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} do tuning fork experiment
} do CC expenses
2003-06-02
2003-05-19
2003-05-14
2003-05-13
* Excellent song about gamma rays is C&Ded by RIAA. 1:09p
2003-05-12
* Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception 5:10p–?
2003-05-07
2003-05-01
2003-04-28
* Philip: Summer Trip. More fun thoughts. 10:26p
2003-04-16
2003-04-15
* Greenspun: Israel: A Backgrounder 12:10a–12:41a
2003-04-14
2003-04-13
* The Hundred-Year Language ?–1:48p
2003-04-01
2003-03-31
* Enormous Type Designed To Induce "Shock and Awe" 5:55p
2003-03-24
2003-03-23
2003-03-22
2003-03-21
2003-03-20
2003-03-19
* Preaching to the choir. Powerful. 5:44p
* Al Gore Joins Apple's Board of Directors. “Al is also an avid Mac user and does his own video editing in Final Cut Pro,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. 5:16p
* How High Terror Alert Works: “A red [high] alert would also tear away virtually all personal freedoms to move about and associate.” 5:08p
2003-03-18
* Joe Clark on Cory Doctorow 1:54p
2003-03-17
2003-03-16
* Happy GNU/Linux Month! 10:02p
* Lessig: edwards in person. “it was moving in a way I have never before seen in a politician”. 11:49a
2003-03-15
2003-03-14
* Boycott Brand America 4:23p
2003-03-13
2003-03-07
* Audio Hijack Pro: Save speaker output to a file on OS X. 2:09p
* RMS on Speaking Engagements. I can imagine myself saying a lot of this. 1:43p
2003-03-06
2003-03-05
} plan SXSW trip, read boingboing spectrum coverage
* Wired News story on MusicBrainz with short quote from me 11:02p
* Supreme Court Rejects “Trademark Dilution” Claim 9:53a
2003-03-04
} read two amhist chapters
* Ping on Palladium
2003-03-02
* BSA Goes After People Distributing “Pirated Copies” of OpenOffice 11:43a
* Down and Out in Entertainment Weekly 11:39a
* ISBNv6 11:30a
2003-02-28
2003-02-27
2003-02-26
* QUINN GIVES BIRTH LIVE 12:13a
* Onion AV Club: Joss Whedon. 10:36a–11:07a
2003-02-25
* The author of 777 Mathematical Conversation Starters gave a talk at school today. Looks interesting. 4:51p
2003-02-24
2003-02-23
} email, read, write
2003-02-22
2003-02-21
2003-02-20
2003-02-19
* Warren Ellis: “I'll send a squad of finely trained San Francisco death pervert girls into [Cory Doctorow's] warehouse home where they will wear his dangly bits as grisly murder trophies.” 12:58p
2003-02-18
* bash-completion is cooler than I thought! add “. /etc/bash_completion” to your .bashrc; it completes apt-get, remote scp directories, cvs -options, etc. 12:00a
* Don Marti to Equifax: “As you can see from my credit report, I am 34 years old in 2002, and I began working in 1966, at the illegal age, both mathetically and child labor-wise, of minus two.” (cite) 12:26p
* Matt Webb: Okay, concept. “Maybe the 1980s were really visual, the 1720s extremely tactile. These things must go in waves, in fashions” 12:13p
2003-02-17
* Danny O'Brien gets the hang of diapers on a practice baby 6:44p
* Snowed in: 1, 2, 3 3:56p
* Official Sponsor of W3C Smut 3:26p
* Sen. Robert Byrd: “On this February day, as this nation stands at the brink of battle, every American on some level must be contemplating the horrors of war. Yet, this Chamber is, for the most part, silent -- ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. There is nothing.” (cite) [berry] 2:19p
2003-02-16
* Paul Graham: Why Nerds are Unpopular. Excellent thoughts on school, suburbia, and society. “It seems to me there is something wrong when it's routine for smart kids to dwell on suicide.”11:20p–12:15a
* Dan Hon: CNN removes portions of Hans Blix's speech that disagree with US from transcript 12:09p
* Bruce Schneier: “Seems that it is official Microsoft corporate policy not to be seen in public with Bruce Schneier.” (cite) 10:05a
2003-02-15
* Brent Simmons: “Parsing RSS is like walking across a field of broken glass. (And the glass has been heated to just below its melting point. And your hair is on fire.)” (cite) 12:43a
* Chicago Media Action 8:57p
2003-02-14
} read, read, read
2003-02-13
* Tinderbox Slogan: “Are your research notes on cocktail napkins?”
* Reversible (about) is very clever! (1, 2) 10:12a
* What was John Glenn thinking when he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone awaiting blastoff? “I was thinking that the rocket had twenty thousand components, and each was made by the lowest bidder.” 9:18a
* New DMCA Indictment: “The hacking community should understand from this announcement we've infiltrated their chat rooms and Web sites, and we are identifying targets and bringing charges when appropriate,” Mr. Spertus said. (cite)
* 2003dnssec: True DNS security is near! 8:54a
2003-02-12
* Manual 12:27a–1:41a
* wow, apparently in california you can tell when an elevator is out of service because pings timeout. 9:54p
2003-02-11
* MouseZoom makes your Mac's mouse G6 fast. Zooooooooooom! 5:38p
* T-Shirt: “The government is taking away my civil liberties and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.” (cite)
2003-02-10
* 100 stories of unfamous people 11:17p–11:20p
* IMS asks for IANA function. Yay! 12:39a
* First Issue of TEKKA out! 12:38a
2003-02-09
* reading CHIPS 3:03p–3:22p
* On the other hand, what I really want is for RealPlayer to give a continuous stream of music (so you don't have to keep going back to the site), with thumbs-up/thumbs-down buttons that go into a collaborative filter (so it learns what you like). I remember Imagine Radio (which they sold to Streamspincast or something) was like this, except for signed bands. Of course, they got shut down by the RIAAPolice. 12:27p
* Garageband.com, once you figure out how to get it working (hint: don't use Safari), is pretty nice. It's basically what I want: a continuous stream of new music from new bands. Nothing super-great, but it makes fun background music. 12:06p
2003-02-08
2003-02-07
* Action Item! 12:32a
2003-02-06
* Wow: Bill O'Reilly screams “shut up!” at a guest who disagrees with him. 5:59p
* Wow: only 17% of americans know that no hijackers are from Iraq 11:36a
* Brewster Kahle talk 11:00a–12:30p
2003-02-05
2003-02-04
* Report of the Privacy Commisioner of Canada: “Let me be blunt: "The United States made us do it" cannot be a sufficient or acceptable justification for the Government to intrude on a fundamental right of Canadians.”
* Ben Franklin's Autobiography: “Gov'r. Thomas was so pleas'd with the construction of this stove, [] that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them for a term of years; but I declin'd it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., that, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.” 6:20p
* Dive Into Mark's 404 5:42p
2003-02-03
* Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine 11:59a
2003-02-02
* Observer: Bush, NASA ignore warnings that the Shuttle was unsafe? (Class, please turn to Visual Explanations, Chapter 2.) 2:43p
* ibid (whole article is good): “XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rape.” 11:32a
* Erik Naggum on XML: “Robbery is not just another way of making a living, rape is not just another way of satisfying basic human needs, torture is not just another way of interrogation. And XML is not just another way of writing S-exps. There are some things in life that you do not do if you want to be a moral being and feel proud of what you have accomplished.” 11:29a
* simonstl: Is civility harmful? “I think alienation is important” 11:26a
* EU refuses to apply criminal sanctions to noncommercial copying! (cite) tx Donna Wentworth 11:24p
* Scary: Police checkpoint incident. Now you can be forcibly removed from your car, handcuffed, thrown to the ground, and have your wallet removed just for driving home from work! 11:01a
* Fascinating: How to fly without ID! 10:46a
* Dave Winer: Moon Missions. “Yes it's sad they died. Yes. But it's also great that they lived.” 10:39a
* wonderful rave for Japanese game Ico 2:00a
2003-02-01
* Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (aka Appendix F) by Richard P. Feynman 12:32p
2003-01-31
2003-01-30
* Jeremiah has his own activity log 12:17p
2003-01-29
* New Yorker Science Fiction: Jon. “I will turn to her and say, Honey, uh, honey, there is a certain feeling but I cannot name it and cannot cite a precedent-type feeling, but trust me, dearest, wow, do I ever feel it for you, right now.” 10:42a
2003-01-28
* Uncut Interview with Cory Doctorow 7:25p
* “"According to Jewish law," deadpanned Yossi Vardi, an Israeli software entrepreneur, "life begins when the fetus becomes a lawyer."” (cite) (I have a pic of me and Vardi someplace.) 1:30p
2003-01-27
* UNIX HATERS website 10:45p
* Fair Use, Hillary Rosen's Switch Ad 8:20p
* listening to Danny O'Brien's talk 6:59p–7:55p
2003-01-26
2003-01-25
2003-01-24
2003-01-23
* Is this real or a joke: PR10.com? 10:42p
2003-01-22
* watching Between Iraq and a Hard Place ?–1:12a
* imaginative pastures 10:13a
2003-01-21
* mixerman 6:17p–9:44p
* mixerman / orasis 4:28p–5:58p
* more mixerman 10:52a–11:29a
2003-01-20
* seeing what Ping's up to 9:10p–9:48p
* reading mixerman adventures [jwz] 8:10p–9:00p
* reading upsideclown 5:27p–6:00p
* Joe Clark: “Let's not go quoting overrated anecdotalist curiosity Edward Tufte here.” (cite) 11:03a
* John Burkhardt: SUV Angst. “Its not "God Bless America" for these folks. Its "God Bless Me".” 10:25a
2003-01-19