athf quote links

links to a bunch of athf quote lists

http://www.geocities.com/audrahammer/athf.html

cs paper generator

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/

tiki bar opening review

http://www.tikibars.net/tiki/tikisolo.html
The Tiki Bar in Solomons Island is not a huge tropical paradise like Kona Kai (Chicago, IL) or The Tonga Room (San Francisco, CA), but it has a certain charm that makes me want to rate it more highly than it might otherwise deserve.

nintendo got a restraining order

http://www.nescapades.com/gameroom.htm
some dude's insane videogame room with assloads of systems and games

hitchhiker's jokoid to the galaxy

http://planetmagrathea.com/longreview1.html
First, although it sounds like it might be a wacky and zany idea, it simply isn't funny at all, either in its concept or its execution. (It's what Ken Campbell calls a jokoid - something that has the shape of a joke but is not actually funny.)

Hitchhiker's is not so bad that it's good. It's just miserably, depressingly bad. It misses the point by a light year. Is it a good movie? No. Is it a good version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Definitely not. It is ill-conceived, badly written, poorly directed and worst of all staggeringly unfunny. It is a travesty of a film. I mourn for it, I really do.

canada has an RIAA?

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/geist/
This article examines CRIA’s claims by conducting an analysis of industry figures. It concludes that loss claims have been greatly exaggerated and challenges the contention that recent sales declines are primarily attributable to file–sharing activities. Moreover, the article assesses the financial impact of declining sales on Canadian artists, concluding that revenue collected through a private copying levy system already adequately compensates Canadian artists for the private copying that occurs on peer–to–peer networks.

islam simplified

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/sermons/allah.html
Sermon by Pastor Deacon Fred
Most members of this congregation have never seen a Mooslim in person. You've seen them on the news, blowing up buildings, and in movies, stealing babies and killing Christians. I've seen a few of these so-called "people," up close when I've visited the Holy Land. You don't want to get too close, because they don't use deodorant and they sweat garlic. It's not pleasant.

oracle analytic functions by example

http://www.orafaq.com/articles/archives/000060.htm
oracle select over syntax
This brings out the main difference between aggregate and analytic functions. Though analytic functions give aggregate result they do not group the result set. They return the group value multiple times with each record. As such any other non-"group by" column or expression can be present in the select clause, for example, the column EMPNO in Query-2.

http://www.akadia.com/services/ora_analytic_functions.html
Analytic functions compute an aggregate value based on a group of rows. They differ from aggregate functions in that they return multiple rows for each group. The group of rows is called a window and is defined by the analytic clause. For each row, a "sliding" window of rows is defined. The window determines the range of rows used to perform the calculations for the "current row". Window sizes can be based on either a physical number of rows or a logical interval such as time.

10 life/work suggestions

http://www.miltonglaserposters.com/news/pub_10.htm
All I ever wanted to do was to make images and create form. This instinct for form-making seems to be something that is very characteristic of our entire species. It’s one of the things that almost defines humankind. I like the idea of cultures that do not have an idea of art as a separate activity from their daily life, such as many African groups, where there isn’t a word that approaches the idea of art. They are very interested in containing magic but that is another thing. Among the Balinese, there is no word for art. They just say ‘we do things the best that we can.' Which is a nice way to think about what we all do. I am going to tell you everything that I know about the practice of design. It is a sort of collage of bits and pieces that I have assembled over 50 years. It includes a lot of things I’ve said before but I’ve repackaged them rather attractively. This is what I’ve learned...

britannica takeover of wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:April_1%2C_2005/2005_Britannica_takeover_of_Wikimedia

mitch hedburg quotes

http://hometown.aol.com/valleygirl1983/mitch.html
http://www.mitchhedberg.net/

"I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long."

"I type 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language."

"It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa! Where's my wallet? But, hey this song is funky."

"I wrote a letter to my dad- I wrote, I really enjoy being here. But I accidently wrote rarely, instead of really. But I still wanted to use it, so I crossed it out and wrote I rarely drive steamboats, Dad. There's a lot you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator. This letter took a harsh turn right away."

"And then at the end of the letter i like to write P.S.- This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated."

"The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how much I play, I'll never be as good a a wall. I played a wall once. They're relentless."

"When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away."

"I like rice. Rice is great if your hungry and want 2000 of something."

"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it."

"I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad a turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastromi,.Some one needs to tell the turkey, man, just be yourself."

"I lke refried beans. I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time."

"This product that was on TV was available for four easy payments of $19.95. I would like a product that was available for three easy payments and one complicated payment. We can't tell you which payment it is, but one of these payments is going to be hard."

"I was at this casino minding my own business and this guy came up to me and said your gonna have to move you're blocking a fire exit. As if there were a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you are flamable and have legs you are never blocking a fire exit."

"I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me they just say "Mitch," and I say "What?" and turn my head slightly."

"My friend said to me "You know what I like? Mashed poatoes," I was like, Dude, you gotta give me time to guess. If your ging to quiz me, you must put a pause in there."

"An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You would never seen an Escalator temporarily out of order sign, just Escaloaor temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience."

"I was walking down the street with my friend and he said "I hear music" As though there's another way you can take it in. Your not special. That's how I recieve it too. I tried to taste it, but it did not work."

"I was at the airport and this guy came up to me and said I saw you on tv last night. He didn't say if I was any good. He just told me where I was. So turned away for a minute and said Hey I saw you at the airport a minute ago. You were good."

I can't get into flossing, I can't. People who smoke say you don't know how hard it is to stop smoking. Yes I do. It's as hard as it is to start flossing. You seem jittery. Yeah, I'm about to floss.

"One time a guy handed me a picture of himself and he said. "Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture of you is when you were younger. Here's a picture of me when I'm older. How'd you pull that off? Let me see that camera."

"Alcoholism, is a disease, but it's the only disease that you can get yelled at for having. Dammit Otto, your an alcoholic. Dammit Otto, you have Lupis. One of those two doesn't sound right."

"I was walking by a drycleaner at 3a.m. and there was a sign that said Sorry, we're closed. You don't have to be sorry. It's 3a.m. and your a drycleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I'm not gonna come by at 10 and say, hey I was here at 3a.m and you guys were closed. Someone owes me an apology."

"I've been working the colleges and I always buy the shirts from the college, because they're quality shirts. But people always get the wrong idea. I'm walking around wearing a Washington U shirt and someone says "Hey Washington U, Did you go there?" Yeah! It was a Wednesday."

"I opened a yogurt and underneath the lid it said "please try again" they were having a contest that I was unaware of. I thought maybe I had opened the yogurt wrong.Or maybe Yoplait was trying to inspire me. Come on Mitch, don't give up! An inspirational message from your friends at Yoplait, fruit on the bottom, hope on top."

"I brought a donut and the guy gave me a recieipt for the donut. I don't need a receipt for the donut, I give you the money, you give me the donut, end of transaction. We do not need to bring ink and paper into this. I can not imagine the senerio where I would have to prove that I broughrt a donut. Some skeptical friend. Don't even act like I didn't get that donut. I got the documentation right here."

"When you go a resturant on the weekends and it's busy so they start a waiting list. They say Dufrane, party of two, table ready for Dufrane, party of two , and if no one answers they'll say the name again, Dufrane, party of two. Bu then if no one answers, they'll move on to the next name. Bush party of three. Yeah, but what happened to the Dufranes, No one seems to care, who can eat at a time like this? People are missing. You people are selfish. The Dufranes are in someone's trunk right now ,with duct tape over their mouths and they're hungry.That's a double whammy! We need help! Bush search party of three. You can eat once you find the Dufranes."

why we lie about money and debt

http://www.bankrate.com/overkeyword/news/financial-literacy2004/debt-psychology.asp
Seventy-five percent of respondents, for example, claim they don't make any major purchases on credit cards unless they can pay them off immediately. But 74 percent say they are concerned about being able to pay their credit card bills every month.

letters from warren buffet

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.
SHAREHOLDER LETTERS

button-down striped shirt

http://www.thephatphree.com/features.asp?StoryID=239&SectionID=11
Look at my button down striped shirt! Fucking look at it! This shirt means one thing! I’m coming home with some pussy tonight!

stfu (politely-er), cell phone user!

http://www.coudal.com/shhh.php

invader zim soundboards

Gir1.swf
Gir2.swf

cotton factory t-shirts

http://store.cottonfactory.com/graphic-t-shirts-all.html
bunch of random-ass vintage-looking tshirts

on plug-ins and extensible architectures

http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=286
In a world of increasingly complex computing requirements, we as software developers are continually searching for that ultimate, universal architecture that allows us to productively develop high-quality applications. This quest has led to the adoption of many new abstractions and tools. Some of the most promising recent developments are the new pure plug-in architectures.

What began as a callback mechanism to extend an application has become the very foundation of applications themselves. Plug-ins are no longer just add-ons to applications; today’s applications are made entirely of plug-ins. This field has matured quite a bit in the past few years, with significant contributions from a number of successful projects.

This article identifies some of the concepts around the foundation of pure plug-in architectures and how they affect various stakeholders when taking a plug-in approach. The intention is to discuss the general issues involved, but the article also presents some lessons learned from Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) to better illustrate some of the concepts.

cassete tape digitizer

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/6908/
title says it all

criminalize to stifle innovation

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,19509-1542213,00.html

"Uh-oh, this is more efficient than our disproportionately expensive (to the person who buys it) distribution method. Let's NOT offer it for sale, let's criminalize it and threaten everybody who thinks about it (and some who don't even do that)."

Yes, most of the traffic flowing through the peer-to-peer networks involves breaches of copyright. And yes, music sales did fall by almost a quarter in the five years to 2003, as fans realised that technology offered a free alternative to extortionate CD prices. But the roughly 10 per cent of “legal” file-swapping on these networks allows programmers to swap code, academics to exchange learned papers and little-known musicians to gain a fan base. Why should the music industry be able to close such communications channels? Just because technology comes along and disrupts existing business models, should copyright owners not find clever ways to adapt, rather than suing 12-year-olds and fighting software developers in court?

If the studios do win, it will be the consumer who loses. The next generation of digital music players, internet telephony, TV recording equipment — all will suffer from a new legalistic caution that will stifle progress. The music lobby may have more star names on its side: a Sheryl Crow and a Brian Wilson for every Terence Trent D’Arby on the software companies’side. But if the music lobby wins, you might as well swap your iPod for a Thomas Edison wax cylinder.

graffeety on da innanetz!

http://www.grafedia.net/make.php
Grafedia authors can make hyperlinked text at any time in three easy steps. Simply

1. choose a word.

2. send a media file from your cell phone to that chosen word plus '@grafedia.net' . This combination, the word + '@grafedia.net', becomes your grafedia link for that word.

3. write, draw, paint, tatoo, or print that grafedia link anywhere in the real world in blue with an underline, to allow others to access your media files.

ourmedia: free public web storage

http://www.ourmedia.org/mission/faq
The idea is pretty simple: People who create video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media can store their stuff for free on Ourmedia's servers forever, as long as they're willing to share their works with a global audience.

terri schiavo's blog

http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/
brutal.

copyrighting ideas

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050225223848129
a good explanation of why you can't copyright ideas and the legal basis for that

CHUG! the Jesus Juice

http://www.cafepress.com/dogs_of_war/290939
jesus juice shirts
"Jackson was pouring a clear liquid into cups for the brothers and offered her a cup, she said. She described the liquid as tasting "funny and weird" and said she didn't finish it... The prosecution has accused Jackson of giving the accuser and his younger brother alcohol, putting what he called "Jesus juice" into empty soft drink cans..."

transparent screens

http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637
desktop backgrounds of what's directly behind the monitor

life after the oil crash

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
The effects of even a small drop in production can be devastating. For instance, during the 1970s oil shocks, shortfalls in production as small as 5% caused the price of oil to nearly quadruple. The same thing happened in California a few years ago with natural gas: a production drop of less than 5% caused prices to skyrocket by 400%.

Fortunately, those price shocks were only temporary.

The coming oil shocks won't be so short-lived. They represent the onset of a new, permanent condition. Once the decline gets under way, production will drop (conservatively) by 3-6% per year, every year.

id theft risk assessment

http://www.idcops.com/
"Identity Cops is a cutting-edge company tackling a very serious and growing problem, identity theft. Our unique PrivacyProBot technology searches hundreds of electronic databases you cannot get to alone. We find information that may invade your privacy and lead to identity theft - information you did not know was out there! We then notify you and provide options to fix the problem, before more harm is done."

Programming Languages Alike Cookbook

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/
Following the great Perl Cookbook (by Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, published by O'Reilly) which presents a suite of common programming problems solved in the Perl language, this project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement the solutions in other programming languages.

molten core guide

http://conquest.teamgbu.com/strats/moltencore/why.php
The purpose of this section of the website is to fully disclose each and every strategy and piece of information we (Conquest) use while raiding [in World of Warcraft], as well as host full videos of the fights showing that we do indeed follow the strategies we post. Blizzard CS launched a public campaign against us to tarnish our reputation and cause people to question our raiding practices. These pages will contradict their lies.

how to pwn onyxia

http://pacifistguild.org/onyxia/
Your chances of success go up exponentially with every ninja and/or pirate at the run. Also, when your MT dies the only way to beat her is by having a paladin pirate start tanking and furiously smash his win button while dancing.

comments about motorola v710

http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007961.html

also: how to edit mp3s in itunes:
To edit MP3's in iTunes... I'm using iTunes version 4.7 on the Mac. 1. Open iTunes 2. Right click on a song (or ctrl click) to bring up the menu. 3. Choose "Get Info" 4. Choose "Options" page 5. Set a start time and stop time (check both boxes and set times) 6. Click "OK" 7. Click on Advanced->Convert Selection to MP3 (if this is not an option that is showing up you have to go iTunes->Preference->Import-> and change it to MP3 encoder) 8. You will now have 2 versions of that song in your library - if you look in the time column one will be only 30" or whatever time you told it to start and stop at. 9. Right click on the song again and choose "Show Song File"

why verizon can kiss my ass

http://www.nuclearelephant.com/papers/v710.html
Code As Law, as implemented by Verizon:
BellSouth is the local telephone company where I live. Ironically, they don't seem as much concerned about the features of my home phone or answering machine as Verizon is about my mobile phone. Why is that? Could it be that BellSouth realizes the equipment belongs to me? Yes! Before things were broken up by the courts, AT&T (who owned the network at the time) used to charge their customers equipment rental fees just to own a telephone. In fact, it was at one time illegal to plug anything into your phone jack that wasn't sanctioned AT&T equipment. Asinine, huh? Well, not as much as repeating history. Unfortunately, Verizon doesn't need the courts to outlaw competing technologies - they're able to do it themselves now by blacklisting ESNs, as Ms. Raney gladly explained to me.

Apache::AuthCookie

http://search.cpan.org/~barracode/Apache-AuthCookieDBIRadius-1.19/AuthCookie.pm
a centralized authentication mechanism at the webserver level as opposed to the app level

code as design

http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design_main.html
The following essays by Jack W. Reeves offer three perspectives on a single theme, namely that programming is fundamentally a design activity and that the only final and true representation of "the design" is the source code itself. This simple assertion gives rise to a rich discussion—one which Reeves explores fully in these three essays.

World of Burgercraft

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=1892023&p=1&tmp=1#post1892023
WoB: Welcome to World of Burgercraft. Would you like a PVE value meal, a PVP value meal, or an RP value meal?

Car 1: What is the difference between the PVE and PVP meals?

WoB: The PVP burger has onions. The PVE burger does not. Except sometimes. You can add onions if you want. And we sneak some onions in toward the end of the PVE burger but you don't have to eat them. You can skip that part of the burger.

Car 1: What about the RP burger?

WoB: Vegetarian.

adobe open source libraries

http://opensource.adobe.com/
Adobe's open source web site is the home for the Adobe Source Libraries (ASL) and information about other Adobe open source projects.

ASL provides peer-reviewed and portable C++ source libraries. The libraries are intended to be widely useful, leveraging and extending both the C++ Standard Library and the Boost Libraries.

ssl info

http://www.sslassistant.com/
http://www.cacert.org/
free certs and info about commercial offerings

surrender martha shirts

http://www.surrendermartha.com/index.html
i don't need a tractor to pull hoes

wikipedia and CBPP encomium

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/
In this article, I respond to Robert McHenry’s anti-Wikipedia piece entitled “The Faith-Based Encyclopedia.” I argue that McHenry’s points are contradictory and incoherent and that his rhetoric is selective, dishonest and misleading. I also consider McHenry’s points in the context of all Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP), showing how they are part of a Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) campaign against CBPP. Further, I introduce some principles, which will help to explain why and how CBPP projects can succeed, and I discuss alternative ways they may be organized, which will address certain concerns.

recent earthquakes in CA and NV

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm
Maps are updated within 1-5 minutes of an earthquake or once an hour.
(Smaller earthquakes in southern California are added after
human processing, which may take several hours.)

microsoft tech support vs. psychic friends network

http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap_detail.cfm?scrap_id=704
In the course of a recent Microsoft Access programming project, we had
three difficult technical problems where we decided to call a support
hotline for advice. This article compares the two support numbers we
tried: Microsoft Technical Support and the Psychic Friends Network. As a
result of this research, we have come to the following conclusions : 1 )
that Microsoft Technical Support and the Psychic Friends Network are
about equal in their ability to provide technical assistance for
Microsoft products over the phone ; 2 ) that the Psychic Friends Net
work has a distinct edge over Microsoft in the areas of courtesy,
response time, and cost of support; but 3) that Microsoft has a
generally better refund policy if they fail to solve your problem.

g-town dc nightlife list

http://www3.georgetown.edu/som/student/nightlife.html
bars, clubs, comedy clubs, dancing, billiards, bowling in/around the dc area

asterisk quick setup

http://techdatapros.com/asterisk/
http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/
What would it mean to you to have your own full-featured PBX system at your home or small office? What would it mean to you if you could build an entire PBX system (minus the phones) on hardware you probably have laying around, AND that it can probably also save you money on your phone bill? Sounds too hard to believe doesn't it, but using old hardware and some open source software, you really can build a commercial quality phone system that would normally cost thousands of dollars.

osxy programs

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/
a bunch of programs that let you do cool stuff with your mac

pack/unpack detailed intro

http://perlmonks.thepen.com/224666.html
Perl's pack and unpack functions allow us to read and write buffers of data according to a template string. The template string allows us to indicate specific byte orderings and word sizes or use the local system's default sizes and ordering. This gives us a great deal of flexibility when dealing with external programs.

copyright and 'orphan works'

http://www.pbp.net/~jnichols/copyrightchanges.html
Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether current copyright
law imposes inappropriate burdens on users, including subsequent
creators, of works for which the copyright owner cannot be located
(hereinafter referred to as ``orphan'' works). The issue is whether
orphan works are being needlessly removed from public access and their
dissemination inhibited. If no one claims the copyright in a work, it
appears likely that the public benefit of having access to the work
would outweigh whatever copyright interest there might be. Such
concerns were raised in connection with the adoption of the life plus
50 copyright term with the 1976 Act and the 20-year term extension
enacted with the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.
The Copyright Office has long shared these concerns about orphan
works and has considered the issue to be worthy of further study. On
January 5, Senators Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy of the Senate
Judiciary Committee asked the Register of Copyrights to study this
issue and to report to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the end of the
year. Also in January, Reps. Lamar Smith and Howard Berman, the
chairman and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee's
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, sent
letters to the Register supporting this effort. The Office is gratified
that Congress has shown an interest in this important issue and is
pleased to assist Congress in its efforts to learn more about the
problem and to consider appropriate solutions.
Prior to the 1976 Act, the term of protection was limited to 28
years if the copyright was not renewed. Under this system, if the
copyright owner was no longer interested in exploiting the work, or a
corporate owner no longer existed, or, in the case of individual
copyright owners, there were no interested heirs to claim the
copyright, then the work entered the public domain. Of course, it also
meant that some copyrights were unintentionally allowed to enter the
public domain, for instance, where the claimant was unaware that
renewal had to occur within the one year window at the end of the first
term or that the copyright was up for renewal. The legislative history
to the 1976 Act reflects Congress' recognition of the concern raised by
some that eliminating renewal requirements would take a large number of
works out of the public domain and that for a number of those older
works it might be difficult or impossible to identify the copyright
owner in order to obtain permissions. Congress nevertheless determined
that the renewal system should be discarded, in part, because of the
``inadvertent and unjust loss of copyright'' it in some cases
caused.\2\ More recently, in the mid-1990s, Congress heard concerns
that the Copyright Term Extension Act would exacerbate problems in film
preservation by maintaining copyright protection for older motion
pictures for which the copyright owner is difficult to identify.\3\
Also, in our study on Digital Distance Education published in 1999, the
Copyright Office identified several ``problems with licensing'' that
educators asserted in attempting to use copyrighted materials in
digital formats, including that ``it can be time-consuming, difficult
or even impossible to locate the copyright owner or owners.'' \4\

typing with a mouse

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.html
Dasher is a zooming interface. You point where you want to go, and the display zooms in wherever you point. The world into which you are zooming is painted with letters, so that any point you zoom in on corresponds to a piece of text. The more you zoom in, the longer the piece of text you have written. You choose what you write by choosing where to zoom.

probability reference

http://www.saliu.com/permutations.html
Any finite number of elements can be put together in groups based on certain rules. Such groups are known as sets. The sets can comprise from 0 elements to infinity. There are four types of sets, from the most inclusive to the least: exponents, permutations, arrangements, and combinations. The number sets are the most important mathematically. We can substitute the numbers by alphanumerical elements, such as words, names, any strings of characters. In the case of the alphanumerical sets, mathematics works with the indices, indexes of the respective elements.

An example of exponents (N=3, M=3): 111,112,113,121,122,123,131,132, etc. (a total of 27 sets).
An example of permutations (for N = 3): 1 2 3, 1 3 2, 2 1 3, 2 3 1, 3 1 2, 3 2 1 (6 elements: 1* 2 * 3)).
An example of arrangements (for N = 3, M = 2): 1 2, 1 3, 2 1, 2 3, 3 1, 3 2. (6 elements in set: 3 * 2).
An example of combinations (for N = 3, M = 2): 1 2, 1 3, 2 3 (3 elements: 3 * 2 / 1 * 2).

"code as law" breaks down in court

"[I]nteroperable devices" may use proprietary security systems to lock out unauthorized interoperability, but a technology developed solely for this functional purpose is not copyrightable.
 -ArsTechnica, Lexmark's DMCA aspirations all but dead

Suck it, DMCA-enforced monopolies! (At least on one front...)

time travel analysis of Donnie Darko

http://www.mjyoung.net/time/darko.html
Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies
unravels
Donnie Darko

The film does potentially resolve; but it requires a more significant suspension of disbelief than merely whether someone can travel in time.

stupid security audit approach

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/299
More and more, we see articles questioning the security of a given platform based solely on the number of advisories published -- and this approach is simply wrong.

The quality of the software in question directly affects the number of advisories -- this should go without saying. Software with fewer security flaws will generate fewer security advisories. In a simple world, the number of advisories published by a given entity might be a direct indication of how secure that software is. But the reality of software and operating systems today is far more complex; many other factors affect the number of security advisories, which can be lumped into three broad categories: scope, policy of publication, and audit efforts. Let's look at each of these briefly.

why not to nuke tropical cyclones

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html
you know, in case you have a spare nuke and were considering it

Ebert reviews porn

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050210/REVIEWS/50211001
that's right, a little to the left, that's it! go! Go! GO!

Kim Jong Il's blog

http://www.livejournal.com/users/kim_jong_il__/
License2KimJongIll JFKpart2 bush43 WeaponsOfAssDestruction MisterPotamia BaathOfLeastResistance WhenBushComes2Shove BaghDaddyKane SunniSideUp BreakTheseCheneysOfLove
parody im conversations between Kim Jong Il, GW Bush, Kerry, Cheney, and Saddam on Kim Jong Il's blog

google explications

http://jgwebber.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-google.html
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/12/google_suggest_.html

google gets sued a lot

http://www.linksandlaw.com/adwords-pendinglawsuits.htm
Google's AdWords service allows advertisers to sponsor particular search terms. Whenever that term is searched the advertiser’s link will appear next to the search results. A company can choose a trademark protected term as keyword. So if you enter "trademark protected term" in the Google search box and hit "Search", you would get listings from advertisers who paid for placement with this keyword. Google puts those listings off to the right side of the screen, clearly marked as ads. Trademark owners are concerned about their brand awareness and insist that this behaviour violates their trademarks.

Yet another case of attacks consolidated on the facilitator instead of the actual perpetrator.

porn without people

http://whitelead.com/jrh/ISPs/index.html#porn
(p0rnography, with the figures removed)

The VICE Fund

http://www.vicefund.com/
"It is the Advisor's philosophy that although often considered politically incorrect, these and similar industries and products...will continue to experience significant capital appreciation during good and bad markets. The Advisor considers these industries to be nearly 'recession-proof'." - Vice Fund Prospectus, July 30, 2004, page 1, column 2.

view stored proc in postgres

ok, this isn't really a link, but it's a bit geeky and obscure for the front page

to view the source of a postgresql stored procedure from the command line:

select prosrc from pg_catalog.pg_proc where proname = 'procedure_name';

3d object-recognition-based CAPTCHA

http://home.nyc.rr.com/spamsolution/An%20Effective%20Solution%20for%20Spam.htm
the challenge-response spam solution isn't really innovative, but the captcha is pretty neat

defeating CAPTCHA

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mori/gimpy/gimpy.html
This is the homepage of the Shape Contexts based approach to break Gimpy, the CAPTCHA test used at Yahoo! to screen out bots. Our method can successfully pass that test 92% of the time. See EZ-Gimpy in action at Yahoo! The approach we take uses general purpose algorithms that have been designed for generic object recognition. The same basic ideas have been applied to finding people in images, matching handwritten digits, and recognizing 3D objects.

VidaLinux: A Linux Distro based on Gentoo

http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=3321&page=3
The installer ran smooth on every system we tested on, the desktop is one of the best I've seen in a very long time, the menus are organized almost flawlessly, and the applications loaded by default are of excellent grade and selection. What more could you ask for in a distribution? Speed? It's there. This is as fast, if not faster, than my main Slackware station... and I love my Slackware system, but let me tell you this came close to changing my mind. If you know me, you know that's pretty hard to do when it comes to Slackware Linux.

simpler soap/rpc with an apache module

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/18/mod_perlservice.html
Mod_perlservice is a cool, new way to do remoting -- sharing data between server and client processes -- with Perl and Apache. Let's start by breaking that crazy name apart: mod + perl + service.

Mod means that it's a module for the popular and ubiquitous Apache HTTP Server. Perl represents the popular and ubiquitous programming language. Service is the unique part. It's the new ingredient that unifies Apache, Perl, and XML into an easy-to-use web services system.

cmd-line file frobbing w/ perl

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/10/14/file_editing.html
If you only want to read in one or more files, apply a regex to the contents, and spit out the altered text as one big stream...

If you want to edit the files in place, editing each file before going on to the next, that's pretty easy, too...

how to use a beatin' stick

http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_barton-wright_0200.htm
Self-defence with a Walking-stick: The Different Methods of Defending Oneself with a Walking-Stick or Umbrella when Attacked under Unequal Conditions

SA: Fantasy Football

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2380
heh. you get the idea.

GPA inflation

http://gradeinflation.com/
This web site is an outgrowth of an op-ed piece that I wrote on grade inflation for the Washington Post, "Where All Grades Are Above Average" In the process of writing that article, I collected data on trends in grading from about 30 colleges and universities. I found that grade inflation, while waning beginning in the mid-1970s, resurfaced in the mid-1980s. The rise has continued unabated at virtually every school for which data are available.

search CPAN when CPAN search is dead

http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/faqs/cpan-search.html

Maypole: a perl MVC framework

http://maypole.perl.org/
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-maypole/?ca=dgr-perlw02BuildMypole
http://search.cpan.org/~simonflk/Maypole/
The development of my latest project, Maypole, began over 4000 years ago, when, so the story goes, the goddess Ninkasi taught the Sumerian mortals a recipe for a magical drink. Her concoction of hops, barley, yeast, and water (and a few other special ingredients), was an instant hit, and has remained the cornerstone of a university education ever since.

Not one to do things by halves (or should that be 284 ml?), what started as a simple database ended up as a complete framework for writing Web-based, database-backed applications in Perl.

http://perlmonks.thepen.com/388607.html
When I first caught eye of Maypole, I was startled by the shining beauty and the effortless grace with which it seemed to produce shiny web applications. I envied those who had a firm grasp of it and strived to employ Maypole to collect and publish the data available to me. But in that time, Maypole was a very immature Primadonna with very specific needs that were only faintly hinted at on websites only known to a few select people already in the clique. Armed with my knowledge of Class::DBI and frugal knowledge of mod_perl, I found myself rejected by Maypole and its requirements often for no reason apparent to me and loudly complained about this in the chatterbox, to the bemusement and annoyance of the other regulars there, I assume. After all, Maypole had been touted as the web application framework, being hawked through articles like flowers on the 14th of February and had received real money from the Perl Foundation. I felt I had a right to it.

http://perlmonks.thepen.com/433729.html
survey of surveys on perl-based html templating systems

http://search.cpan.org/~simon/Rubberband-0.01/lib/Rubberband.pm
Rubberband, as its name implies, is designed to be stretched in both directions. It uses Module::Pluggable::Ordered to locate the classes which encapsulate the tables, and also to provide a callback functionality to allow extensions to "talk" to each other; it also uses Class::DBI::DATA::Schema to allow extension classes to declare the SQL to set up their tables. Further, it helps to set up your classes by creating a backend Foo::DBI class (given an application called Foo, of course...) which handles the connection information, and from which your plugin modules automatically inherit.

the rasterbator

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.

a keyboard with frickin lasers

http://www.itechdynamic.com/html/border25.htm
Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard is the world’s first wireless Virtual Keyboard that lifts wireless mobile communications to a new height. BTVKB is an enhanced version of the Virtual Keyboard (VKB). BTVKB is a smart, pocket-size device that projects a full-size keyboard through infrared technology onto any flat surface. Users could then type on the infrared images as if typing on conventional keyboards. Without the need of any wire connection, BTVKB provides unprecedented convenience and mobility to users.

radioactive randomness

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
People working with computers often sloppily talk about their system's "random number generator" and the "random numbers" it produces. But numbers calculated by a computer through a deterministic process, cannot, by definition, be random. Given knowledge of the algorithm used to create the numbers and its internal state, you can predict all the numbers returned by subsequent calls to the algorithm, whereas with genuinely random numbers, knowledge of one number or an arbitrarily long sequence of numbers is of no use whatsoever in predicting the next number to be generated.

HotBits is an Internet resource that brings genuine random numbers, generated by a process fundamentally governed by the inherent uncertainty in the quantum mechanical laws of nature, directly to your computer in a variety of forms. HotBits are generated by timing successive pairs of radioactive decays detected by a Geiger-Müller tube interfaced to a computer.

yet another MT meaning

http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/ewhat-is-mt.html
Mersenne Twister(MT) is a pseudorandom number generating algorithm developped by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura (alphabetical order) in 1996/1997. An improvement on initialization was given on 2002 Jan.
MT has the following merits:

* It is designed with consideration on the flaws of various existing generators.
* The algorithm is coded into a C-source downloadable below.
* Far longer period and far higher order of equidistribution than any other implemented generators. (It is proved that the period is 2^19937-1, and 623-dimensional equidistribution property is assured.)
* Fast generation. (Although it depends on the system, it is reported that MT is sometimes faster than the standard ANSI-C library in a system with pipeline and cache memory.) (Note added in 2004/3: on 1998, usually MT was much faster than rand(), but the algorithm for rand() has been substituted, and now there are no much difference in speed.)
* Efficient use of the memory. (The implemented C-code mt19937.c consumes only 624 words of working area.)

google > comment spam

http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
you know you're awesome when you can propose a functional addition to HTML and people listen to you and go along with it rel="nofollow"

JL421 Badonkadonk

http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/novelties/who-put-the-donk-in-the-jl421-badonkadonk-029757.php
The JL421 Badonkadonk, aka “The Donk” is a “land vehicle and battle tank” created by outer-limits design firm, NAO Design for purposes unknown to Burning Man non-attendees. With the profile of a hand iron from the late 19th century, or an upside-down cabin cruiser, the Donk can transport up to five people, either inside or on the roof, at speeds of up to 40mph. It’s powered by a 6hp air-cooled engine and includes accent lighting and a 400 watt sound system

every video game

http://www.everyvideogame.com/play/nintendo/Duck_Hunt.htm
nintendo, gameboy, etc
lots of games... looks like some sort of java applet that interfaces with an emulator somehow

order of the stick

http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootsarchive?
stick figure D&D comic, amusing

nacho cheesus

http://www.terra-obscura.com/merch.html
our favorite cheesy saviour

how to make an animated gif in gimp

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gimp+%22animated+gif%22
the bit of info that it always takes me a while to find/remember is that to make one that has different delays on each frame, you need to append ' (1000ms)' to the layer name.

life after heroin

http://slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2111510&
seth mnookin writes candidly about his heroin addiction and how he eventually overcame it

80-20, 20-20-60 rules

http://www.public.asu.edu/~dmuthua/pareto%27s_principle.html
Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was an Italian economist who, in 1906, observed that twenty percent of the Italian people owned eighty percent of their country's accumulated wealth. Over time and through application in a variety of environments, this analytic has come to be called Pareto's Principle, the 80-20 Rule, and the "Vital Few and Trivial Many Rule." Called by whatever name, this mix of 80%-20% reminds us that the relationship between input and output is not balanced. In a management context, this rule of thumb is a useful heuristic that applies when there is a question of effectiveness versus diminishing returns on effort, expense, or time.
...
When I began my librarian career as an administrator in higher education, the dean to whom I reported told me that there was a rule of thumb that had served him well. It was the 20-20-60 Rule, a special case of 80-20 Rule that he applied to a wide variety of problems and situations. His rule was that 20% of most prospects are avid supporters and 20% are avidly not supporters. The persons in these two 20% tails are basically fixed and no amount of persuasion will change their view or attitude. Prospects in the remaining 60% are persons who are interested but need to be convinced or "sold." Application of the 20-20-60 Rule means that our outcome is best if we focus on the 60% group by answering their concerns, doubts, and questions. The persons in the 60% group are the ones who most likely will become our clients and customers.

better part of 16

http://www.zacheverson.com/True_Stories/Chasing_Skirts/better_part_16.htm
“I want to ask you a serious question: How old are you?”

top 20 nude scenes of 2004

http://www.fakes.net/top10_2004.htm
better than the oscars, or at least more exciting. page not safe for work

owned gallery

http://solastyear.com/owned.htm
gallery of "owned!" (or "pwn3d!", "own3d", "pwned") pictures from all around teh intarewb

random fun python

http://stompstompstomp.com/software/
a bunch of random fun python software

"local celebrity" t-shirts

http://www.localcelebrity.net/index.html
homie don't play that
i'm in the house like furniture
got your tickets? to the gun show.
neighborhood watch: we'll get you suckas
i drop bombs like it's my job

bluescreen in times square

http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/2004/11/11.html
I was standing before the largest "blue screen of death" that I had ever seen at the corner of 42nd Street and 8th Ave.

microeconomics, open source, and commoditizing your complements

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
Commoditize your complements. (Make the total cost of ownership, "TOC", of the prerequisites of your service/product/whatever as close to zero as you can so customers have more money to spend on your product. At that point, it's easier to use your whatever so more people will do it and demand will be higher, so the price can be raised.)

Understanding this strategy actually goes a long, long way in explaining why many commercial companies are making big contributions to open source.

google hacking database

http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews
We call them 'googledorks' (gOO gôl'Dôrk, noun, slang) : An inept or foolish person as revealed by Google. Whatever you call these fools, you've found the center of the Google Hacking Universe!

linear programming FAQ

http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/otc/Guide/faq/linear-programming-faq.html#Q3

french for crazy

http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/
basically trail running in the city, on the city

Involvement in dangerous sports and related activities carries a significant risk of damage to property, personal injury or death. Participate at your own risk!

The publishers of www.urbanfreeflow.com recommend the use of professional instruction before entering into the sport of parkour. You should become knowledgeable about the risks involved and assume personal responsibility for your actions.

character strings as arrays

http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/Courses/EE150/Book/chap7/subsection2.1.1.2.html
discussion about the string as a character array and how to access and manipulate them

on powerpoint

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000931
Edward R. Tufte’s "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" Presented in the Form of a PowerPoint Presentation

patterns in lisp

http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/

programming essays

http://www.paulgraham.com/
essays (articles?) about lisp, programming, programmers, and hackers

scrabble letter pattern search

http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/scrabbleform.html
The A2Z WordFinder Scrabble® finder is a powerful word search utility once you'e familiar with a few easy-to-understand concepts.

* The Basics - Type in the letters from your rack into the Rack letters field. If you want to build your word using parts of other words, then you can type in the pattern of letters and empty spaces from the game board into the Pattern field. Use '_', '#' or '?' characters for empty spaces. All other fields are set by default to allow this simple search to work properly.

* Limiting word length - By default, all words matching the letters and/or pattern you enter will be listed in the Search Results regardless of length. However, you can limit the length of the listed words by setting the Min. Word Length field.

* Sorting the words - The Scrabble® Search Results page can be set to sort the matching words either by length (shorter words first), by score (highest score first), or alphabetically.

* Pattern Matching - The pattern you enter can be interpreted in one of several ways, as described in the following list:
1. Match pattern exactly - The pattern will only match words of the same length or shorter (subject to the Min. Word Length limit). The words must also contain the indicated letters in the given positions. For example, the pattern "_at__" would match "bathe", "latin", "bat", and "atom". It would not match "mathematics", because it is too long.
2. Match pattern at start of word - The pattern will only match at the beginning of a word. For example, the pattern "wo" would match "work", "wood", and "worry", but not "unwound", since the "wo" in "unwound" occurs in the middle of the word.
3. Match pattern at end of word - The pattern will only match at the end of a word. For example, the pattern "an" would match "bean", "span", and "man", but not "annual", since the "an" in "annual" occurs in the beginning of the word.
4. Match pattern anywhere in word - The pattern will match anywhere in a word. For example, the pattern "or" would match "orange", "more", and "floor".

* Required Letters - When you want to specify that certain letters must be in any matching words returned, you can click on the Use Upper-Case As Required Letters? check box. Then, any letters typed into your Rack letters field that are capitalized will be required to exist in the matching results. For example, if your letters contained "TaBea", and your Min. Word Length was set to 3, then you would find "tab", "bat", "bet", and "abate" which all have t and b, but not "tea" since it does not contain the required letter "b".

drugstone pricing codes

http://www.cockeyed.com/lessons/tags/tags.html
store prices encoded right on labels

eric and the dread gazebo

http://www.dreadgazebo.com/eric.html
...
ED: You see a well groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo.
ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it?
ED: [pause] It's white, Eric.
ERIC: How far away is it?
ED: About 50 yards.
ERIC: How big is it?
ED: [pause] It's about 30 ft across, 15 ft high, with a pointed top.
ERIC: I use my sword to detect good on it.
ED: It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo.
ERIC: [pause] I call out to it.
ED: It won't answer. It's a gazebo.
ERIC: [pause] I sheathe my sword and draw my bow and arrows. Does it respond in any way?
ED: No, Eric, it's a gazebo!
ERIC: I shoot it with my bow. [roll to hit] What happened?
ED: There is now a gazebo with an arrow sticking out of it.
...

DIY digital picture frame

http://students.washington.edu/natetrue/frame/

win app thread at /.

http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/12/27/0347214.shtml?tid=172&tid=201&tid=185
links to lots of useful free power user apps for windows

read this and go hug your housemate

http://www.thingie.net/rants/what/
http://rush68.net/~dave/crap/story.htm
During our stay together, my roomie:

He brought his motorcycle into our common room because he was "afraid it would be stolen." This was fine, but then he started it and let it idle for 15 minutes without opening any windows, causing all of our stuff to smell like motor exhaust.

After his girlfriend left him, he went berserk in his private bathroom with a sledgehammer or a geologist's hammer and smashed all of his bathroom fixtures. I'm not sure of this but I believe that just before she left him she fucked some guy with pubic lice in my bed during a party.

His toilet was inoperative at this point, so he used mine for a time, until I refused him access. Later I would find out that he shat in garbage bags and kept them in the common room closet for weeks. More on this later.

inflation calculator (US$)

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
The CPI inflation calculator uses the average Consumer Price Index for a given calendar year. This data represents changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households. This index value has been calculated every year since 1913. For the current year, the latest monthly index value is used.

quiz mapping beliefs to religions

http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

a hobby mech

http://www.neogentronyx.com/
Typically a mecha is a large robotic vehicle. The main characteristics generally include large size 15 to 50 or more feet in height, and generally weighing several tons. They currently exist in the world of science fiction movies, comics, and animes. The task undertaken by Neogentronyx has been to create one of these mecha for practical uses and applications in the real world. The possible uses for such a machine include and aren't limited to construction in virtually any environment, underwater on land, underground, and even one day in space. There are also possible military applications.

The NMX04-1A is the first attempt at a fully functional prototype by Neogentronyx, but it will certainly not be the last. It is possible to arm the mecha for virtually any possible situation, whether it is military, construction, firefighting, or riot control or entertainment. The possibilities at this point are seemingly limitless.

little minds believe in santa

http://beebo.org/smackerels/yes-virginia.html
They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.

legal/pc merry (christ/x)mas

http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/12/13/23774.aspx
Please accept without obligation, express or implied, these best wishes for an environmentally safe, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, and gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday as practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice (but with respect for the religious or secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or for their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all) and further for a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated onset of the generally accepted calendar year (including, but not limited to, the Christian calendar, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures). The preceding wishes are extended without regard to the race, creed, age, physical ability, religious faith or lack thereof, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference of the wishee(s).

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=merry+christmas+in+legalese

omg frickin lasers

http://64.252.62.40.nyud.net:8090/lasershoppe/index.htm
Due to the popularity of this website, I have reduced the price. There have also been some changes to this model. If you have seen this site before, please keep these changes in mind:

- The power output is no longer adjustable. It is now full power all the time.

- The power has been INCREASED. It is now guaranteed to be >100mW. I have one unit here that measures 191mW!

- There is now a safety key and connector that must be inserted into the laser before it will operate.

- There is a 2 second delay after to click the "on" button before the laser will produce a beam.

- This laser is now FDA certified and legal. The above two changes had to be implemented to bring this laser into compliance.

This is a legitimate high-power laser instrument. It will cast a dot on the clouds and burn a hole through a plastic cup from across the room. It is guaranteed to be above 100mW in output power, but that is a very conservative power rating. In actuality, these lasers usually have an output between 100mW and 200mW. I have one here the measures 191mW! Compare this to the 3 to 5mW of a good quality regular green laser pointer, and you get an idea for the power this laser has. This laser is not legal to use in public, and while we are not asking for any proof that the buyer is qualified to own this device, we trust that it will be used in a responsible fashion. This is a Class IIIb laser device.

how to get lost in an apple and come out ahead

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/
"Pacific Tech's Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985 while in school. That became Milo, and later became part of FrameMaker. Over the last twenty years, many people have contributed to it. Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the original PowerPC computers, originated under unique circumstances.

"I used to be a contractor for Apple, working on a secret project. Unfortunately, the computer we were building never saw the light of day. The project was so plagued by politics and ego that when the engineers requested technical oversight, our manager hired a psychologist instead. In August 1993, the project was canceled. A year of my work evaporated, my contract ended, and I was unemployed.

"I was frustrated by all the wasted effort, so I decided to uncancel my small part of the project. I had been paid to do a job, and I wanted to finish it. My electronic badge still opened Apple's doors, so I just kept showing up...

oracle autoincrement and bind_param_inout

http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/insert_into_x_returning_y.html
uses a trigger and a sequence

http://www.saturn5.com/~jwb/dbi-examples.html
bunch of dbi examples, includes bind_param_inout

http://www.mail-archive.com/dbi-users@perl.org/msg09888.html
another bind_param_inout example

dns cache poisoning

http://www.securityfocus.com/guest/17905
Jan 27 2003 11:30PM GMT
The old problem of DNS cache poisoning has again reared its ugly head. While some would argue that the domain name system protocol is inherently vulnerable to this style of attack due to the weakness of 16-bit transaction IDs, we cannot ignore the immediate threat while waiting for something better to come along. There are new attacks, which make DNS cache poisoning trivial to execute against a large number of nameservers running today. The purpose of this article is to shed light on these new attacks and recommend ways to defend against them.

spyware removal links

http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html
HijackThis is a tool, that lists all installed browser add-on, buttons, startup items and allows you to inspect, and optionally remove selected items. The program can create a backup of your original settings and also ignore selected items. Additional features include a simple list of all startup items, default start page, online updates and more. Intended for advanced users.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware. But even if you don't see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you that will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer, too.

http://ad-aware.com/
AdAware is a privacy tool, that scans your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known data-mining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components. It then lists the results and offers to remove or quarantine the components. The program detects a wide range of adware/spyware related issues and can be updated with the latest signatures via the built-in update utility.

peacefire: open access for the net generation

http://www.peacefire.org/info/why.shtml
Peacefire was created to advocate for First Amendment rights of people under 18 on the Internet. Courts and politicians are generally hostile towards rights of minors (the U.S. is one of only five countries in the world that has the death penalty for people under 18), but courts have said that people under 18 do have First Amendment rights, though most judges believe that minors' rights are not as broad as those of adults.
...
Traditionally, teens' First Amendment rights have been defended mostly by sneaking around the rules, and our "How to disable your blocking software" page is just an extension of that. But since freedom to read and free speech rights for people under 18 are a part of social progress, they ought to be simply recognized by law, instead of the ridiculousness of telling a 16-year-old who holds two jobs and places first in their class, that they are not mature enough to use an Internet terminal at the local library, so they have to sneak off to a friend's house to check their email. At some point, most people will probably support the legal and moral rights of people under 18 to free speech and freedom to read, but that point is still a long way off, and until then, "guerilla" tactics like the blocking software disabling page will still be necessary.

Maryland city data

http://www.city-data.com/city/Maryland.html
lots of random data about lots of places. median household income, population, weather history, colleges in close proximity, etc etc

don't knock my smock

http://www.dontknockmysmock.com/
smock smock smock smock smock smock

how to fix SSH-Agent forwarding under screen

http://www.deadman.org/sshscreen.html
The problem: SSH-Agent forwarding breaks when screen is re-attached on a different host.

useful WoW hunter threads

hunter macros
autofeed pet, autoswitch aspects, etc

my hunter talent template (planned)

my paladin talent template (planned)

scripting commands for world of warcraft

http://www.cosmosui.org/texts/BlizzardCommands.xml
scripting api in xml format

http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/12/10/1955239.shtml?tid=206&tid=209
slashdot thread about ui customization in wow

zoomquilt

http://www.cyphic.net/zoomquilt/zoom.htm
a wacky image that's zoomable pretty far in with lots of weird art in it

warezopoly

http://www.ojnk.net/~amber/warezopoly/
monopoly in 1337 5p34k

lcd/plasma killer

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/24/lcd_breakthrough/
A Cambridge UK academic has come up with a completely new flat TV concept that relies on total internal reflection in a wedge shaped piece of clear plastic, fed by the same LCD video projectors that drive rear-projection televisions. The technique promises to cost about a fiftieth of the price of current plasma screens and yet deliver a similar quality picture.

The system works by introducing light at the bottom edge of the wedge, which bounces across and back again up the length of the wedge until it reaches the critical angle at which it escapes and leaves the face of the screen as light. A precise mathematical formula ensures that light for the correct pixel exits the screen at just the right distance up the wedge.

how not to be a politician

http://badjason.com/RegularArticles/DrunkDorm.htm

maxim does the classics

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/9/27molyneux.html
The Great Gatsby

Gatsby follows this chick Daisy to South Padre Island for spring break. While jet-skiing, he finds out that she has already hooked up with his buddy Tom. So he hooks up with this other girl, Mabel. When Mabel's husband finds out, he suggests a three-way.

etc. HAH.

the chimpy corollary

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/10/1steck.html
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/10/1steck.html

Examples of statements used in this study include:

"Hold on, Chimpy, I had fries with that."

"Is there a problem, Officer Chimpy?"

"Whoa there, Chimpy, I gave you a twenty."

"Could you pass the wine, Chimpy?"

action verbs to use sparingly on resumes

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/5DaveAsh.html
timothy mcsweeny's blind bastard child will be president someday

Pelican System Selector Pro

http://www.pcgameworld.com/article.php/id/244/
So here’s your problem. You have an Xbox, you have a PS2, you have a DVD player. What you don’t have is a receiver with three optical inputs, or three component inputs, or three S-Video inputs. What do you do? What do you do? You go out and get yourself the Pelican System Selector Pro, that’s what.

With inputs for 8 S-Video, 3 optical digital audio, 3 Ethernet (broadband), and 3 component connections, this little beast can meet the demands of virtually any A/V enthusiast. The 13 included custom nameplates ensure that you always have the correct label for the correct component, so you are never confused as to which of the 8 selector buttons controls which piece of hardware.
http://www.pelicanperformance.com/universal/popup/pl_957_pro_system_selector_pop.html

TOra, the Linux alternative to TOAD

http://www.rittman.net/archives/000687.html
buncha info about TOra (toolkit for oracle) from a TOAD (tool for oracle application developers?) user

Charming Python

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/views/linux/articles.jsp?sort_order=desc&expand=&sort_by=Date&show_abstract=true&view_by=Search&search_by=charming+python%3A
a column on python by david mertz on ibm developer works

goats.com shirts

http://www.goats.com/store/tshirts.html
lots of wacky shirts, including "jesus loves dick", "i live in beer", "republicans for voldemort", and "my killer robot skull-fucked your honor student"
oh, and the pirate monkey robot! holy crap!

humane trophies

http://humanetrophies.net/
We are the only manufacturer of humane trophies in the world. Craftsman/designer Dianne Shapiro has been designing humane trophies for over 25 years. All of her designs are made and produced in the village of Guilford, Vermont in the historic Bee Barn by a group of hard-working, enthusiastic artisans who give careful attention to each piece, and personally sign their names on every creation that goes out to our customers.

cracked software at microsoft

http://slopemusic.de/ms_uses_cracked_software.txt
<@xxx> > > Just picked this up on IRC and at first sight thought it was a
<@xxx> > > hoax, but it seems very real.
<@xxx> > >
<@xxx> > > Check one of the wave files in
<@xxx> > > c:\windows\help\tour\windowsmediaplayer\audio\wav with a
<@xxx> > > (hex)editor, at the end of the files it says "deepz0ne" and "Sound
<@xxx> > > Forge 4.5".
<@xxx> > >
<@xxx> > > Deepz0ne is apparently a cracker for the group Radium that released
<@xxx> > > a pirated / cracked copy of Sound Forge 4.5 in August 1998, it is

random travel information

http://www.thetravelinsider.info/
information about cell phones and other tasty travel tidbits

wp.com [cheap] eats

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artsandliving/seasonal/internsguide/
cheap eats (intern's guide to dc)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/entertainment/new_features/restaurants/diningguide04/
dining guide, 2-5 star choices of all types of restaurants in the washington dc area

fuck the south

http://www.fuckthesouth.com/
an amusing diatribe against the southern red (republican) states. the author might want to look up the definition of militla, though.

The first thing any aspiring tyrant does is to disarm the populace, thereby making them less prone to resist and more malleable to whatever radical social manipulation those holding power have in mind. [Conan the Inconsistent, politixgroup.com]

scarygoround

http://www.scarygoround.com/
a well-drawn comic that i haven't had time to read yet because i've been cracking out on achewood. heh.

toothpaste for dinner

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/merchandise.php
a random comic with random shirts. ha HA!

metapixel photomosaic

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/metapixel/
Metapixel is a program for generating photomosaics. It can generate classical photomosaics, in which the source image is viewed as a matrix of equally sized rectangles for each of which a matching image is substitued, as well as collage-style photomosaics, in which rectangular parts of the source image at arbitrary positions (i.e. not aligned to a matrix) are substituted by matching images.

shopodd.com tshirts

http://shopodd.com/
ShopOdd.Com offers vintage t-shirts and funny t-shirts. We have original funny tees and vintage tees.

a well-written ghost story

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/jdate/a.html
paranormal detectives with better social skills than dib

electoral vote predictor

http://www.electoral-vote.com/
http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/faq.html
an aggregation and visual representation of how the electoral college might vote, based on polls
information about voting and the american election system in general, also

the anatomy of slavespeak

http://www.mind-trek.com/reports/tl07a.htm
An example of philosophical Slavespeak is the notion of "absolute truth." Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson of The School of Thought (also author of Software for your Brain) calls it the "Plato Truth Virus."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." - Joseph Stalin

"Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us." - Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.)

The first thing I want you to realize is that the primary tool or WEAPON terrocrats use to subjugate, control, and dominate their victims is WORDS. By "terrocrat" I mean "coercive political agent" or "terrorist bureaucrat." A terrocrat is always an individual human being.

Please think about this issue. How often has a terrocrat stuck a gun in your face and said, "Pay your taxes or else?" Compare this to the number of times terrocrats have sent you pieces of paper with words on them, telling you what to do or what not to do -- and what penalties you may be subjected to, if you don't obey?

lateral and parallel thinking

http://www.edwdebono.com/debono/lateral.htm
lateral thinking is what the buzzphrase "thinking outside the box" refers to. it usually involves rejecting one or more of the assumed constraints or assumptions and attacking a problem in a new way.
lateral thinking puzzles

parallel thinking:
With the traditional argument or adversarial thinking each side takes a different position and then seeks to attack the other side. Each side seeks to prove that the other side is wrong. This is the type of thinking established by the Greek Gang of Three (Socrates, Plato and Aristotle) two thousand four hundred years ago.

Adversarial thinking completely lacks a constructive, creative or design element. It was intended only to discover the 'truth' not to build anything.

With 'parallel thinking' both sides (or all parties0 are thinking in parallel in the same direction. There is co-operative and co-ordinated thinking. The direction itself can be changed in order to give a full scan of the situation. But at every moment each thinker is thinking in parallel with all the other thinkers. There does not have to be agreement. Statements or thoughts which are indeed contradictory are not argued out but laid down in parallel.In the final stage the way forward is 'designed' from the parallel thought that have been laid out.

mysql protocol reference

http://www.redferni.uklinux.net/mysql/MySQL-Protocol.html
This document descibes the MySQL network protocol version 10, as of October 2002 (MySQL 3.23.52). It has been produced by reading libmysql.c, net.c and sql_show.cc in the MySQL source.

why not to use mysql

http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html
It's not a bug - it's a gotcha. A "gotcha" is a feature or function which works as advertised - but not as expected.

When working with the MySQL ™ database server I have repeatedly encountered situations where the results of various actions have been unexpected and/or contrary to the behaviour generally expected of an SQL relational database. The cause can usually be traced to implementation details which are documented in the manual. I have created this list in order to further a better understanding of the MySQL database server and hopefully save others unnecessary headscratching.

perl dns resolver module

http://www.net-dns.org/docs/Net/DNS/Resolver.html

worldforge

http://www.worldforge.org/
"The original Open Source MMORPG project."

space moose interview

http://www.fadetoblack.com/interviews/spacemoose/
an interview with adam thrasher, author of space moose

dirty limericks

http://www.druddy.freeserve.co.uk/pages/limericks.htm
teh dirty limericks

li(v)e girls

http://liegirls.com/
"call is free because your grandchildren will be paying for it"

framed jargon file

http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/frames.html

oreilly open books project

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
Over the years, O'Reilly Media has published a number of "Open Books"--books with various forms of "open" copyright. The reasons for "opening" copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors.

Perhaps a book was outdated enough to be put out of print, yet some people still had an urgent need for the information it covered. Perhaps the author or subject of the book felt strongly that books should be published under a particular open copyright. Or maybe the book was written collectively by a particular community, as in the case of our Community Press books.

creative commons founder's copyright

http://creativecommons.org/projects/founderscopyright/
The Framers of the U.S. Constitution understood that copyright was about balance — a trade-off between public and private gain, society-wide innovation and creative reward. In 1790, the U.S.'s first copyright law granted authors a monopoly right over their creations for 14 years, with the option of renewing that monopoly for another 14. We want to help restore that sense of balance — not through any change to the current laws — but by helping copyright holders who recognize a long copyright term's limited benefit to voluntarily release that right after a shorter period.

mnemonic phone number generator

http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=23202&seqNum=4
generates mnemonic phrases from phone numbers

markoff's haunted forest

http://www.calleva.org/mhf/mhf_index.htm
http://www.calleva.org/mhf/mhf_home.htm
* What is there to do in October?
* Where do families go for something different than a dinner and a movie?
* Tired of watching scary movies of actors pretending to be scared?
* Do you want to experience a unique Halloween outing that can bring a family "closer" together than most family reunions?
* Do you need to just get out of the house and into the woods?

noaa eye-in-the-sky

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/
satellite pics of "current events" (typhoons and stuff) visible from space

proletext

http://www.templetons.com/tech/proletext.html
Invisible formatting information is embedded in trailing spaces and tabs on the ends of lines in an ordinary looking document. In addition, "blank" lines contain spaces and tabs with hidden formatting meanings. Assuming typical 60 column lines, one can have over 300 different codings on the end of a line without going past 80 columns. (Far fewer are needed.) On a blank line, almost a billion codings are possible.

Documents with invisible formatting always start with a magic line, which begins with "" followed by version encoding. Thus documents can be spotted and formatted even without a Mime Content-Type header for this new text type. This otherwise useless combination of spaces and tabs on a blank line should virtually assure that random documents are not treated as formatted.

found this from a link in on of the ACME modules on CPAN...

tv-b-gone

http://tvbgone.com/
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65392,00.html
universal remote that fits on your keychain and "turns off virtually any tv". tee hee.

nerdy shirts

http://ifyourenerdyandyouknowitclapyourhands.com/
heh. "Looking for a funny t-shirt, a cool t-shirt, a crazy t-shirt? Welcome to Nerdy Shirts, you funny tee shirt nerd!"

Isometric: the ninja comic of geometric doom

http://isometric.yurusan.com/
a comic about geometric shapes. i should probably look at the site so i can write something more compelling.

komar.org: Hulk play frisbee!

http://www.komar.org/hulk/
a big blowup hulk doll... i mean ACTION FIGURE (sorry, Hulk) doing lots of Hulk-ish things

wtf is a "monkeypatch"?

http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2003-October/142381.html
definition/explanation from link above:
"Monkey patch" means that instead of patching the actual source code,
we are replacing some class or function at runtime. It's the same
as a "Hotfix" except it's generally agreed that the Hotfix name is
reserved for security-related patches.

jpgraph

http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/
http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/jpg_features.php
JpGraph is an OO class library for PHP >=4.3.0. (Recommended: >= 4.3.8) The only other hard requirement is that the PHP installation suppports the GD library which most modern PHP installations do.

JpGraph makes it easy to draw both "quick and dirty" graphs with a minimum of code and complex professional graphs which requires a very fine grain control.

The library assigns context sensitive default values for most of the parameters which minimizes the learning curve. The features are there when you need it - they don't get in your way. The library also comes wih very extensive documentation.

POE: Perl Object Environment

http://poe.perl.org/?What_POE_Is
http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook
POE is a framework for creating multitasking programs in Perl.
POE parcels out execution time among one or more tasks, called sessions. Sessions multitask through cooperation (at least until Perl's threads become mainstream). That is, each session returns execution to POE as quickly as possible so it can parcel out time to the next.

perl load testing

http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/torture/
The current incarnation of the script requires Perl 5.004 or higher, and the Time::HiRes module, available at CPAN. It uses the fork() call to spawn multiple copies of itself so that it may simulate multiple users. Unfortunately this means that the script will only run on Unix ports of Perl. A multithreaded version that works on Windows systems is not yet complete (volunteers, anyone)?

vim+perl tip

http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=393
how to use perl regexes in vim

f0rm p0rn

http://jan.moesen.nu/code/html-css/form-porn/
porn with forms! where have you been all my life?!

lwp reference

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch05.html
oreilly's free online chapter from Web Client Programming with Perl
has a good intro/tutorial to the LWP library

pajiba - acerbic reviews for bitter people

http://www.pajiba.com/
the current newcastle slogan comes to mind, but it's rather funny, so most is forgiven

some farker's gallery

http://webbery.com/galleries/index.html
fun and creative pictures of people, weddings, burning man, places

cmatrix

http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/
CMatrix is a program I wrote one evening because I didn't want to have to run Wind*ws to see the cool scrolling lines from 'The Matrix', my fave movie.

Cmatrix is written in ncurses under Linux, and should compile on other OSes with few modifications.

hacker key guide

http://www.hackerkey.com/hacker.html
kind of like the geek code, but different

http://www.geekcode.com/
the geek code.

how to deconstruct almost anything

http://catalog.com/hopkins/text/decon.html
How To Deconstruct Anything: My Postmodern Adventure

This is the story of one computer professional's explorations in the world of postmodern literary criticism. I'm a working software engineer, not a student nor an academic nor a person with any real background in the humanities. Consequently, I've approached the whole subject with a somewhat different frame of mind than perhaps people in the field are accustomed to. Being a vulgar engineer I'm allowed to break a lot of the rules that people in the humanities usually have to play by, since nobody expects an engineer to be literate. Ha. Anyway, here is my tale.

webcollage

http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/
a collage of images pretty much randomly chosen from the web. some nsfw, obviously.

swappable hard drives

http://www.kingwin.com/
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=285

some marginal hack collections

http://www.jwz.org/hacks/marginal.html
So, here's some stuff. I wrote these programs because, at some point, I needed them. That means they are not necessarily very pretty, but maybe you'll find some of them useful. A lot of this is not the greatest code in the world (in particular, most of the Perl programs below were written a long time ago, when I was just learning Perl -- or rather, when I was still trying to use Perl only as a last resort.) So take most them in the context of ``one-hour hacks that have lived on far longer than expected.''

http://marginalhacks.com/

sharp zaurus sl-c860

http://www.dynamism.com/zaurus/index.shtml
Sharp has again updated their hot SL-series. This latest version, the SL-C860, share the same hardware as the SL-C760 but has one new feature. Now, the Zaurus itself, as well as its SD and CF slots, will now be recognized as a hard drive under Windows. (The same way a memory card would be.) This new feature facilitates easier data transfer.

demos: people changing politics

http://www.demos.co.uk/
Demos is a greenhouse for new ideas which can improve the quality of our lives. As an independent think-tank, our aim is to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.

Demos connects researchers, thinkers and practitioners to an international network of people changing politics. Our ideas regularly influence government policy, but we also work with companies, NGOs, schools and professional bodies – any organisation that can make change happen. Our partners share a desire to understand a complex, globalising world, and to play an active role in shaping its future.

tj's house?

http://www.mapquest.com/

a wireless wonderland

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930.html
Like many of us, Andrew Greig put a WiFi access point in his house so he could share his broadband Internet connection. But like hardly any of us, Andrew uses his WiFi network for Internet, television, and telephone. He cancelled his telephone line and cable TV service. Then his neighbors dropped-by, saw what Andrew had done, and they cancelled their telephone and cable TV services, too, many of them without having a wired broadband connection of their own. They get their service from Andrew, who added an inline amplifier and put a better antenna in his attic. Now most of Andrew's neighborhood is watching digital TV with full PVR capability, making unmetered VoIP telephone calls, and downloading data at prodigious rates thanks to shared bandwidth. Is this the future of home communications and entertainment? It could be, five years from now, if Andrew Greig has anything to say about it.

validating input with strtol

http://home.att.net/~jackklein/c/code/strtol.html
A very common question from newcomers to C and C++ programming is how to validate input. They use the standard library functions and objects like scanf() or cin which work well if the input is well-formed and within range, but fail if the input is invalid. This can be a real problem when the input is coming from a user at a keyboard and the user types something unexpected!

porcupine love

http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume8/v8i3/porcupines.html
How do porcupines make love? You would probably think the answer is "very carefully," but you would probably be wrong.

The answer is more improbable and much more bizarre than that. While browsing in the basement of the Australian National University library one day, I came across two papers (see references below) which described in great detail the details of the porcupine’s sex life. The information contained in these papers is of such great importance it is paraphrased and presented here. The next time a friend asks you how porcupines make love, you can set them straight by describing these events (in as much detail as you dare).

References:
"The Sex Reactions of Porcupines (Erethizon d. dorsatum) Before and After Copulation," Albert R. Shadle, Marilyn Smelzer & Margery Metz, Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 27, no. 2, 1946, pp. 116-21.
"Copulation in the Porcupine," Albert R. Shadle, Journal of Wildlife Management, vol. 10, no. 2, 1946, pp. 159-62.

Fowler/Noll/Vo (FNV) hashing

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/fnv/
The basis of the FNV hash algorithm was taken from an idea sent as reviewer comments to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2 committee by Glenn Fowler and Phong Vo. In a subsequent ballot round: Landon Curt Noll improved on their algorithm. Some people tried this hash and found that it worked rather well. In an EMail message to Landon, they named it the ``Fowler/Noll/Vo'' or FNV hash.

FNV hashes are designed to be fast while maintaining a low collision rate. The FNV speed allows one to quickly hash lots of data while maintaining a reasonable collision rate. The high dispersion of the FNV hashes makes them well suited for hashing nearly identical strings such as URLs, hostnames, filenames, text, IP addresses, etc.

POOP group

http://poop.sourceforge.net/
POOP stands for Perl Object-Oriented Persistence.

this page has overviews of some of the modules available that can help implement this type of persistence

perl ithread links

http://www.perldoc.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=&exclude=&words=threads&x=0&y=0
perldoc stuff about threads

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=288022
perlmonks thread about ithreads

paj's website

http://pajhome.org.uk/
a bunch of random interesting computer geek stuff

http://perl-md5-login.sourceforge.net/
This project implements an MD5-based encryption scheme on both client and server machines to allow encrypted password protection for web-based Perl/CGI applications. Although there are many free Perl/CGI application for password protection, only a few use MD5 on the server-side, but the password still travels over the internet as plain text. All server-side only schemes (like .htaccess password protection) are completely open to packet-sniffing. With this scheme, the browser JavaScript encrypts the password on the client's machine, and session tracking allows only one response per session ID, making simple packet-sniffing and session replaying much more difficult.

random user-agent quotes

I use the user agent string Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html). It gives access to quite a few sites that only give full access to subscribers and Google...
-----
Drop this [cyberknights.com.au] into /usr/share/services/useragentstrings and you can conveniently select it from Konqueror's "Tools/Change Browser Identification" menu at once. In 51 different languages. (-:

If you like melting webmaster brain cells, use this [cyberknights.com.au] instead.

My mailserver used to answer as a "Commodore 64 (with anti-spam cartridge)".

aolsearch encquery

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?s=b2919bb1240a5f2a7d383e0f336a3645&showtopic=813

<?php

?>

school vouchers: for and against

http://www.hiphopconvention.org/issues/civilrights/hardwon.cfm (against)

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-269.html (both, discussion)
http://www.cato.org/dailys/04-03-04.html (for)

http://www.brookings.org/comm/transcripts/20010607.htm (for)

http://www.freecolorado.com/2002/03/novouchers.html (against)

http://www.nul.org/publications/tbe_archive/tbe/tbe200227.html (for)

20 questions ai

http://y.20q.net/
play twenty questions with a computer. it usually wins.

handy webdev refs

http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/
color picker

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/
decent css reference

commercial&non dhtml menus

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/
some of these are user-submitted... not sure of licensing terms, didn't poke around much yet

http://www.opencube.com/
http://dhtml-menu.com/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22dhtml+menu%22&btnG=Google+Search

and non-commercial ones:
http://simplythebest.net/scripts/DHTML_scripts/dhtml_script_105.html

who is michael badnarik?

http://www.badnarik.org/Issues/
itics.slashdot.org/politics/04/09/13/1249231.shtml?tid=4&tid=219
http://www.libertyunbound.com/archive/2004_08/bradford-dark_horse.html

random voting methods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method

curious about martin amis

http://martinamis.albion.edu/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/103-5223220-4574211
i read a short story in Granta where a live-in lesbian couple was in the process of breaking up. the one compulsively read and quoted Martin Amis while the other enjoyed comic books and was in denial. the plot resolved itself when the one in denial started reading Amis too, and grew some self-esteem.

i thought: "isn't that int[eresting&riguing]: that someone (a writer) would be so touched by someone else's writing as to include references to it in one of their own short stories... and one (a story) so seemingly, if not actually, personal."

it was a good short story. i will read martin amis. marketing professionals take note (really, please don't... it would ruin a genuine channel of recommendation).

To his Coy Mistress

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm
(by Andrew Marvell)

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.(..)

My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

( . Y . ) giggidy giggidy OH YEAH!

Programming Python book notes

http://www.rmi.net/~lutz/pp2e-updates.html
notes, errata, and updates relative to more recent python updates about O'Reilly's Programming Python

david mertz's python articles

http://gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_cp.html
a column on (mostly introductory) Python topics for IBM developerWorks, called Charming Python

autistic social software

http://www.danah.org/papers/Supernova2004.html
While "social software" has recently emerged as a phenomenon in the tech community, sociable media has been around since the beginning of the Internet. Email, BBS, Usenet, chatrooms, MUDs and MOOs all captured the imagination of technologists throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Alongside the development of these technologies, academics and pundits spouted off about the utopian dreams that could be fulfilled by these innovations. Their prescriptions mirrored the particular concepts set forth by science fiction, often without the richness that the writers were trying to convey. Idealists envisioned a world where physical identity would not matter because online, no one would know that you're a dog.

terrapin trader

http://www.purchase.umd.edu/ttrader/
Terrapin Trader is the University's on-going surplus operation. Terrapin Trader Property Release Forms are used to identify items deemed surplus by the owning department. Computers, printers, desks, chairs, and tables are among the kinds of inventory processed by the Terrapin Trader. Pick up of surplused equipment is made free of charge to University departments. Terrapin Trader determines the price of property sold through its showroom (sometimes in consultation with department personnel). Sales are made on a "first come" basis and items are sold "as is" with no warranties or guarantees.

cryptography links

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=encryption+intro&btnG=Google+Search
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/crypto/co0404.htm
Towards the 128-bit Era: AES Candidates

Improvements in the speed and power of microprocessor chips have meant that the Data Encryption Standard with its 56-bit key is subject to brute-force attacks that can be carried out by organizations of moderate size.

Although some branches of the Government of the United States, including its Chief Executive, have been pursuing policies such as export restrictions and the "Clipper chip" initiative, based on perceived dangers of the spread of strong encryption, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, another branch of the U. S. Government, has sought public submissions of an improved block cipher which would serve the specific purpose of protecting the unclassified communications of the U. S. Government, but which would also, no doubt, serve the public sector as well.

(includes links to other pages about specific encryption methods)

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/security/sslin/contents.htm
This document introduces the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. Originally developed by Netscape, SSL has been universally accepted on the World Wide Web for authenticated and encrypted communication between clients and servers.

http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/classes/dragn/labs/coding/coding10.html
http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/
http://rae.falkor.gen.nz/DES.html

the fucking moon!

http://www.blogjam.com/neil_armstrong/
In 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to walk on the moon, uttering the immortal phrase, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Or did he? Previously suppressed footage discovered by blogjam shows that Armstrong's reaction was a great deal more uninhibited than history suggests, and that a hasty editing job was needed to prepare the astronaut's moment of glory for broadcast.

So here, for the first time, is the unedited NASA film from the triumphant Apollo 11 mission.

music with perl

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/31/livecode.html
I've found the experiences of dancing and programming to have a great deal in common. With both I am immersed in an abstract world of animated structures, building up and breaking down many times before finally reaching a conclusion. Indeed, when the operation of even the dullest data-munging computer program is visualized, for example in a debugger, it does seem to be dancing around its loops and conditions -- moving in patterns through time.

In other words, a musical score is a kind of source code, and a musical performance is a kind of running program. When you play from a musical score or run a program you are bringing instructions to life.

So a piece of composed music is like a Perl script, but let's not forget improvised music. The rules behind improvised music -- for example improvised jazz -- develop during a performance, perhaps with little or no predefined plan. Where is the comparison with code here? Well, how many times have you sat down to write some Perl without first deciding exactly how you were going to structure it? Perl is great for improvising. The question is, can you write improvised Perl scripts on stage? This article hopes to answer this question.

crap-tolerant html parsers in python

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
You didn't write that awful page. You're just trying to get some data out of it. Right now, you don't really care what HTML is supposed to look like.

Neither does this parser.
Beautiful Soup
Introduction

There are lots of parsers for HTML and XML documents. They are great if you care about the document as a whole. They've got all sorts of uses: you can transform the document, index it, display its structure, or process its content.

But what if you only care about part of a document? What if you just want to extract some information and leave? You have two choices. You can use regular expressions. ("Now you have two problems.") Or you can parse the document and use information about the structure to find the parts you're interested in. The trouble is, it gets tiresome traversing the parse tree looking for the parts you want. After a while, even regular expressions start to look pretty good.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a parser that could do the tree traversal stuff for you? You could tell it "Find all the links", or "Find all the links of class externalLink", or "Find all the links whose urls match "foo.com", or "Find the table heading that's got bold text, then give me that text."

Beautiful Soup can do all this--and less. It won't choke if you give it ill-formed markup: it'll just give you access to a correspondingly ill-formed data structure. It doesn't care if you give it fake HTML tags or if the namespaces are wrong. It accepts that you're doing this to get some data into a more usable format. It appreciates that if the data were well-formed to begin with, you probably wouldn't be doing what you're doing.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/286269
A simple HTML 'parser' that will 'read' through an HTML file and call functions on data and tags etc.
Useful if you need to implement a straightforward parser that just extracts information from the file *or* modifies tags etc.

Shouldn't choke on bad HTML.

intro to oracle partitioning

http://dba-oracle.com/oracle_news/2004_2_11_rittman.htm
"Partitioned tables and indexes facilitate administrative operations by allowing these operations to work on subsets of data. For example, you can add a new partition, organize an existing partition, or drop a partition with less than a second of interruption to a read-only application."

directions to OBX2K4

long ass mapquest link

time to rebuild the house of saud

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/16/1073878030512.html?oneclick=true
Buried in the detail of the US presidential campaign is a time bomb. On November 30, in a high school auditorium in suburban Merrimack, southern New Hampshire, Howard Dean, the early Democratic front-runner in this year's presidential election, uttered these words: "He [President Bush] lacks the backbone to stand up against the Saudis."

The House of Saud, key American ally, strategic base for US armed forces, the West's biggest supplier of oil?

"Saudia Arabia uses our oil money," Dean continued, "to train the next generation of suicide bombers."

True. Saudi Arabia is the world's leading financier of religious bigotry, militant medievalism, sectarian violence and the subjugation of women. It is the Taliban with money. Its financing of the most malignant form of Islamism has extended to Australia. And if the House of Saud falls, the prodigious oil wealth of the Arabian peninsula will likely fall to the Wahhabist branch of Islam, which promotes jihad, religious war against idolators, especially the West, especially America.

how to paint a room

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=paint+room+walls+%22between+coats%22&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.asktooltalk.com/home/articles/paintfaux/painting-surface.htm
How many of you have tackled painting a room over a weekend? When all was said and done, how did it look? Like a room painted in a weekend? Existing cracks suddenly reappeared, nails that were not removed have hardened paint "tails," mouldings sport globs of paint on mitered outside corners, carpet nap is glued to the face of the base mouldings, and roller and brush strokes are painfully obvious.

Before diving into your next paint project, consider the following steps to achieve professional results...

fett's vette

http://madness.mindlab.umd.edu/ws_fettsvette.wmv
Wow. A music video that sounds like MC Pee Pants from ATHF, but it's Boba Fett rapping about his "Corvette"

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1002355/
it IS mc pee pants! mc chris in da heezy.

D's Dew Drop Inn

http://www.dmcindc.com/
lots of random DC links and pictures

new mod for old half-life

http://www.theshiponline.com/index.php?page=&action=show&id=9805
Welcome to The Ship.

Congratulations! You've just won a free ticket to a dream cruise onboard a spectacular, replica 1920's cruise ship! All you've got to do is put your copy of Half Life 1 in your machine, download the small patch and step onboard!

You might find a few things to concern you while you're enjoying the luxurious surroundings, like the fact that you have the name of another passenger, your quarry, visible on your screen… It might be a good idea to find that person and get rid of them in some way because somewhere there's another passenger with your name. They'll be looking for you and it's not going to be a friendly meeting…

This is just Mr X's way of making you pay for your free cruise by keeping him entertained… Murder your quarry in an interesting way and he'll even pay you money! Just don't get caught by the Ship's security or witnessed by too many passengers or you'll go straight to jail, suffer a hefty fine and probably lose your weapons…

Be sure to make use of the Ship's facilities while you're exploring: eat drink and be merry as they say or you may find death comes upon you through your own ineptitude rather than your hunter's finesse… And if you think your hunter's getting too close? Try changing your clothes: you may throw them off the scent… For a while…

peep my pimp handle

http://www.playerappreciate.com/pimphandle.asp
Vicious D. Gray Joker
Crazy Eyes D. Rock
Macktastic Gray Shizzle
Papa Dave Smooth
Macktastic Dave Flava
President Dave Ice
Mr. White Chocolate D. Slick
Sugartastic Dave Large
Magic Tickle Gray Shizzle
Bishop Don Dave Dogg
Professor Truth D. Valentine
Sheik Gray Rockefeller
Ghetto Fabulous Gray Dazzle
Reverend Doctor Dave Fresh
Treacherous D. Rockefeller
Stealth Maestro Dave Sweetness
G. Digital D. Beautiful
Bishop Don Gray Sneed
Pimptastic Gray Flava

rad favicon gallery

http://www.tokyo-ouja.com/favicon/
lots of fun favicons (website bookmark icons)

lawyer jokes

http://barrygoldberg.net/lawjokes.htm
lots of lawyer jokes, including my favorite:

Q:How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Whereas the party of the first part, also known as "Lawyer", and the
party of the second part, also known as "Light Bulb", do hereby and
forthwith agree to a transaction wherein the party of the second part
(Light Bulb) shall be removed from the current position as a result of
failure to perform previously agreed upon duties, i.e., the lighting,
elucidation, and otherwise illumination of the area ranging from the
front (north) door, through the entryway, terminating at an area just
inside the primary living area, demarcated by the beginning of the
carpet, any spillover illumination being at the option of the party of
the second part (Light Bulb) and not required by the aforementioned
agreement between the parties. The aforementioned removal transaction
shall include, but not be limited to, the following steps:

NOTE: The above described steps may be performed, at the option of the
party of the first part (Lawyer), by any or all persons authorized by
him, the objective being to produce the most possible revenue for the
party of the fifth part, also known as "Partnership."

chrono trigger boss list

http://www.rpgclassics.com/subsites/floating/ctboss.shtml
bit of a spoiler, list of strategies for fighting the game bosses

general networking links

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/

twisted network programming

http://www.itamarst.org/writings/etech04/twisted_internet-0.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-twist1.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-twist2.html

famous to baltimorons

http://www.baltimoreoutloud.com/Images/Aug_6_cover.jpg

more twisted docs

http://sluggo.kicks-ass.org/twisted_finger_gentle.txt
These notes are meant to be read chapter by chapter in conjunction with "Twisted
From Scratch, or The Evolution of Finger". They aim to provide the background
knowledge assumed in the original, and also to clarify the author's Python
coding shortcuts.

We'll be building a 'finger' server with many bells and whistles. We'll start
with the absolutely smallest application possible and then add features one at
a time, making each step a functioning application.

http://twisted.sourceforge.net/TwistedDocs-1.2.0/howto/plugin.html
Twisted is a very general and powerful tool. It can power anything connected to a network, from your corporate message-broadcasting network to your desktop IRC client. This is great for integrating lots of different tools, but can make it very difficult to document and understand how the whole platform is supposed to work. A side effect of this is that it's hard to get started with a project using Twisted, because it's hard to find out where to start.

This guide is to help you understand one of the main ways to get started working on a Twisted server application. It probably won't answer your specific questions about how to do things like schedule functions to call in the future or listen on a socket; there are other documents that address these concerns and you can read them later. Client applications are not likely to use the infrastructure described in this document, and a simpler alternative exists for servers, covered in the Application howto.

http://www.pyzine.com/Issue006/Section_Articles/article_GettingTwisted.html
Twisted is a framework for writing asynchronously networked applications. One of the greatest advantages of Twisted is that it allows developers to integrate many protocols into their applications, which it does by offering consistent APIs to these different protocols. An overview of several of Twisted's parts, along with design ideas and code samples, is provided.

subversion reference

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/ch09.html
This chapter is intended to be a complete reference to using Subversion. This includes the command line client (svn) and all its subcommands, as well as the repository administration programs (svnadmin and svnlook) and their respective subcommands.

cnds software

http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/software/
Spines: A software research platform that allows deployment of overlay networks in the Internet
Wackamole: An infrastructure application that helps make a cluster highly available. Similarly it can make a highly available logical router out of several routers.
Spread: A high performance messaging toolkit that is resilient to faults across external or internal networks.
Secure Spread: A library that provides security services for the Spread Group Communication System.
mod_backhand: A drop in module for the Apache web server that allows dynamic load-balancing over local area cluster of Apache web servers.
Flush Spread: A library that provides view synchrony semantics for the Spread Group Communication System.
The Frugal System: A Metacomputing Tool for Jini-enabled Networks. The Frugal System schedules tasks on a scalable computing cluster to minimize system loads and optimize the use of memory.
The Stdutil C Library: A toolkit of high-performance C data structures and utility functions.

also, http://cnds.jhu.edu/publications/
publications of the Johns Hopkins Center for Networking and Distributed Systems

timewarp computer prices

http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=296910&P=1
This article came about because of an ad page in the August 2004 issue of APC Magazine. Page 158 seemed to be a reprint of an ad from July 2001 (200KB pic). APC say it wasn't an error on their part, so I assume it was a clever (and successful) attempt by the vendor to attract more attention to their ad. I found the historical pricing interesting, so asked people to send me, over the next 24 hours, scans of ad pages from the oldest Australian computer magazines they could dig up.

apache, mod_rewrite and dbm_fetch

http://www.vttoth.com/rewrite.htm
"
Undefined symbol 'dbm_fetch' with the Apache server

I tried to include in my Apache Web server's configuration the mod_rewrite module, but when I restarted the server, I received an error:

Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/mod_rewrite.so into server:
/usr/local/apache/libexec/mod_rewrite.so: undefined symbol: dbm_fetch

The problem, as it turns out, is that mod_rewrite.so is compiled incorrectly. It should be linked with a dbm library but it isn't.

If you have an up-to-date set of Apache source files, you can easily solve this problem by manually rerunning the last compilation step of this module, using the correct options. When you execute make mod_rewrite.so in the appropriate directory, it performs this final step:

gcc -shared -o mod_rewrite.so mod_rewrite.lo

Rerun gcc, this time adding a reference to the GNU gdbm library:

gcc -shared -o mod_rewrite.so mod_rewrite.lo -lgdbm

Next, copy the newly created mod_rewrite.so over to /usr/local/apache/libexec or wherever your Apache module files are located.

In my case, this was all that was needed to solve the problem. Your mileage may vary.
"
Thanks Viktor.

tj surprise party pics

http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tomjlubey/album?.tok=phusrbBBaiHQK9Ja&.dir=/6ec5&.src=ph
tj's pics

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hotmonkeymedia/detail?.dir=c250&.dnm=1d20.jpg&.src=ph
rob's pics

detect/read/modify RFID tags

http://www.rf-dump.org/
RFDump is a tool to detect RFID-Tags and show their meta information: Tag ID, Tag Type, manufacturer etc. The user data memory of a tag can be displayed and modified using either a Hex or an ASCII editor. In addition, the integrated cookie feature demonstrates how easy it is for a company to abuse RFID technology to spy on their customers. RFDump works with the ACG Multi-Tag Reader or similar card reader hardware.

swat hand signals

http://www.unconventional-airsoft.com/information/handSignals.php
I'm having a hard time seeing very far without my glasses.
Be quiet for once in your goddamned lives, already.

It's really funny to me that the number one google hit for swat+hand+signals are for this.

the always amusing euphemism generator

http://walkingdead.net/perl/euphemism/
They were hoping the neighbors couldn't see them locating the pope's mushroom.
Like most guys his age, he wasn't above inverting the blazing sheriff.
Cross-examination revealed that he had a great deal of experience plowing the lucky fishbowl.

random rom conversions

http://agtp.romhack.net/
website with a bunch of roms of old games

hate the game, europe

http://hudsonreview.com/BawerSp04.html

I moved from the U.S. to Europe in 1998, and I’ve been drawing comparisons ever since.

[W]hy have these Machiavellians become idealists? Because they no longer have power—and, being powerless, they resent [others'] power, even when it’s used not to conquer but to help.

hymn decryption project

http://hymn-project.org/

favorite fark photoshop contests

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1055366&mode=voteresults
The clandestine and brutal war that is ever shrouded from the public eye -- Hanna Barbara vs. Looney Tunes

frickin eye cameras

http://www.christianhacker.org/html/NHV.html
Specifically, postdoc researcher Ko Nishino and Prof. Shree Nayar, codirector of the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center, have devised a system to capture and analyze the evanescent pictures displayed on our own little ocular movie screens. Their "corneal imaging system" seems at first rather prosaic: basically it involves using a high-resolution digital camera to snap a close-up of a face. The real action takes place when the image is downloaded to the computer: sophisticated software isolates the circular area around the iris called the limbus, where a film of tear fluid over the cornea reflects the world like a clear midsummer lake. From there it's possible to lift a wide-angle view of the person's surroundings when the shot was snapped.

There are so many applications for something like this... for example goggles that continually capture an operative's entire field of vision and either store on some sort of wearable or transmit wirelessly back to analysts at home base. In order to minimize the necessary bandwidth between the operative and home base, the processing from hi-res down to a lower-res FOV image could be done in the wearable and then encrypted and stored before transmission to home base. Frickin' awesome.

the bible in ... 1337 5p34k

http://www.christianhacker.org/html/NHV.html
Finally! After years without God's word in their own L33T-speak language dialect, the Christian Hackers' Association is proud to introduce the NHV (New Hacker Version) Bible transliterated especially for hackers! We believe that no group of people should be excluded from the Gospel message due to cultural or linguistic barriers.

2004 otakon schedule jpgs

friday saturday sunday
frickin shitty ass pdfs from otakon.com don't render correctly in xpdf

a taste of computer security

http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/security/
Given the nature and scope of the field, it would require one or more books to even briefly touch upon all that is known about computer security. This document's goal is only to give you a taste of (a subset of) the subject. The various sections are not uniform in their depth or breadth, and the document's overall structure is not pedagogical. I could have titled it Thinking Aloud On Computer Security, if not for the somewhat pompous undertone.

scanned wal-mart receipts

http://blacksunn.net/receipts/
"For years, I saved my WalMart receipts in a little box; no reason, I just saved all my receipts.

Then, I had the crazy idea to put them on the internet. Put'em on the internet, and let people discuss them, discuss my shopping habits.

Millions of pageviews later, the website got pulled by the hosting company for some unknown reason (misuse, bandwidth hogging, who knows.) My last backup was done in April 2002, and the site has sat dormant since then.

After much thought, I've brought back the archives, purely for historical value.

This site is not sponsored, ordained, sanctioned, or provided by Wal*Mart. Really, its only relation to Wal Mart is that Wal Mart prints out the clearest receipts which scan well. If my grocery store's receipts didn't fade so bad, this would reference Hornbacher's instead. "

open source ocr links

http://www.linux-ocr.ekitap.gen.tr/
ocr link collection

http://tides.umiacs.umd.edu/description.html
Rapidly Retargetable Translingual Detection
The objective of this project is to rapidly create usable systems for translingual document detection that can be employed by analysts who are fluent in English to detect potentially important documents that are written in other languages.

http://www.claraocr.org/
Clara OCR is a free (GPL) OCR for systems that support the C library and the X windows system (e.g. most flavours of Unix). Clara OCR is intended for large scale digitalization projects. It features a powerful GUI and a web interface for cooperative digitalization of books.

http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html
GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program implemented as a filter and based on a feature extraction method. It reads a bitmap image in pbm format and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats. Also includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns or blocks of text normally found on printed pages. Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend to other programs.

http://jocr.sourceforge.net/download.html
GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers.
GOCR can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to port to different OSes and architectures. It can open many different image formats, and its quality have been improving in a daily basis.

geek test

http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html
37.08087%

How will you rank?

* Geekish Tendencies
* Geek
* Total Geek
* Major Geek
* Super Geek
* Extreme Geek
* Geek God
* Dysfunctional Geek

openldap manpages

http://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=(3)&sektion=&apropos=1&manpath=OpenLDAP+2.2-Release&title=Section%20

ldap + ssl

http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html

xp service tweaks

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/strangeservice.htm
Disabling all of the "unneeded services" frees up 12-70 MB of RAM, depending on system.
Do you mean that out of 89 services, 36 are set to Automatic as DEFAULT, but, we MAY only need 8 running?!? YES.

LDAP + C links

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/dirsdk/csdk30/contents.htm
http://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=ldap

cheney vs. leahy

http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/?040726sh_shouts
Vice President Dick Cheney cursed at Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, in a confrontation on the Senate floor while members were having their annual group picture taken earlier this week. . . . According to [an] aide, Mr. Cheney . . . responded with a barnyard epithet, urging Mr. Leahy to perform an anatomical sexual impossibility.

michael moore links

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040216fa_fact7
http://dailykos.com/story/2004/7/18/173312/462
http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm

outragedmoderates.com

http://www.outragedmoderates.org/
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64237,00.html
Peer-to-peer networks aren't just for trading music and movies. A law student, frustrated by government secrecy and possible conflicts of interest, launches a website that uses P2P networks to distribute telling government documents.

getty dc-dodgeball pics

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/cfw/FrameSet.aspx?s=ImagesSearchState|0|15|0|1|||0|0|0|0|7|dodgeball|0|0&p=7&pk=4
getty images came to one of our games and took pictures. dig anders' crazy eye and dan's impending doom

Dr. Vandana Shiva's grass-roots orgs

http://www.vshiva.net/
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY AND ECOLOGY (RFSTE)

RFSTE was founded in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh (INDIA) in 1982 by Dr. Vandana Shiva. It works on biodiversity conservation and protecting people's rights from threats to their livelihoods and environment by centralised systems of monoculture in forestry, agriculture and fisheries.

http://www.bijavidyapeeth.org/
n a world dominated by greed and competition, speed and restlessness, pollution and ecological destruction, war and violence, Bija Vidyapeeth offers a unique opportunity to explore and practice the art and science of sustainability. Bija Vidyapeeth offers a unique insight into the tenets of sustainability and deep democracy through interactions with the foremost intellectuals and sustainable communities of our times.

http://www.diversewomen.org/
Diverse Women for Diversity is a programme of Navdanya. It seeks to herald a global campaign of women on biodiversity, cultural diversity and food security. Diverse Women for Diversity echoes women's voices from the local and grassroots level to global fora and international negotiations. It seeks to strengthen women's grassrots movements and provide women with a common international platform to air their views. Over the years, Diverse Women for Diversity has evolved a non-violent resistance and opposition to globalisation, emergency of genetic engineering and patents on life forms. Women of the world join hands under Diverse Women for Diversity.

http://www.navdanya.org/
Since 1987, Navdanya has been saving seeds, promoting chemical-free organic agriculture, creating awareness on the hazards of genetic engineering, defending people’s knowledge from Biopiracy, and defending people’s food rights and food sovereignty in the face of globalisation.

Navdanya means “nine seeds.” These nine seeds are representative of India’s collective source of food security, connoting a diverse ecological balance at every level - from the ecology of the Earth to the ecology of our bodies.

culture jamming

http://www.levity.com/markdery/jam.html
Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs (Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, 1993) is available for $4 from Open Magazine, (908) 789-9608, POB 2726, Westfield, NJ 07091.

"Culture jamming," a term I have popularized by articles in The New York Times and Adbusters, might best be defined as media hacking, information warfare, terror-art, and guerrilla semiotics, all in one. Billboard bandits, pirate TV and radio broadcasters, media hoaxers, and other vernacular media wrenchers who intrude on the intruders, investing ads, newscasts, and other media artifacts with subversive meanings are all culture jammers.

http://www.abrupt.org/CJ/CJ.html
"Culture Jamming" sticks where rational discourse slides off. It is, simply, the viral introduction of radical ideas. It is viral in that it uses the enemy's own resources to replicate iteself -- corporate logos, marketing psychology, clean typography, "adspeak". It is radical because--ideally--the message, once deciphered, causes damage to blind belief. Fake ads, fake newspaper articles, parodies, pastiche. The best CJ is totally unexpected, surprising, shocking in its implications.

hilarious UO comics

http://spla.sh/bp/bp_files/main.htm
Welcome to the new Adventures of B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd
An old school Ultima Online comic

apache module api reference

http://modules.apache.org/doc/API.html#commands

bom-ba-clot!

http://www.ohhla.com/anonymous/misc/reggae/dolly_my.sup.txt
Artist: Supercat f/ Notorious B.I.G., Puff Daddy, Third Eye
Album: Dolly My Baby - Remix (Single)
Song: Dolly My Baby (Remix)

buncha random autoconf etc links

http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html
http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/autoconf_tutorial_1.html

rock paper saddam

http://www.rockpapersaddam.com/
You probably don't even know about Pen Missile.

perl6 periodic table

http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.pdf

autoconf, automake, and libtool

http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html
This book is a tutorial for Autoconf, Automake and Libtool, hereafter referred to as the GNU Autotools. The GNU manuals that accompany each tools adequately document each tool in isolation. Until now, there has not been a guide that has described how these tools work together.

As these tools have evolved over the years, design decisions have been made by contributors who clearly understand the associated problems, but little documentation exists that captures why things are the way the are.

one-way toilet

http://home.centurytel.net/cty90143/jpeg/humor/swisstoilet.htm
[Th]ere's a picture of a public toilet in Switzerland that's made entirely out of one-way glass. No one can see you in there, but when you are inside, it looks like you're sitting in a clear glass box. Would you use it?

interesting flash tool

http://www.theyrule.net/
They Rule allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004.
The data was collected from their websites and SEC filings in early 2004, so it may not be completely accurate - companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards.

Traffic Waves, physics for bored commuters

http://www.amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html
http://www.nature.com/nsu/000420/000420-4.html
Have you ever been driving on an interstate highway when traffic suddenly slows to a crawl? You inch along for many minutes while waiting to see the accident which must have caused the jam. At the same time you also curse the "rubberneckers" who are causing the whole problem. But then all the cars ahead of you take off at high speed. The jam is over, but no accident, no police cars, nothing. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT! A traffic jam with no cause? In the rear-view mirror you see all the poor saps behind you still stuck in the jam. But why? If all those people could just speed up at the same time, the whole traffic jam would evaporate. Why don't they ever do that? What caused the mysterious slowdown in the first place?

an indie music video

http://www.ryantown.com/gayboyfriend/
i haven't actually watched this yet, but the story behind its production is quite entertaining and perhaps educational at the very least

IP Multicast Introduction

http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/undergrad/4ba2/multicast/antony/
programmer-oriented multicasting introduction
This tutorial assumes basic familia