The USGS has a huge database of Streamflow data online. You can pull tables for rivers near you, and see how often they flood.
With a bit of work, you can pull all sorts of things out of the current tiger dataset - for example, there are about 4.8 million unique street/zipcode combinations in the US. See how many streets near where you live are unique ( two streets just down the road from me - Kentvale and Uthers - appear to be unique).
There's lots of interesting data out there, keep poking around in.gov sites, and you'll find all sorts of stuff.
Hmm - I'd have to say that using RXML's emit and tablify tags together is about the easiest way possible to quickly get data from a database into a decent looking form for an end user.
And considering that accessing a form value or a cookie is as easy as &form.varname; or &cookie.cookiename;, hooking cookies and form variables into the page is about as easy as it can get.
It's just a little something I've been playing around with in my spare time.
It does use cookies to store the current settings, so when you go back to the page, it should be the same as when you left it.
The tiles for the photo and topo views are USGS images, sourced from Microsoft's terraserver-usa site. For the blended mode, they are generated as needed from the map and the photo, then cached locally on the server.
Place lookup (and the landmark overlay) are based on both the USGS GNIS database, as well as the NGS Benchmark database. It has 2,504,693 entries in the database right now.
The Geourl overlay is based on geourl.org's XML feed - it's cached locally, and only polls geourl.org when data expires from the cache.
Dnsloc is based on DNS LOCation records - I ran a crawler a couple of weeks ago on every site listed in DMOZ, and found just over 1,000 sites that listed location info in their DNS records.
There are a few other overlays that are about ready, but I haven't put them on the main page yet - letting users add annotations, readings from weather stations, readings from streamflow stations, etc.
Basically, I want to take every web accessible database I can find containing information that makes sense when displayed geographically, and make it into an overlay.
Interesting, I see two sites called Bohemian Grove in California.
The APFN article mentioned it was located in Sonoma, so I guess it would be this one.
It looks like the right general area - but you would think a 40 foot statue of an owl located north of a small lake would be easier to find - unless the reporter was confused about directions, and this is the owl and altar.
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Blue Amberol cylinder records tend to do that - the inner core is clay, and slowly expands over time, until suddenly the whole thing shatters. The heat from the lights probably pushed it over the edge, but that one would have probably gone on it's own at any time.
They aren't that uncommon - I know people who have hundreds of them, and working wind up players as well. I've been planning on making recordings of the pre-1923 ones and posting them online - I just need to find the time to do it.
Or, you could just run softwareupdate, and install patch SecUpd2004-05-24Pan-1.0 which, despite it's name, is out today and is described as:
Security Update 2004-05-24 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components:
Why not just roast it yourself? It'll be cheaper, fresher, and you can control how light you want it to be.
All you need to get started is an old hot air popcorn popper (with vents on the sides, not a screen on the bottom). Just throw the beans in, and cook until the color is right.
...mix this message up in your winamp or XMMS playlist every minute or so to the worst collection of muzak, cheesy porno music or elevator music you can find.
May I suggest the use of Spamradio? It seems fitting...
I wish ssh would be able to somehow handle a connection when the machine goes to sleep.
As long as the session is quiescent while my laptop is asleep, and I wake it back up within a few hours, I very rarely have a ssh session fail to respond.
Just a few minutes ago, I woke my powerbook back up after it had been asleep for a half hour or so. Once it reconnected to my airport base station, all of the SSH sessions I had been running were fine. These included sessions to local machines, as well as a co-located server.
Isn't that what bittorrent is for? The more people download, the more copies there are feeding the netowrk...
(BTW - like everyone else probably did, I saved a mirror copy in case the site goes down. Even though the site is only 5 megs or so, I also set up a torrent here.)
Hmm - I wonder if the new form of trolling (now that goatse.cx is no more) will be posting bits of windows source code in comments.
I'm sure there are some parts in there that pretty offensive (nasty bugs, buffer overflows, etc...) , plus the viewer is then contaminated by having seen it, and code they write in the future has to be considered tainted...
Well, if you want one to play with, there's always TVSA3.
It's a bit hard find copies of it online, so I keep a copy of the last version I could find here, and a version that I recompiled with a modern compiler (so the program doesn't crash under windows ) here.
It's a simple little command line program, that takes as input a 16 bit wav file sampled at 11025 hz, and outputs a wav file, with beeps inserted where the stress level of the speaker was over a threshold.
It's rather slow - I keep intending to rewrite it to use a modern FFT library to see if I can get it to run in realtime, as well as port it to unix and OSX. Maybe someday I'll find time...
It's a small java based application that generates realistic appearing information, and submits it to web forms assigned by a central server.
Unsolicited Commando appears to be intended to keep generating a steady trickle of real looking bogus data, rather than trying to overload the database with a torrent of obvious junk.
This probably wastes more of the spammer's time than just dumping a lot of junk into the form, as the more realistic the fake entries appear, the more likely that the spammer will have to follow them up to check the accuracy.
On the rare occasions when I use melatonin, I take a 3mg capsule, open it up, and take about a quarter of it.
The effective threshold for melatonin is not that large of a dose - you should only need a tiny amount for it to be effective.
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Ok, who's gonna be the first one to make some caffeinated beer?
It's been around a while - I remember hearing about Rethink Beer back during the height of the.com bubble. I think they were the first to sell caffeinated beer...
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The USGS has a huge database of Streamflow data online.
.gov sites, and you'll find all sorts of stuff.
You can pull tables for rivers near you, and see how often they flood.
With a bit of work, you can pull all sorts of things out of the current tiger dataset - for example, there are about 4.8 million unique street/zipcode combinations in the US.
See how many streets near where you live are unique ( two streets just down the road from me - Kentvale and Uthers - appear to be unique).
There's lots of interesting data out there, keep poking around in
Hmm - I'd have to say that using RXML's emit and tablify tags together is about the easiest way possible to quickly get data from a database into a decent looking form for an end user.
And considering that accessing a form value or a cookie is as easy as &form.varname; or &cookie.cookiename;, hooking cookies and form variables into the page is about as easy as it can get.
It's just a little something I've been playing around with in my spare time.
It does use cookies to store the current settings, so when you go back to the page, it should be the same as when you left it.
The tiles for the photo and topo views are USGS images, sourced from Microsoft's terraserver-usa site. For the blended mode, they are generated as needed from the map and the photo, then cached locally on the server.
The address lookup is based on geo-locator using a database based on Tiger 2003.
Place lookup (and the landmark overlay) are based on both the USGS GNIS database, as well as the NGS Benchmark database. It has 2,504,693 entries in the database right now.
The Geourl overlay is based on geourl.org's XML feed - it's cached locally, and only polls geourl.org when data expires from the cache.
Dnsloc is based on DNS LOCation records - I ran a crawler a couple of weeks ago on every site listed in DMOZ, and found just over 1,000 sites that listed location info in their DNS records.
There are a few other overlays that are about ready, but I haven't put them on the main page yet - letting users add annotations, readings from weather stations, readings from streamflow stations, etc.
Basically, I want to take every web accessible database I can find containing information that makes sense when displayed geographically, and make it into an overlay.
Interesting, I see two sites called Bohemian Grove in California.
The APFN article mentioned it was located in Sonoma, so I guess it would be this one.
It looks like the right general area - but you would think a 40 foot statue of an owl located north of a small lake would be easier to find - unless the reporter was confused about directions, and this is the owl and altar.
Blue Amberol cylinder records tend to do that - the inner core is clay, and slowly expands over time, until suddenly the whole thing shatters. The heat from the lights probably pushed it over the edge, but that one would have probably gone on it's own at any time.
They aren't that uncommon - I know people who have hundreds of them, and working wind up players as well. I've been planning on making recordings of the pre-1923 ones and posting them online - I just need to find the time to do it.
I do use screen - that's why I don't care when one of my ssh sessions does time out.
Why not just roast it yourself?
It'll be cheaper, fresher, and you can control how light you want it to be.
All you need to get started is an old hot air popcorn popper (with vents on the sides, not a screen on the bottom). Just throw the beans in, and cook until the color is right.
I tend to go for a lighter roast - American to Full City or so.
I used to use a popcorn popper, until I found a nice roaster on clearence for $15.
...mix this message up in your winamp or XMMS playlist every minute or so to the worst collection of muzak, cheesy porno music or elevator music you can find.
May I suggest the use of Spamradio? It seems fitting...
I wish ssh would be able to somehow handle a connection when the machine goes to sleep.
As long as the session is quiescent while my laptop is asleep, and I wake it back up within a few hours, I very rarely have a ssh session fail to respond.
Just a few minutes ago, I woke my powerbook back up after it had been asleep for a half hour or so. Once it reconnected to my airport base station, all of the SSH sessions I had been running were fine. These included sessions to local machines, as well as a co-located server.
Alcor is a bit pricy - The Michigan Cryonics Institute will do a whole body suspension for about $28k.
If I were to decide to have myself frozen, I'd go with the cheaper option, and spend the money I save on enjoying myself before I die.
There's always nettle.
It's not quite as full featured as OpenSSL, but if all you need are basic crypto functions, it's small, non-buggy, and fast...
If you want to grab it via bittorrent, and contribute bandwidth back to other people who are downloading, I've got a torrent of a mirror set up here.
Bittorrent is probably overkill for a 5 meg site, but who cares; it helps spread the bandwidth load around...
heh - pasted the wrong link - torrent file is here...
Isn't that what bittorrent is for? The more people download, the more copies there are feeding the netowrk...
(BTW - like everyone else probably did, I saved a mirror copy in case the site goes down.
Even though the site is only 5 megs or so, I also set up a torrent here.)
Looks like your domain being suspended might just be the beginning of your problems.
You appear to be listed on four blocklists.
You might want to keep a closer eye on your customers in the future...
You can find the high quality version of those pictures here, but the text is in dutch.
Why choose Alcor? There are cheaper options out there.
For a full body suspension, Alcor charges about $120,000.
The Michigan Cryonics Institute charges $28,000.
Spend the money you save on living a full life now.
Hmm - I wonder if the new form of trolling (now that goatse.cx is no more) will be posting bits of windows source code in comments.
I'm sure there are some parts in there that pretty offensive (nasty bugs, buffer overflows, etc...) , plus the viewer is then contaminated by having seen it, and code they write in the future has to be considered tainted...
All you have to do is repeat this question as a post in the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email.
This group is inhabited by a bunch of friendly and good natured people who will happily help you solve your email problems.
You might take a bit of good natured ribbing, especially if your mail server is still an open relay, but just play along, and join in the fun.
Your email worries will be over in no time!
Well, if you want one to play with, there's always TVSA3.
It's a bit hard find copies of it online, so I keep a copy of the last version I could find here, and a version that I recompiled with a modern compiler (so the program doesn't crash under windows ) here.
It's a simple little command line program, that takes as input a 16 bit wav file sampled at 11025 hz, and outputs a wav file, with beeps inserted where the stress level of the speaker was over a threshold.
It's rather slow - I keep intending to rewrite it to use a modern FFT library to see if I can get it to run in realtime, as well as port it to unix and OSX. Maybe someday I'll find time...
I recently received spam at the address displayed on /. It is an absolute rarity...
Well, then we can establish that address mangling works.
I leave a contact address in unobscured text, and in the past 24 hours, I received 74 emails to that mailbox, all of which were spam.
There's also Unsolicited Commando.
It's a small java based application that generates realistic appearing information, and submits it to web forms assigned by a central server.
Unsolicited Commando appears to be intended to keep generating a steady trickle of real looking bogus data, rather than trying to overload the database with a torrent of obvious junk.
This probably wastes more of the spammer's time than just dumping a lot of junk into the form, as the more realistic the fake entries appear, the more likely that the spammer will have to follow them up to check the accuracy.
100-300 mg ???
On the rare occasions when I use melatonin, I take a 3mg capsule, open it up, and take about a quarter of it.
The effective threshold for melatonin is not that large of a dose - you should only need a tiny amount for it to be effective.
Ok, who's gonna be the first one to make some caffeinated beer?
.com bubble. I think they were the first to sell caffeinated beer...
It's been around a while - I remember hearing about Rethink Beer back during the height of the