2008 Jul 22, 1:43Just for this quote: "Since then, the Singularity has come to be an object of almost religious faith in some quarters. In The Cassini Division, Ken MacLeod has a character call it "the Rapture for
nerds," and that's just how I see it."
singularity scifi blog tor quote 2008 Jul 21, 10:36
Saturday we went to Kirkland Uncorked,
a wine tasting festival near our home. We took the bus and after finding the correct one (they really should have different numbers for buses that are on the same route but traveling in different
directions) made it to the festival. Unfortunately I don't remember any of the names of the wines just which ones I enjoyed by order. Recalling that I enjoyed the first one I had and the second to
last one, doesn't really help me find them again. There were local artists who had setup booths and Sarah got
a lovely necklace. After that we ate at Cactus which, because it was such a lovely day, had all its windows and doors open.
Sunday was quieter. A few household chores and plenty of GTA4. I almost got the One Man Army achievement but I found that after four minutes with six
stars I eventually dropped back down to three stars without realizing it.
wine weekend nontechnical 2008 Jul 17, 5:39DIY instructions on making a flash drive that looks like a cut up USB cable: "Holy crap-- somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!! No--
wait-- sorry. That's just my USB drive. My bad. Never mind
diy humor flash usb tutorial 2008 Jul 14, 4:37"Neal Stephenson delivered a talk entitled The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture at Gresham College." Talk is sort of pop analysis of geeky entertainment. Lots of annecdotal evidence but
interesting ideas anyway.
geek history neal-stephenson scifi fiction literature culture video 2008 Jul 14, 10:27"I'm Dan Kaminsky, and this is my niece Sarah. Sarah has an important message for everybody regarding the Domain Name System."
dan-kaminsky dns video humor security 2008 Jul 12, 12:33Rice on a speaker makes interesting patterns based on the tone played. Like the cornstarch subwoofer video earlier.
rice video youtube sound science via:swannman 2008 Jul 11, 1:39Some tracks from Paranoia Agent released by the composer Susumu Hirasawa. That series freaked the hell out of me.
anime music mp3 paranoia-agent susumu-hirasawa 2008 Jul 11, 1:12Non-Newtonian liquid on a subwoofer displays creepy results. I need to try this sometime. This links to lots of other similar experiments.
video physics science youtube via:boingboing 2008 Jul 9, 5:37Moore proposes magical divination fills function of generating random outcomes. E.g. shaman reading cracks in caribou bones determines where to hunt avoiding over hunting particular areas or the game
picking up hunters patterns. Wish this wasn't pay site.
random game-theory anthropology divination magic 2008 Jul 9, 11:50Its Lively, Google's in browser Second-Life like thing
3d avatar google im lively online second-life 2008 Jul 9, 9:59Lively is apparently a coming soon Google app that's like a web page embeddable version of Second Life.
via:felix42 second-life lively google webservices web2.0 2008 Jul 7, 10:44"My sons Arthur, 5, and Gustav, 3, are obsessed with the New York City subway system."
humor art nyc subway via:ethan_t_hein 2008 Jul 4, 8:18Trailer for Flying Saucer Rock-n-Roll.
movie trailer eric-callero video 2008 Jul 3, 1:27"...get Nike to make available to consumers the futuristic-looking sneakers seen in the 1989 movie Back to the Future Part 2". Flying cars etc.
via:incredulous bttf movie humor shoes 2008 Jul 1, 12:13Famous pieces of art with a yellow rubber duck added.
art humor flickr paintings duck 2008 Jun 30, 5:45Erik on writing for games vs books: "Even worse for game writers, the 98% garbage part of a game isn't even usually garbage because instead of reading something boring about the history of Belgium,
the "reader" probably gets to jump a Camaro over a dino
game humor interview valve portal article erik-wolpaw 2008 Jun 30, 3:55FCC wants nationwide free wifi that's free of porn. They should read this. "Periodically there are proposals to mandate the use of a special top level name or an IP address bit to flag "adult"
"unsafe" material or the like. This document explains why thi
domain dns rfc ietf internet porn government politics censorship 2008 Jun 30, 3:49Yngve Nysaeter Pettersen briefly talks about his Opera minimal security domain RFCs: "I've just refreshed my HTTP Cookie and Cache related Internet Drafts."
rfc opera browser cookie http internet domain dns 2008 Jun 30, 3:46Opera's solution to minimal security domain determination: "The drafts describe 1) Opera's current "rule of thumb" implementation that uses DNS in an attempt to confirm the validity of a domain, and
2) a proposed new HTTP based lookup service that retur
opera rfc ietf cookie http internet browser dns domain
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