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September 2004 Posts

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  1. Sep 2: it’s just me and my laptop (2)
  2. Sep 5: change is afoot (9)
  3. Sep 7: on self and predeterminism (12)
  4. Sep 10: AMERICA, FOCUS! (6)
  5. Sep 11: there is only one issue this election (3)
  6. Sep 14: interpreting signs from fate (35)
  7. Sep 15: a coincidence across time and space
  8. Sep 16: what to do if you want to buy a computer (7)
  9. Sep 19: on future careers (2)
  10. Sep 22: How one can become a terrorist? (2)
  11. Sep 23: a recurring dream about erosion (4)
  12. Sep 24: i support activist judges, do you?
  13. Sep 27: can i take a request? (4)
  14. Sep 29: dear music industry, (4)

September 2004 Neatlinks

Wed, Sep 1

newsflash: House speaker Dennis Hastert gets his money by selling little children to trolls to bake into pies (0 comments)

Doc Searls at UNC Sept 7 3:30pm (0 comments)

very cool book: Linux Server Hacks (0 comments)

Thu, Sep 2

hell fucking yeah, you tell it Garrison Keillor (thanks anton!) (0 comments)

Sat, Sep 4

acronym watch: REST (0 comments)

Sun, Sep 5

to listen to later: Tim O’Reilly on Watching the Alpha Geeks (from oct 2002) (0 comments)

a tech development i totally missed: Sender ID (0 comments)

this looks interesting: Building the Perfect PC i just wish i could skim chapters 4, 6, and 7 online (0 comments)

quote of the day: I liken the difference between classic development methodology and agile development as the difference between a boxer and a streetfighter. The boxer is constrained by the rules, whereas a streetfighter will hit you with a brick if that is the most effective way to bring you down. (0 comments)

some timely and future reference: Building a Unix Server (0 comments)

Tue, Sep 7

oh snap! Votergasm (0 comments)

holyshit: i thought the whole secret law thing was just a joke, just a metaphor–go john gilmore (0 comments)

Wed, Sep 8

news: A third federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is unconstitutional, saying it fails to include an exception when a woman’s health is in danger. (0 comments)

gay republicans to bush: you suck, we’re joining the log cabin democrats (1 comment)

does not work in IE: The value zero [for the attribute colspan] means that the cell spans all columns from the current column to the last column (0 comments)

awesome: UNIX on the Game Boy Advance (and a brief history of UNIX) (0 comments)

Thu, Sep 9

HAHA! Chechen fighters promised today to give $20 million to anyone helping them capture Russian President Vladimir Putin (0 comments)

actually, i’ve never heard about the geek-cult-smash, “Getting Things Done” (0 comments)

holy shit, he’s right: I printed the document and the “th” matches perfectly in the printed version. It’s a difference between screen and printer fonts. (0 comments)

best referral log search terms ever! ibm x40 buttery (yeeah, baby!) (0 comments)

haven’t linked to an achewood cartoon in a while, but knowing smile area wipes made me chuckle (0 comments)

Fri, Sep 10

hehe: jesus, wrong for america (1 comment)

Sat, Sep 11

about time to open source government? many eyes make all bugs shallow (0 comments)

Mon, Sep 13

hehe: Trailers for Everyday Life (2 comments)

Tue, Sep 14

damn, republicans are eeeevil: Lynne Gobbell is fired after refusing to take kerry sticker off her car (imagine how many people just succumb to the pressure and take off the sticker) (0 comments)

amazing: get ready for the hummer crushing CXT: commercial extreme truck (0 comments)

Wed, Sep 15

quote of the day: it’s so delicious you’ll wish every day was september 11th –lewis black (mpg) (0 comments)

check out the crucifix knife on page 17 (0 comments)

ibiblio supastar paul jones has a blog: The Real Paul Jones (1 comment)

i’ll have to write about this later: Top Dem Rips Kerry Campaign (0 comments)

what a nice pictureshirt filled by wind (0 comments)

Thu, Sep 16

this is awesome! tajik air: measures of personal security in the case of the seizing of an airplane by terrorists (0 comments)

acronym watch: E4X (1 comment)

acronym watch: SIP (0 comments)

Sat, Sep 18

on my list: submit photos to The 2nd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest. check. (4 comments)

acronym watch: NPOV (0 comments)

new in standardized testing: the GLAT (0 comments)

for a limited time only! (or at least until i think up another design) pick up your very own MOQTADA AL-SADR HAS A POSSE sticker. (0 comments)

file this under “URL very very very hard to type”: www.———-0———-.blogspot.com (0 comments)

Sun, Sep 19

compelling: comics, graphic novels, design, ahh. (0 comments)

another so good achewood: i have a guy in sierra leone. let me know. (0 comments)

and this one too: darren stole three ho-ho’s… (0 comments)

Mon, Sep 20

interesting read: Adam Bosworth’s Weblog (old microsoftie, moved from BEA to Google) (0 comments)

recently read: Mini-Microsoft (0 comments)

recently read: Joe Beda’s EightyPercent.net (another microsoftian moving to google–notice a trend?) (0 comments)

huh? pleasure boat captains for truth (0 comments)

Tue, Sep 21

i own predeterminism (3 comments)

Wed, Sep 22

PONGMECHANIK is offically the COOLEST THING EVER!!! make sure to watch the video! it is amazing. and in german. (0 comments)

excellent dialog on the fallacy inherent in microsoft’s source code sharing program (0 comments)

Thu, Sep 23

awesome! hacking the postal service (0 comments)

Fri, Sep 24

eh? cuddle party (0 comments)

*gag* smittens (3 comments)

tim ross tearin’ things up old media style (0 comments)

judging by Cat and Girl’s cool store i should be reading it more often (0 comments)

project: replace my server’s hard drive with a Compact Flash to IDE adapter and a 4GB compactflash card (2 comments)

Sat, Sep 25

wow. quote of the day: At least one person says he was told that he needed to have his name legally changed to avoid the problem in the future. (cross-reference this under “gov’t gone wild!” and “vote for kerry”) (0 comments)

the most frightening thing i’ve ever read: The Diebold central tabulators use a program called “GEMS” that saves vote totals in Microsoft Access, a Windows-based database program. (i’m moving someplace that takes voting seriously) (0 comments)

Sun, Sep 26

how to not get kidnapped and beheaded in iraq (0 comments)

right wing eye for the liberal guy (0 comments)

Mon, Sep 27

headline of the day: Living in the Suburbs Can Make You Sick (0 comments)

found while wikipedia-surfing: List of woods (0 comments)

i don’t think we ever discussed this in linguistics: International Auxiliary Languages (0 comments)

moqtada al-sadr (still) has a posse (0 comments)

Tue, Sep 28

crude! neat polo shirt (0 comments)

Wed, Sep 29

103.5 FM carrboro radio? (0 comments)

this will be arkansas: the bible BANNED, a man holding another man’s hand ALLOWED!!! (0 comments)

new word: ungulates (2 comments)

new word: umami (1 comment)

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