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That's just some rather lengthy output from the Dada Engine - the "brag.pb" script to be precise.

Man, those were good times...

This looks like a modern version of the Commocoffee 64.

Jeez, did you use this to compose that post?

"...One conceivable way to discriminate between a scientific intellectual and a literary intellectual is by considering that a scientific intellectual can usually recognize the writing of another but that the literary intellectual would not be able to tell the difference between lines jotted down by a scientist and those by a glib non-scientist."

This all reminds me of architecture school (shiver) ;)

Structure? We don't need no steenking structure.

Anything beyond an AI Army of One will be unable to come up with a sufficiently complex Concept-Fiber Theory of Mind to start coding True AI or Good Old Fashioned AI (GOFAI) in JavaScript for teaching AI and in Forth for robots.

A minor problem with the sole-source, lone-inventor Organizational Model for Open Source is that funding is almost impossible to obtain, unless you get your project listed in the Free Software Donation Directory or you write a book about your Open Source software. Even then, the sheeple will hound you as a crackpot, a 'Net-loon or a crank, with the result that even here on SlashDot the vicious malcontents will take up the cry and none of the world-famous Slashdot book reviewers will dare to write a reasonable, mind-opening review of your book, with the result that you will fall off the edge of the Open Source world into oblivion, but it won't matter what has happened to your Army of One, because your Open Source software will have advanced the State of the Art.

LiveJournal blogs are the worst, IMHO. People go on and on about events and parties with people that 99.99999% of their readers have never met. Once I realize I've stumbled across something like that, I leave it as soon as I can.

I think most of you are getting a little lost. See, you're making the mistake of labelling online journals as weblogs. While there is definitely some overlapping, journals and weblogs are not one and the same.

Like most of you have observed, online journals are mostly products of self absorbed teens whining about their lives (of course, not all of them are like that - LittleYellowDifferent is technically a blog but verges into journal territory lots, with a bunch of hilarious anecdotes from the author's life). Blogs, on the other hand, are the natural extention of links pages. They offer links to interesting or funny webpages and adding often hilarious commentary on the pages. Of course there are a ton of inane, cookie-cutter blogs, but there are a whole bunch of amazing and hilarious blogs out there too.

Examples of some awesome blogs are Davezilla, the null device, and Kottke.org.

Oh, and here's my rule of thumb for finding great blogs: If, in your quest, you find yourself at Livejournal or Blogspot, run as far as you can in the opposite direction, because you're not going to find the next Davezilla on there.

You don't know of enough tech sites to claim that "almost every tech site" banded together on something. No one does.

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That was hilarious.

Please post your Dada Engine script so the rest of us can learn from your technique.

I played around with the Dada Engine for hours and never got it to churn out Slashbot bullshit like that. How big is your grammar file?

Galambosianism, or how weirdos became mainstream.

Long answer: no, unless there are tools for converting TeX/METAFONT fonts to Adobe Type 1 (not merely PostScript; Type 1 is a specially structured subset of PS) or TrueType. I haven't heard of any. It's more likely that there exist tools to make a set of bitmap (BDF/PCF) fonts from a METAFONT font, but that's not quite the same.

If you want to make fonts and have a Mac (or Windows machine) around, Macromedia's Fontographer is the canonical tool, though it's proprietary (and its file format is as well; not only that but the two platforms' formats aren't compatible; probably due to byte order lossage of some sort). If you don't have this, and are masochistically inclined, you could download the free (GPLed, I think) t1utils and the Adobe Type 1 font spec (it's in PDF somewhere on their site) and hand-code the charstring code.

There are open-source vector font editor projects (such as Raph Levien's gfonted), but they seem to all be at a very early stage.

(Incidentally, if anyone's interested, I am working on a Python module for encoding/decoding Type 1 fonts, which may ultimately become part of a font editing package. The (rather early) code is here.

The findings are entirely consistent with the other things I've read about Microsoft and the Shadow Government.

And then there's the correlation between hackers and adherents of fringe subcultures and interests. The Church of the SubGenius draws a sizeable percentage of its base from computer people (this is evident in SubGenius references in things such as Slackware).
Quite a few computer people are into psychoceramics, following crackpots and lunatics and collecting fringe theories and beliefs. (This also ties into the affinity for unconventional thinking.) Askew visionaries, from Ed Wood to Harry Stephen Keeler get a lot of their fan base from computer "geeks". And need I say anything about Kibo, arguably the first genuine Internet personality?

We can't read minds yet, much less "inject" thoughts into somebody's head. We've
got a long way to go before we can make sense out of anything the brain does...

Tell that to
Russ Wuertz.