A very poignant article by Mark Bernstein with blogging becoming increasingly popular.
Link: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
The brief list
1. Write for a reason
2. Write often
3. Write tight
4. Make good friends
5. Find good enemies
6. Let the story unfold
7. Stand up, speak out
8. Be sexy
9. Use your archives
10. Relax!
For years, I’ve been teasing people I know — particularly my girlfriend — about their occasional inability to make a (simple) decision. Well, this may go a long way towards explaining why those seemingly simple decisions aren’t simple at all to some people. At the same time and more or less to myself, because I […]
I was flying from Denver to Oakland, CA last June. In the post-takeoff announcement, we were told by the flight attendant:
“For security reasons, passengers must use the lavatories in their section of the aircraft. First class has two lavatories at the front of the cabin; coach has two lavatories in the rear of the plane. […]
Test here
My results. It’s odd, my g/f and I were just having a discussion earlier today and she referred to some group of people as hippies; what she didn’t know was, I rather identified with that group.
20 questions.
Wackiness: 34/100
Rationality: 50/100
Constructiveness: 60/100
Leadership: 50/100
You are a SECF–Sober Emotional Constructive Follower. This makes you a Hippie.
You are passionate […]
Link
In Article 2b4asr$b7r@syzygy.socs.uts.edu.au, mjcherka@socs.uts.EDU.AU
(Mark J Cherkas) wrote:
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- I am new to this group so bear with this beginners question:
- Why is the answer 42 ?
- Has Douglas Adams ever explained this ?
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The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose […]
(Mirrored here in case the original goes away. Apologies to the authors.)
Link: static.thepiratebay.org/dreamworks_response.txt
Edited slightly to remove the binary characters around ”DreamWorks” and ”Shrek 2”.
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:21:43 -0100 (GMT)
From: anakata
To: KMWLAW@flash.net
Subject: Re: Unauthorized Use of DreamWorks SKG Properties
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 KMWLAW@flash.net wrote:
> Dennis L. Wilson, Esq.
> KEATS McFARLAND & WILSON, […]
This is completely friggin’ bizarre and sad . . . and probably what’ll happen to me for posting this.
Link to Toronto Star article
Man lay dead in bed for two years
Condo fees and bills were still being paid
Body finally found in mummified state
Link: www.codesandciphers.org.uk/lorenz/fish.htm
Link: www.codesandciphers.org.uk/lorenz/index.htm
Despite what the history books say, the ENIAC was not the first digital computer in the world; the COLOSSUS was, but since it was developed secretly during World War II, the British (those that knew about it) have had to suck it up whenever we Yanks touted our (false) superiority. Until the 1970s, […]
Link: digitalmedia.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2004/08/25/panorama.html
A good article on the subject, but…
I’ve tried doing panoramic shots; I’ve tried really hard. With a camera with an off-center tripod mount; with one that’s in-line with the lens; and without a tripod at all.
The problem is parallax, and I have yet to see any decent how-to for panoramic shots that even mentions […]
Oh yeah, I’m there… :)
MSRP $1499 (10D was $1999; street price was $1499)
Startup time reduced from 2.3 seconds to 0.2 seconds. W00t!
…and that’s just the beginning of the improvements.
Details in the press release (and lots of them!):
Link: www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1092949259.html
Sample pictures (details unknown):
Link: www.canon.co.jp/Imaging/eos20d/eos20d_sample-e.html
Scare quotes, oh my!
Link: www.suck.com/daily/2000/03/20/
Scare quotes are the quotation marks found around phrases like “gangsta rap,” “shame spiral,” or “security zone”: coinages that may be lingo, that may be jargon, that may even be slang but are more likely excuses where a little distance is in order. The subject of the story may say it’s […]
Blatantly ripped without permission from anyone but it is entirely intact…
Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons (Score:5, Insightful)
by Mysticalfruit (533341) Alter Relationship on 04-08-17 7:08 (#9990650)
(Last Journal: 03-11-13 10:12)
Basically, your correct.
Last time I checked we’re on the “IN-TER-NET”. You know that place that is practially a blackhole of all things immature.
If you were to map the […]
Link: linuxgazette.net/105/pitcher.html
The first really good explanation of symbolic links and hard links I’ve seen. One of the most basic Unixisms — if you don’t understand this, you can’t call yourself even a Jr-Jr Unix admin. :)
Link: www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200409/cullison
(excerpt - note in particular the last paragraph here)
What emerged was an astonishing inside look at the day-to-day world of al-Qaeda, as managed by its top strategic planners—among them bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, Atef, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, all of whom were intimately involved in the planning of 9/11, and some of […]