Ebook Ecstasy
Improbably enough, a website named Ebook Ecstasy is pretty good. They seem to have a pretty comprehensive information gathering process. They do newsletters and here is the most recent. I’m really at the point where I have so many books and I still need to get rid of more that I’m really only considering getting [...]
The Man in Black
I’ve been looking for a news story about Johnny Cash and June’s last few days together, one in which he is quoted as saying he wishes God would take him so that they can be together again. I didn’t find it, but I did find some tributes on the official Johnny Cash site. Theirs is [...]
Busy bee
I’ve been super busy, both at work and home, thus few blog entries lately. Part of the business of the business was rewriting a server that had been in Perl, this time in Java. I was able to leverage classes that already existed. In the process, I learned a little about Hibernate, a Java object/relational [...]
Edison’s Frankenstein
Mark Bourne points out an article about the availability on DVD of Edison’s version of Frankenstein.
John Gruber in Waferbaby Interview
There’s an interview with John Gruber at Waferbaby. I started reading Daring Fireball because it was a default in NetNewsWire. Here’s an excerpt from the interview on PCs vs Macintosh:
now how could this be, that your typical graphic designer can perceive and appreciate the mac’s advantages, but most pc industry experts can’t? it’s because [...]
Cyberpunk Game
I’m going to be giving this game a shakedown one of these days - Uplink: (subtitled “Trust is a weakness”). It is from Ambrosia Games, the purveyors of the highly addictive game Maelstrom (which I dutifully registered a shareware copy of 10 years ago.) This game seems to have the same vibe as Wizard of [...]
Sitting on docks of Bayes
There is an article on Slashdot entitled Bayesian Filtering for Dummies that points to a BBC article about spam and talks about Bayesian filtering as a method to combat it. What is interesting to me is the commentary under the /. article. Someone idly speculated about implementing a Bayesian troll filter for Slashdot comments. This [...]
PowerPoint Remix
Aaron Swartz has a pointer to Edward R. Tufte’s “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint” Presented in the Form of a PowerPoint Presentation. I personally use PP but I miss the old overheads with transparencies. In fact, the last presentation I did I really dug around for one and did use the transparencies. I like writing [...]
Aggregators out the yin-yang
I’ve been using NetNewsWire for about a week as an RSS aggregator and liking it. For about two weeks, I’ve been using BlogPluck to convert blogs via RSS to Plucker format, and then reading them on my Handspring. For a few days, I’ve been using nntp//rss to aggregate RSS feeds and then present them to [...]
Matrix as Agitprop?
At Abstract Dynamics, they posit just that. This article proposes that the message inherent in the Matrix films and even more prominent in Reloaded is to question the power structures, oppose control, understand who is pulling your strings, all things that are in opposition to having a conservative regime controlling the public by pointing their [...]
Eyes upward
Band of the day! I found these guys by looking at the recent adds to WREK programming. The band is Eyes to Space from the Chapel Hill area. On their “media” page they have several downloadable songs. The first I listened to, “Boddhisatva Blues”, had this Pink Floyd keyboard intro followed by this Matthew Shipp [...]
Diagram of the Blogosphere
Here’s an article that describes the dynamic of the blogosphere as a new meme rises and falls. It is a pretty interesting description of the phenomenon. The article seems to say that the major media has a part in the story - a misreported story fuels the blogging activity while “when mainstream provides an even-handed [...]
Hell Yeah!
And now the Jackets have defeated NC State 6-5 in the 10th to take the ACC championship. These boys played 28 innings of ball today, scoring 26 runs. I don’t believe that anyone could accuse them of not earning this. What a fabulous day of ball! My boy Richard was calling the games unassisted all [...]
El manifiesto cyberpunk
On the William Gibson’s he posts about the “cyberpunkness” of Mexico City and references a post on his board by a dude on the ground there. I have long not understood why science fiction is so Nipponophilic. Me personally, I care very little for Japanese or Asian concerns. Anime doesn’t do much for me, and [...]
Pictures tell the story
Here is a graph of the amounts of the tax cut for the wealthy. Good lord this picture makes it hard to keep lunch down. There’s a lot of good stuff at this blog, It’s the Economy, Stupid.
Go Jackets, Part 2
It’s been a stunning day in Georgia Tech baseball. The Jackets played their first game at 9:15 AM (?!!) due to the delays caused by storms earlier in the week. They came back from 5-0 at one point to beat North Carolina 10-6. Then, after 30 minutes rest they turned around and played Florida State. [...]
Go Cajuns
Actually, it’s already too late. The UL - Lafayette Lady Cajuns softball team was knocked out of the NCAA tourney today by UCLA. Because I used to park right next to the ladies softball field to work out at the gym there, so I stood around and watched parts of lots of their softball games. [...]
Gilgamesh
Archeologists in Iraq think they may have found Gilgamesh’s tomb. This is interesting, cool stuff. From the article:
“We have found garden structures and field structures as described in the epic, and we found Babylonian houses.”
But he said the most astonishing find was an incredibly sophisticated system of canals.
“Very clearly, we can see in the canals [...]
All Style
I spent a little time untangling the mess of tables in my template and thus was able to move the calendar off to the right like it used to be. I had a hard time getting it to look the way I wanted, so I lifted the CSS bodily from the Tony’s Dream weblog and [...]
And so it ends
So Annika didn’t make the cut. Kind of sad, but she outperformed expectations under a whole lot of pressure. Good for her. I can now stand down and returned to my former state of complete apathy about the sport.
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