Blog posts from 2004
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RSS UPS
RSS is the new “ Push ”, for those of you that were reading the tech rags in the late 90’s. Er, but it’s done right this time. While furiously refreshing favorite sites looking for updates has been…
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Dead Like Me
Dead Like Me, the only reason I have fancy cable channels, has been canceled. :sigh:
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buzzclips
I use and recommend purchasing as I did Acquisistion for the mac. When Acquisition gets a new song, it adds the song to an “Acquisition” playlist in iTunes, making the new stuff super easy to filter,…
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photographs
I like this guy’s photography. Puts my shit to shame. I did get a “hey don’t forget your camera tomorrow” call from work for the holiday party but wow, good stuff on Croslin’s site. Discovered by…
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TSA DEA?
For those of you not following: John Perry Barlow groggily packed some mary jane in an ibuprofen bottle leaving this years Burning Man festival and was busted at LAX for drug possession by the TSA.…
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Apartment drama
My apartment used to be operated by two leasing agents and an onsite resident manager. All three were a pleasure the few times we needed their help. In the past month for various reasons, all three…
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Dark and Stormy
The 2004 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest . Contestants tried to write the worst opening sentence to a novel they could muster. Winner for Detective Fiction: Detective Micky Blarke arrived on the scene…
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The Fighting Tricycles
Got this from my old roomate Phil: This Saturday, the 18th, The Fighting Tricycles (billy, steve, phil, richard) are opening for New York Indie Rock Icons, ‘ The Wrens ’ at the Talking Head . If you…
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Clutch
Clutch Friday, 1/7/05, 9:00PM EST 9:30 Club Washington, DC, USA I’m going. To rock!
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Federal Censorship Commission
Jeff Jarvis refutes Michael Powell usenet style. (I love his copyright notice)
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free DJ Shadow/Zack song
For nostalgia’s sake, grab “[March of Death]( http://www.anti-bush.com/DJ Shadow - March of Death.mp3)” It’s a “listen to it once, bob your head, and go back to whatever you were doing” type of song.…
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Shmoocon
I just signed up for Shmoocon , billing itself as: an all-new, annual East coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering an interesting and new atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation,…
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fauxtesting
Every university has them and yes this country is better for it but it does get tiring. You corporate sellout babykiller satanist. Response . Specifically targetting LaRouche ’s brainwashed masses.
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Popeye vs. anime
Classic American cartooning walks into an anime flick and doesn’t get it . Hilarity ensues.
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hhgttg
HHGTTG Teaser Trailer . 42, a thumb/planet logo, oh, and the destruction of the Earth by Vogons.
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roygbiv
A Library organized by color . I’ve had my dock organized loosely by color for lack of a better scheme. Beaten.
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Drawrings
Don’t complain about the consistancy, it’s a daily. Toothpastefordinner .
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morris
Via the [infowarrior] list, a reminder that yesterday was the 16th anniversary of the Morris Worm .
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Reality-based Community
Wow. Just, wow. NYT reporter Ron Suskind speaks with a Bush staffer … The aide said that guys like me were ‘‘in what we call the reality-based community,’’ which he defined as people who ‘‘believe…
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Animals
Col. Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains Nation, Washington, DC Tue, Sep 28, 2004 07:30 PM Amazingly I just managed to snatch up three tickets the day before the event. Thanks for the reminder Sean.…
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LaMerk
I’m a sucker for a good t-shirt . LaMerkIndustries is a Stephen King / Dark Tower series reference. I’d have expected something with a satellite dish or the star shape of the beams for the logo but I…
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kryptonite for kryptonite
Whoa. I used to have one of these locks but threw it away because I’d lost the key. Cylindrical key-hole, meet ball-point pen. We used to use them as spit-ball-shooters in elementary school.
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phonetic alphabet
Having recently placed a call to the Microsoft Clearinghouse to get a 25 character license re-activated and been bounced between multiple clearinghouse representatives, tech support, and back to the…
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writequit.com
I just bought writequit.com .
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bwaa!!!
reg req’d . “He said, ‘We can’t give it to you’,” Mr. Kennedy said, describing an encounter with an airline agent to the rapt audience. " ‘You can’t buy a ticket to go on the airline to Boston.’…
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linux kernel dev cycle
non-geeks: Groups can only e-mail a document back and forth to work on it at certain sizes. When it’s a few million lines it has to be maintained in one place and changes (patches) need to be…
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darko
Everything you were afraid to ask about “Donnie Darko” . Either you loved it or you hated it, it seems. I had a smoke and a beer, then came back in and watched it again, my first night with the DVD.…
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Beastie Boys
I’m not really digging the latest BB songs as much as the past three albums but thanks to a pretty heinous hangover and a complete ignorance of what channel is what here in DC, I found myself…
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1970's Atkin's
Quote fnord.org (I love this stuff): “You will find that the State is the kind of ORGANIZATION which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.” - John Kenneth Galbraith THE MYTH…
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tough work
Switching must be tough. I remember kicking and screaming a bit but now switch app’s, os’, etc all the time. I don’t mean to imply that I’m Captain Open Minded. Formal testing of a switcher to gnome…
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morning drive
Morning commute to client near the Capitol building: 15 minutes. The same commute from my previous residence: 1 hour 15 minutes.
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dc show
tmbg is Live on Penn on the 24th. I’ll be there.
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vis
via k10k : Akiyoshi’s illusions pages . Headache fun!
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information is power
Bullshit indeed . Couldn’t agree more. I have ranted about information warfare by corporations as it affects the individual. This is much larger scale and much closer to the bone. So very very…
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waaaaaah
The worst seems to have been from 2 to 6 this morning. [jamesbrown]Got a cold sweat!![/jamesbrown]. Ibuprofen and work today. Excelllent. UPDATE: Well that sucked. I took off sick tomorrow, which as…
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CC E-book
via bb : _ Dr. Lewis B. Turndevelt’s Big Book of Forewords_ . Read it with Tofu . Or do this with htmldoc on a unix machine . Or uh, use cat or echo or type and speed read it on the command line.…
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er we think it was a virus
Now that the scare is over: Amanda woke up Tuesday morning around 4 with chest pains, left arm hurting, etc. Around 5 we decided to see try the emergency room. I left around 7:30 assuming she’d be…
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Salem's Lot
Most impressive . I would have liked to see more on the Father Callahan given his roll the series . The novel was the story of an addict priest with a faith problem, the movie is a vampire thriller.…
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oh shit
Winner of the Industrial Design awards and something we could have used when camping recently: the UnBathroom . Why would anyone want a translucent bag?
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Moving to DC
I’m moving to DC . Assuming the credit check goes through… I timed a morning commute yesterday from the new digs and made it in 30 minutes – down from the current 70 and my clients are even closer…
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lightswitches
“Here, let me turn the light on for you!” isn’t helpful. I’m fully aware of the invention and mastered operation of the switches years ago. I’m getting much better guessing where the wallplate is and…
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DRM
This has been making the rounds and usually I’d not post what is available elsewhere but this is my only chance to emphasize that Cory Doctorow’s talk at Microsoft regarding DRM is a really good read…
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my evil twin
I’m pretty impressed that Aaron held out on showing this for nearly a year. Hilarity.
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Gunslinger VI
Shit. June 8 is today . Get thee to a bookstore ! This jogs my memory to relate somewhat stale SK news - he was the recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the U.S.…
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security rant
Ah to be able to rant so well… mjr argues security concepts on the firewall-wizards mailing list . Join me in challenging the preconceptions of an industry that has grown up around “if you can’t do…
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rss2email
This is the shit . Seriously.
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bonnaroo
Whoa.
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DMC(R)A
Executive Summary .
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Apollo Sunshine
Track 4 : Drum solo with a side of catchy pop song. The two tracks on their home page aren’t bad either. This message brought to you buy XMU .
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world 1-2
Maybe the riffs aren’t as similar as my brain wanted them to be this morning but the bass/synth line from the Weather Report song _ River People_ just might be the influence for the music to world…
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Muzzles
This year’s Muzzle awards should get a harumph out of most… Among last years bulleted list of items awarding John Ashcroft: Allowing $8,000 in tax dollars to be spent on drapes to conceal two…
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well well well
Start [here](http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=103480&cid=8819645). Thread over to etymology . I seem to recall being taught Greek and Roman myths in grade school with no mention of the Norse…
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blogging since...
Jokerbone archives go back to 2002. I have “posts” on a “homepage” going back to July of '99 . Does that count? Have I been “blogging since 1999”? Supposing I had, is that a point of pride or shame?…
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ways and means
Congressman Nancy L. Johnson (R-CT), Chairman, Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee hearing on the Medicare Drug Discount Card, previously…
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vi command line editing
I’ve always been annoyed at my lack of ability to be annoyed with bash ’s default to emacs-style command line editing long enough to learn simple emacs commands. set -o vi Problem solved. Add it to…
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XM Radio
After driving past their headquarters visible from NY Ave, NW on the way to and from the B/W Parkway with the knowledge that the 3+ hours a day in my car could be better spent, I’ve finally broken…
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don't send me .dee oh see
Erk mentioned that I haven’t ranted about EULA’s in a while. There’s a great /. thread following a post about a Microsoft document giving ‘partners’ tips for how to sell MS Office to people…
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Homeland security design
If you’ve forgotten how silly the country has become: red_alert . Update: I checked out zefrank.com a bit. Very, very, very cool. :00.00 -8
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New Doctrow novel on the way
Having enjoyed Eastern Standard Tribe on my powerbook during my flight to New Orleans last month, I’m now looking forward to Doctrow’s newest .
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Under who?
Mike Newdow is suing to get the “under god” bit removed from the official version of the Pledge we all got to recite in school every morning. It made for an interesting c-span -commute. To hear him…
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Noo Goo
There is a new google design traversing the blogosphere. It is a slight change in the existing design, which is like adding a small fraction to zero and then rounding down. I like it. The cookie…
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sneaker nets
It is always nice when an idle curiosity uncovers the collection of a finely honed mind. I just wasted 15 minutes learning everything there is to know about shoes . Do check out his multi-page…
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Company lan party
The boss threw a lan party. Yes, sitting like that with my tongue out improves my rail gun accuracy by 25%. Yes, that is Guinness the boss provided. Johnathan and I took first in the ctf tourney. I…
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Timeless
Jef Raskin interview : Most of the other computer science grad students had the opinion that there were those people who got it and those people who just don’t get it. But once I observed them…
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Windows Longhorn
I don’t care. It is three or more years away. Press releases from idontworkforthem@hotmail.com are not news from an anonymous insider, they are press releases. K. Now I have a dated url to paste. No,…
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Merrie Melodies
Ring Colors And Their Significance Since 1936, when the concentric circles (called “rings” for convenience) opening was introduced on Merrie Melodies, the first color used was blue because of the…
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data storage is cheap like...
Great /. thread covering Anheuser-Busch ’s distribution model. Best comment evar: Why the very thought of anyone drinking such a low class beverage has CAUSED MY MONOCLE TO POP RIGHT OUT! And really,…
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ESMTP humor?
Ok, more geek shit, from ~2 seconds of a real Exim log this time: x:x:13 SMTP connection from [221.232.74.44]:2373 (TCP/IP connection count = 1) x:x:13 SMTP syntax error in "GET…
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SMTP humor
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:05:52AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote: Sorry, I should have added a smiley to my post. Irony doesn’t come over well in email. MTA feature wishlist? fanf2@domainremoved.ac.uk:~…
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wowbagger
I was visited by Wowbagger the infintely prolonged this mornig on New York Ave near New Jersey . I was in the far right lane but we weren’t moving because a truck was blocking the entire lane and not…
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outerloop
Went and saw the band Aaron managed to sneak himself into over the weekend. The venue was a bar in my home town which I didn’t even know still existed (the bar, not the town). I used to ride my bike…
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1983 where are you
Lucas is putting out the Special Edition Star Wars flicks on DVD. Finally – when it can make him the maximum amount of money. Keeping the your-mom joke lively – my mom and I went to see Episode IV…
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povray and I
When I first got started in 3d-rendering tech, all shapes were created by a process called “extrusion”. Improvements in technology eventually brought “primitives”, giving artists the ability to…
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quaternion julia fractals
Math-made-shapes . Now in 3d! Found via computerlove .
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your mom
As the clock approaches midnight I am surfing the usual suspects and wrap up with hitting my own . A thought rises. My mom checks jokerbone . Not every day, I don’t think. Just every so often she’ll…
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eastern standard tribe
If you are the sort of person into the sort of things that I get into but not always around to see what sort of things I am getting into, you may want to go get a free book . I’m getting into it. As…
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spam vs. *
I am the anti-spam guy. I know where it comes from, what it looks like, who is sending it, and why. I sell this knowledge to clients by setting up front-end servers running the shizzle open source OS…
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pod pod pod
Paul’s ancient Rio started having battery problems. He took it to the store, mentioned his three year extended coverage deally and they hooked him up with something of equal or lesser as a…
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LSD experiment
Very interesting progression of drawings over the course of an entire trip.
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for all one of you
If you are running osX, you need sofa . On my powerbook, I need all the real estate I can get. I’ve temporarily sworn off virtual desktops / pagers in memory of running enlightenment for two years…
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information is $
Twice in the past month, she’s corrected me when giving my phone number to people standing behind cash registers – once at blockbuster and once at a shoe store. It has been long enough now that I can…
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western media as seen from the far left.. er.. right.. er..
Packetstorm happened to link Aljazeera and I couldn’t help but follow it . It’s always nice to see a local make good . In this case, DC’s own (well at least I remember it) Couric. This is good right ?
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Bairns' Day
I was just surfing Modern Drunkard Magazine as linked from Kottke and couldn’t help but note that my own birthday (12/28) is listed as the unluckiest day of the year. Further research tells me… This…
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Groundhog Day 2004
Welcome to 2004. Coincidentally I’m watching Groundhog Day on Encore this 1/1, among the Lebowski’s and the Office Space’s to which Ben and I pre-call most of the good lines. Bing! “does he have to…