And a random name generator. (Which is actually where I found Pokethulhu.)
_
respond?
05:11:54 PM,
Friday 2 August 2002
-
Also: POKETHULHU: The hilarious game of cute, cuddly cultists and seizure-inducing evil!
_
respond?
(3)
05:11:17 PM,
Friday 2 August 2002
-
Other linguistrious types in the audience really ought to check out the random word generator.
[via MetaFilter]
_
respond?
(3)
05:08:04 PM,
Friday 2 August 2002
-
100 facts about me. And one more, just for good measure: I decided to make a list like this when I first saw Bridgie's list, but it has taken me this long to finish it. I find this rather telling.
_
respond?
(2)
04:31:38 PM,
Friday 2 August 2002
-
Inside the Woody Guthrie CD I just bought, there was a little slip with pointers to more information about Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Among other things, it had printed upon it in reasonably large type "You can hear the world". But it was sideways, and slightly obscured, as I opened the box. What I read was "You can heart the world". I thought of Bridgie.
_
respond?
(6)
03:10:57 PM,
Thursday 1 August 2002
-
Opera is like the Macintosh of browsers. And I'm not even talking 2002, Unix-based, stoner-chick-approved Macintosh, I'm talking Macintosh 1998. It's randomly different! It's not actually better! And it has a fanatically loyal following that refuses to see its faults!
_
respond?
(2)
02:21:10 AM,
Thursday 1 August 2002
-
"Interior Secretary Gale Norton: People, my sleep last night was troubled by a terrible vision."
More snakehead fun at The Morning News.
Has anyone started a snakehead blog yet?
_
respond?
(4)
05:04:14 PM,
Wednesday 31 July 2002
-
If I flattened the namespace and moved some of the persistence code into the model objects, it could simplify the datastore class greatly. Of course, other things would be complexificated. But it might be a reasonable tradeoff.
_
respond?
08:09:49 PM,
Tuesday 30 July 2002
-
Have I mentioned how covetous I feel when I look at this combination PDA, mp3 player, and digital camera?
_
respond?
08:00:44 PM,
Tuesday 30 July 2002
-
Typorganism has some really, really neat typographical Flash toys. A bit hard to navigate, but worth it. Go. Play. Be happy.
_
respond?
07:18:25 PM,
Tuesday 30 July 2002
-
ahh, my eye!
_
respond?
05:57:51 PM,
Tuesday 30 July 2002
-
This is gonna be cool.
_
respond?
05:25:11 AM,
Tuesday 30 July 2002
-
And there's a wearables wiki!
_
respond?
08:25:25 PM,
Monday 29 July 2002
-
Very, very nice displays for wearable computers. Mounted on a pair of sunglasses, very subtle.
_
respond?
08:11:12 PM,
Monday 29 July 2002
-
This page has some notes on tunneling SMB through SSH that I'm planning to use later.
_
respond?
05:32:09 PM,
Monday 29 July 2002
-
Using indentation, rather than linespacing, to indicate paragraphs in a web page requires a bit of effort. If you're paying that much attention to detail already, you should go ahead and take the extra step of not indenting the first paragraph. (Yes, this is the right way to do it--look at some books.)
_
respond?
01:56:14 AM,
Monday 29 July 2002
-
| When Moss says... | He means... |
| I'm going to go work on Wobble. | I'm getting something to eat. |
| I'm getting something to eat. | I'm going to bed. |
| I'm going to bed. | I'm going to go work on Wobble. |
respond?
03:25:20 PM, Saturday 27 July 2002
-
Testing, yo.
_
respond?
(1)
01:31:20 AM,
Saturday 27 July 2002
-
"So, I grabbed vi, and it was really fast... and it was really good, I really loved it... and, my pinky stopped hurting!"
A series of geek variations on Apple's switch ads.
_
respond?
01:57:47 PM,
Friday 26 July 2002
-
Shit... I think they moved the page in that short time. Or else I'm just crazy. Fixed now, anyway.
_
respond?
02:51:07 AM,
Friday 26 July 2002
-
The good people of Penny Arcade understand geeks. Far, far, too well.
_
respond?
(3)
02:47:11 AM,
Friday 26 July 2002
-
I want to get one of these for Mirabai.
_
respond?
(1)
12:46:07 PM,
Thursday 25 July 2002
-
MetaFilter does Donald Barthelme.
_
respond?
(1)
04:30:38 PM,
Wednesday 24 July 2002
-
Indymedia reports that a group in Baltimore is starting a local currency, modelled after Ithaca Hours. I'm very interested in local currencies as a way to build a more regionally-based economy*. For more information, you can take a look at the E. F. Schumacher Society's page on the topic.
When I say that people need to think in more original ways about how to structure the economy, this is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about.
* I'll try to say more later about why this could be a good thing. It's not a matter of wanting one's own community to hoard all of its wealth. It's that markets can take more information into account when they're happening within a community.
_
respond?
(12)
03:51:18 PM,
Wednesday 24 July 2002
-
co-vet
_
respond?
(1)
02:01:30 PM,
Wednesday 24 July 2002
-
This is a test.
_
respond?
(1)
04:08:17 AM,
Wednesday 24 July 2002
-
Welcome, Tim!
_
respond?
03:28:36 AM,
Wednesday 24 July 2002
-
"People bought computers just so they could access Rush 24/7 when we started it up. They could've bought Apples."
_
respond?
(1)
04:14:57 PM,
Tuesday 23 July 2002
-
Remember a couple of months ago when I used Jay Allen as an example to talk about how hard it is to leave Budapest? Yeah, well, he managed to leave, but he was back within a week or two, and now he's staying till August. This only confirms my suspicions about that place.
But that's not the main thing I wanted to blog about. See, since he's been there so long, he decided to start learning Hungarian--which the linguists in the audience will realize is no small feat--and he's keeping a blog on the subject as an experiment in educational blogging! It's a young blog at the moment, having just introduced the alphabet on Saturday, but I'm going to try to follow it and see how much I can learn.
_
respond?
(6)
02:11:55 PM,
Tuesday 23 July 2002
-
"This archive is an attempt to collect in one place a large number of significant texts in the history of economic thought."
Cool!
_
respond?
12:10:58 PM,
Tuesday 23 July 2002
-
Using teasmoke.net's random entry feature, I just came across Katherine's remarkable dream story (continued: 2, 3, 4) from a few months back. Yum.
_
respond?
04:04:22 PM,
Monday 22 July 2002
-
The canonical location of blt is now at teasmoke.net. Go there for all your bloglet (etc.) tracking needs.
_
respond?
(1)
12:22:44 AM,
Sunday 21 July 2002
-
This is yet another test.
_
respond?
09:16:16 PM,
Saturday 20 July 2002
-
Kerne: Stayed until a little after twelve. Had to go. Have set up m14m.net to ping blt without going through teasmoke.net, but have not yet done so with infinity-bound.net, for lack of Neil. Please announce when switch to teasmoke.net blt is appropriate.
_
respond?
(2)
03:09:59 PM,
Saturday 20 July 2002
-
Ping!
_
respond?
(1)
03:02:29 PM,
Saturday 20 July 2002
-
Testing, testing... 1, 2, 3.
(See, Kerne's moved his entire site over to wl, his new weblogging program, but in the process (inadvertantly, I trust) he's taken down the program that receives pings when blogs are updated. I've got a copy of the same program here, which is what updates my blt, but none of the blogs ping it directly--the teasmoke.net program echoes them to my copy. So my blt isn't being updated at the moment. I'm now in the process of retooling all of the m14m.net blogs to ping m14m.net, that being the simplest way to get things mostly working again in the absence of Kerne.
Now, once wl is up and running for real, you'll actually want to read blt on teasmoke.net. Wl uses a new format for tracking updates, so wl blogs don't ping my blt. Rather, I use the old mechanism to track updates from bloglets, and then convert it into a format that wl can read, and teasmoke.net blt grabs my information on the bloglet updates and merges them with its information on wl updates. Does that make sense?)
Short version: (1) blt hasn't been working for a while, but soon it will be again. (2) But soon, you will want to use blt on teasmoke.net instead of here.
Of course, none of this matters to you if you don't use blt.
_
respond?
(1)
02:58:08 PM,
Saturday 20 July 2002
-