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Spaced Penguin:

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

Spaced Penguin: Chromatron meets the n-Body Problem.

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fig. 1.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

fig. 1 Life imitates art imitating life. (more)

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Rice (and WRC) alumnus Zach Allison gets a nod in next month’s Wired mag writeup of BigChampagne, the “mistress” of music studios looking to use…

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

Rice (and WRC) alumnus Zach Allison gets a nod in next month’s Wired mag writeup of BigChampagne, the “mistress” of music studios looking to use filesharing as an unprecedented trend tool.

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Slashdot has posted a front-page story on the new t-shirts, on sale now.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

Slashdot has posted a front-page story on the new t-shirts, on sale now. (Linkage: dsandler.org coverage, more about my design, all contest winners.)

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At last, when a particularly pained “wwuuuu-AOOW?” emits from the kitchen, you can’t take it anymore and you click on the light.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

At last, when a particularly pained “wwuuuu-AOOW?” emits from the kitchen, you can’t take it anymore and you click on the light. And you see…nothing. You see a cat, or possibly cats, but you don’t see them doing anything, oh no. They just stand there, cats of the damned, trying to pretend they’re waiting for a bus.

Related to recent cat post: life in a two-cat household.

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I am unable to account for why Emmaline has decided that she must noisily scratch at every box in my office.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

I am unable to account for why Emmaline has decided that she must noisily scratch at every box in my office. She seems determined to open each one, either by lifting a lid, slicing open a flap, or cutting along a seam. Perhaps these Cat Laws can help me make sense of her behavior.

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More coverage of the VeriSign domain fiasco:

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

More coverage of the VeriSign domain fiasco: Slava K., Register. Also it looks like the machine that VeriSign has put up to handle all these mistyped requests has either buckled under the load, or has been attacked and is offline.

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