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- The ‘Culture’ Universe
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I was turned on to the “Culture” universe setting by my friend Ben. Quite a number of novels by Iain M. Banks take place withing this sci-fi universe and his... full entry
- Monday Dec 2, 2002 |
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- Bunch-o-Links
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Just a bunch of links:
“Stopping P2P needs anti-terrorist-like effort” Yeah, my ass.
“Visa" abuses the law and stomps on the little man
Watch the pharmaceutical companies abuse everyone
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- Thursday Nov 21, 2002 |
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- God is the Machine
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Incredibly interesting Wired article about how the universe might be a computer. Or maybe it’s the program running on a computer. Or God is computation. Or… Well, just read it... full entry
- Thursday Nov 21, 2002 |
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- DMCA and Copy Protection
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First off, we have The Evil that is the DMCA. Arbitrary power given to the “Content Cartel"… If only our politicians weren’t mostly in the pocket of these people.
Dan... full entry
- Wednesday Nov 20, 2002 |
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- Bad-ass Commenting
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Wow, Scott Andrew was right: this commenting UI really does kick serious ass. I may have to try implementing something like that whenever I redo the site (or for another... full entry
- Wednesday Nov 13, 2002 |
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- File Size Page Bloat
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Check out this fantastic tool that provides an easy way to see your content vs. code ratio. Wonderful tool for us developers. You can also see a few bookmarlet versions... full entry
- Tuesday Nov 12, 2002 |
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- Leaky Abstractions
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Every once in a while, you come upon an article that’s just really good. It might not be that useful to most people, but for whatever reason it just gets... full entry
- Tuesday Nov 12, 2002 |
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- Ominosity Quotient
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I happen to be a seven. Pretty respectable, I’d say. So, what, might I ask, is your Ominosity Quotient?
- Tuesday Nov 12, 2002 |
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- Love the DOM Inspector
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If you actually read the link I put up several days ago about 101 things Mozilla can do..., then you read about the DOM Inspector. Or maybe you knew about... full entry
- Monday Nov 11, 2002 |
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- The game came with WHAT??
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Okay, this is just weird! There’s apparently a Playstation 2 game out there called Rez (may be Japanese only) that comes packaged with what they call, I kid you not,... full entry
- Monday Nov 11, 2002 |
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- More DHTML menu goodness
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Just a quick note that there’s another DHTML menu similar in concept to the one linked to the other day. Just another option and another approach.
- Tuesday Nov 5, 2002 |
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- THe RIAA strikes back!
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The ”RIAA Wants Background Checks on CD-RW Buyers.” Okay, not really. But it’s kind of scary how far this is not from the truth. I mean, you have seen some... full entry
- Tuesday Nov 5, 2002 |
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- I love my Mozilla
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I’ve become a die-hard Mozilla user. Heck, I’m almost an evangelist for it, since I’m always urging people to switch over to it. Well, now my job is a little... full entry
- Tuesday Nov 5, 2002 |
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- Wide World of CSS
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(Aside: Man, I sure have been getting lazy about posting things to this site. I really need to get back to it, if for no other reason than so that... full entry
- Friday Nov 1, 2002 |
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- Hilary Rosen and file-sharing
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Hilary Rosen (president of the now-evil RIAA) was involved in a debate about downloading music. Some very interesting things were said. (via Boing Boing)
- Friday Oct 25, 2002 |
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- Malware Marketing
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Well, this is just poor new all around. There’s a new email “worm” that gets into your system when you When you install the software to view your e-greeting, you... full entry
- Friday Oct 25, 2002 |
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- Embrace Oblivion, Big 5
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Not a day goes by where I don’t see or hear of at least one example of the major “Recording Companies” doing something stupid to kill their own business. The... full entry
- Wednesday Oct 16, 2002 |
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- Movable Type 2.5
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Well, it seems I just keep getting farther and farther behind… Movable Type 2.5 has been released and sounds like it incorprates some very useful things. Maybe one of these... full entry
- Wednesday Oct 9, 2002 |
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- The Homeless Guy
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Most of us see them every day: a homeless person. Maybe they’re on a street corner holding a “will work for food” sign. Perhaps they’re selling roses or those giant... full entry
- Friday Oct 4, 2002 |
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- Stanford Prison Experiment
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In the summer of 1971, a psychology experiment was conducted in which a prison was simulated with students for both prisoners and guards. The results are both fascinating and frightening.... full entry
- Tuesday Oct 1, 2002 |
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