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January 2003
- How to Help the Third World
- Quinn (one of the columnists a former guest columnist over at Boing Boing) wrote up a great little blog-entry about how we should be helping out the “Third World”. Most people support the traditional “send in doctors and food” method. Quin, though, thinks it would... full entry
- RIAA Site Hacked Again
- For apparently the sixth time in six months, the RIAA‘s website was hacked this past monday. It seems that many people are claiming that the RIAA simply doesn’t “get” the web since they haven’t even secured their servers against elementary attacks. The lastest hack involved... full entry
December 2002
- Star Wars Origami
- Way back in the day (i.e. when I was a kid) I used to really love origami. Well, if you combine that with my known love of Star Wars, you can get Star Wars Origami. The TIE Interceptor I tried making looked, well, strange. The... full entry
- The RIAA: Making Up Numbers
- Yet again, the RIAA is shown to be the complete fools and total bald-faced liars they are. See how the RIAA statistics don’t add up to piracy at all. “Oh no, sales aren’t as good as in 2000!” Well, maybe that’s because the industry cut... full entry
- The ‘Culture’ Universe
- 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 novels are among the best I’ve read. Anyway, Banks has made available a few notes... full entry
November 2002
- Bunch-o-Links
- 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 Alan Moore’s alternate DC universe, circa mid-80s. 10 Atari games… in a joystick… from Avon (yes,... full entry
- DMCA and Copy Protection
- 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 Bricklin writes on why copy protection robs the future. If we can’t access information, then... full entry
September 2002
- Gaming performance with 2k/XP
- This is a pretty interesting article about maximizing gaming performance with a Windows 2000 or XP computer. Since I may be upgrading to XP myself sometime, this could well come in handy…
- Help create a typeface
- There’s a really interesting experiment (?) going on over at Typophile: you can help create a typeface. It’s a sort of “hive mind” experiment where you get to choose whether one pixel for a letter is black or white. Every other visitor gets to choose... full entry
- A letter to himself
- James Lileks writes a letter to be read by the James Lileks of one year ago. It’s a very powerful and insightful piece.
August 2002
- Miniputt, anyone?
- Bored at work? Just want to escape a little? Well, look no further than a nice game of miniputt. You can find some tips for the first course, as well. And a second course can also be played.
- ‘Ownz0red’, A novella by Cory Doctorow
- Cory Doctorow (of Boing Boing fame, among others) just published a novella in Salon. I haven’t read “Ownz0red” yet, but his short excerpt that I read was really interesting and I’m looking forward to grabbing some time to read it over.
- “110 Stories” by John M. Ford
- Anyone who really knows me can attest to the fact that I’m not a very emotional person. I’m not touchy-feely, I don’t get teary-eyed at “sad” movies. It’s just the way I am, for better or worse. Well, this time it’s a bit different. Teresa... full entry
- Teresa’s “weird classics of the ‘net”
- Teresa Neilsen Hayden apparently compiled a list of some of the weird classics of the ‘net. It includes classics like the exploding whale and LOX barbeque as well as several I’d never seen. Definitley worth a look when you have a moment.
- Time-travellers from the future… er, past?
- There’s a really interesting account of how you can sometimes see what seem to be time-travellers. It’s rather interesting and well-written. (via Boing Boing)
- Motorcyclists who cut in traffic are bastards
- According to a new study by a New York University professor, motorcyclists who cut between lanes during traffic jams are “major dumbfuck assholes”. Yes, it’s satire, but it’s also true. (via fark)
- Spiders in the Afghan War
- This is a pretty cool online comic called Spiders. It’s sort of an alternate-history of the current war in Afghanistan. Rather interesting and entertaining. As of right now, they have 3 of the 4 “issues” completed.
- 2002 5k winners announced
- Check out the winners of the 2002 5k contest. It just blows me away what people can do with 5k of code… (via… well, everywhere...)
- What do you want to know?
- Leslie Harpold—quite the gifted writer, I must say—writes about that all-important first question. (via dive into mark)
- Digital TV: FCC and the Industry
- Mark Pilgrim (of dive into mark) posted an entry HDTV still a long way off, still a mess, which was in turn excerpted from a slashdot posting. Very nicely put, whoever the original author was…
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