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Your Daily Vocabulary Word for the Immature: Part Two _
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03:04:19 PM, Friday 23 May 2003

I have often enjoyed things on Homestar Runner, but still, some lingering questions remain: If there is a Strong Mad and a Strong Bad, why isn't there a Strong Dangerous To Know? _
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01:16:46 PM, Friday 23 May 2003

Rumsfeldor. The Burninator. _
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07:44:50 PM, Thursday 22 May 2003

Okay, here's the thing about this page: if you spend a few minutes looking at it, it's clear that it's a parody (there's a pretty solid demonstration in the MeFi thread). But the laughs one gets from it are all of the "I can't believe those idiots actually think that" variety. If it were a real site, that would be just fine; laughing at idiots may not be polite, but what the hell, sometimes it's called for. But if it's not real, if there's nobody actually claiming to sincerely believe all this shit, then there's really nothing to laugh at. It doesn't have enough connection to reality to work just as a parody, and as truth it, um, isn't. The way it ends up being used is as something for atheists and other vaguely progressive types to pass around in a contemptuously amused "look what those idiot fundamentalists are saying now" sort of way, never even noticing that it isn't real: in other words, as an opportunity for smallminded religious bigotry. And that's not really something I needed more of. Hell, I thought that was the point of not being a fundamentalist.

(But since I've linked to it now, might as well explain: this is the site that I was linking to before my edit down here.) _
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07:33:30 PM, Thursday 22 May 2003

Coooool! _
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07:07:57 PM, Thursday 22 May 2003

Okay, that will work. _
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06:35:56 PM, Thursday 22 May 2003

Time to experiment! _
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06:29:09 PM, Thursday 22 May 2003

I believe that's the worst fucking traffic I have yet seen on my commute. _
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12:41:28 PM, Thursday 22 May 2003

Trogdor. The Burninator. _
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02:16:08 AM, Tuesday 20 May 2003

Like it says in One Year Ago, happy birthday to Mike! _
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10:32:24 PM, Monday 19 May 2003

Well, this is it. I am now downloading The Last Episode Of Buffy, At All. _
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10:20:06 PM, Monday 19 May 2003

The thing I hate most about being sick is the way that, if it goes on for a few days, it starts to seem like you're going to feel this way forever. _
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09:52:32 PM, Monday 19 May 2003

Polar Bears! _
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01:38:27 PM, Monday 19 May 2003

E. E. Cummings _
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05:13:18 AM, Sunday 18 May 2003

Of course, that's always been the dream of magic: to read the world like a text. _
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01:25:26 AM, Sunday 18 May 2003

I... think that was actually better than the first one. _
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01:19:49 AM, Sunday 18 May 2003

See, personally, I thought the philosophical bits of The Matrix were pretty goofy, and about on the level of a late night discussion with a bunch of stoned philosophy students. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course--the vague feeling of depth certainly added to the entertainment value. But the thing I really liked about the movie was its visual style. _
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07:15:26 PM, Saturday 17 May 2003

"A sentinel. A killing machine designed for only one thing."
"Killing?"
"Search and destroy."
"But... that's two things." _
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12:10:29 AM, Friday 16 May 2003

This will be useful. Need to write something to make the tags on my mp3s more consistent. _
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08:28:47 PM, Wednesday 14 May 2003

Kahlua has done what I always believed to be impossible: they have made advertisements more annoying than those of Old Navy. _
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07:54:48 PM, Wednesday 14 May 2003

The difference is that, with PHP, it's not prejudice. _
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07:49:35 PM, Wednesday 14 May 2003

The Eater of Meaning exterminates all rational thought faster than anything I have ever seen. It is beautiful.
[via Sumana] _
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05:53:52 PM, Wednesday 14 May 2003

The Red Elvises are coming. _
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02:48:35 PM, Wednesday 14 May 2003

I remember from the keyboard discussion earlier that a lot of people liked the horrible mushy keyboards that ship with Macs, but those of you who recognize true keyboard virtue--the old PC keyboards where you could feel the click of the keys under your fingers--may be glad to learn that they are still being made. Now I just need to figure out whether a USB adaptor would be enough to make them work on my Mac.
[via Scott Rosenberg] _
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08:27:38 PM, Monday 12 May 2003

Congratulations to the St. John's College Class of 2003. Y'all rock, and I hope you go off and do wonderful things. _
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01:26:03 PM, Monday 12 May 2003

So the searching problem turned out to be a known bug in Python's regular expression engine, and I've applied a workaround that makes it do the right thing. So now it works on all the blogs. _
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12:32:46 PM, Monday 12 May 2003

On second thought, no. _
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12:14:26 PM, Monday 12 May 2003

Also, there's a search page for each m14m.net blog at http://www.m14m.net/username/search _
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06:23:53 PM, Friday 9 May 2003

Except at the moment it doesn't work on the blogs of Miss Knight, Miss Sherman, or Mr. Findler. I think I may see what the problem is, and I'm working on it. _
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06:13:48 PM, Friday 9 May 2003

I've just substantially improved the search tool. Specifically:

It searches by entry, not by archive page, so it's more accurate.
It is not case sensitive, and it catches words with html in or around them.
You can search for entries that don't have a given word by putting a - in front of that word.
The index is constantly up to date, rather than being updated when I get around to it.
It's much slower, so you actually feel like it's doing something.
It works on all the blogs, not just mine--see the search page.

The system does still have some warts. _
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05:53:45 PM, Friday 9 May 2003

Les Orchard and Mark Pilgrim are both talking about Bayesian filtering in a way that I find interestingly relevant to this problem _
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04:22:43 PM, Friday 9 May 2003

PyMeld is a Python library for manipulating HTML documents in a very yummy sort of way. _
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04:17:29 PM, Friday 9 May 2003

Please bear in mind that it is relatively easy to nominate someone for a Nobel Peace Prize. _
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04:11:11 PM, Friday 9 May 2003

The website of the Pirate Supply Store at 826 Valencia has a wonderful log of things that happened at the store.

[via Kottke, plus some browsing around] _
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03:40:39 PM, Friday 9 May 2003

ISO standard tea? ISO standard tea.

[via Kevin Marks] _
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03:23:36 PM, Friday 9 May 2003

Observation: even if Mr. Gillen doesn't generally like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I suspect he should watch "Hush". I can't say exactly why I think this. _
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01:42:57 PM, Friday 9 May 2003

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