computer security analogies in democracy

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70114-0.html
You can compare these legal concepts to the eight principles for designing secure systems set forth in an article by Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder and discussed in Computer Security: Art and Science by Matt Bishop, where I ran across them. These principles are:

* Separation of privilege: The protection mechanism should grant access based on more than one piece of information.
* Least privilege: The protection mechanism should force every process to operate with the minimum privileges needed to perform its task.
* Open design: The protection mechanism should not depend on attackers being ignorant of its design to succeed. It may, however, be based on the attacker's ignorance of specific information such as passwords or cipher keys.
* Fail-safe defaults: The protection mechanism should deny access by default, and grant access only when explicit permission exists.
* Complete mediation: The protection mechanism should check every access to every object.
* Economy of mechanism: The protection mechanism should have a simple and small design.
* Least common mechanism: The protection mechanism should be shared as little as possible among users.
* Psychological acceptability: The protection mechanism should be easy to use (at least as easy as not using it).

real ultimate perl hackers

http://charlieharvey.org.uk/html_static/real_ultimate_perlgeeks.html
Hi, this site is all about Perl hackers, REAL PERL HACKERS. This site is awesome. My name is Charlie and I can't stop thinking about Perl hackers. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.

Facts:
1. Perl hackers are mammals.
2. Perl hackers use obfuscated syntax ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the Perl hacker is to scan arbitrary text files and kill people.

the brainfuck programming language

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/
Brainfuck is the ungodly creation of Urban Müller, whose goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language for which he could write the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. His compiler was 240 bytes in size.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
http://cydathria.com/bf/bf_ex1.html

the hello world collection

http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm
hello world in like 42 gajillion different languages

python and xml

http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/howto/node26.html
The xml.marshal package contains code for marshalling Python data types and objects into XML. The xml.marshal.generic module uses a simple DTD of its own, and provides Marshaller and Unmarshaller classes that can be subclassed to marshal objects using a different DTD.

http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/
These next two chapters are about XML processing in Python. The following is a complete Python program which generates pseudo-random output based on a context-free grammar defined in an XML format.

http://feedparser.org/
Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python. 2000 unit tests. Open source.

http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm
The Element type is a simple but flexible container object, designed to store hierarchical data structures, such as simplified XML infosets, in memory. The element type can be described as a cross between a Python list and a Python dictionary.

The Element type is available as a pure-Python implementation for Python 1.5.2 and later. A C implementation is also available, for use with CPython 2.1 and later. A Jython implementation will be included in a future release.

a japanese-ivore

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-123322263707848424&q=lizard
this is one of the funniest things i've seen in a long time. basically, it's a japanese game show (i think, maybe it's an election though) where all these girls strap a steak to their heads and then poke their heads up into this semi-enclosed area where there is a goddamn 4-foot long lizard. and whichever steak it eats, that girl wins? i guess? insanely amusing.

all 6 star wars movies at once

http://www.weirdhat.com/swsimultaneously/stuff.php
So all six movies are out on DVD now, and I said to myself: I have nothing better to do, and there are so many parallels between these movies as it is, it'd be fun to see how many interesting things line up with each other if I watch all six movies simultaneously.

I ripped the DVDs, and stuck them all together into one video file with Avisynth and VirtualDub, which took up a lot of space and time on my computer for a few days. My first impulse was to overlay them all on top of each other, the better (I thought) to compare them. Turns out, apart from a few bits, it was just ridiculously confusing to look at.

Yeah. So I just laid them out in a grid next to each other instead, like this.

Coral Content Distribution Network

http://www.coralcdn.org/
Publishing through Coral is as simple as appending a short string to the hostname of objects' URLs; a peer-to-peer DNS layer transparently redirects browsers to participating caching proxies, which in turn cooperate to minimize load on the source web server. Sites that run Coral automatically replicate content as a side effect of users accessing it, improving its availability. Using modern peer-to-peer indexing techniques, Coral will efficiently find a cached object if it exists anywhere in the network, requiring that it use the origin server only to initially fetch the object once.

internet archive: canadian libraries

http://www.archive.org/details/toronto
Various Canadian libraries have joined the Internet Archive to scan various collections of books as part of a high volume book scanning pilot project. Custom scanning equipment and open source software has been developed by the Internet Archive to support the needs of the partner libraries and their collections. This is being hosted at the University of Toronto.

open content alliance

http://www.opencontentalliance.org/
The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content.

liberal's little helper

http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/problem_detail.asp?SDID=212:1603
Trusted, Effective Treatment for Hoplophobia
Our board-certified team specializes in helping individuals overcome fears, phobias & anxiety of all kinds, and is particularly focused on problems such as Hoplophobia. With a success rate close to 100% we offer a lifetime guarantee to our clients.
What is Hoplophobia?
Defined as "[fear of] firearms", each year this surprisingly common phobia causes countless people needless distress.

how to edit mozilla context menus

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=14776
I hate the "Close Other Tabs" item in context menus when you right click on a tab in Mozilla. It finally pissed me off enough (because I click it accidentally sometimes when I'm just trying to close one tab) to figure out how to remove it.

my userChrome.css:
menuitem[label="Close Other Tabs"] { display: none; }

other stuff you could put in userChrome.css (you probably don't want to delete everything...):

/*Remove Right Click ContextMenu Items*/
#context-back,
#context-bookmarklink,
#context-copyemail,
#context-sep-copyimage,
#context-sep-copylink,
#context-forward,
#context-sep-open,
#context-openlink,
#context-openlinkintab,
#context-sep-paste,
#context-sep-properties,
#context-reload,
#context-savepage,
#context-sep-selectall,
#context-viewpartialsource-mathml,
#context-viewpartialsource-selection,
#context-frame-sep,
#context-stop,
#context-sep-stop,
#context-sep-undo,
#context-viewbgimage { display: none !important }

#context-showonlythisframe,
#context-viewsource,
#context-viewinfo { display: none; }

menuitem[label="Reload Frame"],
menuitem[label="Open in New Window"],
menuitem[label="Expand"],
menuitem[label="Manage Folder"],
menuitem[label="New Folder..."],
menuitem[label="Open"],
menuitem[label="Open in New Tab"],
menuitem[label="Bookmark This Frame..."],
menuitem[label="Show Only This Frame"],
menuitem[label="Save Frame As..."],
menuitem[label="View Frame Source"],
menuitem[label="View Frame Info"],
menuitem[label="Open Frame in New Window"] { display: none; }

/* Remove menu buttons */
menu[label="File"],
menu[label="Go"],
menu[label="Edit"],
menu[label="View"],
menu[label="Tools"],
menu[label="Bookmarks Toolbar Folder"],
menu[label="Help"] { display: none !important; }

/* Remove menu items */
menuitem[label="Open Link in New Tab"],
menuitem[label="New Window"],
menuitem[label="Open File..."],
menuitem[label="Close"],
menuitem[label="Close Tab"],
menuitem[label="Close Window"],
menuitem[label="Save Page As..."],
menuitem[label="Exit"],
menuitem[label="Add to Bookmarks..."],
menuitem[label="Bookmarks Toolbar"],
menuitem[label="Open in Tabs"],
menuitem[label="JavaScript Console"],
menuitem[label="Page Info"],
menuitem[label="Page Setup..."],
menuitem[label="Print Preview"],
menuitem[label="Print..."] { display: none; }

/* Removes majority of menu separators */
menuitem + menuseparator {display: none;}

/* Removes remainder of menu separators except Bookmarks Toolbars..unknown */
menu[label="Sidebar"] + menuseparator,
menu[label="Character Coding"] + menuseparator,
menu[label="Bookmarks Toolbar Folder"] + menuseparator,
menu[label="Mozilla Firebird & Mozilla Information"] + menuseparator,
menu[label="Mozilla & Phoenix Information"] + menuseparator,
menu[label="Quick Searches"] + menuseparator,
menu[label="Middle Eastern"] + menuseparator { display: none !important; }

portability issues wiki

http://www.flamingspork.com/portawiki/index.php/Main_Page
A Wiki for the collecting, sharing and collaboration on portability issues that arise during software development and porting. There are entry points per topic and per platform. Please contribute what you know/find and help build this essential resource!

The idea for this came up at AUUG 2005 in Sydney, originally by Peter Gutmann (cryptlib). People from MySQL AB and the OpenBSD / OpenSSH project immediately responded positively, so Stewart Smith set up this wiki to get things started.

bunny movie reenactments

http://www.angryalien.com/
~ The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library ~
... in which a troupe of bunnies parodies a collection of movies
by re-enacting them in 30 seconds, more or less.

synergy screen sharer

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all.

python vs alligator

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051005/ap_on_fe_st/gator_python
MIAMI - The alligator has some foreign competition at the top of the Everglades food chain, and the results of the struggle are horror-movie messy.
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A 13-foot Burmese python recently burst after it apparently tried to swallow a live, six-foot alligator whole, authorities said.

The incident has heightened biologists' fears that the nonnative snakes could threaten a host of other animal species in the Everglades.

"It means nothing in the Everglades is safe from pythons, a top-down predator," said Frank Mazzotti, a University of Florida wildlife professor.

Over the years, many pythons have been abandoned in the Everglades by pet owners.

The gory evidence of the latest gator-python encounter — the fourth documented in the past three years — was discovered and photographed last week by a helicopter pilot and wildlife researcher.

The snake was found with the gator's hindquarters protruding from its midsection. Mazzotti said the alligator may have clawed at the python's stomach as the snake tried to digest it.

In previous incidents, the alligator won or the battle was an apparent draw.

"There had been some hope that alligators can control Burmese pythons," Mazzotti said. "This indicates to me it's going to be an even draw. Sometimes alligators are going to win and sometimes the python will win."

donkey vs mountain lion

A couple from Montana were out riding on the range, he with his rifle and she (fortunately) with her camera. Their dogs always followed them, but on this occasion a Mountain Lion decided that he wanted to stalk the dogs (you'll see the dogs in the background watching). Very, very bad decision...

The hunter got off the mule with his rifle and decided to shoot in the air to scare away the lion, but before he could get off a shot the lion charged in and decided he wanted a piece of those dogs. With that, the mule took off and decided he wanted a piece of that lion. That's when all hell broke loose... for the lion.

As the lion approached the dogs the mule snatched him up by the tail and started whirling him around. Banging its head on the ground on every pass. Then he dropped it, stomped on it and held it to the ground by the throat. The mule then got down on his knees and bit the thing all over a couple of dozen times to make sure it was dead, than whipped it into the air again, walked back over to the couple (that were stunned in silence) and stood there ready to continue his ride... as if nothing had just happened.

Fortunately even though the hunter didn't get off a shot, his wife got off these 4...
http://www.ubersite.com/m/75751

"visualizing" subatomic particles

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000198
"The idea was to transform physical properties into visual properties," Andersen explains. After working extensively with University of Michigan physicists Gordon Kane and David Gerdes, Andersen decided on four rules that would govern his representation of particles:

1. All the forms should be generated by one simple visual element.

2. The particles must have the same basic form, yet reflect differences in mass, parities, functions, and behavior.

3. There must be logical coherence between the particles according to the categorization and decay patterns of the Standard Model. Yet, the model must be open for possible extensions due to supersymmetry, string theory, gravitational forces, and the Higgs field/particle.

4. The particles' spins and directional velocities require a multidirectional visual quality.

After extensive experimentation, Andersen decided on a shape called a superquadric ellipsoid, created by manipulating the equation of the Lamé curve, for the basic shape of all of his Standard Model particles.

aliens cause global warming

http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote04.html
There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

bat bombers

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001580.html
http://www.afa.org/magazine/1990/1090bat.html

piracy is progressive taxation

http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html

pluto home entertainment system

http://plutohome.com/support/index.php?section=document&docID=11
Most smart home systems take weeks to setup and the programming can be daunting. However with Pluto, if you follow the steps below, even a non-techie can get a whole-house smarthome solution up and running in only a couple hours without any programming at all. Or, contact a Pluto Pro dealer who will come to your home and do everything. All Pluto Pro dealers do custom installations of not only Pluto, but also complete home theaters, lighting control systems, and other home automation components.

poor dog

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/54448579.html
I came home from work today and walked into the kitchen and noticed some brown streaky stains on the tile. Being the neat freak that I am I bent over to have a better look, that's when it hit me. Mud doesn't have hair in it. Upon closer inspection in became readily apparent that it was shit, not just any shit but nasty brown shit. Now where could this have come from? Who would track shit across my tile? My first thought was my dog. He wasn't supposed to be in the house but maybe he got in, had some shit on his paw from the backyard and tracked it across the floor. So I go looking, around the corner in the laundry room is more shit, on the floor, on the wall, on my laundry basket. I follow it back towards my office, more shit stains on the floor. As I reach the office I can see shit on the white carpet leading back towards my desk. As I bend down I hear my dog whimpering. This is getting really weird now. He's under the desk and wont come out. I have to pull him out by his collar. As he is coming out the smell hits me. Shit, nasty I ate taco bell kind of shit, and he's covered in it!@ What the fuck is going on here? How could he have been covered in shit? How could he cover himself in shit? Rolled in it? Fell in it? What. So I'm pissed. Washing the dog, washing the house, everything.

An hour later I'm sitting on the couch with my newly washed and obviously relived dog and I see a note on the coffee table. It's from Julie, my girlfriend.

It reads. Kevin, went out back to see what the dog was barking at, stepped in his shit on the side walk and slipped and fell in it. I was so mad I went in the house, shit in a paper plate, and rubbed it all over him. Have fun cleaning it up fucker. You and your fucking dog can go to hell.

Julie

seafood + buttsex = ew

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/51760058.html
Never have anal sex after a fish dinner.

Most people contract some form of food poisoning at least once a year. Most of the time the symptoms are mild, and can even be mistaken for a 24 hour flu bug. Other times, the symptoms are similar to one having a very bad case of the flu, but rarely do people ever need to go to the hospital for food poisoning.

Just by its nature, the probability of contracting food poisoning from fish is always higher than most other foods. This is why, based on personal experience, I recommend that no one ever engage in anal sex after your date ate a large fish dinner.

We hadn’t been dating that long, only about a month. Even though we'd only been dating a short time, we were having sex since the second date, and it was the best, freakiest, porno-style sex of my life. Seriously, this was the kind of sex that every man, deep down, dreams about having at least once in his life. It was the kind of sex that I had wished for ever since my voice started changing. It was with this woman, and only with this woman, that I was ever addressed with the phrase, “Use your whole fist for Christ’s sake.”

On one now infamous date night, we were enjoying a romantic dinner at an upscale seafood restaurant. Through the entire meal, however, sex was all that was on our minds. In retrospect, every date we ever went on seemed to just be a temporary diversion from the best part of the night, which involved animalistic insertions, feral lickings and brazen misuse of food products. We emptied wine bottle after wine bottle over the course of the dinner, and by the time the main course arrived, fish for her and lobster for me, she slipped off her shoes and casually masturbated me under the table with her stocking covered feet. Completely plastered and horny by the end of the meal, we decided to skip dessert in the restaurant because a much sweeter dessert “was being prepared in her hot, wet crotch,” she said. I paid the bill and narrowly avoided getting a speeding ticket, not to mention a DUI, during the drive back to my place.

By the time we got into my apartment, we were tearing each other’s clothes off. Sloppy in our drunkenness, we knocked over two lamps during our horny, groping journey into the bedroom. Once in the bed, she got down on all fours, arched her back, and presented her delicious ass to me. I grunted my approval while aiming my rock-hard cock missile at her hairy silo. When the head of my cock began to penetrate her lips, she stopped me.

“No. In my ass,” she hissed at me, sounding both horny and angry at the same time.
“Are you sure,” I asked?
She giggled as she said, “If I could handle last night. . .”
Oh yeah, I thought. Last night’s adventure involved a clown mask, three packets of Pop Rocks, and a twenty-inch replica of the Eiffel Tower. What the hell was I thinking? Of course she could handle some anal-action. She reached between her legs and began lubing up her asshole with her own pussy juices. Where did I find this girl? I thought. I was in horn-dog heaven. Blessed. Not being an expert in anal intrusion, I slowly eased my way into her lovely stink-star. First the head, then a quarter of the shaft, and soon I was buried to the hilt between her ass-cheeks.

“Go slowly,” she said, half moaning, half panting in both pleasure and pain, I think. I did as she bid, and very slowly began pulling out, like a steam piston on an old locomotive beginning its first run in a century. Almost all the way out of her, but keeping the head firmly planted in her ass-iris, I slowly began inserting again.

“Yeeeeees!” she moaned and began diddling her clit. Soon she said, “Faster.” So faster I went, the tempo increasing until the train was running at full speed, the piston pumping in and out so fast my cock became a complete blur, her hand rubbing her clit like she was trying to start a friction-fire in her pussy.

“Gnnnnnnnah!” she screamed. Thinking she was close to orgasm, I pumped that ass even faster, faster than Amish meth-head churns butter.
“Gnnnnnahstoooop,” she screamed, or something like this, because the noise in my head was drowning out the reality around me, for in my head I heard a steam locomotive, chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-Woo-Woo! Barreling down the tracks, and somehow I pumped even faster.
“YES!” I screamed.
She started reaching behind her and flailing on the bed in what I thought was ecstasy—
“—Stop!” she screamed, able to finally get out the word I had mistaken for groans of ecstasy moments ago. She screamed this with such volume and guttural, primal force that it had the effect of pulling the emergency brake on a 100,000 pound locomotive running at full speed. The sex act squealed to a halt, and I pulled my cock out of her ass like the rip-cord on a parachute. Did someone order champagne? No, that popping noise was my cock coming out of her ass.
“Arrrrrrgh!” She screamed, as I yanked my cock free. And then it happened.
Immediately after my cock popped out, I was sprayed from belly to thighs with watery, fish-smelling diarrhea.
“What the—-?” I said, not able to get the word ‘fuck’ out of my mouth because of my shock at the brown funk lining my body. As she sprayed me, she seemed to be propelled forward by the force of the jet-propelled diarrhea, and she collapsed onto her stomach.
“Oh. My. Fucking. God.” I murmured, completely shell-shocked. Everything was still. I could hear my wind-up alarm clock ticking on my dresser. I stared at my shit-covered body. I surveyed the room to see if there was any collateral damage. The trajectory of the diarrhea spray was similar to buck-shot in a sawed-off shotgun; it was everywhere. Unfortunately, during the sex act she had been facing the feet-side of the bed, which meant that the headboard, my bedside table and lamp had poop on them as well. Even my bedside clock had a few speckles staining its face. The bed sheets: Killed in Action. A total loss.

I looked at my date, lying there motionless. I called her name. No response. I called her name while shaking her a bit. Nothing. Fear shot through me, as I thought, “Oh my god, what if she’s dead?” But this fear quickly dissipated when I heard her snoring. She was passed out from the wine. I on the other hand was no longer blasted drunk, because the blast from her ass rendered me completely sober. This night was definitely going down in the (ahem) annals as the all time worst date of my life. In fact, I had to invent a new special category, “Even the Devil would feel sympathetic,” to describe this night.

I cleaned up. I cleaned her up. I cleaned the headboard, the dresser, the lamp and the clock. With some manipulation of her passed out body, I was able to wrangle the sheets from the bed and throw them down the garbage chute. By two in the morning, I found myself lying on my couch, drinking Jack Daniels from the bottle. I don’t remember passing out myself, but I can say that unconsciousness didn’t come soon enough.

“It was food poisoning,” her voicemail message explained to me the next day. After some silence, she added, “The fish.” More silence. “Sorry.” She left this message the following day, around 2:00 p.m. I had slept until Noon, and, thank God, she was gone when I woke up. How do you face that? She never called me again. I never called her. I definitely learned two valuable lessons that night: 1) Never have anal sex after a sea food dinner. 2) Be careful what you wish for. There’s only one other experience in my life that entered into the “Even the Devil would feel sympathetic” category, and frankly I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to tell that story. Let’s just say that the morning after a great one-night-stand, the beautiful woman you banged the night before can certainly use your bathroom. . .but she shouldn’t be more comfortable standing up while she pees.

vector drawing programs

http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_08_01_05.html
a comparison of the different vector drawing programs available

if WWII had been a RTS

http://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_jokes_20057151.asp
If World War Two had been an online Real Ttime Strategy game, the chat room traffic would have gone something like this.

*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*
Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0JO: lol
Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever
Stalin: cool
deGaulle: **** Hitler rushed some1 help
Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy

Roosevelt: i dont got **** to help, sry
Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me
Roosevelt: get antiair guns
Churchill: i cant afford them
benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is?
paTTon: stfu
Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys
deGaulle: eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the fock up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
deGaulle: this is fockin weak u guys suck
*deGaulle has left the game.*
Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k?
benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair?
benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head?
Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO
T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bullsh1t u fags im gunna kick ur asses
T0JO: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little biotch ill get u
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bullsh1t u hacker
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: WTF u arsshoel! WE HAD A FoCKIN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1
T0J0: o **** i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Roosevelt: yah thats right ***** im comin for ya
Stalin: church help me
Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here
Stalin: dont be an arss
Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late
Eisenhower: LOL
benny-tow: hahahh oh sh1t help
Hitler: o man ur focked
paTTon: oh what now biotch
Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol
*benny-tow has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: lame
Roosevelt: gj patton
paTTon: thnx
Hitler[AoE]: WTF eisenhower hax hes killing all my sh1t
Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record
Eisenhower: Nuts!
benny~tow: wtf that mean?
Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped
paTTon: coming to get u hitler u paper hanging hun cocksocker
Stalin: rofl
T0J0: HAHAHHAA
Hitler[AoE]: u guys are fockin gay
Hitler[AoE]: ur never getting in my city
*Hitler[AoE] has been eliminated.*
benny~tow: OMG u noob you killed yourself
Eisenhower: ROFLOLOLOL
Stalin: OMG LMAO!
Hitler[AoE]: WTF i didnt click there omg this game blows
*Hitler[AoE] has left the game*
paTTon: hahahhah
T0J0: WTF my teammates are n00bs
benny~tow: shut up noob
Roosevelt: haha wut a moron
paTTon: wtf am i gunna do now?
Eisenhower: yah me too
T0J0: why dont u attack me o thats right u dont got no ships lololol
Eisenhower: fock u
paTTon: lemme go thru ur base commie
Stalin: go to hell lol
paTTon: fock this sh1t im goin afk
Eisenhower: yah this is gay
*Roosevelt has left the game.*
Hitler[AoE]: wtf?
Eisenhower: sh1t now we need some1 to join
*tru_m4n has joined the game.*
tru_m4n: hi all
T0J0: hey
Stalin: sup
Churchill: hi
tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff!
tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY **** I GOT NUKES
Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz
tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple
Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets
T0J0: wtf is nukes?
T0J0: holy ****holy****hoyl****!
*T0J0 has been eliminated.*
*The Allied team has won the game!*
Eisenhower: awesome!
Churchill: gg noobs no re
T0J0: thats bull**** u fockin suck
*T0J0 has left the game.*
*Eisenhower has left the game.*
Stalin: next game im not going to be on ur team, u guys didnt help me for ****
Churchill: wutever, we didnt need ur help neway dumbarss
tru_m4n: l8r all
benny~tow: bye
Churchill: l8r
Stalin: fock u all
tru_m4n: shut up commie lol
*tru_m4n has left the game.*
benny~tow: lololol u commie
Churchill: ROFL
Churchill: bye commie
*Churchill has left the game.*
*benny~tow has left the game.*
Stalin: i hate u all fags
*Stalin has left the game.*
paTTon: lol no1 is left
paTTon: weeeee i got a jeep
*paTTon has been eliminated.*
paTTon: o sh1t!
*paTTon has left the game.*

thespark's old personality test results

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=880825
these were much better. if someone has the code for this, they should "leak" it, because this test was much more fun than the current neutered one since they got bought by Barnes and Noble.

(20060402) just noticed today that this test is back up, basically, at okcupid.com! woo!

color img to b&w stencil

http://www.stencilrevolution.com/tutorials/tutorialsview.php?id=4
how to make a black and white stencil out of a color img. example here!

dojo: the DHTML browser toolkit

http://dojotoolkit.org/
Dojo is an Open Source effort to create a UI toolkit that allows a larger number of web application authors to easily use the rich capabilities of modern browsers.

project status

mostly current oil barrel price graph

http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=staticchart&s=NYM^CLQ5&p=0&t=7&cb=1119789201

some cool free code

http://itamarst.org/software/
Main software projects:

* EIO, a high-level Java networking framework wrapping java.nio.
* TwistedJava, an implementation of the Perspective Broker remote object protocol, implemented in Java.
* Bannerfish, a banner ad server for small sites.
* Cog, a simple object database for Python.
* Slides, an HTML presentation slides generator, where you write a Python program to generate the slides.
* Fusion v0.2, a C++ integration layer for Twisted using Boost.Python.

black rednecks and white liberals

http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle323-20050612-03.html
More is involved here than a mere parallel between blacks and Southern whites. What is involved is a common subculture that goes back for centuries, which has encompassed everything from ways of talking to attitudes toward education; violence, and sex—and which originated not in the South, but in those parts of the British Isles from which white Southerners came. That culture long ago died out where it originated in Britain, while surviving in the American south. Then it largely died out among both white and black Southerners, while still surviving today in the poorest and worst of the urban black ghettos.

Ponzi was a nice guy

http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/olson_ss.htm
The latest plan to "save" Social Security — the world's largest and most successful pyramid scheme — is extremely welcome because it finally rips away the pompous "insurance program" mask and acknowledges Social Security for the welfare boondoggle it has always been.

google satellite photo links

http://www.googlesightseeing.com

http://perljam.net/notes/interesting-google-satellite-maps/

deploying a Twisted app as a Windows service

http://www.adelux.fr/libre/howto/deployTwistedWindows
The goal is to implement a program in Python+Twisted (using PB for network access) under Windows XP or 2000+, that can be run before a user logs on, so it has to be a windows service, launched automatically, at boot. Another goal is to show some developement patterns in Twisted. You will find a lot of 'theoretical' patterns about how to make singletons/borgs, proxy, and stuff, but I never found patterns about 'Twisted code', except for the wonderful 'finger tutorial' by the squishy moshez. This tutorial can be split in two parts: The first one is about writing a good skeleton for your Twisted development. The second part is about making a Windows service.

interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano

http://www.reason.com/0503/fe.ng.the.shtml
As the highly rated home to the likes of Abu Ghraib apologist Sean Hannity and the document-shredding constitutional scholar Oliver North, the Fox News Channel is about the last place you think of when it comes to quaint values such as due process, defendants’ rights, and restrained government. Yet Fox is home to television’s fiercest defender of civil liberties, Judge Andrew Napolitano, the network’s senior judicial analyst and a regular on The Big Story With John Gibson, Fox and Friends, The O’Reilly Factor, and other programs. The 54-year-old Napolitano, the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in New Jersey history, is an eloquent and outspoken critic of government abuse of power, whether the topic is widespread “testilying” by cops, eminent domain abuse by local and state officials, or the unilateral detention of suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

stronger booze, sam!

http://villagevoice.com/nyclife/0526,zappia1,65316,15.html
His latest contribution is the 2005 reissue of Sam Adams Utopias, a 50-proof beverage the Guinness World Records deems the strongest beer in existence. It is grouped under the realm of extreme beers, a movement Koch himself started that indulges in the "lunatic fringe"—brews characterized not only by their high-alcohol content, but also by their ability to test the boundaries of what is considered beer.

pydispatcher

http://pydispatcher.sourceforge.net/
To be more concrete about what PyDispatcher does for you:

* provides a centralized service for delivering messages to registered objects (in the local process). It allows you to register any number of functions (callable objects) which can receive signals from senders.
o registration can be for all senders, particular sending objects, or "anonymous" messages (messages where the sender is None)
o registration can be for any signal, or particular signals
o a single signal will be delivered to all appropriate registered receivers, so that multiple registrations do not interfere with each other
* there is no requirement for the sender or receiver to be dispatcher-aware. Any Python object save the None object can act as a sender, and any callable object can act as a receiver. There is no need to inherit from a particular class or provide a particular interface on the object.
* the system uses weak references to receivers wherever possible
o object lifetimes are not affected by PyDispatcher registrations (that is, when your object goes away, the registrations related to the object also go away).
o references to common transient objects (in particular instance methods) are stored as compound weak references.
o weak references can be disabled on a registration-by-registration basis
* allows rich signal types, signals are simply hashable objects used to store and retrieve sub-tables, they are otherwise opaque to the dispatcher mechanism
* allows sending more information when sending than any particular receiver can handle, dispatcher automatically culls those arguments which are not appropriate for the particular receiver. This allows registering very simple functions dealing with general messages, while still allowing natural passing of arguments to higher level functions.

The dispatcher mechanism is particularly useful when constructing Model-View-Controller style applications where it is not desirable to have the Model objects aware of the event model.

laptop becomes digital picture frame

http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/

Ovid's Perl CGI Course

http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/
Do you want to learn Web programming quickly? Do you know a little Perl and a little HTML? Then this course is for you. Learn how to do Web programming securely and avoid many of the common pitfalls that other courses offer.

jimbo's photos

http://www.summsoft.com/people/jim/index.htm
Jimbo's World is a collection of pictures from [Jim Lawyer's] travels (135 different areas, 529 sub-areas), mostly associated with ice/rock climbing and mountaineering. [He's] taken most of these pictures [him]self; pictures from other sources are noted in their respective copyrights.

magnetism + centrifuge = gun

http://www.military.com/soldiertech/
No heat, no recoil, no sound, no gunpowder, no flash -- just 120,000 rounds per minute of pulverizing power. The next generation of weapons systems has arrived: the DREAD centrifuge-powered weapon system.

types of asians

http://www.yellowbridge.com/humor/kindofasian.html
Young Asians in America come in many forms. Below are the major categories. Most Asians fit into multiple groups. For example, Rice-boys can also be Fobs and many Tabs are Fobulous. The only groups that are never part of another group are the Twinkies and the Asian-Americans. When you see your Asian friend, you greet them with "Wassup Fob!" And if your Asian friend says something ridiculous, say "Fob please!" Of course, when a non-Asian calls you a Fob, that is grounds for a fight. Ahahaha...

wtc7 links

http://wtc7.net/about.html
WTC7.net was created to address the suspicious silence surrounding the total collapse of the 47 story skyscraper known as WTC 7, or Building 7. Except for reports of the collapse on the day of the attack, most conspicuously lacking footage, mention of Building 7 has been essentially non-existent in the mainstream and even alternative press.

http://wtc7.batcave.net/7.html
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/LOU308A.html
Mysteries abound about World Trade Center 7's (WTC-7) demise on September 11. In the early evening in the Big Apple of that horrific day this 47-story steel building suddenly collapsed. An odd series of failures had occurred.

They began when a small amount of debris falls from the implosion of World Trade Center 1, a block away. Somehow small fires subsequently break out in WTC-7. The fireproofing systems completely fail. The fires burn all day from an unknown fuel. Eventually, the flames reach tanks of diesel fuel at ground level. Suddenly, the penthouse begins to fall. The entire lower levels immediately experience the same massive failures. About seven seconds later the entire building is gone. It takes a minute for 2 million square feet of office space to become a large pile of rubble.

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/310898.shtml
Unlike the twin trade towers (and WTC 7), this 32 story steel beamed building remains standing after burning for 17 hours straight. Does steel act differently in Spain or are we confronted with yet another 9-11 anomoly?

Katie Holmes, I mean, Scientology FAQ

http://scientologywatch.org/
This FAQ is a (necessarily) brief introduction to Dianetics and Scientology; the organization (the "Church" of Scientology) founded by L. Ron Hubbard to administer the policies thereof; some of the beliefs; and the techniques for administering those beliefs.

One problem with constructing a FAQ such as this is that there is no simple, easy, answer to the question "what IS scientology?" Scientology is billed as an (elegant) applied religious philosophy, an (infallible) science of the mind, a (superior) system of ethics, an (improved) study technique, a (foolproof) administrative method -- a complete cradle-to-grave-to-cradle (reincarnation is a key element) codex of living. Also, quoting enough of Hubbard's writings to make a point is considered an infringement of copy- right by scientologists (else they raise the cry of "oh, that's taken out of context").

It is safe to say that most of dianetics and scientology is utter foolishness, based on a blend of fraudulent pseudoscience couched in terms designed to make any particular segment appear innocuous. When applied, these policies and dogma are designed to separate those gullible enough to be taken in by them from the maximum amount of money in the minimum amount of time.

javascript "same origin" policy

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/same-origin.html
I had this problem today that it took me longer than I expected to find a solution to. I'm working on a server that runs alongside a webserver and writes out javascript in iframes as subpages of pages served by the webserver. I dev primarily in mozilla on RH9 and I was getting errors like "Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property Window.blah" when I would attempt to access the parent from the iframe. Turns out the solution was to set document.domain to the same thing as the server ('localhost') in the page that my server returns. Simple? Sure, but it took me a couple hours to diagnose and track down. Hopefully this will save someone some digging.

mmog subscription stats

http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart1.html
Mmogchart.com is dedicated to my research in tracking the growth of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). The menu on the left is updated each version with new figures, charts, graphs, and my analysis.

digiweb@web.archive.org

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://digiweb.com
this place i used to work. me and Clint and John/Joo (who i don't have a link for) worked on that website

sex and shopping

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/60286784.html
I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so
much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have
never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.

FOR EXAMPLE: One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into
bed.

Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel
like it, I just want you to hold me."

I said "WHAT??!! What was that?!"

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear...
"You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me
to satisfy your physical needs as a man." She responded to my puzzled look
by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in
the bedroom?"

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with
her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big
unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on
several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to
take so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to
compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We
went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond
earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was
one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because
she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play
tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey."
She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement.
Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all
dear, let's go to the cashier."

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel
like it."

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled
WHAT?"

I then said "honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're
just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy
your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she
was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and
not for the things I buy you?"

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either.

frat 101

http://www.annabellemagazine.com/annabelle%20issue%207/01PA.html
Animal House is a great movie. When you're 13, it makes fraternity life look like the greatest thing ever. You and all your friends just hanging out, drinking some beers, harassing jocks, and having sex in the back of borrowed automobiles. Unfortunately, not all frats are as fun as those crazy Deltas and not all frat guys are as effortlessly cool as Bluto and Otter...

peak oil links

http://www.dieoff.org/
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
http://www.wolfatthedoor.org.uk/
http://www.peakoil.com/forums.html

http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic6619.html

the customer is not always right

http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/13932.aspx
It turns out that this is kind of a crazy way to go about things. Most customers are customers because they themselves do not produce the product or service in question, and need someone else to do it. While, as the consumers of these goods and services, they definitely have some real insight on how improvements and additions could be made, they’re limited in some ways.

understanding Hungarian

It's the little things that, when done right, make the big things easier. That's the thrust of this article titled "Making Wrong Code Look Wrong", by Joel Scllossldkfjasdlfkj

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

date calculation algorithms

http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ushols.html
The American Secular Holidays Calendar (mirrored here)

different python documentation methods

PythonDoc, Epydoc, reStructuredText

sushi sono review

http://rob.rnovak.net/content/archives/Individual/000025.php
Went here the other day with Jon, totally agree. The Bridal Veil roll and Crunchy Spicy Tuna roll are awesome.

"
Columbia, MD was one of the nation's first "planned communities" and has gained a sometimes well-deserved reputation for white-bread blandness. The town center's core is the ever-expanding "Mall at Columbia", and an artificial lake bordered by a cluster of competent if uninspiring restaurants. The jewel amongst the dross here is Sushi Sono (10215 Wincopin Circle, Columbia, MD - (410) 997-6131).
...
The fish is always brilliantly fresh here. This is a busy restaurant, so their turnover on ingredients is fast. This means great sushi. Even "mundane" offerings like sake (brined salmon), and maguro (tuna) frequently achieve subtle greatness. The rice is usually spot-on, and the fish flavors "pop". As the centerpiece of a meal, try a Dragon roll (tempura shrimp and rice wraped in ricepaper, served with head and tail, and garnished with lobster-tail "scales"), or a Bridal Veil Roll (slightly spicy lobster salad rolled with rice, topped with slices of raw tuna, and wrapped in thin ricepaper - the red tuna is the blushing bride beneath the translucent ricepaper veil).
"

jungian summary

http://socionics.com/main/types.htm
According to Jung's theory of psychological types we are all different in fundamental ways. One's ability to process different information is limited by their particular type. These types are sixteen.

People can be either Extroverts or Introverts, depending on the direction of their activity; Thinking, Feeling, Sensing, Intuitive, according to their own information pathways; Judging or Perceiving, depending on the method in which they process received information.

condensed philosophers

http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/
The books which defined the way The West thinks now.
Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage.

buncha pdf refs

http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/quickrefs.htm
pdf reference cards for programming-related stuff from ada to xml
also java, perl, uml, and linux

office dares

http://www.peppervirals.com/viralgallery/officedares.html

discombobulator ray howto

http://www.wowwiki.com/DIscombulator_Ray
walkthrough for gnomeregan that tells you the steps to get all the stuff and in what order.

HenryEarl.status()

http://jail.lfucg.com/services/offenders/offenderdetails/?inmateid=337
find out whether Henry Earl is currently incarcerated! fun for the whole family!

Scarlet Monastery walkthrough

http://www.koaworld.com/html/wow/locations.php?l=Scarlet_Monastery
Scarlet Monastery is an instance [in World of Warcraft] for both the Horde and the Alliance. The Scarlet Zealots in this instance have wisely chosen to make enemies of both the Horde and the Alliance. As such, it is your job to enter their holy Monastery, and destroy everything in sight. Tough job eh?

chesapeake bay roost

http://www.crows.org/chesapeakebay/index.htm
The AOC is a professional organization that promotes Electronic Defense/Information Superiority to maintain national security by providing:

Symposia, seminars, publications, and lectures in all areas of Electronic Defense and related disciplines.
Increased awareness to the general public, commercial/industrial partners, leaders, and government agencies.
Studies and analysis to support national defense issues.
Educational grants and scholarships.
Recognition of member accomplishments through awards.
Sponsorship of trade shows and exhibits.

Locally, the Chesapeake Bay Roost supports the mission of the National AOC and our members through:

Providing scholarships and grants to promising, local students.
Recognizing deserving members with local awards.

esquire: home

http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2005/050401_mfe_home_1.html
In February 2003, after the explosion of the shuttle Columbia, two American [and one Russian] astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves with no ride home. And things got worse from there.

what sin city can teach tom ridge

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1397,1563533,00.asp
For decades, no city has attracted more dubious characters into its buildings than Las Vegas. The lure of quick scores has made Sin City the most vigilant and diligent user of advanced surveillance, identification, background-checking and security technologies. If domestic security were prosecuted as aggressively as casino security, the terrorists that took down the World Trade Center towers might well have been caught. After all, several of them were in Las Vegas as late as August 2001. Here's what Tom Ridge and counterparts still could learn.

I say fuck Tom Ridge, airlines should be the ones implementing these security measures.

the world's most dangerous ideas

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2696.php
With this simple conviction, FOREIGN POLICY asked eight leading thinkers to issue an early warning on the ideas that will be most destructive in the coming years. A few of these ideas have long and sometimes bloody pedigrees. Others are embryonic, nourished by breakthroughs in science and technology. Several are policy ideas whose reverberations are already felt; others are more abstract, but just as pernicious. Yet, as the essays make clear, these dangerous ideas share a vulnerability to insightful critique and open debate.

War on Evil
By Robert Wright

Undermining Free Will (archived article)
By Paul Davies

Business as Usual at the U.N. (free registration required)
By Samantha Power

Spreading Democracy
By Eric J. Hobsbawm

Transhumanism (archived article)
By Francis Fukuyama

Religious Intolerance (archived article)
By Martha Nussbaum

Free Money (archived article)
By Alice M. Rivlin

Hating America (free registration required)
By Fareed Zakaria

tips for writing faster python

http://www.szgti.bmf.hu/harp/python/fastpython.html
This page is devoted to various tips and tricks that help improve the performance of your Python programs

analogous perl/python operations

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