Here’s a fun one for Halloween. Some enterprising individuals over at the “University of Rochester’s”:http://www.rochester.edu/ “Computer Interest Floor”:http://www.cif.rochester.edu/ stuck an “old computer inside a 54 lb pumpkin…and yes it’s running a webserver”:http://jacki.cif.rochester.edu/!
“SpaceWeather.com”:http://www.SpaceWeather.com has the latest on the “strong geomagnetic activity happening”:http://www.spaceweather.com/. Sounds like we might get a chance at some real nice auroras tonight. Too bad it looks like it’ll be cloudy here.
to “Rachel”:http://www.droyer.org/~rachel/blog/.
Nasa has a very cool photo pf the “California Wildfires”:http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Oct2003/California.TMOA2003299_lrg.jpg currently raging. Great photo…it is big though
I don’t get too mayn comments in my blog. I’m not doing this to entertain people…mostly just for my own amusement! Anyway, I can’t stand SPAM. lately I’ve been seeing more and more spam comments so I decided to implement James Seng’s “Bayesian filter for MT”:http://james.seng.cc/archives/000152.html. This Rocks! “I’m already a big fan of Bayesian filters for email”:http://www.droyer.org/~dave/archives/000309.php and this sounds like a good application for it as well.
“Hardware Analysis”:http://www.hardwareanalysis.com has a great article about installing computer hardware. This one takes a different approach than most in that “it tells you how NOT to install your hardware”:http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1672/. For example, it recommends that you unscreq every possible screw you can find, including the ones holding the power supply and you should do this wilhe the computer is still running! Very funny read!
A List Apart has a nice article about creating tabs using stylesheets rather than individual graphics. It’s a very nice design that seems very easy to maintain over time.
Examples:
No! Here’s a great site that “debunks a ton of the conspiracy theories that have been thrown around regarding the Apollo Moon Landing”:http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html. It was written to counter a Fox TV show about the topic. The author makes a very detailed analysis of the FOX TV program. Even without seeing the TV show, it makes good reading. (Link from “slashdot”:http://slashdot.org.)
This was just a little too funny not to pass on.
A man broke into a house he used to live in and took another man hostage. “Police were able to end the brief hostage standoff with the help of a can of beer”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=391&e=1&u=/ibsys/20031016/lo_ksat/1834537!
Wired has a scary article about the “Diebold electronic voting machines and how buggy and error-prone they are”:http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60563,00.html?tw=wn_bizhead_11.
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I found the small buttons on the right at several different websites. I was just poking around at “Mandarin Design”:http://www.mandarindesign.com/blogger.html and I found this great link. It’s an “automatic button maker”:http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/!
Jeremy Zawodny has an interesting article about how “the prevalence of Blogs has affected google’s PageRank so profoundly”:http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000751.html. It will be interesting to see if google really is trying to ’solve’ this ‘problem’, as talked about in the article.
Yippee! Today, Apple released “iTunes for Windows”:http://www.apple.com/itunes/. My first Purchase? The ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ soundtrack!
In a showing of complete stupidity, “the Roman Catholic church is now telling HIV sufferers not to use condoms”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/vatican_religion_health.
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“The U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing”:http://www.moneyfactory.com is releasing the new $20’s today. They have a good “interactive animation describing the new bills”:http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/main.cfm/currency/interactivebill.