Archive for February, 2003
Sunday, February 9th, 2003 0 views
This may be the strangest turn of events yet in the Columbia tragedy.
Late Saturday, NASA said the U.S. Strategic Command apparently tracked something flying near Columbia after it had reached orbit. Space agency spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said it was possible the object came from Columbia, but stressed "this is ...
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Sunday, February 9th, 2003 0 views
I finally got around to downloading and installing AmphetaDesk today. I like what I've seen so far. It's very Radio Userland-ish. I do like the ability to add sites by clicking on the AmphetaDesk image. In fact, Frankly is now AmphetaReady. I've dropped 20 or so sites in, and am ...
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Saturday, February 8th, 2003 0 views
This graphic lends a whole new definition to the word "conservative." Note that the Bush family is responsible for the two highest budget deficits in our history. Ronald Reagan had the distinction of setting two record budget deficits. The climb toward a budget surplus continued unabated during the Clinton presidency. ...
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Saturday, February 8th, 2003 0 views
There's a very interesting discussion underway at Mitch Kapor's Weblog regarding the need to provide centralized services as part of a full package for Chandler. Chandler is, by the way, the P2P-based "Outlook Killer" noted in a previous post. It seems that Kapor's design group is uncovering a large roadblock ...
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Saturday, February 8th, 2003 0 views
There's a new sidebar element on Frankly - the Shameless Commerce section. Linux and Linux-related books for sale via Amazon. I don't expect to generate great huge piles of income, but given that I've chosen to take my affiliate fees in Amazon gift certificates, it might keep me in cool ...
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Friday, February 7th, 2003 0 views
Persuasive people are typically bad at deadlines. Either they were born persuasive, and so they've always been able to get away with it; or else they've always broken promises, so they've had to learn how to explain away their failures.
So says Nick Denton.
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Friday, February 7th, 2003 0 views
Two stories on Linux in robotics.
This one from LinuxDevices:
The 100 cm tall robot, called Wakamuru, is described as being able to assist the sick or elderly in their homes. It can conduct simple conversation using a 10,000 word vocabulary, and uses face recognition technology to find (and follow) faces and ...
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Friday, February 7th, 2003 0 views
A great parody of the Apple Switch ads. Parody by Gary Turner, link by Everything Burns.
Here's another, sent by David Krumwiede.
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Friday, February 7th, 2003 0 views
BS at MyDomain pointed to this link - a very realistic looking identity scam. If you're an eBay user, this nearly looks legit. But look closely at the required information and IP address. It'll tell you for sure that this is just a well-planned way to steal your credit card ...
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Thursday, February 6th, 2003 0 views
I'm a proud supporter of kasia's D.A.R.E. program.
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