With luck, you may be able to create a furry.

Not that I'm sure about the sanity or trustworthiness of someone who wanted to create a gold-goldfish.

Progress is useful.

I think I'm in a better mood. More talkative, anyway, less fearful, brain fog seems to be gone. Even if I'm very tired and borderline nauseous. Oh
well.

What ever happened to the intelligent agent?
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It really has become de rigueur lately to blatantly violate the law because laws can be changed retroactively, hasn't it ( Read more... )

Peter Tomarkin of "Press Your Luck" fame dead by planecrash. I could make a in-terrible-taste joke about "No Whammies" but I will restrain myself.

My, I've been talking a lot lately.

Turns out that since HDCP requires a chip on the board, and because Vista will require HDCP in order to output anything in high-definition goodness, no video card out today will be about to output in high-definition, period.Yeah, this gives me great confidence in our modern technology ( Read more... )

Talking about the Grammys:

At the climax of a cluttered medley sung by a subpar supergroup, (Sly) Stone showed up looking the very model of a postmodern major genius/recluse-ablond mohawk like a vast coxcomb, a silvery jacket like a 24th-century labcoat, sparkly belt, wraparound shades. This is how Gravity's Rainbowcultists want Thomas Pynchon to ( Read more... )

bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Millie! bomb bomb bomb bomb Democrat! bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb been abroad! bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb mushroom mushroom bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake! it's a snaaaaaaaaaaaake!I'm thinking it's better to invite all my worst paranoia ( Read more... )

How the rule of law was lost in America.

Noted for the future.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/business/21device.html

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NYTimes article/opinion on network neutrality and infrastructure, passing without comment (although I have a few lurking in the back of my head on this).

More of "these are my pipes, not yours" on ArsTechnica here recently and here more generally.

Oh, while I'm on Ars: Windows XP Home support extended to Vista release + 2 years (as expected, ( Read more... )