Links bookmarked on 2007-02-17
The Original Hako Clone
Paper models
Independent - Lawrence Wilkerson
"Feith, it will be remembered, is the individual described by General Tommy Franks, commander of the Iraq war, as "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth". Wilkerson adds, "He was. Seldom have I met a dumber man.""
Links bookmarked on 2007-02-15
How Many of Me - Census Search for "Hans Gerwitz"
Finally, proof that I do not exist.
LOC St. Louis maps
Great stuff from the Library of Congress, including Pictorial St. Louis 1875
Links bookmarked on 2007-02-13
Equine Criterium International
A horse joins the Criterium International peloton
Ironic Sans: Idea: The Pacifist Chess Set
Another gem from David Friedman: chessboard where the pieces are all the same color, but that only is revealed when they intermingle.
Ryan shared this technical video spoof:
Rockwell’s retro-encabulator is a refinement of the turbo-encabulator, which Chrysler demonstrated to the world in a 1980s instructional video, although the design dates to at least 1946. Apparently work continues.
Ryan asserted we should produce nonsense jargon-laden material like this to describe our work. Indeed, it’s odd that software […]
Inspired by a mention of Eternal September, I spent some time today trying to place my memory of it on the ol’ mental timeline.
Last time I researched myself, Google found many of my Usenet posts from 1993. Today, though, it finds only a handful, with the earliest discoverable message from November 1993 and a […]
Back in the day, we used to leave a small file named .plan in our Unix home directories, which others could read over port 79 with the finger command. It was a useful for quick status updates, to find out what people were working on (or where they were off to) without pestering them. […]
As age presumably imparts increased wisdom, I’ve grown to oppose the death penalty. This is mostly a result of my libertarian perspective; executions do not directly serve any of the obligations of government.
The satisfaction of scheudenfreud or katharsis cannot outweigh the risk of error.
I believe life imprisonment is more cost effective, a more likely […]
This weekend has been exciting for a student of genealogy.
First, I ran across an 8th cousin once removed who was able to provide records from my great-great-great-grandmother back to our shared ancestor, Sarah Boarman. Only a day later a 2nd cousin provided documentation that confirmed at least back to her granddaughter and my 5th-great-grandmother, […]
My great-great-great-great grandfather Samual Gillham was born in 1778 to James Gillham (himself the son of Thomas Gillham, a soldier in the American Revolution). In 1790 James and his son Isaac were working in the field when Samual, his brother Clemons, one of their sisters and their mother Ann were kidnapped by Kickapoo Indians.
Clemons […]
