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from the nyt article :

At times, anime figures look strikingly like the sexualized children created by the Chicago outsider artist Henry Darger.

not having heard of henry darger i went and did a quick google search

some info from here

His landlord was cleaning out his room after his death and came across a startling discovery: alone in his room, Darger had created a beautiful and violent fantasy world, primarily embodied in a 15,000 page epic narrative, "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion."

several illustrations from this huge work shown on this site

after viewing these images i would question th nyt's use of th word sexualised - and on another matter, th nyt article suggests anime is a corruption of th english word animation - i had always understood it to be from th french word animé

Will Canadian Websites switch to the red Canadabis Leaf flag?

Somebody needs better glasses.

Try getting the link here: dowload kazaa

I uploaded a mirror here: Windows, Linux. If everyone uploads a copy of the program this thing will never go away!

I uploaded a mirror here: Windows, Linux. If everyone uploads a copy of the program this thing will never go away!

Unless the kernel is written in Java. Then just use JAD! :)

Wasn't the first usage of "windows" applying to computers the xerox alto and xerox star. For more info on the various gui "windows" enviroments and their history check here.

Carl Spackler: Correct me if I'm wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key.

Sandy MacReedy: Gophers! You great git! Not golfers! The little brown furry rodents!

Carl Spackler: We can do that. We don't even have to have a reason.

Caddyshack

Do we really want Wil -- heck, anybody -- to reprise the infamous spoken-word 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'? :)

• I'd say it's more likely that you'll be beaten up by a woman of such style and grace as Mama Cass or Loretta Devine. I don't think Leelee Sobieski or Jessica Alba would have much to do with you. They'd simply get their bodyguards to put the smack down on you.
  

• Eu diria que é mais provável que você estará batido acima por uma mulher de estilo e grace como Mama Cass ou Loretta Devine. Eu não penso que Leelee Sobieski ou Jessica alba teriam muito a fazer com você. Começariam simplesmente seus bodyguards pôr o smack para baixo sobre você.

So do you think Washuwould like it?

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[sig:]Capitalism has a shelve life of 250 years. Unforunately, we are way past due for a revolution.

Pardon me, but who, if not the "proles," will foment this revolution? Perhaps you are a member of the CorporoTechnoCratic Party International?

At least correct your sig so "shelf" is spelled correctly.

I had the opportunity to meet and listen to Jan Merlin (Roger Manning from 'Tom Corbett - Space Cadet') a few years back at a Wild West days festival. He's a very engaging speaker with a huge repertoire of tales of the Golden Age of Hollywood, some taller than others [grin].

If you get the chance, Jan's going to be appearing at the Williamsburg Film Festival 28-Feb thru 2-Mar next year. As the website notes, guest stars appear subject to their availability and health. Opportunities to meet people like Jan and have them share their memories with you are becoming more and more rare as the years go by, so if you can fit it into your schedule you should. I personally found it definitely worth my time and money to go when I did.

"Williamsburg Film Festival"

I got Rollerblades for Christmas! Woowoo! And since we finally got a nice half inch of snow here in Wisconsin 2 days before Xmas, I can practice sliding around on the ice and throwing myself into snowpiles! (Since I haven't figured out how to stop by using the brakes yet)

Ooh, and 30 CD-Rs to trade mp3s with my friends on!

I used to look down on Christmas, until I realized that Santa (the Coca Cola Santa, that is) had nothing to do with the traditional Christmas. I've come to appreciate Christmas as an excuse for generosity and fellowship, but I will never be reconciled with the selfishness and wastefulness the fat idiot in the trademark red suit represents.

So I think a couple of quotes are in order. First, some dialog from Buffy:

Willow: Santa always passes me by. Something puts him off. Could be the big honkin' menorah.
Tara: Oh, did you write him a letter?
Xander: What'd you ask for?
Dawn: Um, guys? Hello? Puberty? Sorta figured out the whole "No Santa" thing.
Anya: That's a myth.
Dawn: Yeah.
Anya: No, I mean, it's a myth that it's a myth. There is a Santa Claus.
Xander: The advantage of having a thousand-year-old girlfriend. Inside scoop.
Tara: There's a Santa Claus?
Anya: Mm-hmm. Been around since, like, the 1500s. He wasn't always called Santa, but you know, Christmas night, flying reindeer, coming down the chimney -- all true.
Dawn: All true?
Anya: Well, he doesn't traditionally bring presents so much as, you know, disemboweled children, but otherwise...
Tara: The reindeer part was nice.

FF I (NES) -- simplistic, but still fun.

Lots of fun, this is the game that got me hooked on Final Fantasy in the first place. Even though every one is different, they all have that much in common.

FF II (Famicom, get an emulator and a translated version)

Might as well give a link to a translation...

FF III (again, emulate)

Translation again.

FF IV (II on the NES, see FFC on the PSX for the "hard" edition) -- I absolutely love this game.

I didn't like the US easy version when it first came out, but the translation of the Japanese hardtype version was a lot better. Better characterization, characters say "Well, i'm off to die!" instead of "I'll see you later" before they go sacrafice themselves for the greater good, and so on.

FF V (emulate, or see FFA on the PSX)

From what I've heard, the fan translation is actually better than the playstation version, fewer WTF moments in the dialog and such. As far as I've been able to determine, the original translation group doesn't have a website anymore, but the patch is all over the net. v1.10 seems to be the latest.

FF VI (III SNES, FFA on PSX)

Definately a good game, but not that much better than the other SNES FFs. No translation needed, unless you're like this guy (slashdot doesn't seem to like the underscore in 'sky_render'... check that if it says the page can't be found) and think the translation could've been done better (Nintendo does have this thing about strong language, 'sex', death, and so on). Too bad he has such bad taste in fonts sometimes...

I seem to recall seeing other pictures from this event at some point in the past, but they're turning up really hard to find.

Turns out the guy that did this ended up surviving.. crazy stuff. Wish there was more info on it cuz these sorts of things always facinate me. ;)

i can give you many examples. here is one. also, this guy told me he used linux. and last but not least i use linux. any more proof needed?

not a problem. i can give you many examples. here is one. also, this guy told me he used linux. and last but not least i use linux. any more proof needed?

We don't really want to catch the guys that started the anthrax scare, but those warez kidz, now, they are a top priority. I understand Osama Bin Laden himself was able to plan the Sept 11th attacks using cracked software.

It's time to crack down. Let's jam bamboo under their fingernails and put electrodes on their testicles and make them scream so that we can all feel safe again.

There are far too many misconceptions to address in this topic, but I'd like to at least mention what "treatment" of autism and Asperger's means. First of all, there are no drugs used to "cure" autism. The most effective treatment with which I'm familiar is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy. My wife works as an ABA therapist for two little girls, both less than 3 years old. The therapy consists of many short exercises which focus on motor imitation, puzzle-solving, speech, etc. Therapy sessions are typically one to three hours long and pretty grueling, actually. Exercises are performed in groups of three or so, and short breaks are taken in between these groups.

There is some very good information available on the web, of course. Here's a pretty useful site I found via Google:

http://rsaffran.tripod.com/aba.html

Anyway, due to the sheer number of exercises, data logging and therapy administration become quite a chore--you should see the stacks of paper and manual labor required for tracking a child's progress. AFAIK, the best tool most parents and therapists have at the moment is a spreadsheet. For this reason, I've been considering developing a Java app (likely web-based) to make these tasks more efficient. The software would obviously be Free.

The project is still in its infancy (the scope hasn't even been defined), but if you're interested at all in coding or being notified once something is available for testing/use, feel free to email me at:

steveh @ amnesiac.net (remove spaces)

A mirror of the ROM image is available on my web site:

http://gamanen.tripod.com/

Please sign the guestbook while you are there.

There are lots of cool science you can do with your microwave, like creating floating plasma balls for instance. They make cool filming/photographing material.

Check here for more wacky fun with that kitchen appliance. It has even more links to microwave science and stuff you can do with your microwave.

DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER:

If you _do_ one of these experiments, make sure you get all the safety precautions right, and don't over-experiment. If you go blind and everything looks fuzzy you should stop IMMEDIATELY, since you are busy boiling your cornea and the inner fluids of your eyes solid. This is a sure sign that your microwave is leaking and you are standing too close. Luckily, his is a temporary infliction if you're out of the way quick enough, but certainly not healthy for your eyes. This same thing happened to a bud of mine who was messing with microwave antennaes and signal-amplifiers. He actually took a microwave apart to hook up to his amplifier. And yes, he was standing too close. It took a few months until he had his full vision back.

There are lots of cool science you can do with your microwave, like creating floating plasma balls for instance. They make cool filming/photographing material.

Check here for more wacky fun with that kitchen appliance. It has even more links to microwave science and stuff you can do with your microwave.

DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER:

If you _do_ one of these experiments, make sure you get all the safety precautions right, and don't over-experiment. If you go blind and everything looks fuzzy you should stop IMMEDIATELY, since you are busy boiling your cornea and the inner fluids of your eyes solid. This is a sure sign that your microwave is leaking and you are standing too close. Luckily, his is a temporary infliction if you're out of the way quick enough, but certainly not healthy for your eyes. This same thing happened to a bud of mine who was messing with microwave antennaes and signal-amplifiers. He actually took a microwave apart to hook up to his amplifier. And yes, he was standing too close. It took a few months until he had his full vision back.

This?

Another neat MW trick is building a sustained plasma ball

it is done w/ a pencil led and a microwave-safe glass ball... very cool, must try.

see here also.

Encoding speeds vary by quite a bit depending on which encoder you use.

There is a good article here which has encoding quality & time comparisons.

...the more mechanically inclined among us could just turn their own on their garage lathes and bolt a bunch of gewgaws to it to finish the look.

Are you talking about these guys?

Or these guys?

Or possibly even these guys?

In Roman times the Frisian tribes lived from what is now northern France along the North Sea coast all the way up into Denmark. In Medievial times there once were to be 7 Frisian Kingdoms (or Islands). The Flag

I couldn't remember, but according to this page (found through a Google search), it's in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

in addition to here, here and here!!

I want to see real humanimals

Here is my entry. At 45 mph cross-country I can give the horse a good run for the money, even before I start shooting.

Oh right. And my entry laughs at your puny wolf-packs. (Of course it doesn't live on grass either..damned spec changes...)

Newt-dog

In Ralph 124C 41+, a novel he wrote and serialized in 1911, Mr. Gernsback described what he and colleagues subsequently classified as radar, the direction finder, space travel, germicidal rays, micro-film, two-way television, night baseball, tape records, artificial silk and wool, stainless steel, magnesium as a structural material, and flourescent lighting. He also described the wireless transmission of power and electronic weather control, which are yet to be realized.

You keep saying that, but it isn't technically true, and your repetition won't fix that. Every death the United States causes in the current attacks is a seperate crime. Of course, the deaths of the non-military personal are quite a bit more offensive to me than the fact that some alleged terrorist are being killed, but it is all a series of criminal actions, just as blowing up the world trade centers were.

"As for the US using chemical and biological weapons, that is a vicious lie. If it were true, do you think we'd have the support from our allies that we do now?"

I didn't say 'chemical and biological weapons'. I said 'chemical and biological warfare'.

The disinction is important because biological warfare includes activities that promote suffering and death as a result of biological agents, even if those biological agents are not delivered directly.

The example I'm thinking of is the fact that the United States arranged to insure that the citizens of Iraq have been unable to provide clean drinking water for the last ten years by imposing sanctions that make it imposible to aquire the supplies to fix the infrastructure that the United States destroyed. The resulting desease and death has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens. Here's a sample site about US use of biological warfare.

An example of chemical warfare is the use of depleated uranium ammunition during battles. Here's a sample site about US use of chemical warfare.

If you care to look, there is a lot of detail available on both these issues.

"As for recognizing evil, if September 11 didn't make things crystal clear for you, I shudder to think what would? Maybe L.A. getting leveled by a nuke?"

It is my belief that the course of action the United States is undertaking makes such an attack more likely, not less likely.

"That is the future we are facing if we don't fight to stop terrorism now."

Terrorism will never be completely stoped. I'm not at all convinced that the United States will even reduce it anytime soon. The 'wars' on drugs and poverty weren't successful, why should we expect this 'war on terrorism' to be successful?

I haven't heard anyone worrying about Geneva or Amsterdam being leveled by a nuke, have you? Why do you suppose L.A. is a more likely target?

True Names.. ah, there is a truely great novella. I don't think that the link is accurate though, that edition has not (or should not have been) printed yet. I have a standing order with Tor for it, i have had the order for the last two years, the publication date has always been a few months in the future. I am fairly sure that it has not been recently published because i have just bought a compleat collection of Vinge's short stories, the only omisions being true names (because of the pending publication), and Grim's world (it being the core of Tajta Grim's World). The distributer, i think it was Baker and taylor, but i could be wrong, said that the publication date for True Names (i check every time i order something) has been pushed back yet again. This all makes me wonder why Barnesand Noble say it is instock and ready to ship.... i dunno...

online text of True Names (not sure how long this wil be up... so get it while its fresh)

True Names
A fan supported Vernor Vinge web site
Vinge's site at SDSU (the miscelanious link at the bottom has the good stuff)
Some of his other books
Bibliography

ok, thats enough for now... check google for more.
I recomend reading some of his stuff if you havn't already, some reminds you of all of the science foction you have read before, and some is just astounding. True Names is/was truely prophetic (check out when it was written, then compare to neuromancer).

Easier for us to take photos anywhere anytime...

Easier for us to be taken anywhere anytime too...

For example, a link from the press release, http://members.tripod.com/mcmach1/voyeur.html.

I'm not saying it's evil, but I'm quite sure there are situations that you don't want people to see =)

here here here here and here

According to The American Institute of Physics in their Physical Review Letters journal article "Resilience of the Internet to random breakdowns" (19 Oct 2000) [a copy of this article is available in .pdf from my personal web page on the left side bar for your reading pleasure.] stated that the Internet could lose 99% of its nodes, and still maintain routability. The content lost in those 99% of nodes is another matter, but the Internet would not segment until over 99% of the routing nodes were removed. That's pretty impressive.

Cough cough. Sorry but free speech doesn't mean that we have to PAY YOU to speak or even that we have to listen at all. It simply means that you won't be prevented from going about speaking if you so wish. Social freedom != free bandwidth.

The price should be fair, and much lower than then the penny-per-page proposed above, at least for most definitions of "page" (server transfer costs seem between $.001 and $.01 per Megabyte at the moment) - but I fear for the future of the Web, and the net at large, if it does not come about.

Oh, you -fear-. Okay, I'm suitably caught up in the crisis emotion now and willing to open my wallet, especially to keep afloat such QUALITY sites like goastse.cx, Alli's busy world, The I Hate Myself Poem and Diary, and the home page of everyone's favorite band FuckYou(TM), etc...

I'm sure I'll be moderated as a flame or something, but ask a stupid question, expect a sarcastic answer.

As far as 'economic realities', you're obviously ignorant of one: This would cost a ton to implement, and no one would want to play along and pay a flat rate for content of, well, let's say VARIED worth.

I would suggest making donations to free sites that are struggling might be a better idea. I have (*GASP*) actually done this myself, as I feel that someone that goes to alot of effort to create good content because they WANT TO morally deserves payment.

Okay, I'm dragging on here. Here's a summary:

Nice idea, but nobody's going to play along.

Bruce and Robert played together in "Maniac Cop" 1&2. MC2) also stars Robert Davi and Charles Napier - Chin Fest!

Kangaroos are daytime critters, but are sometimes active at night, and get squished by cars (or cars squished by the big ones).

Marsupial possums are often nocturnal.

Regular cars are more likely to disturb wildlife than solar cars.

wanna know more about em? australianwildlife.com.au

the route taken by the solar challenge is (I presume) chosen for maximum sun. a lot of the places on the map are incredibly dry and have little wildlife due to the lack of water. Coober Pedy is like a moonscape, Alice Springs is a lot more hospitable, as is Tennant Creek.

Water is not always easy to come by in the desert, which can have an unusual effect on wildlife.

Truck road trains and tour buses use these roads, so solar cars should be a nice change of pace.

If you're (physically) going to watch the challenge, don't miss some of the amazing places out there.

I'm pretty sure the name was "SAM". I found this page about a C64 speech synthesis program named SAM, but I'm not sure if it's the same one. Sounds right though, I remember that running SAM added a SAY keyword to the C64's built-in BASIC... Aah, nostalgia!

Perhaps the author should get in touch with the wacky ophthalmologist responsible for this site and pick up a few tips on making indecipherable humor err...decipherable.

Use of Indonesian soldiers to provide "security" at the Nikomas Factory in Indonesia
Members of the Indonesian army are frequently employed as "security" in factories in Indonesia during periods of industrial unrest to prevent industrial action. In September 1999 a US student delegation observed Indonesian soldiers stationed at the Nikomas factory at a time when wage negotiations were being conducted. Following the publicity the issue received the soldiers were replaced by non-military security (police and security guards) who were playing an appropriate role. Subsequently however, during peaceful strike action by workers at PT Nikomas, police from Brimob (an armed police brigade) equipped with guns entered the factory and together with factory security guards and hired civilians they threatened and provoked workers. We repeat our call for Nike to ensure that Indonesia's armed forces are never called in to prevent or interfere with peaceful industrial action.

You go on to say: and, a little note: they hate us because we're the rich, good-looking kid on the playground who is smart enough not to give his lunch away everyday to the kids who are too stupid to find their own money.

Again, I feel I must correct you: they hate us because we are a genocidal nation of gun-crazy psychopaths and lunatics.

It's just some silly death throes. Give it up, people.

Let's not forget the "FPS" that preceeded Wolfenstein and Doom by several years...DUNGEONS OF DAGORATH for Radio Shack's TRS 80.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

That was the best! Using your character's heatbeat instead of hit points was brilliant.

There's an interview with one of the creators here.