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Gleb sent us an IETF draft for
electricity over IP (yeah it's old, but it's funny).
dbcooper noticed that New Scientist mentioned a kit spaceship for $500k.
Oh, and here's some (warning! Over 18 and over!)
Odd Javascript that I can't even begin to describe, but it's so odd that I just had to share it.
l@ps@n pointed out some
Star Wars Origami that is actually pretty sweet.
Mr. Fusion urges us to fry that Voodoo3 with two neon sign transformers and watch the fireworks.
Phrogman noted that SpaceRef has posted some amazing time-lapse movies assembled from the Hubble space telescope showing stars blowing gas (insert joke here).
zenray notd that this month's SC Magazine does a market survey about tools needed to do a forensics-quality copy of disk drives. Basically the requirement is to be an exact byte-for-byte copy; 'dd' gets their BEST BUY award. Congrats!
mommydearest wrote in to plug that Ultimate Chaos is hosting the Ultimate AOL CD Invention contest here (grand prize is an IDE RAID controller!). Best I ever came up with was wallpaper (during my cubist period I filled up a wall).
An anonymous reader found the
x10-men which ain't exactly X10, and it ain't exactly X-Men, but it is truly frightening.
And finally, what with election coming up and all, it's a good thing that
LafinJack wrote in to let us know that Joe Leiberman and Dick Cheney have joined the ranks of political quake 3 skins available. Taunt and kill them before doing so becomes treason!
Back Before AOL even had the cds we had a contest where we took all of the old AOL disks and gave them to schools. The program was called Floppies for kiddies. You really should check it out. Look for it on Google
A small warning in the text would have helped.
I didn't really want a bunch of naked chicks bouncing around on my screen here at work. Or in fact even at home, though I do appreciate the javascript artistry. Now if they were naked Ian Thorpes, you would have another story for the home choice...
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
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The shareholder is always right.
Hmmm, I definitely qualify for the age requirement, considering I'm 257 months of age.
Plus, we get the awesome warning from CmdrTaco, too:
(warning! Over 18 and over!)
Whee! Reminds me of Airplane!
Man: "Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet your Captain. Captain Over."
Clarence: "Gentlemen, welcome aboard."
Man: "Captain, your navigator Mr Unger and your first officer Mr Dunn."
Clarence: "Unger."
Unger: "Over."
Dunn: "Over."
Clarence: "Dunn!"
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon? :P)
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...and I've never received an AOL CD in my life *sob*. I've begged friends to give me theirs, not so that I could actually sign up, but so I wouldn't feel different, but it just isn't the same. I don't know what I've done to deserve this, but I just hope Steve Case is happy.
If you are talking about the United States:
according to the constitution. I don't know where you get this "You can only commit treason if you are a government employee" unless there is some admendment I don't know about...You can read more detailed information about the Kitten over on Jim Hill's business site at ThriftySpace.com. Cerulean Freight is scrounging for financial backing at the moment, but once they get over this relatively minor hump, I expect they should be able to prove out Kitten pretty quickly.
But, as you will be able too see over on ThriftySpace.com, the Kitten (which isn't even designed to reach Low Earth Orbit) is just Cerulean Freight's prototype. They expect to produce a working vehicle next called Calico,that would be capable of reaching orbit with a payload of almost two tons. Like the Kitten, it would be able to make quick turnarounds.
-Mikehttp://meckardt.net
http://orbitalhabitat.com
The review that gave dd the best buy award really made my day. I actually used dd to make an exact copy of someone's 2.1 gig drive. I was an "expert witness" for the defendant in a civil case.
The plaintiff's attorney and expert insisted that their tool (encase) was better. They got all boo-boo faced when I booted Red Hat and used a two-letter f'n system utility to do the job of their $1,600 piece of software.
They spent an hour looking for "some kind of autoexec.bat or config.sys file" to make sure this terrible Linux thingy wasn't erasing their precious evidence.
So at least one "expert" (heh) agrees with the review.
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