El reg has a good article on birdflu. Why haven’t my local media outlets reported on events such as [Feb 2005] report of probable person to person transmission of bird flu in Vietnam? I find that to be a little more interesting that, say, the latest creepy news from the Michael Jackson Trial.
P2P transmission of new strains of flu = really, really bad in case you haven’t being paying attention (which, let’s face it, is probably the case..)
Really big message board with pictures..
.. of women, duh ..
.. yes they’re usually fairly attractive ..
.. no it’s probably not safe for work ..
Viagra and Cialis might make you blind.
This must be some karmic catch-up on the universe’s side after failing to deliver on the exact same thing with onanism. In other news – medication can have unexpected side-effects.
The same scream has been used in countless Hollywood movies over and over again for the past 50 years..
Ian Murdock (of Debian fame) has written an excellent article on the Commoditization of Open Source Software.
Built on linux 2.6, X11 and GTK+. Sweet.
With Bluetooth, 802.11b/g and USB.
This document on decision making is generating a lot of buzz. Give it read.
http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/opre640/partXIII.htm
In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (and proprietor of the textfiles.com history site) wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes. They hadn’t, so he decided he would.
Four years, thousands of miles of travelling, and over 200 interviews later, “BBS: The Documentary”, a mini-series of 8 episodes about the history of the BBS, is now available. Spanning 3 DVDs and totalling five and a half hours, this documentary is actually eight documentaries about different aspects of this important story in the annals of computer history.
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
That would be Celestia.
Actually, the website tells us that You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
If you install it, make sure to stop by the Celestia Motherlode as well..
Tales for the Leet presents Romeo and Juliet!
http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/romjul.htm (flash)
And catch Star Wars III while you’re at it.. (wmv)
http://www.kontrabandcontent.co.uk/1/graphics/movies/starwars3.wmv
or
http://abum.com/files/Movies/starwars3.wmv
or
http://chaos.battlecenter.net/starwars3.wmv
or
http://www.thestorageben.com/videos/starwars3.wmv
Apparently the authors of this thing succeeded in getting one of their random papers accepted for a conference..
http://www.pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
.. and how long has the current (aggressively pro-GM) US President been in office again? Since 01/2001 .. you do the math ..
All imports of United States corn have been stopped at British ports following the discovery that the US has been illegally exporting a banned GM maize to Europe for the past four years.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=630186
Naturally, this is a German product.
http://www.sacfree.com/index_m.html
You might not want to click this at work, or spend too much time thinking about the possibility of your cow-orkers buying anything here. Brrr.
Someone put together an interesting list of search engines and their ranges.
http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm
Fine example of NuMedia at
http://www.welcometothescene.com/
Drama series about the warez scene. No. Really.
Seriously.
I can’t imagine it appealing to Joe Blow, but I’m on episode 3 myself.
NSFW
Nipponese pr0n mags that for some reason got somewhat translated to English and picked up, ah, a little extra along the way.
Fanfic new episodes for season 9 + 10. W. T. F.
This is so cool. I need one. Puzzle Alarm Clock
Though I’m fairly certain I’d simply smash the damn thing with a hammer on day #2.
It’s wtf time again as someone with waaaay too much time on their hands brings us the Operating System icon guide – with clickable icons taking you to app shots, etc. There are also tabs for splash screens, sounds, interfaces and components.
The Dutch government is the first in the world to both issue a Root CA (Certification Authority) and present it for inclusion in a major browser. (Firefox, duh!)
Users of Firefox 1.0.2 can use
View -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Certificates -> Manage certificates -> Authorities
and scroll down to Staat der Nederlanden to verify this. Sweet.
It’s safe to assume that this is part of the PKI Overheid initiative.
