Category Archives: indistinguishable from technology

Houston, we have a solution

April 18, 2005 – 2:51 pm

A fascinating article about Apollo 13, from the IEEE Spectrum.
[via Instapundit]

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When the hurlyburly’s done

April 8, 2005 – 10:06 am

Futurepundit reports on the damage that globalism does (the crazies waving “capitalism kills” signs may be right):
Creating a new kind of caveman economics in their published paper, they argue early modern humans were first to exploit the competitive edge gained from specialization and free trade. With more reliance on free trade, humans increased their activities [...]

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hogthrob

February 25, 2005 – 8:51 am

The wireless pig project.
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/hogthrob/
(ok, I’m on the embedded powerpc linux developers mailing list, and this guy from iotech.dk posted, and I checked out his company web page, and they’re collaborating on this research project…)

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Rule Britannia

January 28, 2005 – 9:31 am

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)

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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 [...]

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Linux on the WRT54G

December 14, 2004 – 11:25 am

Linux on the WRT54G

This is a mini Linux distribution for the Linksys wrt54g. In about 20 seconds, you can install a small set of Linux tools to your access point’s ramdisk. The distribution is geared towards those who are curious about casually exploring the internal workings of this device. The installation is strictly to [...]

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A force is a force, of course, of course

December 3, 2004 – 3:53 pm

unless of course, the force….
Aw, hell, just read about it.

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tblCode is nifty. Worship tblCode.

November 26, 2004 – 9:10 pm

Oh.    My.    God.
http://thedailywtf.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=25850

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Google strikes again

November 18, 2004 – 4:40 pm

Now you can see who’s citing you.

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Eerily Eero

November 8, 2004 – 5:29 pm

The Glob had a piece on Eero Saarinen yesterday.

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