February 2005

Toyzzz

February 21, 2005

Cool stuff including Happy Tree Friends and my favorite, Darth Tater. Ahem, friends … I like Darth Tater … ahem … Tweet

The weird get gone. The news says Hunter S. Thompson killed himself with a gunshot to his head. I don’t believe he commited suicide. Not unless he was ill and in so much pain that self-inflicted death was preferable to being poked, prodded and otherwise trespassed by medical professionals in a hospital. I thought about [...]

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Ramblings On IP

February 17, 2005

Books, music, visual culture and algorithms for living? Are these not required for intellectual growth – a better standard of living? By copyrighting this information, we deny people the right to grow and live as they should. Tweet

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Project Madurai Uses PG DP Software

February 16, 2005

Project Madurai now uses Project Gutenberg’s Distributed Proofreading software to process their Tamil eTexts. Go Tamil! Go PG! Tweet

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I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night

February 15, 2005

After Valentine’s dinner and champagne last night, I didn’t have very much to dream other than of being able to fit in my clothes again. Two nights ago, however, I dreamed that I was in a house by the sea, awaiting the arrival of Indira Gandhi. People of all nationalities and faiths were there, and [...]

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Getting ready for VD?

February 13, 2005

And much, much more in funny Valentine crabitude at meish.org. Tweet

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Reduced Moduli

February 11, 2005

Ever so often, I am reminded that I R edumacated and that my classical structural geology education isn’t so meaningless in the larger scheme of my life: JRSB recently said, “Get on into the wayback machine: can you give me a dummy breakdown of what the reduced modulus is versus the elastic modulus? The software [...]

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Google Maps

February 10, 2005

maps.google.com Hours of interactive entertainment and more about as accurate than as Mapquest. Thanks to toby (party-pooper) of blarf for reminding us that this is yet another step to Google turning into “the evil overlords of all information.” Even I have to admit that Google Maps is lots more useful than their search engine. Tweet

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People I Know Done Cool Things

February 10, 2005

Dearest Anne has a short story up in the Featured Fiction section of AlienSkin Magazine. [On a somewhat related note, never will I forgive State St. in Madison, Wisconsin that let More Books, fine purveyors of used and new science fiction and fantasy, shut down in exchange for a most useless store called POP Deluxe! [...]

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After The Beads Have Fallen

February 9, 2005

Mardi Gras is over – praise the lord, and pass the remoulade! What did I do over Mardi Gras weekend? The question is: What didn’t I do over Mardi Gras weekend? Five days packed with parties, costumes, parades, libations and more beads and friends than you can shake a flambeau at. I am so tired [...]

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