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Tuesday, February 01 2000

The U-Hell Website Let me put it this way: ferry boat, U-Haul truck, key that won't open door. Still getting sett...

Thursday, February 03 2000

Lydia Lee : Friends don't let friends use AOL The last line says it all, but AOL still sucks.
This isn't just a tie-clip, buddy it's the ultimate sacrifice.
The Canadian Student Federation demonstrations yesterday led me their Declaration of Student Rights. I hate documents like this. I can't tell if they a...
James Fallows : Inside the Leviathan If there is something you love or hate about Microsoft programs, don't thank or blame Bill Gat...
Magnus Lie Hetland : Instant Python via have browser, will travel

Friday, February 04 2000

I had no idea that coffee grounds have a remarkable ability to mop up heavy metal atoms.
Jim Fulton : Introduction to the Zope ODB
GLOR-R-RT!! I love comix (sic) sound effects.
Words & Pictures Exhibit : Elektra Assassin Still beautiful. This was one of those works that changed everything for me.
Thomas Friedman quotes Michael Sandel "Now business is growing to global dimensions, but governments are still national -- so govern...

Saturday, February 05 2000

NY Times : Nuclear Anxieties in a New World I remember very clearly listening to Ideas one night during the year that the Berlin Wall came...
LA Weekly : LAPD tries to muzzle street cops on the Web "No one is saying so, but the dispute [ over the lapd.org website ] is clearly linked to the c...
Mother of Perl : Mac Daemons in Perl "Speaks the currently running processes at 15 second intervals." The best part about example c...

Sunday, February 06 2000

Paul Maliszewski : Instructions for Reaching the Bridge to the 21st Century "You used to have to climb the mountains of the new millennium, now you can just ride the esca...
Brent Simmons : How to Run Frontier on Linux with Wine

Monday, February 07 2000

iCab 1.9 has limited JavaScript support with a caveat : "At the moment no security policy is implemented in InScript, i.e. every frame...
Ah, it's so nice to be home again... "Dear God, this means that both pronunciations are American! Now what do we do if we want to b...
CBC : Depleted uranium found in tissue of Gulf War veteran "[Riordon's] military file also acknowledges what may be the strangest problem of all: his eye...
Crosswords "is a single- or multi-player crossword puzzle game for the Palm Pilot family of "connected or...
LA Times : Software Makers Aim to Dilute Consumer Rights "There's a consensus that something needs to be changed, said Rick Miller, a Microsoft spokesm...

Tuesday, February 08 2000

Tigert Labs : Gimp Tutorials Lovely icons, too!
Visor Radio This looks pretty cool, but would be *so* much cooler if it had atleast a short-wave radio as ...

Wednesday, February 09 2000

The Matrix IQ "The graphs represent average Internet performance. The dark, bold line represents the Interne...
Richard Stallman : Why We Must Fight UCITA see also badsoftware.com
Boiled Brains : A Picture of Weblogs Neat. Why is it, though, that the pattern of squares seems to form an almost perfect whirligig...
CERT : Results of the Distributed-Systems Intruder Tools Workshop "In November 1999, experts addressed issues surrounding distributed-systems intruder tools. Th...
David Ronfeldt : Social Science at 190MPH on NASCAR's Biggest Superspeedways "In aerodynamically intense stock-car races like the Daytona 500, the drivers form into multi-...
Tech-Junkie : How to Paint Your PC Case

Thursday, February 10 2000

Hacker News : Have Script, Will Destroy (Lessons in DoS) see also the SANS Institute on Egress Filtering.

Sunday, February 13 2000

CBC : Cyanide spill spreads to Danube river "So far, about 300 tonnes of dead fish have been removed from rivers in three countries, and b...

Monday, February 14 2000

Andy Oram looks in his crystal ball and decides we need to get rid of email. Andy, email is practically the only thing about the I...
"This is quite possibly the most inherently wrong thing in the world today." via more like this
LeoCAD "is a CAD program that uses bricks similar to those found in many toys (but they don't represe...
Philip E. Agre : The architecture of identity, Embedding privacy in market institutions "[This] article considers the ideas about human identity that have been implicit in the develo...
William Safire "Look at yourself, dear reader. Are you a narrowband person, cribbed, cabin'd and confined in ...
painting monkey girl "This is worth the hassle of fetching the plug-in, please see this URL and select 20th Century...

Tuesday, February 15 2000

Project Gutenbook "is a graphical interface written in Perl/GTK+ for downloading, browsing and reading Project G...
CBC : In America's Web "To my mind, Canadian content is a story, a product that's produced here in Canada that's cons...
Montreal Mirror : The 99c pizza slice exposed

Wednesday, February 16 2000

Norman Nie "No one is asking the obvious questions about what kind of world we are going to live in when ...
Katie Bacon : Get A Life At one time, "on line commerce" meant ordering by phone from a catalogue. Was there ever a "Ca...
John Udell : Can XML Simplify Auto-Grabbing Web Mail?
Maps of the Debates about the Turing Test The actual charts are 3' x 4', so the images don't quite do them justice but it's still neat. ...
Speaking of Python the Proceedings of the 8th International Python Conference are available online.
digitalMass : A coder's worst enemy "But today, in an odd twist, programmers may be turning that same sword on themselves, creatin...

Thursday, February 17 2000

NY Times on the sounds of All Things Considered "People are music-starved. They like this music because it's not like music you can hear anywh...
Desmond Tutu "Our country chose a middle way of individual amnesty for truth. Some would say, what about ju...
The Just Watch Me website "It was hard to grow up under the elegant, enigmatic and eccentric Pierre Trudeau. The man was...

Friday, February 18 2000

Rick Salutin : Yikes! Not another brave new world These issues long have been discussed by hackers and hacktivists on the Internet. They were th...
Alan Paller : Notes from the White House "Witt Diffie stole the show with his analogy of DDoS attacks to the "breakdown of democracy." ...
David L. Sobel "[Corporate] stalking -- that's new to me. To a certain extent, lawyers have to go through som...
Students Against University [MP3] Censorship "So the issue at hand is censorship. Should public universities such as Indiana University be ...
The Peanuts Quilt
Jason Vest quotes Bruce Sterling "The class-resentment aspect is so obvious. It's a lot like the World Trade Organization thing...

Saturday, February 19 2000

I was going to spend the weekend working on the never-ending upgrade of my own weblog software. I think, instead, I'm going to ...

Monday, February 21 2000

Robert Jorin : Baking Light and Flaky Croissants
Paul Callahan : Almost nothing to do with grapefruit "Cheese, by contrast, encompasses the entire range of human experience: birth and sexuality, t...
Adbusters : Vandalism is Art "Vandalism is a kind of parasitism born from the essence of millennial western civilization. I...

Wednesday, February 23 2000

Beam-back "is a simple Python script to save streaming mp3's so you can use them on your portable mp3 pl...
Friedensreich Hundertwasser : 1928 - 2000 "His mission, as he saw it, was to "improve the world and make it more beautiful." He despised...
The Hundertwasserhaus Webcam
Boston Globe "Thanks to what may be an unprecedented agreement between the Kennedy Library Foundation and t...
Ian McCoy on the Canadian backpack "In any nation, citizens are instilled with a sense of pride, but we so often forget that prid...
Dave Winer "I'd have a hard time looking Gore or Bush in the eye and not feel dirty, but yes, if they got...
Web PDF Viewer Spits out HTML or PalmOS Doc files. Sweet!

Thursday, February 24 2000

February 24 is a Day Without Brad, Evan or Dave
Bill Joy "How much money do you need to be able to tell the truth? It seems that the more money you hav...
James C. Bennett pushes all the right buttons images of the Empire where the sun never sets, of the Internet where the money flows like wate...
I would have never thought to make <a href = "http://www.tamaraskitchen.com.au/books/risotto.asp">risotto with plum...
Dave Cooper : Tonguey-thing
e.e. commerce, Poet Laureate of the Internet "For Galt, and millions of others, there is no greater example of this than commerce's e-ishne...
SANS : Consensus Roadmap for Defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

Friday, February 25 2000

John Dizard : You came, you sang, you conquered "Think of a hospital -- washed with disinfectants, its residents shot full of antibiotics. Mos...
Meanwhile today is National Beaver Day. "You can lead a beaver to water -- but he'll probably dam it....
Stuart Minor Benjamin : Stepping into the Same River Twice, Rapidly Changing Facts and the Appellate Process "What if, for example, factual findings regarding the Internet on which the Supreme Court reli...
Speaking of Canadian Kultur the phone company is offering to buy one of the three national television networks. "The move for CT...

Sunday, February 27 2000

SAGE : Perl Practicum "From 1993 to 1997, ;login: published a series of articles "intended to demystify some of the ...

Monday, February 28 2000

Slashdot "Hmm. I hope they [Ebay] get Sotheby's sniped from them at the last minute by some guy with a ...
Meanwhile, in Ontario the provincial goverment has embarked on an ambitious plan to create more worker drones. Why t...
Rob O'Daniel "I worry about some 15 year old kid with too much spare time on his hands hacking into my seda...
Ars Technica : MacOSX DP3, Trial by Water see also : Say hello to chiaMac
Cook's Companion 1.0 "is a handy, quick reference guide for common measurement, temperature and ingredient equivale...

Tuesday, February 29 2000

February 29 is International RSI Awareness Day (because it is the least repetitive day in the calendar.) see also <a href = "http://www.salon...
The Emacs Babel mode "You give it a word or paragraph to translate and select the source and destination languages, an...
news.com : AOL Time Warner will open cable lines to ISPs
A word about Amazon I have so far refrained from signing any of the growing number of boycott Amazon petitions circul...
Parand Tony Daruger : Manipulating XML documents with Perl and other scripting languages

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