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What Isn't on the Internet?
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Every modern geek knows that one can find practically everything
on the Internet these days. In fact, I just realized today that
I have *never* not found anything I've searched for, barring things
that can't for some reason be released in such an environment, or
things that just don't exist, even off the 'net. I think it would be
interesting to find out what people have searched for that isn't
out there ... have any of you ever looked but come up dry?"
.... 404 not found
www.sublimedirectory.com
I worked for an Internet development company/ISP that paid me to develop a nice flexible system for delivering course material on the Internet. I got the thing working reasonably well and they had some course material (on SNMP) and had good leads on other material.
Then what happens.... they pull the project. Big mistake. Roughly the same thing happened to a couple other things I did for them. Then they lay me off because they were losing too much money. I wonder why.....
I agree, there is a market for online courses. And the system we developed would have been great for mechanics and electronics. Just develop the site, offer the people with content plenty of royalty money and with some luck you could laugh all the way to the bank.
PLEASE tell me this is an April Fools joke too!
-A.P.
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* CmdrTaco is an idiot.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Posted by Nr9:
you can always find much more info on definitive print sources than on the internet.
The opening theme goes something like "Save this city.."
I would figure that some crackhead has posted the lyrics somewhere, but I sure can't find them.
Wow, I was working on this stuff about 6 months ago.. the best resource I found (quite overbearing actually) was a set of data files to some unix time utility (converted between time zones, so had to account for daylight savings, and seemed fairly standard). If you keep searching with various keywords you'll stumble on it eventually.
"Hot lesbian witches! It's fucking genius!"
I've been looking for schematics for a Roland Jupiter-4 (circa 1978) which has a broken fourth voice (doesn't do resonance). Haven't found free versions online: only pay-for versions which are photocopies so therefore useless (the schematics need colour to be read).
I've found some useful information before but the WWW isn't perfect. If someone sends me a URL for Roland Jupiter-4 schematics then I'll eat my words, of course!
There were numerous times when I was told to get a life, but however hard I try to find the correct keyword for Google to find me one, all in vain. Altavista is not much of help too. Seems there's no such thing on the Internet...
-- Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
No, I'm serious. I'm a pervert, and have seen just about everything you can imagine. Except a girl getting it on with a monkey.
I just spent the last hour searching, and found nada, ziltch, zip. Lots of porn sites that claimed to have pictures of monkeys having sex with people, but no real meat.
The one picture I did find that was even similar involved a monkey giving some guy a blowjob. While kina close to what I was looking for, it wasn't it.
Anyone else having my problem?
http://www.xpurple.com
So yes, I have found a hole in the Internet.
I haven't been able to find a english -> dutch or vice versa. I have found dictionaries, but that doesn't help me much. Ah hell, I'm learning the language anyways.
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Evil is what I am. Death is what I bring.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned POSIX standards. I now realise that these "Open" standards are not available on the Web because you have to pay for them -- but at the time I thought I needed them, I was staggered.
It turns out (I read in Rebel Code) that Linus was just as surprised, and instead went to the Sun manpages for documentation to base his system call implementations on.
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VHS (or otherwise) copies of the animated series: "Thunderbirds: 2086."
THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!!
Actually there are several driving techniques sites. Here are a few:
Drivers Club
Bootlegger turn
The Chronicle's list of driving related sites
Some of these might be of interest. Remember: Google and boolean logic searches are your friend.--
If your map and the terrain differ,
trust the terrain.
- E.R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros (great pre-Tolkien fantasy)
- James Gleick's Chaos (or any similar introduction to chaos)
- John McPhee's Annals of the Former World
- . . .
There's huge amounts of stuff in libraries that's not available online.Danny.
I have written over 900 book reviews
Oh wait, I guess I am now.
Thanks slashdot...
I have had really good luck with CiteSeer.
YMMV.
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/
"There's no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor and keep turning left." -- Bill Vukovich
Last 40 years of billboard or gallup music chart positions. This definitely exists, but not (AFAIK) online.
"don't fall into the fallacy of believing that Perl can solve social problems. Maybe Perl 6 can, but that's a ways off"
I was a big fan of 2000AD when I was younger, and I tried to find a picture of Cutie, the belt-computer worn by Sam Slade, Robohunter. No luck, and I'm normally quite good at net searching.
... a really good article on proper technique for playing ska guitar. I know about upstroking & all that but for some reason my ska licks just don't sound quite right.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
*chuckle* :)
This could get fun.
Try looking in windows Tranformers theme packs. I used to have one with perfect transforming sounds. I wish I remembered the exact URL...
That's because 2040 is too horrifically bad even for lonely doujinshi artists to bother with.
No one's figured out how to rake in the bucks providing that yet.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
I'm pretty sure that Miranda was the last name of the suspect, not the first name of the victim.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
I was looking for that neat sound the transformers make when they do thier thing. But I only found songs, and movie clips, not just that sound. :(
I really can't find this book anywhere on the internet.
I've honestly looked for this on the intenret and failed.
The question is: What do the letters 'USA' as stand for as spraypainted on roadways, bridges, embedded into metal lids to access boxes, etc.
To best this challenge, do the search WITHOUT entering the actual expansion of the letters. Searching for information you already know on the internet is kind of pointless.
I would appreciate the answer, however, as a seperate request.
-josh
Asked ASUS. Nup!
Searched the net. Nup!
Tried the BIOS upgrades. Nup!
Search the net again. NUP!
Bugger!
When shit hits the fan get some of these https://youtu.be/pY-GncsZ-UE
Also try warehouse 23 at www.sjgames.com
-- Spring: Forces, coiled again!
Search for "The Bachman Books" on amazon.com.
Fine. You can't get it directly from Amazon.com (only Amazon auctions). :-)
...)
But you can get it directly from bn.com. I checked. (Of course, I checked with amazon too
'sapientia potestas est'
I don't know what the answer is, but I know what it isn't:
"Your mom being fucked in the ass by an Australian sheepdog."
Thank you.
Scuttlemonkey is a troll
You cannot find TV episodes for modern shows. If you want to get a vid of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from any season, you're out of luck. Same with most modern books. You cannot find how to connect to Westwood Online from behind a masquerading machine. You cannot find when when certain software is going to be released (like SC 1.08 :p).
There are a number of things that SHOULD be on the internet, but simply arent.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
I am Jack9.
Everyone knows me.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
I am Jack9.
Everyone knows me.
1) The Mondale campaign commercial saying "no
weapons in space") in MPEG/whatever video
format
2) Scans of the photos in "The Sex Life of the
DSKRAT"
3) Either online text of or a seller that will
sell me Helen Zahavi's "The Weekend"
4) Documentation describing bus interface units
and the precise operation of peripherals used
in various definitely obsolete, but not truly
ancient architectures (e.g. R2K)
Well, that's my wishlist for now.
Bill
http://www.timeanddate.com/ is pretty useful. It seems to have worldwide info, but I can only vouch for it's usefulness in the US.
No one really has a definitive answer to the meaning of life. Besides those who would say its 42.
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At one point a friend decided to write an essay for a class on pulling Donuts/brodies in cars. We searched far and wide and couldn't find anything on the Internet regarding them (this was about 4 years ago probably).
So, a year or so ago I started adding random things to Everything 2 and went ahead and added it. That was the first mention I had ever seen to pulling brodies in a car on the Internet.
-Saono
I looked for a few hours after I got out of the theatre for that kick ass dolly he used to cart that guy up the stairs and throw him off the balcony... That thing ROCKED! If anybody has a link to that thing PLEASE let me know! I found some similar that had treads but no 3 wheel arrangement like that thing had...
I leave web and usenet crawlers running all the time and they pick up tons of that crap. I have some nifty scripts that verify it's all unique so I don't store any duplicates. If you have ssh and feel like digging through endless piles of images lemme know. I'd pop it up on a web site but I dunno what the law is on posting content you found free online to your own site. Google seems to do it though so maybe I'll try. :)
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
OK, maybe I just haven't looked in the right places, but I still can't find a list of local businesses that are reputable. I'd like to go to a site and say, "Give me all the mechanics in my area who've gotten ratings >= 8" without having such ratings corrupted by schills. It's still the recommendations of friends/neighbors/associates that work best for me.
Slashdot: Liberal News for Nerds. Liberal Stuff that Matters.
I couldn't find a picture of Big Jim Slade(from the Kentucky Fried Movie) when I needed one.
rhadc
Only a couple of Arsene Lupin novels or books are available anywhere on the Internet--and one of those in only partial form. It's very frustrating to me, as many of them would have passed into the public domain before the Sonny Bozo--er, Bono act extended copyright. I even have a couple of them in dead-tree form--but nobody's Gutenberged them yet. (I started typing one of them in--got about a third of the way through, then lost everything in a hard drive crash. :( )
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Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
This was a text adventure game for CP/M. It was really pretty basic, but I wasted a lot of time on it. Recently I went searching for a copy on the net, but couldn't find anything even close to it. I gues it could be described as a cross between colossal cave and Wizardry I: Proving grounds of the Mad Overlord (another one I couldn't find, but I think that that one was blocked for legal reasons).
Caution: Now approaching the (technological) singularity.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
I have tried to fiend courses on various subjects (mainly micromechanics and semiconductors), but never found something good enough to recommend to anyone. I really don't understand people who say that you can learn from the Internet. Excercise: try to find some in-depth info about spiders. I think the 'Net is mainly useful if you want to know something about a place that you're visiting, or a product that you want to buy. And news, of course (/.)!
-- Cheers!
So, once upon a time, it occurred to me that I know that Johnny Cash dresses in black, but I don't know *why*.
So I tried to find out.
I found a few dozen web sites devoted to "the man in black", but not a single one that explains when or why he picked up this particular quirk. Maybe it's out there, but it's too hard for a search engine to find.
My blog: http://www.seebs.net/log/ --- My iPhone/iPad app: http://www.seebs.net/seebsfrac/
There's a plant that grows wild in India, and parts of China, all over that part of the world. It's a variety of coleus, called "coleus forskohlii".
This plant is known to have many useful properties - it helps speed up nerve signaling a tad (useful for MS sufferers, such as myself), as well as helping asthma, and even lowering blood pressure. I can buy capsules containing a measured amount of dry plant, even standardized to a particular amount of the active chemical, forskolin. I can buy freeze-dried root. I can buy liquid extract of this plant.
I can get studies done that tell what climate and nutrients are needed to maximize the content of forskolin. I can find all of this on the web.
What I cannot find online is a source for the seeds, or live roots, or even live plants, so that I can actually *grow* this stuff for myself. Instead, to use this to help my multiple sclerosis, I must buy it already-made into something, either pills or capsules, at *incredible* markup.
As 60 capsules generally costs about $15, and, for MS, I'd need to take six daily (two at a time, three times a day), this adds up VERY fast. Factor in at I'm on disability, with *very* limited income, and it gets even more entertaining.
From my searching, I've seen that I am by far not the only person scouring the Web for this plant. Every site that has requests for plants, seems to have several people looking for this plant. I know it's available - not only are the places that sell capsules able to grow it, but the people who've done the studies on growing it had to have live plants.
But if it's available on the Web, no search engine I've yet seen can find it.
Lemon curry?
Back in '96. Any searching turned up pr0n - even then. Shheshh.
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
I can't seem to find them. A friend challenged me to find a pair, as I've become known for being able to locate any piece of information, but as far as I can tell, they don't exist. Can anyone tell me if they really do fall in the nonexistent category, or whether they're just rather well hidden?
Thanks!
High-speed Road Trip (18.000KPH)
I hate to say it, dude, but I have found it.
The short story is, we met on the intra (not a plug, because the site sux, but it was at friendfinder.com) out of arguments about politics, we agreed to meet a few months later just for the hell of it, and we fell for each other.
Good 'net girls are few and faaaaaaaaar between, but they're there. Don't give up.
-dave
6th Street Radio @ddombrowsky
an intelligent sounding quote from George W. Bush, but so far I haven't found a single one. I refuse to give up hope though, since sooner or later he'll run out of dumb things to say.
I think Cliff Stoll (hey whaddya know - I just found his homepage heheh [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~stoll/]) was the first proponent I'd heard of of the idea that most of what we're dealing with these days (specifically on computers and the Internet) is not actually "information", but merely "data" - useless, random bits of garbage that don't serve a purpose until they're organized into useful information =)
Arguing about vi versus Emacs is like arguing whether it's better to make fire by rubbing sticks or banging rocks.
I once tried finding the date that the UK switched to daylight savings (one of those seasonal clock+1hr things). No joy. Loads and loads of papers on the influence of daylight savings on the economy, road fatalaties, everything but the date of the next changeover itself.
I now rely on the traditional method of hoping someone else will tell me. Seems to work.
Dave
I write a blog now, you should be afraid.
On a somewhat related note--have you ever (by accident or on purpose) conducted a websearch for something that doesn't *really* exist...and found it anyway?
I discovered this phenomenon the other morning. Here are some examples of things I've found that don't exist:
I search for Hebrew grammar, dictionaries, and online translators regularly. I have never found a site that describes how Hebrew nouns and verbs work etc. Never.
In the early 1980s (I think), there was a major case in Australia of an exporter selling "beef" to the USA which turned out to be kangaroo meat. I believe the Australian company was called "Protean". I have heard rumours that the US company was Jack 'n' the Box but I cannot find anything about this on the internet so I cannot confirm anything.
I cannot find any place that can sell me a t-shirt with the Vegemite logo.
Just yesterday I decided to try and find the recipe for the radish leaf soup that my dad used to make when I was a kid. However, when I looked for it online, I could only find cream of radish leaf soups.. and the soup I want is broth, not cream based.
Information on Saturn V's Iterative Guidance Mode and source code. (with Makefile)
I assume you mean free information. the 'net is great for finding stuff of a technical nature, or general information, or subject matter of global appeal. but try searching for information on, say, a local business (not computer related) in a small town, or information on an individual, and you'll have a hell of a time digging up stuff. If you're doing research and need detailed information, nine times out of ten, you're better off finding it at a library.
:)
One thing I've been looking for for a long while is the tune that they played on the Tom and Jerry cartoon when they watched the animated schematic diagram of the needlessly complex mouse-trap. I can't seem to find any reference to that piece, and since I'm not particularly familiar with that genre of music, I'm not sure it it was an original or whether it was an older piece of music. Maybe somebody knows?
I'm not sure what this has to do with zork but I dig on the links man.
to many hbudwiesers...
pete
The sole purpose of the Internet is to get porn and bomb making plans into the hands of children.
In 1992 William Gibson, the famous "Cyberpunk" author wrote a short story/porm entitled "Agrippa". 'Agrippa' was released on a limited edition encrypted diskette that erased itself page by page as you read. The book itself contained artwork by Dennis Ashbrough, a painter from New York, related to the content of the poem (such as advertising posters from the 1920s). It was made using a special ink that disappeared after prolonged exposure to light.
:(
As such, this artwork never made it into electronic form and after searching for years I have come to the conclusion that this artwork will never be on a website anywhere
i recently spent almost an hour trying to find a sample of JOVIAL code. nothing doing. some large fraction of the USAF air traffic software is written in JOVIAL, but i'll be damned if i can lay eyes on an example.
in case yer wondering, JOVIAL is a 1960's derivative of ALGOL. a friend tells me that it has no I/O commands -- you had to write your I/O in whatever low-level language the hardware supported.
Just try to find some videos (mpeg, but divX would be better! :) of Communst Propaganda during the Cold War! I found tons of US/capitalist Propaganda on Archive.org....
but it looks really hard to find the Other greatest propaganda...
If you find some, just drop me a mail!
merou - tofz.org
Well, he wasn't from North Carolina, but this sounds a lot like Ed Gein.
~~Nocturnus
Polish lyrics of the Jesus Christ Superstar musical (Wojciech Mlynarski's translation).
Thanks.
-jfedor
Roger Waters sings about it on Pink Floyd's the final cut. What is the post war dream? All I can find are links to the band. The same for Vera Lynn. Pop culture buries history on the web.
A black sweat shirt with no logo. Couldn't find anyone selling them. Had to go to a store.
Cheers Andrew
The one time that I have had a large amount of trouble is when I am searching for something that I have seen before. Sometimes, when I am bouncing from link to link I come across something that is really interesting but due to my lack of foresight I forget to make a note of it. Then later, when I actually use a search engine to try to find the site, I have a lot of trouble. I once found this math site that had a proof that I really needed, but for the life of me, when I inputted the name of the proof and other relevant information into several search engines, I could not find the same site again. I found the proof elsewhere, but I couldn't find the exact site again. Perhaps this is a sign that it is the information that matters and not the specific presentation. Then again, maybe I should just have a better memory.
14 digits of Pi are all we need.
Wait a day everyone.
:)
Notice the date.
-Restil
Play with my webcams and lights here
You call that quality?!? Your lack of standards is deplorable! Where are the videos? Where's the live, 24-7-365, streaming models? How about the Hot and Horny Sorority Girls?
In fact, there isn't even any pornography on that site! It's merely links, mostly to family-oriented "unofficial fan pages" and such. Fellow slashdot readers, I urge you to restrain yourselves from visiting that sorry excuses for a pornographic webpage. I've seen Kids 'R' Us catalogs more revealing than that!
It's obvious that there's a very serious issue here. Should we allow ourselves to be satisfied by this disgraceful attempt to garner advertising revenues, then net porn will never achieve its full potential. Demand better!
-- Imagine how much more advanced our technology would be if we had eight fingers per hand.
You know, try as I might, I just can't seem to find some free, legal, quality pornography online.
It false under the "free, legal, quality -- choose two" rule:
free and legal - But then it's never quality. Who would actually dedicate their time and bandwidth to archiving quality pornography for others to view? It's like Gnutella -- too many people downloading, too few uploading.
free and quality - This is typically inspired by a strage fetish for something illegal, such as child pornography or papparazzi shots of celebrities. People are obsessive enough to waste their time collecting this stuff, but only because they're so desparate to find it themselves (after all, it's illegal).
legal and quality - Do I really need to say it? You get what you pay for. If somebody puts up a quality archive of legal pornography -- a precious commodity; one that people are willing to pay for -- how long can it be before money corrupts and they're off with their credit card billing, mass spam advertising, and hundreds of pop-up windows?
I look forward to seeing any dissenting views. It's a win-win situation for us all =)
-- Imagine how much more advanced our technology would be if we had eight fingers per hand.
ok, kids, check this one out:
:) and seeing as how Infocom went buh-bye and all, i didn't really expect to find the sucker, but i had found the aforementioned toaster in a closet, and wanted to play the game again. had no luck. o, well...
"Quarterstaff : the Tomb of Setmoth"
it's an infocom game, mostly text, but it has graphics for the automap stuff, and some of the rooms have pix that come up when you enter them. IIRC, it was only released for Mac, (back in the beige toaster days
Don't ask. Go see.
I haven't found that little intro Fox put in front of sheep may safely graze, either; or whather Bach wrote it or he did.
there're other things but i've forgotten them for now. If they're on the 'net, they're too hard to find; i said ten years ago indexing would be the biggest problem, and I was right. But I wish I'd thought of trying to index it despite the impossibility; i'd have money now :(
I've been looking, on and off, for cool light dimmer circuits (schematics etc. - not finished products to buy), but I've only been able to find some rather basic ones.
I'd like a digital dimmer circuit. I'd like DMX512 transmitter and receiver circuits. I'd like to see how people use IGBTs for dimming. I'd like to see a circuit which can dim fluorescent lamps digitally (I found an analog version after much googling).
Any hints?
Any technology which is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
For years now, I've been looking for a disgusting photograph of a man presenting his distended anus to the viewer. Unfortunately, all of my searches on this topic have been fruitless. Apparently, there's just no such thing on the 'net.
Try searching on some error message or computer problem keywords. Most searches turn up similar question, but rarely answers. This happens so often, I've almost given up searching. Several times I've email'd the author of a similar question to ask about the solution. In turn, I've given help to several people who emailed me up to a year or more later. This is weird because the net has lots of linux and computer help sites. Maybe people don't answer because they immediately get 400 spam's?
Here's an exmaple of the vastness of the internet.
We've had Monopoly (the board game, not microsoft) for many years, but have since lost the rulebook. After a quick search on google, I found a copy of the rulebook in pdf format.
Total Time: 10 min.
Now we don't argue about the rules anymore! ;)
Why aren't you encrypting your e-mail?
Sign the petition at http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org.
They're hoping to develop a comprehensive, free online database of scientific articles.
I searched long and hard for pictures of the Darth Vader Gargoyle on the Washington National Cathedral, but there just don't seem to be any.
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Patrick Doyle
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
But this is part of why search engines are so cool--as long as you know the song title, or even a few fairly unique words from the song, you'll find a fan site with the lyrics. Evil Record Empire taken the site down? That's OK, the lyrics are in Google's cache. And they'll turn up again, because the evil copyright robber-barons aren't all that good at Whack-a-Mole. It's a good time to be alive.
Obscure, I know, but this annoyed me a lot. In the game Diablo II, there are a few magical items that are utterly ridiculolus. Completely and utterly ridiculous. One of them is the Shroud of the Invincible Llama, whose stat bonuses are just so powerful that it's silly. I assume it was put there as a joke. Well, I only succeeded in finding one page that mentions the shroud, and none that mention a bow my roommate found called the Touch of God Chibi Short Bow. Absolutely none, which I find odd considering so many people have huge lists of items. I wanted to know if there were more such super-powerful items in the game. But alas, I was unable to find such things.
HC
HC
I once got bored while surfing, and decided to try the phrase "Beating myself over the head with a two by four" and actually came up with a page. This was a few years back, doubt it still exists.
The one thing that I haven't been able to find is a copy of "Gates of Delerium" for the TRS-80 Color Computer 2 - a clone of Ultima that was made by Diecom Software in the mid-80's. Diecom was founded by Dave Dies, and someone else - and then went out of business with the death of the CoCo in the early 90's. I know that he now works for a company doing PDA games. It almost seems like I have the only copy, and my copy is DEAD. I spent a fair amount of money on that game, and I want to play it again... argggh!
Worldcom - Generation Duh!
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
Even google couldn't find this one.
In the computing field, I find that http://www.researchindex.com is very useful - it has 5 million pages worth of papers, mostly from the last decade. A lot of them are on the academic's own homepages anyway - but it also offers some very nice features: citation indexing (forward and backward), active bibliographies, ranking, auto-conversion, etc.
Female Prison Rape in NY
napsterize that!
How we know is more important than what we know.
Try Google!
Everything. Yet.
Plastic just ran a thread regarding an article on the subscription side of Inside.com. It was about an as yet unpublished book by UK physicist Sir Martin Rees titled "Our Final Century?" as of the date I checked, there was nothing to be found on that book on the three search engines that combined have never let me down before: GOOGLE (Web & groups), RAGING (secondary web search) & DOGPILE (Print news). Part of the the problem is likely to be how current the story was, so my back up was to hit the big UK media sites BBC.co.uk, thetimes.co.uk, etc. but these also drew blanks.
Work for Change & GET PAID!
Yes, that is a *big* problem. I often try to find the authors' home pages and look for the paper there. But that doesn't always help, because many people still only have lists of their publications online, but not the actual articles. This really needs to change, there are so many journals and conferences now that no library can have them all - so we need decent access to them online.
EagerEyes.org: Visualization and Visual Communication
Hurray for Cliff Stoll. His (latest?) book: High Tech Heretic" is an excellent example of this line of though, one with which I completely agree.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
Well there's Railpage Australia. That the sort of thing you wanted?
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
One of the problems I find is that by the time the USA gets around to April 1st, it's almost over elsewhere in the world. The jokes tend to wear thin after a couple of days of them.
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
There have been several things I have been unable to find, so I wrote a web-page about them, hoping other people searching for the same things might contact me and we could share clues. The page is at http://www.reenigne.org/csycfotw.html.
The commercial site I run, in partnership with my brother-in-law, is profitable. We sell dive gear.
Dive Gear
--- Think of it as evolution in action ---
There's no shortage of historical information on the net, but if you want in depth analysis of some historical issue or other, you basically have to go and look in a library.
In fact, I often find that Xrefer does a better job of answering historical or philosophical questions than a generic web search. Since Xrefer is just [free beer] access to a collection of reference books, that isn't really very encouraging.
Basically, the net is great for breadth, but for non-geek disciplines, the depth is often lacking. We need to shrink copyright terms down to at most 5 or 10 years. That might help :)
Fixing copyright
I did a search awhile back for any kind of background information on an advertising campaign. Back in the early`80's there were these commercials for the coffee growers. These things pre-date Juan Valdez (sp?) and were a little strange. The ad copy said things like, "You're the NEW coffee generation" and "Hold on tight to your drink!". The latter was part of the jingle. I think they ran a lot during "Night Tracks" on Superstation TBS.
Sadly, I've never found the spot.
It's mandatory to wash your hands before returning to the land of Dairy Queen.
Naked Pictures of Jennifer Love Hewit :/
I've been intrested in real estate investment lately, but everytime I try to find information which relates to the actual nitty-gritty details of things like purchasing forclosures or properly valuing homes or land, I hit a brick wall of "And we'll tell you for just 37 easy payments of 29.99!"
Anyone know where I can get good, detailed information that topic?
Looked everywhere...
But to no avail.
David de Groot Snr Systems Engineer
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that society has a lot of "information" but MOST of it is worthless ... what you CAN'T find in society is anything thats insightful or informative.
I point to the entirety of popular culture as proof.
There's not nearly enough bloom county stuff on the net. dunno why. maybe because Oliver was using an Apple Lisa?
I have had trouble finding porn. For some odd reason, it seems to be missing. Can anyone help?
Feed the need: Digitaladdiction.net
is a list of things you can't find on the internet... I guess everything is there... ehm except for that list.
let's make one so we can scrap this one of... damn... then there won't be a list anymore...
damn.. i'm in a loop
I couldn't find a cow catcher for sale. (You know, the things on the front of trains.) A friend wants to put one on the front of his car, so I helped him look online.
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The shareholder is always right.
I had a very hard time finding the movie screenplay for Abre Los Ojos. I had to get some Spanish homework done, and couldn't find the movie in the videostore...
I was flabbergasted when I realized that the web had nothing to offer.
I know of a couple free pr0n sites
-Ellis of Geeknews.com
I was doing a search for Time Traveler (the game that did the "3D" reflection trick. They had all sorts of information about the system.
-Ellis of Geeknews.com
is the source to any Windows OS.
-Ellis of Geeknews.com
Try Classmates.com?
-Ellis of Geeknews.com
Here's what's not on the internet: information about how to use a car stereo without a car (i.e. using a standard 12v power supply) -- Batt, Gnd, but Rem? What's Rem? And can I run several 12V power supplies in parallel to produce the required 10A of supply?
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
This site doesn't have any banners.... or did you mean a good site? Oooooops.
It's pretty funny, though.
I can't find an Exidy Sorcerer (sp). I can find write-ups, but not an actual computer.
For those who never heard of it, it is from the '80s and was (I believe) the first personal computer to use ROM cartridges. It only displayed in black and white. Ah, the memories...
Please moderate this down!
I meant to be anonymous and fuxored up. Please moderate the parent to oblivion. Please?
Car information. There's stuff out there, but I've been looking for information about cars and it sure wasn't on the internet. It was in hot rod magazines and many of my friends know the stuff, but there's no site that says "This is a cam shaft. This is where it goes in an engine." or "In 67-72 most 350 Chevy engines had a 9.x:1 compression ratio." (obviously not a correct example, but you surely get my drift.)
In fact, it's only by combing the internet that I've found a few places where you can actually price car parts, so if you want to shop around for something like aluminum reconditioned cylinder heads you have to go somewhere like badasscars.com but they're not exactly a known name or anything, so you don't know if the guy's full of shit or actually knows his stuff. (I'll find out pretty soon when I actually order a set of heads and get a look at them)
Basically, the internet could use more car information. Especially along the lines of rebuilding motors, choosing parts to use (IE which pistons are better, what stock parts will be just fine in a hot rod and which will absolutely need replaced, etc.)
Also, when shopping for seat covers, carpet, and headliners for my son's Mercury Comet I found that very few sites actually had prices online. One wouldn't even tell you how much stuff cost when you called them. You had to wait for them to mail you something.
I know this will sound like carping, but even though I've found most of what I've been looking for it sure hasn't been easy. I challenge someone to find the information out there on whether or not a TH350 transmission can be converted to a four speed, or what it takes to use a lockup torque converter with one. It's not going to be easy!
braces porn. Pictures of girls with braces naked.
A web page without banner ads.
My web page.
A practical way to stop spam.
Don't give out your email address to anyone you know personally. Even then, be careful: my mom sent me one of those electronic greeting cards where the company also sold all email addresses entered to spammers.
A web search that doesn't turn up porn.
Eh, still working on that, I suppose. But Google's pretty good.
A long long time ago, I entered a web seach on Alta Vista, with the query "peronal homepage". Note that I misspelled it "peronal" instead of "personal". Nearly every search engine turns up a ton of "peronal homepages":
http://www.google.com/search?q=peronal+homepage
Google turns up about 418. Anyway, I remember that it was about half an hour before I noticed that I had spelled "personal" wrong...
try searching for the famous frase asdfasdfasdf...
Nobody however seems to be able to supply me here in Eastern Canada with Taco chips from Old Dutch! Old Dutch doesn't seem to have a web site anywhere - USA or Canada! I have been looking for a source outside of Western Canada for "Old Dutch Taco Flavoured Tortia Chips", which might now have the name "Zesty" or "Ariba".
They seem to be widely available from Vancouver, BC to Thunder Bay, ON, but I can't seem to find a source online.
Help me please!
Einstein wrote a tiny essay on lighthouses that I can't seem to find on the internet or at the local library. I first saw the essay in an old tattered collection of Albert Einstein essays that I found in a public library years ago.
Also, I am looking for a particular science fiction short story that involves a soviet scientist who loves red cabbage soup (borscht) and invents a personal antigrav belt or suit that unravels the political fabric of the world (Because if you don't like it where you are, you just put on your antigrav belt and fly to Tahiti or wherever.) I haven't been able to find that
story on the Internet, either.
--- even the safest course is fraught with peril
Really. I can't even get a date on the internet.
Put my clarinet beneath your bed 'till I get back in town.
A practical way to stop spam.
A web search that doesn't turn up porn.
I have some more but they get depressing at this point.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
He's referring to Miranda getting murdered in prison. The suspect was read his Miranda rights and refused to incriminate himself. That case is therefore unsolved.
I was looking for a poem today lambasting the wonder and speed that is ADSL. For an hours worth of searching, I came up utterly dry. Apparently, it just has not been written yet. Ho Hum
Rami
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rJames.org - illustration
Of course, there's some stuff by these composers around, but very seldom do you see a scan of one of the original copies (i.e., purely public domain content).
A troll-free, FP-free, off-topic free discussion site that covers stuff for nerds and news that matters. I've been trying to find one ever since I got net access, to no avail.
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
A profitable dot.com business anywhere.
My girlfriend and I had to do extensive searches for seminars on chemical engineering devices. This seems to be a subject that really is NOT covered on the Internet. Only some vague ads and promotion websites, but no techical details or such.
On the other hand, what we did find, was a huge collection of all kinds of sex toys and devices to 'aid' sexual functions. You wouldn't believe the kinds of pages altavista (no google back then) brought up with "+gear +pump"... Nowadays, the results are better.
There is no such thing as good luck. There is only misfortune and its occasional absence.
The legal community is hopelessly entangled in paper.
I recently have become involved in a lawsuit filed by Main Line Personnel, a headhunting company in the Phi;adelphia rea, and when I wanted information on who else they have sued recently, it was nowwhere to be found on the NET. I had to go to the courthouse, run a swearch off of a terminal that was hooked up to an old IBM mainframe.
the real clincher was though, if I wantedmore inforamtion about each case, I had to actually go to each county seat to get information. That is if there was a case that was filed in Somerset county, I had to travel to Somerset county to get more information
I'm still working on a clever footer.
Well I better sell all 25 shares of beos stock soon. Maybe i can buy a few blank CD's with the cash I get.
I don't mean pop-up ads, I mean paper-based
Table-ized A.I.
I have never been able to find a fan site for an ancient Scottish(!) children's program called 'Super Gran', which was about, well, a little old lady with super powers and Scottish accents so thick the show ought to have been subtitled. It was shown briefly on PBS in the mid-80s. I did find a review of the video game BASED on the show, however.
'Cause it would be a pretty lame fansite. I mean, I remember the shows name, that they all talked with really thick accents, and the basic premise. That's about it. I mean, doesn't the net have enough no-info sites?
A perpetual motion machine, to sit next to my cold fusion reactor.
I once bet a friend from China that our paper currency was heavier than his. Not having a great scale here I turned to the web seeking the weight of the differnt currencies and came up dry...very dissappointing. that was about 5 months ago and the last time I looked was about two months ago.
we speak the way we breathe --Fugazi
A few times, I've looked for fixes for Windows95 problems, and only found the same questions.
The other day I tried to find out what may have become of an old high school friend - I searched through every means I know of but found no trace of them, not even email. While internet anonymism and privacy is certainly a right that should be amended to the constitution, it does impair the usefulness of the internet for finding lost acquaintences of an unknown nick or icq#. 70% of the world might be online by 2002, but less than 10% will use their real names.
I try, and I try, and I try, but good warez is unfindeable! (Good as in no popups or porn.)
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Score 3? For what? Being wrong, at length? - smirkleton
Now, a few days ago on slashdot: "Is the web truning unserachable?"
Today: "Is there anything you can't find"
- Knut S.
It might just be me bing lame...
Or a Playstation emulator that plays 100% of the Playstation games out there?
Or an Ethernet adapter for an Amiga 500?
How about a 500Mhz used Laptop with a 6G hard drive, 64M RAM, CD-ROM, Floppy, USB port, Audio, 800x600 video (at least 8M Video RAM) for under $500? Must have an AC adapter and battery.
I've never been able to find a web site that is dedicated to news about trains. There are a lot of trains enthusiasts around. The stuff they have about trains on the net are just the web sites for publications (books and magazines) about trains.
Quite a few things I have spent hours searching for and not finding it. For example, when did "The War of the Rebellion" become known officially as the "American Civil War" and why. I was able to peice together items from books but no sources on the internet were helpful at all!
The ultimate network admin tool needs HELP!
There was once a serial killer in Black Mountian, North Carolina. Someone told me that the killer in Silence of the Lambs was based partially on this killer. I have no idea what his name is, and I have no information about him. All I know is that he made furniture from his victim's skin. I've been searching all day for info about him, but have found nothing about him. Anyone got any info?
This was on 1996, and the homework had to be in spanish. The web pages were just starting to have a backbround color, and over here, access to the internet was expensive. $50/month + the telephone bill (about $.75/hour). So I almost never found anything useful for my homework.
I did find a lot of porn, so I couldn't complain.
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Stay tuned for some shock and awe coming right up after this messages!
I point to websites such as http://www.shannons-world.com/ as proof.
Free Techno/Jazz/DNB/MI Music by guys obsessed with monkeys!
I've been looking for cycle-buffer.el for quite some time. There are several references to the author, and I could probably write to him about it, or someone else. But, I've been playing a game for over a year now trying to find it. Every couple weeks I take another look. Still no luck though.
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Trick question. If you are travelling the speed of light everything would be lit up already.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
The chicken
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
As woodchuck would chuck as much would as a wouldchuck could chuck, of course.
42?
no
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Especially windows that pop up when you close the browser/leave the site.
Blech.
Look ma, I'm a
Site Specific (NOT US composite) radar reflectivities for all NWS NEXRAD stations the past 5 years. I need loops from Tucson (EMZ) for 1999... cant find em. --- If you don't like reality, watch the news instead.
While not typically a slashdot topic, I thought I'd share.
There was a comic book company during the 70 and early 80s called Warren. They published black and white magazine sized comic books for a more adult audience (they had boobies!) There was a character called the Rook the appeared in one of their comics called Eerie. After a while he got his own comic (creatively called the Rook) after 14 issues it was canceled and he went back to Eerie.
I have spent hours trying to find a site that lists all the issues of Eerie that the Rook appeared in and found nothing. I've resorted to buying issue of Eerie around the issues I am sure about to see if he was in that issue but just not featured on the cover. That pretty well sucks and is getting expensive. Eerie and the whole company went out of business a year or so after the Rook went back to Eerie and I can't even find out for 100% certainty what the last issue was.
http://www.popularculturegaming.com -- my blog about the culture of videogame players
I had, at one time, needed to find the life-cycle of a mosquito. You know the stuff; what do the eggs look like, how long is the gestation period, how dangerous is pre-birth, how long does a mosquito live?
.edus studying mosquitos and their social structures, but current studies focus way beyond the life-cycle and, unfortunately, assume that most folks (everyone?) already know and understand the life-cycle.
I found no less than five books in the library that had this information -- from children's picture books, to information from historical studies.
But I could not, for the life of me, find this simple, seemingly well-known and scientifically qualified information on-line. There were many links to
Granted this is but one example, but I have encountered other instances where historical information available in multiple copies offline does not exist online. It's a case where the time to take dead-tree matter and convert it to HTML or even PRE may be more valuable to current projects.
O_v
http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~grayd/McCheese.html has lots of images.
:-) Or you were joking, in which case...
http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/auction/23451661 brings up 2 pics of a 1973 glass featuring the Mayor.
You, sir, obviously have not used Google recently.
But anyway, I miss those old playgrounds full of the McDonalds characters that they used to have in some locations. The lame see-them-everywhere plastic tunnel crap they have at McDonalds now just sucks in comparison. I remember clibing all over those huge metal characters, with "forts" and see-saws and all sorts of fun stuff. But these days I guess it's too much of a legal liability to give kids a playground that's actually fun, instead of a bunch of plastic tubes and nylon webbing. Blech.
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."--Tacitus, *The Annals*
Sorry to be so blunt, but going to Amazon you'll see that both *The Bachman Books*, in which *The Rage* was later reprinted, and the novel *The Rage* itself, are both OUT OF PRINT. Which is what I clearly said above. They are out of print because King asked the publisher to pull them when a copy of *The Rage* was found in the locker of a high school student who engaged in a school shooting.
As I said, they can be found second-hand, but are no longer being sold new and will probably never be sold new in King's lifetime. Therefore, I was hoping to find an OCR's copy of *The Rage* on the Net, but no one has posted one. As I said, I might buy a used copy and OCR and upload it myself, since doing so won't be taking money out of any author's or publisher's pockets.
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."--Tacitus, *The Annals*
I've searched for online texts of books that have been pulled by their publishers, and scored 1 for 2. I easily found the book *Hitman*, pulled by its publisher after a lawsuit was filed against them because the book was found in the possession of someone who had killed someone else in a manner similar to that described in the book. It was a small survivalist publisher, who didn't have the money to defend themselves even though it's obvious that they'd win in court--First Amendment, ey. I guess you only have rights if you can afford to pay for the upkeep. Anyway, the book was worthless tripe about how to become a contrct killer, and nothing mentioned in it isn't intuitively obvious to anyone with more then three neurons. Hardly worth the time, but I wanted a copy of this "banned" book on principle.
The "banned" book I could not find online was *The Rage*, written by Stephen King under the pseudonym "Bachman" back when the market was too saturated with King novels and he didn't want to put out that many more for a while, but kept writing voluminously anyway. It was later published under King's own name in a collection of all the books written under that pseudonym, called *The Bachman Books*. But the novel was found in the locker of a high school kid who was involved in a school shooting, and King decided to have the publisher yank the book. I went looking for a scanned-in text of it online, figuring I wouldn't be taking money out of anyone's pocket since the book is permanently out of stock and out of print. Nada. Of course, a quick search of eBay yields a ton of second-hand copies, so if I really wanted to I could buy one and OCR it onto the Net myself. But, I was surprised that no one has done so, considering that it is no longer available except second-hand anyway.
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."--Tacitus, *The Annals*
Man they rocked, really the best and I would pay to have them on DVD or VHS.
Damn, didnt mean to post Anon.
I've never been able to find a copy (mp3, ogg, au, ra etc.) of Toronto's own Satanatras song "Powerful Wonderful"
Slim chance of finding it here, but I thought it was a good time to ask, since everyone else is showing off the elite searching skillz.
[No, im not stealing from a starving band, they brokeup years ago and the reccord label {Raw Energy} has never responded to my emails begging to buy a copy of the indy CD.]
Mod this up! This man needs our help, a nobler quest I have never seen.
Found one, but it sucks.j pg
http://www.whitewolfdesigns.com/auctions/mayor2s.
And one more, slightly better./ MCGLASS.jpg
http://www.texnet.net/mct-productions/ebay/030901
But alas, neither is good enough to compose a quality tattoo from.
Ah, found the perfect one. Enjoy!j pg
http://www.thorndon.co.nz/thorndon/small-figures.
"Work hard and get plenty of sleep" Anyone? Its possibly South African and possibly Literary.
You mean this? http://195.127.209.15/code.html
Your right though, i dont know how they make money either.
I have not, for the life of me, found any mention of the book The Opusculum of the Secrets of the Moon. It was mentioned in the book The Bloody Countess by Valentine Penrose. But I cannot find anything about it on the internet, anywhere. I think I may have to learn a little Latin in order to find it.
I would like to find a web site where I could transfer money from my bank account to someone else account. This someone else could be anybody in the world. They say we leave in an electronic world, yet I can only transfer money between my accounts on my bank's web site. Still cannot transfer $2.49 to my friends account to pay half the video rent... There is a lot of stuff (features) missing on the Internet. Ciao Hans
Remember the year 2000? They promised us flying cars. They delivered the PT Cruiser...
... title says it all.
Worse, this is not just M$-bashing. Try finding the Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2... you'd think you could search MS Support on that string and it would find it directly, but noooo... that would be too easy.
UserAdvocate: The voice of the user
I just bought my self a Honda Civic. I was intending on buying a VW GTI VR6 (a suped up golf) but had such a hard time finding it I gave up. Now if there is a site I can go to check current dealer invintories aroudn the country for specific make/model/trim/color someone should let me know.
www.openarchives.org are trying to end this. The journals have become a barrier to people reading articles. Like in opensource authors often want eyeballs and comments more than the pennies they could get. I'm sure the monoploy will be broken one day. Its funny 'cos this is what the web was created for.
For some reason my grandfather was curious as to the price of a camel, so, he sent me searching. I found out what it cost to rent one for a few hours, but, not to actually purchase one. So much for that investment. --JWA
If you search for something (a serious thorough and well done search) and it isn't there, then YOU
put it there. That's the original idea. Throwing
together information from little disparite(sp?) pieces together to form a cohesive whole. I used to run several information resources/pages of info
which just wasn't out there. Management became a little bit of a problem on the dynamic content that I needed to update every week, but on the projects that only required a static webpage and infrequent updates/additions as I learned new material that was involved, it was easy to manage and maintain -- and the amazing thing was the level of traffic it brought me with absolutely no advertising or seeking of links... if you build it, they will come. The only reason it's down right now? The system it was on went down. Once
I get myself a better connection and/or host, it will all come back. Even if you dont know about the subject now, the fact of the matter is, you want to know about the subject, and this is a good
motivation. Or, simply work on resources based on material you DO know. Take 'nothing' turn it into something!
ROFL
.net / .co.uk
.oO0Oo.
of all the things. First thing I do is type www.subjectI'mlookingfor.com /
hahahaha
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
.oO0Oo.
The chicken
sorry but it was the egg. The genus caleld chicken evolved from other egg laying avians so the egg came first before thu mutation of Chicken
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
well if it's syntacticals then which came first not the chicken
.oO0Oo.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
I've been searching for several days now in an attempt to get sound working on my Gateway Solo 2500 laptop under Debian. So far, no one seems to have experienced the problems I'm encountering. :-/
On many occasions ive been looking for information on HomeBrew or HomeMade Virtual Reality. Although such a search yields quite a few results, most of the information is on hugely expensive commercial products.
;)
It doesn't seem like so many years ago that home-made VR products were all the rage - catching significant airtime on TV...... It seems things have changed.
Ho - hum, I suppose I'll just keep on tinkering on my own. Perhaps it is a fact that all VR 'HomeBrewers' can't write HTML - hence no pages
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
neoprene jumper caps (with little tabs that extend out in a beautiful array of colors). They're awesome, and do exist. But not online. If anyone can find them, please let me know, I'll take 1,000.
Oh wait, I just found some using google.
"There's a madness to my method." -mthed
Any information/DSK image/ANYTHING about an old Radio Shack Color COmputer game called, "To Preserve Quandic". I've only found one page that just mentions it's existence. Nothing more. Find THAT one! --Xan
"Congratulations, Boots. Your robot has become self-aware. You're a daddy now." -- Dr. Rho Bowman
I JUST got through searching for how early :)
Harris county sells beer on Sundays. For the
last hour... nothin.. (I need beer!)
metric
- musedata.org
- themefinder.org
- ...and there used to be a system called Meldex at the New Zealand Digital Library, but it seems to be gone now.
My opinion is that the technology is almost there right now - lots and lots of people are working on this problem - but the main thing lacking seems to be a searchable database of music that people actually want to search through, as opposed to the existing databases which mainly contain classical music and crappy MIDI files.If you do have any cool ideas, especially about how to get the actual data to search through, or how to provide this service on the web without the RIAA sueing your ass off, I'd be interested to hear.
popular sheet music: napsterize that!
You can always go to MIDI Farm, download your favorite songs, fire up LilyPond, and print it.
Will I retire or break 10K?
No home pages about 'my Amish life'.
Except for this audio clip...
Will I retire or break 10K?
one of my older co-workers was talking about medical companies buying up patents then locking and sealing them away because they would compete with things that company owns and/or be disruptive.
My friend was talking about a shot that would prevent cavities for life if given to an infant. Apparently, it was bought by thr dentistry association a long time ago (1970s or earlier according to him) because it would effectively put dentists out of business for the most part. When I tried to find more info about this on the 'net, I could not. If my friend is correct about the shot and the patent date I think the patent should have expired by now.
Can anyone help with this?
http://www.bluesapphires.net/
A friend of mine runs it. Seems to be quite popular.
M.
My father-in-law bought a 1959 Chris Craft Sport Fisherman that he is in the process of restoring. He wants to gather the history of the boat, from the day it left the Chris Craft shipwrights to the day he bought it. He has been told that it was featured in Beach Blanket Bingo. Using the hull number, I have been unable to track it down. I can't find any reference to the boat used in the movie. I've also been looking for a 1959 Chris Craft magazine ad (or poster) that shows the model of his boat (for a gift). Pretty arcane, but absent none-the-less....
I still occasionally play DOS games. As you know, most modern soundcards are pathetic in DOS if they work at all. The new Philips Edge cards make reference to FM synthesis for real mode DOS and I've been trying to find out how good their DOS support is. So far I've been able to find out exactly nothing (and the information on modern soundcards under DOS in general isn't all that good). There are also a couple of old Japanese animation/manga scripts that seem to have disappeared off of the Internet.
I once thought that the mail order russian babe brides were not online, but I was wrong.
Privacy? Not in this lifetime.
I can't find anything about the movie which I'm almost certain is called Night of the Lupus. I can't find info on it and I can't buy it.
One of the cheesiest movies ever but it's a classic! About these giant killer bunnies eating horses and people. Great fun for everyone!
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
potzebrie (from old Mad magazines).
When travelling, it's ok if the airlines lose your emotional baggage.
What kind of sick weirdos would be into that?!?!
Well, try as I might, I have yet to find an mp3 of the complete theme to Special Report with Brit Hume from Fox News Channel. It's not on Napster! :)
I love nature. I love taking hikes, in mountains, on the sea shore, in the hills near my house, wherever. It just makes me happy to see the natural beauty around me.
Anything inside my computer or on the Internet, or any human made building, pales in comparison to what I can see by just walking or driving a few miles away from where I live. This is really something you can't get on the Internet.
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Find me that one :)
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
Rem is probably the key switch. Wire it to +12 volts to keep the stereo on all the time. As for 10 amps of power, you can buy 12v supplies that size. Astron (http://www.astroncorp.com/ makes excellent ones. You could try local radio shops (ham or CB) or even Radio Shack to avoid shipping.
Miranda's murder was never solved because the suspect invoked his right to remain silent. Now that's ironic
Miranda was the suspect.
Rate me on Picture-rate.com
"and dear god does this website suck now." -- CmdrTaco
ah
Rate me on Picture-rate.com
"and dear god does this website suck now." -- CmdrTaco
truly good information about Tesla's experiements
i cant find any pics of jennifer love hewitt naked, i want em bad
"Think, It aint illegal.....yet" - George Clinton
So, while I look forward to the day I succesfully publish, I dread giving ownership of my work to some journal as is basically required for anyone making a career in the field.
If anything is found not to be on the internet people will post about it here. Therefore it is now on the internet so the post is wrong and oppen for a flaming.
.sig (insert funny sig here)
It's kind of obscure, but I spent hours searching for images of the "totems" from Zork: Grand Inquisitor to no avail. They've got to be out there somewhere, but damned if I can't find them.
Plus, there have been numerous occasions where I'd remember a specific web page, and even whole phrases from the webpage, and couldn't find my way back to it from any search engine. That really sucks because you know its out there, you just can't find it. And it never fails this happens just after the entry from when you first visited it has expired from your history.
NO CARRIER
Aye, April fool's for sure.
One thing I've looked for, and not found, information about old BBS systems that used to run. One in particular: "Peachfuzz BBS" in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, area code (604). It might have been "PeachPhuzz BBS". If you find it, please email it to me.
ICQ# : 30269588
"I used to be an idealist, but I got mugged by reality."
ICQ# : 30269588
"I used to be an idealist, but I got mugged by reality."
http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~samiri/rook/files/wareh ouse.html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q= oistros+estrogen
Feelable Porn
Well you can get Titanium Sporks... If you really wanted you could electro-plate it
Were that I say, pancakes?
I thought Katz was a putz. April Shithead Prize goes to you, I guess.
Five or six years ago, I came across a side-splitting page that documented what was actually housed in the wearhouse that the Ark of the Covenant is put into at the end of Raiders of The Lost Ark. (You know, stuff like Hoffa's body, the cure for cancer, etc...)
I've searched countless times, in vain, to find that fabulous piece of humour. I want, very badly, to find that page again, although I fear that it's been lost forever.
ps. if anyone knows otherwise, let me know...
So fine
My baby so doggone fine
doo-do-de-doo-do-de (hand in mine?)
Oh-oh-oh-ohhhh
Yeah-eah-eah-eahhhh
So fine
And lyrics in general.
The Harry Fox Agency has managed to close down a source of information so universally acknowledged as useful that it was one of the first archives/search sites on the web.
The story is told in part here and here and here.
The parable of the dog in the manger, who can't eat the hay himself, but prevents others from eating it, has never been more appropriate.
I am in the middle of writing a laserdisc arcade game emulator . The emulator controls real laserdisc players. I thought it would be easy to find the information needed to control laserdisc players on the internet but in actuality I found NO information at all! I subsequently purchased manuals directly from Pioneer (and other supporters of laserdisc games managed to get ahold of some Sony manuals and scan them in) and we have made this info available finally. Laserdisc players aren't really used anymore but they are still pretty cool to play around with =].
After a good meal at my favorite Japanese restaurant, my wife joked that she wanted an Asahi Beer Super Lucky Cat like the one on the shelf over the bar. I figured it couldn't be *that* hard to find one online. Two hours later I gave up for now. If anyone happens to know where I can get one ...
bporter@DELETEMErunbox.com
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Col. Jeff Cooper
I'm still looking for a Girl, one that might like me...
hmm... for fun I enjoy launching DDoS attacks against 127.87.42.5
Having a song in your head that you can't identify ranks right up there with having a bit of popcorn stuck between your teeth. you can't get squat done until you get the matter resolved...
I recall reading an article a number of years ago about this guy who published a book/catalog where you could identify songs by the relative values of the notes.
You start with a base note (notated by something arbitrary like a *), then notate whether the next note is (H)igher, (L)ower or (S)ame. I seem to recall the article saying the algorithm worked well enough to uniquely identify most any piece of music, given a sufficiently large input.So something like the start of Beethoven's 5th would go: (ahem) *SSL HSSL
I never did see the actual book, and I definitely haven't seen any such database online, but I thought it was an interesting concept. Anyone else ever heard of this technique for identifying songs?
Therefore, by order of the High Council of the Internet, there are to be no April Fools jokes posted this year.
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
Some people at the Wizard world boards have yet to find an online image of a character called Zeek. Ah well.
Who the DJ is who does the music for the Toonami commercials on Cartoon Network. It's true.
There are no original shorts of the animated series Milton from the old SNL shows. The movie Office Space was based on it.
Thanks for the great idea! I'm looking for more Freudian slips. . .
Curious George
***General Consultant to the Human Race*** My opinions are free. You get what you pay for.
real doll
theres even real hamster
.brad
Drink more tea
organicgreenteas.com
flesh eating ants records
If anyone can help me out here. . .
I have a shotgun, a shovel and 30 acres behind the barn.
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If you set the wayback machine to early 1997 or so, you would find me listening to the theme for Topcat and wondering just exactly what the heck some of the words actually were.
After listening to it about ten or twenty times, trying to figure it out, I fired up the old web browser and started to search.
I tried all the major search engines for the web and newsgroups, and spent a considerable amount of time tracking down a lot of very promising links but I never did find a single page or article that unequivocally listed lyrics that even remotely matched what I was hearing.
I did, however, find a number of interesting tidbits.
First of all, the third full line of the theme (excluding "Topcat"s) is most definitely "Providing it's with dignity". This turned up in a number of newsgroup discussions. All of which failed to list the full theme.
Secondly, I found a web page dedicated to mis-hearings of the Topcat theme. These were absolutely hilarious, but the page did not list the *correct* theme anywhere. I even mucked with the URL try and find the real theme on the server somewhere, but had no luck.
Thirdly, I discovered that the show was called "Bosscat" in the UK, for some copyright reason or other. Apparently, some product was already called Topcat. Oddly, he was still called TC in the show (with dignity).
Finally, I found enough snippets of discussion and web pages with little pieces to construct what I think is the actual theme. I put it on my homepage for a while, to correct the void in the internet. Around this time, people were still amazed at all the info on the internet, claiming that you could find *anything* on the 'net. I had to break the news to them that the Topcat lyrics weren't on the 'net.
This surprised only people who had been 'net geeks for a couple of years. Since they were painfully aware of all the fan sites and other minutiae out there, they were genuinely surprised that the theme song for a reasonable well known cartoon was no where to be found. Regular people, uniformly, didn't care.
I just now searched the net for the theme again, and it's there, although I didn't find what I consider to be the canonical version anywhere. Here's what I came up with way back when:
Top Cat
The most effectual
Top Cat
Whose intellectual close friends get to call him "T. C."
Providing it's with dignity
Top Cat
The indisputable leader of the gang
He's the boss
He's a VIP (pronounced like a word)
He's a championship
He's the most tip top
Top Cat
Yes, he's a chief
He's a king, but above everything
He's the most tip top
Top Cat
Most versions screw up the "whose" with "who's" but this just isn't correct. "Whose" is definitely the start of a longer sentence, with "intellectual" modifying "friends" and not "who".
A number of versions exchange "pip" for "VIP". I went back and forth on this a little bit myself. Listening to the song and trying to hear each word in context. Ya know, using Orwellian doublethink to will myself into hearing it one way of the other. It was always easier to hear "VIP". It makes more sense in context as well.
There are quite few variations with the "a"s and the "the"s before "boss", "VIP", "championship", "chief" and "king". Again, using 1984 as my guide, the only place I really could here a "the" was before "boss". The rest were all "a"s.
Then, as now, I had a little bit too much time on my hands.
I haven't checked recently, but last year at this time I desperately needed to be able to use C++ to drive communications through the parallel port to control a robotic arm. While I could find people selling their $100 dollar books online, I couldn't find any good instructions on how to go about it.
Steve Jackson Games has exactly this sort of thing. You can also find shops.
Not suprisingly, Evil Stevie calls it the gamerfinder. Fnord.
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At least your post is Score: 3, Informative. :-)
But what in this world isn't worthless in the end?
I'm a little shocked there are none yet. Likely reason is that mozilla skins are a little too hard to make. But people still have enough time to make lame Star Trek skins.
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And there is just something very unwholesome about Bart flying a kite at night...
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Let me give you the lowdown
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Unfortunately I cannot remember the company name! Just wanted u to know they do exist....I will reply again if I find it.
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I've had a bit of a fetish for chicks wearing glasses for years. I've never, ever been able to find a website for that.
Please...
Help me, Slashdot users. You're my only hope.
I've found many answers to my quests on Slashdot, or via identical initiatives, or Google or whatever.
But the problem is: what I find is rarely in my native language, nor reflections of issues relative to my local situation. And when i do, the quality is low, and the technological treshhold high.
Specifically in Europe, where commerce dominates or even dictates community (in the IT disciplines) there is a need of independent authorities, with professional pride instead of sheepish braindead egocentrism.
I feel (I hope I'm wrong) that most of the content I find in Europe is there because of commerce gains, and pushed technologies - not because there is a spirit of sharing intellectual property. This makes content close to worthless in my eyes.
We lag behind in content because we now finally have all the technology, but lack many of the needed techniques, simplicity, incentive or common sense.
In the land of the blind, one-eyed is King.
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about the Bungle Bungles. A rocky labdform in NW Australia. There's heaps of fluff, sure, but nothing of any substance.
All I want is some details but all I get is anecdotes from Swedish tourists and tour group advertising.
And maps, there really are no good map resources for the Australian desert.
I guess there is still a use for the public library after all.
fufme.com
The folks that raised that question were actually asking about newspapers in particular, but it applies to a few other forms as well.
I'll preface this by saying that I've worked in reference at a library, that I've written for a newspaper, that a 'zine I edit on-line turns 10 this year, and that I have every single back-issue available.
The category of information I have the most trouble finding on the 'net, period - not a week goes by that I fail to find something in this category - is "old media stuff." Old here basically means anything prior to 1990.
There are some newspapers that have been on-line for a few years, and have done a good job of archiving their material in that time. There may even be a few (nytimes.com perhaps?) that have managed to put older material up in electronic form. But it's probably pay content, and it's definitely not something I can find in a search engine.
Magazines are no better, and probably worse. Newspapers at least make some effort to put all their content on-line; magazines are obsessed with the idea of teasing you into buying hardcopy. Even OLD articles, no go. A friend referenced an article in a year-old Utne Reader, and I'll have to go to the library for that one. I wonder if they're selling enough back-issues to make that sort of ploy viable. I doubt it.
And those are the exceptions. Most media sites on the Internet aren't designed with serious long-term archive availability in mind. That's just not the way they're thinking. Archives are for dead-tree formats, microfilm or microfiche or maybe CD-ROM if you're lucky. Not on-line.
Needless to say, my answer to the folks who were concerned about the 'net killing newspapers had a lot to do with it not happening until the 'net folks start taking archival more seriously. On the flip side, the 'net will have a whole lot of informational holes in it until that happens.
-Dan
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Source Code to Windows 2000......... can't find it anywhere...... 'cept Russia maybe
If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.
A website that houses all your passwords for you, does not seem to exist.
TK
Try searching for ICANN+UDRP+truth+justice+honour+honesty on google (no link as not there).
.uk Internet Domain Names. The existing Dispute Resolution Service is under review.
.car TLD for carmakers - they can then use nissan.car. It has to be on a 'first come - first served' basis.
.REG
.com/.biz etc. domains - for advertising and marketing purposes.
.REG to stop most of these problems. From there, new restricted TLDs to stop other disputes, examples .CAR and .ACTOR - it is just plain common sense.
Nominet UK is the Registry for
They are being urged to use ICANN's UDRP - or some of its principles.
Consultation Responses - These being a Litigation Group - think I should add, all this is just my opinion after careful analysis.
Needless to say - despite this being a "public consultation" - my response was not allowed. I was censored. I include it below, just for the record:
Garry Anderson
World Intellectual Piracy Organization (WIPO.org.uk)
Response to Review of Dispute Resolution Service for Nominet UK
The WIPO represents just plain common sense and logical intelligence on topic of Internet management. Ability further demonstrated on other subjects at skilful.com (though you may not like what I say there). The following is considered and informed opinion - after looking at all the facts. See if you agree with me.
WIPO is defending the rights of domain owners worldwide. So obviously - not the same WIPO that is part of UN just looking after big business (coincidentally paid by them). Though they are certainly biased, I would not accuse them of being corrupt (with only circumstantial evidence).
This solution has been put to the United States Patent and Trademark Office and Department of Commerce - during discussions neither could deny my assertions. It was common sense that the authorities already must have known the simple logical answer.
First, I wish to make comment on the response from IP Litigation Group - Field Fisher Waterhouse, supporting ICANN's UDRP. There is so much I wish to say, but will cut it very short.
To quote them, "As to the inconsistency of decisions being handed down under the UDRP, it is still early days and, as more decisions are made and precedents are adopted, the decision-making will become more uniform."
Saying, "...we believe that trade mark protection is of paramount importance", they unashamedly admit their decisions are biased. This is nothing more than a confession they are becoming more uniformly prejudiced.
A fact for you: domain names are not trademarks - ask Paul Mockapetris, creator of Domain Name System.
However, as authorities know, domain names could be made compatible with trademarks.
ICANN's UDRP has shown this Dispute Resolution process is totally unworkable and unjust.
Though the authorities SAY they have good ideals - to protect trademarks on the Internet - this is a barefaced LIE. Only those unable to progress ideas through to conclusion would believe them.
They only give certain trademarks an illegal dominant position and create a 'cash cow' for their friends in the legal profession. This is demonstrably true and was the obvious intention. Those in pocket of big business would say otherwise.
Most businesses fail to realise, their domain could be victim of reverse hijacking by bigger business, at any time in the future. They will never be safe, even after investing ALL into their business - the most important part of their business, their identity, could be stolen from them.
The only solution is to have restricted TLDs. For example, Nissan cars tried to take nissan.com from Mr Nissan - it makes sense to reserve
There is one main cause for all these problems. The authorities are deliberately managing the system so that domain names are not compatible to trademarks. They do so for reasons based on money and power, without any sense of Justice. To explain:
Nearly ALL trademarks share a common word(s) with many others - even in same country. For example, in the dispute case of etoy and eToys (e prefix for Internet) - 1,685 trademarks share common word "toy" in USA alone. There are tens of thousands of them in 200 other countries. Logical, therefore, that ALL cannot use slight variations on this common word (as domain name) - else it would "infringe" upon others and cause "consumer confusion".
Those with a brain can see, nearly all domain names "infringe" upon others and cause "consumer confusion" - it is just bull* excuse.
Making it worse still - they let only one of these businesses use this common word - so ALL the others cannot. This is against "unfair competition" laws. BUT, what makes it really bad - the authorities know the answer to avoid this and are allowing businesses to break this law.
It gets even worse (is this possible?). Though the naming system is not just for trademarks, authorities are taking these common words from the legal owners. These people had the intelligence to buy these common words first. The authorities and big business are stealing the "Intellectual Property" of these individuals.
As shown, most trademarks cannot have their name - so nearly ALL visitors are going to arrive at the wrong location and ALL get "confused" anyway. So "consumer confusion" and "infringement" are just excuse, obvious lies, used to take away the domain from legal owner. These are problems inherent in the system - entirely the fault of authorities.
All these cases, in the courts and before WIPO, are based on lies and propaganda. I am amazed so many intelligent people have been taken in.
Something to note. They all do not want it solved; you will only see objections from them. Even the 'good guys' (defending the little guy) are making a lot of money from these disputes. Their arrogant refusal to publicly recognize mandatory requirements is contemptible.
Mandatory Requirements:
1. Trademark Name
2. Classification
3. Country
4. Identifier - suggest Top Level Domain of
The format for customer to identify source (the reason for trademarks): name.class.country.reg
This acts as certificate of authentication and directory - if you can use the telephone, then you can use dot REG. Small businesses need not go broke buying hundreds of domains, trying to protect every slight variation of trademark in every TLD.
If business wants to use Name.com for advertising and marketing purposes on the Internet - this is legal usage. To use it as currently used (to dominate over other trademarks), is illegal usage. It requires class, country and identifier - i.e. Apple Computers could use apple.tech.us.reg for trademark identity - using apple.com for marketing.
It is logical, that they all are issued with a domain name with each trademark - in format name.class.country.reg - the same as trademark rights issued.
There need be no restrictions put on a company whatsoever - they can use any number of
There are laws in place should Mr Nissan try to pass himself off as Nissan Cars on his nissan.com. Big business is using Dispute Resolution to dominate this word space. Anyway, the consumer knows it is not the car people - if they are not redirected to nissan.car.uk.reg.
There are laws in place for libel should anyone make such unlawful remarks on any of these sites. They object to any criticism and are using Dispute Resolution to abridge the freedom of speech.
It is nothing complicated. Guardians of the Internet with all your so-called experts, if you still do not understand, contact garry@wipo.org.uk - I will draw you a picture. However, you knew all this already - or are you admitting to gross incompetence?
The main reasons they want Dispute Resolution to go on:
1 Big business gets more power abusing their trademark.
2 Guardians of the Internet get more importance.
3 Lawyers and trademark protection companies get rich.
4 Domain registration companies get rich from trademarks protecting mark.
5 Small businesses go broke with big business taking identity - less competition for them.
6 They muffle criticism of them - abridging the freedom of speech.
7 Kids (and grown-ups) are stopped from making fan sites.
In conclusion, to reiterate - domain names are not trademarks. Millions of TLD are possible. I call for Nominet UK to put pressure on ICANN, first for the introduction of
WIPO.org.uk - no connection with, and wishes to be totally disassociated from, the World Intellectual Property Organization -WIPO.ORG, part of UN, paid for (owned?) by big business.
Anyone who claims that everything is on the Internet is not much interested in history. Events prior to 1995 are poorly covered. Events prior to about 1985, when newspapers began putting their contents online (usually available on a fee basis through Dialog or Nexis), are even more poorly covered. Even today, very few newspapers, magazines, and journals have issues prior to 1980 digitized.
Here's an example: Let's say that you are interested in the issue of the CIA's influence on and involvement with academia. Try a "AND" search for "CIA" and "campus," or "CIA on campus."
You will get lots of hits about the Culinary Institute of America, and student life there,
and very little about the Central Intelligence Agency and academia. Why?
It's because the CIA on campus issue began in the late 1960s, and peaked twice since then -- once in 1977 and again in 1987. All three of these predate the web.
A site was just started less than two months ago to remedy this situation: http://www.cia-on-campus.org/
Almost all of the 27 documents currently posted there had to be OCRed from dead-tree records. Some of these articles were difficult to track down, and some were so yellowed from age that OCR didn't work.
Yet no one can claim that the issue of the CIA on campus is no longer important in 2001.
To get a better database, I was thinking you could go the IMDB route--have people enter the data for "fun". Put the database under an appropriate open license and you could probably get people to go for that.
As for how to keeping the RIAA at bay, it doesn't seem to me that they'd have the legal right to block this sort of tool. That won't stop them from suing, of course. More practically, you could provide links so that people could buy the CDs they find from a partner like CDnow--that would probably hold off the RIAA.
--Mike
"Not an actor, but he plays one on TV."
I have some interesting ideas about how to do this if someone wants to fund it. :-)
(Not using humming as input, though, because some IP squatter has already patented that.)
--Mike
"Not an actor, but he plays one on TV."
I've been trying to find a Proton NMR Spectra of Caffeine for a couple of weeks. The closest I've found is a file that may possibly be what I want but I don't have NUTS software to open it. I also found the spectra for Mountain Dew but not caffeine alone.
I've hit Karma 50 and gotten a Score:5, Troll... I win!
Yeah that is what I usually do as well. However it got med hooked on MUDding again. Was looking for information about elephants and tried www.elephant.org And Hey that is a MUD looks kinda kewl had better try it out for a couple of minutes. Three years... :(
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My wife did an extensive search of the internet for what was not out there for free with respect to doing legal research. The short answer is West Law. West Law defines the citation system everyone uses and the indexes for finding relevant cases. One court even held that they own the pagiation that they put on a decision. You know, the page numbers. In a later court case, this position was reversed. The central public policy argument in these cases revolves around "Who owns the law". The West Law position is that the law is too important to be left in the hands of the government. Some people want to open source the citation system with a government created indexing system and citation system and West Law does not. In the /. context it is interesting to note that no one claims West Law is "buggy". However, the index never did live up to its expectations.
Note that West Law is available on the internet, but for big bucks.
I haven't been able to find a good recipe for Marijuana tea on the net. They do itin amsterdam all the time, but I can't find a credible recipe for tea, and I don't want to waste a quarter ounce, because the shit is expensive here. Any ideas /.?
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
I have yet to find a single person, other than myself, that plays with pneumatic instrumentation and controllers(even electronic process controllers) as a hobby.
If there's anyone out there, I've got a Taylor, some Synchro 3's and some pneumatic integrators I've been playing with.
Paul Anderson
"I drank WHAT?!" -- Socrates
I must agree, that I can usually find what I'm looking for on the net... But certain things, like fixes for problems on equipment which is out of warranty... Like older computer or home audio stuff. Things that obviously the manufacturer isn't going to help you with, so why don't they post the information that they've collected in the time that they do support the product?
The reason you can't find Appalaichann Farewell is because the song is named "Ashoken Farewell." Fire up Napster :).
Anybody know where I can find one on the net? I'm hoping to be able to repair the broken mode dial without having to pay my entire pension to Canon.
There's a shortage of full-text scientific papers on the internet. Even as a subscriber to several full-text services and journals, I can never seem to find online scientific papers that appear in journals that my university library doesn't have.
I know that journals want to make money by selling them, but scientific papers ARE public domain, and why should I have to pay to read them (in sometimes very poor quality - on microfilm/fiche).
I've tried numerous times to come up with a protocol spec for Viewdata, sometimes known as Prestel or a VT110 (or it might be VT100) terminal system. An old videotext system designed by British Telecom in the 70's (the system they tried to claim they had the patent for hyperlinks on).
Every travel agent in the UK still uses this system to book holidays with tour operators, but even though I can find a few mentions of it on the web, never anything like the protocol (as I'd like to write a viewdata client).
I couldn't find anything to rhyme with orange.
I really hate Dan Patrick.
The internet is letting me down. Okay, I can find naked pictures of everyone on the planet except Laura Prepon (grr), but NO ONE has bothered to put "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" online in any format? Come on, we've got banned-books weenies in droves, so what is it gonna take for some one to step up to the plate and put this film, by all accounts a banned masterpiece, on the net? It would be everything the internet is supposed to be about: intelectual freedom, sticking it to the man, political commentary, creative expression and resistance to censorship.
There are contemporary descriptions of this 45 minute film here and here, both from the Washington Post.
Tastes Like Chicken
I loved that show...
Bahumat
"To pass through the jungle; silence, courtesy, ferocity, as the occasion demands." -- Kamau, "Proper Passage"
Just when you think you've seen it all, you come across http://www.fufme.com/.
Don't worry, it's not a gross-out site. It's actually a site for a product, and all of the pictures/diagrams are cartoon or computer generated.
Think CUSeeMe but taken further. Yes, "mounting your drive" can now be taken literally. You can even place an order from the site, but I can't imagine anyone buying one of these. Wouldn't lag ruin the moment anyway?
Point being that there are a lot of humanities resources are are still not easy to come by online...
Thanks in advance if anyone finds anything!
Juliann
I guess the future isnt on the net. It will be on tomorrow though...
-- Cheer, Cheer, The Red and the White.
Honestly, once you get beyond an introductory level on most subjects, the information dries up. Try looking for any details on the evolution of the Byzantine military organization or the ultrastructure of heliozoans. You won't get a lot...of course the same is true of most other sources.
i'm looking for a copy of the original 'sounds of earth' that was sent up with voyager way back when. i've been looking for a few years.
gol
It's really annoying.
Sometimes hotbot.com is useful because it has some additional functionality that allows you to search particular domains or subdomains for your regular run-of-the-mill boolean search.
Still it does seem like a lot of the pages that exist on a particular website are Not catalogued by search engines!
I understand that they all have databases of what is currently out there and they are constantly rechecking to make sure that those links are still valid. I imagine it would take too much memory to index all of the pages on each website but then why do search engines often have the same page come up as two or more different hits! I don't get that one.
"sweet dreams are made of this..."
I've tried Ask Jeeves and various search engines in my quest to identify movies I watched years ago on TV. I remember the plot and in some cases thought I knew the actors, but to no avail. I got a few suggestions on where to look, but none yielded results. The other thing I wanted to find out was the meaning behind some of the early Spandau Ballet lyrics, especially the expression, "stealing cake to eat the moon". It was in vogue at my school but we all used it cryptically not really knowing what it meant. The band members on some site said that many of their lyrics were pretentious and didn't come from experience, so that didn't help... I can't find a lot on foreign popular culture, for example, Chinese, Malay and Egyptian movies and songs from the 1950's. Some of the megastar names of the period only have a handful of entries. Another thing missing is objective assessments of other companies' technologies and/or business models.
Before the crash, i wanted to see a real example of a dot-com business plan before writing my own. Partly because I never found one (either in bookstores nor online) I paid to have professionals write it, which set me back quite a bit, as you might imagine. I was told that federal rules limit how you may offer investment opportunities such as those represented by business plans, particularly if you are raising >=$1 million. That, and secrecy, i believe has everything to do with this scarcity.
"Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design
I would like to know if I can make a toll-free telephone call from
Seaside, Oregon, USA to Astoria, Oregon, USA
Just Counters
Their they're doing there hair.
Drop me a line if you can help:
tranquil_eye@yahoo.com
I have a microphone that came with my Tandy RLX 1000 way way way back. It has the model number printed right on it... CT329. I could never find it on the Internet. Also...anyone ever look for mold-flavored potato chips?
What's this Submit thingy do?
But he was also murdered, thereby creating the "irony" aforementioned. The suspected murderer of Miranda refused to incriminate himself.
I Browse at +4 Flamebait
Open Source Sysadmin
How about pr0n WITHOUT links to Britney Spears?
about a year ago i saw a bucketdrummer (in case you don't know, it's just a person with a pickle bucket and some drumsticks - sometimes other kitchen/assorted items - drumming) near tower records in boston, massachusetts. thought for sure there would be some tracks on the internet. not only were there none, but i couldn't find anything but passing references to the art in various articles. that's why i began crashspace.net, it's an attempt to chronicle the style. it's actually a damned shame that nothing exists. this summer is going to be an amazing year, i'll probably get some stuff from larry himself. i already have some sessions from chris little, a student of his along with some local talent here in boston.
if you want the original track, look for "subway drums" from the "green card" soundtrack. and remember, the kid is doing this with a *single* bucket and two sticks. and if you know of any sites that cover this subject, PLEASE email me (don't sqweeze the charmin. =)
My .02,
My .02,
zencode
iactivist.org/jason
If someone can point me to any video-footage, hell, even if it's not DivX;-). Even if it's QuickTime, I can't find anything on them sans a few mentions on some off-beat sites.
"I've seen plays that were more exciting than this.
Honest to god... Plays!" Homer Simpson
seems like the only time i cant find something on the internet is when i have to do a paper on it. have any other student's out there noticed this? college papers are great.. especially when it requires 10 sources and for some reason no one wants to put up an internet page about "literary criticisms of The Eustace Diamonds" .. go fig. There is also nothing about womens' role in government in ancient egypt (another paper subject). at this point my dream is to be assigned a paper on e-mail viruses and porn.
- yezzz, my name is a joke.
MTV ran an animated show a while back called "Downtown". Like most good things on MTV, it got yanked. I've been searching, to no avail, to find the episodes (for free or for sale), including the "lost" 13th episode. Same for The Maxx, MTV released a video but cut out the majority of the episodes. Ideas? jl004j@mail.rochester.edu
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I once searched for streetmaps of Quiteo, Ecuador. Could not find them!
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Slashdot doing some free market research aye? Looking for a new internet startup?
The funniest thing I found was on some website that had theme songs for download, was a guestbook entry asking if the admin could add the Nova theme.
Contrary to popular belief, I don't actually make my website for other people to look at.
Not on the Net -> Decisions of all 50 state district and circuit court cases. Also, I don't think decisions from federal district courts are on the Net. I guess the public doesn't need to know?
i need pictures of jeri curls.
. SLASHDOT: Home of the vicious nerd.
i think that he/she wants the books that Arent part of that set, but rather the books one by one under the name bachman.
Fight censors!
"Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness." - M
It's the 'theme music' to Ken Burns' Civil War series well-known to PBS fans. I have searched on and off for years via the web and more recently on Napster, and get nothing. Google once gave me a link to a painting of the same name, not quite what I had in mind. So there. IF.cmg
Thanks! To think I've errantly been thinking of that piece wrongly all this time. Of course, actually getting a return on wrong information entered by myself kinda says something, too.... IF.cmg
... need I say more.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
I almost started up a website to do this once just because I couldn't find it anywhere.. but I'm bigger on ideas than funds or time (like most of us geeks) so it died on the drawing board.
Anyway, I've long thought a site dedicated to gamers looking for other gamers that could be searched by geographic location would be great. Finding fellow gamers is Always a bitch. You can't just go up and ask people, "hey, do you play -game-?" Since pen-and-paper RPGers are still more than a little looked down on. So essentially you have to hunt for them within your circle of friends and for us geeks who aren't socialites this circle tends not to be very big. Once upon a time almost all my friends were gamers and I had enough to get a game going. Now it's the same ratio of gamers:non-gamers, but the actual numbers aren't big enough for any good sessions and our attempts at posting at local shops haven't worked out well.
So does anybody know of a site where you can hunt for other gamers? Or, to go the direct route, anybody looking for a couple more members in their DnD, whitewolf, or pretty much anything else party in the Columbia, SC area? Drop me an email if so (krin@no.spam.for.me.hotmail.com).
See Sig append. Append Sig, append. Good Sig.
Can you suggest some good Word Analysis programs for any OS? You've sparked my curiosity.
I can't name anything off the top of my head, but there are thousands of things I've searched for but couldn't find due to an overabundance of results that didn't relate to the subject... and trust me, I really know how to search on the net. I admit Google has brought to occurance of these down, but occasionally you'll find something that can't be narrowed down to less than 20,000 hits.
So the answer is: "certain people". This might be hard for us geeks, but the Internet is still a separate world, where you'll find some things, and won't find others.
my other sig is a 500 page novel
A life?
(4:22am as I post this...)
A couple of days ago, Reuters claimed that Bush invented a new word.
Then and now, however, one could/can see that google returns 49 uses of the word "hispanically".
*ANY historical data*
You got that right. Try finding information on any well documented historical period (World War I), and you'll get nowhere.
I'd also love to have an archive of old computer trade rags (PCWeek, Infoworld, etc), if only to keep track of old Microsoft vaporware.
Well that fucking blows.... no more dalnet for me... only slashnet =)
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Greg Woods mentioned something about being able to multi-home a home network (i.e., set it up with access to two separate ISPs, so that if one goes down, traffic automatically routes to the other.) i searched most dilgently but came up empty. Perhaps he was pulling the leg of clueless lusers... anyone?
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
I can't for the life of me find any good, in-depth info on Soviet and/or Japanese WW2 technology. My 10 page first draft is due tuesday...so feel free to contribute 8)
Maskirovka
Me and a couple guys at work tried to find information on Midgets. It usually results in porn sites. We looked for midget clothing and only found a few 2nd rate sites of someone who made midget clothing. There were not major e-commerce midget clothing sites. I also couldn't find any sites that were portal type sites for midgets with midget related content. Also, there were no personals for midgets. Ya know, midgets looking for other midgets for romance. The web is lacking for midgets. Did I use the word midgets enough?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The story is a dupe, the topic is boring, the facts weren't checked. WE GET IT!!
How about a free porn site that actually has free porn instead of just links to other sites and endless automatically opening browser windows?
I have read in several semipublic sources that researchers have traced enough interareal pathways to create a "wiring diagram" of the white matter of the neocortex, but I've been unable to find this -- or any other detailed information about neocortical function -- on the net. OTOH I have found lots of advertisements for drugs and procedures whose usefulness might be better evaluated if the real information were also available.
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Im yet to find a good free pr0n site :)
and i did a search on russia's white army but got very little... i think it also comes down to how good you are at searching.. Slashdot must be running out of news items/questions if it posted this lamer...
www.trains.com
Will this help?
The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.
Why yes, all my base are belong to you.
How did you guess?
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
42?
The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.
Why yes, all my base are belong to you.
How did you guess?
Just this one thing I've heard of. I'm not sure what it is, but i havent found any references to it anywhere. Maybe you could help. Its called Linux or something similar
The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.
Why yes, all my base are belong to you.
How did you guess?
Far from everything is on the net yet (nice rhyme!), especially not other things than computers and technical stuff. Geeks are used to find everything for free, but things don't work that way. Once you try to find info on non-computer stuff, all you find is amatuerish websites with little useful info. Try finding piano lessons or good darts tips. You'd be better off at your local library.
Pictures of Pantzeri armor (Polish light calvary)
Teeth of a Tartar
Well, I've ACTUALLY found these.
Its been said for years, anything can be no matter how bizarre or rare it is.
Slashdot Hypocrisy at work?
Tea, Earl Grey, hot!
http://erichsieht.wordpress.com/category/english/
It seems that the great whale that is AOL has swallowed the last bastion of goodness left on the Internet.
I will sleep a little lighter nowm just to make sure that the whale doesn't swallow me as well.
As a kid I had a toy I loved. It was called a Defender Dan and in 1964 I got one for Christmas. It was a (plastic) .30 cal machine gun, tripod mounted, belt fed, ejected catridges, shot the (plastic) bullets out the barrel. I thought someone out there might have one in a collection (my Mom bought mine at a grocery store) but I haven't seen one since.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
Everyone says only three people in the whole world know the recipe for Coca-Cola, but that may be only a rumor. This is what I have found on the Internet but I am skeptical.
Citrate Caffine 1 oz
Vanilla Extract 1 oz
Flavoring *2.5 oz
Fluid extract of Coca 4 oz
Citric Acid3 oz
Lime Juice 1 Qt
Sugar 30 lbs
Water2.5 Gal
CaramelÂsufficient
The * Flavoring better know as 7X
Orange Oil 80
Lemon Oil 120
Nutmeg Oil 40
Cinnamon Oil 40
Coriander Oil 20
Neroli Oil 40
Alcohol 1 Qt.
Mix flavoring first and let stand 24 hours. Mix caffeine, acid and lime juice in 1 Quart Boiling water
add vanilla and flavoring when cool. I have never made this, so if you do, let me know how it came out.
P2P Anonymous Distributed Web Search: http://www.yacy.net/
I have never found anything really interesting about the ancient greek woman Messalina. I dare you to prove me wrong! ;o)
the origanal Quake 1 Team Fortress opening cutscene...
___ alwaysBETA.com - Hey, you've got nothing better to do.
Well, I haven't been able to find any boots that enable me to jump six feet in the air...
This is April fools, right?
I think there's a big shortage in spoken texts on the internet. Most sound fragments on the internet is either music or radio. It's very difficult to find, for instance, recordings of articles or short stories, together with the original text, especially in foreign languages. Such recordings are immensely useful when learning a new language. Another thing that doesn't seem to exist is a multilingual bookstore with a decent collection of books, which also ships worldwide.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. - ast
http://ess.geology.ufl.edu/usra_esse/Mosquito.html
No home pages about 'my Amish life'. Now I wonder why that could be...
I still haven't been able to find one. And it's really bugging me. There's still a cold chilling reminder here in MI that winter still wants to hang around. Even in April.
Avg. Live Expectancy of a SysAdmin, 45 Years.
I've never found clear instructions from Web Presence Providers concerning commands. They just assume that your born with a telnet application imbedded in your C-Cortex and a full set of Unix commands engraved on your eyelids.
Rien n'est plus beau que le creux du 0.
No problem.... just buy a large quantity, open a start-up called khadai.com, and start taking orders for them. You'll become rich. You'll become the Khadai monopolist of the western World. And we'll finally get rid of all those Chineeeeese Wok-related programs on TV that explain how to cook slices serpent, monkey brains, and cats' feet, not to mention grubs, dog liver and anything else that the road-kill collection crew finds on the side of the highway. We'll begin to eat like we should: no creepy crawling meat with worms and mad cow virus..., no chicken penetentiary raised chicken. McDo wi9ll fall asunder. You will save the world!
Rien n'est plus beau que le creux du 0.
Start HERE
Rien n'est plus beau que le creux du 0.
All I can say is, this thing I'm hearing about losing an hour of sleep tonight for "Day Lite Savings" had better be another april fools joke.
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... of books as they appear, let's say the latest novel of Grisham. I would prefer it in HTML, although a Word or PDF version would not be bad. Also, in text-only version, so that it can be used in word-analysis programs (and that Linux pinguinistas can read it as well).
Linux ! The cheapest OS ! For people whose time is worth NOTHING !
specifically, how to set up an ATI XPert2000 video card connected to a Voodoo2 card on SuSE 7.1.
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog!" - a dog
A while back, there were a series of pictures making the rounds with the title "I look like my dog" (you can still find these in a search of the web). Pairs of pictures each showed one person and one dog, and they did indeed look quite a lot like each other, with the help of some creative styling. Inspired by this, I set out to make a similar series titled "I eat like my dog", wherein I'd pose eating out of dishes on the ground. The problem was I could not find a single picture of a dog eating on the net! I looked for 45 minutes before I gave up.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
Merely using search engine data to generate the base map wouldn't be effective, since that would only map what people are looking for, not what's out there. Probably the best way would be to use one of the universal catalog systems already in existence (Library of Congress, for example) and create sets of specialized thesaurii. Place these in a 3D coordinate system and then use word-frequency counts on internet documents to match them to subject areas.
With data from search engines, searches can be placed the same way, mapping them to every specialized thesaurus they fit. Clusters of hits in a sparsely-populated area would then indicate possible unsuccessful searches.
"No matter where you go, there you probably are." -- Buckaroo Heisenberg
Yeah, I've scoured the net for something that I haven't been able to find - like how the heck to get XWindows (under RedHat 7.0, Mandrake 7.2) to work with my ATI All-In-Wonder Rage 128 PCI videocard. I've scoured and scoured using numerous search engines, but haven't found diddly except people asking the same question with no resolution (aside from: get another videocard). :P
I have NEVER found a complete lyrics of Rollins Band's Illumination...
guru in training
...pictures of naked women.
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I just recently started playing my old c64 favorites through emulation. Legacy of the ancients and to a lesser extent Wasteland were two decent games. But Agent USA captivated me... What was with this game... What are strategies... Why does it appeal at all... Then I looked closer: You're a person who is a part of society. You can invest your gems to get more gems, but other people in the society are greedy and try and take them. If they were not greedy, you could easily collect 100 and win. Also, you should let the people have some gems to defend themselves too. So if you're greedy, then you loose too. The map of the united states shows a FUZZ that spreads across the land like the old maps of the third reich(sp). When you loose all your gems, you become a fuzz, which could be analogous to a homeless man rioting without any money for food. If you have lots of gems and give them to people, you can be seen as a person distributing economic wealth. Etc etc... I mean to me it seems like someone would have wrote a strong paper on this game about its ties to Communism, but I couldn't find any. I can't even find out the company that made the game. But this is probably my shortcomming.
God spoke to me
Utilitarinism 101 :)
Just go out and try to make yourself and to an extent(determined by your coefficient of liking society, mine is borderline 0 from a tough college life) other people happy.
You do this by learning about the world, leanring what makes you happy. Then figure out how you can get happy by achieving them. Try to accomplish the highest happiness over time that you can get. Everyone has a different happiness function.
Good enough explaination?
God spoke to me
I grew up on a farm near a town with no commercialism because it was built because of a coal mine in the early part of last century. So what do you do? Hang out with local hooligans and sit down and write strategy games is the best I could come up with. Outside is fuggin boring. Well to me at least.
God spoke to me
Yes, this article is probably a stupid 4/1 thing but hey.
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house"
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house"
-George Carlin
Today, for instance, I was searching for a way to post to newsgroups via web/mail. I found no server that did that, but I found plenty of people who wanted to sell me software so I could set up such a server myself.
It's one of the problems of the commercialization of the net. I'm sure there is such a server, probably many, but they are shouted down in the search engine by people trying to sell their products.
I've got pretty disappointed with altavista lately. Pop-up windows! O Shame! Not only that, you can press a "don't show me this window again", but of course you ARE shown that window again anyway if you press it. Plus, they don't seem to be so good at handling site spam as I think they should.
xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Decent free porn via search engine.
Go to altavista.com and search for "free porn". Heh. Right.
The One,
The Only,
--The Kid
the liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perception
www.quantumheresy.com
Well, slight exaggeration. BUT I have on countless occasions searched for information or images or anything related to say the 1920's or 1950's or anytime BEFORE the interenet and its just Not really there.
spas--+--- ###*
I've had trouble finding office stuff born just before business caught wind of the Internet. Examples:
A manual for an IBM WheelWriter 2 typewriter, in PDF (or any other) format.
Jumper settings for an old 25MB hard drive whose maker went out of business. Instructions for the CMOS on the same 286 that had the hard drive.
Drivers and instructions for several old VLB cards on a friend's 486.
Michael
I mean you'd think that they would exist wouldn't you, but I havent been able to find one anywhere.
nude pictures of my grandma on the net. I wish I'd never started looking. Turns out there's sites fulla that kinda stuff with pictures of everyone elses's grandmas!!! But I had to check all of them just to make sure mine hadn't secretly sent her photo in. I guess she hadn't. Whew!
teenage, teenage volleybawlers
A full copy of the English Talmud.
I've yet to locate any halfway decent Latin to English web-based instant translators. Little help?
-- Derek Wingert