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Jason Kottke has posted an HTML version of the September 11th Commission report, with anchors for linking to individual paragraphs. Could be useful if anyone wants to discuss it. _
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05:46:55 PM, Thursday 22 July 2004

Some kids at MIT are building a collection of free MP3s of classical music. This means actual recordings, not fucking MIDI. I haven't listened to any of it yet, so I can't make promises regarding the quality of the performances, but it does sound interesting. _
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05:16:43 PM, Thursday 22 July 2004

So I've just been reading the Metafilter discussion about "cuddle parties". I'm not sure what I think of the idea myself, but it has led to an entertaining MeFi thread. _
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03:34:55 PM, Thursday 22 July 2004

From Krispy Kreme, makers of the unspeakably bad doughnuts everyone loves to praise, comes the most disgusting idea for a beverage that I have ever heard of. _
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04:09:38 PM, Wednesday 21 July 2004

Bastard Tetris. _
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03:18:39 PM, Tuesday 20 July 2004

We just saw the Magnetic Fields. Oh yes we did. _
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03:34:41 AM, Tuesday 20 July 2004

This is a test.

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02:25:29 AM, Sunday 18 July 2004

Why don’t you just go cry about it in your livejournal? _
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03:34:16 AM, Saturday 17 July 2004

Thanks to a bit of debugging, Bloglet now works with Ecto, which looks to be a rather good weblogging client. You should check it out. _
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03:48:38 PM, Friday 16 July 2004

The Ultimate Homeland Security _
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02:52:56 PM, Friday 16 July 2004

The previous meme of blaming Leo Strauss for the neocons was odd, but it wasn't half so bizarre as the new meme of blaming them on Leon Trotsky. _
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02:21:23 PM, Friday 16 July 2004

Baby Pan-da!

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01:05:56 AM, Friday 16 July 2004

Been browsing the Python Cookbook. Most interesting things so far: evaluating code inside strings, and a recipe that demonstrates the need for itself. _
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08:20:53 PM, Wednesday 14 July 2004

Four years since I finished Bloglet 2.0. I've added a "four years ago" section to the sidebar accordingly. _
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03:20:32 PM, Wednesday 14 July 2004

Pac-Mondrian _
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07:11:24 PM, Tuesday 13 July 2004

Introductory Cuneiform Studies Website Guide
also, A Gentle Introduction to Sumerian Grammar, which I can only hope will become more complete with time. _
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03:43:52 PM, Tuesday 13 July 2004

They're doing a radio series of the last three books of the Hitchhiker's Trilogy. Awesome. _
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02:55:48 PM, Tuesday 13 July 2004

"Congratulations, you are now a J2ME developer."
"Ooh... do I look different?" _
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06:50:06 PM, Monday 12 July 2004

New York Times: The bitter grudge between their ancestors has long faded, but on Sunday descendants of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr marked their paces with pistols in hand.

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03:33:49 AM, Monday 12 July 2004

Well, that didn’t take a lot of searching.

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09:08:40 PM, Saturday 10 July 2004

Another potentially great science fiction movie ruined by Keanu Reeves. (Actually, for all I've enjoyed some of Mr. Linklater's other work, nothing else about this movie looks terribly promising either, so perhaps I shouldn't blame Keanu.)
Update: I had not realized this at first glance, but it is also animated. _
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06:48:46 PM, Friday 9 July 2004

I've fixed it now. Apologies to anyone whose comment didn't go through. _
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01:23:21 PM, Wednesday 7 July 2004

Okay, so now I've made some other changes, and that fixed the look of my blog, but made comments not work at all. _
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02:08:16 AM, Wednesday 7 July 2004

Comments on m14m.net aren’t reporting to BLT correctly, among other problems on m14m.net. I’ll try to fix it tonight or tomorrow, but until then I don’t really know what to do.

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06:48:41 PM, Tuesday 6 July 2004

I suppose Edwards isn't as bad as the other possibilities. _
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03:30:07 PM, Tuesday 6 July 2004

This delights me. I mean, mathematically it's utterly ridiculous, but it's still a lovely chart. _
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03:14:55 PM, Tuesday 6 July 2004

Raymond Chen: If you find yourself in a meeting with a mix of managers and programmers, here's one way to tell the difference between them _
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02:46:12 PM, Tuesday 6 July 2004

Rock, Paper, Saddam! _
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07:24:13 PM, Friday 2 July 2004

I'm well aware that I'm the only one who can take responsibility for my life. But if a man kicks me in the face, steals my money, and then tells me I should learn to defend myself, I may doubt his motives, not to mention his sincerity. _
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05:33:25 PM, Friday 2 July 2004

Also, in passing: I've been thinking about an argument some leftists make, that we shouldn't work to improve the condition of workers in the current system, because letting things get as bad as possible will hasten the revolution. This is pretty directly comparable to the current U.S. policy against Cuba, isn't it? And to the sanctions against Iraq. You can see what an effective strategy it is. _
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02:23:37 PM, Friday 2 July 2004

No one in the news media seems interested in telling me anything substantive about John Kerry. Likewise, Democrats I hear from only seem to want to talk about defeating Bush. Unaffiliated leftists seem to reject him out of habit (or, again, support him for the sake of defeating Bush), but also don't seem to offer any substantial criticism, as they notably did of Clinton. Republicans actually do have a bit to say about Kerry's policy proposals; unfortunately, most of it doesn't go beyond cheap smears. So I suppose if I want to know anything about Kerry, I'm going to have to look it up for myself. His website seems to have a lot to say, so I don't imagine it should be too terribly hard. I'm sure his voting records in congress can be found online, too. I'm just annoyed 'cause this seems like the sort of research I'd expect newspapers to do for me. Anyway, I'll try to report back about what I find.

(Credit where credit is due: I was moved to do this by reading Matthew Yglesias actually saying something substantial--and encouraging--about Kerry, and realizing just how rare that is.) _
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02:04:06 PM, Friday 2 July 2004

Language Log: I thought this was an especially nice little example of a correlation that might seem surprising, until you think of it: the people who complain the most about linguistic usage are also usually the people who are most ignorant and confused about how to analyze it and describe it. _
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02:07:28 PM, Thursday 1 July 2004

I suspect someone just tried to talk to me over AIM, but I can't tell who, because all I got was an error message from AIM saying that it had just failed to open a window. I think I shall restart my computer. _
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03:31:47 PM, Wednesday 30 June 2004

America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self control,
Thy liberty in law! _
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03:18:57 PM, Monday 28 June 2004

Belgium a liberal lie. _
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01:55:28 PM, Monday 28 June 2004

cx_Freeze is a set of utilities for freezing Python scripts into executables

This is a way to package a Python script so that someone can run it even if they don't have the Python language on their computer. There are some other ways of doing this, but this one appears to have some advantages over the others--in particular, it's cross-platform. _
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01:42:34 PM, Monday 28 June 2004

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