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Monthly Archives: September 2002
How UC Irvine handles dorm bandwidth issues
Kinda surprised to see home base (UC Irvine) namechecked in Hack The Planet (or namechecked anywhere in Blogistan), but it’s a cool article on how Residential Computing prioritizes bandwidth in the notoriously traffic-heavy areas. [via Hack the Planet]
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Workspaces
Think of it as the logical next step from ResExcellence’s screen snapshot archive. SomebodyDial911 is collecting pictures of folks’ workspace.
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Protecting and serving: DC style
A government worker tells a radio station that Police Chief Ramsey attacked his girlfriend who was bicycling to work (and not part of the protest). The radio station interviews the Chief and the following exchange takes place. listen to the … Continue reading
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No-Fly Blacklist Snares Political Activists
A federal “No Fly” list, ostensibly intended to keep terrorists from flying is snaring peace activists and dissenters. And while several federal agencies acknowledge that they contribute names to the congressionally mandated list, no one is apparently responsible for managing … Continue reading
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Thumbnail guide to 11 September conspiracy theories
Chip Berlet compiles all the 9/11 conspiracy theories – left, right, and off-the-map.
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Comic books, cannibalistic worms, albinos, copyright infringement, and the Blues. This story has it all!
A late contender for Quote Of The Week: “Clearly, they are being transformed into worms. The real question is, is that transformative use in a legal sense, such that the First Amendment requires that we let this happen?” I think … Continue reading
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EeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe
A DVD I’m encoding used a loop of Spiritualized’s “Pure Phase” tone so my entire day has been spent with “EeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe” as my background noise. Instant itchiness.
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Brains are exploding everywhere over this optical illusion
Jason Kottke’s brain just exploded. Andy’s brain exploded. Like them I had to fire up Photoshop and confirm. This is the best optical illusion ever. Andy conveniently put up an animated GIF which explains it if you don’t have Photoshop.
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Now this is my idea of “Must See TV”
Kevin Mitnick and Steve Wozniak are hosting TechTV’s The Screen Savers tomorrow, September 27th. Set your TiVos…
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Gulf War II endgame: The 51st state?
The reportage on the Iraq invasion has finally reached the meta-report saturation stage, so until something actually happens there’s not much point to forward any more stories. However, this article in the Atlantic looks at the endgame of Gulf War … Continue reading
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