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"[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

Ant Is Not TeX

http://ant.berlios.de/

Jason thinks this is a logical successor to LaTeX. Am not convinced it's not just as crackpot, must investigate

nonbeard 2008-02-25 16:53:47

Mac OS X Leopard: Keyboard Viewer, Character Palette does not appear

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307354

Fix for edit → special characters not showing up

nonbeard 2008-02-21 04:19:15

Extensis Typecaster – Fonts find true love in this modern world.

http://blog.extensis.com/typecaster/

Catie and I got Helvetica and American Typewriter: "Costly and expensive anti-depressant program".

beard 2008-02-16 01:45:28

How to Attract a Christian Girl - wikiHow

http://www.wikihow.com/Attract-a-Christian-Girl

'When you see her, don't just say "hi" say her name like "Hey Lisa."'

nonbeard 2008-02-12 10:20:16

Late Night Restaurants Dining Cafes Food in Sydney

http://www.sydneycafes.com.au/latenight.html

Looks useful. ;)

nonbeard 2008-02-09 16:44:50

YouTube - FC 2007 Fursuit Parade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPSSSiJIg_8&eurl=http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/youtube.pl?IDLink=3387565

Very relaxing video, would recommend to anyone

nonbeard 2008-02-09 12:35:22

Blind Cavefish Not So Blind After All

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326471,00.html

Go go go, pineal gland! (This is such a great co-incidence after my previous research :)

nonbeard 2008-02-08 02:07:04

Descartes and the Pineal Gland at plato.stanford.edu

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pineal-gland/

I like this entry because the site's normally-sober tone of is infused with a distinct Descartes-is-a-crackpot vibe. "What would a principle of thought be doing in the bones and toes?"

beard 2008-02-06 10:03:34

Lguest Adventure

http://swtch.com/lguest/

This is a pretty fun adventure. I'm about 1/6 of the way to my beer.

nonbeard 2008-02-01 05:09:10

Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/is-the-tipping-point-toast.html

"My model is better than your model", but angled in this story as "My model is better than your guessing"

nonbeard 2008-01-29 06:47:43

Triviagasm: Everything You Need to Know About the Madness of Nikola Tesla

http://io9.com/349473/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-madness-of-nikola-tesla

Still waiting on the "queen bee" theory

nonbeard 2008-01-29 01:17:48

Chameleons Use Color to Communicate, Not Hide

http://io9.com/349490/chameleons-use-color-to-communicate-not-hide

sub-1ms colour changes! Animals are cool.

nonbeard 2008-01-29 01:10:17

Yahoo Censoring Open Source | Slated

http://slated.org/yahoo_censoring_open_source

This piece, the Fark reaction to it, and various other sites are making it increasingly obvious that Linux users are the new Mac users.

beard 2008-01-25 04:41:01

Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?

http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/01/24/can-you-get-cp-to-give-a-progress-bar-like-wget/

This is my kind of disgusting hack! Add a progress bar to presumably any version of cp and in the process slow it down enough that such a thing is worthwhile. Via stibbons

nonbeard 2008-01-24 13:45:47

Trev (two-seater renewable energy vehicle)

http://www.unisa.edu.au/solarcar/trev/

Three wheels, tandem seating -- best attribute is its name

nonbeard 2008-01-23 03:05:12

Fixing ptrace(pt_deny_attach, ...)

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/ptrace_deny_attach.20041010201303.11809.mojo.html

Bloody Apple

nonbeard 2008-01-21 01:32:44

Neil Gaiman - How To Talk To Girls At Parties (Text)

http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool%20Stuff/Short%20Stories/How%20To%20Talk%20To%20Girls%20At%20Parties/How%20To%20Talk%20To%20Girls%20At%20Parties%20(Text)
nonbeard 2008-01-20 18:44:06

Purple Shepherd's pie

http://everybodylikessandwiches.blogspot.com/2008/01/dont-adjust-your-monitor-purple.html

Via slashfood

nonbeard 2008-01-19 14:01:00

Rant: Eight Reasons Why The Hero's Journey Sucks

http://io9.com/345313/eight-reasons-why-the-heros-journey-sucks

Not nearly ranty enough!

nonbeard 2008-01-17 18:12:36

deconstructulator | ben fry

http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/deconstructulator/

View video memory and sprite usage of Super Mario Bros as you play it! Amazing!

nonbeard 2008-01-17 17:54:23

lMezco's Living Dead Dolls | Official Website

http://www.livingdeaddolls.com/

My new housemate has about 50 of these, all in original packaging.

nonbeard 2008-01-17 14:27:33

How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in a Decade

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/time_nist?currentPage=all

"Some of the research clocks already need to account for changes in the NIST building's size on a hot day". Clocks are great. Via jaq

nonbeard 2008-01-08 05:54:02

BBC NEWS | Health | Universal flu jab works in people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7171118.stm

Followup to my previous delicioused posts about hemagglutinin / neuraminidase flu classification system

nonbeard 2008-01-06 12:46:46

The significance of male hair: its presence and removal

http://www.choisser.com/longhair/rajsingh.html

"In conclusion: those in power have required their man-servants to emasculate themselves through cranio-facial hair removal as a demonstration of their submissiveness"

beard 2008-01-04 10:08:55

Mind Hacks: Would you vaccinate your child against cocaine?

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/01/would_you_vaccinate_.html

Cool. It's an actual vaccine.

nonbeard 2008-01-03 12:22:14

Using a Linux L2TP/IPsec VPN server with Mac OS X

http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/openswan-macosx.html

Bloody Labour and their vote-pandering useless 'net filtering proposal

nonbeard 2008-01-03 09:25:08

Jackie Chan Studio Fitness J-MAT

http://www.xavix.com/products/j-mat.html

Xavix, a company consisting of ex-Nintendo employees, came out with motion sensitive bowling, tennis, and golf in 2004, way before the Wii. They also have a fitness mat. Interesting

nonbeard 2008-01-01 16:12:57

Classical Computer Science Texts

http://e7l3.org/classics.html

Extensive list

beard 2008-01-01 04:50:03

sigsegv: Rules for "Cho Tai Tee"

http://sigsegv.typepad.com/exploits_in_seattle/2005/10/rules_for_cho_t.html

Malaysian card game

nonbeard 2008-01-01 04:28:27

Bird's nest soup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird's_nest_soup

Bird's nest soup is made from the nests of cave swifts, which are built entirely out of cave swift slobber.

nonbeard 2008-01-01 03:03:35

YouTube - The state of the Wii - 24c3

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H5YB1Mmx7E4

Wii encryption broken -- key recovered by joining address lines on the bus and thus scanning entirety of memory above GameCube-accessible area. Awesome awesome

nonbeard 2007-12-29 04:47:39