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Sorry, but Eben Moglen looks just like an anagram.

Other solutions:

BEG LONE MEN
BEN OGLE MEN
BONE LEG MEN

Thanks to Brendan's On-Line Anagram Generator

I went to a Magnet high school (http://mbhs.edu/departments/magnet/) (a public school that takes in the top 100 students from the county to teach them an advanced curriculum) and part of the requirements for earning a Magnet diploma was to do a Senior Research Project (SRP) that sounds very much like ASR. To find a mentor (I wanted to do theoretical computer science, I had done some independent research on graph theory in my own time) I emailed a professor at the University of Maryland and worked over my 11th grade summer with him. I came up with a result, not important enough to get published, but it won me this award: http://www.sciserv.org/sts/64sts/Forbes.asp and got me into MIT.

For advanced topics such as cryptography the best bet is the local university. There are also a bunch of government facilities out there that do research. Some of the best places (mostly in the DC area, however) are the NSA (http://www.nsa.gov/careers/students_1.cfm) and NIST (http://csrc.nist.gov/) (NIST can offer housing, btw). There is also a great program for high school juniors at MIT or Caltech (no cost): http://www.cee.org/rsi/index.shtml .

Just to show that high-school cryptography research is possible: http://www.sciserv.org/sts/60sts/Dunn.asp . This guy is the older brother of one of my friends (both who went to the same high school program as I) and I believe he did his research at NIST.

-Michael Forbes

I could not find any truly amusing anagrams for "Macedonia"

http://www.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/cgi-bin/anagram.cgi? cpw=1&phrase=macedonia

The stickers must be vapourware just like the Phantom because I've never seen one.

Then perhaps you should look more closely.

There is a web-tool for finding out what words you can make with a phone-number using the letters that appear next to each number - http://mmm.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/phoneagrams.html

when your school newspaper's url is
hotxxxlickdrip.com[hotxxxlickdrip.com] ?
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Do you remember Future Crew? And the legendary Second Reality demo of '93? (Available here, but can be hard to run properly on modern systems) Apparently many of those guys are now working at Remedy... which may explain why Max Payne is such a graphically beautiful game... I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the Max FX engine employs some nice ASM routines. Also, check out their Final Reality benchmark, the final "cityscape flythrough" is a homage to a nearly identical (albeit flat shaded) sequence in Second Reality. Cool shit.

There's an article about the evil of barbie here, including the 'math is hard' bit. The Simpsons episode (514 1F012 Original Airdate: 2/17/94) was social commentary.

Better check out the Cartoon Laws of Physics. It always amazed me how Chuck Jones and Max Fleischer had such an instinctive, albeit exaggerated, understanding of the laws of physics in their cartoons. You can't be a good animator (or game designer) without understanding of the Cartoon Laws of Physics.

The Print Edition of my school paper (I work with both Print and Online) did a feature a couple issues ago about this phenomenon.

It's nothing special, just thought I'd give you another perspective on it.

Personally, I'm kind of ambivalent. I had a brief amihotornot addiction (I used it to keep myself awake when doing homework late at night), but eventually grew disgusted with it. I find myself smirking at diehard users, but I really don't care that much.

For those who care about such things, this story ran on the "front page" of the features section, which always has an "outside the box" design. In this case, that page editor took the obvious route and made it up like a web browser (note to self... figure out way to get spiffy page designs into online version). I made some cute browser buttons (in the GIMP ;) ). I don't know where I'm going with this paragraph.

The Print Edition of my school paper (I work with both Print and Online) did a feature a couple issues ago about this phenomenon.

It's nothing special, just thought I'd give you another perspective on it.

Personally, I'm kind of ambivalent. I had a brief amihotornot addiction (I used it to keep myself awake when doing homework late at night), but eventually grew disgusted with it. I find myself smirking at diehard users, but I really don't care that much.

For those who care about such things, this story ran on the "front page" of the features section, which always has an "outside the box" design. In this case, that page editor took the obvious route and made it up like a web browser (note to self... figure out way to get spiffy page designs into online version). I made some cute browser buttons (in the GIMP ;) ). I don't know where I'm going with this paragraph.

The Print Edition of my school paper (I work with both Print and Online) did a feature a couple issues ago about this phenomenon.

It's nothing special, just thought I'd give you another perspective on it.

Personally, I'm kind of ambivalent. I had a brief amihotornot addiction (I used it to keep myself awake when doing homework late at night), but eventually grew disgusted with it. I find myself smirking at diehard users, but I really don't care that much.

For those who care about such things, this story ran on the "front page" of the features section, which always has an "outside the box" design. In this case, that page editor took the obvious route and made it up like a web browser (note to self... figure out way to get spiffy page designs into online version). I made some cute browser buttons (in the GIMP ;) ). I don't know where I'm going with this paragraph.

Something else that might be of interest to some of you is my PalmBot, a Palm controlled robot inspired by the PPRK. I got to bring this to the Nationals, and even got to meet Bob Metcalfe, creator of Ethernet and founder of 3Com, who happened to be a judge.

Something else that might be of interest to some of you is my PalmBot, a Palm controlled robot inspired by the PPRK. I got to bring this to the Nationals, and even got to meet Bob Metcalfe, creator of Ethernet and founder of 3Com, who happened to be a judge.

Well, good thing I didn't post it. I'm not sure if I know you "in real life" at school, but many congratulations.
You know, I think you guys had waaay too much fun with that wrench image... :)

Oh yes! Shameless plug time! Chips Online(actually, the print cousin) will have full robot coverage next month. Watch that space.

-J

My school's page can be found at http://robot.mbhs.edu. We placed 8th in our division in the finals.

You can check out MBHS' entry into the competition (I'm head of pneumatics by the way :-), The Blair Robot Project.

(mostly j/k here, but I'm a little sore that MBHS always gets overlooked).

That's the stuff we've been looking for to get our robot working! (See US FIRST)

You need a real magnet school! Try Montgomery Blair. Blair competes with the likes of Stuyvesant in things like the Intel Science Talent Search, (we both had two finalists), as well as a student whose unofficial score was much higher on the American High School Math Exam than their top scoring student. Blair has a class of 100. Stuyvesant and other magnet schools have classes of 1000 or more.

My high school has a good-sized TV studio that is used both by various TV production classes and our very own Blair Network Communications. Anyway, we just got a whole mess of new G4 computers with DVD-RAM drives to replace the old linear editors. Apparently, they have been a boon to all involved. I'm not involved with TV production much (more of a newspaper man myself), but numerous of my acquiantances are, and these are very nice machines. They do tend to heat up the editing suites quite a bit, but they editing much easier and more efficient.

Annyway, all the cameras the studio has are still cassette recorders. Some people use digital cameras, but no matter what, you invariably have to hook your camera up to a firewire adapter and dump everything to a DVD-RAM before you can use it. If we got DVD-RAM cameras... well, I'm sure they'd love it.

-J

My high school has a good-sized TV studio that is used both by various TV production classes and our very own Blair Network Communications. Anyway, we just got a whole mess of new G4 computers with DVD-RAM drives to replace the old linear editors. Apparently, they have been a boon to all involved. I'm not involved with TV production much (more of a newspaper man myself), but numerous of my acquiantances are, and these are very nice machines. They do tend to heat up the editing suites quite a bit, but they editing much easier and more efficient.

Annyway, all the cameras the studio has are still cassette recorders. Some people use digital cameras, but no matter what, you invariably have to hook your camera up to a firewire adapter and dump everything to a DVD-RAM before you can use it. If we got DVD-RAM cameras... well, I'm sure they'd love it.

-J

My high school has a good-sized TV studio that is used both by various TV production classes and our very own Blair Network Communications. Anyway, we just got a whole mess of new G4 computers with DVD-RAM drives to replace the old linear editors. Apparently, they have been a boon to all involved. I'm not involved with TV production much (more of a newspaper man myself), but numerous of my acquiantances are, and these are very nice machines. They do tend to heat up the editing suites quite a bit, but they editing much easier and more efficient.

Annyway, all the cameras the studio has are still cassette recorders. Some people use digital cameras, but no matter what, you invariably have to hook your camera up to a firewire adapter and dump everything to a DVD-RAM before you can use it. If we got DVD-RAM cameras... well, I'm sure they'd love it.

-J

What is your experience in this area? Is your school technology have or have-not? Do you have a crowd of computer geeks at school or are you the solitary one? Are you shunned for your geekiness or accepted?

Best of luck,
Justin

What is your experience in this area? Is your school technology have or have-not? Do you have a crowd of computer geeks at school or are you the solitary one? Are you shunned for your geekiness or accepted?

Best of luck,
Justin

What is your experience in this area? Is your school technology have or have-not? Do you have a crowd of computer geeks at school or are you the solitary one? Are you shunned for your geekiness or accepted?

Best of luck,
Justin

So I was setting up a handheld AvantGo channel for our school online paper (http://silverchips.mbhs.edu ). I had everything set up server-side: the template file that contains headlines, a CGI script to convert them to handheld-friendly formatting, and a nice, 160x160 readable page. I went to avantgo's website(http://www.avantgo.com ) and started going through the process to register as a "content provider" (ooooh!). There was, at one point, a big, EULA-style contract that i had to read and agree to. I almost blew it off, like the things you have to agree to for free web space or web-based email. But for some reason, I skimmed though it... and some very large numbers caught my eye. Specifically, the fact that I would have to pay them $5,000 (give or take a power of 10) of we got more than 5,000 (give or take a power of 10... I don't remember exactly) subscribers to the channel.

Ouch. I stopped right there, and I'm now setting up the channel differently. I don't know how legally binding such contracts are (nor do I expect 5,000+ subscribers), but it's not a risk I want to take.

I still usually don't read software EULAs (EULAe?), though.

-J

I suppose we've already established this, but I have to put in my plug for the greatest educational institution I've ever attended: Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology (www.tjhsst.edu). I graduated in '96, but they've owned tjhsst.edu since before I started (and before the Web, too). As far as I know, though, this is the only high school with a .edu domain.

Not the only one; my alma mater, Montgomery Blair High School (mbhs.edu) (ah, old rivalries...) has one as well, and has had it since before I started there in fall 1991. Maybe InterNIC was more lax in the olden days?

here.

Poxy Coat => A COX TYPO
Dog Grooming => I'D GO GOG NORM (or DIG GOGO NORM)
Wate rbeds Online => A BED EEL ISN'T WORN
Diamond Limo => I LAID NOMDOM (or MAIM ODD LOIN)

How can you blame them?

Poxy Coat => A COX TYPO
Dog Grooming => I'D GO GOG NORM (or DIG GOGO NORM)
Wate rbeds Online => A BED EEL ISN'T WORN
Diamond Limo => I LAID NOMDOM (or MAIM ODD LOIN)

How can you blame them?

Poxy Coat => A COX TYPO
Dog Grooming => I'D GO GOG NORM (or DIG GOGO NORM)
Wate rbeds Online => A BED EEL ISN'T WORN
Diamond Limo => I LAID NOMDOM (or MAIM ODD LOIN)

How can you blame them?

Poxy Coat => A COX TYPO
Dog Grooming => I'D GO GOG NORM (or DIG GOGO NORM)
Wate rbeds Online => A BED EEL ISN'T WORN
Diamond Limo => I LAID NOMDOM (or MAIM ODD LOIN)

How can you blame them?

RADON GAS ROT
ROAD RAT SONG
DRAGON ROAST
ARROGANT SOD
GRAND AS ROOT
SODA GRANTOR
NAG STARR DOO
ORGAN RAT DOS

And my personal favorite: SATAN ROD GOO

Conspiracy theories, anyone?

Some URLs:
Main MBHS page
MBLUG page

Some URLs:
Main MBHS page
MBLUG page

I'm a big Pratchett fan (my summer trip to London finally let me complete my book collection), and eagerly awaiting the Thief of Time (April 2001). However, what worries me is concepts like cartoons and movies of DW.

OK, Pratchett's got the British humor and slapstick thing down pat, and he's really funny, but the "low humor" elements are NOT what make the writing. For me, the best part of Pratchett is his masterful command of the English lanugage, his clever wordplay and creative methods. All stuff that translates poorly into theatre and worse into a cartoon.

Pratchett is not just about things like "The Hedgehog can Never be Buggered at All." You can amek a cartoon with that, a cartoon with pahllus jokes, with all sorts of visual gags and one-liners. But that's not what his work is about. It's about ideas (Small Gods is brilliant), it's about society (Soul Music, The Truth, etc.), and it's about the writing. Espiecally intersting his ability to make his own unique style mimic, chameleon-style, a genre like the cop thriller or th travelogue.

Well, I had been working on a review of The Truth for my school online paper (silverchips.mbhs.edu), but other stuff had gotten in the way. I guess I'd bvetter get back to it.

PS. Quick review of non-DW books: Having read and enjoyed Niven's Ringworld, I found Pratchett's Strata to be quite fun. The Dark Side of the Sun is sort of a Foundation parody, and not as engaging as DW, but still fun. The Carpet People is VERY early Pratchett, and astute readers of his work will notice many prototype ideas and jokes. Finally, Good Omens (co-written with Neil Gaiman) is a very enjoyable book about the apocalypse. A bit more of the "low-humor" there, but that's not a bad thing. The former three are out of print in the US, but you never know....

-J

Can be used as an auxiliary keyboard, varying the potential stress from repetitive motions.