The next and last person that will see and enjoy my body will be a husband AS GOD INTENDED!

"I was particularly amused by the number of those people who left $0.01, which seems a lot of clicks to expend when you could just write “Fuck you” in the comments."

nonbeard 2008-04-20 00:33:00

Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org

http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/

'maybe this is a good idea. One person I talked to said, "When it sells 20,000 copies we'll finally be rid of Douglas Adams." That may be a little cynical. However, let's look at the alternatives.'

nonbeard 2008-04-18 06:22:10

Mind Hacks: Neuroweapons, war crimes and the preconscious brain

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/04/neuroweapons_war_cr.html

"Causing something dreadful to happen without any intent or knowledge is considered an accident and not a crime. [...] this concept is based on the theory that the conscious mind forms an intention, and an actions follows. Unfortunately, we now know that

nonbeard 2008-04-16 03:19:02

a u d r e y * k a w a s a k i

http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com/index.php

via claudine ko

nonbeard 2008-04-15 05:35:57

Melanie Klein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Klein

Theory of eros and thanatos. Life is an anomaly

nonbeard 2008-04-10 02:19:27

How To Deconstruct Almost Anything

http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html

"Tour de force: The Intel i486DX programmer's reference manual." Teehee! (via Robyn)

nonbeard 2008-04-09 07:09:48

The Assignment Operator Revisited

http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/cpp_report/the_assignment_operator_revisited.html

A lengthy follow-up which ends "I don’t know about you, but there’s something really scary to me about a language where copying state from one object to another is this complicated". I don't know about me, either.

nonbeard 2008-04-08 15:16:20

The Anatomy of the Assignment Operator

http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/cpp_report/the_anatomy_of_the_assignment_operator.html

This is a really interesting treatment of the C++ 'operator=', the reading of which has given me opportunity to reflect on my theory that C++ appeals to old people.

beard 2008-04-08 14:59:02

Bay 12 Games: Dwarf Fortress

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/screens.html
nonbeard 2008-04-07 04:18:15

Mazapán.se - You Have To Burn The Rope

http://www.mazapan.se/games/BurnTheRope.php

A fantastic Flash game

nonbeard 2008-04-07 01:01:01

REV: Energy Drink: Old Lutheran Gift Shop

http://www.oldlutheran.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=OL&Product_Code=7028

Want want want want want

nonbeard 2008-04-06 04:21:03

Generic Wii Patcher - GBAtemp.net

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=77938

Wii hax

nonbeard 2008-04-05 06:55:18

Korean Language (Script, Orthography, Phonology, Korean Alphabet,

http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/korea/language.htm

Hangul seems pretty gosh-dern interesting

nonbeard 2008-04-04 06:57:03

The Megas

http://web.mac.com/themegas/The_Megas/main/main.html

Since the year 200X (4), The Megas have strived to bring a message from Dr. Light to the people. They have chosen to transmit that message, the tale of a small blue robot named Megaman, directly into the eardrums of the general populace through the power

nonbeard 2008-04-04 01:52:14

Maxim publisher Felix Dennis: 'I've killed a man' - Times Online

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article3660995.ece

"I'm just trying to have a bloody good time filling in the gap between being born and dying. So - you can accuse me of anything else but if you call me a hypocrite, I shall get cross."

nonbeard 2008-04-02 11:50:03

Good News, Everyone!

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/msg/56e28c93aa7e38ec

Write multi-player interactive fiction using standard single-player tools, such as Inform 7. Clever, creative, and neat.

nonbeard 2008-04-02 09:28:32

Willem Visser's Research

http://www.visserhome.com/willem/

Symbolic execution / model checking / Java PathFinder d00d

nonbeard 2008-03-31 05:24:41

They're Working on Their Own, Just Side by Side - New York Times

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E7D81F3FF933A15751C0A96E9C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
nonbeard 2008-03-30 22:59:46

Unicode In Python, Completely Demystified

http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/

Now I am less mystified than ever -- and I was pretty sure I knew how Unicode in Python worked before I read this.

nonbeard 2008-03-26 05:54:45

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

http://deoxy.org/alephnull/jaynes.htm

You crazy bastard

nonbeard 2008-03-19 11:54:38

Gamasutra - Opinion: My Horse And Me

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17604

"it was victory on my own terms, against people who thought I was *nothing*. And I did it for me. Not for you, daddy. For me." Thought-provoking review of a "game for girls"

nonbeard 2008-03-16 13:16:04

Strategy Game Programming

http://www.fierz.ch/strategy.htm

Yeah, OK

nonbeard 2008-03-14 04:52:11

Flying Off the Shelves - Books - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=520472

The coin of the realm is now, and has always been, the fiction that young white men read, and self-satisfied young white men, the kind who love to stick it to the man, are the majority of book shoplifters.

nonbeard 2008-03-13 19:24:45

Heart devices vulnerable to hack attack - The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/12/heart_devices_vulnerable_to_hack_attack/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed3

Implanted defibrillators can be remotely instructed to disrupt heart rhythm or deliver a high-voltage shock. Farker: "I sense a million script writers incorporating this into their next plot". Definitely!

nonbeard 2008-03-12 12:09:24

pouet.net :: your online demoscene resource

http://www.pouet.net/

Amiga nostalgia

nonbeard 2008-03-11 01:28:39

D&D Flowchart

http://humour.tomrochette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/flowchart.gif

BACK IN THE BASEMENT, BY YOURSELF, IN THE DARK

nonbeard 2008-03-10 06:03:17

Alpine Messaging System--

http://www.washington.edu/alpine/

Sweet, more PINE

nonbeard 2008-03-10 03:16:13

SitePoint Blogs » Table-Based Layout Is The Next Big Thing

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/28/table-based-layout-is-the-next-big-thing/

fina-bloody-ly

nonbeard 2008-03-08 03:19:42

Twin Galaxies Forums :: View Forum - The King of Kong - Official Statement

http://www.twingalaxies.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=86

Very interesting and nerdy

nonbeard 2008-03-06 06:07:17

Basho's Life

http://www.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/life.html
nonbeard 2008-03-05 08:51:06

Microsoft (finally) releases Singularity, the research oriented operating system - Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/microsoft-finally-releases-singularity-the-research-oriented/

That's cool. Engadget, my #1 academic research source

nonbeard 2008-03-05 08:00:11

Must Read: The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life

http://io9.com/361597/the-twenty-science-fiction-novels-that-will-change-your-life

It's got all my favourites so maybe I should check out the rest!

nonbeard 2008-02-29 13:30:04

826 Valencia - Shop

http://www.826valencia.org/store/shop.html

Dave Eggers is great when he's not writing fiction. ;-) I'm keen for the "when in doubt, swab" shirt.

nonbeard 2008-02-29 13:16:56

So I'm Going To China: Beijing Traffic Lesson: Left Turn

http://soimgoingtochina.blogspot.com/2007/06/beijing-traffic-lesson-left-turn.html

"[A] has managed to partially block [B], a brand new purple and yellow Hyundai taxi, but [A] has only achieved what Beijing drivers would consider a 'weak' blocking position." (thanks jaq)

nonbeard 2008-02-27 06:12:47

‘Ode to Joy,’ Followed by Chaos and Despair - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/opinion/24zizek.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Perhaps Beethoven was taking the piss the whole time. "What if things do not go wrong only with the entrance of the marcia turca? What if they go wrong from the very beginning?"

nonbeard 2008-02-26 07:30:37