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Let's get the serious stuff out of the way: chrisd put up a survey to track what trade shows Linux Coders think are a good idea to go to. With the proliferation of cons, its nice to know what ones matter.
Oh, and if you're looking for beer, you should try
Heineken's BarTrek. its a PDA proggie with maps to bars and reviews of beer. And if you have GPS, it'll even lead you to it.
My guess is after a few beers, it better be a really user friendly app or you might wind up in a desert or something.
k-rist sent us linkage to Pulp Simpsons! which I highly recommend.
An anonymous reader pointed us to a 15 pound Millenium Falcon made of legos.
CK-2 pointed us to what looks like the most impressive real life light saber money can buy.
dave pointed us to
the site worth it. notjenni,
a parody of jennicam.
An AC pointed us to a Swedish site has a photo of the Daytrading Yucca plant.
This plant is wired up to a computer to trade on the Swedish stock market in response to its electrical activity. If it makes a profit it is rewarded with water and light, if it makes a loss it is unwatered and sits in the dark. The plant has made an 18 percent profit in the last three months! God I hope this is true ;)
Effugas pointed us to a pretty good parody of the Matrix.
regs pointed us to MonkeyBagel which outta win an award for something. I don't really know what tho.
Random merchandising:
at0m noted that Copyleft now has Slashdot polos in grey and green.
Finally, what would quickies be without some porn?
Tolath sent us something graphic... if you happen to be an electrical cord.
I'd say "another wonderful Microsoft innovation", but, although I have the impression that "Virtual Directories" may be an IISism, I think I've seen similarly useful responses to other attempts to trim URLs on sites not obviously using IIS.
<rant>After all, the purpose of a Web site isn't to provide lots of information - where's the profit in that, to a corporation or other organization providing a Web site - it's to provide lots of advertising and persuasion to get you not only to buy the stuff the corporation sells, but to get you to buy the particular stuff they want you to buy.</rant>
I'd say "another wonderful Microsoft innovation", but, although I have the impression that "Virtual Directories" may be an IISism, I think I've seen similarly useful responses to other attempts to trim URLs on sites not obviously using IIS.
<rant>After all, the purpose of a Web site isn't to provide lots of information - where's the profit in that, to a corporation or other organization providing a Web site? - it's to provide lots of advertising and persuasion to get you not only to buy the stuff the corporation sells, but to get you to buy the particular stuff they want you to buy.</rant>
Might I suggest that whomever posts the quickies place an obvious warning label as to objectionable content so that users don't click where they shouldn't while at work (but are free to do so at home?)
"Pinky, you've left the lens cap of your mind on again." - P&TB
"I can see my house from here!" - ST:
The Yucca can't select the stocks for you, and that's an important part of trading. The Yucca only trades in a small number of stocks that the artist selected. So saying that the Yucca has made 18% profit is useless unless you compare it to the average profit you would have made by random trades of the same set of stocks. (I'm not sure what the effect of random trades would be, but my guess would be a "random effect".)
As an example, say that the Yucca was set to trade Ericsson, Nokia, Effnet, Switchcore, Framfab, Icon medialab and other Swedish IT/telecom stocks. These stocks have probably averaged 80% up the last three months, and they certainly averages more than 20%. That means you actually lost money on the Yucca trading.
But hey, perhaps I can let my goldfish select stock for me...
Tell your friends about xenu.net
Do ya think she'll be sent to jail for threatening violence. I stopped looking when I got to the gun pics - I don't want to sent up for conspiracy to threaten violence.
Anybody stop to think about the plants rights. I think the plant should get a equal size profit from the trade. It has rights!
Also -- did you notice the big NO PICTURE sign in the picture. heh
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Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Here's what you do: set up a few hundred plants like that. The ones that do well get the light and water so they live and go to seed and breed with each other. The ones that don't die.
Pretty soon you'll have a super race of market savvy yucca plants!
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grappler
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Halfway down on this page is the story behind Ola Pehrson's Yucca exhibit.
Actually, the site is peaking at a whopping 400b/s. Woohoo.
From what I can see it's a long glass tube with a form of plasma generated up the centre. That sucks. How can you put on old croaky voice "stike me down Luke". The thing would break in half!
Dan. -- So what if it's spelt wrong, nobody's perfect
I wouldn't go so far as to say that a failure of that particular experiment would prove that the market is perfectly random. Actually, it would be quite frankly amazing (and extremely cool) if you actually ended up with plants that could beat the market.
The original comment I made was an attempt at humor. It is my hope that it made some people laugh...
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grappler
Vidi, Vici, Veni
The official site is The Editing Room, which is the site where the Matrix parody was (geeze, doesn't anybody try trimming down URLs from the right to see what else is there any more?). They have an archives page, and the The Phantom Menace link takes you to the official home of that particular parody.
If its good beer anywhere in the world what you're looking for, take a look at http://www.beerhunter.com/. Lots of reviews of beers and places to drink.
But what about the OTHER plant! Look closely at the picture - see the other plant underneath the table? That's the one actually doing all the work! You see - the one above it, on the table, with the computer, is the Plant Manager! You see? Even in the plant kingdom there's managers. Kinda a depressing thought... they haven't evolved in millions of years much. And ever since we had that industrial revolution... I guess neither have we. *rimshot*
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