You’d think a place as socialist as Britian seems to be would dig Open Source software. But no. Use Lynx and go to jail.
(via Declan)
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Rule Britannia
January 28, 2005 – 9:31 am
Where you can shove your Online Roulette
January 27, 2005 – 3:51 pm
Google steps in:
If you’re a blogger (or a blog reader), you’re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like “Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.” This is called comment spam, we don’t like it either, and we’ve been testing a new tag that blocks [...]
Comments back on
January 23, 2005 – 10:34 pm
Comments are back on by default, per TJIC demand. Haven’t had time to do any adminy things yet, but spam levels have been really low so hopefully it won’t be much of a problem. I’ll periodically check for crap we don’t want and delete it, until I get some plug-ins installed later in the week.
This is not so entirely ridiculous an idea.
January 18, 2005 – 9:55 am
iRobot to release military version of Roomba
Posted by Matthew on Sunday January 16 2005 @ 09:59PM
from the every-vacuum-brings-armageddon-one-day-closer dept.
Matthew writes: iRobot, makers of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, as well as military pack robots, has developed a military version of the popular device.
Dubbed “Boomba”, the device is essentially a ruggedized Roomba that is designed to [...]
I’ll take three.
January 14, 2005 – 2:21 pm
http://www.freespiritspheres.com/index.htm
About the Sphere:
The spheres are made of two laminations of wood strips over laminated wood frames.The outside surface is then covered with clear fiberglass and finished. The result is a beautiful and very tough skin. The skin is waterproof and strong enough to take the impacts that come with life in a dynamic environment [...]
Someone needs to start Consumers Corporation
January 8, 2005 – 12:12 pm
How annoying and ironic is it that a poster project for libertarianism — a private entity providing independent and well-regarded product reviews, ratings, and safety warnings — is run by the statist lunkheads at Consumers Union (publishers of Consumer Reports) who want a govt takeover of healthcare and have never met a regulation or proposed [...]
Morrrrre votesss
January 7, 2005 – 11:36 pm
More democratic perfidy:
At least eight people who died well before the November general election were credited with voting in King County, raising new questions about the integrity of the vote total in the narrow governor’s race, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer review has found.
The evidence of votes from dead people is the latest example of flaws in [...]
Distant early warning
January 6, 2005 – 11:24 am
Well, it’s not a high tech sensor system, but it’s something:
KHAO LAK, Thailand (Reuters) - Agitated elephants felt the tsunami coming, and their sensitivity saved about a dozen foreign tourists from the fate of thousands killed by the giant waves.
And here’s a former co-worker (and friend) in Phuket several years ago:
I’ve read/heard that the vast [...]
State indigo
January 6, 2005 – 10:53 am
Charlie Lyons in the Globe:
“Our message was that cities aren’t red or blue,” he said, referring to electoral maps that portrayed Republican states as red and Democratic states as blue. “We are red, white, and blue. We don’t build Democratic high schools or Republican elementary schools.”
Right. We build ‘em all Democrat.
How else will we ensure [...]
Here we go again
January 6, 2005 – 10:43 am
More scumbaggery:
Starting sometime in 2005, owners of .net domain names will have to pay a 75-cent additional annual fee to ICANN. There’s nothing stopping ICANN from upping the levy in the future, and its executives have indicated that other top-level domains will be targeted as well.
As true now as in 1999:
“This is an arbitrary cost [...]
They can’t prove it, but…
January 6, 2005 – 10:25 am
This is pretty cool:
Great minds can sometimes guess the truth before they have either the evidence or arguments for it (Diderot called it having the “esprit de divination”). What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?
The 2005 Edge Question has generated many eye-opening responses from a “who’s who” of third culture [...]
Upgrade
January 4, 2005 – 12:52 am
We’re running WordPress 1.2.2 now. Spam-thwarting measures coming soon.