Daily Bookmarks
Posted on February 17th, 2007
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.””
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Daily Bookmarks
Posted on February 15th, 2007
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
Tags: data, history, links, maps, me, stlouis
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Daily Bookmarks
Posted on February 13th, 2007
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.
Tags: art, cool, culture, cycling, film, funny, game, history, idea, links, video
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Encabulation
Posted on February 10th, 2007
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 engineering has little such fictional self-deprecation, but maybe that’s because our discipline is still immature enough that our real work is worse than fiction.
Tags: culture, funny, geek, history, language, technology
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Being erased
Posted on January 28th, 2007
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 nostalgia-inducing attempt to help someone else find dial-up Internet access in St. Louis. Searching on unique strings (such as my 3rd online moniker, “samhain nivhwvs”), though, fails to find posts that nonetheless still appear in the archives if referenced directly. My name, for example, never brings up my February 15, 1993 vote for sci.linear.
Curse you, Google! You may deny my content but you’ll never erase me!
Tags: history, me, net, personal, web
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