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Friday, December 31, 2004
GROW
Simply one of the most addictive puzzles ever created. I wish I hadn't found this tonight. An hour of my life suddenly evaporated.
Link
Gentoo Mirror Reminder
I'm tired of forgetting this little tidbit, so I'm putting it here
gentoo makemirror make.conf preferred mirror = http://gentoo.osuosl.org/
bleh
Thursday, December 30, 2004
the end is in sight
Maybe I'm just not up to speed with some of these things, or else it is no longer important to anyone, and no one cares enough to make a fuss, but over the holiday I saw some movies, and a trailer to Star Wars III: REVENGE OF THE SITH. First I am sad because the voice over is Alec Guinness, and the images are spliced with ones from the new movie and those from eppisodes IV or V. It's a little late in the game I think to try and rip off what was once a good thing. But I suppose I'm just tired of complaining, and will shut up and watch this last movie, just to have some closure.
Suprnova's Big Announcement
As mentioned before, the long-awaited Suprnova announcement is out, and, as everyone has already guessed, it's about Exeem. It's on an internet radio station (didn't catch the name), with the DJ asking some prearranged questions to Sloncek.
Synopsis (AKA spoilers): Opens with Lindsay Lohan's "Rumors". Sloncek describes Exeem (bittorrent protocol, kazaa interface). First public beta "very soon (but not this week or next week)" available at exeem.com. Exeem will be ad-supported. Exeem development supported by "a company that's going to remain anonymous for a while." Supported platforms only windows for now. Check suprnova or exeem.com for updates. Sloncek doesn't know what will happen to suprnova.org (seemed pessimistic). Exeem will include ratings and comments. Concludes with Europe's "The Final Countdown."
[Link goes directly to an 8MB MP3]
Link [via my first post at lifi *g*]
Top 10 "Intellegent Design" Schemes
Ah, intellegent design. I love it. Finally, the temporal curmudgeons of the world have hopped onto the "pseudo-scientific" bandwagon for verbage to make "creation myth" seem legitimate. God bless those rascally scallywags (oops).
Link [lifi]
The Original Sushi Pillow
Words fail me, but I'm sure you will be dreaming of fish (har har)
Link [waxy]
Mr. Bungle Calls it Quits
Awwww. Mr. Bungle was one of my favorite bands. Oh well. BTW, article is completely from Mike Patton's POV, so who knows what really happened.
Link [waxy]
MP3 Downloads for 2 cents / meg
This is pretty nifty... allofmp3.com lets you download high-quality mp3s for pennies per megabyte. That makes about a buck per entire album. Their music library is pretty extensive as well.
Apparantly, since they're a Russian company, they use some Russian loophole to charge squat for the music. Yay. I may actually be able to get a decent Dead Kennedys collection now.
Link [waxy]
Famous Suicides
The Wikipedia's list of famous suicides. Maybe one day you will be on the list. Yes, you.
Link [lifi]
2004's Top 10 Paranormal Incidents
If you believe in this sort of thing, here are the year's "best" ghost stories, as reported in the news.
Link [lifi]
An Insider's Glimpse into Piracy
A "Wired" article entitled "The Shadow Internet." An interesting read if you don't know the ups and downs of the piracy scene. They talk mostly about the movie scene, but a little about apps and music. Much of it is an interview with Bruce Forest, an oldschooler.
Link [lifi]
Alien Hominid
By far, the most creative and well-written flash game I've seen in a long time. It's a side-scrolling shooter, where you play an alien who has crashed into the Earth (right next to the FBI building, no less), and must blast your way through agents, children, and robots to, uh, do something. I dunno. I didn't get very far. But the game gives you some absurd number of lives (like 10!).
Link [mofi]
Monday, December 27, 2004
The other "Yeti Sports"
We all know about the Yeti-lympics, but what about the other Yeti Sports games? The, er, rather, uh, "unauthorized" version?
Link [lidu]
TV Cream's Top 100 Toys
From the page:
As Christmas hoves noisily into view for another year, and the marketing divisions of the world's toy companies go into overdrive, we inevitably start to ponder... was it all like this in our day? If you're reading this, it's likely there'll be a good twenty-plus years lying between this Christmas and the last one you started by tearing down the stairs at five in the morning, in wide-eyed anticipation of the contents of that mountain of wrapped boxes under the Woolies' fireproof silver tinsel tree. So, to this end, we polled TV Cream's readership to find the most well-remembered - for better or worse - toys that turned up in the stockings of yesteryear, from the tiniest fifty pee rubber novelty to the many bulky Bakelite candidates for that hallowed "main present" status.
Link [mofi]
Gmail Invites
For some reason, they keep giving me these things. Just post a comment with your email address and a joke and I'll hook you up with one.
Friday, December 24, 2004
Monday, December 20, 2004
Happy Monday!
Remember last week, when that pregnant woman was strangled and had the fetus cut out of her? Wasn't that a pleasant end to the week?
Here's something to get your day going:
(link...)
A savage double murder in the psychiatric wing of a French hospital, in which a nurse's decapitated head was left on top of a television in the patients' day room (!!!!), stunned France and left hospital staff terrified of returning to work.
Staff at the 460-bed Pyrenees Hospital Centre near the south-western town of Pau discovered the bodies of two nurses - both in their 40s, and mothers of young children - at 6.45am on Saturday, police said.
One had been stabbed and slashed several times in the body, neck and throat, and was lying in a corridor in a pool of blood. The beheaded body of the second was lying at the foot of a fire door.
If you need me, I'll be hiding in the corner.
Saturday, December 18, 2004
This is not porn
This is an incredibly difficult and tricky puzzle. You'll be using every investigative tool you can find to solve some of the puzzles. I got up to #5, then I had to quit to go home, but I'll be back at it tonight.
Link [via mefi]
Get your buzz on
Are there really this many energy drinks on the market right now? Good god.
Personally, I prefer Hansen's Energy or Stamina. So fruity, and it doesn't taste like 'Tussin.
Cheers!
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Another video from the Iraqi resistance
In startling contrast to the previous article, driving the point about "subtitles" home.
Link
Video: A Message From The Iraq Resistance
An incredible video--articulate and well-formed--from a resistance leader in Iraq. It outlines their position and their determination, and also references the "draining of American resources" from OBL's last speech, by forcing us to spend tons of money in Iraq.
Link
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
on blogging
On Blogging is a site dedicated to the research topic concerning blogs and online journals as tools for writers (and others) to use for...whatever!...reasons. It is run by none other than the lady of Lake Allison, and I'm sure that she'd appreciate your feedback about your blog, how you got started, and so on and so forth.
Link
I Found the Strangest Things on My Way Here
IFTSTOMWH is the blog of my collegue, Joe Nowak, at Colubmia College, much in the same vein as DT. When you're through exhausting yourself with trivia and base slackage here, go check him out for even more.
Link [thanks Joe!]
Monday, December 13, 2004
Damn jokes keep circulating themselves back to my e-mail. Why does my aunt send me these things?! Dumb joke, and I am wondering why the author of it singled out MSN, and didn’t just leave it to be generic? And why do I care? I’m not sure that I do ... anyway, here’s a joke. It’s ok, you don’t have to laugh, I didn’t. Rather, I’m just perpetuating the dispersion of crap on the internet.
CHILD ASKS:
Daddy, how was I born?
DAD SAYS: Well, you see your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on MSN. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall; and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a blessed little pop-up appeared and said: You've Got Male!
Dark Markets
Dark Markets is a site dedicated to helping horror writers find anthologies, publishers, contests, and agents. As my friend Marcus says, "...way more than Writer's Market even admits exist."
Link [thanks Marcus!]
Sunday, December 12, 2004
R.P.S.
Ah yes, RPS ... for those of you not in the "know" that starts for Rock Paper Scissors. And yes, there is an official site with strategy guides and discussion boards and all ... even merchandise.
Apparently it "is the world's most popular method decision-making process".
So, what's your opening move???
Money Art
By Kamiel Proost. All of the paintings are done on dollar bills, and range from the loud and bizarre to my favorite.
Link [via linkdump]
The Prophet of Immortality - Popular Science
From the article:
Controversial theorist Aubrey de Grey insists that we are within reach of an engineered cure for aging. Are you prepared to live forever?
Yes.
Link [via bb]
The Mako Shark
A site, mostly about fishermen catching Makos, but also with a lot of general info, and a few stunning photos.
Link [via bb]
Let's go fly a kite.
Good Lord!
Seven dead at kite-flying festival
SEVEN people were killed and more than 100 injured in Pakistan during the annual kite flying festival marking the arrival of spring, officials said today.
An 18-month-old girl's throat was cut by a stray kite string while she was travelling with her parents on a motorbike, witnesses said, adding that she died on the spot.
Three people were electrocuted when metal wires they were using to fly or catch stray kites fell on live electric lines, and two people fell from roofs, hospital officials said.
A 12-year-old boy died while trying to catch a stray kite when he was hit by a car on a main road, police said.
More than 100 people had been reported injured since last night in various kite-related accidents, medical workers said.
Officials at Lahore's Mayo Hospital said 42 children and 60 adults had been treated for injuries.
"One child was injured by a stray bullet," deputy medical superintendent Dr Saqib Shafi told AFP.
Read more here
I am stunned beyond a sarcastic comment...
Friday, December 10, 2004
The first 100 domain names...
Yeah, that's right: the very first 100 domain names ever. These were the people who were there at the very beginning.
From the list:
Create Date Domain Name
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03/15/1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
04/24/1985 BBN.COM
05/24/1985 THINK.COM
07/11/1985 MCC.COM
09/30/1985 DEC.COM
Link [via lifi]
frontline: secret history of the credit card
"Frontline" has an amazing documentary about credit cards, and the things you probably did not know about them. The program, over an hour long, is online, in both WMV and Real formats. Plus, the accompanying site sums up a lot of the information.
For instance:
In 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court in Smiley vs. Citibank lifted the existing restrictions on late penalty fees. Back then, fees ran to $5 or $10, and usually did not exceed $15. After the Court's decision, fees soared, reaching upwards of $30. Since then, the amount of revenue the companies generate from fees (including late charges, over-the-limit fees, and charges for returned checks) has doubled.
Very scary, and the precise reason I live in a cash-based budget, i.e. I don't own a single credit card, or, besides my newly acquired student loans, one dollar of debt.
Link [via lifi]
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
The Precise Neurological Exam
I needed a little research about the name of the nerve that the doctor hits below your knee to test your reflexes, so I googled "nerve in the knee for reflex hammer" and this is what I got, complete with pictures, and all the little tools and stuff.
(10 points if you can guess the answer to the query. Answer in comments.)
Link
The wonder of Glogg
The holiday season is here, and with it comes the bevy of holiday-related drinks. One such drink that I've recently been turned on to by KJ is Glogg, a German / Swedish / Norwegan (etc) concoction, which is a strong spiced red wine. But what is the secret formula of Glogg, you ask?
A HA!
Glogg
Monday, December 06, 2004
Just brilliant. And by brilliant, I mean ... not. Abstinence programs misleading???
I take offence to ... yeah, just about everything they've listed here. Damn the lies! (And not in a cool way, either) So yeah ... a program backed by bush ... I suppose I shouldn't be surprised its full of lies.
Sunday, December 05, 2004
infernal device
What the hell is a "gibbet" anyway?
Answers to that, and all other torture-device-related questions, can be found at Infernal Device, the database of torture and execution methods.
Link [via mefi]
Saturday, December 04, 2004
Just in case if you weren't sure, here's a little "how-to" for peanut butter and jelly. Very usefull.
Friday, December 03, 2004
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stem cell image pretty colors ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
DBOT
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