Thursday, November 30, 2000
Stolen from The Morning News: Donate sandwiches to Kate Moss.
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You think you're special? God is not an Israelite! God is coming! I'm here, and I'm going to baptize everybody, with fire! Get the song. Audiogalaxy Satellite.
Wednesday, December 13, 2000
Cribbed once again from The Morning News: the new Radiohead album has a name: Amnesiac.
Saturday, December 23, 2000
And now for some political perspective.
¶ 34 Posted at 12.20 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | politics ) Monday, January 15, 2001
Two bits about Clinton from Salon: bit one and bit two.
¶ 46 Posted at 01.46 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | politics ) Sunday, January 28, 2001
Hotair investigates the limits of the USPS. How weird can your package be before they won't deliver it. Neat stuff.
Thursday, February 01, 2001
A rather curious story: The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.
Tuesday, February 13, 2001
you get what you deserve. I love Exploding Dog. You must love it too. I also love fog. Never mind the danger and inconvenience. (Trina voice): so pretty.... Also there is a love for Goats. No, not like that, you sick bastard.
Wednesday, February 14, 2001
I discovered a new comic (thank you Penny Arcade): Rusty Shrapnel. This one's different because they're geek girls.
Dan talks sense about making money in dot-commery.
¶ 88 Posted at 04.38 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | internet ) Saturday, February 24, 2001
dotDoomed.com: Am I Doomed or Not? Found it at memepool.
¶ 97 Posted at 06.25 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | internet | funny ) Thursday, March 08, 2001
An interesting article on the future of privacy from The Atlantic.
¶ 106 Posted at 04.26 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | privacy ) Monday, March 19, 2001
Slashdot already had it, but I was looking for an excuse to post something. NASA moon astronauts file customs form for moon rocks.
Tuesday, April 03, 2001
Remember the red shirts from Star Trek? Here you go. In comic strip form.
¶ 116 Posted at 10.42 AM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | geek | funny ) U.S. Population Has Biggest 10-Year Rise Ever. My favorite part is: As a result, the population center of the country, as calculated by the Census Bureau, moved to Edgar Springs, Mo., nearly 40 miles southwest of DeSoto, Mo., the population midpoint 10 years ago. The population center is determined as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless map of the country would balance perfectly if all 281.4 million Americans were of identical weight.[emphasis added] I'm guessing it would be further south but to the east if they factored in obesity figures. All the fatties live in the East.
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
Dave Winer's weblog. One of the original (and best) weblogs out there. Or maybe it's this instead. Not really sure about that.
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
What the Web will be. Maybe.
¶ 121 Posted at 03.20 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | interesting | internet | future ) Thursday, April 19, 2001
This has got to be one of the coolest things I've seen all year. Action stick figure fighting in Flash.
¶ 122 Posted at 03.43 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | site | cool ) Wednesday, May 02, 2001
Filler: Unstoppable fighting and filing techniques.
¶ 124 Posted at 04.38 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | funny | cool ) Friday, June 01, 2001
Another reason weblogs will remain a niche. the mainstream: the mainstream is what comes to you. Weblogs, at least good, worthy ones, do not seek out an audience. Seeking an audience weakens the integrity of the message. You must seek the message. Thus a good weblog will always be underground. Because let's face it: people are lazy. If you're looking for other people's opinions, you're already way ahead of the curve. You want more than the facts. You want perspective, analysis, personality. You get none of those things from the news, and that's the way most people like it. Incidentally, the above links are handy. There's this guy who apparently really likes raves. And, apparently, he really hates ravers.
Saturday, June 02, 2001
Take a survey (NPR): American attitudes towards poverty.
¶ 135 Posted at 04.44 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | politics ) Friday, December 07, 2001
No comment. At the same time I can think of both too much and too little: Scripture Candy
Feel the pain of unemployment. Hah. He's got nothing on me, waking up at 11am. Try 5:30pm! Hahahahahaha! I need a job. If only to start being normal again.
¶ 239 Posted at 05.53 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | (un)employment | meme | funny ) Thursday, December 20, 2001
Never heard of the guy till five minutes ago, but judging by the quotes, clearly a loss for us all: In Memory of Frank Willison. I especially like Nietzchean Saab drivers.
Monday, December 24, 2001
Zadie Smith - On the Road: American Writers And Their Hair
¶ 245 Posted at 01.02 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | interesting ) Friday, January 11, 2002
Developers: the Ballmerfunk music video. See here for the original, in case you somehow managed to miss it. While I'm stealing links (from fury)... hmmm.... sacrilicious.
¶ 254 Posted at 03.56 AM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | meme | funny ) Tuesday, February 05, 2002
'Killer Tampon' Will Give Rapists The Chop. No comment.
¶ 271 Posted at 03.04 AM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | weird | whoa ) Faster, higher, stronger. And now more annoying than ever: The 2002 Olympics website. Go there just to see how irritating it is. And then go away.
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
These tests are really hard (Flash required). I did rather poorly on the verbal, but was surprised to get 141 on the "Ultimate IQ Test" (especially because I guessed on the love octagon, the 8 numbers, and the color folding ones, among others. You'll see...). Not that it means anything, but when you're unemployed, you'll take what validation you can get. Definitely going to wait until I sleep to tackle "Test for Exceptional Intelligence," though.
Tuesday, March 05, 2002
You're kidding, right? According to NY Times article, Radical New Views of Islam and the Origins of the Koran, 'the virgins who are supposedly awaiting good Islamic martyrs as their reward in paradise are in reality "white raisins" of crystal clarity rather than fair maidens.'
¶ 305 Posted at 06.48 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | funny | whoa ) Another reason to use Mozilla instead of Netscape: Netscape Navigator Browser Snoops On Web Searches.
¶ 308 Posted at 02.23 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | internet | geek ) Friday, March 15, 2002
This spring one of two Vermont teenagers charged with the knifing murder of two Dartmouth College professors will go on trial. The case offers entry to a disturbing subject -- acts of lethal violence committed by "ordinary" teenagers from "ordinary" communities, teenagers who have become detached from civic life, saturated by the mythic violent imagery of popular culture, and consumed by the dictates of some private murderous fantasy.
Monday, March 25, 2002
Is it wrong to file a restraining order against Jesus? This dude's creeping me out. Jesus: With You Always
Not entirely credible, not entirely incredible: The Secret Connections between "Fight Club" and "Calvin and Hobbes".
¶ 317 Posted at 11.37 AM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | interesting ) Monday, April 01, 2002
So I'm too unimaginative and lazy to do an April Fool's joke. It doesn't really matter, as you probably need a readership for it to be effective. Some attempts (none on the level of the Tool Australian bus crash of t.d.n some years back. Google's is too funny: Google exceeds all international standards for the ethical treatment of its pigeon personnel. Not only are they given free range of the coop and its window ledges, special break rooms have been set up for their convenience. These rooms are stocked with an assortment of delectable seeds and grains and feature the finest in European statuary for roosting.
Tuesday, May 21, 2002
Limited Time Offer: The Best Excuse Ever.
¶ 360 Posted at 11.56 AM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | politics ) Saturday, May 25, 2002
The Secret Diaries of the Fellowship.In other news, we're getting sued. And I'll leave it at that. No good can come of saying more, and quite possibly some bad.
¶ 361 Posted at 03.00 AM ⇒ No Comments ( (un)employment | linkage )
They claim that they speak English too. In fact, they claim they invented it. Even so, sometimes you need help understanding them. Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK.
Tuesday, June 04, 2002
The coolest case mod ever. The others were just technical. This one's got style. I hope Slashdot hasn't picked it up already.
Thursday, June 13, 2002
This is new: Google Answers. I think idealab had a similar concept in answers.com that I fiddled with in like 96 or 97. Apparently it got sold off and refocused (of course).
Thursday, July 04, 2002
You've all heard of the the Milgram Experiment from 1962. Participants were asked to administer increasing levels of electric shock to someone behind in another room. The results are, to put it mildly, disturbing. People will do what they're told.
Tuesday, July 09, 2002
An entertaining movie (Quicktime MOV) Indigen.
¶ 395 Posted at 11.41 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | interesting ) Wednesday, July 10, 2002
From Moses Avalon ("Confessions of a Record Producer"): the Royalty Calculator.
Monday, September 30, 2002
A classic and interesting article originally from the NY Times: Incompetent People Really Have No Clue, Studies Find / They're blind to own failings, others' skills
Friday, October 18, 2002
I have put up a short list links to various people. I want to have a dynamic bookmark thing set up, but this new job takes too much out of me for me to want to code. Progress on site code is more or less halted. However, I can still be counted on to be angry.
Sunday, October 20, 2002
The Atlantic comes through with another excellent piece: The Fifty-First State. On war with Iraq, and its long-term consequences.
James you should go watch these (Flash). And the rest o' yous, yeah, you too. If you like. I steal all my links from mute.
¶ 444 Posted at 01.41 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | wasting time ) Wednesday, November 20, 2002
NY Times television commentary: Forget the Sex and Violence; Shame Is the Ratings Leader. Quote: A cradle-to-grave network, ABC is also working on "The Will," in which family members compete to be named the heir to a relative's estate.
Sunday, January 26, 2003
upsideclown short story about (among other things) future computing: the same old subroutine. I especially liked this part: A sense of direction has never been my strong point. I've got a spare pipe in my pocket, so I give another shout and this time clip the pipe to my ear. When the ironmongers shout back their Over Here's!, instead of remembering which way each was, the pipe reroutes the information to my shoes. The databoot feature activates, and I now I merely need head in what feels like the general downhill direction. That is such an excellent interface idea. Sunday, March 02, 2003
Second part of Mixerman's diaries. They're a little tough to find.
¶ 498 Posted at 01.32 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | music | interesting ) Friday, March 14, 2003
Dog of the day, October 31, 2002. I can say nothing. Just look at it.
¶ 510 Posted at 11.39 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | pictures ) Tuesday, March 18, 2003
From Andrew, who also does not have a website: Results of a long-term marriage study. It's pretty interesting stuff.
¶ 515 Posted at 02.48 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | interesting ) I've thought this before, and here's Clay Shirky to explain much better than I could have why it's good that HTTP and HTML suck so much.
¶ 516 Posted at 02.59 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | code | internet ) Wednesday, March 26, 2003
I almost hate it when others speak my mind better than I can myself: The Lie Of The U.S. Military / Tough gritty American soldiers protect freedom of liberal S.F. columnist? Or the other way around?. Soldiers don't protect freedom. The best they can do is to protect property and people. Physical things. They do nothing to ensure the sanctity of more abstract notions such as liberty. There was a time when other powers wanted to invade this country and destroy our liberty. Even then, however, the military did not protect freedom. What they did do was make it possible for us to protect our own freedom. We ourselves, the citizens. On occasion, freedom may be protected by the police or a district attorney or a judge, but the greatest part of this protection comes from us living by the principles of our Constitution. And now the threat to freedom comes from within. American citizens will willingly give up their freedoms and those of their countrymen for the promise of security. Claiming that external forces will deny our liberty distracts us and makes it easier for internal forces to do the same. It doesn't matter if it is the Communists or John Ashcroft who denies my freedom to speak. The notion of trading reduced freedom for security is treated as a necessary exchange, but I have seen no evidence to indicate that it is a zero sum system. The only credible argument I have seen for denying natural freedoms is laziness on the parts of those meant to protect us. They say it would be "too hard" to protect this country without maintaining classified dossiers on its citizens. They say that they need to be able to conduct wiretaps and searches without warrants are necessary tools to make them more "efficient." It is simple laziness, on the part of the government and on the part of your fellow citizens, who want a panacea for their fears (reinforced by the government's reckless and effectively useless handling of potential threats), but don't want to pay for more agents or more judges, or face the ever-so-slightly increased danger of a free society. And what then? As an engineer, I often attempt many solutions to a problem before finding the right one. As such, I am used to thinking about what happens when my chosen solution fails. Unfortunately nobody in our government seems to think that way. So when denying my freedoms fails to make us more secure, what happens? Do I get my freedoms back? Or do they demand even more from me, claiming this time it will be different? Somehow I expect the latter. Freedom and security are not mutually exclusive. Those who would deny you your freedoms are your enemies, and the enemies of this country, no matter what excuses they manufacture. I have tried very hard to use phrases like "deny freedom" rather than "take away freedom" because freedom is an inalienable right. Others may make it impossible for us to exercise our freedom, but it exists independently of any actions they may take. To state that they can take it away gives them the power to do so. This has already happened in some areas, with many people erroneously believing that the government has the power to regulate your speech. This is partly based on a misapplication of this statement by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in Schenck v. United States: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." Freedom of speech does not apply here because you are on private property. The owner of the property has complete discretion over what is said, not the federal government. If the owner of the property gives me the permission to yell "fire," they cannot stop me. Suppose you have a dinner party. At some point, you shout "Fire!" and panic your guests. You may anger your friends, but it is your right. Thinking that the government can regulate that speech is a misunderstanding of the concept and makes the public conception of freedom subject to further erosion. Here is an interesting discussion going further into this issue. Of course, I am not a lawyer, but it sure sounds right. ...putting the "fury" in righteous fury since 2002...
¶ 519 Posted at 05.12 PM ⇒ No Comments ( linkage | politics | iraq ) Sunday, April 13, 2003
My new favorite weblog. Found by mute. Not for the uptight. It has personality. This weblog does not have personality. This weblog is a reflection of me. Hopefully only one of the two preceding statements is true.
Monday, April 14, 2003
Mutespawn #1 has a weblog. We are attempting to put pressure on mute to make Evan post more ("Once a day or you're grounded"). If that's not to your liking, there is also the dullest blog in the world. Hmmm. I am on fire today. Must be all this oxygen here at 500 ft. above sea level.
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Jeanie pointed me at friendster. As far as I can tell, it is a website that attempts to do exactly what I said before, Facilidate for friends. Except it is web-based. The site is intermittently broken, so it is difficult to see what actual utility is there. It's in beta, which probably means it'll start charging money eventually. The biggest part of it seems to be some kind of "Six Degrees of Separation" thing, kind of like Buddy Zoo. Everything else seems like a personals site, based on my cursory examination, but with a different focus. bang brooklyn also pointed it out, but I didn't look till Jeanie told me to.
Thursday, June 26, 2003
From The Smoking Gun by way of Fark, I give you the Scariest. Mugshot. EVER.
Friday, September 12, 2003
Travel and Leisure Magazine's Favorite Cities. Austin is Best-Looking People #4. I do what I can. I'm pretty sure I didn't have anything to do with Friendliest People #5, though.
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Check out these pictures from the Harbin snow and ice festival. Thanks, mom!
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