Wednesday, February 04, 2004

New York Post Online Edition: entertainment

New York Post Online Edition: entertainment

Obvious prooved, film at Sundance.

What You Should Know About the Windows Security Update for February 2, 2004

What You Should Know About the Windows Security Update for February 2, 2004

Update your shiznit,dangit. I'm getting waaaaay too many virus emails.

Yahoo! News - FDA to Weigh Wisdom of Antidepressants for Kids

Yahoo! News - FDA to Weigh Wisdom of Antidepressants for Kids: "MONDAY, Feb.2 (HealthDayNews) -- As the federal government focuses on the future of antidepressants for kids, health experts reiterate there is a real need for these medications."

I still think this stuff is dangerous. We won't know for 20 or 30 years, though.

Soma, indeed.

Free as in Maahhh, or My Chat with Darl McBride

Free as in Maahhh, or My Chat with Darl McBride

Very nice rundown of Darl McBride at MIT.

Really, you think evil looks like evil up close? It's the same for both sides.

Roy Taylor's pond

Roy Taylor's pond

And so it was.

Tuesday, February 03, 2004

Building a Basic HTPC

Building a Basic HTPC

Good instructions, basic work. Cheap payoff. Convergence.

Monday, January 26, 2004

=The Hill.com=

=The Hill.com=

Perhaps you want to join the revolution, jah? Wild stuff in the other Georgia after a peaceful coup.

ALLABOUTGEORGE.com

ALLABOUTGEORGE.com

linkdump the next.

Dean Goes Nuts

Dean Goes Nuts

This needed a website.

E:M | Project "Ordinary Iranians for Parliament" needs your help

E:M | Project "Ordinary Iranians for Parliament" needs your help

anybody got a script?

The Corporation (kottke.org)

The Corporation (kottke.org)

Interesting idea. I had one similar a while back, where people could, in aggregate, measure the moral behaviour of corps (based on their own sense of morality), so this seems like a step in that direction.

BBC NEWS | Business | Gabriel to launch musicians' union

BBC NEWS | Business | Gabriel to launch musicians' union

They are certainly going to need one. Between the record companies and the fans stand, appropriately enough, the artists.

Telegraph | News | Queen to give knighthood to Bill Gates - but you can blame it on Gordon Brown

Telegraph | News | Queen to give knighthood to Bill Gates - but you can blame it on Gordon Brown

I don't know if there is a text-based representation that can adequately express my disgust. At least a comment on /. made it look like this is politics. Ugh.

Do Plants Practice Grid Computing?

Do Plants Practice Grid Computing?

Umm, this is very cool. I hadn't seen plants breath before.

Boston.com / News / Nation / Infiltration of files seen as extensive

Boston.com / News / Nation / Infiltration of files seen as extensive

FILEGATE IS ON!

Pandagon: Keeping It Real With George Dubbya

Pandagon: Keeping It Real With George Dubbya

Come on, don't make fun of these folks. At least they are trying.

Subconsciously, Athletes May Play Like Statisticians

Subconsciously, Athletes May Play Like Statisticians

This came off k5, and while I think this article is good to get you started, I found some other links that are much, much better.

This bayes stuff has really been helping me out in some of my research, it's going to allow me to quantify a bunch of things that I wasn't sure how to do so. Gettin' a little more excited, since the math is already there.

The Memory Hole > US Military Personnel Wounded in Iraq & Afghanistan: A Running Log

The Memory Hole > US Military Personnel Wounded in Iraq & Afghanistan: A Running Log

Title says it all.

Glimpse of a new type of matter: Frozen helium has been turned into a solid that behaves like a superfluid.

Glimpse of a new type of matter: Frozen helium has been turned into a solid that behaves like a superfluid.: "Researchers in the United States think they have found a new state of matter - a supersolid.
If their findings are correct, this state is deeply bizarre. Although it is a crystalline solid, it can 'flow' like the most slippery liquid imaginable - in fact, like a liquid with no viscosity."


Been wanting to post this for a week, wanted to read about it, but haven't had a chance to follow up yet.

Sunday, January 25, 2004

Salon.com Technology | Is the war on file sharing over?

Salon.com Technology | Is the war on file sharing over?: "If one is willing to believe the happy talk from music business executives, the tide has finally turned against file sharing, thanks to the get-tough tactics employed by the Recording Industry Association of America. "

ha, if this war is over it's on the other side.

Thursday, January 22, 2004

Verified Voting - Campaign To Demand Verifiable Election Results

Verified Voting - Campaign To Demand Verifiable Election Results: "A growing concern over the inadequacies of election equipment in the United States has recently been heightened by the problems of the 2000 Presidential election. Added to the mix is the election reform mandated by recent federal legislation attempting to address the concerns. The result is that many states are scurrying to replace their older equipment with new electronic voting computers. "

Reading from a QP post.

Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent: I have a scream.

Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent: I have a scream.: "The internet giveth, and the internet taketh away. While Lilek's remix is already 100 links and rising, Howard Dean's I have a scream speech is being remixed again."

Recycling the world in real time. Who needs the networks?

2nd Act A Year Later, Sean Penn Returns to Iraq and Files a Personal, Candid Report From the Front

2nd Act A Year Later, Sean Penn Returns to Iraq and Files a Personal, Candid Report From the FrontMy reputation within our home is one of impulsiveness, hubris and an overall bloated sense of my own survival instincts. Of course, this is entirely unfounded, but we'll leave that for another day.

Update for the Penn slamming righties.

Thursday, January 15, 2004

IOL : Cannibal's penis fantasy revealed in court

IOL : Cannibal's penis fantasy revealed in court: "The victim of Germany's self-confessed 'cannibal of Rotenburg' was obsessed with having his penis 'bitten off' by a sexual partner and offered his boyfriend almost R40 000 to carry out the act, a court in Kassel heard on Wednesday."

It's a ... baaad world.