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silveradeptWell, yeah. It’s kind of like that. But not really. Not really. Life is back to normal, though, as yesterday, the alma matter won and today, the professional sport team got embarrassed. As we said, back to normal around here. Tomorrow starts storytime week. The actual thing isn’t until Tuesday, and I think I’m pretty prepared to entertain the little’uns. What’s most difficult for me is that I have to work in these early literacy things in all of my storytimes, as little asides to the parents to say “See? Reading to your kids, and letting them read to you, is really easy - you’re already doing it, and here are some other ways.” I think I may forget a couple of those in my want to just be entertaining.
Something actually of note is that Marcel Marceau has passed away at 84 years of age. Thus, the world loses another great silent star. I’m not sure whether we should make a great noise at his passing or make a big silence at his now permanent silence.
Another thing of note is that if you put your number on the Do Not Call List in America, your number may be expiring soon. Being on the registry only lasts for five years, apparently, rather than being permanent or very long lasting. Thus, if you were on the program early, you may want to revisit the Do Not Call Registry website and ensure that you stay uninterrupted for at least five more years.
The 23rd of September is also apparently Celebrate Bisexuality Day, so for those who are or know someone who is, hopefully you had a celebratory day today. If not, do it tomorrow.
Anyway, going forth and making neat stuff happen, or something like it - the databases of the Department of Homeland Security can be used to stalk people, assuming that you’re lucky enough to have access to them. If a private citizen can do it, imagine what trained government personnel can do with it. Austin Cline at Jesus General proposes a look at how Mr. Bush would be as a President were he to run it like a business, as many say he should, and the verdict is that it would still be awful. Others write fiction about what might be and what might happen if Google takes over everything, including surveillance of Internet searches and CCTV cameras.
A good thing to remember about the modern world and warfare is that generals can be some of the biggest liars around while soldiers may be trying their hardest to show the truth, or at least the best side of the country. And while that rages on elsewhere, plenty of people back home are doing their best to undermine the foundations of the country by arresting people who are exercising their Constitutional rights.
There are good hackers at work for the Australian government, they reprogrammed an American radar sold to them that was programmed with Warsaw Pact codes, not modern enemies that Australia would see. They were supposed to get the codes, but said codes never materialized, so the hackers went and did things themselves.
An ecologically friendly way of keeping a green roof neat and clean - use goats to trim the grasses. All-natural lawn-moving and regulation service. Plus all the benefits of a green roof. Just make sure your roof can handle the goats, and that the goats don’t do something stupid like fall off or through.
To save yourself some bandwidth, occasionally going through and revising code to meet new standards or to take advantage of newer, shorter ways of achieving the same thing is recommended. Some tips for someone familiar with CSS on how to shorten up the files. By becoming familiar with the CSS conventions, some bytes can be saved here and there, which makes for less bandwidth used.
Scientists create transparently-skinned frog. Because dissection wasn’t enough, now you don’t have to worry about whether you’ve accidentally punctured something you shouldn’t have! [Flat crowd] Whee [/Flat Crowd]. Would rather play with the computer model than actually have to cut something up.
Next-to-Last on the list is cover images for vintage paperbacks. Which means that if you really wanted to know how many old paperback science fiction covers had either nearly-naked women or tentacle beasts/bug-eyed monsters (or both), then you might be able to conduct a representative sample from the images in that archive. If you’re looking for a different sort of humor, though, perhaps Gizmodo's favorite butt plugs can be of service (SFW). If you want something a bit more highbrow than that, try Brian and Stewie Griffith, of Family Guy fame, talking about the state of television at the Emmy awards for 2007.
The very last thing, however, is the manifesto and recounting of actions by a group called the PRKA. They need more members desperately in today’s climate, lest their organization simply fade from existence. They’ll willingly take on anyone who wants to join, regardless of race, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, or anything else, so long as that person is willing to commit to the reluctance to kill over abstractions.
In any case, that’s your unloading of material for tonight. Since I have work in the morning, bed is a winning idea.
Something actually of note is that Marcel Marceau has passed away at 84 years of age. Thus, the world loses another great silent star. I’m not sure whether we should make a great noise at his passing or make a big silence at his now permanent silence.
Another thing of note is that if you put your number on the Do Not Call List in America, your number may be expiring soon. Being on the registry only lasts for five years, apparently, rather than being permanent or very long lasting. Thus, if you were on the program early, you may want to revisit the Do Not Call Registry website and ensure that you stay uninterrupted for at least five more years.
The 23rd of September is also apparently Celebrate Bisexuality Day, so for those who are or know someone who is, hopefully you had a celebratory day today. If not, do it tomorrow.
Anyway, going forth and making neat stuff happen, or something like it - the databases of the Department of Homeland Security can be used to stalk people, assuming that you’re lucky enough to have access to them. If a private citizen can do it, imagine what trained government personnel can do with it. Austin Cline at Jesus General proposes a look at how Mr. Bush would be as a President were he to run it like a business, as many say he should, and the verdict is that it would still be awful. Others write fiction about what might be and what might happen if Google takes over everything, including surveillance of Internet searches and CCTV cameras.
A good thing to remember about the modern world and warfare is that generals can be some of the biggest liars around while soldiers may be trying their hardest to show the truth, or at least the best side of the country. And while that rages on elsewhere, plenty of people back home are doing their best to undermine the foundations of the country by arresting people who are exercising their Constitutional rights.
There are good hackers at work for the Australian government, they reprogrammed an American radar sold to them that was programmed with Warsaw Pact codes, not modern enemies that Australia would see. They were supposed to get the codes, but said codes never materialized, so the hackers went and did things themselves.
An ecologically friendly way of keeping a green roof neat and clean - use goats to trim the grasses. All-natural lawn-moving and regulation service. Plus all the benefits of a green roof. Just make sure your roof can handle the goats, and that the goats don’t do something stupid like fall off or through.
To save yourself some bandwidth, occasionally going through and revising code to meet new standards or to take advantage of newer, shorter ways of achieving the same thing is recommended. Some tips for someone familiar with CSS on how to shorten up the files. By becoming familiar with the CSS conventions, some bytes can be saved here and there, which makes for less bandwidth used.
Scientists create transparently-skinned frog. Because dissection wasn’t enough, now you don’t have to worry about whether you’ve accidentally punctured something you shouldn’t have! [Flat crowd] Whee [/Flat Crowd]. Would rather play with the computer model than actually have to cut something up.
Next-to-Last on the list is cover images for vintage paperbacks. Which means that if you really wanted to know how many old paperback science fiction covers had either nearly-naked women or tentacle beasts/bug-eyed monsters (or both), then you might be able to conduct a representative sample from the images in that archive. If you’re looking for a different sort of humor, though, perhaps Gizmodo's favorite butt plugs can be of service (SFW). If you want something a bit more highbrow than that, try Brian and Stewie Griffith, of Family Guy fame, talking about the state of television at the Emmy awards for 2007.
The very last thing, however, is the manifesto and recounting of actions by a group called the PRKA. They need more members desperately in today’s climate, lest their organization simply fade from existence. They’ll willingly take on anyone who wants to join, regardless of race, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, or anything else, so long as that person is willing to commit to the reluctance to kill over abstractions.
In any case, that’s your unloading of material for tonight. Since I have work in the morning, bed is a winning idea.
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Date: 2007-09-24 10:41 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-09-24 11:30 pm (UTC)Waiter, There's a fly in my soup.
May he rest in silence