20 reps on the rowing machine
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Diet
1 hard boiled egg
1 cup of 1% milkfat cottage cheese
1 cup of salad
3/4 cup of Sauerkraut
4 ounces of beef
12 ounces of water
Cat
My little kitten is really growing up. Still not quite a cat yet. She is beautifull, a silver and black tabby with just a touch of brown here and there.
Diet
Diet
Still on the diet, and still hungry, but not as much as I was yesterday. Breakfast was 1 cup of fat free cottage cheese and 30 ounces of tea. No lunch yet, I am going to work out first. Weight is 232 pounds. I really need a better scale.
I also need to keep better track of what I eat. I forgot to record what I had for dinner yesterday.
1 cup of fat free cottage cheese, 1 cup of coleslaw, 1 pickle, 1 carrot. 60 ounces of water.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Freelists: "Welcome to FreeLists, a service providing free, commercial-grade Internet mailing lists to all interested. Our lists are all internet and technology-related. Thus, we provide a free focal point for technology-inclined individuals and groups on the Internet. We do it all without the support of advertisements, ensuring the highest-quality mailing list experience for you and your users."
FreeLists is a completely Free service. We're not talking just about price here. See, there's a philosophy behind FreeLists: Knowledge and Information are free, and should stay that way. Our service is about maintaining that objective.
FreeLists runs a completely free service on completely Free software. The Linux operating system, the Apache webserver, and the Ecartis mailing manager are responsible for bringing FreeLists to you daily. Mhonarc and ht://dig work in conjunction to bring you the web-based archives. All of this software is Free software and we italicize that word over and over again to emphasize its importance. See the Free Software Foundation's website for more information.
So if knowledge and information is so free, why the limit on the scope of list topics? That was an arbitrary decision on our part. We do have limited bandwidth, and we can't afford (this whole thing comes out of our own pockets, you know) to fill it up with things like "Lucy's Tips on Fingernail Polishing at the BusStop."
Well, until beunited tells me to shut up (probably won’t be long) I’m going to attempt to set the record straight and describe the current status of Java on BeOS. I’ve seen a ton of inaccurate information disseminating about the community and feel something should be said by someone who actually does know what’s going on. That seems to be the general state of Haiku / beunited at this point. Too many people don’t know anything and think they do, or like to speculate, and the people who really know things are too busy working on them to keep people overly informed.
flight_without_formulae.PDF (application/pdf Object)
flight_without_formulae.PDF (application/pdf Object)I am going to try to explain how an aeroplane flies, This
does not mean that I am going to teach you how to fly an
aeroplane-that is a very different matter. Many people who
can explain how an aeroplane flies cannot fly one. Still more
can fly an aeroplane, but do not know how it flies. A few
people can do both
AMDZone :: The real #1 source for AMD news, reviews, and info. Est 1998.
AMD's Dual Core 90nm Opteron Demonstration Dissected: "This past Monday night AMD announced that they would be demonstrating dual core 90nm Opterons here in Austin. I jumped at the chance to see a demonstration so Wednesday afternoon I arrived at AMD eager to get a glimpse of the upcoming CPU in action. This article will reveal images of the new CPU and systems it was running in as well as summarize AMD's plans for dual core in 2005."
Press Room - Ohio Secretary of State, J. Kenneth Blackwell
Press Room - Ohio Secretary of State, J. Kenneth BlackwellVery Nasty
Ohio has rejected thousands of voter registrations because they are on the wrong paper.
COLUMBUS - Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell this week directed county boards of elections to accept otherwise valid voter registration forms in which applicants have failed to submit duplicative citizenship and age affirmation information. The directive is a result of a recent Federal Elections Assistance Commission advisory opinion allowing states discretion in interpreting certain new federal standards for voter registration forms. Previously, forms in which applicants failed to check boxes indicating U.S. citizenship and legal voting age were not considered complete even though the applicant attested to that information elsewhere on the form.
Also, the directive orders boards of elections to maintain minimum postal paperweight requirements for state voter registration forms.
ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design
ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design
: "ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges facing underserved communities and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture of open source design innovation, with ongoing collaboration among individuals, communities and organizations around the world."
Diet
Actual Diet so far Lord am I hungry.
30 ounces of suger free tea
1/2 liter of water
3/4 cup fat free cottage cheese
1/2 cup of colslaw
1/4 cup of brocoli
1/2 cup of Sauerkraut
30 ounces of water
1 jumbo hard boiled egg
Still hungry.
Making Tracks on Mars :: Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe
Making Tracks on Mars :: Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe:
"Summary (Sep 27, 2004): In a remarkable series of orbital pictures, the Mars Global Surveyor's cameras have imaged the tracks of the Spirit rover on the surface. Individual debris pieces including the backshell and lander are visible with remarkable clarity using an innovative roll of the satellite."
Diet
Breakfast
Low-fat cottage cheese (1 cup) 164
Lunch
Hard boiled egg 82
Dinner
Low-fat cottage cheese (1 cup) 164
Salad, consisting of:
Iceberg lettuce (1 cup) 7
Chopped onion (1/2 cup) 33
Diced tomato (1 tomato) 26
Italian dressing (1 tbsp.) 69
Total 545
Exercise
Exercise I am going to try and get in shape. This means diet and exercise. My blog will serve as my logbook. I plan to start very slowly.
Weight 233 pounds.
Rowing machine 10 reps.
I need to get a better scale, the one I now have is ancient. I want an electronic scale that uses a strain gauge instead of moving parts.
The Freenet Project - index - beginner
The Freenet Project - index - beginner:
"'I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?''
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation"
The Semantic Web In Breadth
The Semantic Web In Breadth: "Note: This piece speaks about the different parts of the Semantic Web and how they fit together. For a high-level interview, take a look at Sandro Hawke's The Semantic Web (Put Simply). On the other hand, if you're a Web developer who's interested in building Semantic Web Sites or Semantic Web Services, check out The Semantic Web (for Web Developers). Now back to your regularly scheduled article."
Technology Review: Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Technology Review: Sir Tim Berners-Lee: "Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, but he had something bigger in mind all along. He tells TR how his 15 years of work on the 'Semantic Web' are finally paying off."
Feature Article
The microscale generators we are developing are not nuclear reactors in miniature, and they don't involve fission or fusion reactions. All energy comes from high-energy particles spontaneously emitted by radioactive elements. These devices, which we call nuclear microbatteries, use thin radioactive films that pack in energy at densities thousands of times greater than those of lithium-ion batteries [see table, "Energy Content"].
Monday, September 27, 2004
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Sapphire intros hybrid PCI Express series
Sapphire intros hybrid PCI Express series: "Sapphire said it has introduced the Hybrid Radeon X700 series."
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Microsoft software caused air traffic shutdown - silicon.com
Microsoft software caused air traffic shutdown - silicon.com: "The newspaper said that a Microsoft-based replacement for an older Unix system needed to be reset every thirty days 'to prevent data overload', as a result of problems found when the system was first rolled out. However, a technician failed to perform the reset at the right time and an internal clock within the system subsequently shut it down. A back-up system also failed."
Monday, September 20, 2004
Science Blog - Genes expose secrets of sex on the side
Science Blog - Genes expose secrets of sex on the side: "The researchers started looking at bits of the Y chromosome known as the Alu family of retrotransposons.
''We found lots of Y-chromosome variations that people didn't know exist,'' Wilder said.
The new technique revealed that Y-chromosome DNA and mitochondrial DNA differ to the same degree among populations.
Hammer said, ''That alone wouldn't say the Y chromosome is migrating more, but if just half as many males are getting their genes into the next generation on average as are females, then it implies more males are migrating to do that.''"
AMD to ship 600,000 K8 CPUs in 3Q, 1.5-2 million in 4Q
AMD to ship 600,000 K8 CPUs in 3Q, 1.5-2 million in 4Q: "Current shipments of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 processors to OEM clients and the channel are better than anticipated, and the company expects to ship 600,000 units in the third quarter, according to sources at AMD Taiwan."
Saturday, September 18, 2004
Boeing Denies Antigravity Research Story
Boeing Denies Antigravity Research Story: "Phillips did say yesterday that some technical workers at Phantom Works have been following Podkletnov's research -- perhaps because they are personally fascinated by it, and because they want to keep up to date with technical journals.
But once again, Phillips said Boeing is not funding any such research nor is it attempting to duplicate the Russian scientist's 1992 experiment.
"
SourceForge.net: Project Info - Peekabooty
SourceForge.net: Project Info - Peekabooty: "Peekabooty is a peer-to-peer application which can route web page requests around firewalls. This is done by asking hosts in the network that are not censored to fetch censored web pages."
Friday, September 17, 2004
TRAFFIC WAVE EXPERIMENTS
TRAFFIC WAVE EXPERIMENTS: " It was dusk, the headlights were on, and I was going down a long hill to the bridges. I had a view of miles of highway behind me. In the neighboring lane I could see maybe five of the traffic stop-waves. But in the lane behind me, for miles, TOTALLY UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION. I hadn't realized it, but by driving at the average speed, my car had been 'eating' the traffic waves. Everyone ahead of me was caught in the stop/go cycle, while everyone behind me was forced to go at a nice smooth 35MPH or so. My single tiny car had erased miles and miles of stop-and-go traffic. Just one single 'lubricant atom' had a profound effect on the turbulent particle flow within the entire miles of 'tube.'
It's always a good idea to drive without changing speed and without competing with other drivers for bits of headway. I'd always assumed that the reasons were philosophical rather than practical (i.e. try to be a calm, nice person.) But my above experience shows differently. A single solitary driver, if they stop 'competing' and instead adopt some unusual driving habits, can actually wipe away some of the frustrating traffic patterns on a highway. That 'nice' noncompetitive driver can erase traffic waves. I suspect that the opposite is also true: normal competitive behavior CREATES the traffic waves."
Elm hybrids more resistant than American elms
Elm hybrids more resistant than American elms: "t may be time to consider planting the new disease-resistant elm hybrids, as a trial. Many years of intensive hybridizing have yielded several likely substitutes for the American elm. Unfortunately, none of them is perfect. The vase-shaped form of the classic American elm is elusive, but good progress is being made with resistance to Dutch elm disease, elm yellows (another disease) and feeding by elm leaf beetles."
Dutch Elm Disease
Dutch Elm Disease: "Researchers have worked for years to develop elm varieties that are resistant to Dutch elm disease. These are primarily crosses between various Asiatic elms and American elms. Many of these show good resistance to DED but these hybrids do not have the impressive growth and form of the American elm.
Recently, resistant American elms have been introduced and distributed, although they have not been grown long enough to show if they remain resistant when mature. Until there is more experience with these varieties, replanting in large numbers is not recommended. However, the development of resistant trees provides a promising future means of reintroducing the American elm as a premier shade tree."
Kenyanthropus platyops
Kenyanthropus platyops (Updated 8/25/03):
"2001 was a big year in paleoanthropology with the announcements of 'Millenium Man' Orrorin tugenensis and the later announcement of Kenyanthropus platyops by Meave Leakey et al. This eastern African hominid was excavated in 1998 and 1999 from Lomekwi in the Nachukui Formation, west of Lake Turkana, during fieldwork aiming to expand the knowledge of the 3-4 mya period of this region."
Really nice overview.
Biological Control of Dutch Elm Disease - Atlantic Forestry Centre
Biological Control of Dutch Elm Disease - Atlantic Forestry Centre: "The condition is caused by a fungus, Ophiostoma ulmi, whose spores are carried by small beetles that have bred beneath the bark of diseased elms, to healthy trees where the insects feed and over-winter. The fungus spreads via the water-conducting system of the tree and causes wilting and yellowing of the leaves and, ultimately, death of the tree."
: "The search for DED resistant elms has been a slow process, complicated by a number of factors. Nevertheless, much research has been completed and DED resistant elm trees have been developed. It is a good idea to keep in mind that all trees are subject to problems of one sort or another. Other diseases, insects, and environmental injury may also create problems in tree health. Although resistant elms have been developed, it is important to remember that they are not immune. However, resistance combined with proper care ensures the best chance for success."
No Girls Allowed: Women of the Beat Generation
No Girls Allowed: Women of the Beat Generation:
"In Joyce Johnson's conclusion to her memoir, Minor Characters, this vision of herself as a young woman seeking her place among the writers and artists of the Beat Generation encapsulates the experience of a number of woman writers and poets during this highly male-centered literary era. The courage it took for these women to be there at all in the repressive and conservative 1950s and the excitement they experienced at having secured a 'seat at the table' coexisted with the knowledge that they remained set apart and were generally seen and heard less than their male contemporaries. Given the nature and history of both American culture at the time and Beat writing in general, such an outsider status should not be surprising. Alice Notley takes the argument even further in her discussion of Joanne Kyger's poetry and includes literary movements in general: 'Poetry movements are generally man-made; women seen in light of such movements always appear secondary' (95)."
Muses or Maestros? Women of the Beat Generation (Angela Baccala)
Muses or Maestros? Women of the Beat Generation (Angela Baccala):
"When I began studying the women of the Beat Generation closely, I looked to the one and only secondary source on their role in the movement, Brenda Knight's Women of the Beat Generation.[1] As I eagerly read through the newly-released text, I noted the divisions of the chapters: The Precursors, The Muses, The Writers, and The Artists. Pause. Who was a muse? Many of the women of the Beat movement were influential in their husbands' or lovers' or friends' writings. Does that make then muses? Was Joan Vollmer Burroughs -- the friend and advisor of Allen Ginsberg -- a muse? Was Edie Parker Kerouac, who wrote a hidden, unpublished memoir about her life? Was Carolyn Robinson Cassady, who paints and consults, and wrote Off the Road? Was Joan Haverty Kerouac, who wrote Nobody's Wife? These women had not merely influenced the work of their men, but had created themselves. Similarly, those women listed (in Knight's book) as writers -- including Joyce Johnson, Elise Cowen, and Hettie Jones -- influenced the Beat men. No clear line can be drawn between those who created and those who were a catalyst for other Beats' creative processes. Not only does the label 'muse' do an injustice to these women's works, but it does not thoroughly explain the Beat women's indirect influence in the movement."
Evolution: Humans: Origins of Humankind
Evolution: Humans: Origins of Humankind: "
Kenyanthropus platyops (3.5 to 3.3 million years ago)
Species Description:
Although Kenyanthropus platyops occupied parts of Africa at the same time as A. afarensis, K. platyops is quite distinctive physically and, thus, has been classified not only as a different species, but belonging to a different genus."
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Microsoft tells music biz to 'back lock-down CD standard' | The Register
Microsoft tells music biz to 'back lock-down CD standard' | The Register:
"Microsoft is attempting to force a last-minute pact with record labels over the future of copy-protected CDs, according to a letter seen by MusicAlly. The allegedly leaked document is purportedly from Alain Levy and David Munns of EMI via Tom Silverman of Tommy Boy Records, who was asked 'to reach out to the independent sector to achieve quick consensus on this issue [and] report back to Microsoft.'"
Xerox forbids use of word Xeroxing
Xerox forbids use of word Xeroxing:
"In the September 15, 2004 edition of the The Inquirer, you published an article on Xerox Corporation entitled, 'Xerox wants to move away from Xeroxing'.This is dumb.
Please be advised that XEROX is a registered trademark of Xerox Corporation and is properly used only as an adjective to identify our high quality products and services. In the headline quoted above, the trademark is used improperly as a verb. Such use constitutes a misuse of our trademark and tends to dilute its distinctiveness. As an alternative, we suggest generic terms be used -- such as 'copying', 'photocopying' or 'duplicating'."
Latest Business News and Financial Information | Reuters.com
Latest Business News and Financial Information | Reuters.com: "In March the Commission found that Microsoft abused its dominance of PC operating systems and ordered it to make changes to create a more level playing field for rivals. Microsoft also paid a record fine of 497 million euros ($604.9 million).
Microsoft appealed the EU ruling and asked the Court of First Instance to suspend the sanctions until the case is completed, probably three or more years from now.
Microsoft's request for a suspension of sanctions will be heard by the EU court on September 30."
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters: "descubes writes 'A Journal du Net article reports that about 8% of Windows sessions require a machine reboot. The relevant quote (translated from french) is: 'The average rate of failures requiring a system reboot has been measured at around 8% per session. This number varies widely depending on the version of Windows. Windows 2000 has a failure rate of 4%, and NT4 is at 3%, whereas Windows XP is close to 12%.' The study was originally made by Acadys and Microcost and gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand companies over a period of one month in seven different countries.'"
28% du temps consacr? au couple messagerie / Internet, 2% ? Excel
28% du temps consacr? au couple messagerie / Internet, 2% ? Excel: "28% du temps consacr? au couple messagerie / Internet, 2% ? Excel
Une ?tude men?e par Acadys et Microcost a mesur? l'usage des outils informatiques par les salari?s en Europe. Elle rev?le ?galement que le taux moyen de panne d'un syst?me Windows est de 8% et que le 'z?ro papier' est encore loin. (15/09/2004)"
London Free Press: News Section - Scientists drink in glory
London Free Press: News Section - Scientists drink in glory: "You and I might think that if drinking one beer a day can help you live longer, then drinking five will help you live forever. (This is also why you and I are not scientists.)
In fact, the study showed that drinking two bottles of beer a day is not as healthy as drinking one bottle a day, because it reduces the risk of various aging diseases by only 10 per cent.
And the bad news is that drinking three bottles of beer a day actually causes the blood to become pro-oxidant and increases the risk of such diseases 30 to 40 per cent.
'What really surprised us was the fact that you're getting equivalent effects from both beer and wine,' said Trevithick. 'We had expected that wine would give you a lot more antioxidant activity,' because, he added, red wine contains about 20 times the amount of anti-oxidant agents -- or polyphenols -- as beer."
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
projectcensored.org - The 2004 Election and Censored News
projectcensored.org - The 2004 Election and Censored News: "Election 2004 is a serious test of democracy in the US. Perhaps no other time since the 1930s have we been so dangerously close to institutionalized totalitarianism. No-fly lists, prison torture, domestic spying, mega-homeland security agencies, suspension of habeas corpus, global unilateralism, and military adventurism interlocked with corporate profit taking are all spurred on by a media-induced citizen paranoia.
Corporate media is in the entertainment business and fails to cover important news stories voters need to make election decisions. We need information about our country's leaders. These are the people making decisions that impact all of our lives. We need to know who our leaders are and what they are doing. What are their backgrounds, their motivations? What policies and laws are they enacting? What actions are they undertaking, with or against our consent? We don't need to like them, but we do need to know about them. A participatory democracy needs people to be aware of issues. We need active engaged voters. Unfortunately close to 50% of us will not vote in the upcoming election."
Spielberg beaten to War of the Worlds by secretly shot English rival
Spielberg beaten to War of the Worlds by secretly shot English rival: "In news fit to set Steven Spielberg's hair on end, Pendragon Pictures has just announced the completion of principal photography on their take of H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds. Set in Wells' intended turn-of-the-century English locale, the movie is the world's first authentic adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic 1898 novel."
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Monday, September 13, 2004
Retro Poll: June 19, 2004 health care for all flier
Retro Poll: June 19, 2004 health care for all flier: "It's not news that many polls show a large majority of Americans want a national health insurance program that covers everyone. But have you heard that thirty nine percent of Americans believe there are grounds to impeach George W. Bush? That's something the 'free press' in the U.S.A. won't let you hear, see, or know. Results of Retro Poll's November, 2003 national poll suggested that 40% of Americans find President Bush's deceit about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq grounds for his impeachment. A follow up poll in April/May, 2004 again showed that 39% of people polled (a random sample of 513 from all over the U.S.) find this deception grounds for impeachment. Among many startling findings in our poll this was the most dramatic. But the corporate media ignored these findings. That's partly because our polls aren't just about George Bush. Retro Poll exposes both the extent to which the media colludes with the agenda of those in power and how the media uses polls to make us believe that we think what they want us to think."
Project Censored 2005 - Story #9
Project Censored 2005 - Story #9Berg believes that Defendant Bush is invoking a long standard operating procedure of national security and executive privilege claims to suppress the basis of this lawsuit.
On November 26, 2003, a press conference was set up to discuss the full implications of these charges. Only FOX News attended the conference and taped 40 minutes, however, the film was never aired. W. David Kubiak asks, “When you present documented charges of official treachery behind the greatest national security disaster in modern history, and the press doesn’t show, doesn’t listen, and doesn’t write, what is being communicated?”
Project Censored 2005 - Story #1
Project Censored 2005 - Story #1: "However, since the late 1970s wealth inequality, while stabilizing or increasing slightly in other industrialized nations, has increased sharply and dramatically in the United States. While it is no secret that such a trend is taking place, it is rare to see a TV news program announce that the top 1% of the U.S. population now owns about a third of the wealth in the country. Discussion of this trend takes place, for the most part, behind closed doors."
Project Censored 2005 - Story #11
Project Censored 2005 - Story #11In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.
Back in December of 1996, Jane Akre and her husband, Steve Wilson, were hired by FOX as a part of the Fox “Investigators” team at WTVT in Tampa Bay, Florida. In 1997 the team began work on a story about bovine growth hormone (BGH), a controversial substance manufactured by Monsanto Corporation. The couple produced a four-part series revealing that there were many health risks related to BGH and that Florida supermarket chains did little to avoid selling milk from cows treated with the hormone, despite assuring customers otherwise.
According to Akre and Wilson, the station was initially very excited about the series. But within a week, Fox executives and their attorneys wanted the reporters to use statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false and to make other revisions to the story that were in direct conflict with the facts. Fox editors then tried to force Akre and Wilson to continue to produce the distorted story. When they refused and threatened to report Fox's actions to the FCC, they were both fired.(Project Censored #12 1997)
EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | Space probes feel cosmic tug of bizarre forces
EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | Space probes feel cosmic tug of bizarre forces: "Something strange is tugging at America's oldest spacecraft. As the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes head towards distant stars, scientists have discovered that the craft - launched more than 30 years ago - appear to be in the grip of a mysterious force that is holding them back as they sweep out of the solar system."
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Terminal Island
Terminal IslandMy! Can't decide if this is a good blog by a bad person, or a bad blog by a good person.
PHP: What can PHP do? - Manual
PHP: What can PHP do? - Manual: "There are three main areas where PHP scripts are used.
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Server-side scripting. This is the most traditional and main target field for PHP. You need three things to make this work. The PHP parser (CGI or server module), a webserver and a web browser. You need to run the webserver, with a connected PHP installation. You can access the PHP program output with a web browser, viewing the PHP page through the server. All these can run on your home machine if you are just experimenting with PHP programming. See the installation instructions section for more information.
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Command line scripting. You can make a PHP script to run it without any server or browser. You only need the PHP parser to use it this way. This type of usage is ideal for scripts regularly executed using cron (on *nix or Linux) or Task Scheduler (on Windows). These scripts can also be used for simple text processing tasks. See the section about Command line usage of PHP for more information.
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Writing desktop applications. PHP is probably not the very best language to create a desktop application with a graphical user interface, but if you know PHP very well, and would like to use some advanced PHP features in your client-side applications you can also use PHP-GTK to write such programs. You also have the ability to write cross-platform applications this way. PHP-GTK is an extension to PHP, not available in the main distribution. If you are interested in PHP-GTK, visit its own website."
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor: "PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, try the introductory tutorial. After that, check out the online manual, and the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the links section."
: "WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, Wordpress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it."
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Coming Soon! - Latest News
Coming Soon! - Latest News: "
MARK HAMILL TALKS STAR WARS EPISODES 7, 8, & 9
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Thursday, September 09, 2004
Elevator 2010 Challenge
Elevator 2010 Challenge: "In the coming months, Elevator:2010 will announce a Space Elevator challenge of unprecedented scope.
The challenge will require exceeding by far the state-of-the-art in technologies such as tether strength, beamed power transfer, and electric motors, to build what will truly be the first major step towards the Space Elevator
Stay tuned for details..."
Naked Came The Stranger
Naked Came The Stranger: "Newsday columnist Mike McGrady was convinced that standards of literary and artistic taste were plummeting rapidly in the United States, driven down by a relentless flood of media sensationalism that catered to the lowest common denominator. So he decided to design an experiment to test the depths of the American cultural morass. He would commission the writing of a novel lacking in any redeeming features: no plot or character development, no social insight, and definitely no verbal skill. It would possess only one feature that could possibly hold a reader's attention: lots of kinky sex scenes."
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Princess Blogonoke
Princess Blogonoke: "Tita Ding Ding's Lecheplan
Required items:
8 egg yolks
1 can evaporated milk
1 can condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla
a strainer
a double boiler or large steamer (with metal containers small enough to fit inside the steamer)
1/2 cup caramelized sugar syrup or 1/2 cup dark Karo syrup
Caramelize the sugar first, because that will take a while. Here's a recipe that contains instructions for caramelizing sugar (because I haven't been successful in my attempts to attain sweet golden perfection.)
Place the syrup in a layer in the bottom of the containers or the top half of the double boiler. If the double boiler is the kind with holes in the bottom, place tin foil around the inside so the syrup doesn't leak out. Place the containers or double boiler in the refrigerator to cool.
Place ingredients in a bowl and mix with a whisk until smooth. Pour the mixture into the containers or the top part of the double boiler through a strainer to get all the little eggy bits out.
Cover the containers or double boiler with tin foil. Place the containers in their respective places, cover, and steam for 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Let cool, then flip the molds unto a plate. Be careful, because the syrup might spill all over the counter. If it does, start licking the counter, because it's really good. Grab forks and enjoy the rich, eggy goodness with impunity.
So that's it, Really simple, huh? I usually save this recipe for special occasions, because if I made it all the time, I'd be fat and full of cholesterol.
# posted by Princess Blogonoke : 3:19 AM"
Winning Argument
Winning Argument: "Elections come and go but arguments are forever: Nominate Winning Argument in the Washingtonpost.com's best political blog competition as the blog 'Most Likely To Last Beyond Election Day.'"
Dangling Participle
Dangling Participle: "A Personal Journal of the Evolution of the Design of the Space Elevator (or Bridge)"
pratings of a no-life
pratings of a no-life: "pratings of a no-life
when you might as well, but really shouldn't...when you didn't have to, but did...when you must, but can't.."
Gone South
Gone South: "Life on the Mississippi, Lucifer's little acre, and Lucy, the blogging adolescent parrot"
Science Blog
Science Blog: "According to a new report, complex cells like those in the human body probably resulted from the fusion of genomes from an ancient bacterium and a simpler microbe, Archaea, best known for its ability to withstand extreme temperatures and hostile environments. The finding provides strong evidence that complex cells arose from combinations of simpler organisms in a symbiotic effort to survive. Scientists refer to both bacteria and Archaea as ''prokaryotes''--a cell type that has no distinct nucleus to contain the genetic material, DNA, and few other specialized components. More-complex cells, known as ''eukaryotes,'' contain a well-defined nucleus as well as compartmentalized ''organelles'' that carry out metabolism and transport molecules throughout the cell."
SCIENCE BLOG CENTRAL
SCIENCE BLOG CENTRAL: "Start your own science blog
Posted by bjs on 30 June, 2004 - 12:13
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Science Blog - 'Flying' nanotubes are strong and hard
Science Blog - 'Flying' nanotubes are strong and hard: "Diamonds are the hardest known substance. Carbon nanotubes are the strongest. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory tried to combine the best of both worlds by creating a composite nanostructure. They wanted to grow tiny carbon tubes with tiny diamonds. But the results were not as expected. Instead, the experiment altered the surface area of the nanotubes, creating wing-like extensions. Even though the result wasn't what the experimenters were looking for, these modified surfaces may push nanotubes further into the world of practical and applied materials and systems. It also provides insight into how to synthesize an emerging class of material called ''nanocarbons,'' which consist of different allotropes -- the same elements with different molecular structures -- of carbon combined at the nanoscale to yield new materials with unique properties."
NASA Gravity Probe B Mission Ready To Test Einstein's Theory
NASA Gravity Probe B Mission Ready To Test Einstein's Theory: "Gravity Probe B, a NASA spacecraft to test two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, achieved a major milestone last week with the completion of the first phase of its mission and the transition into the science phase. The GP-B mission is now one step closer to shedding new light on the fundamental properties of our universe."
Genesis capsule crashes in US, damage "extensive": NASA
Genesis capsule crashes in US, damage "extensive": NASA: "NASA's Genesis capsule slammed into the Utah desert Wednesday after its parachutes failed, leaving scientists unsure if they could retrieve the bits of solar dust captured on its three-year mission."
The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality
The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality: "Forget the roar of rocketry and those bone jarring liftoffs, the elevator would be a smooth 62,000-mile (100,000-kilometer) ride up a long cable. Payloads can shimmy up the Earth-to-space cable, experiencing no large launch forces, slowly climbing from one atmosphere to a vacuum."
USATODAY.com - Tiny CubeSats carry potential for huge payoffs
USATODAY.com - Tiny CubeSats carry potential for huge payoffs: "In addition to overseas launches, CubeSat builders are looking to develop the capability of boosting their satellites within the United States. A campaign is in progress with all major launch providers to assess possibilities for the future."
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CueCat Mirror List
CueCat Mirror List: "The CueCat is a barcode scanner passed out with subscriptions to Forbes magazine and the Radio Shack catalog. The idea is that consumers will install the CueCat software and use the scanner to scan in the bar code associated with certain advertisements. Once the bar code is scanned into the computer, the software will direct the user's browser to the product's web page.
Essentially, this is a way of giving the user of the CueCat immediate and up-to-date information on a product the user is interested in. If I am, say, interested in Radio Shack's televisions, I can scan in the bar code associated with the television I am interested in and be immediately directed to that product's web page. Voluntary, targeted marketing: the CueCat is the retailer's dream device.
There is a hidden side to the CueCat however. With every scan of a bar code, the CueCat gives out a unique serial number. When you receive a CueCat at Radio Shack, or from Forbes for that matter, this serial number can be associated with your name, address, phone number, or whatever else Forbes or Radio Shack happens to know about you. This information could be used in other, involuntary marketing campaigns. You could get junk mail or spam from television companies, for instance. The CueCat could not only direct you to the product you are interested in, it could be used for involuntary data mining. "
CueCat Mirror List
CueCat Mirror List: "Please mirror this page. Please. Your rights that are under attack, stand up or loose 'em. The right to express yourself in code (footnote 1: decss ruling). The right to reverse engineer. The right to distribute other's coded expression (footnote 2: decss ruling, linking). The right to fair use of copyrighted material (footnote 3: vis-a-vie the microcode inside the cuecat. See also the _complete_ control over use, and hence the removal of the right to fair use, given to the copyright holder by the digital millennium copyright act through the act's prohibition of decryption.) By participating you are exercising and strengthening these rights, and, incidentally, standing against false advertising."
CueCat Resources
CueCat Resources: "This page was created when Digital Convergence began issuing Cease & Desist Orders to existing websites dedicated to similar efforts as an attempt to mirror existing material and as a future distribution point for the software I'm working toward.
Digital Convergence is free to send me one of their letters, but unless they specify exactly HOW I'm infringing their IP rights it will only be kept as a trophy, and scanned to include in this section."
WSJ.com - So Your Roomba Vacuums ... Does It Also Take Pictures?
WSJ.com - So Your Roomba Vacuums ... Does It Also Take Pictures?: "Sometimes tinkering can make money. Shortly after the MuVo2, a portable music player made by Creative Labs Inc., hit the market for $199 earlier this year, hackers discovered that its core was a miniature disk drive with massive four-gigabyte storage capacity that Hitachi Ltd. was selling separately to digital-camera users and others for $499. Soon, disk drives stripped out of the MuVo were showing up on eBay for around $250. The empty players -- which could be refitted with standard memory chips -- fetch $35 or so."
RollingStone.com
RollingStone.com: "Should George W. Bush win this election, it will give him the distinction of being the first occupant of the White House to have survived naming Dick Cheney to a post in his administration. The Cheney jinx first manifested itself at the presidential level back in 1969, when Richard Nixon appointed him to his first job in the executive branch. It surfaced again in 1975, when Gerald Ford made Cheney his chief of staff and then -- with Cheney's help -- lost the 1976 election. George H.W. Bush, having named Cheney secretary of defense, was defeated for re-election in 1992. The ever-canny Ronald Reagan was the only Republican president since Eisenhower who managed to serve two full terms. He is also the only one not to have appointed Dick Cheney to office.
This pattern of misplaced confidence in Cheney, followed by disastrous results, runs throughout his life -- from his days as a dropout at Yale to the geopolitical chaos he has helped create in Baghdad. Once you get to know his history, the cycle becomes clear: First, Cheney impresses someone rich or powerful, who causes unearned wealth and power to be conferred on him. Then, when things go wrong, he blames others and moves on to a new situation even more advantageous to himself."
Over at Defense, competent intelligence professionals were purged in order to ease the way to war. Douglas Feith, brought in under Rumsfeld to serve as undersecretary of defense for policy, applied an ideological test to his staff: He didn't want competence; he wanted fervor. Col. Pat Lang, a Middle East expert who served under five presidents, Republican and Democratic, in key posts in military intelligence, recalls being considered for a job at the Pentagon. During the job interview, Feith scanned Lang's impressive resume. "I see you speak Arabic," Feith said. When Lang nodded, Feith said, "Too bad," and dismissed him.
The Flapper
The Flapper: "As far as I know, this is the only paper airplane that flaps its wings when it flies.
No motor, no rubberbands. Just a piece of typing paper, a penny and an inch of tape."
KnowledgePlex: Article: Huge Transit-Oriented Development Planned for Austin, Texas
KnowledgePlex: Article: Huge Transit-Oriented Development Planned for Austin, Texas: "LEANDER -- How do you take 2,300 acres of empty Texas plain and grow a nearly $2 billion, pedestrian-friendly residential and commercial utopia?
City leaders say they've found the answer in transit-oriented development and are planning a mixed-use, high-density commercial and residential project around a railhead in northeastern Leander. If a planned Capital Metro commuter rail referendum passes in November, the railhead will become the start of a commuter rail line connecting Leander to downtown Austin.
The project, ultimately expected to have more than 8,000 homes and 30,000 people, will turn a fallow field into a bustling mini-metropolis. Considering that Leander has only about 12,000 residents now, the project will transform part of Williamson County and turn a poster child for sprawl into the northern rim of the New Urbanism trend settling over Central Texas."
nbc5i.com - News - TEA May Lose Out On Federal Funding
nbc5i.com - News - TEA May Lose Out On Federal Funding: "AUSTIN, Texas -- The U.S. Department of Education may withhold as much as $7 million dollars from President George W. Bush's home state.
Federal officials say the Texas Education Agency has failed to tell parents whether schools performed up to standards under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Parents won't be able to request transfers to move their children from poorly performing schools until the information is released, and the funding may be withheld until then.
State education officials said they may not have final results until February.
A TEA official said the school report cards were delayed because federal education officials did not approve the state's plan for assessing progress until the end of July.
Much of the state's plan was scrapped because it didn't meet the law's requirements.
Under Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, schools must demonstrate year-to-year progress. Students at schools that miss performance benchmarks two years in a row are eligible to transfer to a different school.
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CACTUS, TEXAS
CACTUS, TEXAS: "CACTUS, TEXAS. Cactus is on U.S. Highway 287 near Etter and thirteen miles north of Dumas in northern Moore County. It began as a company town to produce ammunition for World War II. The Cactus Ordnance Works, one of the largest plants in the county, was established there as a government project by the Chemical Construction Company in May 1942. About sixteen sections of land were purchased; the cactus and other prickly plants were cleared, and huge dormitories were hastily erected to house construction workers. After its completion in 1943, the plant began production of ammonium nitrate to be used in explosives. Housing was built for the plant employees, who at one time numbered 6,000, and many of whom lived in trailer houses. With the easing of the emergency after several months, officials of the Chemical Construction Company received orders to close the plant. Operations were suspended, and some of the residential structures were sold as surplus before the Shell Union Oil and Gas Corporation assumed control of the plant in early 1944 and began manufacturing aviation gasoline. This arrangement lasted until August 1946, when the Emergency Export Corporation took over and reconverted the plant to the production of ammonia. This company continued production until August 15, 1948, when Phillips Chemical, a division of Phillips Petroleum Company, assumed management. Phillips had erected another plant near the ordnance works in 1943. The Cactus post office was established in 1948, by which time the local population had decreased to 2,000. In the early 1980s Cactus had a population of 898 and fifteen businesses, including a large beef-packing plant. In 1990 the community's population was 1,529.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. D. Minor, The History of Moore County, Stressing Education (M.A. thesis, West Texas State College, 1949). Fred Tarpley, 1001 Texas Place Names (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980).
H. Allen Anderson
Recommended citation:
'CACTUS, TX.' The Handbook of Texas Online.
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Page Title: "The Magnet Web site is dedicated to the 'Magnet' publication. Home to Billy Bunter and Greyfriars School."
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Beyond3D - Which was nice.
Beyond3D - Which was nice.: "NVIDIA announced the new NV43 based GeForce 6600 and 6600 GT graphics boards nearly a month ago now. NV43 is a native PCI Express chip that's designed to bring the features and capabilities of the high end NV40 (6800) to the mainstream market. In the mainstream market segment, while performance is a key element, so too is cost, hence NVIDIA are saying their aim for retail pricing of 6600 GT is $199."
Common Good: faq
Common Good: faq: "What is Common Good?
Common Good is a bipartisan coalition dedicated to restoring common sense to American law. Our Advisory Board is a virtual who's who of leading Americans from across the political spectrum. Common Good grew out of the work of our founder and Chair, Philip K. Howard, the author of The Death of Common Sense and The Collapse of the Common Good. We are a 501(c)(3) public charity and rely entirely on contributions for support."
Common Good: The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
Common Good: The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn: "CG board member Diane Ravitch's new book, The Language Police, describes a world gone mad in search of fairness and avoiding bad feelings. Her riveting expose describes the bizarre and often scary world of educational censorship. The 'sensible principle of removing racist and sexist language' has turned into an 'effort to delete whatever might annoy or offend the most agitated imaginations.' Merle Rubin of the Los Angeles Times asks:
What do dinosaurs, mountains, deserts, brave boys, shy girls, men fixing roofs, women baking cookies, elderly people in wheelchairs, athletic African Americans, God, heathens, witches, owls, birthday cake and religious fanatics all have in common? Trick question?
No, all verboten.
Bias and sensitivity guidelines routinely used by educational publishers, test development companies, the states, and scholarly and professional associations 'combine left-wing political correctness and right-wing fundamentalism, a strange stew of discordant influences,' explains Ravitch."
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that mattersSlashdot's Politics subsection.
The Underground History of American Education - John Taylor Gatto
The Underground History of American Education - John Taylor Gatto
"The true purpose of schooling, according to Gatto, is to produce an easily manageable workforce to serve employers in a mass-production economy. Actual education is a secondary and even counterproductive result since educated people tend to be more difficult to control." -- Slashdot.
Huge magnet pulls world toward a new source of energy - MIT News Office
Huge magnet pulls world toward a new source of energy - MIT News Office: "A 150-ton magnet developed in part by MIT engineers is pulling the world closer to nuclear fusion as a potential source of energy.
Over the last three years 'we've shown that we can design a magnet of this size and complexity and make it work,' said Joseph V. Minervini, a senior research engineer at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center and the Department of Nuclear Engineering."
Elizabeth A. Thomson, News Office
September 25, 2002
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