El reg has a good article on birdflu. Why haven’t my local media outlets reported on events such as [Feb 2005] report of probable person to person transmission of bird flu in Vietnam? I find that to be a little more interesting that, say, the latest creepy news from the Michael Jackson Trial. P2P transmission Read more about Birdflu[…]
Really big message board with pictures.. .. of women, duh .. .. yes they’re usually fairly attractive .. .. no it’s probably not safe for work .. Superiorpics
Viagra and Cialis might make you blind. Viagra makes you blind This must be some karmic catch-up on the universe’s side after failing to deliver on the exact same thing with onanism. In other news – medication can have unexpected side-effects.
The same scream has been used in countless Hollywood movies over and over again for the past 50 years.. The Wilhelm Scream
Ian Murdock (of Debian fame) has written an excellent article on the Commoditization of Open Source Software.
Japanese War Holdouts And they keep on finding them..
Built on linux 2.6, X11 and GTK+. Sweet. With Bluetooth, 802.11b/g and USB. http://www.nokia.com/770
This document on decision making is generating a lot of buzz. Give it read. http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/opre640/partXIII.htm
In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (and proprietor of the textfiles.com history site) wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes. They hadn’t, so he decided he would. Four years, thousands of miles of travelling, and over 200 interviews later, “BBS: The Documentary”, a mini-series of 8 episodes about Read more about Nostalgia galore[…]
That would be Celestia. Actually, the website tells us that You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. If you install it, make sure to stop by the Celestia Motherlode as well..
A Brasilian Institute for Oriental studies has chosen a rather unfortunate logo..
http://www.planearium2.de/flash/sp-studio-e.html
Tales for the Leet presents Romeo and Juliet! http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/romjul.htm (flash) And catch Star Wars III while you’re at it.. (wmv) http://www.kontrabandcontent.co.uk/1/graphics/movies/starwars3.wmv or http://abum.com/files/Movies/starwars3.wmv or http://chaos.battlecenter.net/starwars3.wmv or http://www.thestorageben.com/videos/starwars3.wmv
http://chaos.magma-net.pl/doom/
Apparently the authors of this thing succeeded in getting one of their random papers accepted for a conference.. http://www.pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
.. and how long has the current (aggressively pro-GM) US President been in office again? Since 01/2001 .. you do the math .. All imports of United States corn have been stopped at British ports following the discovery that the US has been illegally exporting a banned GM maize to Europe for the past four Read more about US sent banned corn to Europe for four years[…]
Naturally, this is a German product. http://www.sacfree.com/index_m.html You might not want to click this at work, or spend too much time thinking about the possibility of your cow-orkers buying anything here. Brrr.
Someone put together an interesting list of search engines and their ranges. http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm
Fine example of NuMedia at http://www.welcometothescene.com/ Drama series about the warez scene. No. Really. Seriously. I can’t imagine it appealing to Joe Blow, but I’m on episode 3 myself.
NSFW The Japanese do it best(tm) Nipponese pr0n mags that for some reason got somewhat translated to English and picked up, ah, a little extra along the way.
Fanfic new episodes for season 9 + 10. W. T. F.
This is so cool. I need one. Puzzle Alarm Clock Though I’m fairly certain I’d simply smash the damn thing with a hammer on day #2.
It’s wtf time again as someone with waaaay too much time on their hands brings us the Operating System icon guide – with clickable icons taking you to app shots, etc. There are also tabs for splash screens, sounds, interfaces and components.
You can skip the ads.. Pimp my Weapon
The Dutch government is the first in the world to both issue a Root CA (Certification Authority) and present it for inclusion in a major browser. (Firefox, duh!) Users of Firefox 1.0.2 can use View -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Certificates -> Manage certificates -> Authorities and scroll down to Staat der Nederlanden to verify Read more about Dutch government issues Root CA[…]