Archive for January, 2005
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31 Jan 2005
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I thought it’d be neat to make a radio station search engine. It turns out the FCC’s is already pretty feature rich.
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29 Jan 2005
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Researcher names a protein after a popular children’s video game. Hilarious!
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28 Jan 2005
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A great overview of a lot of behind-the-scenes silly things from the Firefox team.
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27 Jan 2005
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Sun is really serious. They kicked off their opensource Solaris initiative by releasing the source for dtrace.
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26 Jan 2005
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A guy from Scotland goes to Tokyo and takes a picture of a girl taking a picture. He posts the picture he took on a Flickr and within 6 weeks the girl in the photo finds it and posts the picture she was taking at the time.
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26 Jan 2005
My dad has posted some pictures of their bedroom remodeling project. I haven’t been there in a few weeks, and he’s started doing work on the bathroom. In fact, it looks like he’s done a lot of work on it. This’ll give a nice progression for those of you who have only seen it once or twice since it started.
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25 Jan 2005
Nomad will be happy about the big new feature in these preview screenshots of Garry’s mod v6. Garry says: “Should have it by the end of next weekend..” Also, this video made me laugh for exactly 1 minute and 25 seconds.
Update:
Actually, according to this thread, Garry’s hard drive is AWOL and there may never be another Garry’s mod release ever again. We all wait on pins and needles!Update 1/26: Garry’s “broken hard drive” was a hoax. Also, he makes fun of idiots on his forums and bans people randomly for saying stupid shit.
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25 Jan 2005
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“Legal experts say there is no law against using faeces as a flag stand and the federal constitution is vague on the issue.”
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Cooking for Engineers, Where is Raed, and Engadget are among the nominees
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A non-photo realistic driving game
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Search the closed captioning text of television shows
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24 Jan 2005
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I’m going to have to stop doing this.
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Some great Revolution rumors, and some less-great ones. No DS connectivity? Are they crazy?
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Sorted and sized by popularity(categories: metafilter tags)
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> 9.1 x 10^9
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21 Jan 2005
Inauguration protest photos. Quite excellent.
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20 Jan 2005
The Opportunity rover has discovered the first ever meteorite ever found on another planet. The probabilities involved have led some researchers to wonder what this tells us about the cratering rate and weather patterns on Mars.
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20 Jan 2005
Ask MetaFilter comes to the rescue, finding the answer to something that’s bugged me for two and a half years. Simply phenomenal.
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20 Jan 2005
Somehow, I think Vlad’s idea in today’s Achewood would really be popular (in an ironic pop-culture Subservient chicken-esque sorta way). With a free afternoon, a few sandwiches and fixins, and a hungry woman, we could probably fake it.
Update: Is this somehow related?
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19 Jan 2005
In previous years, 24′s bad guys roster has included a family from the Balkans, unidentified Mideastern countries, Mexican drug smugglers, and a British former intelligence officer. (Not to mention Nina. Where’s she from?) But Muslims are (rightfully) upset with the depiction of the otherwise normal-seeming Araz family as a terrorist sleeper cell.
Your local Fox affiliate may begin showing PSA’s before, during, or after the episodes.
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18 Jan 2005
Gizmodo has a photo of some pretty damn cool keychains: miniature terrariums with cacti inside. One of those and a blue tritium-filled keychain would make me happy.
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18 Jan 2005
Interweb personality trivia: Andy Baio sat behind Sean Astin in Anthropology 101 at LAVC.
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18 Jan 2005
I’ve started taking some pictures with my low-res camera on my Visor, and posting them to Flickr. There are a few up there of my workplace right now. I hope to integrate a “latest photos”-type thing into plutor.org in the near future.
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17 Jan 2005
Remember those six pound burger photos that made the rounds a while ago? The bar’s challenge — eat the burger in less than three hours — has been met by a 19-year-old 100-pound female college student from New Jersey.
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17 Jan 2005
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14 Jan 2005
“Satirize a Goofus and Gallant strip” Fark Photoshop contest. Possibly one of the best ever.
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14 Jan 2005
The last time the European Space Agency tried to drop something onto a planet, the Beagle 2 was lost, and no one was able to determine why. This time, the Cassini orbiter has dropped Huygens onto the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon and one of the few atmosphered bodies in the solar system. If everything is going according to plan, Huygens should have hit the ground about an hour ago, and NASA will begin recieving data (relayed through Cassini) around 10:30 EST.
Update: “European Space Agency mission managers for the Huygens probe confirm that data of the probe’s descent to Saturn’s moon Titan are being received.” “The Huygens team … hope to release first images later today.” Great news!
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12 Jan 2005
In celebration of yesterday’s announcement of the iPod shuffle and Mac mini, here’s a quick list of notable Apple product hoaxes and scams from the past couple of years.
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11 Jan 2005
Macworld Expo starts tomorrow, and here’s a good rundown of all the rumors. It’s been difficult to see the wisdom of some of Apple’s decisions lately (although, like Jack Bauer, they were eventually shown to be right). But just about everyone sees immediately that both the flash iPod and the headless iMac are ridiculously good ideas.
Update: iPod shuffle, Mac mini (no i?)
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10 Jan 2005
An offhand reference in The Golden Ratio led me to research Archimedean solids, which led me to a page with Paper Models of Polyhedra. Fun!
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7 Jan 2005
The day before New Years, I went to MoMA in New York with the inlaws. We had reservations for dinner, but we were a little bit early and were sick of walking, so we stopped at a random (extremely nice, mid-high-range) restaurant and sat down in their quiet bar for a pre-dinner drink. We were chatting casually, and Mrs. D asked me “what are the big games now?” I told her that this was a huge season for sequels: Half-Life 2, GTA: San Andreas, and Halo 2, in particular. The very curteous bartender, a man with a thick french accent, stopped what he was doing, bent over towards us, and asked “Excuse me, but did you say you play Halo? I love that game.”
I’ve never played the game, but it obviously has had a huge impact on people who otherwise might not consider themselves gamers. I cant figure out how to segue from that story to a link about an international Halo superstar, but let’s pretend I did it smoothly.