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Lets start this off with some homework: we were nominated for a 2000 Webby in Community. Please go vote for us (requires annoying login, but please do it anyway! I want a crappy little trophy!) Now with the 'biz outta the way,
brainsik pointed us to the Brainshaker: a headmounted subwoofer that looks like it would make Quake a bit to real.
Plastik noted a web filter guaranteed to offend
the conservative and humorless. But it makes
reading Slashdot damn entertaining.
And if you're interesting in violating most religions, vkulkarn found an "Escort" who apparently reads Slashdot (will she go out with CowboyNeal?)
Speaking of religion, Zippy noted that I am apparently a
prophet in the Church of The Enlightenment , along with Jay Stile of Stileproject . Illiad, from Userfriendly.org is a bard.
webword sent us CalculusGirls.com which combines 2 of the many things I don't understand.
Andy Lester noted that
Brunching Shuttlecocks has a book on
"Fuzzy Logic Functions", in the style of O'Reilly.
yek401 noted that his english professor builds barbie doll cyborgs: god bless tenure ;)
Trenchcoat Steve warned us about Moon Land Registry which claims to be selling land on the moon for $10/acre:
you even get a deed and mineral rights... and it might be legal!
Gravey noted that their are two new Reboot movies going into production.
For you conspiracy theorists,
backtick noted that everyone's favorite software monopoly might be getting into the furniture biz along with Lazyboy.
SgtPepper
pointed us to RFC 2795 which
"describes a protocol suite which supports an infinite
number of monkeys that sit at an infinite number of typewriters"
ucsimon noted that LegoLand in California just gota liquor license. Mind you after a few shots of vodka, finding a 2x2 blue block takes a lot longer.
Let's wrap up with
jyuter's note that Comedy Central has vid clips of the south park kids doing Python's parrot sketch in Quicktime or Real.
Yeah, you're right, it's promoting a stereotype: the smart attractive teenage girl. Which is, IMO, progress compared to the steretype of the smart, bookish teenage girl. Knowing the way that my brain operated when I was a kid, if beauty mattered to me a great deal, and I didn't see anyone who was smart and beautiful, I'd probably choose beautiful over smart. Dumb? You bet. But then again, logic doesn't come naturally to humans; it has to be trained into us.
Yeah, I personally prefer someone with brains over someone with beauty; and someone who's overweight with a free spirit and brains is sexier than a supermodel with neither. But I could give a sh** how this site reflects on ME. I worry more that we may be subtly pissing away half of our pool of talent with messages like "girls can't do math."
Finding God in a Dog
gotta love these sections (dunno if they are the same every time)....
Sections
4/8
apache
4/10 (11)
askslashdot
1/27
awards
4/8
gospels <--aka tacohell
4/10 (2)
bsd
4/9
features
4/10
interviews
4/5
radio
4/9
blasphemy <-- aka M$
4/10 (3)
yro
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If your computer says LINUX, run...computers can't talk! [unless you have text-speech software]
This is just crying out for a poll!
My Favourite Calculus Girl is:
- Alexis
- Cassie
- Elena
etc...
:)
Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
Is there ever a blue Lego when you need it? I mean, there's red and black and white and yellow and you can never forget about those ugly green ones, but there's never blue when you need it. Same goes for the red or black or white or yellow or the ugly green ones when you need those too. And I won't even go into how Mr. Murphy (most famous for his laws) seems to hide all the 2x2 bricks when you need them.
And what about Lego Mindstorm and all of the mechanical pieces. Damn! And just when you find all the right gears you need, you find that your batteries are dead on your motor or that your system has a resource conflict and you can't comunicate with your creation.
Personally, I liked Lego so much more when it didn't require a free IRQ on my computer system...
kwsNI
Finding God in a Dog
Concerning the Church of the Enlightened...someone should start the Church of the Geeks. Maybe something like:
The 10 Commandments
1. Thou shalt immolate thyself to destroy Evil's software patents
2. Thou shalt not covet DVD's unless thou supports DeCSS
3. Thou shalt read Slashdot every hour
4. Thou shalt homeschool thy children using UserFriendly and thy Linux box
5. Thou shalt covet no God but Linus Torvalds
6. Thou shalt make a pilgrimage to the Geek Compound
7. Thou shalt code all night and consume thy Coffee
8. Thou shalt not use Windows unless within VMWare
9. Thou shalt not covet Evil Software Corporations
10. Thou shalt not support the US Government
Or maybe not...but this kind of thing would be a good extension to AskJesus
On the other hand, alcohol at LegoLand worries me. Someone could easily circumvent those policies to the point where they can get themselves intoxicated. Or the alcohol could prove to be a bad influence on children.
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10. Hey. Can I take your derivative?
9. What's your integral?
8. That proof would look great next to my bed in the morning.
7. My vector is a scalar multiple.
6. If you say no, I'll ask again - I'm a detrminant.
5. Ever tried the Implicit Function Theorem on a water bed?
4. Nice equipotential surfaces and curves...
3. Want to see the geometric properties of my gradient vector?
2. What's your center of convergence?
1. I'm Binomial.
I'd really love to be able to take a gander at whatever translation table Ask Jesus uses. By trying it out on my homepage I noticed the following interesting substitutions.
Web -> Tower of babel
Clubs -> Secret Houses of worship
data -> inscrutable numbers
college -> hell on earth
school -> purgatory
business -> slave-trade
This calculusgirls site is total bullshit. Not only are 4 out of 5 staff men, but the site is basically still promoting the looks of these girls who are good at math, enforcing the stereotypical viewpoint that all men care about is how a woman looks. This may be true for some men, and this is certainly true for things like porn, but in real life, I want a woman who can challenge me, and keep me guessing, who is at, above, or near my level of intelligence, and not necessarily interested in the same things. This site claims that it is promoting "smart women", but it isn't.. it's still promoting "smart, attractive women", and fuck, no offense to anyone, but if these calculus girls were so smart, why couldn't they make the site themselves?
Flames expected.
-------- "All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away" --Spiritualized
That AskJesus thing is awesome! Not because of how it messes up the pages you go to but because it is basically a CGI Proxy server!
You see, at my school to get on the internet we need to go through a proxy server that filters out any websites that haven't been deemed "educationally valuable." This is most sites on the internet.
But with this thing, since it fetches the page for you (so it can alter the text) we could go through this to get around the proxy! I bet my programming teacher would be surprised to see us looking at, say playboy.com whilst it is in ye olde english speak!
Thank you, Jesus!
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.