Month: January 2004

  • Veggie foods that aren’t

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    Today I came up with a vegetarian food that doesn’t exist, and probably should not exist. Vegetarian procuitto could be simulated with heavily processed and colored shitake mushrooms. It would be called “pro-shit-o”. Cue rimshot…

  • Link it, dude!

    It’s 2004 for God’s sake. Why do idiots still insist on putting URL’s in plain text in a web page, so that I have to copy it and paste it into my URL bar? Is it because they are afraid I won’t come back to their website, and want to dissuade me from visiting the…

  • DRM, cracks, and my buying habits

    The iPod, WMA, and DRM get Scobleized. The point he makes is that having many players available to you is important because once you commit to buying media locked up via DRM, you are locked in to whatever platforms support the kind of DRM your content uses. The problem with that argument is that I…

  • Clueless critique of RSS

    Wow, is this list of “Ten Reasons RSS is not ready for Primetime” clueless. He makes some fair points. But out of the ten, these are either simply false, irrelevant, or seriously debatable: 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10. I’m not going to rebut them one at a time, because I expect others to jump…

  • Vegetarians Take Note

    Turns out plants are thinking too. So there’s only one non-sentient food product left on the planet: Right-wing Republican Ribs! Finger lickin’ good. (And if you happen to get Rush’s ribs, you’ll get a nice buzz from the residual oxycontin.) Seriously, this is neat stuff. It is further proof that cellular automata are a critical…

  • Free World Dialup

    This posting reminded me of something I discovered last night. When you make a toll-free call to a US number using FWD, the ANI (if you’re not a telco guru, think “Caller ID”) shows up as a fixed number. This fixed number has nothing to do with your FWD account number, and it is the…

  • Image recognition to prevent casual forgery

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    This is so cool! That explains why there are all those silly yellow “20”‘s in the background of the new US 20 dollar bills. The political/social/freedom aspects of this story leave me totally irritated. But the technology involved is pretty nifty, and the fact that the authorities managed to get this integrated into software for…

  • Binary Clock

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    Jhango is throwing a party Friday night to Saturday morning to celebrate when Unix time rolls over from 230-1 to 230. Since I can’t be there in person, I made her a binary clock that runs under Win32. It was surprisingly easy. I had it working in under 2 hours. I’ve made a few Windows…

  • Long drive home

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    I just got home from a long visit with kc in San Diego. I took Highway 101 down and most of the way back. It is so much nicer than I-5. Today, on the way back, I strayed from 101 and took some back roads. I ended up coming up state route 25 from south…