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Hump Day Quickies
Some useful stuff:
An anonymous reader noted that AltaVista has opened
Raging.Com which is a super fast minimal search engine without all that bloated portal crap.
gi_wrighty noted that the winneers of the 5k HTML Contest have Been announced. Impressive minimalism.
Soeren Staun-Pedersen
noted that a new
The Gimp User Group has come along.
j1mmy pointed us to pictures of the new Lara Croft Model from E3.
Yaruar sent us a story about Lego Filmsets that come with cameras for you do-it-yourselfers. If you don't want to make your own films, how about your own Mars Polar Lander Site? (Thanks Biff Studly).
antiwesley sent us interesting insight into a typical geek cube.
Speaking of things found in geek Cubes,
BenTheDewpendent sent us a page that tracks tons of info on Mountain Dew and
bob_jordan found pictures of upcoming Futurama Bender Action Figures (Not as cool as Nate's Picolo tho)
Baloo Ursidae sent us a story about electricity generating shoes.
Gorphrim sent us some
Duron Parodies
Finally some Slashdot references: DrFun (one of the original net comics)
mentioned us in a recent strip,
Someone noted that Geek Culture is selling First Post T-Shirts.
QuasEye noted that someone registered hotgrits.org and ironically enough, is running Slashcode. And the WashPost
ran an article on us which is mostly accurate.
And to wrap things up,
maxxon showed us the way to Crank Dot Net, which has stuff on all sorts of conspiracy theories and urban myths and other crazy stuffs on the net. Stuff like UFOs, the face on mars, Creationism, Scientology, antigravity, and perpetual motion and more.
I went looking for the Lara Croft model, but all I found were rendered stills. They show impressive skill with textures, but the lighting is at best amateur. Check out the specular highlights on the breasts, sheesh.
So anyone know where that model is? I do hope it's made of splines. Polygonal meshes are so frumpy.
The washington post says /. is full of robust yeastiness. I had a g/f with that problem ... I'm not sure of the connection to /., but I'm sure it must mean something ;)
Alta Vista used to be the last serious search engine that didn't throw a bunch of extraneous crap at you. Then they joined the portal bandwagon.
Thankfully google came along and likely stole a lot of Alta's disillusioned followers. Now they want us back with a 'minimal' search engine that is not as feature rich or effective as google.
I'll stick with the folks from Stanford.
Here's a 360 degree view of a cube I used to work in, with six halogen lamps all lit up.
It's actually pretty spartan compared to my current office, but some of the more interesting things (some of them a bit fuzzy, sorry!) are:
Tick figure & Tick Steel Box.
Stuffed Duke.
Various Wallace & Grommit stuffed animals.
Oracle beanie - "Propel yourself onto the Internet!"
IR headphones to listen without cords (actually I hate headsets, IR or not) .
Mandatory Dogbert.
Roomarang for improving hand-eye coordination.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I thought it was good article. At least it put Katz in the right light. "It's a throwback kind of thing." Yea, a throwback to the campfires of old, where 100,000 hackers and hangers on from around the world, would sit back, relax, and bullshit about the hunt^H^H^H^Hworld. ;-)
They try and downplay the whole phenom at the end, but that's cause they still don't get it. Heck, they wouldn't even let me contribute my own content. Don't they know that Rob and Jeff got those millions two cents at a time.
Anyway, there's two more. Congrats guys, the new servers rock......although I have seen a couple things today that kinda scare me....G27.org got the hack
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A bit? Hmm...ask a the poster in sid=moderation whose karma went from 52 to -9 overnight, had his default post level changed to -1, and had all his previous posts changed to -1. Pretty darn unfair if you ask me. CmdrTaco should make this public if he's doing it.
Her name is Lucy Clarkson
She's from England
Her measurements are 32DD, 25, 36
Her boyfriend is an avid Tomb Raider player, and is more excited about this than she is.
You forgot to mention... she is 16 years old.
No really, she is.
out of A4 card stock? :-]
And please, tell me the "interface" for the Lego moviemaking kit is FireWire!
I use Macs for work, Linux for education, and Windows for cardplaying.
This article in the fluffy technology section of the Sydney Morning Herald discusses Intel's future in moving away from the Wintel alliance.
... The prototype, codenamed EON ("edge of network" device), runs the free Linux operating system and the Web browser Mozilla, which in turn is based on Netscape's Navigator rather than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
They say: Intel's first foray into box-building is something totally out of the box - a low-cost Internet access device
and illustrate it with a piccie of said device showing a slashdot page.
Sadly the web version of the article is missing the illustration.
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
Oh, and regarding that geek cube - to my mind fluoros are okay as long as you've got natural light, but no geek cube is complete without a Bang & Olufsen phone. Block mobile interferance too.
(PS the hidden inference in this post is that both Google and Altavista are perfectly fine. I use both - but no others)
Alrightly then - my desk list, in no particular order (but kinda left to right); 2 digital cameras (Ricoh & Kodak), external CD drive for toshiba portable, a bunch of NiMH rechargable batteries, a pile of business cards (ick, paper), Jet direct drivers for NT (outdated), little plasic fan to keep my Ultralight cool, Sony speakers, Bang & Olufsen phone, Sharp Actius 150 Ultralight, Meoweth, USB hub, NiMH charger, mirror to use my TRGpro at different angles when IR-connected to Ultralight, TRGpro (with 128MB CF card!), carry bag for ultralight (won't go into contents), spare cables, spare monitor, assorted hardware and software packaging in various states of being opened, brand spanking new HP Netserver E60, shelves filled with crap (manuals, dead phones, more paper - ick). Pinned to cube walls; Space calendar, a couple of Dilbert cartoons ("The timeline is on this mobius strip"), more assorted crap (including a bochure with a CD-single sized CD). Wasn't that fun...
The new Lara model is definitely hot, but I couldn't help notice the gun boo-boos here...image 1 and image 3 show Lara with her finger on the trigger. You always, always, always keep the finger off of a trigger unless it's pointed at something you want to shoot.
:)
Actually, I wasn't paying attention to that part of the picture...
OK, OK, I know, I'm being nitpicky. But fess up, how many of you nitpicked Hackerswhile you were watching it?
Following the same logic, not when Angelina Jolie was on the screen I didn't...
Here's the dead giveaway that he's not a geek: flourescent lighting. Every geek I know who works in an office has poked out the lighting above their cubes (light.. pain.. bad!), myself included. Real Geeks use lava lamps, candlelight, or even the Glow Of the Blessed CRT Monitor.. but flourescent? Man.. no way.
Anyway, I wonder how many people are trying to find slashdot.com right about now...?
As long as CmdrTaco is running the show, I don't have any doubt that /. will remain the "success" it is. Now if he loses editorial control... it's all downhill.
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How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
How could NASA seriously expect a space probe made out of paper to get all the way to Mars and work? They could have at least used cardboard or foamcore or something a bit sturdier.
Next up, Venus Origami Probe...
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
Mea culpa
"If I removed everything here that I thought was pointless, there would be like two messages here."
woxy.com - Bam! The Future of Rock and Roll
Make my own Mars Polar Lander Site? You mean I can have my very own smoking hole in the ground? Instructions:
- Take a plain block of styrofoam.
- Paint it rusty red.
- Set your blowtorch on "crater" and apply to the center of the red landscape. Kids -- get an adult's help!
Optional: add flakes of almuminum and gold foil.--Jim
It works fine in the w3m text browser, which can do tables properly. I use w3m in an rxvt terminal when I don't have the ram to spare to run the Nutscrape browser, or when I am sharing files with gnapster and want to save bandwidth.
Will I retire or break 10K?
The boys [/. authors] do have some adult supervision: Robin Miller, managing editor of all Andover sites, makes sure that Slashdot's articles are grammatical and libel-free, and not spelled with the numeric-letter mixture ("D00D!!! LET'S RIP SOME WAREZZZ!") that characterizes much geek typing.
It's nice to hear that w/o Andover, /. would fast become a warez trading site if Rob had his way ;)
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"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
Well, get yourself an abuse account and mark yourself up.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
Ah but it does matter. She's not really that great looking and to be honest it takes away from the whole atmosphere of the game.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
The new Lara model is definitely hot, but I couldn't help notice the gun boo-boos here...image 1 and image 3 show Lara with her finger on the trigger. You always, always, always keep the finger off of a trigger unless it's pointed at something you want to shoot. (Fortunately the gun she's holding is a 1911 with the hammer down; 1911s are single-actions and can't possibly fire unless the hammer is in the cocked position. So we can presume we're ok here). Image 4 has Lara blowing smoke out of the barrel...also very dangerous, from the look of it she could blow her nose off. Never point a gun at something you're not willing to destroy and always assume it's loaded. And image 5 has her pointing the gun right at us....I sure hope the photographer wasn't standing in front of that barrel. I'm all for people experiencing new things, but being shot is not one of them!
OK, OK, I know, I'm being nitpicky. But fess up, how many of you nitpicked Hackerswhile you were watching it? :)
The Second Amendment Sisters
Finding God in a Dog
While you're making plugs, here, I'd like to mention a site.
:/
KFSS Studios is playing out some of Nobuo Uematsu's best works.. I happen to think they sound incredible... only problem is that the CD won't be released until they can get some more funding...
So, I'm trying to get a little publicity for it so it'll come out sonner =)
-- Dr. Eldarion --
It's not what it is, it's something else.
Because it's a prototype?
...phil
...phil
"For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
..just isn't complete without at least one mention of the legendary cubicle prank.
Just stick the whole damn thing in quotes. They don't (that I can find) have a good explanation of how it all works, like Altavista does, but they consistently return much better results, which makes it more than worthwhile, unless I have a very specific boolean search to do, in which case it's Altavista all the way.
I've got an entry for the 5k html contest, BTW. I downloaded the google page, saved it to the HD, and pared it down to the bare essentials. No graphics, one line, consisting of the entry box and the two buttons. It's under 300 bytes, and is completely correct HTML. I could probably strip another 100 off it if I got rid of HTML, BODY, and the javascript to auto-focus the search box (though that's damn convenient). In fact, getting rid of one of the search buttons and other paring, I'll bet I could get it down to less than 100 bytes.
Well, this post sure wandered, didn't it. Anyway, ignore this part and keep the useful suggestion about using quotes. And bug Google about documenting how their parser works, and we might get some good documentation.
High-speed Road Trip (18.000KPH)
How did they manage to make these images so big? 640 x 999 pixels, > 500 kb?!
why bother using raging.com when altavista have had a text only search available at http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query? text since like the beginning of time?
and it's not a new search engine, it's just a new interface as far as I can see. I just did a search on altavista.com and on raging.com, exact same results.
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off topic, but i have to say it:
this dumba$$ leech at my high
school made it to MIT, yet today
on the AP statistics test, the
question asked him to draw an
ellipse and he drew a parabola!
(no, he wasn't doing that for
fun, he honestly did not know
what an ellipse was!) WTF? how
does a dumba$$ like that get
into MIT and also get the regent
scholarship from Berkeley while
I get rejected by both schools?
$$#$!#%%$@%%
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Zetetic
Seeking; proceeding by inquiry.
Elench
A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.
64.28.67.48 != slashdot.org, at least not here. And since every link seems to want to point to slashdot.org/whatever, its somewhat a problem... Anyway, is this search engine better then google or not? It came up with more results for "maruchan ramen", but about the same for "Chad Okere".
ReadThe ReflectionEngine, a cyberpunk style n
"This kind of news-by-discussion has emerged before online. But never before with the robust yeastiness of Slashdot."
Slashdot: Now with robust yeastiness!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Raging seems to be heavily influenced by Google. I wonder if there was a deal between the two that fell through, or if AltaVista simply wanted some of the "all we want is a search engine" market....
Either way, google is just want I need, and all I have on my home page.
Assorted odds and ends which might be of interest...
:-)
Yet more Futurama stuff including a clockwork Bender. I want one.
icebox.com which has various Flash cartoons, some of which are created (and voiced by) people behind The Simpsons and Futurama. They seem pretty good - and somewhat politically incorrect.
The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, a blatant plug to my utterly crap web site. Do not expect useful content.
Ford Prefect
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
Are there any pages out there that focus on the Lego product itself, and not just Steven Spielberg's endorcement of it? I'd like to know how the movies are made with Lego actors since Lego minifigs tend to be... well... inanimate. Pictures of still Lego toys would make for a boring movie.
Some sort of CGI movie making kit would be cool (like a cross between the Lego shape set for POVray and the fictional OOP product in Microserfs), but since the article says the kit comes with a real camera that must not be the case.
The "adult supervision" thing is an in-joke. I'm so much older than everybody else who writes for Slashdot (except for Jon "gasbag" Katz) that I might as well be the scoutmaster of Geek Troop # 64.28.67.48.
Think of the old joke about the difference between the Army and the Boy Scouts: They both wear green and sleep in tents a lot, but -- unlike the Army -- the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
John Schwartz, the Post reporter who did the story, is a very nice guy with a wry sense of humor -- and about 700% more tech knowledge than most of the mainstream press people I've met in the DC area. He's even starting to get into Linux.
Remember, Schwartz was trying to explain Slashdot to a typical newspaper audience. That's not an easy task. Think: the site's name alone makes most people say "Huh?"
I think the d00d did about as good a job as could have been done, even though some of his research was a little outdated. I have moved (Whoo!) to a double-wide bouse trailer since I last talked to him.
- Robin
why the ??&@*@* is Bender's head red?
That don't make no sense.
The picture on the site isnt' red.
I made a wallpaper with the signs a while back (800x600) when some of the images weren't bigger.
Pope
Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Ok, I am an avid reader of the Post but I am afraid that they are acting like typical media by finding some pundit who will automatically take the other side of the story.
/. will last as a type of new media because it will stop being rebellious when its readership grows too large.
/. is read because it is rebellious? I sure don't read it for that reason. Personally, I would be very happy if other news media would do their own work and stop trying to copy /.'s stories. The only thing that is going to ruin things like /. and free software is the propensity of the world to make everything have its 15 minutes of fame to be a "sensational" story.
If you have not read the article, essentially the writer found some guy to say that he does not think
HELLO?!!!
This sounds like the exact same argument being thrown out about why free software will not succeed (i.e., that developers will stop supporting it because it will stop being revolutionary). If the media would stop attaching a label to things, taking it upon themselves to define a purpose for other people, then maybe there would not be all this incessant talk.
Who ever said
I like those power shoes. I might be in better shape if I had to run in order to get refreshes on slashdot.
Signal11 would be a fucking anorexic.
-konstant
Yes! We are all individuals! I'm not!
-konstant
Yes! We are all individuals! I'm not!
I am astounded that someone has registered the Hotgrits site !!! That is so awesome. I've always wanted to leave my mark and in a sad, demented way, I guess I have ! Well, this calls for a celebration. I'm going to pour a bowl of hot grits down my pants !!!
* Two pieces of particle board
* Halogen lamp
* Cheap K-Mart chair for guests (makes 'em leave quicker)
* Cheesy desk fan
* Battery operated analog clock movement (just hands, no face)
* SANS poster
* Three whiteboards
* Homemade air-current spinny thing (1)
* Flower made from telephone hookup wire (1)
* Cactus terarium, with one dead cactus and plastic lizard
* Spool of 100' of Cat-3
* A ton of RS/6000 and SunExpert Magazines
* One big ass peace lily plant
* Leonardo Da Vinci calendar
Notes:
1 - These two items are taped onto my monitor.
Of course, this is in my office - not my cubicle (though I actually miss my cube)...
Maybe I am just messy, and not geeky...hmm...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
I guess the fact that the under 5k HTML site is getting slashdotted and running dog ass slow just goes to show that HTML size is not the only thing that makes a site slow.
This kind of news-by-discussion has emerged before online. But never before with the robust yeastiness of Slashdot.
mmmm, robust yeastiness. Hey, I smell beer, have some of you been drinking?
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You should never take life too seriously - You'll never get out of it alive.
You could spend some time with the GIMP. [sorry]
perl -e 'fork||print for split//,"hahahaha"'