Tuesday, March 27, 2001
Monday, March 26, 2001
Mars Polar Lander Still not Found
Mars Polar Lander:
"NIMA researchers used high resolution imagery from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, now in orbit around the Red Planet, in their effort to locate the lander and its components, including a protective aeroshell, heat shield and parachute. One of the principal challenges in locating the missing lander using images from the orbiter is that the Mars Polar Lander is only somewhat larger -- about six and a half feet across -- than the smallest objects the orbiter's camera can see on the surface of Mars. In an initial analysis, NIMA researchers reviewed and assessed features seen in several images that they believe could be indicative of the lander and its protective aeroshell. An alternative view presented by NASA is that these features could be noise introduced by the camera system, so further work between NASA and NIMA will be conducted to address differences of interpretation."
bAKa GAiJiN - Naughty Doujin and So Much More - Updated Mon.-Fri.
I'll check this out later.
Friday, March 23, 2001
Scientific American: Reviews: Do Animals Have Culture?: April 2001
"De Waal begins by laying out the reasons that we Westerners have such an uncomfortable relationship with animals, especially primates. By historical and religious tradition, Europeans and Americans embrace the idea that humans are different from--better than--all other animals, establishing a dualism between us and them. "Whenever their abilities are said to approach ours, the reaction is often furious," de Waal points out."
Thursday, March 22, 2001
Wednesday, March 21, 2001
Tuesday, March 20, 2001
Thinking Outside the Box (washingtonpost.com)
"What we should say is that copyright, like access to the airwaves, is something that brings responsibility. The government should give you copyright. But in exchange, you owe me a buck if your software crashes."There'd be different legal categories of software. If you want to rush it to market, and have first-mover advantage and see what happens, fine. You could label it creative software. But much of your code will be open to the public."
If you want to build a business empire, however, and you want the government to throw itself into protecting your copyrights, in Lanier's scheme you would then have to label your product "firmware."
"If you see this thing is taking off, you have the right to say: This is no longer creative software. This is functional. This has utility.
"But once you do that, you owe me a buck every time it crashes."
And the powers of Washington's enforcement tentacles would hound buggy software writers to the ends of the Earth.
"Instead of hunting down people who smoke pot, they'd be hunting down people who sell business software that crashes. They'd owe people a buck or go to jail. That's what Washington should be doing."
Google Search: Zoe Ball
I don't have time to check this out while at work. I'll do it later.
Monday, March 19, 2001
Scientific American Presents: Feature Article: Your Bionic Future: Muscular Again: September 1999
I don't know whether to look forward to this or be terified, I think I'll choose to look forward to it.
You may have noticed that I do not have all that much of a personal nature in here. Well a number of my friends have made it clear they do not want details of their lives posted, and what is anyone's life but the sum of their interactions with others?
I have actually gone back and deleted prior posts because of their requests. The lession I have learned, do not let anyone else know about this blog.
I got it wrong. It was not Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, that she did not want to see, she practicly dragged me to it, it was, a Jackie Chan film she did not want to see, I just got the names mixed up.
Muslim destroyers reach for the heart of Jewish holy sites - smh.com.au - World
What's to say, this is religious intolerance, understandable given that it's the product of a provincial culture coming into contact with a global one. That's not to excuse it, just to understand how difficult any solution will be. It's just unfortunate that it is alway easier to destroy than to preserve or create.
Argentine outbreak covered up by authorities - smh.com.au - World
Now this is scary. I will never buy corned beef again, (it's from Argentina.)
Friday, March 16, 2001
Scientology
Secrets of Scientology
A Piece Of Blue Sky - Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
Jon Atack - OT III: Scientologys 'secret' course rewritten for beginners. I found this posted to the web.
Thursday, March 15, 2001
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Monday, March 12, 2001
Anthropologists find evidence of early humans in southern China cave
Remains date from 200,000 years ago up to the present.
Sunday, March 11, 2001
Thursday, March 08, 2001
This cracked me up. Avalon is one of the strips I read on a regular basis.
Avalon - An original, daily comic strip by Josh Phillips
You don't know how many times I have dragged to a chick flick, and I have already been told she has no interest in seeing Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
Wednesday, March 07, 2001
The Register - Aimster tells Napster file filter to 'pig off'
Aimster tells Napster file filter to 'pig off'
By: Tony Smith
Posted: 07/03/2001 at 15:04 GMT
Aimster, the Napster-across-Instant Messenger software developer, has released what it reckons is the solution to Napster's filename filtering system.
Napster now monitors the names of shared files in order to block songs for which it hasn't been given permission to allow to be shared on its network. The move is part of the company's plan to avoid being completely toasted by the music industry and the courts.
Aimster's developers reckon this is tantamount to an invasion of privacy. What you call the files on your own hard disk, whether it's shared or not, is your own business, not Napster's. Hence what they're calling the Aimster Pig Encoder, which simply shuffles around the characters in an MP3's filename while still ensuring downloaders can figure out what they are: "It takes each of the file names of the mp3 files in your Napster directory and encodes the file names so that the name cannot be easily monitored," it says on Aimster's Web site.
Aimster implores users not to let on how the name shuffling works, presumably lest those crafty buggers at Napster figure it out and block the shuffled name to.Aimster even goes as far as to threaten anyone considering letting on the secret of the encoder with legal action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - irony of ironies, the same legal foundation the music biz used to swat Napster.
As we don't know how it works, we can't tell you anyway. Not that Napster coders needs us or anyone else to tell them that - they can look at Aimster's site and download the code themselves.
Of course, if they try to use it to block juggled filenames, they'll be contravening the DMCA, too, which will make for an interesting situation: Napster sued simultaneously by both the music industry and users.
The DMCA makes illegal the act of circumventing copyright protection systems. ®
Welcome to the wonderful word of chakumero, which is short for chakushin (arrival) melody. I think you'll agree that the term chakumero is preferable to the rather ungainly term we use in English: downloadable ringing tones. Chakumero are one of the newest fads to capture the imagination, and pocketbooks, of Japanese youth and they've fast become an integral part of Japanese pop culture.
New superconducting material packs an applied punchThe jolt of excitement from the January discovery of a new high-temperature superconducting metal, magnesium diboride, may get another voltage boost this week with evidence that the material can carry electrical currents at high density.
Tuesday, March 06, 2001
Used-PCs.com -- Used pcs, used notebooks, used laptops, used systems, used computers, new computers, used pc, used notebook, used laptop, used computer, new computerEvery third Saturday of each month we host a warehouse sale of all of our inventory. You can come and take a look at something you are interested in, before you make your purchase. Come see our monitors, at reduced prices for our local customers. Every purchase of a system comes with either a free keyboard /w mouse, or laptop carrying case.
Free pizza and soft drinks are provided
We are be open from 9am to 2pm on the next saturday sale, March 17.
Ok, after coming across the upteenth referrence to All your base are belong to us, I decided to create a search and see what I find.
Search for All your base are belong to us on: All the Web - AltaVista - Deja -
All your base are belong to us
BetaNews - Scope - Interesting New Web SoftwareScope - Interesting New Web Software
By Aaron Dobbins, BetaNews
March 5th, 2001, 4:51 PM
A BetaNews reader sent word over the weekend about a new Internet browser hitting the net dubbed Scope. What makes Scope unique is its ability to show you what the same Web page looks like when rendered by both the Mozilla and IE engines. Using a simple tab interface it allows developers to check both simultaneously without having to load several programs all at once. You can also save groups of sites to be opened at the same time under one single command. This lightweight browser also features tools to block annoying popup advertisements. For more information check it out here.
Still having to do my searches here.
Search for Brasserie Lipp on: All the Web - AltaVista - Deja -
Rogov's Ramblings - Daniel Rogov - Home Page
It is undeniably true that the professional wine, restaurant and travel critic has to eat some pretty bad meals, drink some awful wines and spend some nights in some fairly grubby hotels. All of which is fine with me, for as a person who has earned his living by wining, dining, traveling and writing about those experiences for many years, I have had so many really great experiences that I am willing to forgive the bad ones.Join me, if you will, as I sample the very best of what the world of wine and gastronomy has to offer. You may not agree with all that I have to say, but I think you will enjoy yourself as we travel together.
My website is down. I wanted to do a search on something I found, Shadow netWorkspace, so I created a search here.
Search for Shadow netWorkspace on: All the Web - AltaVista - Deja -
Scientific American: Feature Article: Making Sense of Taste: March 2001
Flavor is a complex mixture of sensory input composed of taste (gustation), smell (olfaction) and the tactile sensation of food as it is being munched, a characteristic that food scientists often term "mouthfeel." Although people may use the word "taste" to mean "flavor," in the strict sense it is applicable only to the sensations arising from specialized taste cells in the mouth. Scientists generally describe human taste perception in terms of four qualities: saltiness, sourness, sweetness and bitterness. Some have suggested, however, that other categories exist as well--most notably umami, the sensation elicited by glutamate, one of the 20 amino acids that make up the proteins in meat, fish and legumes. Glutamate also serves as a flavor enhancer in the form of the additive monosodium glutamate (MSG).
Umami, is a new taste I have heard of before. Lets see what a search turns up for it.
Search for umami on: All the Web - AltaVista - Deja -
Here is a guy who wrote an article on umami, Strat's Place - Daniel Rogov - The Noise About Umami
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