Archive for August, 2004
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23 Aug 2004
Yeah, it's twelve years old, but it's an Olympic story that still moves me: Derek Redmond and the 400-meter. (Aside: Which is worse, reading something at work that makes you cry, or something that makes you laugh out loud continuously?)
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23 Aug 2004
"[W]hen an American mouths off about French military history, he's not just being ignorant, he's being ungrateful." A war buff defends French military history against Internet jerks.
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20 Aug 2004
Update 08-23: Since I was just about on my way out the door, I didn't look too carefully at these pictures when I made the post. Looking at them now, they're phenomenal. I love the style, and they're obviously framed and developed by someone with a great eye and a lot of patience. These pictures are part of Rosi's thesis at The University of the Arts. Congrats to Rosi.
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19 Aug 2004
Alton Brown's sorta-blog, updated every couple weeks or so. See his March 5 post in particular.
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19 Aug 2004
First, you hear about free iPods, and it's an obvious scam. Then you read a Wired article about how it's not so much of a scam. Then you read other things about the deal. Then you check it out, and you realize that, well, it is a pyramid scheme of sorts, but not the kind where it necessarily costs you money. Give freeipods.com a spam-filtered email address, give AOL a credit card number and don't let them bill it, and get five of your friends to do the same. Seems worth it, and if Wired says it's legit, I'll go along with that.
Please follow this link to freeipods.com if you're considering doing it, so that I get your referral.
(See also freeflatscreens.com)
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18 Aug 2004
The Millau viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world. Details at Wikipedia. -
18 Aug 2004
Slashdot's ten millionth comment sums up the whole thing very well.
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18 Aug 2004
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18 Aug 2004
Building a new computer can sometimes be a challenge. Not only do you need to know a lot of terminology and understand how everything goes together, but you also should do a good amount of research ([1], [2], [3]) into what's most reliable and has the most nifty features. That'll get you 90% of the way to a nice new machine on which you can play Doom 3.
The other 10% is luck. When you get your new Mobo, CPU, and RAM, and go to put it into the computer, and you discover that your 5-year-old ATX power supply is not the same thing as what your motherboard manufacturer means when they say "ATX power supply", that's not a good thing. Just to increase everyone else's luck factor: newer motherboards (those for Athlon 64s and some XPs, and Pentium 4s) require a 4-pin "+12V connector" in addition to the standard 20-pin ATX connector. Here is the best information I've found on the matter (including how to decide how big of a PS to get!).
Update: Got a cheap POS from CompUSA. They have a lot of power supplies there.
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17 Aug 2004
Once in a while, when trying to debunk an urban legend, we can all forget that
sometimes they're true and get a mouthful of liquid nitrogen. Or is it this story that's the urban legend? (Hm, shades of The Rocket Car)