2002-03-15»
Fri Mar 15 12:36:00 2002»
Wrote to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary about the SSSCA and such (well, they did ask).
I haven’t dared re-read it, so it may not be a good model to copy when you write to them yourself.
I’ve been running haiku over my spam mailbox. It’s mesmerising:
List From: “Contact List”
Subject: I thought you should check
this Insurance out.
This is the letter
you have been hearing about
on the news lately.
This is a legal,
professional business with
endless potential.
Choose from corporate,
elegant, casual, or
even wild designs.
Believe us, we all
have tried to be greedy and
then nothing happened.
I was able to
pay off some old bills and put
money in the bank.
We offer some of
the best bulk e-mail prices
on the Internet.
AND I ASSURE YOU
OF ALL SUCCESS AND SAFETY
IN THIS TRANSACTION.
Please put Remove in
subject line to get out from
future mailing. Thanks.
Our service is
for those with who are looking
for better results.
By providing a
valid feature it can not
be considered SPAM.
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2002-03-14»
Thu Mar 14 23:37:00 2002»
If you’ve come here by jumping up directories from the haiku link: sorry. All the fun stuff is still at NTK. I mostly did this site to see if I could write a blogging program.
The copy of Oblomovka on this site is courtesy of the Eldritch Press. Their case against the latest extension of copyright is to be heard by the US Supreme Court in the Autumn. You can read more about why this lawsuit is important, and how to donate via paypal or by post at Open Law.
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2002-03-12»
Tue Mar 12 14:09:00 2002»
Ha! Bored of basketball teams named after indian nicknames, a Native American school has named its team “The Fightin’ Whities“. – via NPR and Gilbert
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2002-03-03»
Mon Mar 4 05:10:00 2002»
This place is not a place of honor.
No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Nothing valued is here.
This place is a message and part of a system of messages.
Pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us.
We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
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2002-03-02»
Sun Mar 3 00:54:00 2002»
Shhh. If you are very quiet, they will move on.
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2002-02-23»
Sat Feb 23 10:11:00 2002»
Damn, damn, damn. Get well soon, Rob.
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Subject: Rob Flickenger hospitalized. :-( Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:03:53 -0800 From: Schuyler Erle <schuyler@oreilly.com> At about 8pm PST on Wed. Feb 20, our very own Rob Flickenger accidentally fell from the roof of a two-story building, while attempting to set up a point-to-point 802.11b link here in Sebastopol. He was immediately taken to the hospital, where he was underwent surgery for severe internal injuries. He has since been taken out of intensive care, and is in stable condition. Rob is safe in the company of family and friends, and is expected to be released from the hospital in a week or so. First, *please* be careful when doing this sort of field work. Our community almost lost a brilliant contributor and advocate (and a great friend, to boot), due to a simple accident. I really don't want to see this happen to anyone else. I'll say it again: Please be careful when setting up antennas, et cetera. No amount of bandwidth is worth your physical harm, so don't you be a martyr to the cause! :-) Second, if you'd like to send cards or whatever, I'm sure Rob would be grateful to hear from a community he's given so much to. He can be reached c/o O'Reilly & Associates, 1005 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol, CA 95472. Feel free to be creative, but please don't send antennas -- we don't want to encourage him any further. ;-) Of course, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or Nate or Adam F., especially since Rob won't be answering his e-mail for a little while. Please feel free to forward this news wherever you think it appropriate. Thanks. SDE -- |
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2002-02-18»
Mon Feb 18 22:48:00 2002»
Scott Lemon talks about Indoor Location Systems using 802.11b, and mentions The Nibble Location System. This uses multiple base stations to triangulate your position. Seems a lot like what Microsoft’s trying to do with RADAR. Of course, my paranoid head immediately asks: is this something that an unknown (passive) man-in-the-middle-of-the-next-street could use to discover your position? And if so, how can we jam these trackers? After that, I’ll relax a little and wonder what the cool applications are, and is this anything to do with Woz’s new venture? Would indoor location be cheaper or more expensive if it wasn’t 802.11 but a simpler wireless system?
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2002-02-13»
Wed Feb 13 12:07:00 2002»
How much do people hate winners? And how much do winners hate losers? A lot, it seems. I’ll stick my neck out here, though, and say this shows how much undergraduate test subjects hate each other.
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2002-02-04»
Mon Feb 4 17:10:00 2002»
Gzip can detect whether a piece of writing is written by a particular author, with 90% accuracy. Yes, gzip. – via Honeyguide
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2002-01-28»
Mon Jan 28 18:45:00 2002»
Edwin Armstrong, and how patent battles drove the inventor of regeneration, superhets and frequency modulation to suicide. – from Doomed Engineers, via Bruce Sterling’s blog
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