Archive for September, 2006
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
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The Villanelle is the most restrictive of all sandwich forms.
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OMG WIRELESS PODCASTS!
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New local wheatpaste project: Where’s Waldo?
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Yes, it’s weird that we are listening to puppets.
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
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/. review of Avi Rubin’s book
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(So) Graham Norton: “People like Bono really annoy me[…]He goes to hell and back to avoid paying tax. He has a special accountant. He works out Irish tax loopholes. And then he’s asking me to buy a well for an African village.”
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
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Prescient or presumptuous? “Every decade or so we have a major revolution in the way we develop software and the environments we develop for. But, unlike the object and web revolutions, we can see the concurrency revolution coming.”
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>FrOZ is a text adventure engine based on current technology from computational linguistics and theorem proving. It uses real natural language processing techniques to analyse the user’s input and generate the system’s output, and accesses a description l
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Prompted by a conversation on IRC. I love the evocative names (snail, monkey-tail, strudel) that other cultures choose for the ‘@’, which was “virtually unknown before e-mail became widespread”.
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> Threadless started back in late 2000 when Jake Nickell and myself entered into a one time t-shirt design competition held on a design message board. Jake won the contest which sparked the idea to create an on-going t-shirt contest website, thus the idea
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
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Titles and abstracts: 10/2; submissions: 10/9
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Paper submissions due: November 10, 2006, 23:59:00 PST (GMT-8).
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Absolutely appalling.
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
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Blogging about their products is clearly a good move for Lenovo, which needs to emerge from under IBM’s shadow as a trustworthy and innovative brand (lest the ThinkPad name lose its lustre).
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(Note that the blog’s banner graphic is also made up of those little keyboard-mounted nipple-devices.)
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It looks like these businesses offer discounts just with presentation of a Rice ID card (no special card required).
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
You probably noticed the Links for 2006-09-18 post this morning; it’s a dump of the previous day’s links in my delicious bookmarks. Let’s try this for a few days; it might be useful or it might just clutter up the place.
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
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Wikipedia with real author names and experts. Either a brilliant Wikipedia 2.0, or doomed to fail under its own mechanism.
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A draft improvement to the Bluetooth pairing system: “Simple Pairing uses Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) public key cryptography3 as a means to thwart passive eavesdropping attacks”
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