVP meals?

WoB: The PVP burger has onions. The PVE burger does not. Except sometimes. You can add onions if you want. And we sneak some onions in toward the end of the PVE burger but you don't have to eat them. You can skip that part of the burger.

Car 1: What about the RP burger?

WoB: Vegetarian.

adobe open source libraries

http://opensource.adobe.com/
Adobe's open source web site is the home for the Adobe Source Libraries (ASL) and information about other Adobe open source projects.

ASL provides peer-reviewed and portable C++ source libraries. The libraries are intended to be widely useful, leveraging and extending both the C++ Standard Library and the Boost Libraries.

ssl info

http://www.sslassistant.com/
http://www.cacert.org/
free certs and info about commercial offerings

surrender martha shirts

http://www.surrendermartha.com/index.html
i don't need a tractor to pull hoes

wikipedia and CBPP encomium

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/
In this article, I respond to Robert McHenry’s anti-Wikipedia piece entitled “The Faith-Based Encyclopedia.” I argue that McHenry’s points are contradictory and incoherent and that his rhetoric is selective, dishonest and misleading. I also consider McHenry’s points in the context of all Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP), showing how they are part of a Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) campaign against CBPP. Further, I introduce some principles, which will help to explain why and how CBPP projects can succeed, and I discuss alternative ways they may be organized, which will address certain concerns.

recent earthquakes in CA and NV

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm
Maps are updated within 1-5 minutes of an earthquake or once an hour.
(Smaller earthquakes in southern California are added after
human processing, which may take several hours.)

microsoft tech support vs. psychic friends network

http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap_detail.cfm?scrap_id=704
In the course of a recent Microsoft Access programming project, we had
three difficult technical problems where we decided to call a support
hotline for advice. This article compares the two support numbers we
tried: Microsoft Technical Support and the Psychic Friends Network. As a
result of this research, we have come to the following conclusions : 1 )
that Microsoft Technical Support and the Psychic Friends Network are
about equal in their ability to provide technical assistance for
Microsoft products over the phone ; 2 ) that the Psychic Friends Net
work has a distinct edge over Microsoft in the areas of courtesy,
response time, and cost of support; but 3) that Microsoft has a
generally better refund policy if they fail to solve your problem.

g-town dc nightlife list

http://www3.georgetown.edu/som/student/nightlife.html
bars, clubs, comedy clubs, dancing, billiards, bowling in/around the dc area

asterisk quick setup

http://techdatapros.com/asterisk/
http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/
What would it mean to you to have your own full-featured PBX system at your home or small office? What would it mean to you if you could build an entire PBX system (minus the phones) on hardware you probably have laying around, AND that it can probably also save you money on your phone bill? Sounds too hard to believe doesn't it, but using old hardware and some open source software, you really can build a commercial quality phone system that would normally cost thousands of dollars.

osxy programs

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/
a bunch of programs that let you do cool stuff with your mac

pack/unpack detailed intro

http://perlmonks.thepen.com/224666.html
Perl's pack and unpack functions allow us to read and write buffers of data according to a template string. The template string allows us to indicate specific byte orderings and word sizes or use the local system's default sizes and ordering. This gives us a great deal of flexibility when dealing with external programs.

copyright and 'orphan works'

http://www.pbp.net/~jnichols/copyrightchanges.html
Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether current copyright
law imposes inappropriate burdens on users, including subsequent
creators, of works for which the copyright owner cannot be located
(hereinafter referred to as ``orphan'' works). The issue is whether
orphan works are being needlessly removed from public access and their
dissemination inhibited. If no one claims the copyright in a work, it
appears likely that the public benefit of having access to the work
would outweigh whatever copyright interest there might be. Such
concerns were raised in connection with the adoption of the life plus
50 copyright term with the 1976 Act and the 20-year term extension
enacted with the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.
The Copyright Office has long shared these concerns about orphan
works and has considered the issue to be worthy of further study. On
January 5, Senators Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy of the Senate
Judiciary Committee asked the Register of Copyrights to study this
issue and to report to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the end of the
year. Also in January, Reps. Lamar Smith and Howard Berman, the
chairman and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee's
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, sent
letters to the Register supporting this effort. The Office is gratified
that Congress has shown an interest in this important issue and is
pleased to assist Congress in its efforts to learn more about the
problem and to consider appropriate solutions.
Prior to the 1976 Act, the term of protection was limited to 28
years if the copyright was not renewed. Under this system, if the
copyright owner was no longer interested in exploiting the work, or a
corporate owner no longer existed, or, in the case of individual
copyright owners, there were no interested heirs to claim the
copyright, then the work entered the public domain. Of course, it also
meant that some copyrights were unintentionally allowed to enter the
public domain, for instance, where the claimant was unaware that
renewal had to occur within the one year window at the end of the first
term or that the copyright was up for renewal. The legislative history
to the 1976 Act reflects Congress' recognition of the concern raised by
some that eliminating renewal requirements would take a large number of
works out of the public domain and that for a number of those older
works it might be difficult or impossible to identify the copyright
owner in order to obtain permissions. Congress nevertheless determined
that the renewal system should be discarded, in part, because of the
``inadvertent and unjust loss of copyright'' it in some cases
caused.\2\ More recently, in the mid-1990s, Congress heard concerns
that the Copyright Term Extension Act would exacerbate problems in film
preservation by maintaining copyright protection for older motion
pictures for which the copyright owner is difficult to identify.\3\
Also, in our study on Digital Distance Education published in 1999, the
Copyright Office identified several ``problems with licensing'' that
educators asserted in attempting to use copyrighted materials in
digital formats, including that ``it can be time-consuming, difficult
or even impossible to locate the copyright owner or owners.'' \4\

typing with a mouse

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.html
Dasher is a zooming interface. You point where you want to go, and the display zooms in wherever you point. The world into which you are zooming is painted with letters, so that any point you zoom in on corresponds to a piece of text. The more you zoom in, the longer the piece of text you have written. You choose what you write by choosing where to zoom.

probability reference

http://www.saliu.com/permutations.html
Any finite number of elements can be put together in groups based on certain rules. Such groups are known as sets. The sets can comprise from 0 elements to infinity. There are four types of sets, from the most inclusive to the least: exponents, permutations, arrangements, and combinations. The number sets are the most important mathematically. We can substitute the numbers by alphanumerical elements, such as words, names, any strings of characters. In the case of the alphanumerical sets, mathematics works with the indices, indexes of the respective elements.

An example of exponents (N=3, M=3): 111,112,113,121,122,123,131,132, etc. (a total of 27 sets).
An example of permutations (for N = 3): 1 2 3, 1 3 2, 2 1 3, 2 3 1, 3 1 2, 3 2 1 (6 elements: 1* 2 * 3)).
An example of arrangements (for N = 3, M = 2): 1 2, 1 3, 2 1, 2 3, 3 1, 3 2. (6 elements in set: 3 * 2).
An example of combinations (for N = 3, M = 2): 1 2, 1 3, 2 3 (3 elements: 3 * 2 / 1 * 2).

"code as law" breaks down in court

"[I]nteroperable devices" may use proprietary security systems to lock out unauthorized interoperability, but a technology developed solely for this functional purpose is not copyrightable.
 -ArsTechnica, Lexmark's DMCA aspirations all but dead

Suck it, DMCA-enforced monopolies! (At least on one front...)

time travel analysis of Donnie Darko

http://www.mjyoung.net/time/darko.html
Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies
unravels
Donnie Darko

The film does potentially resolve; but it requires a more significant suspension of disbelief than merely whether someone can travel in time.

stupid security audit approach

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/299
More and more, we see articles questioning the security of a given platform based solely on the number of advisories published -- and this approach is simply wrong.

The quality of the software in question directly affects the number of advisories -- this should go without saying. Software with fewer security flaws will generate fewer security advisories. In a simple world, the number of advisories published by a given entity might be a direct indication of how secure that software is. But the reality of software and operating systems today is far more complex; many other factors affect the number of security advisories, which can be lumped into three broad categories: scope, policy of publication, and audit efforts. Let's look at each of these briefly.

why not to nuke tropical cyclones

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html
you know, in case you have a spare nuke and were considering it

Ebert reviews porn

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050210/REVIEWS/50211001
that's right, a little to the left, that's it! go! Go! GO!

Kim Jong Il's blog

http://www.livejournal.com/users/kim_jong_il__/
License2KimJongIll JFKpart2 bush43 WeaponsOfAssDestruction MisterPotamia BaathOfLeastResistance WhenBushComes2Shove BaghDaddyKane SunniSideUp BreakTheseCheneysOfLove
parody im conversations between Kim Jong Il, GW Bush, Kerry, Cheney, and Saddam on Kim Jong Il's blog

google explications

http://jgwebber.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-google.html
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/12/google_suggest_.html

google gets sued a lot

http://www.linksandlaw.com/adwords-pendinglawsuits.htm
Google's AdWords service allows advertisers to sponsor particular search terms. Whenever that term is searched the advertiser’s link will appear next to the search results. A company can choose a trademark protected term as keyword. So if you enter "trademark protected term" in the Google search box and hit "Search", you would get listings from advertisers who paid for placement with this keyword. Google puts those listings off to the right side of the screen, clearly marked as ads. Trademark owners are concerned about their brand awareness and insist that this behaviour violates their trademarks.

Yet another case of attacks consolidated on the facilitator instead of the actual perpetrator.

porn without people

http://whitelead.com/jrh/ISPs/index.html#porn
(p0rnography, with the figures removed)

The VICE Fund

http://www.vicefund.com/
"It is the Advisor's philosophy that although often considered politically incorrect, these and similar industries and products...will continue to experience significant capital appreciation during good and bad markets. The Advisor considers these industries to be nearly 'recession-proof'." - Vice Fund Prospectus, July 30, 2004, page 1, column 2.

view stored proc in postgres

ok, this isn't really a link, but it's a bit geeky and obscure for the front page

to view the source of a postgresql stored procedure from the command line:

select prosrc from pg_catalog.pg_proc where proname = 'procedure_name';

3d object-recognition-based CAPTCHA

http://home.nyc.rr.com/spamsolution/An%20Effective%20Solution%20for%20Spam.htm
the challenge-response spam solution isn't really innovative, but the captcha is pretty neat

defeating CAPTCHA

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mori/gimpy/gimpy.html
This is the homepage of the Shape Contexts based approach to break Gimpy, the CAPTCHA test used at Yahoo! to screen out bots. Our method can successfully pass that test 92% of the time. See EZ-Gimpy in action at Yahoo! The approach we take uses general purpose algorithms that have been designed for generic object recognition. The same basic ideas have been applied to finding people in images, matching handwritten digits, and recognizing 3D objects.

VidaLinux: A Linux Distro based on Gentoo

http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=3321&page=3
The installer ran smooth on every system we tested on, the desktop is one of the best I've seen in a very long time, the menus are organized almost flawlessly, and the applications loaded by default are of excellent grade and selection. What more could you ask for in a distribution? Speed? It's there. This is as fast, if not faster, than my main Slackware station... and I love my Slackware system, but let me tell you this came close to changing my mind. If you know me, you know that's pretty hard to do when it comes to Slackware Linux.

simpler soap/rpc with an apache module

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/18/mod_perlservice.html
Mod_perlservice is a cool, new way to do remoting -- sharing data between server and client processes -- with Perl and Apache. Let's start by breaking that crazy name apart: mod + perl + service.

Mod means that it's a module for the popular and ubiquitous Apache HTTP Server. Perl represents the popular and ubiquitous programming language. Service is the unique part. It's the new ingredient that unifies Apache, Perl, and XML into an easy-to-use web services system.

cmd-line file frobbing w/ perl

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/10/14/file_editing.html
If you only want to read in one or more files, apply a regex to the contents, and spit out the altered text as one big stream...

If you want to edit the files in place, editing each file before going on to the next, that's pretty easy, too...

how to use a beatin' stick

http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_barton-wright_0200.htm
Self-defence with a Walking-stick: The Different Methods of Defending Oneself with a Walking-Stick or Umbrella when Attacked under Unequal Conditions

SA: Fantasy Football

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2380
heh. you get the idea.

GPA inflation

http://gradeinflation.com/
This web site is an outgrowth of an op-ed piece that I wrote on grade inflation for the Washington Post, "Where All Grades Are Above Average" In the process of writing that article, I collected data on trends in grading from about 30 colleges and universities. I found that grade inflation, while waning beginning in the mid-1970s, resurfaced in the mid-1980s. The rise has continued unabated at virtually every school for which data are available.

search CPAN when CPAN search is dead

http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/faqs/cpan-search.html

Maypole: a perl MVC framework

http://maypole.perl.org/
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-maypole/?ca=dgr-perlw02BuildMypole
http://search.cpan.org/~simonflk/Maypole/
The development of my latest project, Maypole, began over 4000 years ago, when, so the story goes, the goddess Ninkasi taught the Sumerian mortals a recipe for a magical drink. Her concoction of hops, barley, yeast, and water (and a few other special ingredients), was an instant hit, and has remained the cornerstone of a university education ever since.

Not one to do things by halves (or should that be 284 ml?), what started as a simple database ended up as a complete framework for writing Web-based, database-backed applications in Perl.

http://perlmonks.thepen.com/388607.html
When I first caught eye of Maypole, I was startled by the shining beauty and the effortless grace with which it seemed to produce shiny web applications. I envied those who had a firm grasp of it and strived to employ Maypole to collect and publish the data available to me. But in that time, Maypole was a very immature Primadonna with very specific needs that were only faintly hinted at on websites only known to a few select people already in the clique. Armed with my knowledge of Class::DBI and frugal knowledge of mod_perl, I found myself rejected by Maypole and its requirements often for no reason apparent to me and loudly complained about this in the chatterbox, to the bemusement and annoyance of the other regulars there, I assume. After all, Maypole had been touted as the web application framework, being hawked through articles like flowers on the 14th of February and had received real money from the Perl Foundation. I felt I had a right to it.

http://perlmonks.thepen.com/433729.html
survey of surveys on perl-based html templating systems

http://search.cpan.org/~simon/Rubberband-0.01/lib/Rubberband.pm
Rubberband, as its name implies, is designed to be stretched in both directions. It uses Module::Pluggable::Ordered to locate the classes which encapsulate the tables, and also to provide a callback functionality to allow extensions to "talk" to each other; it also uses Class::DBI::DATA::Schema to allow extension classes to declare the SQL to set up their tables. Further, it helps to set up your classes by creating a backend Foo::DBI class (given an application called Foo, of course...) which handles the connection information, and from which your plugin modules automatically inherit.

the rasterbator

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.

a keyboard with frickin lasers

http://www.itechdynamic.com/html/border25.htm
Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard is the world’s first wireless Virtual Keyboard that lifts wireless mobile communications to a new height. BTVKB is an enhanced version of the Virtual Keyboard (VKB). BTVKB is a smart, pocket-size device that projects a full-size keyboard through infrared technology onto any flat surface. Users could then type on the infrared images as if typing on conventional keyboards. Without the need of any wire connection, BTVKB provides unprecedented convenience and mobility to users.

radioactive randomness

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
People working with computers often sloppily talk about their system's "random number generator" and the "random numbers" it produces. But numbers calculated by a computer through a deterministic process, cannot, by definition, be random. Given knowledge of the algorithm used to create the numbers and its internal state, you can predict all the numbers returned by subsequent calls to the algorithm, whereas with genuinely random numbers, knowledge of one number or an arbitrarily long sequence of numbers is of no use whatsoever in predicting the next number to be generated.

HotBits is an Internet resource that brings genuine random numbers, generated by a process fundamentally governed by the inherent uncertainty in the quantum mechanical laws of nature, directly to your computer in a variety of forms. HotBits are generated by timing successive pairs of radioactive decays detected by a Geiger-Müller tube interfaced to a computer.

yet another MT meaning

http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/ewhat-is-mt.html
Mersenne Twister(MT) is a pseudorandom number generating algorithm developped by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura (alphabetical order) in 1996/1997. An improvement on initialization was given on 2002 Jan.
MT has the following merits:

* It is designed with consideration on the flaws of various existing generators.
* The algorithm is coded into a C-source downloadable below.
* Far longer period and far higher order of equidistribution than any other implemented generators. (It is proved that the period is 2^19937-1, and 623-dimensional equidistribution property is assured.)
* Fast generation. (Although it depends on the system, it is reported that MT is sometimes faster than the standard ANSI-C library in a system with pipeline and cache memory.) (Note added in 2004/3: on 1998, usually MT was much faster than rand(), but the algorithm for rand() has been substituted, and now there are no much difference in speed.)
* Efficient use of the memory. (The implemented C-code mt19937.c consumes only 624 words of working area.)

google > comment spam

http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
you know you're awesome when you can propose a functional addition to HTML and people listen to you and go along with it rel="nofollow"

JL421 Badonkadonk

http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/novelties/who-put-the-donk-in-the-jl421-badonkadonk-029757.php
The JL421 Badonkadonk, aka “The Donk” is a “land vehicle and battle tank” created by outer-limits design firm, NAO Design for purposes unknown to Burning Man non-attendees. With the profile of a hand iron from the late 19th century, or an upside-down cabin cruiser, the Donk can transport up to five people, either inside or on the roof, at speeds of up to 40mph. It’s powered by a 6hp air-cooled engine and includes accent lighting and a 400 watt sound system

every video game

http://www.everyvideogame.com/play/nintendo/Duck_Hunt.htm
nintendo, gameboy, etc
lots of games... looks like some sort of java applet that interfaces with an emulator somehow

order of the stick

http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootsarchive?
stick figure D&D comic, amusing

nacho cheesus

http://www.terra-obscura.com/merch.html
our favorite cheesy saviour

how to make an animated gif in gimp

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gimp+%22animated+gif%22
the bit of info that it always takes me a while to find/remember is that to make one that has different delays on each frame, you need to append ' (1000ms)' to the layer name.

life after heroin

http://slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2111510&
seth mnookin writes candidly about his heroin addiction and how he eventually overcame it

80-20, 20-20-60 rules

http://www.public.asu.edu/~dmuthua/pareto%27s_principle.html
Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was an Italian economist who, in 1906, observed that twenty percent of the Italian people owned eighty percent of their country's accumulated wealth. Over time and through application in a variety of environments, this analytic has come to be called Pareto's Principle, the 80-20 Rule, and the "Vital Few and Trivial Many Rule." Called by whatever name, this mix of 80%-20% reminds us that the relationship between input and output is not balanced. In a management context, this rule of thumb is a useful heuristic that applies when there is a question of effectiveness versus diminishing returns on effort, expense, or time.
...
When I began my librarian career as an administrator in higher education, the dean to whom I reported told me that there was a rule of thumb that had served him well. It was the 20-20-60 Rule, a special case of 80-20 Rule that he applied to a wide variety of problems and situations. His rule was that 20% of most prospects are avid supporters and 20% are avidly not supporters. The persons in these two 20% tails are basically fixed and no amount of persuasion will change their view or attitude. Prospects in the remaining 60% are persons who are interested but need to be convinced or "sold." Application of the 20-20-60 Rule means that our outcome is best if we focus on the 60% group by answering their concerns, doubts, and questions. The persons in the 60% group are the ones who most likely will become our clients and customers.

better part of 16

http://www.zacheverson.com/True_Stories/Chasing_Skirts/better_part_16.htm
“I want to ask you a serious question: How old are you?”

top 20 nude scenes of 2004

http://www.fakes.net/top10_2004.htm
better than the oscars, or at least more exciting. page not safe for work

owned gallery

http://solastyear.com/owned.htm
gallery of "owned!" (or "pwn3d!", "own3d", "pwned") pictures from all around teh intarewb

random fun python

http://stompstompstomp.com/software/
a bunch of random fun python software

"local celebrity" t-shirts

http://www.localcelebrity.net/index.html
homie don't play that
i'm in the house like furniture
got your tickets? to the gun show.
neighborhood watch: we'll get you suckas
i drop bombs like it's my job

bluescreen in times square

http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/2004/11/11.html
I was standing before the largest "blue screen of death" that I had ever seen at the corner of 42nd Street and 8th Ave.

microeconomics, open source, and commoditizing your complements

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
Commoditize your complements. (Make the total cost of ownership, "TOC", of the prerequisites of your service/product/whatever as close to zero as you can so customers have more money to spend on your product. At that point, it's easier to use your whatever so more people will do it and demand will be higher, so the price can be raised.)

Understanding this strategy actually goes a long, long way in explaining why many commercial companies are making big contributions to open source.

google hacking database

http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews
We call them 'googledorks' (gOO gôl'Dôrk, noun, slang) : An inept or foolish person as revealed by Google. Whatever you call these fools, you've found the center of the Google Hacking Universe!

linear programming FAQ

http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/otc/Guide/faq/linear-programming-faq.html#Q3

french for crazy

http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/
basically trail running in the city, on the city

Involvement in dangerous sports and related activities carries a significant risk of damage to property, personal injury or death. Participate at your own risk!

The publishers of www.urbanfreeflow.com recommend the use of professional instruction before entering into the sport of parkour. You should become knowledgeable about the risks involved and assume personal responsibility for your actions.

character strings as arrays

http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/Courses/EE150/Book/chap7/subsection2.1.1.2.html
discussion about the string as a character array and how to access and manipulate them

on powerpoint

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000931
Edward R. Tufte’s "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" Presented in the Form of a PowerPoint Presentation

patterns in lisp

http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/

programming essays

http://www.paulgraham.com/
essays (articles?) about lisp, programming, programmers, and hackers

scrabble letter pattern search

http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/scrabbleform.html
The A2Z WordFinder Scrabble® finder is a powerful word search utility once you'e familiar with a few easy-to-understand concepts.

* The Basics - Type in the letters from your rack into the Rack letters field. If you want to build your word using parts of other words, then you can type in the pattern of letters and empty spaces from the game board into the Pattern field. Use '_', '#' or '?' characters for empty spaces. All other fields are set by default to allow this simple search to work properly.

* Limiting word length - By default, all words matching the letters and/or pattern you enter will be listed in the Search Results regardless of length. However, you can limit the length of the listed words by setting the Min. Word Length field.

* Sorting the words - The Scrabble® Search Results page can be set to sort the matching words either by length (shorter words first), by score (highest score first), or alphabetically.

* Pattern Matching - The pattern you enter can be interpreted in one of several ways, as described in the following list:
1. Match pattern exactly - The pattern will only match words of the same length or shorter (subject to the Min. Word Length limit). The words must also contain the indicated letters in the given positions. For example, the pattern "_at__" would match "bathe", "latin", "bat", and "atom". It would not match "mathematics", because it is too long.
2. Match pattern at start of word - The pattern will only match at the beginning of a word. For example, the pattern "wo" would match "work", "wood", and "worry", but not "unwound", since the "wo" in "unwound" occurs in the middle of the word.
3. Match pattern at end of word - The pattern will only match at the end of a word. For example, the pattern "an" would match "bean", "span", and "man", but not "annual", since the "an" in "annual" occurs in the beginning of the word.
4. Match pattern anywhere in word - The pattern will match anywhere in a word. For example, the pattern "or" would match "orange", "more", and "floor".

* Required Letters - When you want to specify that certain letters must be in any matching words returned, you can click on the Use Upper-Case As Required Letters? check box. Then, any letters typed into your Rack letters field that are capitalized will be required to exist in the matching results. For example, if your letters contained "TaBea", and your Min. Word Length was set to 3, then you would find "tab", "bat", "bet", and "abate" which all have t and b, but not "tea" since it does not contain the required letter "b".

drugstone pricing codes

http://www.cockeyed.com/lessons/tags/tags.html
store prices encoded right on labels

eric and the dread gazebo

http://www.dreadgazebo.com/eric.html
...
ED: You see a well groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo.
ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it?
ED: [pause] It's white, Eric.
ERIC: How far away is it?
ED: About 50 yards.
ERIC: How big is it?
ED: [pause] It's about 30 ft across, 15 ft high, with a pointed top.
ERIC: I use my sword to detect good on it.
ED: It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo.
ERIC: [pause] I call out to it.
ED: It won't answer. It's a gazebo.
ERIC: [pause] I sheathe my sword and draw my bow and arrows. Does it respond in any way?
ED: No, Eric, it's a gazebo!
ERIC: I shoot it with my bow. [roll to hit] What happened?
ED: There is now a gazebo with an arrow sticking out of it.
...

DIY digital picture frame

http://students.washington.edu/natetrue/frame/

win app thread at /.

http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/12/27/0347214.shtml?tid=172&tid=201&tid=185
links to lots of useful free power user apps for windows

read this and go hug your housemate

http://www.thingie.net/rants/what/
http://rush68.net/~dave/crap/story.htm
During our stay together, my roomie:

He brought his motorcycle into our common room because he was "afraid it would be stolen." This was fine, but then he started it and let it idle for 15 minutes without opening any windows, causing all of our stuff to smell like motor exhaust.

After his girlfriend left him, he went berserk in his private bathroom with a sledgehammer or a geologist's hammer and smashed all of his bathroom fixtures. I'm not sure of this but I believe that just before she left him she fucked some guy with pubic lice in my bed during a party.

His toilet was inoperative at this point, so he used mine for a time, until I refused him access. Later I would find out that he shat in garbage bags and kept them in the common room closet for weeks. More on this later.

inflation calculator (US$)

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
The CPI inflation calculator uses the average Consumer Price Index for a given calendar year. This data represents changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households. This index value has been calculated every year since 1913. For the current year, the latest monthly index value is used.

quiz mapping beliefs to religions

http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

a hobby mech

http://www.neogentronyx.com/
Typically a mecha is a large robotic vehicle. The main characteristics generally include large size 15 to 50 or more feet in height, and generally weighing several tons. They currently exist in the world of science fiction movies, comics, and animes. The task undertaken by Neogentronyx has been to create one of these mecha for practical uses and applications in the real world. The possible uses for such a machine include and aren't limited to construction in virtually any environment, underwater on land, underground, and even one day in space. There are also possible military applications.

The NMX04-1A is the first attempt at a fully functional prototype by Neogentronyx, but it will certainly not be the last. It is possible to arm the mecha for virtually any possible situation, whether it is military, construction, firefighting, or riot control or entertainment. The possibilities at this point are seemingly limitless.

little minds believe in santa

http://beebo.org/smackerels/yes-virginia.html
They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.

legal/pc merry (christ/x)mas

http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/12/13/23774.aspx
Please accept without obligation, express or implied, these best wishes for an environmentally safe, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, and gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday as practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice (but with respect for the religious or secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or for their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all) and further for a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated onset of the generally accepted calendar year (including, but not limited to, the Christian calendar, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures). The preceding wishes are extended without regard to the race, creed, age, physical ability, religious faith or lack thereof, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference of the wishee(s).

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=merry+christmas+in+legalese

omg frickin lasers

http://64.252.62.40.nyud.net:8090/lasershoppe/index.htm
Due to the popularity of this website, I have reduced the price. There have also been some changes to this model. If you have seen this site before, please keep these changes in mind:

- The power output is no longer adjustable. It is now full power all the time.

- The power has been INCREASED. It is now guaranteed to be >100mW. I have one unit here that measures 191mW!

- There is now a safety key and connector that must be inserted into the laser before it will operate.

- There is a 2 second delay after to click the "on" button before the laser will produce a beam.

- This laser is now FDA certified and legal. The above two changes had to be implemented to bring this laser into compliance.

This is a legitimate high-power laser instrument. It will cast a dot on the clouds and burn a hole through a plastic cup from across the room. It is guaranteed to be above 100mW in output power, but that is a very conservative power rating. In actuality, these lasers usually have an output between 100mW and 200mW. I have one here the measures 191mW! Compare this to the 3 to 5mW of a good quality regular green laser pointer, and you get an idea for the power this laser has. This laser is not legal to use in public, and while we are not asking for any proof that the buyer is qualified to own this device, we trust that it will be used in a responsible fashion. This is a Class IIIb laser device.

how to get lost in an apple and come out ahead

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/
"Pacific Tech's Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985 while in school. That became Milo, and later became part of FrameMaker. Over the last twenty years, many people have contributed to it. Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the original PowerPC computers, originated under unique circumstances.

"I used to be a contractor for Apple, working on a secret project. Unfortunately, the computer we were building never saw the light of day. The project was so plagued by politics and ego that when the engineers requested technical oversight, our manager hired a psychologist instead. In August 1993, the project was canceled. A year of my work evaporated, my contract ended, and I was unemployed.

"I was frustrated by all the wasted effort, so I decided to uncancel my small part of the project. I had been paid to do a job, and I wanted to finish it. My electronic badge still opened Apple's doors, so I just kept showing up...

oracle autoincrement and bind_param_inout

http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/insert_into_x_returning_y.html
uses a trigger and a sequence

http://www.saturn5.com/~jwb/dbi-examples.html
bunch of dbi examples, includes bind_param_inout

http://www.mail-archive.com/dbi-users@perl.org/msg09888.html
another bind_param_inout example

dns cache poisoning

http://www.securityfocus.com/guest/17905
Jan 27 2003 11:30PM GMT
The old problem of DNS cache poisoning has again reared its ugly head. While some would argue that the domain name system protocol is inherently vulnerable to this style of attack due to the weakness of 16-bit transaction IDs, we cannot ignore the immediate threat while waiting for something better to come along. There are new attacks, which make DNS cache poisoning trivial to execute against a large number of nameservers running today. The purpose of this article is to shed light on these new attacks and recommend ways to defend against them.

spyware removal links

http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html
HijackThis is a tool, that lists all installed browser add-on, buttons, startup items and allows you to inspect, and optionally remove selected items. The program can create a backup of your original settings and also ignore selected items. Additional features include a simple list of all startup items, default start page, online updates and more. Intended for advanced users.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware. But even if you don't see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you that will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer, too.

http://ad-aware.com/
AdAware is a privacy tool, that scans your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known data-mining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components. It then lists the results and offers to remove or quarantine the components. The program detects a wide range of adware/spyware related issues and can be updated with the latest signatures via the built-in update utility.

peacefire: open access for the net generation

http://www.peacefire.org/info/why.shtml
Peacefire was created to advocate for First Amendment rights of people under 18 on the Internet. Courts and politicians are generally hostile towards rights of minors (the U.S. is one of only five countries in the world that has the death penalty for people under 18), but courts have said that people under 18 do have First Amendment rights, though most judges believe that minors' rights are not as broad as those of adults.
...
Traditionally, teens' First Amendment rights have been defended mostly by sneaking around the rules, and our "How to disable your blocking software" page is just an extension of that. But since freedom to read and free speech rights for people under 18 are a part of social progress, they ought to be simply recognized by law, instead of the ridiculousness of telling a 16-year-old who holds two jobs and places first in their class, that they are not mature enough to use an Internet terminal at the local library, so they have to sneak off to a friend's house to check their email. At some point, most people will probably support the legal and moral rights of people under 18 to free speech and freedom to read, but that point is still a long way off, and until then, "guerilla" tactics like the blocking software disabling page will still be necessary.

Maryland city data

http://www.city-data.com/city/Maryland.html
lots of random data about lots of places. median household income, population, weather history, colleges in close proximity, etc etc

don't knock my smock

http://www.dontknockmysmock.com/
smock smock smock smock smock smock

how to fix SSH-Agent forwarding under screen

http://www.deadman.org/sshscreen.html
The problem: SSH-Agent forwarding breaks when screen is re-attached on a different host.

useful WoW hunter threads

hunter macros
autofeed pet, autoswitch aspects, etc

my hunter talent template (planned)

my paladin talent template (planned)

scripting commands for world of warcraft

http://www.cosmosui.org/texts/BlizzardCommands.xml
scripting api in xml format

http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/12/10/1955239.shtml?tid=206&tid=209
slashdot thread about ui customization in wow

zoomquilt

http://www.cyphic.net/zoomquilt/zoom.htm
a wacky image that's zoomable pretty far in with lots of weird art in it

warezopoly

http://www.ojnk.net/~amber/warezopoly/
monopoly in 1337 5p34k

lcd/plasma killer

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/24/lcd_breakthrough/
A Cambridge UK academic has come up with a completely new flat TV concept that relies on total internal reflection in a wedge shaped piece of clear plastic, fed by the same LCD video projectors that drive rear-projection televisions. The technique promises to cost about a fiftieth of the price of current plasma screens and yet deliver a similar quality picture.

The system works by introducing light at the bottom edge of the wedge, which bounces across and back again up the length of the wedge until it reaches the critical angle at which it escapes and leaves the face of the screen as light. A precise mathematical formula ensures that light for the correct pixel exits the screen at just the right distance up the wedge.

how not to be a politician

http://badjason.com/RegularArticles/DrunkDorm.htm

maxim does the classics

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/9/27molyneux.html
The Great Gatsby

Gatsby follows this chick Daisy to South Padre Island for spring break. While jet-skiing, he finds out that she has already hooked up with his buddy Tom. So he hooks up with this other girl, Mabel. When Mabel's husband finds out, he suggests a three-way.

etc. HAH.

the chimpy corollary

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/10/1steck.html
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/10/1steck.html

Examples of statements used in this study include:

"Hold on, Chimpy, I had fries with that."

"Is there a problem, Officer Chimpy?"

"Whoa there, Chimpy, I gave you a twenty."

"Could you pass the wine, Chimpy?"

action verbs to use sparingly on resumes

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/5DaveAsh.html
timothy mcsweeny's blind bastard child will be president someday

Pelican System Selector Pro

http://www.pcgameworld.com/article.php/id/244/
So here’s your problem. You have an Xbox, you have a PS2, you have a DVD player. What you don’t have is a receiver with three optical inputs, or three component inputs, or three S-Video inputs. What do you do? What do you do? You go out and get yourself the Pelican System Selector Pro, that’s what.

With inputs for 8 S-Video, 3 optical digital audio, 3 Ethernet (broadband), and 3 component connections, this little beast can meet the demands of virtually any A/V enthusiast. The 13 included custom nameplates ensure that you always have the correct label for the correct component, so you are never confused as to which of the 8 selector buttons controls which piece of hardware.
http://www.pelicanperformance.com/universal/popup/pl_957_pro_system_selector_pop.html

TOra, the Linux alternative to TOAD

http://www.rittman.net/archives/000687.html
buncha info about TOra (toolkit for oracle) from a TOAD (tool for oracle application developers?) user

Charming Python

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/views/linux/articles.jsp?sort_order=desc&expand=&sort_by=Date&show_abstract=true&view_by=Search&search_by=charming+python%3A
a column on python by david mertz on ibm developer works

goats.com shirts

http://www.goats.com/store/tshirts.html
lots of wacky shirts, including "jesus loves dick", "i live in beer", "republicans for voldemort", and "my killer robot skull-fucked your honor student"
oh, and the pirate monkey robot! holy crap!

humane trophies

http://humanetrophies.net/
We are the only manufacturer of humane trophies in the world. Craftsman/designer Dianne Shapiro has been designing humane trophies for over 25 years. All of her designs are made and produced in the village of Guilford, Vermont in the historic Bee Barn by a group of hard-working, enthusiastic artisans who give careful attention to each piece, and personally sign their names on every creation that goes out to our customers.

cracked software at microsoft

http://slopemusic.de/ms_uses_cracked_software.txt
<@xxx> > > Just picked this up on IRC and at first sight thought it was a
<@xxx> > > hoax, but it seems very real.
<@xxx> > >
<@xxx> > > Check one of the wave files in
<@xxx> > > c:\windows\help\tour\windowsmediaplayer\audio\wav with a
<@xxx> > > (hex)editor, at the end of the files it says "deepz0ne" and "Sound
<@xxx> > > Forge 4.5".
<@xxx> > >
<@xxx> > > Deepz0ne is apparently a cracker for the group Radium that released
<@xxx> > > a pirated / cracked copy of Sound Forge 4.5 in August 1998, it is

random travel information

http://www.thetravelinsider.info/
information about cell phones and other tasty travel tidbits

wp.com [cheap] eats

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artsandliving/seasonal/internsguide/
cheap eats (intern's guide to dc)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/entertainment/new_features/restaurants/diningguide04/
dining guide, 2-5 star choices of all types of restaurants in the washington dc area

fuck the south

http://www.fuckthesouth.com/
an amusing diatribe against the southern red (republican) states. the author might want to look up the definition of militla, though.

The first thing any aspiring tyrant does is to disarm the populace, thereby making them less prone to resist and more malleable to whatever radical social manipulation those holding power have in mind. [Conan the Inconsistent, politixgroup.com]

scarygoround

http://www.scarygoround.com/
a well-drawn comic that i haven't had time to read yet because i've been cracking out on achewood. heh.

toothpaste for dinner

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/merchandise.php
a random comic with random shirts. ha HA!

metapixel photomosaic

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/metapixel/
Metapixel is a program for generating photomosaics. It can generate classical photomosaics, in which the source image is viewed as a matrix of equally sized rectangles for each of which a matching image is substitued, as well as collage-style photomosaics, in which rectangular parts of the source image at arbitrary positions (i.e. not aligned to a matrix) are substituted by matching images.

shopodd.com tshirts

http://shopodd.com/
ShopOdd.Com offers vintage t-shirts and funny t-shirts. We have original funny tees and vintage tees.

a well-written ghost story

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/jdate/a.html
paranormal detectives with better social skills than dib

electoral vote predictor

http://www.electoral-vote.com/
http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/faq.html
an aggregation and visual representation of how the electoral college might vote, based on polls
information about voting and the american election system in general, also

the anatomy of slavespeak

http://www.mind-trek.com/reports/tl07a.htm
An example of philosophical Slavespeak is the notion of "absolute truth." Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson of The School of Thought (also author of Software for your Brain) calls it the "Plato Truth Virus."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." - Joseph Stalin

"Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us." - Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.)

The first thing I want you to realize is that the primary tool or WEAPON terrocrats use to subjugate, control, and dominate their victims is WORDS. By "terrocrat" I mean "coercive political agent" or "terrorist bureaucrat." A terrocrat is always an individual human being.

Please think about this issue. How often has a terrocrat stuck a gun in your face and said, "Pay your taxes or else?" Compare this to the number of times terrocrats have sent you pieces of paper with words on them, telling you what to do or what not to do -- and what penalties you may be subjected to, if you don't obey?

lateral and parallel thinking

http://www.edwdebono.com/debono/lateral.htm
lateral thinking is what the buzzphrase "thinking outside the box" refers to. it usually involves rejecting one or more of the assumed constraints or assumptions and attacking a problem in a new way.
lateral thinking puzzles

parallel thinking:
With the traditional argument or adversarial thinking each side takes a different position and then seeks to attack the other side. Each side seeks to prove that the other side is wrong. This is the type of thinking established by the Greek Gang of Three (Socrates, Plato and Aristotle) two thousand four hundred years ago.

Adversarial thinking completely lacks a constructive, creative or design element. It was intended only to discover the 'truth' not to build anything.

With 'parallel thinking' both sides (or all parties0 are thinking in parallel in the same direction. There is co-operative and co-ordinated thinking. The direction itself can be changed in order to give a full scan of the situation. But at every moment each thinker is thinking in parallel with all the other thinkers. There does not have to be agreement. Statements or thoughts which are indeed contradictory are not argued out but laid down in parallel.In the final stage the way forward is 'designed' from the parallel thought that have been laid out.

mysql protocol reference

http://www.redferni.uklinux.net/mysql/MySQL-Protocol.html
This document descibes the MySQL network protocol version 10, as of October 2002 (MySQL 3.23.52). It has been produced by reading libmysql.c, net.c and sql_show.cc in the MySQL source.

why not to use mysql

http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html
It's not a bug - it's a gotcha. A "gotcha" is a feature or function which works as advertised - but not as expected.

When working with the MySQL ™ database server I have repeatedly encountered situations where the results of various actions have been unexpected and/or contrary to the behaviour generally expected of an SQL relational database. The cause can usually be traced to implementation details which are documented in the manual. I have created this list in order to further a better understanding of the MySQL database server and hopefully save others unnecessary headscratching.

perl dns resolver module

http://www.net-dns.org/docs/Net/DNS/Resolver.html

worldforge

http://www.worldforge.org/
"The original Open Source MMORPG project."

space moose interview

http://www.fadetoblack.com/interviews/spacemoose/
an interview with adam thrasher, author of space moose

dirty limericks

http://www.druddy.freeserve.co.uk/pages/limericks.htm
teh dirty limericks

li(v)e girls

http://liegirls.com/
"call is free because your grandchildren will be paying for it"

framed jargon file

http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/frames.html

oreilly open books project

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
Over the years, O'Reilly Media has published a number of "Open Books"--books with various forms of "open" copyright. The reasons for "opening" copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors.

Perhaps a book was outdated enough to be put out of print, yet some people still had an urgent need for the information it covered. Perhaps the author or subject of the book felt strongly that books should be published under a particular open copyright. Or maybe the book was written collectively by a particular community, as in the case of our Community Press books.

creative commons founder's copyright

http://creativecommons.org/projects/founderscopyright/
The Framers of the U.S. Constitution understood that copyright was about balance — a trade-off between public and private gain, society-wide innovation and creative reward. In 1790, the U.S.'s first copyright law granted authors a monopoly right over their creations for 14 years, with the option of renewing that monopoly for another 14. We want to help restore that sense of balance — not through any change to the current laws — but by helping copyright holders who recognize a long copyright term's limited benefit to voluntarily release that right after a shorter period.

mnemonic phone number generator

http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=23202&seqNum=4
generates mnemonic phrases from phone numbers

markoff's haunted forest

http://www.calleva.org/mhf/mhf_index.htm
http://www.calleva.org/mhf/mhf_home.htm
* What is there to do in October?
* Where do families go for something different than a dinner and a movie?
* Tired of watching scary movies of actors pretending to be scared?
* Do you want to experience a unique Halloween outing that can bring a family "closer" together than most family reunions?
* Do you need to just get out of the house and into the woods?

noaa eye-in-the-sky

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/
satellite pics of "current events" (typhoons and stuff) visible from space

proletext

http://www.templetons.com/tech/proletext.html
Invisible formatting information is embedded in trailing spaces and tabs on the ends of lines in an ordinary looking document. In addition, "blank" lines contain spaces and tabs with hidden formatting meanings. Assuming typical 60 column lines, one can have over 300 different codings on the end of a line without going past 80 columns. (Far fewer are needed.) On a blank line, almost a billion codings are possible.

Documents with invisible formatting always start with a magic line, which begins with "" followed by version encoding. Thus documents can be spotted and formatted even without a Mime Content-Type header for this new text type. This otherwise useless combination of spaces and tabs on a blank line should virtually assure that random documents are not treated as formatted.

found this from a link in on of the ACME modules on CPAN...

tv-b-gone

http://tvbgone.com/
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65392,00.html
universal remote that fits on your keychain and "turns off virtually any tv". tee hee.

nerdy shirts

http://ifyourenerdyandyouknowitclapyourhands.com/
heh. "Looking for a funny t-shirt, a cool t-shirt, a crazy t-shirt? Welcome to Nerdy Shirts, you funny tee shirt nerd!"

Isometric: the ninja comic of geometric doom

http://isometric.yurusan.com/
a comic about geometric shapes. i should probably look at the site so i can write something more compelling.

komar.org: Hulk play frisbee!

http://www.komar.org/hulk/
a big blowup hulk doll... i mean ACTION FIGURE (sorry, Hulk) doing lots of Hulk-ish things

wtf is a "monkeypatch"?

http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2003-October/142381.html
definition/explanation from link above:
"Monkey patch" means that instead of patching the actual source code,
we are replacing some class or function at runtime. It's the same
as a "Hotfix" except it's generally agreed that the Hotfix name is
reserved for security-related patches.

jpgraph

http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/
http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/jpg_features.php
JpGraph is an OO class library for PHP >=4.3.0. (Recommended: >= 4.3.8) The only other hard requirement is that the PHP installation suppports the GD library which most modern PHP installations do.

JpGraph makes it easy to draw both "quick and dirty" graphs with a minimum of code and complex professional graphs which requires a very fine grain control.

The library assigns context sensitive default values for most of the parameters which minimizes the learning curve. The features are there when you need it - they don't get in your way. The library also comes wih very extensive documentation.

POE: Perl Object Environment

http://poe.perl.org/?What_POE_Is
http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook
POE is a framework for creating multitasking programs in Perl.
POE parcels out execution time among one or more tasks, called sessions. Sessions multitask through cooperation (at least until Perl's threads become mainstream). That is, each session returns execution to POE as quickly as possible so it can parcel out time to the next.

perl load testing

http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/torture/
The current incarnation of the script requires Perl 5.004 or higher, and the Time::HiRes module, available at CPAN. It uses the fork() call to spawn multiple copies of itself so that it may simulate multiple users. Unfortunately this means that the script will only run on Unix ports of Perl. A multithreaded version that works on Windows systems is not yet complete (volunteers, anyone)?

vim+perl tip

http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=393
how to use perl regexes in vim

f0rm p0rn

http://jan.moesen.nu/code/html-css/form-porn/
porn with forms! where have you been all my life?!

lwp reference

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch05.html
oreilly's free online chapter from Web Client Programming with Perl
has a good intro/tutorial to the LWP library

pajiba - acerbic reviews for bitter people

http://www.pajiba.com/
the current newcastle slogan comes to mind, but it's rather funny, so most is forgiven

some farker's gallery

http://webbery.com/galleries/index.html
fun and creative pictures of people, weddings, burning man, places

cmatrix

http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/
CMatrix is a program I wrote one evening because I didn't want to have to run Wind*ws to see the cool scrolling lines from 'The Matrix', my fave movie.

Cmatrix is written in ncurses under Linux, and should compile on other OSes with few modifications.

hacker key guide

http://www.hackerkey.com/hacker.html
kind of like the geek code, but different

http://www.geekcode.com/
the geek code.

how to deconstruct almost anything

http://catalog.com/hopkins/text/decon.html
How To Deconstruct Anything: My Postmodern Adventure

This is the story of one computer professional's explorations in the world of postmodern literary criticism. I'm a working software engineer, not a student nor an academic nor a person with any real background in the humanities. Consequently, I've approached the whole subject with a somewhat different frame of mind than perhaps people in the field are accustomed to. Being a vulgar engineer I'm allowed to break a lot of the rules that people in the humanities usually have to play by, since nobody expects an engineer to be literate. Ha. Anyway, here is my tale.

webcollage

http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/
a collage of images pretty much randomly chosen from the web. some nsfw, obviously.

swappable hard drives

http://www.kingwin.com/
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=285

some marginal hack collections

http://www.jwz.org/hacks/marginal.html
So, here's some stuff. I wrote these programs because, at some point, I needed them. That means they are not necessarily very pretty, but maybe you'll find some of them useful. A lot of this is not the greatest code in the world (in particular, most of the Perl programs below were written a long time ago, when I was just learning Perl -- or rather, when I was still trying to use Perl only as a last resort.) So take most them in the context of ``one-hour hacks that have lived on far longer than expected.''

http://marginalhacks.com/

sharp zaurus sl-c860

http://www.dynamism.com/zaurus/index.shtml
Sharp has again updated their hot SL-series. This latest version, the SL-C860, share the same hardware as the SL-C760 but has one new feature. Now, the Zaurus itself, as well as its SD and CF slots, will now be recognized as a hard drive under Windows. (The same way a memory card would be.) This new feature facilitates easier data transfer.

demos: people changing politics

http://www.demos.co.uk/
Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think-tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.

Demos connects researchers, thinkers and practitioners to an international network of people changing politics. Our ideas regularly influence government policy, but we also work with companies, NGOs, schools and professional bodies – any organisation that can make change happen. Our partners share a desire to understand a complex, globalising world, and to play an active role in shaping its future.

tj's house?

http://www.mapquest.com/

a wireless wonderland

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930.html
Like many of us, Andrew Greig put a WiFi access point in his house so he could share his broadband Internet connection. But like hardly any of us, Andrew uses his WiFi network for Internet, television, and telephone. He cancelled his telephone line and cable TV service. Then his neighbors dropped-by, saw what Andrew had done, and they cancelled their telephone and cable TV services, too, many of them without having a wired broadband connection of their own. They get their service from Andrew, who added an inline amplifier and put a better antenna in his attic. Now most of Andrew's neighborhood is watching digital TV with full PVR capability, making unmetered VoIP telephone calls, and downloading data at prodigious rates thanks to shared bandwidth. Is this the future of home communications and entertainment? It could be, five years from now, if Andrew Greig has anything to say about it.

validating input with strtol

http://home.att.net/~jackklein/c/code/strtol.html
A very common question from newcomers to C and C++ programming is how to validate input. They use the standard library functions and objects like scanf() or cin which work well if the input is well-formed and within range, but fail if the input is invalid. This can be a real problem when the input is coming from a user at a keyboard and the user types something unexpected!

porcupine love

http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume8/v8i3/porcupines.html
How do porcupines make love? You would probably think the answer is "very carefully," but you would probably be wrong.

The answer is more improbable and much more bizarre than that. While browsing in the basement of the Australian National University library one day, I came across two papers (see references below) which described in great detail the details of the porcupine’s sex life. The information contained in these papers is of such great importance it is paraphrased and presented here. The next time a friend asks you how porcupines make love, you can set them straight by describing these events (in as much detail as you dare).

References:
"The Sex Reactions of Porcupines (Erethizon d. dorsatum) Before and After Copulation," Albert R. Shadle, Marilyn Smelzer & Margery Metz, Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 27, no. 2, 1946, pp. 116-21.
"Copulation in the Porcupine," Albert R. Shadle, Journal of Wildlife Management, vol. 10, no. 2, 1946, pp. 159-62.

Fowler/Noll/Vo (FNV) hashing

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/fnv/
The basis of the FNV hash algorithm was taken from an idea sent as reviewer comments to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2 committee by Glenn Fowler and Phong Vo. In a subsequent ballot round: Landon Curt Noll improved on their algorithm. Some people tried this hash and found that it worked rather well. In an EMail message to Landon, they named it the ``Fowler/Noll/Vo'' or FNV hash.

FNV hashes are designed to be fast while maintaining a low collision rate. The FNV speed allows one to quickly hash lots of data while maintaining a reasonable collision rate. The high dispersion of the FNV hashes makes them well suited for hashing nearly identical strings such as URLs, hostnames, filenames, text, IP addresses, etc.

POOP group

http://poop.sourceforge.net/
POOP stands for Perl Object-Oriented Persistence.

this page has overviews of some of the modules available that can help implement this type of persistence

perl ithread links

http://www.perldoc.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=&exclude=&words=threads&x=0&y=0
perldoc stuff about threads

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=288022
perlmonks thread about ithreads

paj's website

http://pajhome.org.uk/
a bunch of random interesting computer geek stuff

http://perl-md5-login.sourceforge.net/
This project implements an MD5-based encryption scheme on both client and server machines to allow encrypted password protection for web-based Perl/CGI applications. Although there are many free Perl/CGI application for password protection, only a few use MD5 on the server-side, but the password still travels over the internet as plain text. All server-side only schemes (like .htaccess password protection) are completely open to packet-sniffing. With this scheme, the browser JavaScript encrypts the password on the client's machine, and session tracking allows only one response per session ID, making simple packet-sniffing and session replaying much more difficult.

random user-agent quotes

I use the user agent string Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html). It gives access to quite a few sites that only give full access to subscribers and Google...
-----
Drop this [cyberknights.com.au] into /usr/share/services/useragentstrings and you can conveniently select it from Konqueror's "Tools/Change Browser Identification" menu at once. In 51 different languages. (-:

If you like melting webmaster brain cells, use this [cyberknights.com.au] instead.

My mailserver used to answer as a "Commodore 64 (with anti-spam cartridge)".

aolsearch encquery

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?s=b2919bb1240a5f2a7d383e0f336a3645&showtopic=813

<?php

?>

school vouchers: for and against

http://www.hiphopconvention.org/issues/civilrights/hardwon.cfm (against)

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-269.html (both, discussion)
http://www.cato.org/dailys/04-03-04.html (for)

http://www.brookings.org/comm/transcripts/20010607.htm (for)

http://www.freecolorado.com/2002/03/novouchers.html (against)

http://www.nul.org/publications/tbe_archive/tbe/tbe200227.html (for)

20 questions ai

http://y.20q.net/
play twenty questions with a computer. it usually wins.

handy webdev refs

http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/
color picker

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/
decent css reference

commercial&non dhtml menus

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/
some of these are user-submitted... not sure of licensing terms, didn't poke around much yet

http://www.opencube.com/
http://dhtml-menu.com/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22dhtml+menu%22&btnG=Google+Search

and non-commercial ones:
http://simplythebest.net/scripts/DHTML_scripts/dhtml_script_105.html

who is michael badnarik?

http://www.badnarik.org/Issues/
itics.slashdot.org/politics/04/09/13/1249231.shtml?tid=4&tid=219
http://www.libertyunbound.com/archive/2004_08/bradford-dark_horse.html

random voting methods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method

curious about martin amis

http://martinamis.albion.edu/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/103-5223220-4574211
i read a short story in Granta where a live-in lesbian couple was in the process of breaking up. the one compulsively read and quoted Martin Amis while the other enjoyed comic books and was in denial. the plot resolved itself when the one in denial started reading Amis too, and grew some self-esteem.

i thought: "isn't that int[eresting&riguing]: that someone (a writer) would be so touched by someone else's writing as to include references to it in one of their own short stories... and one (a story) so seemingly, if not actually, personal."

it was a good short story. i will read martin amis. marketing professionals take note (really, please don't... it would ruin a genuine channel of recommendation).

To his Coy Mistress

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm
(by Andrew Marvell)

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.(..)

My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

( . Y . ) giggidy giggidy OH YEAH!

Programming Python book notes

http://www.rmi.net/~lutz/pp2e-updates.html
notes, errata, and updates relative to more recent python updates about O'Reilly's Programming Python

david mertz's python articles

http://gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_cp.html
a column on (mostly introductory) Python topics for IBM developerWorks, called Charming Python

autistic social software

http://www.danah.org/papers/Supernova2004.html
While "social software" has recently emerged as a phenomenon in the tech community, sociable media has been around since the beginning of the Internet. Email, BBS, Usenet, chatrooms, MUDs and MOOs all captured the imagination of technologists throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Alongside the development of these technologies, academics and pundits spouted off about the utopian dreams that could be fulfilled by these innovations. Their prescriptions mirrored the particular concepts set forth by science fiction, often without the richness that the writers were trying to convey. Idealists envisioned a world where physical identity would not matter because online, no one would know that you're a dog.

terrapin trader

http://www.purchase.umd.edu/ttrader/
Terrapin Trader is the University's on-going surplus operation. Terrapin Trader Property Release Forms are used to identify items deemed surplus by the owning department. Computers, printers, desks, chairs, and tables are among the kinds of inventory processed by the Terrapin Trader. Pick up of surplused equipment is made free of charge to University departments. Terrapin Trader determines the price of property sold through its showroom (sometimes in consultation with department personnel). Sales are made on a "first come" basis and items are sold "as is" with no warranties or guarantees.

cryptography links

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=encryption+intro&btnG=Google+Search
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/crypto/co0404.htm
Towards the 128-bit Era: AES Candidates

Improvements in the speed and power of microprocessor chips have meant that the Data Encryption Standard with its 56-bit key is subject to brute-force attacks that can be carried out by organizations of moderate size.

Although some branches of the Government of the United States, including its Chief Executive, have been pursuing policies such as export restrictions and the "Clipper chip" initiative, based on perceived dangers of the spread of strong encryption, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, another branch of the U. S. Government, has sought public submissions of an improved block cipher which would serve the specific purpose of protecting the unclassified communications of the U. S. Government, but which would also, no doubt, serve the public sector as well.

(includes links to other pages about specific encryption methods)

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/security/sslin/contents.htm
This document introduces the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. Originally developed by Netscape, SSL has been universally accepted on the World Wide Web for authenticated and encrypted communication between clients and servers.

http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/classes/dragn/labs/coding/coding10.html
http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/
http://rae.falkor.gen.nz/DES.html

the fucking moon!

http://www.blogjam.com/neil_armstrong/
In 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to walk on the moon, uttering the immortal phrase, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Or did he? Previously suppressed footage discovered by blogjam shows that Armstrong's reaction was a great deal more uninhibited than history suggests, and that a hasty editing job was needed to prepare the astronaut's moment of glory for broadcast.

So here, for the first time, is the unedited NASA film from the triumphant Apollo 11 mission.

music with perl

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/31/livecode.html
I've found the experiences of dancing and programming to have a great deal in common. With both I am immersed in an abstract world of animated structures, building up and breaking down many times before finally reaching a conclusion. Indeed, when the operation of even the dullest data-munging computer program is visualized, for example in a debugger, it does seem to be dancing around its loops and conditions -- moving in patterns through time.

In other words, a musical score is a kind of source code, and a musical performance is a kind of running program. When you play from a musical score or run a program you are bringing instructions to life.

So a piece of composed music is like a Perl script, but let's not forget improvised music. The rules behind improvised music -- for example improvised jazz -- develop during a performance, perhaps with little or no predefined plan. Where is the comparison with code here? Well, how many times have you sat down to write some Perl without first deciding exactly how you were going to structure it? Perl is great for improvising. The question is, can you write improvised Perl scripts on stage? This article hopes to answer this question.

crap-tolerant html parsers in python

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
You didn't write that awful page. You're just trying to get some data out of it. Right now, you don't really care what HTML is supposed to look like.

Neither does this parser.
Beautiful Soup
Introduction

There are lots of parsers for HTML and XML documents. They are great if you care about the document as a whole. They've got all sorts of uses: you can transform the document, index it, display its structure, or process its content.

But what if you only care about part of a document? What if you just want to extract some information and leave? You have two choices. You can use regular expressions. ("Now you have two problems.") Or you can parse the document and use information about the structure to find the parts you're interested in. The trouble is, it gets tiresome traversing the parse tree looking for the parts you want. After a while, even regular expressions start to look pretty good.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a parser that could do the tree traversal stuff for you? You could tell it "Find all the links", or "Find all the links of class externalLink", or "Find all the links whose urls match "foo.com", or "Find the table heading that's got bold text, then give me that text."

Beautiful Soup can do all this--and less. It won't choke if you give it ill-formed markup: it'll just give you access to a correspondingly ill-formed data structure. It doesn't care if you give it fake HTML tags or if the namespaces are wrong. It accepts that you're doing this to get some data into a more usable format. It appreciates that if the data were well-formed to begin with, you probably wouldn't be doing what you're doing.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/286269
A simple HTML 'parser' that will 'read' through an HTML file and call functions on data and tags etc.
Useful if you need to implement a straightforward parser that just extracts information from the file *or* modifies tags etc.

Shouldn't choke on bad HTML.

intro to oracle partitioning

http://dba-oracle.com/oracle_news/2004_2_11_rittman.htm
"Partitioned tables and indexes facilitate administrative operations by allowing these operations to work on subsets of data. For example, you can add a new partition, organize an existing partition, or drop a partition with less than a second of interruption to a read-only application."

directions to OBX2K4

long ass mapquest link

time to rebuild the house of saud

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/16/1073878030512.html?oneclick=true
Buried in the detail of the US presidential campaign is a time bomb. On November 30, in a high school auditorium in suburban Merrimack, southern New Hampshire, Howard Dean, the early Democratic front-runner in this year's presidential election, uttered these words: "He [President Bush] lacks the backbone to stand up against the Saudis."

The House of Saud, key American ally, strategic base for US armed forces, the West's biggest supplier of oil?

"Saudia Arabia uses our oil money," Dean continued, "to train the next generation of suicide bombers."

True. Saudi Arabia is the world's leading financier of religious bigotry, militant medievalism, sectarian violence and the subjugation of women. It is the Taliban with money. Its financing of the most malignant form of Islamism has extended to Australia. And if the House of Saud falls, the prodigious oil wealth of the Arabian peninsula will likely fall to the Wahhabist branch of Islam, which promotes jihad, religious war against idolators, especially the West, especially America.

how to paint a room

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=paint+room+walls+%22between+coats%22&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.asktooltalk.com/home/articles/paintfaux/painting-surface.htm
How many of you have tackled painting a room over a weekend? When all was said and done, how did it look? Like a room painted in a weekend? Existing cracks suddenly reappeared, nails that were not removed have hardened paint "tails," mouldings sport globs of paint on mitered outside corners, carpet nap is glued to the face of the base mouldings, and roller and brush strokes are painfully obvious.

Before diving into your next paint project, consider the following steps to achieve professional results...

fett's vette

http://madness.mindlab.umd.edu/ws_fettsvette.wmv
Wow. A music video that sounds like MC Pee Pants from ATHF, but it's Boba Fett rapping about his "Corvette"

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1002355/
it IS mc pee pants! mc chris in da heezy.

D's Dew Drop Inn

http://www.dmcindc.com/
lots of random DC links and pictures

new mod for old half-life

http://www.theshiponline.com/index.php?page=&action=show&id=9805
Welcome to The Ship.

Congratulations! You've just won a free ticket to a dream cruise onboard a spectacular, replica 1920's cruise ship! All you've got to do is put your copy of Half Life 1 in your machine, download the small patch and step onboard!

You might find a few things to concern you while you're enjoying the luxurious surroundings, like the fact that you have the name of another passenger, your quarry, visible on your screen… It might be a good idea to find that person and get rid of them in some way because somewhere there's another passenger with your name. They'll be looking for you and it's not going to be a friendly meeting…

This is just Mr X's way of making you pay for your free cruise by keeping him entertained… Murder your quarry in an interesting way and he'll even pay you money! Just don't get caught by the Ship's security or witnessed by too many passengers or you'll go straight to jail, suffer a hefty fine and probably lose your weapons…

Be sure to make use of the Ship's facilities while you're exploring: eat drink and be merry as they say or you may find death comes upon you through your own ineptitude rather than your hunter's finesse… And if you think your hunter's getting too close? Try changing your clothes: you may throw them off the scent… For a while…

peep my pimp handle

http://www.playerappreciate.com/pimphandle.asp
Vicious D. Gray Joker
Crazy Eyes D. Rock
Macktastic Gray Shizzle
Papa Dave Smooth
Macktastic Dave Flava
President Dave Ice
Mr. White Chocolate D. Slick
Sugartastic Dave Large
Magic Tickle Gray Shizzle
Bishop Don Dave Dogg
Professor Truth D. Valentine
Sheik Gray Rockefeller
Ghetto Fabulous Gray Dazzle
Reverend Doctor Dave Fresh
Treacherous D. Rockefeller
Stealth Maestro Dave Sweetness
G. Digital D. Beautiful
Bishop Don Gray Sneed
Pimptastic Gray Flava

rad favicon gallery

http://www.tokyo-ouja.com/favicon/
lots of fun favicons (website bookmark icons)

lawyer jokes

http://barrygoldberg.net/lawjokes.htm
lots of lawyer jokes, including my favorite:

Q:How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Whereas the party of the first part, also known as "Lawyer", and the
party of the second part, also known as "Light Bulb", do hereby and
forthwith agree to a transaction wherein the party of the second part
(Light Bulb) shall be removed from the current position as a result of
failure to perform previously agreed upon duties, i.e., the lighting,
elucidation, and otherwise illumination of the area ranging from the
front (north) door, through the entryway, terminating at an area just
inside the primary living area, demarcated by the beginning of the
carpet, any spillover illumination being at the option of the party of
the second part (Light Bulb) and not required by the aforementioned
agreement between the parties. The aforementioned removal transaction
shall include, but not be limited to, the following steps:

NOTE: The above described steps may be performed, at the option of the
party of the first part (Lawyer), by any or all persons authorized by
him, the objective being to produce the most possible revenue for the
party of the fifth part, also known as "Partnership."

chrono trigger boss list

http://www.rpgclassics.com/subsites/floating/ctboss.shtml
bit of a spoiler, list of strategies for fighting the game bosses

general networking links

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/

twisted network programming

http://www.itamarst.org/writings/etech04/twisted_internet-0.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-twist1.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-twist2.html

famous to baltimorons

http://www.baltimoreoutloud.com/Images/Aug_6_cover.jpg

more twisted docs

http://sluggo.kicks-ass.org/twisted_finger_gentle.txt
These notes are meant to be read chapter by chapter in conjunction with "Twisted
From Scratch, or The Evolution of Finger". They aim to provide the background
knowledge assumed in the original, and also to clarify the author's Python
coding shortcuts.

We'll be building a 'finger' server with many bells and whistles. We'll start
with the absolutely smallest application possible and then add features one at
a time, making each step a functioning application.

http://twisted.sourceforge.net/TwistedDocs-1.2.0/howto/plugin.html
Twisted is a very general and powerful tool. It can power anything connected to a network, from your corporate message-broadcasting network to your desktop IRC client. This is great for integrating lots of different tools, but can make it very difficult to document and understand how the whole platform is supposed to work. A side effect of this is that it's hard to get started with a project using Twisted, because it's hard to find out where to start.

This guide is to help you understand one of the main ways to get started working on a Twisted server application. It probably won't answer your specific questions about how to do things like schedule functions to call in the future or listen on a socket; there are other documents that address these concerns and you can read them later. Client applications are not likely to use the infrastructure described in this document, and a simpler alternative exists for servers, covered in the Application howto.

http://www.pyzine.com/Issue006/Section_Articles/article_GettingTwisted.html
Twisted is a framework for writing asynchronously networked applications. One of the greatest advantages of Twisted is that it allows developers to integrate many protocols into their applications, which it does by offering consistent APIs to these different protocols. An overview of several of Twisted's parts, along with design ideas and code samples, is provided.

subversion reference

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/ch09.html
This chapter is intended to be a complete reference to using Subversion. This includes the command line client (svn) and all its subcommands, as well as the repository administration programs (svnadmin and svnlook) and their respective subcommands.

cnds software

http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/software/
Spines: A software research platform that allows deployment of overlay networks in the Internet
Wackamole: An infrastructure application that helps make a cluster highly available. Similarly it can make a highly available logical router out of several routers.
Spread: A high performance messaging toolkit that is resilient to faults across external or internal networks.
Secure Spread: A library that provides security services for the Spread Group Communication System.
mod_backhand: A drop in module for the Apache web server that allows dynamic load-balancing over local area cluster of Apache web servers.
Flush Spread: A library that provides view synchrony semantics for the Spread Group Communication System.
The Frugal System: A Metacomputing Tool for Jini-enabled Networks. The Frugal System schedules tasks on a scalable computing cluster to minimize system loads and optimize the use of memory.
The Stdutil C Library: A toolkit of high-performance C data structures and utility functions.

also, http://cnds.jhu.edu/publications/
publications of the Johns Hopkins Center for Networking and Distributed Systems

timewarp computer prices

http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=296910&P=1
This article came about because of an ad page in the August 2004 issue of APC Magazine. Page 158 seemed to be a reprint of an ad from July 2001 (200KB pic). APC say it wasn't an error on their part, so I assume it was a clever (and successful) attempt by the vendor to attract more attention to their ad. I found the historical pricing interesting, so asked people to send me, over the next 24 hours, scans of ad pages from the oldest Australian computer magazines they could dig up.

apache, mod_rewrite and dbm_fetch

http://www.vttoth.com/rewrite.htm
"
Undefined symbol 'dbm_fetch' with the Apache server

I tried to include in my Apache Web server's configuration the mod_rewrite module, but when I restarted the server, I received an error:

Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/mod_rewrite.so into server:
/usr/local/apache/libexec/mod_rewrite.so: undefined symbol: dbm_fetch

The problem, as it turns out, is that mod_rewrite.so is compiled incorrectly. It should be linked with a dbm library but it isn't.

If you have an up-to-date set of Apache source files, you can easily solve this problem by manually rerunning the last compilation step of this module, using the correct options. When you execute make mod_rewrite.so in the appropriate directory, it performs this final step:

gcc -shared -o mod_rewrite.so mod_rewrite.lo

Rerun gcc, this time adding a reference to the GNU gdbm library:

gcc -shared -o mod_rewrite.so mod_rewrite.lo -lgdbm

Next, copy the newly created mod_rewrite.so over to /usr/local/apache/libexec or wherever your Apache module files are located.

In my case, this was all that was needed to solve the problem. Your mileage may vary.
"
Thanks Viktor.

tj surprise party pics

http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tomjlubey/album?.tok=phusrbBBaiHQK9Ja&.dir=/6ec5&.src=ph
tj's pics

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hotmonkeymedia/detail?.dir=c250&.dnm=1d20.jpg&.src=ph
rob's pics

detect/read/modify RFID tags

http://www.rf-dump.org/
RFDump is a tool to detect RFID-Tags and show their meta information: Tag ID, Tag Type, manufacturer etc. The user data memory of a tag can be displayed and modified using either a Hex or an ASCII editor. In addition, the integrated cookie feature demonstrates how easy it is for a company to abuse RFID technology to spy on their customers. RFDump works with the ACG Multi-Tag Reader or similar card reader hardware.

swat hand signals

http://www.unconventional-airsoft.com/information/handSignals.php
I'm having a hard time seeing very far without my glasses.
Be quiet for once in your goddamned lives, already.

It's really funny to me that the number one google hit for swat+hand+signals are for this.

the always amusing euphemism generator

http://walkingdead.net/perl/euphemism/
They were hoping the neighbors couldn't see them locating the pope's mushroom.
Like most guys his age, he wasn't above inverting the blazing sheriff.
Cross-examination revealed that he had a great deal of experience plowing the lucky fishbowl.

random rom conversions

http://agtp.romhack.net/
website with a bunch of roms of old games

hate the game, europe

http://hudsonreview.com/BawerSp04.html

I moved from the U.S. to Europe in 1998, and I’ve been drawing comparisons ever since.

[W]hy have these Machiavellians become idealists? Because they no longer have power—and, being powerless, they resent [others'] power, even when it’s used not to conquer but to help.

hymn decryption project

http://hymn-project.org/

favorite fark photoshop contests

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1055366&mode=voteresults
The clandestine and brutal war that is ever shrouded from the public eye -- Hanna Barbara vs. Looney Tunes

frickin eye cameras

http://www.christianhacker.org/html/NHV.html
Specifically, postdoc researcher Ko Nishino and Prof. Shree Nayar, codirector of the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center, have devised a system to capture and analyze the evanescent pictures displayed on our own little ocular movie screens. Their "corneal imaging system" seems at first rather prosaic: basically it involves using a high-resolution digital camera to snap a close-up of a face. The real action takes place when the image is downloaded to the computer: sophisticated software isolates the circular area around the iris called the limbus, where a film of tear fluid over the cornea reflects the world like a clear midsummer lake. From there it's possible to lift a wide-angle view of the person's surroundings when the shot was snapped.

There are so many applications for something like this... for example goggles that continually capture an operative's entire field of vision and either store on some sort of wearable or transmit wirelessly back to analysts at home base. In order to minimize the necessary bandwidth between the operative and home base, the processing from hi-res down to a lower-res FOV image could be done in the wearable and then encrypted and stored before transmission to home base. Frickin' awesome.

the bible in ... 1337 5p34k

http://www.christianhacker.org/html/NHV.html
Finally! After years without God's word in their own L33T-speak language dialect, the Christian Hackers' Association is proud to introduce the NHV (New Hacker Version) Bible transliterated especially for hackers! We believe that no group of people should be excluded from the Gospel message due to cultural or linguistic barriers.

2004 otakon schedule jpgs

friday saturday sunday
frickin shitty ass pdfs from otakon.com don't render correctly in xpdf

a taste of computer security

http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/security/
Given the nature and scope of the field, it would require one or more books to even briefly touch upon all that is known about computer security. This document's goal is only to give you a taste of (a subset of) the subject. The various sections are not uniform in their depth or breadth, and the document's overall structure is not pedagogical. I could have titled it Thinking Aloud On Computer Security, if not for the somewhat pompous undertone.

scanned wal-mart receipts

http://blacksunn.net/receipts/
"For years, I saved my WalMart receipts in a little box; no reason, I just saved all my receipts.

Then, I had the crazy idea to put them on the internet. Put'em on the internet, and let people discuss them, discuss my shopping habits.

Millions of pageviews later, the website got pulled by the hosting company for some unknown reason (misuse, bandwidth hogging, who knows.) My last backup was done in April 2002, and the site has sat dormant since then.

After much thought, I've brought back the archives, purely for historical value.

This site is not sponsored, ordained, sanctioned, or provided by Wal*Mart. Really, its only relation to Wal Mart is that Wal Mart prints out the clearest receipts which scan well. If my grocery store's receipts didn't fade so bad, this would reference Hornbacher's instead. "

open source ocr links

http://www.linux-ocr.ekitap.gen.tr/
ocr link collection

http://tides.umiacs.umd.edu/description.html
Rapidly Retargetable Translingual Detection
The objective of this project is to rapidly create usable systems for translingual document detection that can be employed by analysts who are fluent in English to detect potentially important documents that are written in other languages.

http://www.claraocr.org/
Clara OCR is a free (GPL) OCR for systems that support the C library and the X windows system (e.g. most flavours of Unix). Clara OCR is intended for large scale digitalization projects. It features a powerful GUI and a web interface for cooperative digitalization of books.

http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html
GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program implemented as a filter and based on a feature extraction method. It reads a bitmap image in pbm format and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats. Also includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns or blocks of text normally found on printed pages. Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend to other programs.

http://jocr.sourceforge.net/download.html
GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers.
GOCR can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to port to different OSes and architectures. It can open many different image formats, and its quality have been improving in a daily basis.

geek test

http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html
37.08087%

How will you rank?

* Geekish Tendencies
* Geek
* Total Geek
* Major Geek
* Super Geek
* Extreme Geek
* Geek God
* Dysfunctional Geek

openldap manpages

http://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=(3)&sektion=&apropos=1&manpath=OpenLDAP+2.2-Release&title=Section%20

ldap + ssl

http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html

xp service tweaks

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/strangeservice.htm
Disabling all of the "unneeded services" frees up 12-70 MB of RAM, depending on system.
Do you mean that out of 89 services, 36 are set to Automatic as DEFAULT, but, we MAY only need 8 running?!? YES.

LDAP + C links

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/dirsdk/csdk30/contents.htm
http://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=ldap

cheney vs. leahy

http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?040726sh_shouts
Vice President Dick Cheney cursed at Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, in a confrontation on the Senate floor while members were having their annual group picture taken earlier this week. . . . According to [an] aide, Mr. Cheney . . . responded with a barnyard epithet, urging Mr. Leahy to perform an anatomical sexual impossibility.

michael moore links

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040216fa_fact7
http://dailykos.com/story/2004/7/18/173312/462
http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm

outragedmoderates.com

http://www.outragedmoderates.org/
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64237,00.html
Peer-to-peer networks aren't just for trading music and movies. A law student, frustrated by government secrecy and possible conflicts of interest, launches a website that uses P2P networks to distribute telling government documents.

getty dc-dodgeball pics

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/cfw/FrameSet.aspx?s=ImagesSearchState|0|15|0|1|||0|0|0|0|7|dodgeball|0|0&p=7&pk=4
getty images came to one of our games and took pictures. dig anders' crazy eye and dan's impending doom

Dr. Vandana Shiva's grass-roots orgs

http://www.vshiva.net/
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY AND ECOLOGY (RFSTE)

RFSTE was founded in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh (INDIA) in 1982 by Dr. Vandana Shiva. It works on biodiversity conservation and protecting people's rights from threats to their livelihoods and environment by centralised systems of monoculture in forestry, agriculture and fisheries.

http://www.bijavidyapeeth.org/
n a world dominated by greed and competition, speed and restlessness, pollution and ecological destruction, war and violence, Bija Vidyapeeth offers a unique opportunity to explore and practice the art and science of sustainability. Bija Vidyapeeth offers a unique insight into the tenets of sustainability and deep democracy through interactions with the foremost intellectuals and sustainable communities of our times.

http://www.diversewomen.org/
Diverse Women for Diversity is a programme of Navdanya. It seeks to herald a global campaign of women on biodiversity, cultural diversity and food security. Diverse Women for Diversity echoes women's voices from the local and grassroots level to global fora and international negotiations. It seeks to strengthen women's grassrots movements and provide women with a common international platform to air their views. Over the years, Diverse Women for Diversity has evolved a non-violent resistance and opposition to globalisation, emergency of genetic engineering and patents on life forms. Women of the world join hands under Diverse Women for Diversity.

http://www.navdanya.org/
Since 1987, Navdanya has been saving seeds, promoting chemical-free organic agriculture, creating awareness on the hazards of genetic engineering, defending people’s knowledge from Biopiracy, and defending people’s food rights and food sovereignty in the face of globalisation.

Navdanya means “nine seeds.” These nine seeds are representative of India’s collective source of food security, connoting a diverse ecological balance at every level - from the ecology of the Earth to the ecology of our bodies.

culture jamming

http://www.levity.com/markdery/jam.html
Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs (Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, 1993) is available for $4 from Open Magazine, (908) 789-9608, POB 2726, Westfield, NJ 07091.

"Culture jamming," a term I have popularized by articles in The New York Times and Adbusters, might best be defined as media hacking, information warfare, terror-art, and guerrilla semiotics, all in one. Billboard bandits, pirate TV and radio broadcasters, media hoaxers, and other vernacular media wrenchers who intrude on the intruders, investing ads, newscasts, and other media artifacts with subversive meanings are all culture jammers.

http://www.abrupt.org/CJ/CJ.html
"Culture Jamming" sticks where rational discourse slides off. It is, simply, the viral introduction of radical ideas. It is viral in that it uses the enemy's own resources to replicate iteself -- corporate logos, marketing psychology, clean typography, "adspeak". It is radical because--ideally--the message, once deciphered, causes damage to blind belief. Fake ads, fake newspaper articles, parodies, pastiche. The best CJ is totally unexpected, surprising, shocking in its implications.

hilarious UO comics

http://spla.sh/bp/bp_files/main.htm
Welcome to the new Adventures of B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd
An old school Ultima Online comic

apache module api reference

http://modules.apache.org/doc/API.html#commands

bom-ba-clot!

http://www.ohhla.com/anonymous/misc/reggae/dolly_my.sup.txt
Artist: Supercat f/ Notorious B.I.G., Puff Daddy, Third Eye
Album: Dolly My Baby - Remix (Single)
Song: Dolly My Baby (Remix)

buncha random autoconf etc links

http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html
http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/autoconf_tutorial_1.html

rock paper saddam

http://www.rockpapersaddam.com/
You probably don't even know about Pen Missile.

perl6 periodic table

http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.pdf

autoconf, automake, and libtool

http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html
This book is a tutorial for Autoconf, Automake and Libtool, hereafter referred to as the GNU Autotools. The GNU manuals that accompany each tools adequately document each tool in isolation. Until now, there has not been a guide that has described how these tools work together.

As these tools have evolved over the years, design decisions have been made by contributors who clearly understand the associated problems, but little documentation exists that captures why things are the way the are.

one-way toilet

http://home.centurytel.net/cty90143/jpeg/humor/swisstoilet.htm
[Th]ere's a picture of a public toilet in Switzerland that's made entirely out of one-way glass. No one can see you in there, but when you are inside, it looks like you're sitting in a clear glass box. Would you use it?

interesting flash tool

http://www.theyrule.net/
They Rule allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004.
The data was collected from their websites and SEC filings in early 2004, so it may not be completely accurate - companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards.

Traffic Waves, physics for bored commuters

http://www.amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html
http://www.nature.com/nsu/000420/000420-4.html
Have you ever been driving on an interstate highway when traffic suddenly slows to a crawl? You inch along for many minutes while waiting to see the accident which must have caused the jam. At the same time you also curse the "rubberneckers" who are causing the whole problem. But then all the cars ahead of you take off at high speed. The jam is over, but no accident, no police cars, nothing. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT! A traffic jam with no cause? In the rear-view mirror you see all the poor saps behind you still stuck in the jam. But why? If all those people could just speed up at the same time, the whole traffic jam would evaporate. Why don't they ever do that? What caused the mysterious slowdown in the first place?

an indie music video

http://www.ryantown.com/gayboyfriend/
i haven't actually watched this yet, but the story behind its production is quite entertaining and perhaps educational at the very least

IP Multicast Introduction

http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/undergrad/4ba2/multicast/antony/
programmer-oriented multicasting introduction
This tutorial assumes basic familiarity with the socket programming abstraction found in many variants of the UNIX Operating System. This tutorial will illustrate how to use sockets to join an IP multicast group and send and receive data from multicast groups.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/ipmulti.htm
Internet Protocol (IP) multicast is a bandwidth-conserving technology that reduces traffic by simultaneously delivering a single stream of information to thousands of corporate recipients and homes. Applications that take advantage of multicast include videoconferencing, corporate communications, distance learning, and distribution of software, stock quotes, and news.

LDAP C Library Reference

http://docs.sun.com/source/816-5616-10/function.htm
a reference to c ldap libraries

avoid random tabs

http://adamspiers.org/computing/why_no_tabs.html
how to convince emacs not to spit out random tabs when auto-indenting

random livejournal images

http://www.dreamwill.net/ljimages.php
last 30 public images, so i guess not truly random, but what do you want.

wanker stories

http://www.b3ta.com/questions/wanking_disasters/
funny stuff

computer language shootout

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/index.php
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout
This is an updated version of Doug Bagley's original Great Computer Language Shootout (link 2), updated with new languages and revised to work with modern compilers.

Originally, the project goal was to compare all the major scripting languages. Later, compiled languages were added for comparison and now are a major component of the benchmark.

The project goals have not changed substantially since Doug's original project. This work is continuing so that we all can learn about new languages, compare them in various (possibly meaningless) ways, and most importantly, have some fun!

Someday, maybe, the results we present might be meaningful, but please take the current results with a grain of salt. You might get different results on a different OS, on different hardware, with newer releases of the languages, or even from run to run of the same test. You might even find that horrible bugs still lurk in the testing method.

homeless with a blog

http://artisforlosers.blogspot.com/2004/06/have-we-met-sometime-in-near-or.html
i'm uncomfortable saying i love you because i'm not sure i believe in it.

lisp info

http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/
http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/lisp.html
no, not the funny kind, the computer nerd kind
a lisp cookbook and intro

python @ IBM developerWorks

http://www-106.ibm.com/search/searchResults.jsp?searchType=1&searchSite=dW&query=python&searchScope=dW&Search.x=0&Search.y=0&Search=Search
a search for python-related articles at developerWorks

why VC is for suckers

http://www.waxy.org/random/arsdigita/
If you've been hanging out around courthouses in Delaware lately, you may have heard about some legal acrimony involving ArsDigita's venture capitalists versus the ArsDigita co-founders. This letter explains how it came about (from the perspective of one of the defendants).

Note that 99 percent of the information in this document is irrelevant to the lawsuit. The lawsuit has to do with the rights of the shareholders to control management based on some technical points of law and contract. In other words, the questions of who is best qualified to run the company and whether business decisions have been correct are largely irrelevant.

greenspun's fantasy cs research lab

http://philip.greenspun.com/research/fantasy/
New graduate students in computer science often have a difficult time choosing among research projects and may never develop a broad view of the field nor think about the relative significance of efforts in various directions. When new graduate students ask me for advice I tell them to start by pretending that they are the lab director for computer science at a brand-new research university and to come up with a plan for how they'd populate their lab with projects. This is sort of like the fantasy baseball leagues that are popular with kids, hence the page title. In preparing a fantasy research lab plan, a student will need to familiarize him or herself with a broad range of problems and the current state of the art in solutions. This ought to give the student more perspective in planning a career.

also,
http://philip.greenspun.com/research/

python reference manual deep-links

re
urllib
os.path

logical fallacies and the art of debate

http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html
This is a guide to using logical fallacies in debate. And when I say "using," I don't mean just pointing them out when opposing debaters commit them -- I mean deliberately committing them oneself, or finding ways to transform fallacious arguments into perfectly good ones.

Debate is, fortunately or not, an exercise in persuasion, wit, and rhetoric, not just logic. In a debate format that limits each debater's speaking time, it is simply not reasonable to expect every proposition or conclusion to follow precisely and rigorously from a clear set of premises stated at the outset. Instead, debaters have to bring together various facts, insights, and values that others share or can be persuaded to accept, and then show that those ideas lead more or less plausibly to a conclusion. Logic is a useful tool in this process, but it is not the only tool -- after all, "plausibility" is a fairly subjective matter that does not follow strict logical rules. Ultimately, the judge in a debate round has to decide which side's position is more plausible in light of the arguments given -- and the judge is required to pick one of those sides, even if logic alone dictates that "we do not know" is the answer to the question at hand.

Besides, let's be honest: debate is not just about finding truth, it's also about winning. If you think a fallacious argument can slide by and persuade the judge to vote for you, you're going to make it, right? The trick is not getting caught.

oracle hint optimizations

http://www.psoug.org/reference/hints.html
http://www.dba-oracle.com/art_builder_sql_execution.htm
http://www.dba-oracle.com/art_otn_cbo_p7.htm
http://www.oradev.com/hints.jsp
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=oracle+hint+use_nl&btnG=Google+Search

oracle: remove duplicate rows

http://www.remote-dba.cc/oracle_tips_duplicate_rows.htm
simple query to remove duplicate rows from an oracle table

The most effective way to detect duplicate rows is to join the table against itself as shown below.

SELECT
BOOK_UNIQUE_ID,
PAGE_SEQ_NBR,
IMAGE_KEY
FROM
page_image A
WHERE
rowid >
(SELECT min(rowid) FROM page_image B
WHERE
B.key1 = A.key1
and
B.key2 = A.key2
and
B.key3 = A.key3
);

Please note that you must specify all of the columns that make the row a duplicate in the SQL where clause. Once you have detected the duplicate rows, you may modify the SQL statement to remove the duplicates as shown below:

DELETE FROM
table_name A
WHERE
A.rowid >
ANY (SELECT B.rowid
FROM
table_name B
WHERE
A.col1 = B.col1
AND
A.col2 = B.col2
);

tcl/tk download etc

http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/ Tcl (Tool Command Language) is used by over half a million developers worldwide and has become a critical component in thousands of corporations. It has a simple and programmable syntax and can be either used as a standalone application or embedded in application programs. Best of all, Tcl is open source so it's completely free.

how to install perl modules if not root

http://faqomatic.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/437.html
If you don't have the privilege to install the modules in a system directory, tell Makefile.PL that before you start:

% mkdir ~/user_perl
% perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/user_perl
% make
% make install

That will install the [stuff] in your local directory. The same technique also works when installing other modules, such as CGI.pm and GD.pm.

It is also a good idea to ensure that other users can read your installed modules (for example, if the web server runs CGIs as user "nobody"):

% cd ~/user_perl
% find . -type d | xargs chmod a+rx
% find . -type f | xargs chmod a+r

math in html with css

http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/math/math.html
This is an investigation of solutions for formating math in standard HTML, enhanced by the widely-supported formatting language CSS.

Regular Expressions, the (monthly) column

http://www.unixreview.com/columns/laird/
"Regular Expressions" is about "high-level" languages — our focus is on abstraction and portability and project-level software engineering.

squeak == free smalltalk

http://www.squeak.org/
Squeak is an open[-source], highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. To achieve practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks.

"worse-is-better" philosophy

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Simplicity-the design must be simple, both in implementation and interface. It is more important for the implementation to be simple than the interface. Simplicity is the most important consideration in a design.

Correctness-the design must be correct in all observable aspects. It is slightly better to be simple than correct.

Consistency-the design must not be overly inconsistent. Consistency can be sacrificed for simplicity in some cases, but it is better to drop those parts of the design that deal with less common circumstances than to introduce either implementational complexity or inconsistency.

Completeness-the design must cover as many important situations as is practical. All reasonably expected cases should be covered. Completeness can be sacrificed in favor of any other quality. In fact, completeness must sacrificed whenever implementation simplicity is jeopardized. Consistency can be sacrificed to achieve completeness if simplicity is retained; especially worthless is consistency of interface.

The UNIX-Hater's Handbook

http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html
This book is ten years old . I started work on it in 1992 (maybe even 1991) while I was a professor at Stanford. My co-editors took over after I started work at Microsoft. (So no, it's not a Microsoft conspiracy.) A lot has happened in the intervening decade.

This book's target audience was people who themselves have noticed certain weaknesses in Unix at that time and could relate to our stories. Our goal was humor. Many readers have told us we succeeded in this. Even Eric Raymond liked it (his name is in the acknowledgements).

The book is not meant to be balanced, it is a screed, pure and simple. Is it over the top? Yes.

We wrote the contract with our publisher to have the copyright revert to us once the book went out of print. So yes, we have the right to publish it online. Feel free to mirror it where ever you want, print it out, and bind it.

Do I have any regrets? Yes, that the funniest item in the book probably isn't anything we wrote, but is Dennis Ritchie's anti-forword. We had asked Dennis to write a forword, thinking that since he was doing Plan 9 at that time it would give him an opportunity to talk about how he had moved on from Unix and fixed its flaws in his next OS. (We were young and had a lot chutzpah then.) He read the Preface, and then sent back his essay. He told us he had worked hard to make it match the tone of its surroundings.

If you enjoyed reading this book and felt it was worth the price of a least a movie and popcorn, send a $10 check to your favorite charity.

transparent NYC

http://skyscraper.org/timeformations/transparent.html
a bunch of overlays of new york city: historic districts, commercial zones, urban renewal, highways, subways, monuments & parks, rails, piers & bridges, elevated trains, 1811 grid, grids, landfill farms, british colonization, dutch settlement, topography, (new?) office buildings for different date ranges

sources include New York City Planning, MTA (Metropolitan Transport Authority, i assume), Sanborn, Department of Docks Map NYPL, Rapid Transit Map NYPL, Commissioner's Plan 1811 NYPL, Map of New York City 1805 NYPL, Viele Sanitary 1870 NYPL, Map of Farms 1807 Municipal Archives, British Army Headquarters Map 1780 NYPL, Castello Map 1660 NYPL

Also see Brian McGrath's Transparent Cities

multiple dispatch in python

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pydisp.html
Object-oriented programming gains much of its versatility through polymorphism: objects of different kinds can behave in similar ways, given the right contexts. But most OOP programming is single dispatch; that is, just one designated object determines which code path is taken. Conceptually, a more general technique is to allow all the arguments to a function/method to determine its specialization. This article presents an implementation of multiple dispatch in Python, and shows examples where this makes for better programs.

random games

http://games.myway.com/
looks like a bunch of popcap-esque style games to play when you're bored

top 20 kerry veeps

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/5/26moe.html/#coulter
pros and cons of a bunch of different people that could potentially be kerry vice presidential running mate candidates

rance: some guy

http://captainhoof.tripod.com/blog/
some random celebrity person who has a blog about how fake show business is, or something. maybe i should read it to find out.

french loonies, holy crap

http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2004/05/whats-french-for-dangerous-loony.html
i have an idea, let's _balance_ the world powers by giving _more_ people nukes... fucking retards

unix geek pronunciation guide

http://www.eeng.brad.ac.uk/help/.faq/.unix/.pronun.html
pronunciations unix c nethack

soldiers' digicam pictures

http://talks.blogs.com/phototalk/2004/05/post.html
digicam images from soldiers in the field in iraq

lynndie england fanboy

http://fourstrings.fanspace.com/photo2.html
some random pictures of lynndie england from a yearbook, etc

oss to convert word docs

http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats. (These are the file formats known internally as Word 9, 8, 7 and 6.) There is some support for reading earlier formats as well: Word 2 docs are converted to plaintext.

ip block lookup

http://www.whoisview.com/products/whoisview/whoisview_online.php
online ip block lookup, sort of useful for finding out who hits your page

naim: text IM client

http://site.n.ml.org/info/naim/
a text-based im client for remote use

SOAP basics

http://guide.soaplite.com/
basics of SOAP and mini tutorial for SOAP::Lite

washingtonienne archive

http://washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com/
what more can i say

blah blah, four-tier, blah blah

http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/606971
stuff about building a simple four-tier system (application server between webserver(s) and database(s)

freaky cats

http://www.messybeast.com/freak-cats.htm
medical deformities etc

emotional intelligence network

http://www.6seconds.org/
Six Seconds EQ Network teaches emotional intelligence skills to create positive and productive relationships in schools, homes, and organizations around the world.

bonuses miss the mark

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=49843
why and how performance-based bonuses fail to achieve their objectives

the wired 2004 rave awards

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/rave.html
They are the mavericks, the dreamers, the innovators. The 20 people paving the way to tomorrow and inspiring us to follow in their footsteps. We admire their smarts. We salute their achievements. And we can't wait to see what they'll do next.

most popular python projects

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/MostPopularPythonProjects
a list of the most popular/downloaded/discussed python projects

books by Kohn, Alfie

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Kohn%2C%20Alfie/002-3875562-2468007
psychology, kids, jobs, employer-employee relationship, education and development of children

someone please draft cosby

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38565
In the presence of NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and other African-American leaders, comedian Bill Cosby took aim at blacks who don't take responsibility for their economic status, blame police for incarcerations and teach their kids poor speaking habits.

I've always wanted to say this... For shizzle!

dc traffic cameras

http://app.ddot.dc.gov/services_dsf/traffic_cameras/map_10.asp
live updated traffic cameras around dc

random python links

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/
py2exe is a Python distutils extension which converts python scripts into executable windows programs, able to run without requiring a python installation

http://venster.sourceforge.net/htdocs/index.html
Venster is a highly native Windows GUI toolkit for Python based on the ctypes ffi library. The aim of Venster is to be a very lightweight wrapper around the standard Win32 API, making it easy to write slick windows applications in pure Python.

http://psyco.sourceforge.net/
Psyco is a Python extension module which can massively speed up the execution of any Python code.

http://home.cfl.rr.com/genecash/tree.html
An efficient optimized tree control widget written in native Python and Tkinter

http://www.stackless.com/
The Stackless module allows you to do MultiTasking without using Threads. It provides a mechnism for parallelism, combined with a very high level language like Python that makes it possible to develop impressive Applications.

wxPython for GUI development, pyGame for 2D graphics, and Twisted for network programming

http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/
PythonCard uses wxPython. If you are already familiar with wxPython, just think of PythonCard as a simpler way of doing wxPython programs with a whole lot of samples and tools already in place for you to copy and subclass and tools to help you build cross-platform applications.

http://altis.pycs.net/
http://altis.pycs.net/stories/2003/04/16/whatIsPythonAndWhyPython.html
Kevin Altis' weblog

http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/appscript.html
Appscript allows MacPython users on OS X to manipulate scriptable applications from ordinary Python scripts.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52308
python stuff at activestate

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52308
thinking in tkinter

http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. This library supports many file formats, and provides powerful image processing and graphics capabilities.

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/version/Doc/About.html
Pyrex is a language specially designed for writing Python extension modules. It's designed to bridge the gap between the nice, high-level, easy-to-use world of Python and the messy, low-level world of C.

http://jpype.sourceforge.net/
JPype is an effort to allow python programs full access to java class libraries. This is achieved not through re-implementing Python, as Jython/JPython has done, but rather through interfacing at the native level in both Virtual Machines.

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
ctypes documentation: ctypes is a Python package to create and manipulate C data types in Python, and to call functions in dynamic link libraries/shared dlls. It allows wrapping these libraries in pure Python.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/146847
When I wanted to use Python to call functions in Windows .DLL I was surprised that I had a difficult time locating the necessary information for making this happen. This is a base class that you use to define your class (and methods for each function). It uses Sam Rushings calldll, cstring and membuf modules but I think it will make interfacing with any DLL much easier for the beginner (especially for the first time).

http://www.aminus.org/rbre/python/
some random python code snippets

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/181905
example using Twisted Perspective Broker (network ping pong)

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/283531
Using Python scripts to store configuration information is a powerful and simple technique that can support documentation through comments, parameter checking as well as the creation of derived variables. In systems where other programming languages are required, the config file information stored in Python files can be converted to custom configuration files for system applications.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/81613
Shows how to remotely access a database via a web service supporting XML-RPC and SOAP protocols. The example uses the MySQLdb module, but should be easily customised to any database with Python module adhering to the Python DB API. The web service interface provides the ability to make a self contained query, or allows the creation of a distinct database cursor to service a series of queries or updates without other clients interfering. Cursors automatically expire and delete themselves after a set period of inactivity if not explicitly closed.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/252158
This recipe is here for a couple of reasons:
1) discourage a common misuse of __slots__;
2) show how to restrict Python dynamism.

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), an industry initiative to provide a Common Information Model (CIM) for pretty much any information about a computer system. Naturally, the Microsoft version uses DCOM as its backbone, and therefore, from the Python point of view, needs the win32 extensions from Mark Hammond, or any other piece of code which will do the same job.

Once you've got those in place, your job is almost done. WMI itself is an hierarchy of objects with a certain amount of introspection. Most of the examples you'll come across are aimed at VBS or WSH, but they translate readily enough. However... once you've finished dabbling your toes at the water's edge and start wading in to the murky waters, you discover that things aren't always quite so straightforward.

The module I've developed does a certain amount of the dirty work so that you don't have to. You always have access to the underlying WMI COM object in case you need to get your hands dirty, but I've found that for the sort of day-to-day stuff that we do here, it performs quite adequately.

http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/Python/
some good python intro stuff

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/225299
Both ASP and mod_python allow you to deploy web applications written in Python. This recipe allows you to push that decision down to your deployers, rather than your programmers. By abstracting the webserver, the same Python application can be deployed on either platform without rewriting.

http://jonpy.sourceforge.net/
These Python modules provide simple yet powerful multi-threaded object-oriented CGI/FastCGI/mod_python/html-templating facilities for the Python programming language.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/py-xmlrpc/
An extremely fast implementation of the xmlrpc spec for Python (written in C). It supports both blocking and non-blocking clients and servers on Windows and POSIX platforms. Version 0.8.1 is 100% compliant with the www.xmlrpc.com validator.

http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/spiro/
SPIRO is an simple ORB (Object-Request Broker) which allows objects to be shared between two or more python (and/or Jython) processes.

I wrote it because I wanted a bridge between cPython and Java - existing ORBs like Pyro do not yet support running servers in Jython (owing to Jython's current lack of a select() function). And, JNI-based wrappers like JPE are too brittle and create deployment problems.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/68436
Fifo as single linked lists

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/WebProgramming
The main purpose of this topic guide is to help in choosing between the plethora of frameworks and templating systems for Web programming, without having to learn each of them. In addition, information about different PresentationTechnologies is also provided, where appropriate, since this can be a major deciding factor in choosing a framework.

http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/htmltemplate.html
HTMLTemplate converts HTML/XHTML templates into simple Python object models that can be manipulated through callback functions in your scripts. Fast, powerful and easy to use.

http://www.pythonware.com/daily/
daily news from the python universe

http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mygale/
Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler, written in Python. It searches a number of well-known news sites for Python-related articles.

http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/
PyChecker is a tool for finding bugs in python source code. It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages, like C and C++. It is similar to lint.

how to save star wars

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4980465/
We've got one more year before George Lucas finishes up his "Star Wars" prequel trilogy with the as-yet-untitled Episode III, and he certainly has his work cut out for him. Not only does he have to resolve the ongoing storylines of "Phantom Menace" and "Attack of the Clones" in such a way as to lead directly into Episode IV, the original 1977 "Star Wars," but he has to overcome two of the most soul-killingly dull storylines ever put on film. I mean, really — I've seen more interesting films on sandwiches I left in my fridge too long. Is there any way for Lucas to salvage the series in a single movie? It would take a great disturbance in the Force, but it's not impossible.

Brig. Gen. Janis L. Karpinski wp.com interview

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24845-2004May13.html
very informative transcript of QA session with the brigadier general

http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_fact
another good link about over-using effective but situationally unappropriate interrogation techniques

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C119104%2C00.html
another karpinski interview with greta van susteren of fox news and karpinski's lawyer, "former U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Neal Puckett"

transcending me-too-ism

http://www.blogads.com/weblog/comments/P766_0_1_0/
When a tree doesn't fall in the forest: I write when I feel I have something I can add to a discussion, and only then. I could write a post saying that I thought Berg's execution was horrifying and awful and that I couldn't get to sleep last night because the ugliness of the images wouldn't leave my mind. But what would that tell you? That al Qaida is awful and that I think they're awful too? Perhaps I simply have nothing to add.

origins of marriage

http://www.theweekmagazine.com/briefing.asp?a_id=567
The institution of marriage is now the subject of a bitter national debate. How did marriage begin, and why?

why python?

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3882
eric raymond's article on why python is great

gentoo portage error help

http://board.iexbeta.com/ibf10/index.php?s=6ab5523ccf967e5d16712f02501a7991&showtopic=39844&st=0&#entry484069
have been masked by tilde ~ keyword

design dilbert's house

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/house1.html
haha whee just go read it

more random blog software

http://wordpress.org/
http://www.textpattern.com/
http://coranto.gweilo.org/

i can't say what? piss off.

http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#photoshop
i would think they'd be happy that a side effect of their market domination has been their elevation to household-name status at the slight cost of the dilution of their trademark

blogcensus

http://www.blogcensus.net/?page=tools
aggregate stats about blogs

the game of pluck

http://www.furdell.com/archives/000060.html
a completely random gambling/drinking game

the numbers that control your life

http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/
info about magic numbers like drivers license numbers, etc

i want a cake like that

http://www.moblg.net/view.php?id=6708
barbie massacre cake

ben's game: fight cancer

http://www.makewish.org/site/pp.asp?c=cvLRKaO4E&b=64401
a game where you fight barf and cancer

i live near a lake

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=4&s=10&x=1669&y=21583&z=18&w=1
aerial photo of kinda where i live and the manmade lake near my house

what you are

http://www.auburn.edu/~shephcd/whatyouare.html
click randomly
"you are a slam-dancing solesmear who likes to poke lesbians"

validate a date string

sub isvaliddate {
  my $input = shift;
  if ($input =~ m!^((?:19|20)\d\d)[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])$!) {
    # At this point, $1 holds the year, $2 the month and $3 the day of the date entered
    if ($3 == 31 and ($2 == 4 or $2 == 6 or $2 == 9 or $2 == 11)) {
      return 0; # 31st of a month with 30 days
    } elsif ($3 >= 30 and $2 == 2) {
      return 0; # February 30th or 31st
    } elsif ($2 == 2 and $3 == 29 and not ($1 % 4 == 0 and ($1 % 100 != 0 or $1 % 400 == 0))) {
      return 0; # February 29th outside a leap year
    } else {
      return 1; # Valid date
    }
  } else {
    return 0; # Not a date
  }
}

Eric Raymond's FAQ Collection

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/
how to become a hacker
a brief history of hackerdom
revenge of the hackers
so you want to be a wizard? (the loginataka)
how to ask smart questions
the unix koans of master foo

felony assault for a cockslap?!

http://www.svherald.com/articles/2004/05/06/local_news/news3.txt
what a load of crap.

US soldier ended up in Soviet army

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/05/07/003.html
Of the million World War II veterans who will celebrate Victory Day on Sunday, few, if any, can say that they fought for both the U.S. and Soviet armies.

Joseph Beyrle is an exception.

...

Officially alive and with tours of duties in armies that would prepare to destroy one another for the next half century, Beyrle returned to Michigan on April 21, 1945. He celebrated V-Day two weeks later at home in Muskegon.

xml double dactyls

http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200201/msg00584.html

list of eminem collaborations

http://eminemfans.org/collaboration.html

james w. loewen's homepage

http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/
James W. Loewen is...

A sociologist who spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying twelve leading high school textbooks of American history only to find an embarrassing blend of bland optimism, blind nationalism, and plain misinformation, weighing in at an average of 888 pages and almost five pounds.

A best-selling author who wrote Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong and Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong.

An educator who attended Carleton College, holds the Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University, and taught race relations for twenty years at the University of Vermont.

glucosamine sulfate

http://www.vitaminuk.com/pages/articles/glucosaminesulphate.htm
The main component of ligaments, tendons, cartilages and spinal discs is collagen, which is the most abundant protein found in mammals, with its purpose being to actually connect cells together. The name collagen is derived from Greek, and means to ‘produce glue’.

The tissues mentioned above are also rich in proteoglycans, which are 95% glycosaminoglycans (GAGS) and 5% protein. These GAGs act as a framework for collagen to model onto, and consequently are responsible with collagen for continuously building and rebuilding ligaments, tendons, cartilages and spinal discs. The major precursor in GAG production is glucosamine, which is the rate-limiting step and hence supplementation, especially after tissue injury, helps the body to speed up synthesis of GAGs and consequently new connective tissue.

anonymous proxy stuff

http://www.stayinvisible.com/index.pl/proxy_list
list of proxies and info about them

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col11.html
writing an anonymous proxy server in perl using HTTP::Daemon

http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.02/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm
an automated web browser with some pretty cool features

unix for windows

http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
The UWIN package provides a mechanism for building and running UNIX applications on Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98, and Windows 95 with few, if any, changes necessary.

The UWIN package contains the following three elements:

* Libraries that provide a UNIX operating system by implementing the UNIX Application Programming Interface (API)
* Include files and development tools such as cc, yacc, lex, and make.
* Korn Shell and over 250 utilities such as ls, sed, cp, stty etc.

The library functions are implemented as functions exported in a DLL (POSIX.DLL). Programs linked with POSIX.DLL run under the WIN32 subsystem instead of the POSIX subsystem. Thus programs can make UNIX library calls or any other WIN32 call as required. A cc command is provided to compile and link programs for UWIN on Windows using traditional UNIX build tools such as make. The cc command is a front end the the underlying compiler that performs the actual compilation and linking. It can be used with the Microsoft Visual C/C++ 5.X compiler, the Visual C/C++ 6.X compiler, the Visual C/C++ 7.X compiler, the Digital Mars compiler C/C++ compiler, the Borland compiler C/C++ compiler, and the Mingw compiler. The GNU compiler and development tools are also available for download with UWIN.

anonymous proxy faq

http://anonymizer.autistici.org/english/anonymizer-FAQ.php
squid + stunnel = secure anonymous connection

portable bootable win32 environment

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.

It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.

stuff about cinco de mayo

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/2549439
also affectionately referred to (by me) as St. Cuervo's Day

Guild Wars E3 alpha test

http://www.guildwars.com/e3-2004/e3-event_client-download.html
beta test for a free mmorpg where you pay only for expansions

your drag queen name

http://www.femininechaos.co.uk/drag/name.html
drag queen name generator... view source to see all of them

india's secret army

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-654822,curpg-1.cms
of clickers!

politics, mistakes, and responsibility

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=scholar&s=levy043004
i don't agree with this guy's solution to the problem, which seems to be "fire anyone who screws up while doing 'important' things"

PMFs hire idiots too

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1206725,00.html
some jagoff PMF employees (mercenaries) were being stupid in iraq, anally raping prisoners and stacking them in happy fun naked pyramids

crazy math teacher

http://www.willamette.edu/~jtdavis/teacher/teacher.html
this person needs to learn how to use the "ordered list" in html instead of using the "unordered list" and typing numbers in front of everything
it's a list of a bunch of random things that a math teacher did

exploit testing tools

http://www.metasploit.org/projects.html
" The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code. This project initially started off as a portable network game and has evolved into a powerful tool for penetration testing, exploit development, and vulnerability research."

cool aerial pictures

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images_index.php3
Jau National Park, Brazil
Dust Storm over Southern Asia
California Heatwave
Where on Earth...? MISR Mystery Image Quiz #18
Aircraft Contrails
NASA Satellites Reveal Warming Trend
Chernobyl, Ukraine
ASTER Views the Himalaya
The A38-B Iceberg Splits

dubya resume

http://iliace10.tripod.com/resume43.htm
http://www.tilenut.com/yo/BUSH_record

sweet CGI studio

http://www.blur.com/indexl.html
rockfish, return to castle wolfenstein intro, etc

and a hat

http://www.funfolly.com/h/hats/hats01.htm#cowboy
hats for cowboys, indians, and wizards, all in one place!

soccer tornado

http://sbc21.co.jp/data/sbc/news/movie/079700_b.asx
a video of a frickin tornado interrupting soccer practice

muffin movies

http://www.muffinfilms.com/
randomly amusing movies starring muffins

kickboxing viagra commercial

http://mirror2.entensity.net/042704/media.php?media=kickboxers.wmv
two rochambo-ing kickboxers in a viagra commercial (warning against catastrophic profit-lowering generic knockoff boner enhancers)

high speed chase spin recovery

http://www.kfor.com/global/video/popup/pop_playerLaunch.asp?clipid1=200856&at1=News&vt1=v&h1=Suspect+spins+three+times+before+being+caught&d1=344300
in a highway chase, some guy in a stolen purple mustang gets spun around by the cops three times and recovers (big video)

how not to use metaphors

http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/students/exams/metaphor.htm
"His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer."
"He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something."
google bait: "don't drink petals"

google IPO info

http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/29/technology/google_founders.reut/index.htm
http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/29/technology/google/index.htm
a bunch of information about google going public

frisbee beer challenge

http://www.purdueexponent.org/interface/bebop/showstory.php?date=2004/04/30§ion=opinions&storyid=index
"If you have learned nothing from us this semester, learn this: Life and society are full of people and institutions who think they have all the right answers. They are usually full of crap. As Crosby, Stills and Nash said on their immortal record "Daylight Again," you should question all the answers. Otherwise, you’ll end up like our Frisbee — lying on the floor, overflowing with beer and disappointing everyone around you. Don’t be a Frisbee—be a superstar."

lft manpage

http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/fluxbox/genericrpm.html
layer four trace
traceroute using tcp

compiling and installing a source rpm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/fluxbox/genericrpm.html
basically, just
rpmbuild --rebuild
watch the output of that command for where it writes your rpms to
rpm -Uvh />

automate gentoo installs

http://glis.sourceforge.net/faqs.html
program written in bash to automate gentoo installs from a config file

plush microbes @ thinkgeek

http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6708/images/
cute little deadly microbes

free capital hill wifi

http://www.openpark.net/access.html
how to connect to the free wifi network being set up in the capital hill area

win32 md5 utility

http://md5summer.org/
a utility for generating and validating md5 checksums

seattlepi MSFT blog

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/
a technology blog with a microsoft focus

video game geezers

http://somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2116&p=29
video game characters older

teh w1nnar! ew.

http://bash.org/mess/accepted/382128_PinkFuzzyBunny
the messiest desk in the world

toyota hybrid sports car

http://www.auto123.com/en/info/news/news,view.spy?artid=21889

This second generation Hybrid Synergy Drive system uses the 3.3-liter V6 common to a variety of Toyota/Lexus products, plus two powerful electric motors to produce a phenomenal 408 horsepower (300 kW). Needless to say the lightweight sports car is quick, shooting forward from standstill to 100 km/h in a sizzling 4.03 seconds before reaching a terminal velocity of 250 km/h (155 mph).

How does the sophisticated powertrain work? The rear wheels get power from the combustion engine as well as one of the electric motors, while the front wheels offer four-wheel traction via the second electric motor. The innovative layout reduces weight and the need for a space hogging driveshaft to the front axle.

The resultant flat floor and wide beam (just under 2 meters/6.6 feet) allowed Toyota to sit three adult passengers side-by-side, with a single smaller seat in the rear - it is designated a 3+1 coupe.

Of course, it wouldn't be a Toyota hybrid without being economical. If driven more moderately a single 7.5 liter (13.7 gallon) tank of gasoline should result in approximately 700 km (435 miles).

too many dead baby jokes

http://axis.jeack.com.au/~jed/babynurs.htm
caution: don't read this while eating if you're a wuss

"measured response"

http://forum.galeyisrael.com/forum/files/dontloot.wmv
http://www.cruel.com/discuss/viewTopic.php/85556
i'm crushing your car! (makes crushing motion with thumb and forefinger) *crush* *crush*
oops

vlc - many-format media player

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html
player for linux (among other things) that supports wmv, among other things

http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/03-2004/9246.html
http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/03-2004/9246.html
thread about wmv3

dehydration "facts"

http://www.fhfishmemorial.org/healthyspirit/quiz-text/dehydrated.htm
i'll eventually source/fact -check all these statements...

75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated
In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that thirst is mistaken for hunger.
Mild dehydration slows the metabolism by 3%.
In a U of Washington study, one glass of water shut down midnight hunger for 100% of the dieters studied.
Dehydration is the #1 trigger for daytime fatigue
Preliminary research indicates 8-10 glasses of water per day could significantly ease back and joint pain.
A mere 2% drop in body water can cause fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on computer screens and paper.
Just 5 glasses of water per day decrease risk of colon cancer by 45%, breast cancer by 79%, and bladder cancer by 50%.

cell phone sound masking

http://www.simeda.com/soundercover.html
add background noise to cell phone conversations

wedding dress auction

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343&category=6
I found my ex-wife's wedding dress in the attic when I moved. She took the $4000 engagement ring but left the dress. I was actually going to have a dress burning party when the divorce became final, but my sister talked me out of it. She said, "That’s such a gorgeous dress. Some lucky girl would be glad to have it. You should sell it on EBay. At least get something back for it." So, this is what I’m doing. I’m selling it hoping to get enough money for maybe a couple of Mariners tickets and some beer. This dress cost me $1200 that my drunken sot of an ex-father-in-law swore up and down he would pay for but didn’t so I got stuck with the bill. Luckily I only got stuck with his daughter for 5 years. Thank the Lord we didn't have kids. If they would have turned out like her or her family I would have slit my wrists. Anyway, it’s a really nice dress as you can see in the pictures. Personally, I think it looks like a $1200 shower curtain, but what do I know about this.

eat brazil nuts instead of cicadas

http://www.nutsonline.com/department/department/28.html
http://www.nutsite.com/
http://www.nextag.com/buyer/outpdir.jsp?doSearch=y&node=2700000&search=brazil+nut
places that sell shelled brazil nuts online. some of them are even roasted and/or salted, or chocolate-covered

OK, Mr. Eat-A-Cicada...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16047-2004Apr15.html
that's not my bag, baby.

Super Size Me

http://www.filmfestdc.org/series/filmSummary.asp?docID=1735
moooooooovie about some guy who eats mcdonald's every day for a month and has to eat everything on the menu at least once *shudder*

limecat

http://www.limecat.net/
a cat with a lime on its head. sorta looks like cleopatra or some old egyptian person with that wacky egyptian hair

burberry optimus

http://www.anothersite.co.uk/displaypic.php?image=04/optimus.jpg
optimus prime like you've never seen him before

etensity links

http://www.b0g.org/
http://www.bizzos.org/
http://www.dagimp.org/
http://www.apechild.com/
http://www.bootyvote.com/ (nsfw)
http://www.exbyte.net/ (nsfw)
http://www.gorillamask.net/
http://www.anothersite.co.uk/
http://www.mobileasses.com/display.php?cameraphone (nsfw, heh)
http://www.twelvefifteen.com/
http://www.badassmofo.com/

disposable camera == tazer

http://www.g4tv.com/unscrewed/features/401/Dark_Tip_Reach_Out_and_Zap_Someone.html
how to make a tazer from a disposable camera

taste better

http://www.semenex.com/media.htm
drink powder that reportedly makes bukkake like getting hit in the face with a huge piece of cotton candy

open letter to a crackhead

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/27499971.html
crackheads saw the tops off of motorcycle spark plugs to make crack pipes...

random flash soundboards

http://www26.brinkster.com/dkalim2000/sb.html
ming lee lil' jon towelie soundboards

dining hall $$ == itunes $$

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jgillila/
step 1: buy pepsi with dining hall dollars
step 2: ...
step 3: music!

skeletor the cat vs. jesus

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ilblissli/20266.html
a mummified cat battles jesus and takes a field trip to mexico

|-|ax0R pr3s1d3n7

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=921850&mode=voteresults
"what it would be like if we had a L337 |-|ax0R as president"

wreckedexotics.com

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/
"Welcome to the internet's largest collection of exotic car crash photos. We display over 3,000 wrecked exotic cars to show you the real consequences of reckless driving.

These car crash pictures involve some of the most expensive automobiles ever produced including Lamborghini, Ferrari, Mclaren F1, Bugatti and more. All in all, you'll find almost a quarter of a Billion Dollars worth of damage within this car crash collection. That's enough to make any insurance company weep."

pencil carving (holy crap)

http://www.infofreako.com/jad/pencil/0list-e.html
some guy who carved pencils into cool shapes (for-real ball joints, etc), in some cases leaving the graphite intact while making the surrounding wood into a cage, etc... (!!!)

awesome flash minigames

http://www.hoogerbrugge.com/ml.html
little artistic interactive pieces to play with

so much rice it makes me cry

http://www.ricecop.com/
the ironing board spoiler is priceless

kill bill crazy 88 flash game

http://kill-bill.cz/game/index.php
fun flash game, pretty easy

warning signs ps contest

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=921828&mode=voteresults
warning signs that would have changed your life

fm == fake money?

http://www.mit.edu/~levente/fm/
some guy who draws lots of pictures of money

hilarious chat logs

http://www.baiting.org/
http://www.bash.org/
http://www.quq.dk/cybersex.htm
"Oh I like that Baby. I put on my robe and wizard hat."

bush mosaic

http://amleft.blogspot.com/archives/2004_04_01_amleft_archive.html#108112087436221697
a mosaic of dubya (george w. bush) made up of pictures of us armed forces casualties in iraq

john kerry is a douchebag but i'm voting for him anyway dot com

http://johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com/
heh heh
douchebag
heh heh

frickin laser guns on planes

http://www.e4engineering.com/story.aspx?uid=3887e8da-d9ea-41ad-be88-14bbac0cb914&cuid=b96dad81-0ef4-4fcc-9e3d-a7bd9b6a4258
a system to shoot down missles with lasers is being tested, sounds close to operational

oracle grant syntax

http://www.dba-oracle.com/art_builder_grant_sec.htm
granting privileges to different users, etc

fun translation tool

http://translation.langenberg.com/
it has danish, CHRIS

USIA info hyperlinked

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/index.htm
"A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times
Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

The main body of this hypertext project, which was started in 1994, comes from a number of USIA-publications: An Outline of American History, An Outline of the American Economy, An Outline of American Government, and An Outline of American Literature. The text of these Outlines has not been changed, but they have been enriched with hypertext-links to relevant documents, original essays, other Internet sites, and to other Outlines."

omg a centaur

http://www.isostorage.com/texas/images/P1010033.jpg
http://www.isostorage.com/texas/images/P1010033.jpg
some dude dressed up as a centaur

links are dead, long live the links

a frickin mini cooper robot

http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/
nice hoax ad. hurry up and make cool robots already.

dnd office supplies

http://bbspot.com/News/2004/04/top_11_rpg_office_supplies.html
"Striped Tie of Resist Management", etc

oh snap! she dissin da UN!

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/?id=110004983
"Oil for Memories: How the U.N. can begin paying its debt to Iraq's people."

fark ghost story thread

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=923068
a bunch of ghost stories
"BOO! You have left temporal lobe epilepsy!"

google watch watch

http://www.google-watch-watch.org/
watching some guy with unrealistic expectations

funny crazy person fiction

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/01/roberts.htm
yes, i'm just now getting around to reading this. it's one of the funniest things i've read in a while. it's about a crazy guy filling out application forms inbetween shifts at his night job cleaning (and ransacking) psychologists offices.

david deutsch on video games

http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/node.php?id=83
"I asked him what is so good about computer games.

David Deutsch: In a way, that is the wrong question, because it assumes that there is something obviously bad about video games, which might be offset by benefits I might mention. But there's nothing wrong with video games. So let's ask first, “Why do so many adults hate them? What evidence is there that there is anything bad about them?”

If you look at it closely, the evidence boils down to no more than the fact that children like video games. There seems to be a very common tendency among parents to regard children liking something as prima facie evidence that it is bad for them."

libertarian diablo

http://diabloii.net/columnists/a-political-critique.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma
lots of other good informative links from this article

"The fact that a community, even one made up mostly of young, testosterone-filled teenaged males can remain so enjoyable after all these years is good evidence that even the most aggressive society does not need a government to control it. People can control themselves, by cooperating with others when it is in their interests to do so, and by voluntarily joining peaceful communities like the Amazon Basin if they are interested in the kind of peace and security such a community provides. People, when left to their own devices, will cause more good than harm, and the competition and cooperation of the free market alone can adequately take care of nearly everyone. Order can come from below, from the invisible hand of the market and from the common interests of the people themselves. Order does not need to be imposed from above, by an uncontrollable, unaccountable, unnecessary authority. Trust the people to play by the rules, or make their own rules, and watch as they play the game of life."

mo' betta .htaccess

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col49.html (part 1)
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col50.html (part 2)
good starting point: like .htaccess protection, but with more robust grouping and settable user passwords

XML::Comma manual

http://xml-comma.org/guide-filter.html
framework for developing content-heavy websites

generating and cache-ing corner images

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col47.html
instead of spending time creating these crappy little images in the gimp or photoshop, generate them

multipart/x-mixed-replace

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col17.html
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col19.html
using server push

fun 3d renderings

http://www.clarkson.edu/~boylejm/gallery.htm
backgrounds and stuff

muscle men listing woot

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/MUSCLE/default.asp
hey i used to collect those

sexy streets of rage

http://www.i-mockery.net/minimocks/sexual-games/8.php
sexy blaze's pixel panties, play as gay ash

CAPTCHA

http://captcha.net/
"A CAPTCHA is a program that can generate and grade tests that most humans can pass, but current computer programs can't pass."

Commonly, this involves distorting, scrambling, or otherwise obscuring text within an image so optical character recognition -ish programs can't decipher the text.

Inline::C

http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Inline-0.44/C/C.pod
documentation for mixing perl and c

japh @ cpan

http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh
just another perl hacker
a bunch of crazy obfuscated perl code

flowering nose game

http://www.radicalplay.com/thenose/
some weird ass rpg-ish game i guess

littlefluffy games

http://www.littlefluffy.com/
http://www.xgenstudios.com/castle/
lots of links to flash games, ratings

some fun Image::Magick examples

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf/?ca=dnt-428
charcoal colorize etc etc

bitter films

http://www.bitterfilms.com/
"Why the name 'Bitter Films'?"
The first short, Ah, L'Amour, opens with the title "A Bitter Film by Don Hertzfeldt", setting up the inner-frustrations humor of the piece (crude scribblings, papers crumpling in on themselves, etc) and since then the name sort of stuck. And it sounds really cool. Or something. Bitter Films' unofficial logo - the four eyed cat on our front page - is from a photograph Don took of his cat, Tom, from around 1993.

"Waaaaaa, I should not have bootlegged Don's films and now Jesus is kicking my ass!"

chasing kerry

http://www.rollingstone.com/features/nationalaffairs/featuregen.asp?pid=2895
"Why does the press do such a lousy job of covering the campaign?"

I love it when I get to read something as clearly and honestly written as this by someone who has the all-too-uncommon ability these days to recognize the absurd contrasts and inconsistencies between "official" and "accepted" speech and reality. While dressed up as a viking.

If you like this article, you'll get a kick out of The Cluetrain Manifesto

etoys case study, p3

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/17/etoys.html?page=3
"building a large-scale e-commerce site with apache and mod_perl"

buncha crypto faqs

http://www.rocketaware.com/data/encrypt/
frequently asked questions about cryptography

a cvs'd mod_perl book

http://gorgonzola.cshl.org/viewcvs/mpc/site/mod_perl_book/ch5/Attic/ch5.html?rev=1.2
some interesting discussion about statefulness

webdev patents suck

http://webshop.ffii.org/
a list of trivial crap that is patented

dick at a b-ball game

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040406-4.html
transcript of dick cheney talking with a baseball announcer

chicken, strip!

umiacs

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/
university of maryland institute for advanced computer studies

jokes that didn't take

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Newspapers%20April%20Fools
grow a sense of humor about vernacular fun poked
or
the anti-defamation industry is alive and well

essay about the FDA's role

http://www.reason.com/0404/cr.ts.regulation.shtml
"The FDA could be radically improved or even supplanted, but it would be wrong to think that the agency’s inefficiency or its inherently coercive nature prove it is performing no useful functions or providing no useful scientific information. The FDA, for complex historical reasons, has become a locus of scientific standards and a repository of expertise that should not be discarded. It has helped shape the achievements of pharmaceutical companies and by extension mainstream medicine in a process of give and take as important as the shaping of business by laws against theft."

NYC > DC? DC > NYC?

http://nyc-dc.blogspot.com/
people arguing about whether NYC or DC is a better place

Sun Myung Moon watchdog

http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/
lots of info about this guy who looks to be a self-styled antichrist and i had barely heard of

profiling yourself?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30195-2004Mar27.html
a thought-provoking discussion looking at racial (and other visual forms of) profiling from both sides of the issue

"thug life" sucks

http://www.easttexasreview.com/story.htm?StoryID=1416
poverty sucks... especially if you're trying to be a "thug" like those guys with record deals and your kids suffer
this article is a challenge to people with families to do their duty

the washington oculus

http://oculusdc.blogspot.com/
random news/gossip blog - well-sourced and informative

how to spot aliens at work

http://www.p45.net/ejitsguides/aliens/index.html
some very useful tips for the office extraterrestrial exterminator, or perhaps we're only making the aliens stronger by making our identification practices public...?!

how to screw up your bash prompt

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO
different stuff you can put in your prompt, turn it pretty colors, etc

insurance agent's blog

http://www.thedisgruntledagent.blogspot.com/
some insurance agent guy had a blog for a while... hasn't been updated in a while, but still some interesting links on there

randal schwartz columns

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/columns.html
perl columns by randal schwartz

cursor = brush size gimp bug thread

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32498
the thread in bugzilla about how gimp doesn't have the feature photoshop does where the cursor changes to the brush size to show what areas of the image will be affected by changes about to be made

thoracic cake

http://www.theyrecoming.com/extras/pumpkinfest03/
a cake that bleeds... that's frickin beautiful, i'm moved to hunger.

oracle of bacon

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/
automated 6 degrees of kevin bacon game, spiders imdb periodically

Every couple of weeks the Oracle downloads several database files from one of the Internet Movie Database's FTP sites containing around 500,000 actors and actresses, around 275,000 movies, and around 30,000 aliases. The Oracle builds a big map of actors and movies and stores it in a 25 MB database.

crossword cheat thing

http://www.oneacross.com/
put in a clue and a pattern and it solves crossword puzzles for you

japanese PA captions

http://www.yukihime.com/comics/paremix/
japanese english students coming up with new words for penny arcade cartoons

hot chick unemployment 0%

http://www.recoilmag.com/news/unemployment_rate_zero_percent_0304.html
well duh

randy wrist rest

http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/busty_mousepad.php
a mousepad for all you breast men. nuzzle your wrist between some silicone japanese hooters.

monsanto, aspartame, nutrasweet

http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/aspartame.shtml
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/
nutrasweet turns to formaldehyde inside you... sounds pretty kooky, but gives me another reason to avoid that weird-tasting crap, so who cares if it's true?

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartame.asp

random buddy icons

http://www.skapunkandotherjunk.com/Media/Icons/icons.html
icons of random movie and tv characters

7 deadly sins of blogging

http://www.livejournal.com/users/yuki_onna/81549.html?view=1263245
read them for yourself, lazy ass

tetsuo? is that you?

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/
online journal and pictures taken by a ukranian chick who rides her motorcycle through chernobyl for fun

enhancing latex2html

http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/WWW/publications/l2hen/node63.html
a brief look at some of the perl code in latex2html

CERN on latex2html

http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/WWW/publications/l2hen/node33.html
"In order to minimize the generation of bitmaps and to allow the production of a better quality HTML source, the information in the LaTeX source was tagged by LaTeX macros to explicitly show its semantics meaning. Special care was taken to avoid inline mathematics constructs, since they result in bitmap images, for example, \var{x} was preferred to its typographic equivalent $x$ (denoting a meta-variable), and \nth{v}{n} was used to mean the n-th component of v, rather than writing $v_n$. The same technique was also used to eliminate "low-level'' typesetting constructs and environments such as center and tabular."

LaTeX tips and tricks

http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/jrennie/latex/
lots of useful info about the publishing language LaTeX

dodgy fec redefinition

http://www.fec.gov/register.htm
http://www.fec.gov/pdf/nprm/political_comm_status/04-5290.pdf
"...the Supreme Court, in Buckley v. Valeo, explained that to fulfill the purposes of FECA, the definition of political committee "need only encompass organizations that are under the control of a candidate or the major purpose of which is the nomination or election of a candidate,'' and does not "reach groups engaged purely in issue discussion.'' Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S.1, 79 (1976) (emphasis added)."

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oId=14670
"The chilling effect of the proposed rules on free speech cannot be overstated. Merely expressing an opinion about an officeholder's policies could turn a nonprofit group overnight into a federally regulated political committee with crippling fund-raising restrictions."

http://www.publiccampaign.org/pressroom/pressreleases/release2004/statement02-17-04.htm
"Because of the draft’s overly-broad language re-defining ["expenditure"], it has the potential to chill the legitimate activities of many 501(c) non-profit organizations as well as limit independent 527 organizations in ways that are not directed by the law."

http://www.commoncause.org/news/default.cfm?ArtID=282

the last link is the most clearly written, imo, and has some info that the others don't

freeculture by lawrence lessig

http://www.free-culture.cc/
http://lessig.org/blog/archives/001801.shtml
"Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, CODE and THE FUTURE OF IDEAS, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in FREE CULTURE, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they’re inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.

All creative works—books, movies, records, software, and so on—are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible—technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we’ve forgotten?

Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can’t do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What’s at stake is our freedom—freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine."

zvon unicode character search

http://www.zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php
search for info about certain types of unicode characters

LaTeX math symbols

http://www.fi.uib.no/Fysisk/Teori/KURS/WRK/TeX/symALL.html
greek binary relation punctuation arrow variable-sized log-like delimiters math-mode accents

fact-checking David Brooks

http://www.phillymag.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=350

BURN!

A few years ago, journalist David Brooks wrote a celebrated article for the Atlantic Monthly, "One Nation, Slightly Divisible," in which he examined the country's cultural split in the aftermath of the 2000 election, contrasting the red states that went for Bush and the blue ones for Gore. To see the vast nation whose condition he diagnosed, Brooks compared two counties: Maryland's Montgomery (Blue), where he himself lives, and Pennsylvania's Franklin (a Red county in a Blue state). "I went to Franklin County because I wanted to get a sense of how deep the divide really is," Brooks wrote of his leisurely northward drive to see the other America across "the Meatloaf Line; from here on there will be a lot fewer sun-dried-tomato concoctions on restaurant menus and a lot more meatloaf platters." Franklin County was a place where "no blue New York Times delivery bags dot driveways on Sunday mornings … [where] people don't complain that Woody Allen isn't as funny as he used to be, because they never thought he was funny," he wrote. "In Red America churches are everywhere. In Blue America Thai restaurants are everywhere. In Red America they have QVC, the Pro Bowlers Tour, and hunting. In Blue America we have NPR, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and socially conscious investing."

chaos in liberated iraq

http://www.reason.com/hod/nr032604.shtml
"You never hear about most of it because the press never hears about most of it. And if the press wasn't there, it never happened. Baghdad is a huge sprawling city with poor communication, and it is impossible for the press or the occupying army to know what is happening everywhere. We only hear the distant thunder of the explosions or feel the silent change in air pressure."

wmd error page

http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
"The weapons you are looking for are currently unavailable. The country might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your weapons inspectors mandate."

"cooling off"

http://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=812797
"Dear Susan :

I know the counsellor said we shouldn't contact each other during our "cooling off" period, but I couldn't wait anymore. The day you left, I swore I'd never talk to you again. But that was just the wounded little boy in me talking. Still, I never wanted to be the first one to make contact.

In my fantasies, it was always you who would come crawling back to me. I guess my pride needed that. But now I see that my pride's cost me a lot of things. I'm tired of pretending I don't miss you. I don't care about looking bad anymore. I don't care who makes the first move as long as one of us does. Maybe it's time we let our hearts speak as loudly as our hurt. And this is what my heart says...

"There's no one like you, Susan." I look for you in the eyes and breasts of every woman I see, but they're not you. They're not even close. Two weeks ago, I met this girl at Ithaca Bar and brought her home with me. I don't say this to hurt you, but just to illustrate the depth of my desperation. She was young, maybe 19, with one of those perfect bodies that only youth and maybe a childhood spent ice skating can give you. I mean, just a perfect body. Jugs you wouldn't believe and an ass like a tortoise shell. Every man's dream, right? But as I sat on the couch being blown by this stunner, I thought, look at the stuff we've made important in our lives. It's all so superficial. What does a perfect body mean?

Does it make her better in bed? Well, in this case, yes. But you see what I'm getting at. Does it make her a better person? Does she have a better heart than my moderately attractive Susan? I doubt it. And I'd never really thought of that before. I Don't know, maybe I'm just growing up a little.

Later, after I'd tossed her about a half a pint of throat yogurt, I found myself thinking, "why do I feel so drained and empty?" It wasn't just her flawless technique or her slutty, shameless hunger, but something else. Some ****ling feeling of loss. Why did it feel so incomplete? And then it hit me.

It didn't feel the same because you weren't there, Susan, to watch. Do you know what I mean? Nothing feels the same without you. Jesus, Susan, I'm just going crazy without you. And everything I do just reminds me of you.

Do you remember Carol, that single mom we met in Upper Side last year? Well, she dropped by last week with a pan of lasagna. She said she figured I wasn't eating right without a woman around. I didn't know what she meant till later, but that's not the real story. Anyway, we had a few glasses of wine and the next thing you know we're banging away in our old bedroom. And this tart's a total monster in the sack. She's giving me everything, you know like a real woman does when she's not hung up about her weight or her career and whether the kids can hear us. And all of a sudden she spots that tilting mirror on your grandmother's old vanity. So she puts it on the floor and we straddle it, right, so we can watch ourselves. And it's totally hot, but it makes me sad too. 'Cause I can't help thinking, "Why didn't Susan ever put the mirror on the floor? We've had this old vanity for what, 14 years, and we never used it as a sex aid."

Saturday, your sister drops by with my copy of the restraining order. I mean, Vicky's just a kid and all, but she's got a pretty good head on her shoulders and she's been a real friend to me during this painful time.

She's given me lots of good counsel about you and about women in general. She’s pulling for us to get back together, Susan, She really is. So we're drinking in a hot bath and talking about happier times. Here's this teenage girl with the same DNA as you and all I can do is think of how much she looked like you when you were 18. And that just about makes me cry. And then it turns out Vicky's really into the whole anal thing and that gets me to thinking about how many times I pressured you about trying it and how that probably fuelled some of the bitterness between us.

But do you see how even then, when I'm thrusting inside your baby sister's cinnamon ring, all I can do is think of you? It's true, Susan. In your heart you know it. Don't you think we could start over? Just wipe out all the grievances and start fresh? I think we can.

If you feel the same please, please, please let me know, otherwise, can you let me know where the remote control is.

John"

mr. rogers' arsenal

http://w2.ixolo.com/content/rog.php
"Mr. Rogers: Neighborhood Nice-Guy, or Muslim Extremist?
Mister Fred Rogers was an everyday ordinary hero, and all around nice guy. For those of you who aren't familiar with him he was affectionately known as "Mr. Rogers", and had a daily television show which broadcasted on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) from 1963 to 2001. This singing, sweater-wearing guy was great, but behind each, and every one of us there's a darker side. Was he really just a plain old nice-guy, or was he actually a Muslim extremist, and terrorist supporter?"

SAS quitting to join PMFs

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/mercury/tm_objectid=14099053&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=sas-troops-quitting-for-security-jobs-name_page.html
SAS soldiers quitting to work for private military firms because they pay much more, up to 700 percent more money

100 underappreciated movies

http://www.chud.com/news/mar04/mar22underdog1.php3
100 fun rentals

dead alewives

http://deadalewives.com/funny.ccc
infamous dungeons and dragons skit, captain jerk, etc

language graphs

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/maps.php
graphing linguistic tendencies geographically, i.e. "Do you use "spigot" or "spicket" to refer to a faucet or tap that water comes out of?" "Would you say "Are you coming with?" as a full sentence, to mean "Are you coming with us?""

those crazy electric guns

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/26/1079939827815.html
there was a history channel show about these new types of guns
"A hand gun that speaks several languages, broadcasts the conversation to the police, fires lethal and non-lethal bullets and is activated only by the grip of the registered owner.

The Guinness Book of Records has declared the gun, officially known as a Variable lethality enforcement (Vle) weapon, the world's most intelligent firearm.

It has also named the Vle's big brother, which is 36 times its size and has a potential firing rate of one million rounds a minute, as the world's fastest. "

the fcc, clearchannel, and bush

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/03/far04009.html
"...though Regular Joes and clueless journalists may fail to see it just yet, Howard Stern’s First Amendment rights are their rights, too."

useful php.net links

array functions
simplexml_element->attributes
writing functions
arrays
random useful php links from php.net documentation

richard clarke @ salon

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/24/clarke_moveon/
In a provocative Salon interview, the former terrorism czar fires back at the Bush administration, blasting its "big lie" strategy and "attack dog" Dick Cheney.

nostarch press

http://www.nostarch.com/main_menu.htm
"publisher of computer books that make a difference"
books about computers in general, linux, hacking, wifi, operating systems, etc in specific

o--o.net

http://www.o--o.net/
fun chunks of code, pretty pics, spam graphs

why the ocean is awesome

http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/21/1079823237850.html
vampire sex fish... no really, vampire sex fish!

relevant (to me) dual boot info

http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/24704.html
installing windows on a separate, secondary hard drive and having grub trick it into booting anyway

title WinXP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

wewontpay.com

http://www.wewontpay.com/
making a stand against slavery reparations

random ratings of stuff

http://www.bookofratings.com/archive.html
grading things. like porn titles. and "ways to go straight up".

win32 cvs client

http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
cvs client for microsoft windows, good shell integration

subversion vc

http://subversion.tigris.org/
cvs plus features, doesn't run over ssh, requires lots of libraries (apache2, xml stuff, etc)

bitkeeper screenshots

http://bitkeeper.com/Products.Graphical.Screen.html
version control software commercial product efficient gui cvs alternative

vietnam military slang

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Glossary/Sixties_Term_Gloss_A_C.html
a bunch of acronyms and military terms and slang from the vietnam era

eternal sunshine script

http://sfy.iv.ru/sfy.html?script=spotless_mind
an early version of the script jim carrey kate winslet elijah wood kirsten dunst

zug's senator prank

http://www.zug.com/pranks/senator/
zug poses as a ten-year-old and asks senators what their favorite joke is. he's also got some interesting analysis about each of the senators that responded

new merit badges

http://www.reality-syndicate.com/syndicatepress/meritbadge_index.htm
some new awesome boy scout merit badges, including unnecessary surgery, world domination, death, and medication

AT&T text to speech demo

http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts//demo.html
text to speech with a bunch of different voices

GraphViz

http://graphviz.org/
software that makes useful directed graphs

most?!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/11/resumes.fraud.reut/index.html

Breaking into a database is relatively easy because MOST DATABASE SERVERS ARE NOT PASSWORD PROTECTED, said Alfred Huger, director of engineering at anti-virus company Symantec.

Emphasis mine, obviously. That has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. EVERY database server I've ever used or even heard anything about has been pasword protected. I have an extremely hard time believing Mr. Alfred Huger's statement. The reporter should have at least asked him to provide a source to back up that statement. If I ever found out that a company that I bought a product or service from had a database (such as a database of attendees to, say, a university) that wasn't password protected, I would probably sue them. That's just gross negligence.

good regex intro

http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html
http://tlc.perlarchive.com/articles/perl/pm0001_perlretut.shtml
a good explanation of regular expressions using pictures

isabel pics from NC

http://www.roanokehomesrus.com/isabel.html
http://www.roanokehomesrus.com/Izzypics.html
lots of pics of preparation and the swath of destruction

banff film menu

http://www.chestnutmtnproductions.com/banff/baltfilms.htm
list of films that will be at the loyola banff film festival

a crank yankers puppetteer's website

http://home.earthlink.net/~ronbinion/
http://home.earthlink.net/~ronbinion/CYseason2.htm
http://images.google.com/images?q=%22special+ed%22+%22crank+yankers%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en
this is the website of one of the guys who works the puppets for crank yankers. it looks kinda like he uses frontpage... como esta el YAAAY?! he's got pictures of himself holding the special ed puppet and a bunch of other stuff

some climbing pics

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~apoorva/
pics of apoorva climbing on rocks and ice

yay! fun jobs! yay!

http://www.funjobsreview.com/
¡cómo son los trabajos de la diversión?! YAAAY!

pics of owned news14carolina

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~smheath/news14.html
mike hunt industries closed tee hee

favorite Worth1000 links

Studio Mix N Match 2
Pygmalion 3
Children Safety Signs 4
Wrong Turn 3
photoshopped stuff that you can buy on tshirts

Housekeeping Monthly

http://www.nomarriage.com/50s.html
a how-to guide for how to be a good wife in the 50s

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.htm
Snopes says:
Claim: A list of ten steps to a good marriage comes from a 1950s home economics textbook.
Status: Undetermined.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1999]

business license nazis

http://www.underreported.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1262&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
some kid started a business doing stuff that other contracting companies were way overcharging to do and he got shut down because he wasn't officially licensed. stupid bureaucracy

PMFs protecting Aristide

http://www.jdnews.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=20776&Section=News
a private military force was hired to protect Aristide, the leader of Haiti
they say he wasn't kidnapped at all, or forced to leave, but evacuated quickly and professionally by his own bodyguards
it's interesting to note they don't really say why he was evacuated, since the person interviewed may be called on to testify in court

stratos product strategy

http://www.stratos.com/HTML/index.shtml
http://www.stratos.com/HTML/work/apple-powerbook.shtml
product design engineering strategy

how news travels on the internet

http://stephenvandyke.com/2004/03/08/how-news-travels-on-the-internet/
news sources dark matter fark slashdot reuters

a farking wedding

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=863420
marriage proposal at fark. i laughed so hard reading this thread i just had to save the link

who would you kill?

http://www.whowouldyoukill.com/tomjerry.html
vote for who you would kill on tv shows...

zoomer7 says
I Would Kill... Jerry!
I'd personally fuck him to death, not that I'm into that shit, but, I want total involvment. He'd think I LOVED him, I'd be the wiser, whispering in his little, fuzzy ears

LBJ replies
You call this funny? This is just weird, man. It's actually kind of creepy.

gore vs. unabomber

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ken_crossman/Gore.htm
bunch of quotes by either Al Gore or the Unabomber - you have to guess who said what (with sourced quotes)

dictator comic

http://www.comics.aha.ru/rus/stalin/1.html
erm yeah... hitler/magneto vs. stalin/dr. strange...

jim's fair and balanced rants

http://www.verybigdesign.com/jmowreader/
jim's opinions about all kinds of stuff

links to codecs and stuff

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm
quicktime realplayer k-lite etc

MPx pocket pc

http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=1908
link props
a frickin awesome crazy gadget combo

ultra exotics

http://www.marvinlozada.com/newbern/
mclaren f1 mercedes clk gtr porsche bmw lamborghini ferrari mini in the shop

fu-qtoo.com

http://www.fu-qtoo.com/allproducts.php
2004-03-07: "same old" blah blah blah
2004-10-08: ...7 months later, the site is updated. i retract my previous "same old" remark, although there are a few that are at least slightly reminiscent of tshirthell. no matter, there are plenty of common witticisms to go around. a solid collection, featuring categories for guys, girls, geek, rude, and political shirts.

pretty cookies

http://www.yummyphoto.com/CookieGreetings/index.htm
print a photo on a cookie

schwag sent to variety

http://weblogs.variety.com/outside_the_box/
a blog about all the random promo items that end up at variety magazine

java sucks

http://www.jwz.org/doc/java.html
a whole list of reasons why java sucks... makes me want to learn c better, if only there weren't so many java jobs out there that pay well

taligent c++ programming guidelines

http://pcroot.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoot/1.0/Docs/books/WM/WM_3.html
programming style and oo object oriented design for c++

dermatology in the cinema

http://itsb.ucsf.edu/~vcr/index.html
lots of weird medical stuff about movies and movie stars with relation to dermatology

DVDCA and the big lie

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-01-02-001-05-NW-LF&tbovrmode=3
succinct summary of how dvdca uses the dmca to enforce its monopoly

lowculture's jesuses on the passion

http://www.lowculture.com/archives/000583.html
jesus and jesus and jesus (etc) review the passion

media detatchment

http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/feb04/210863.asp
how the middle and upper class backgrounds of the mainstream media hurt us all

TDS 9/11 show opening

http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/dailyshow_sept11.jhtml
jon stewart's opening monologue on the first "the daily show" after september 11th

server log processing chain

http://www.redmonk.net/monkineticextras/software/unix/2003/03/17/chaingangfetchmailprocmailetc.html
fetchmail procmail python cron analog

non-trivial procmail tricks

http://linuxbrit.co.uk/procmail/
spam stuff, sigs, dynamically building mailing list folders, etc

0xDECAFBAD

http://www.decafbad.com/blog/
lots of links here

jobless recovery

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/02/what_the_electi.html
http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/ci9-8.html
http://www.glocom.org/opinions/essays/20040301_tsurumi_president/index.html
"There's the entire election for you: How the Jobs issue gets defined. The party out of power has a few months (at most) to clarify this definition. Since they have a contested primary (while the incumbent party does not), they have an opportunity to frame the issue, and to some degree, define the debate in a very public manner -- for now."

tax-fat regulators scared by skype

http://www.reason.com/links/links030104.shtml
must... tax... voip...

rfid tags in new $20 bills

http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904rfidtagsexplode.html
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/02/0535225.shtml
cash is now trackable...? wtf, the government isn't that competent

sesame street terror alert scale

http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/
all the colors of sesame street to let us know when to panic!

current terror alert level is:

sfw porn

http://www.area29.com/sfwporn/
heh

club dread BL blog

http://www.clubdread.com/
broken lizard blog

iraq evite

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/iraqevite/
an evite to the war on iraq

they, er, buried their planes...?

http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_247.shtml
the iraqi air force IrAF buried their migs for some reason

seeing-eye horses

http://www.guidehorse.org/photo_page.htm
creepy little horses that got shrunk by an uber shrink ray so they're small enough to go inside and lead blind people around

"Twinkie learned to negotiate an escalator and elevator. At a local restaurant, she was trained to stand under the table and nap while her owners ate lunch. And she was housebroken within a week—tapping her hoof at the door when nature called."

fun photography site

http://www.bobbyneeladams.com/
a photographer's site with time-split photographs of the same person from different periods

Super Troopers for parents

http://www.screenit.com/movies/2002/super_troopers.html
a review of super troopers for parents "imitative behavior: heavy"

message of 'Passion'

http://www.heraldargus.com/content/story.php?storyid=4158
"A major message of this film is that power corrupts. The priests kept the people from reading Scripture and thus were able to control their interpretation of it. The Roman army held dictator power over the locals and treated the people like lowly animals — and criminals, even worse — and neither were at an advantage to stop the abuses."

field manual 3-25.150

http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/3-25.150/toc.htm
army field manual covering knife fighting, bayonet fighting, etc (combatives)

diversity vs. welfare state

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1154687,00.html
as a nation becomes more diverse, the willingness to support a welfare state becomes much less common

yeti gore game

http://www.yonkis.com/mediaflash/yeti_gore.htm
you're a yeti. you have a spiked club. you play home run derby with penguins. they bleed a lot. there are land mines.

http://yeti3.yetisports.org/beta/yetisports4/
you're a yeti again. there are seagulls. you catapult a penguin to a seagull and then you flap the seagull's wings to get as far as you can.

webglimpse search engine

http://webglimpse.net/index.php?dir=subfeatures&page=features.html
don't really know much about this... will probably end up using it as part of a project for work, so saving link

pdftohtml

http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
extract text from pdfs convert pdf to text

ride with me

http://www.stagecraftinc.com/htmlFile/Riders.html
ride a dragon! or a chicken, ostrich, parrot, flamingo, pelican, t-rex, pterydactyl orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr a DUCK!

bathe with jesus

http://datejesus.com/
bathe sermons date contact endorsements multimedia

" This website came to life in May 2000. I am the sole creator of everything you see on the site and believe I have created the most extravagant personal ad in the history of civilization.

I created this site because I realized that the woman I wish to spend my life with is a rare type that is not likely to be found without great effort. I'm looking for a special woman who has traditional tastes and values. She knows her connection to the past and would rather have an authentic life instead of one guided by the pursuit of modern trends. She enjoys what is real and fulfilling in life, preferring honest moments over the predictable expectations of oversocialization. She has maintained both her personal playfulness and dignity in public, never sacrificing her spirit for the demands of others. She stands strong with her gaze towards a positive future despite finding everything around her tending towards normativity where the lowest and crassest values crowd out everything worthwhile. The special woman has shielded herself from the damage of modern society and desires something better. "

wouldn't that be nice

http://www.unitednuclear.com/h2.htm
hydrogen powered cars?

how NASA h4X0r3d the Mars Rover

http://www.eetimes.com/printableArticle?doc_id=OEG20040220S0046
how it got into and how they popped it out of an infinite reboot cycle

cereal pictures

http://theimaginaryworld.com/cbarch.html
pictures of old cereal boxes

I Crap in a Box

http://caterwauling.com/cat/
a blog from a cat's perspective. the cat swears. a lot. it's funny. everybody laugh now.

house gymnastics

http://www.housegymnastics.com/
climbing, yoga, gymnastics in a house. do(n't) try this at home.

colorized img to ascii

http://www.text-image.com/
convert images to ascii, with colors

google webmaster info

http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
google's rules for stuff

nader's pet accusation

http://www.corvaircorsa.com/handling01.html
"Because the NHTSA wanted to be as sure as possible of their approach, tests and conclusions, they then contracted with a three man advisory panel of independent professional engineers to review the scope and competency of the NHTSA tests. This review panel then issued their own 24 page report (PB 211-014, also available from the NTIS*).

In their report, the Panel drew even stronger conclusions in support of the Corvair than the NHTSA. They said, "It is the opinion of the panel that the Corvair quantitatively meets or exceeds the standards set by contemporary cars in stability tests, cornering tests, and rollover tests," and, "for this reason the panel concluded that the 1960-63 Corvair does not have a safety defect, and is not more unstable or more likely to roll over than contemporary cars."

Nader is Proven Wrong

Wow, go back and read that again. No safety or handling defects in the Corvair! But does anybody know this? The news media all but ignored these conclusions. They apparently thought that Nader’s charges were of greater news value than the fact that his charges were all proven wrong. Even today, of those who know of Nader’s charges against the Corvair, few if any know that his charges were false and were proven wrong. No, the fact that the Corvair was exonerated of all of Nader’s charges was hardly publicized. It received little or no attention from the media.

It is ironic that these false charges concerning the Corvair’s handling and stability are all anyone remembers, and are the only story ever told in the Press, even though they have been fully refuted by actual tests. Nader, of course, built his career on these false charges.

*National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161 "

rhyming dictionary

http://rhyme.sourceforge.net/index.html
an offline-capable rhyme reference

Lingua::Rhyme

http://search.cpan.org/~lgoddard/Lingua-Rhyme-0.092/Rhyme.pm
brute force method of finding words that rhyme with each other. i say brute force because it doesn't really have an algorithm for determing whether the words rhyme (at least it doesn't sound like that from the docs), it relies on a database to tell it whether the words rhyme

PL/SQL primer

http://www-db.stanford.edu/~ullman/fcdb/oracle/or-plsql.html
PL/SQL language reference - variables, control structures, etc

Massive Assault strategic screens

http://www.massiveassault.com/strategic_screenshots.php
screenshots and descriptions of the tactical situations they show from a ... turn-based strategy game? i think.

super troopers quotes

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247745/quotes
quotes from broken lizard's super troopers

CNN: The Grey Album

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/19/leisure.grey.album.reut/index.html
you know you're out of touch with stuff like this when you have to find out about it from cnn, second-hand, from a friend... an underground mix of songs from Jay-Z's The Black Album and The Beatles' The White Album

P5EE homepage

http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/
Perl 5 Enterprise Environment
The P5EE Project is a community of Perl professionals who understand the issues of Enterprise Development. We are collaborating to achieve the Mission of promoting Perl as a language for development of Enterprise Systems.

rejection as a hobby

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2004-02-19
I'm going to include a huge quote from today's PA news post because it is awesome. I'm also going to paraphrase it a little bit for my own purposes.

"You may be tempted to give ground to the notion that the "innovation" is gone from [stuff], like the part-time pop nihilists to whom all Internet argument is ceded. This is a hipster's gambit, and it's one you would do well to apply a belt sander to. What you are saying is that you are incapable of being pleased. Instead of turning up your nose at the rich feast placed before us, you might ask yourself if you want to be a person for whom nothing is satisfactory. That's the trick of that position - to become so enamored of your own refined palette that no morsel can surmount your culling mechanism. Understand that this isn't the same as liking everything. You can be a huge snob and still be semi-permeable to amusement. I certainly don't waste my attention on bad [stuff], and there's no need to invest your dwindling time and resources for [stuff] out of some twisted sense of equanimity. As far as the white stag "innovation" is concerned, if you're looking at the [mainstream] you may be hard-pressed to find it at times. ... My point is that if you focus entirely on [the mainstream], that's like opening your bedroom door a crack and referring to that visible sliver as "the universe." ... If ... you can't find some way to enjoy yourself, please send me your name and a picture so I can fucking avoid you. I don't want to catch whatever it is you have."

I cut out or translated the gaming-specific references to make the quote more general because this point is something that I also agree wholeheartedly with in the general case. I consider myself easy to amuse. What this means is that while other people are miserable for whatever reason, I'm usually finding a way to enjoy myself. The point that it's possible to be "a huge snob and still be semi-permeable to amusement" is great too. I'd like to add something to that, though. It's possible to be a huge snob and still be respectful of other people's amusement. It's basically the same concept as not being that vegan/vegetarian asshole who can't eat anywhere and makes everybody else's life more difficult. Just because you have special tastes that you don't compromise on doesn't make you special. It just makes you that much more of a dick. Kthx bye.

P.S. Not all veggies are assholes. But it bothers me that most people feel obligated to accomodate difficult people who project their aura of awkward compulsion without compunction.

wear your seat belt

http://www.949zeta.com/noSeatBelt/noSeatbelt.html
inside-the-car video of some dumbass crashing without his seat belt on

blackjack rules

http://www.online-gambling-deal.com/rules_blackjack.shtml
list of all the different cases (natural blackjack, double down, split, push, bust, insurance) and the corresponding payoff ratios

thebroken

http://www.thebroken.org/
web distributed tv show type thing about cool hacks of all types

oz prison bitch name generator

http://members.iglou.com/lyons/bitchGen.html
another frickin name generator from brian "pheygort" teh intarweb masstir

1000 styles of rumsfeld

http://www.poe-news.com/features.php?feat=31845
kung fu techniques from press pics of rumsfeld

disable local cvs backups in emacs

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-emacs-windows/2002-03/msg00088.html
set vc-cvs-stay-local to nil if you always use CVS from outside of Emacs
"FILENAME.~VERSION~" are cvs emacs backups
".#FILENAME.VERSION" are files left behind by CVS when commands fail

perfect vday present

http://www.tomatoalligator.com/
"shit bitch you is fine" bear

disney takeover ps contest

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=830835&mode=voteresults
disney getting owned in so many different ways

credit card e-primer

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/ScriptBased-Credit-Card-Interfaces/5/
merchant account independent service organization underwriter

testing credit card interfaces

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/ScriptBased-Credit-Card-Interfaces/5/
authorize.net transaction processing testing modes

fake google logo ps contest

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=824183&mode=voteresults
lots of funny fake google logos

sigil games online

http://www.sigilgames.com/
online game company founded by some everquest people brad mcquaid jeff butler

intro to semaphores

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/ipc/semaphores.html
Remember file locking? Well, semaphores can be thought of as really generic advisory locking mechanisms. You can use them to control access to files, shared memory, and, well, just about anything you want. The basic functionality of a semaphore is that you can either set it, check it, or wait until it clears then set it ("test-n-set"). No matter how complex the stuff that follows gets, remember those three operations.

This document will provide an overview of semaphore functionality, and will end with a program that uses semaphores to control access to a file. (This task, admittedly, could easily be handled with file locking, but it makes a good example since it's easier to wrap your head around than, say, shared memory.)

ie is bad for you

http://ashitaka-san.home.comcast.net/yayrant/ieharmful.html
a bunch of crap about ie... scanned it quickly and then put on my tinfoil hat

MemoryFoamSource.com

http://memoryfoamsource.com/memory_foam_mattresses
those beds, with the NASA foam. except not as expensive.

integrator's journal

http://www.krakau-inc.com/199203.htm
discussion about what the term "systems integrator" actually means

xp shows MS's intent

http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
essay about how microsoft is using features in xp

dollar bill dimensions

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/DeneneWilliams.shtml
length width thickness of US money

oracle RPC bug

http://www.jusungyang.com/ORACLEfolder/plsql/Interesting/PackageState.txt

SQL> -- RPC problem with ORA-4068

SQL> -- When a remote procedure is recreated after it has been executed from another db,

SQL> --   the first subsequent call to the procedure from this db will fail.

SQL> -- I consider this to be a bug.

SQL> 

SQL> -- Error can be avoided by flushing the shared_pool of the calling db,

SQL> --   or by slightly changing the text of calling the procedure

SQL> --      this will create a new entry in the shared pool

SQL> --   or simply by calling the procedure a 2nd time.

oracle data types comparison

http://www.ss64.com/orasyntax/datatypes.html
data type explanations and comparisons between oracle and a bunch of other databases

emacs colors

http://www.geocities.com/kensanata/colors.html
list of colors that emacs understands

http://www.the-forgotten.org/Members/mbond/rants/News_Item.2004-05-13.6897305691
more random emacs stuff

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2000-10/msg00009.html
access a list of and change various colors within emacs

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/GNUEmacsColorThemeTest/index-perl.html
a bunch of different color schemes applied to perl code

crying tiger sauce recipe

http://www.netecon.com/crying.htm

CRYING TIGER SAUCE


        Combine

            1/4 cup lime juice

            1/4 cup fish sauce (nam plah),

            1/4 tsp ( or more) crushed dried red chilis,

            1 teaspoon minced cilantro, 1/2 of a green onion, chopped, and

            1 teaspoon powdered toasted basmati rice.

Mix it up and serve. (Make rice powder by toasting rice in a skillet with no oil until it is light brown.

Cool on paper towels, and grind very fine in a blender or carefully cleaned coffee grinder. Store

in a tightly closed jar so you'll always have some.) Tigers like rare meat with this sauce, but the

chilies make their eyes cry. Good on very rare tuna steaks, and sashimi, too. 

ascii-ize rasters

http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/freefile/story/0,24330,3382967,00.html
turn regular images into ascii art

ascii word art generator

http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
a bunch of different ascii art fonts and a word generator

sfgate's grammy 2004 summary

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/09/DDGMT4S18U1.DTL
a synopsis of all the stupid stuff that happened at the grammys... grammies?

ascii pr0n

http://www.webfroot.co.nz/index.php?p=304&c=1
http://asciipr0n.com/pr0n/
porn in ascii

list of database tools

http://www.natcapoug.org/presntn_downloads/NCAPprstn2003_ToolsOfTheTradeDBA+DEV_v1.html
open source and commercial query admin and design tools