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Civil disobedience

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him. To make matters worse for Gonzales, additional students came into the room, wearing black cowls and carrying a simple banner, written on a sheet.

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What up, G?

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Monaco 9 has started acting really strange! The bitmapped capital “G” glyph has changed, becoming more compressed:   I just noticed it in Mail.app this morning, so it can’t have been like this for very long (can it?). Anyway, this is not what Monaco is supposed to look like…

Update: Is it something with Mail.app, then? Using M9 in iTerm, I can see the correct glyph: … and here’s TextEdit:   Bizarre.

Update 2: Oh noes, it’s spread to the “K” now!

Update 3 (Jan. 27): Fixed (see the comments).

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You’re the meme now, dog

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Wikipedia may not be authoritative, but it sure is current:

On the January 12, 2006 episode of Jeopardy!, host Alex Trebek read an answer in which he quoted Sean Connery’s line “You’re the man now, dog!” from Finding Forrester. This reference, coupled with a reference to popular YTMND subject Leeroy Jenkins on a 2005 episode of the show, has led some to believe that Jeopardy!’s staff are fans of ytmnd.com, and the suspicion is supported by the aforementioned answer being in the “Easily imitated” category, potentially referring to the manner in which the original site was imitated soon after its conception.

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New RiceInfo is live

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006


New: www.rice.edu [large screenshot]

I wasn’t able to make the Web Services meeting where they previewed the new Rice University website, so today’s unveiling is my first look at it. It’s definitely a modern design, with the feel of a slick blog template (and perhaps more than a little inspired by David Chien’s Thresher site?).

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I’m not even supposed to be here today! Again!

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Have you seen the Clerks 2 teaser trailer yet? (I was not surprised to see Jason Lee and Ben Affleck. I was surprised to see Kevin Weisman. Here’s some more video of him from the shoot.)

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Reddit Scribe tree.

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Crossposted from the FeedTree weblog:

FeedTree is a research project, and all research projects need data: preferably lots and lots of it. Each FeedTree node sends a small amount of anonymized data back to a statistics server; it’s enough to reconstruct the Scribe multicast trees that distribute new feed events. Since the FT network is still pretty small, these “trees” are usually more like sprouts, but I noticed this morning that the Reddit tree looked pretty interesting. So here’s a snapshot (PDF) of the current Scribe tree for the main Reddit RSS feed. As the size of the network increases, these trees (which are constructed organically as new subscribers join the group) will look more and more interesting.


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Deuteranomaly is a disability!

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Even though I cannot read what is on it, I know that I do not approve of this t-shirt. [via the knave]


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