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last updated at 2006-10-17 23:55

Wit like a Reiser-blade.

new bay area earthquake hazard maps
posted by est at 2006-10-17 23:55

http://Mrs
posted by Oliver at 2006-10-17 23:53

Microcredit is the extension of very small loans to the unemployed, to poor entrepreneurs and to others living in poverty who are not bankable.
posted by coderman at 2006-10-17 22:11

coderman: "Microcredit is a financial innovation which originated in developing countries where it has successfully enabled extremely impoverished people (mostly women) to engage in self-employment projects that allow them to generate an income and, in many cases, begin to build wealth and exit poverty."
coderman: "Due to the success of microcredit, many in the traditional banking industry have begun to realize that these microcredit borrowers should more correctly be categorized as pre-bankable; thus, microcredit is increasingly gaining credibility in the mainstream finance industry and many traditional large finance organizations are contemplating microcredit projects as a source of future growth."

UK drivers just need to change lanes a on the motorway (aka freeway) between speed cameras
posted by Oliver at 2006-10-17 21:21

Oliver: Congratulations go out to the home office for a spectacular waste of money!

SGI exits bankruptcy
posted by dopp at 2006-10-17 20:49

Riemann hypothesis - prove it and coderman gives you $2
posted by coderman at 2006-10-17 18:44

Lucky primes
posted by coderman at 2006-10-17 18:35

coderman: heheh, 13 is lucky?
coderman: see also, the SEXY PRIMES

Newman-Shanks-Williams prime
posted by coderman at 2006-10-17 18:32

German perfumer is now marketing a fragrance called Vulva
posted by coderman at 2006-10-17 18:19

coderman: that ""beguiles the senses with the scent of a real vagina, thus opening up completely new vistas for enhancing your sex life."

someone find me this stats program plz
posted by coderman at 2006-10-17 18:11

Nobel Prizes: GET ONE UP YA!
posted by DonFundoshi at 2006-10-17 16:09

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/17/81
posted by bk at 2006-10-17 15:50

bk: Hopefully a CONFIG option in 2.6.19

Schneier, May 2006: The Value of Privacy
posted by seti at 2006-10-17 15:36

DonFundoshi: /me read "piracy"

America's 10 Dumbest Congressmen
posted by seti at 2006-10-17 13:55

seti: Has a few token Democrats too - and where is Ted "The Internet is a series of tubes" Stevens and Bill "I make medical diagnoses from video" Frist?
seti: and Rick "man on dog" Santorum
seti: and... and... oh well. unabridged list: http://www.house.gov/
seti: im in ur congress making ur lawz
seti: Even today, politicians don't know the basics - but this one at least thought about it after he got an explanation of the base facts. (via)

http://www.botac.com/100mihota.html
posted by mlp at 2006-10-17 12:42

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_tape
posted by rabbi at 2006-10-17 12:37

http://www.identi-tape.com/
posted by DonFundoshi at 2006-10-17 12:37

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape
posted by rabbi at 2006-10-17 12:36

and, just to round it out, 100mph tape
posted by mlp at 2006-10-17 12:35

http://www.sourceshop.com/Tape/clothtape.jpg
posted by rabbi at 2006-10-17 12:33

rabbi: Gaffer tape, the Best Tape Ever

http://www.esupplystore.com/images/Auction/tantape.jpg
posted by rabbi at 2006-10-17 12:32

rabbi: an example of packing tape (the tan variety. also available in clear.)

duct tape, for the culturally deprived and google impaired
posted by rabbi at 2006-10-17 12:30

rabbi: duct tape, for the culturally deprived and google impared
seti:
seti: that so is gaffer tape
Mutiny: SYNONYMS ARE AWESOME

Sun Microsystems believes many customers will prefer to buy data center equipment in convenient shipping container-sized modules
posted by seti at 2006-10-17 10:15

seti: Rip-off from Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle, who coined this idea at least as far back as 2003
DonFundoshi: they literally mean, shipping containers.
DonFundoshi: i dunno about you, i don't like the idea of working inside an EM-sealed box full of EM-emitting equipment .. might act a bit like a microwave oven ... I've heard of people getting cancers that way
Geronimo: buyers will be able to stack a few containers on some disused real estate, then attach a network, power cables and chilled water lines, and get to work.
Geronimo: The containers filter and dehumidify air and hold as much as 10 tons of equipment. They can also withstand a shock nine times the force of gravity--meaning a six-inch drop won't hurt.
Geronimo: Though the shipping containers are portable, Sun said the data centers must be switched off while moving. "We envision this as transportable, not mobile,"
DonFundoshi: Welcome to the IT Office. How may we be of service?
DonFundoshi: Did you try turning it off, then on?

Stonehenge solved.
posted by Geronimo at 2006-10-17 08:09

DonFundoshi: man, what a guy!

http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/
posted by DonFundoshi at 2006-10-17 05:41

DonFundoshi: a version of Linux which has good introductory documentation
DonFundoshi: only for x86 PC so far ...

http://freshmeat.net/projects/gimpshop/
posted by DonFundoshi at 2006-10-17 05:25

DonFundoshi: fork of a popular free graphics program which changes the layout of the user interface to resemble a popular non-free graphics program
DonFundoshi: good. now we can finally kill the GIMP developers.
DonFundoshi: umm .. i meant 'do away with'.
DonFundoshi: to be fair, the backend developers have done a good job. we should just kill the GUI designers. umm -- 'do away with'.
DonFundoshi: how embarrassing not to be able to come up with a better GUI than PS ... perhaps the new GIMP engine will enable that
DonFundoshi: if all you're gonna do is clone something, then bloody well clone it.
DonFundoshi: like this

NVIDIA binary driver root exploit
posted by DonFundoshi at 2006-10-17 05:07

DonFundoshi: "reported back in 2004 and has probably existed even longer"
DonFundoshi: "advisory suggests disabling NVIDIA's binary blob driver and using instead the open-source 'nv' driver that is included with X"
DonFundoshi: LOL http://nvidia.com/content/license/location_0605.asp?url=';a='a';i=18;while(i--)a%2b=a;location=a;//

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=anarchy
posted by DonFundoshi at 2006-10-17 03:16

100 sex trick to try before you die
posted by seti at 2006-10-17 00:08

DonFundoshi: 35%: "I hope she thought I was good." ? 28%: "I just want to sleep." ? 24%: "Did she really reach orgasm?" ? 13%: "I'm hungry."
    
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