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July 1st, 2004
Geek stuff

Global Mind

[The article below is dense enough to give me a headache, but among the abstruse and intensely complicated conceptualizations, there are some interesting nuggest. In particular, the pointer to the Global Consciousness Project got my attention. Demonstrates that reality is wilder than Science Fiction. My now deceased partner, Chris Schefler, was really into the whole […]

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May 23rd, 2004
Death of the Planet, Geek stuff

Vernor Vinge on “The Technological Singularity”

Source (straight copy, including HTML coding): http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html

Vernor Vinge
[…]

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May 10th, 2004
Play

Bush as a woman?

[I see a vague resemblance to Barbara Striesand… -Thomas]
http://www.funsnap.com/1/bushgirl.swf

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March 4th, 2004
Geek stuff

Acoustic Cavitation Fusion replicated and documented in detail

[This is potentially huge. -Thomas]
http://www.rpi.edu/web/News/press_releases/2004/lahey.htm
FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATE
March 2, 2004 CONTACT: Theresa Bourgeois
(518) 276-2840
bourgt@rpi.edu
Researchers Report Bubble Fusion Results Replicated
Physical Review E publishes paper on fusion experiment conducted with upgraded measurement system
TROY, N.Y. — Physical Review E has announced the publication of an article by a team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Purdue […]

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February 29th, 2004
Social Justice, Geek stuff

Great quote!

“… it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday
facilitate a police state.” — Bruce Schneier, Founder/CTO, Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., http://www.schneier.com/

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February 20th, 2004
Geek stuff

Star Trek: Lost Episode Transcript

[My dad, who I infected with the Amiga virus in college, many moons ago, and who still uses it, sent me this after seeing it on an Amiga mailing list. -Thomas]
Star Trek: Lost Episode Transcript
Ok so this is dated and it’s from STNG. I just received this today,
thought it was pretty good ;-)
(Picard) […]

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February 1st, 2004
Geek stuff

Abandoning Hubble - reaction on the ground (from Dave Farber’s IP)

Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:53:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Subject: HST SM4 (fwd)
To: “Joseph C. Pistritto”
Cc: Dave Farber
More info. on the Hubble servicing mission cancellation for the
interested… I have removed some personal information.
It seems that this was a very carefully made decision…
Joe
———- Forwarded message ———-
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:15:57 […]

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January 31st, 2004
Geek stuff

Microsoft’s answer to insecure code: type in your links by hand.

[Got this off Dave Farber’s IP… suspect it is an email from someone’s email blog. And, oh yeah… Microsoft sucks, clearly. -Thomas]
Subject: [Boing Boing Blog] MSFT: don’t click on links, type them in by hand
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:15
From: Cory Doctorow
To: boingboing-mailblog@yahoogroups.com
Microsoft’s crxxxxare browser, Explorer, has more security vulnerabilities
than
my block has dope-dealers, but […]

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January 26th, 2004
Geek stuff

The day the Internet died…

O.K. I just opened up my inbox, after three hours of doing something else, and there were nearly 200 spam and macro virus emails, and barely a dozen “valid emails” (non-junk)… most of those were from some of the many and active mailing lists I’m on. This is ridiculous. I pity anyone stuck administering an […]

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December 7th, 2003
Geek stuff

WSIS declares “all your base are belong to us”.

“policy authority for Internet-related public policy issues is the sovereign
right of States” aka “all your base are belong to us”.

Says who?!? I never granted the authority to any state to regulate
Internet-related public policy. I’ve been on the Internet since I first
arrived in college in 1990, and it seems to me that it has managed to
function quite well, thank you, as a collectively collaborative endeavor via
existing models of goverance and dispute resolution.

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October 17th, 2003
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Out of the mouthes of babes…

Pointer to EGM article: “Would today’s tykes tolerate the classic games you grew up with? Kids do say the darndest things in this uncut version of an EGM article—now with a bonus game not included in the original story! “

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August 8th, 2003
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Dr. Sean Gabb on bookbinding…

[I stumbled across Dr. Sean Gabb’s commentaries some time ago, and have found them an enjoyable addition to my inbox. The elegance of his writing renders any political differences with the content superfluous.
I found the item below on the pleasures of bookbinding particularly enjoyable, so I thought I’d share it.
Regards,
Thomas]
Free Life Commentary
Issue Number 108
Friday, 8 […]

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August 8th, 2003
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“Hearts in Atlantis”

Just finished reading “Hearts in Atlantis” by Stephen King.
Much better book than I ever expected. Much better. When I finish a good book, what’s left is a calm, quiet space at the center of my being, total relaxation, contemplation/meditative state.
A book like that makes you think, but not in any determined, focused way, just kind […]

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May 23rd, 2003
Play

The true history of the internet…

[Hilarious stuff. I burst out laughing several times. -Thomas]
The Lemon: History of the Internet

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