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Monthly Archives: April 2003

Penn goes gaga over SARS

Penn: Emergency Preparedness
Troubling. Has there been a case in Philadelphia yet?

Dave Winer on NH, at Dartmouth

Dave Winer writes about “Citizen Bloggers in NH” in the Harvard Crimson. He will be on campus this Friday: here’s the agenda.

If 16+ years of practice wasn’t enough…

…maybe this will help: You’re In Control, the latest, greatest useless project from the MIT Media Lab.

General Rule

Lemonade can be great (esp., e.g., Newman’s Own or homemade). Cookies can be great (in this case, chocolate chip and almond biscotti). Surprisingly, cookies dunked in lemonade are disguisting. Go figure.

Hating U*ix

From the Unix Hater’s Handbook:
[Unix co-creator] Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes a mistake, a giant ??? lights up in the center of the [...]

The fetish map

More than you ever wanted to know about what people do in their bedrooms, living rooms, barns, and automobiles: the logical fetish map.
(This post was modified on March 1, 2008, to remove a link to content that is no longer available.)

That’s really thin

Maybe it’s about time to get a 15 of 30 GB iPod.

Funny

From the Onion: Christopher Hitchens Forcibly Removed From Trailer Park After Drunken Confrontation With Common-Law Wife.

And he’s Oscar, too…

He [Caroll Spinney] asked his boss why he was always forcing him to dance. Henson’s response: “Because Big Bird is the only Muppet with legs!“

Back from NYC

Good to see Angie, Tim, Adam, Athena, Candy, Geddis, etc.
Emmett is at once a wonderful and horrible travel companion. Commiseration is his strong point (and, unfortunately, there’s often much to commiserate about), and complexity his weakness. Nothing can ever be simple and uncomplicated. Everything is always flowcharts and scheduled rendezvous and so many tenous [...]