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NPR : ‘Team America’: Puppet Fun from ‘South Park’ Duo
Freaking HI-LARIOUS clips from Team America. We’re going to the sneak preview at West Olive tomorrow night. NPR : ‘Team America’: Puppet Fun from ‘South Park’ Duo Day to Day, October 8, 2004 � Day to Day technology contributor Xeni Jardin talks to South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone about their new movie…
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Boing Boing: GOP fear-phrase video
WOW. I mean, you know that this is what they’re doing, running on a campaign of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, but it is very cool / interesting / awesome to see it all edited, hear the words out of their mouths as broadcasted. Really nice piece of observation concerning how the message of FEAR gets…
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Cheney Edwards debate
Fantastic. Excellent, Smithers. 🙂 Created by From Here To Obscurity (found via BoingBoing Link to share this: https://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2004/10/07/cheney-edwards-debate/
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Schneier on Security
Schneier on Security A weblog covering security and security technology. Bruce is ALWAYS a good read. Thanks to BoingBoing for the pointer that he now has a blog. Link to share this: https://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2004/10/05/schneier-on-security/
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Kevin Sites Blog – Live from Iraq
Kevin Sites Blog Dateline: Jabella, Iraq %u20139.21.04 We’ve been up since 3am–waiting for Hilla SWAT. It’s now 4:30. Despite their annoyance–the Force Recon squad from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit seems extremely patient–at least around Kuni Takahashi, a photographer for the Chicago Tribune and me. Instead they look at their watches–bullshit each other about their…
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Free Reads
Free Reads Free Reads Welcome to my little experiment in self-audio-publishing. On this page from time to time I will post MP3 files of me reading stories of mine. These are free to all; circulate them at will. Awesome, a bunch of stories for free under Creative Commons license. Yay! (Thanks, Boing Boing for the…
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Dude, Go LONG! – NASA Genesis Capsule does not get caught
Check out the awesome Quicktime movie demonstrating what a $264 million football falling into the desert sand from outer space looks like. Dude, Go LONG! Really long. This is NOT quite what you really want to see happen to your solar-wind-dust collector module-that-had-the-parachute-not-deploy experiment. Doh. Link to NASA’s page about this little, erm, mishap. (via…
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GmailFS – Gmail Filesystem
GmailFS – Gmail Filesystem GmailFS – Gmail Filesystem GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail. GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write,…
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QR Codes and Japanese Cellular Phones
QR Codes and Japanese Cellular Phones What are QR Codes? QR Codes are basically 2-dimensional UPC or barcodes. As you can see on the manufacturer’s page they’re capable of holding quite a bit more data than a standard UPC code. It’s an internationally standardized system of encoding information so that it can be read by…
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BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004 speech
BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004 speech “When Blobjects Rule the Earth” It’s possible to live in a cleaner way. We live in debris and detritus because of our ignorance. That ignorance is no longer technically necessary. Those who know, know. Instead, our problem is becoming obscurantism, which is a deliberate hiding of the facts by…