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December 30 2011
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December 29 2011
John Stump, composer of Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz
My uncle, John Arthur Stump, who was my father’s youngest brother, died on January 20, 2006. His memorial service was held at a Vedanta monastery in Hollywood, where my other uncle (known there as “Jnana Chaitanya,” but to me as Uncle Dave) serves as a monk. I was not at the ceremony, but my family brought back some memorabilia from the service and from Uncle John’s “estate,” including a large piece of paper densely printed with musical notation.
N-Control Responds To Ocean Marketing Fiasco | GamerFront
N-Control has hired an independent consultant, Austin, Texas-based Moisés Chiullan, to field press inquiries and oversee sales and marketing operations going forward. ... "We have to move forward and take care of Avenger’s customers," Chiullan said. "I can't worry about the fact that there isn’t a bus big enough for me to throw Paul Christoforo under. The internet did that for me. I think they set him on fire too."
December 24 2011
The Story Behind Ron Paul's Racist Newsletters - The Atlantic
"Winning the Iowa caucuses would change all that instantly. Undoubtedly the movement that Paul inspired has moved far beyond the race-baiting it engaged in two decades ago. Young people from college campuses aren't lining up to hear him speak because of what appeared in those newsletter about the 1992 L.A. riots. Rand Paul tried his hardest to place Paul-style libertarianism into the context of the Tea Party. And he will likely carry on the movement without this 1990s baggage.
"But the questions remain. If Ron Paul is so libertarian that he won't even police people who use his name, if his movement is filled with incompetents and opportunists, then what kind of a president would he make? Would he even check in to see if his ideas are being implemented? Who would he appoint to Cabinet positions?"
Big 14 Tour - Fairy Bridge
"Fairy Bridge (Xian Ren Qiao) is a meander natural bridge carved through limestone karst by the Buliu River. It is located about 40 km (as the crow flies) northwest of Fengshan in northwestern Guangxi Province, China. ... Estimates using Google Earth and other photos suggested that the span might be the largest in the world."
December 13 2011
Hacking Scrabble (part 1)
"This post isn’t really about Scrabble. It’s about taking a load of ugly data and hacking around with some scripts to refine it into something I can commit to memory. Then its about Scrabble. Winning at Scrabble."
Fiction: The Secret Number, by Igor Teper
"That's right, Doctor," nodded Ersheim, and then, as if to confirm that fact, he began counting, moving his head from side to side: "one, two, three, bleem, four . . ."
December 12 2011
EUROPA - Press Releases - Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold
"The Commission proposes to update the 2003 Directive on the re-use of public sector information by: Making it a general rule that all documents made accessible by public sector bodies can be re-used for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, unless protected by third party copyright; Establishing the principle that public bodies should not be allowed to charge more than costs triggered by the individual request for data (marginal costs); in practice this means most data will be offered for free or virtually for free, unless duly justified. Making it compulsory to provide data in commonly-used, machine-readable formats, to ensure data can be effectively re-used. Introducing regulatory oversight to enforce these principles; Massively expanding the reach of the Directive to include libraries, museums and archives for the first time; the existing 2003 rules will apply to data from such institutions."
Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence of vote fraud.
"So, since you live in Russia and not North Korea, you make the turnout 98%."
December 09 2011
Clothing Giant H&M Defends ‘Perfect’ Virtual Models
“It’s not a real body; it is completely virtual and made by the computer,” H&M press officer Hacan Andersson told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in an article questioning the company’s picture-perfect online models.
November 30 2011
November 29 2011
“When you get right down to it, most security is based on the honor system.”
“No valiant showdown between a small number of larger-than-life geniuses. The battle was lost six months ago, against human fallibility."
November 26 2011
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf
"...for the DHS to be on a call with mayors, the logic of its chain of command and accountability implies that congressional overseers, with the blessing of the White House, told the DHS to authorise mayors to order their police forces – pumped up with millions of dollars of hardware and training from the DHS – to make war on peaceful citizens.
"Occupy has touched the third rail: personal congressional profits streams. Even though they are, as yet, unaware of what the implications of their movement are, those threatened by the stirrings of their dreams of reform are not"
November 20 2011
Fuck
"While canoeing on the Rifle River in Michigan, Boomer fell overboard letting forth a fuck or two. As if his day wasn't bad enough, the nearby sheriff gave him a ticket ... for violating an 1897 statute forbidding cursing within earshot of women and children. Then he was convicted.
"Amazed that this could happen in the twenty-first century, my curiosity about the legal implications of fuck was rekindled. I decided to dedicate one of my research assistants to exploring the area."
One Coffee Cup a Day
"One Cup a Day project is an experiment on creativity and rapid manufacturing, by ideating, designing, modeling and making available for production and purchase a coffee cup within 24 hours, everyday during one month."
November 18 2011
November 15 2011
Ron K Jeffries - Google+ - #geeky and #OMG QUOTE: [Craig S Wright ] says: I was…
"For those who do not know, 747's are big flying Unix hosts. At the time, the engine management system on this particular airline was Solaris based. The patching was well behind and they used telnet as SSH broke the menus and the budget did not extend to fixing this. The engineers could actually access the engine management system of a 747 in route. If issues are noted, they can re-tune the engine in air."
How the BBC's HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"So what did Ofcom do? Naturally, it listened to the public, ignored the uncompetitive rent-seeking proposals from the commercial sector, adhered to EU law, and rejected the proposal. Well, that's what they did in a parallel universe. In this universe, Ofcom accepted the self-serving arguments of the companies they're meant to be regulating, ignored the public whose interests they were meant to be safeguarding, and gave the BBC what it asked for. Why did it do this? It's a secret. But not any more."
November 13 2011
The Gayest Story Ever Told | Why did the ‘New Yorker’ reject this R. Crumb cover? | VICE
"People are capable of any sexual thing. To ban their marriage because someone doesn’t like the idea of them both being the same sex, that’s ridiculous."
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