Theme Switcher added
 by in General |
I just added the Theme Switcher plugin which enables readers to select their own prefered style.
You see, I’m tinkering with a new lay-out and this plugin makes testing a new one very easy without messing up the (live) site. (To check out the new style, look for ‘Switch Theme‘ and select the ‘Navaho Gunleg [...]
Beware the Leap Second!
| by in Space & Beyond |
Leap second will be inserted on 2005/12/31 at 23:59:60.
Interpreter-in-an-interpreter
| by in General |
Interpreter in an interpreter in an interpreter in an interpreter..
NG-BASIC 0.2.6 maintenance release
| by in General |
Minor annoyances bugfixed.
The Slashdot effect….
| by in General |
Apparently — the link to my BASIC interpreter is ‘out there‘:
Cool to see so many people interested!
Though, I had to tweak the webserver a bit, it was configured for waaaay too many connections than the hardware could handle: the load now reaches ~5 at peaks and that’s better than a load of 46. (!!)
So — [...]
Bring That Beat Back!
| by in Music |
The Public Enemy CD I ordered last week arrived today.
It kicks some serious ass!
Power To The People ‘Cause The People Want Peace!
Public Enemy, New Whirl Odor, New World Order
On Domestic Spying…
I was reading Chomsky the other day and today I read this:
A federal judge has resigned from a special court in protest over President George W. Bush’s secret authorization of a countrywide warrantless domestic spying program, the Washington Post reported yesterday.
The action by US District Judge James Robertson stemmed from deep concern that the surveillance [...]
Obvious 21th century propaganda…
Yesterday and today it’s pretty all over IT sites — the CAN-SPAM Act works.
Well, it really doesn’t — they just want you to believe that it works, so you re-gain any trust because you think the government actually achieved something. Believe me, they really haven’t. Check your mailbox on a US based email-service — I [...]
Smuggling Drugs?
| by in Humour |
According to this CNN article, Crash investigators find crack in plane’s wing.
Smuggling drugs, eh?
Drugs, Planes, Funny
Astronomers detect possible building-stones for life on remote planet.
| by in Space & Beyond |
Dutch astronomers have detected gasses on remote planets that might be the building stones for life.
Although these elements have also been detected in other places in space, this is the first near Earth-like planets, so this is pretty exciting news….
Space, Planets, Life, Universe
Mona Lisa’s smile analyzed…
The University of Amsterdam, in coorporation with the University of Illinois, have developed an ‘emotion-recognition’ system:
Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile has intrigued viewers for centuries and now researchers claim they have unlocked the secret behind it.
A computer analysis of the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece has found that she is 83 per cent happy, 9 per cent [...]
I’ll probably risk my ass getting tortured and shit, but …
…that Unabomber Manifesto isn’t that bad at all…. The guy does make some interesting points.
Before reading this, I was under the impression that the guy was crazy, had radical ideas and wanted to kill everyone. But his manifesto seems like a spot-on analysis of the current state of mankind. Paragraphs like this:
Leftism is totalitarian force. [...]
Drug Survey of Students Finds Picture Very Mixed
As reported in the New York Times some new drug survey found that there’s a historic low in the number of students that smoke!
Yay!
Oh but wait — they’re abusing other drugs now….
The anti-tabacco zealots should be pleased that their children won’t get cancer, but instead, high on sedatives and barbiturates, jump off of tall [...]
Fuck New Years Resolutions!
| by in Random Rantings |
Why is it always that we have to make New Years Resolutions when the new year begins? It’s like, blaming all the people for the insane shit that goes on all around the world.
It’s pretty naive to think the world really would get any fucking better if everybody kept to their New Years Resolutions.
Man, most [...]
What’s this ‘Divide-and-Conquer’ thing with Wikipedia?
The commercial encyclopedae shall be very amused with what’s currently happening. Now the founders are fighting amongst themselves.
That can’t be a good thing and I wonder where this will lead us….. Probably to another paid-for reference that nobody will use because cheaper, or even free, alternatives are available. I just hope that in a [...]
Scharzenegger really is an American now….
Reading his arrogant actions lately, I think he’s been assimilated by the American Way Of Life (or rather the American MindFuck).
“I’m a big ass American gouvernor and you may not use my name anymore.”
Hell, I bet the son-of-a-bitch was merry as a faggot when his name was initially slammed on that stadium!
Oh well, just a [...]
Excellent Richard Stallman interview
ZNet is running a nice interview with Richard M. Stallman (well, for the laymen anyways) that explains the Free Software principle, the movement, and the people.
It is really worth a read if you are wondering about this open, free software stuff you’ve heard so much about.
A noteworthy quote:
The idea is not just to [...]
So… Tomorrow it’s Yule.
…and there’s probably a sad minority of souls that actually are aware of what this is all about. (And no: it is not about ‘Baby Jesus’ or any of that religious crap or about some fat bearded guy fuelling materialism.)
It’s really saddening to see how the Roman Empire and its Christian religion assimilated all pagan [...]
Those son-of-a-bitch Wikipedia vandals!
Of course, the let’s flame ‘m again because our future may be threatened by the wiki concept Register picked this story up pretty quickly, another bunch of vandals fucked up Wikipedia content.
It’s to be expected that a lot of commercial companies really don’t like Wikipedia. If you read what the former editor of Encyclopedia Britannica [...]
Freenode IRC network under attack
| by in Internet & Technology |
My favourite IRC network is currently ‘experiencing a large-scale nuisance-bot infestation‘.
I wasn’t online at the time these attacks began so I have absolutely no idea as to what nuisance they exactly cause.
Thinking about this, the culprit is probably some 1337 h4×0r messing around with his zombie network out of some grudge, or possible a contracted [...]
