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I AM THE LIZARD QUEEN || ORLY? <- it's offical. the "o rly?" meme just became worn out. that is the one that pushed it over the edge. i hope you're happy.

http://www.davidszondy.com/audio/forbidden_planet.ram
posted by robby at 2006-11-16 23:52

Hubble Telescope Makes New Discovery
posted by coderman at 2006-11-16 23:28

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/47165860/
posted by lemonodor at 2006-11-16 23:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/162538233/in/set-28089/
posted by lemonodor at 2006-11-16 22:59

What the hell is this? Enquiring minds want to know...
posted by coderman at 2006-11-16 22:56

Why Conniving is Better than Planning (1972)
posted by robby at 2006-11-16 22:54

robby: This paper is a critique of a computer programming language, Carl Hewitts PLANNER, a formalism designed especially to cope with the problems that Artificial Intelligence encounters. It is our contention that the backtrack control structure that is the backbone of PLANNER is particular, automatic backtracking encourages inefficient algorithms, conceals what is happening from the user, and misleads him with primitives havin

ChoicePoint trying with vigor to repent and ammend past misdeeds
posted by coderman at 2006-11-16 22:48

coderman: don't jam the choice point with incompetence!
coderman: we don't want casuality to cease on account of your negligence...

FCC delivers a swift kick in the Mass(port)
posted by coderman at 2006-11-16 22:22

coderman: FUCK THE FCC! except when they do something useful, like this.

http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/
posted by anomie at 2006-11-16 22:09

Cold War 2, or just 1 kinda still goin?
posted by bk at 2006-11-16 21:40

bk: Cold War 2, or just 1 kinda still goin?

Kuai-dekinai!
posted by cryptomail at 2006-11-16 18:48

EVOLUTION: From goo to you via the zoo
posted by seti at 2006-11-16 16:07

Apple touch-screen patent
posted by seti at 2006-11-16 16:01

Robbery of the centuary
posted by Oliber at 2006-11-16 14:34

seti: related... jeez

Office is Closed: Due to Zombies
posted by seti at 2006-11-16 13:59

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0443543/releaseinfo
posted by rik at 2006-11-16 10:54

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/
posted by TimLearysHead at 2006-11-16 09:30

TimLearysHead: G20 protests have begun
fridge: you can solve problems, or protest.
TimLearysHead: the whys and wherefores explicated at the stopg20 site
TimLearysHead: "G20 ... not as easily written off as a meeting of the Global North elite. Included in the membership are a number of countries whose populations, for the most part, exist with high levels of poverty, low standards of living and low quality of life indicators. India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Brazil ? these are not countries with overly affluent populations."
TimLearysHead: "The G20 Accord spells out the body?s global economic vision. It reads like the script of a G8 fat cat?s wet dream: Free movement of capital; deregulation; ?flexible? market conditions for labour; privatisation; private property and Intellectual Property rights; a climate favorable to Foreign Direct Investment; and global trade liberalisation through the WTO and bilateral free trade agreements."
fridge: The only problem I have with that is the IP bit.
TimLearysHead: "India?s per capita gross national income is $720, compared to $43,700 for the US" combined with 'climate favorable to foreign direct investment' doesn't make you unsettled?
fridge: No, not one bit.
TimLearysHead: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that th
TimLearysHead: they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
TimLearysHead: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

article on latency in real-time audio systems
posted by est at 2006-11-16 08:36

fruit that eats YOU
posted by est at 2006-11-16 06:50

http://www.sfbeta.com/
posted by lllllllll at 2006-11-16 06:41

lllllllll: This is pitiful: "Six startups will be pitching in limerick form"
coderman: see also, bad startup poetry
coderman: <burtonator> sssh, i'm in my quiet period

ubuntock
posted by est at 2006-11-16 06:01

kp: HAWT!
coderman: ++
est: nsfw

our special friend
posted by est at 2006-11-16 05:42

est:

playful rumsfeld
posted by est at 2006-11-16 05:06

Jessica Biel... Oh Hell YES!
posted by laney at 2006-11-16 04:36

coderman: [please see correct image at http://thesuperficial.com/2006/09/14/jessica_biel_tongue.jpg|]

ROTZIES told to go home :) heh
posted by cryptomail at 2006-11-16 03:57

cryptomail: Way I see it, they can still do ROTC shit, just not on campus!
cryptomail: So, if you're into it, you probably still can

Instant Death!
posted by laney at 2006-11-16 03:56

laney: (and $200 fine)

No more U TUBE...did Google Video count?
posted by cryptomail at 2006-11-16 03:44

Thailand Slum Communications
posted by seti at 2006-11-16 03:00

LAST UTUBER VIDEO FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS, OR ELSE...
posted by coderman at 2006-11-16 02:45

real-time geographic fail-over == nice to have
posted by coderman at 2006-11-16 02:35

seti: cams from piratebay bust
Mutiny: SPOILER:It'd a bunch of dudes walking around in a data center and occasionally somebody throws something over the camera. I don't even SEE any cops in this.
coderman: cmon man, they're ALL cops
Mutiny: Without uniforms then
Mutiny: Then again in codermans paranoid world everybody is a cop. EVEN HIMSELF GASP
coderman: hey, the drugs keep those identities separate. like a scanner darkly...
Mutiny: cuckoo-cuckoo!
coderman: (if you watch, you can see the hand cuffs under the jackets of two plain clothes officers)

Santorum declares himself unconstitutional
posted by seti at 2006-11-16 02:35

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_radio
posted by est at 2006-11-16 02:02

est: "Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the US Patent Office reversed its decision on the priority of radio and awarded Marconi the patent for radio. Tesla was later re-granted a patent for the radio by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1943."
est: In 1894, [Jagdish Chandra] Bose ignited gunpowder and rang a bell at a distance using electromagnetic waves, showing independently that communication signals can be sent without using wires. In 1896, the Daily Chronicle of England reported on his UHF experiments: "The inventor (J.C. Bose) has transmitted signals to a distance of nearly a mile and herein lies the first and obvious and exceedingly valuable application of thi
est: [Bose was critical of the patent system]
est: [he also wrote science fiction in Bengali]
coderman: magnetrons make great noises
seti: ...like ping!
coderman: <James Clerk Maxwell> three way tie goes to the elders

Who Invented Radio?
posted by coderman at 2006-11-16 01:56

United States Patent 645,576
posted by coderman at 2006-11-16 01:52

coderman: "March 20, 1900 - In 1904, the US Patent Office reversed its decision and awarded Guglielmo Marconi the patent for radio, and Tesla began his fight to re-acquire the radio patent."
coderman: "Since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Marconi for radio in 1909, Thomas Edison and Tesla were mentioned as potential laureates to share the Nobel Prize of 1915 in a press dispatch, leading to one of several Nobel Prize controversies."
coderman: note that the Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943 in favor of Tesla.
coderman: <USPTO> NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG...

Zune and Vista 'not compatible'
posted by est at 2006-11-16 01:32

coderman: zune will only survive if the DRM is hacked and promiscious data mobility ensues
coderman: <the_public> we like our digital devices slutty!
est: songs bought from Microsoft's own MSN music store will not work on a Zune player
est: <cattle> microsoft is the only choice

word frequency data for written and spoken english
posted by est at 2006-11-16 01:13

progress in dating neanderthal DNA
posted by est at 2006-11-16 00:46

uid0: hi
uid0: est is SWM seeking neanderthal for walks on the beach and meaningful conversation
    
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