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Because malevolent is too hard to say!
And you can't tell me the alien ain't CUTE!
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furtive explorations
"How stupid do you want them to think you are?"
Seek the power, find the Sock of Destiny!
The hostile team now consists of scads of
people hardly ever posting to this site! Of course that doesn't actually
equate to any more posts, it just ups the brownian motion of the
system a bit more.
Earth First! Make Mars Our Bitch!
Saturday, January 15, 2000
- 11:25:43 PM by mark
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- Bonus! I just found out that my D drive is fscked. Many a fine MP3 bites the dust. Oh well. At least I got to enjoy a half hour of ScanDisk! Whee!
OTOH I am now FORCED to listen to music for hours while I check for bad files =)
OTOOH I am now forced to mourn my many losses. Mumble-grumble
- 10:35:21 PM by mark
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- Hmm, I haven't mentioned Joe Lavin here before. He is one of my favorite web columnists. Here is a pullquote if you need a little convincing:
Meanwhile, as all this was going on, the Department of Justice started
leaking news that it may try to split up the Microsoft monopoly.
Essentially, we were given one new monopoly this week (AOL Time
Warner) while an older one (Microsoft) may be taken away. On the whole
"getting screwed over by massive corporations" scale, I guess the week
was pretty much a draw.
- 10:01:11 PM by mark
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- Meta Not much blogging tonite, I'm slacking! Probably not much tomorrow till late since I'm
going to visit the parental units. (and Amanda my sis.)
- 4:30:42 AM by mark
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- Meta I should probably go to bed now =)
- 12:44:39 AM by mark
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- Oh yeah, Comics. I have been meaning to post the comics I read most often. Why not do it plus favs and more? hehehe
More later. promise.
Friday, January 14, 2000
- 9:45:51 PM by mark
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- MemePool to the rescue. How about a handy Sushi Glossary? Yes,
Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you make you stop, think
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman
I summon fish to the dish,
although I like Chalet Swiss
And I like the sushi
'cause it's never touched a frying pan
Hot like wasabi when I bust rhymes
Big like LeAnn Rimes
Because I'm all about value
Bert Kaempferts's got the mad hits
You try to match wits
You try to hold me but I burst through
Gonna make a break and take a fake
I'd like a stinkin' achin' shake
I like vanilla, it's the finest of the flavors
Gotta see the show, 'cause then you'll know
The vertigo is gonna grow
'Cause it's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver
- 9:21:25 PM by mark
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- Oh man this is rude. From the Ruminations file on the TopFive.com site.
Whether on a date or at a job interview,
you can always expect the same reaction when
you utter the phrase, "frothy yellow discharge."
- 9:11:59 PM by mark
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- Moviesounds.com Oh man does it rock. Many a fine movie has it's best audio bits here.
- 9:09:50 PM by mark
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- Crypto is stil a big deal, David
B's lawyers are still hunting to turn over the export laws that regulate crypto. Lordy I hope they do.
We don't need this travesty against our 1st amendment rights on the book..
On the other hand note this evil lawsuit from
the MPAA
BTW, I got this nice link from Davenetics, well actually the e-mail edition is sent to me everyday. Highly recommended to extend your SlashDot fix for tech news. Here is an example of his prose:
TERRESTRIAL TAKE ---
I CALLED ROOM SERVICE THREE MONTHS AGO... ---
A private investor has plans to renovate the Mir
Space Station and turn it into a space hotel. He says
that he realized: "Mir, which was about to be thrown
away, was a huge opportunity. Yes, it's old and yes,
it has a few problems. Yet any old building has that. You don't
tear down an old building because it has a few heating and
air-conditioning problems. You renovate it.''
Dude ... it's in outer space.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_603000/603709.stm>
Have a good weekend...
- 8:40:05 PM by mark
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- Simpsons Turn Ten I snagged this from SlashDot. Ohmigawd, I can't believe it has been ten years. That is just mind boggling. The little brat that stepped on my toes today at the theater has never known a world without Bart.
- 2:27:27 AM by mark
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- If I knew how many links I was going to put in here from APBNews I would have combiined them all with bullets. Oops. Oh well, here is another and it's a doozy. Read about the real life adventures of a Clean Scene Specialist. Meet the guy who cleans up crime scenes when the police are done.
Speaking of crime scenes, Who Stole Ben
Stein's Money?
- 2:24:21 AM by mark
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- Why does research like this scare the crap outta me? Try Hormone Problems and The Bully Cycle. Boys bully because they are missing hormones, Girls bully in subtler ways!
Also,
Group Urges Violent Toy Swap is notable both for the great title and for the mention of Louisville.
Yet another great title High School Rifle Teams Draw Fire
And this one is just inexplicable Mom Charged With Getting Toddler Drunk
This is for the "I told you so" filesY2K Stop Signs Now Memento of Non-Disaster and actually so does this Moms in Pokemon brawl.
- 2:03:33 AM by mark
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- Animal Mutilations: What we know and What we don't know. Man do I love a good UFO story.
- 1:45:40 AM by mark
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- Ok, WTF is "involuntary deviant sexual behavior"? Teen Lover Murder. You'll need to read a ways down to get the reference. APBNews rocks.
- 1:40:09 AM by mark
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- Booker T. Flowers, Sr. Really, Booker. What a perfect name.
- 1:34:17 AM by mark
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- No I have no idea why I'm posting this either. Try and guess what the Dealio is before clicking on them.
I actually found all of these amusing. Heh.
Thursday, January 13, 2000
- 11:19:38 PM by mark
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- Meta Ok, we are going to try and clean this whole site up a bit. Server side includes
now work, pages are being dated and updated, life is moving on, content that I found backed up will
be posted and more. But first, I'm gonna eat some dessert. ;P
- 10:50:11 PM by mark
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- When presented with the almost ubiquitous "Please input your name and address before downloading" what do you put? I have been using "Bill Gates" and "billg@microsoft.com" for a while now. Maybe I need a new hobby?
- 10:44:45 PM by mark
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- WorkSpot I'll have to keep a eye on this.
- 10:31:31 PM by mark
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- Dolly is the aptly named cloning tool for Linux. Do you have a whole herd of computers used by sheep that could be doing something useful at night? This is the tool
for you. Other good stuff at the link too.
- 10:27:27 PM by mark
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- Who needs Snopes' Urban Legends or even AFU UrbanLegends when you have real life?
- 10:11:36 PM by mark
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- Got this one from Dodd, on a politics list he runs. Dr. Truth, aka Patrick Moore is one of the original founders of Greanpeace. Now semi-retired and semi-hated by the greenies he walks a fine line between extremism and science. Read his Newest interview at least.
Wednesday, January 12, 2000
- 4:43:36 AM by mark
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- Meta Jeez I didn't think they would reboot my box before I had a chance to fix the networking. Ooops =(
Tuesday, January 11, 2000
- 10:19:43 PM by mark
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- This may be the best "list of" list that I have seen. The Onion comes back stron with this fabo AV Club feature titled "The Least Essential Albums of the '90s". Oh yeah, that is goood stuff.
- 3:41:49 AM by mark
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- ClueTrain Get on or fuck off. =)
- 3:27:59 AM by mark
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- Wow. didya hear this one today, I didn't. 90% of human genome sequenced is serious news. I had no idea it was this far along! See the Human Genome Project site and Celera's homepage and gape in amazement.
- 2:00:38 AM by mark
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- Ulp here is a another nice link lost in the noise. This is on CNET's Builder.com site.
It is called Stupid Web Tricks III: the Final Nightmare Make sure you read the two previous ones as well. They are linked from the article.
- 1:55:05 AM by mark
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- Oh man this page from the World Wide Web Consortium on Why Cool URIs Don't Change has got to be the
best thing Tim Berners-Lee has ever written.
And I'm including the specs for HTML and HTTP in the consideration of that accolade!
Ok I'll fess up, TBL only wrote the spec for HTML2 but I linked 4.01 up there. He didn't write but it's the latest and greatest and it's his fault. =)
- 12:45:21 AM by mark
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- I almost missed this one when it went by on MemePool but luckily I noticed it the second time around. I hope I can one day write like RageBoy can. Good funny stuff. I'll spend a bit of time there.
Monday, January 10, 2000
- 2:05:39 PM by mark
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- See even MemePool thinks the X10 ads are obnoxious. I mean, sex sells but that is outta there.
- 2:29:52 AM by mark
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- Oooh Why couldn't this Klein bottle site be posted before my birthday and christmas. *sniff*
- 2:28:00 AM by mark
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- Yay Eclipse!
- 1:55:12 AM by mark
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- To my discussion earlier about the Domain Name business and TradeMarking getting outta hand you should add this SlashDot discussion on the ICANN people registering improper domain names. Forget a char in your filter and bang 800+ people are pissed at you. =)
Sunday, January 09, 2000
- 11:15:26 PM by mark
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- Blogger is giving me fits. Half the time it won't upload my stuff with FTP. I dunno if it's my server or not.
UpdateWell, I think it's a timeout thing on their server because it finally worked.
- 10:31:00 PM by mark
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- I wonder if people have pushed the style over substance thing with CSS too far? There isn't a tutorial or reference page out there that tells people what they need to know about CSS. Instead there are just a scad of pages that tell you how to abuse the browser to get highlighting of links to be nonstandard. Not that I'm not guilty of the same thing *grin* but the basic trick that everyone has been complaining about (using tables to control layout) is the simplest thing I couldn't figure out ever. I was trying too hard for over a year. That kinda bugs me. People have been so bent outa shape about DOM and CSSP and CSS2 and stuff that the real point of all this got missed. Oh well.
- 10:17:45 PM by mark
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- Meta There is a lot of tricky things to CSS and I've been playing with it a long time. One of the
things I'm learning is that Netscape and IE don't handle style that isn't in the page the same as they do style inline. That falls into the not-good category. The trick here is the style="float: left;" works as an inline tag but not in a <LINK rel=""> head loaded style sheet document.
Heck if I know why.
- 9:12:38 PM by mark
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- Meta So I think that I have found about 90% of my bugs with CSS. The home page and this
should now look pretty good in
IE4, IE5,
NS4,
Mozilla and even
Opera. The idea is that any Fairly good CSS compatible browser should look good.
- 4:59:33 PM by mark
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- You have been reading Joe the Circle like you know you should? Well, it's getting good so take the link above and start with the start of this years episode. The main site if you are too lazy to cut down the URL yourself.
- 4:20:52 PM by mark
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- If you are an everquester you may be looking for AllaKhazam's new site location. Now you aren't =)
- 4:08:44 PM by mark
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- Now this is what I'm talking about: Cybergeography thank god people have too much time on their hands.
