I've known about this one for a while but the recent NYtimes review of OS X.2 reminded me of it and I had to post it.23 Aug 2002 at 12:00am UTC

Back when I was 6 or 8 I got my first exposure to Advanced BASIC through the trusty TI computer much like the one shown in the picture. We even had the featured Voice Synthesis module--My computer just said 'Hi Thad!', wow!.

And the bulky--similiarly sized to the mid-size case of today's computers--5.11" floppy drive where my creations would be saved.

I may or may not transfer this index out of service to use the MT one instead, not sure yet.

Male birds can't function like males when they have a female brain despite testosterone.

Here we have temporary access to EBSCOhost's Premier database. I unfortunately found that that doesn't include anything newer than a year ago.

I remembered the Public Library Of Science Biology Journal. Good stuff there too.

I swear, all these politicians, teachers, and presumably society all want scientists and students interested in science but we're still stuck with our best, most fundamental science resources completely inaccessable to secondary school students. If they just provided funding including online access to these databases and people like me (a few years ago, in High School) would have a field day. They would spread all over the web.

The syndicated nonsense with all the news studios over the world reprint the already simplified articles from the primary journals has got to stop.

31 Jan 2004 at 12:00am UTC

• Changes concurrent connection limit from 10 to 75 (tcpip.sys).
• Allows third-party visual styles to be installed (uxtheme.dll).
• Removes hard maximum of 1 remote desktop connection user (termsrv.dll from build 2055).
• Adds unix style hosts file (updated 8-9-04) which blocks many advertisement company servers.

"Unbeknownst to critics and audiences, sometime before the movie opened, Mr. Goldman told an employee to snip out a few feet of footage, amounting to a few seconds of screen time. The scene, early in the movie, involves a stripper's action with a lollipop and a customer."

• Because of HyperTalk, I am never sure how to spell highlight. I always want to spell it 'hilite'.
• Because of AppleScript, I always want to write 'thru' instead of 'through'.
• Because of Java, I'm inclined to write 'Cristina+Liberty' instead of 'Cristina and Liberty'.
• Because of perl, I assume folks on IM understand '^foo^bar' means 'replace "foo" with "bar" on the previous line'.
• Because of C++, I assume that folks on IM understand '==' means 'I agree with your previous statement'.
• Because of Lisp, I assume (my friends (have no problems (de-nesting parentheses))).
• Because of (ba)sh, I take care in my use of single quotes, double quotes and accent-quotes. Yes, when I write with single quotes, I do really intend for the reader not to expand the string in-place.
• Because of programming in general, my outgoing email is always brace-balanced.

Given A ♥ B and B ♥ C, we don't necessarily know that A ♥ C. Usually this is not the case; oftentimes, A ♣ C or, in extreme cases, A ♠ C. In other words, love is not a monotonic relationship.

"We have so many options, reward centers that we never had before," says John Ratey, who teaches at Harvard and is a psychiatrist specializing in attention deficit disorder. "I think that's why we're seeing more of this. There are more demands on our attention and less training for us to stop and take it all in. We seem to be amazing ourselves to death."

"All classrooms and offices have 100-megabit network connection, as do all residence hall rooms."

Well, I thought of it before they did, or at least before they told me about it. I might still do a policy paper for the University somehow on their specific decision: which services to pick now.

This 30pg paper (which I just finished reading) provides plenty of comfortingly concrete visions concerning the predicted trajectory of options of dealing with digital content distribution: Monolithic DMS (Digital Music Store), Semi-centralized P2P with DRM, or collective blanket licensing. I can look forward to using it as backing for arguing the issue. They do an amazing job pointing out flaws which I'd never even imagined in all three of the potential systems. Ultimately, it supports the precident-backed advice of Wait before legislating on creativity. The player piano, the record, and Betamax are but three examples.

After reading stuff like this I can't help but considering that this stuff is a valid and attractive career (intellectually and maybe generally) is valid. This is exactly what I'd've liked to write for the University this summer, though I know I wouldn't have had the manpower, the logic or the resources.

As a side point, Neutral point of view is really something, very alluring and somewhat dangerous as it tends to disarm common sense filters (e.g. documentaries).

following up last weeks post of "Why the history channel doesn't have more 1940-1990 content", and actually the content of that article--a PBS Civil Rights documentary called "Eyes on the Prize" which has lost the rights to the footage of civil rights events (it was short term rights only). This movie is a fragment of lost culture: no one has legally publicly viewed this documentary in almost 20 years!

This has context in the sense that next month is Civil Rights month and the fact that much of this copyright and intellectual property stuff seems (at least to me) to be coming forward.

Anyone want to offer extra encouragement to do a Peabody showing? I'd imagine McPhail would be for it given his work in the civil rights area (Freedom Summer events). Can you BitTorrent it for us?

Wired did an article on it last month too.

(me included). People are starting to notice the nerf that Apple silently included along with standard upgrades of hardware support and a major security hack fix which is exploitable through pls and m3u playlist files. The dubious new feature is a limit of five individual visitors to your music collection per day. This makes it difficult for Dorm residents to access each others music for sampling, especially when you have one or two people who are especially known for their eclectic tastes.

It also makes OurTunes a socially destructive tool--since it has to connect to all the hosts so that it can access and combine their indexes (for easy searching) it quicky exhausts the five connection limit (all you need is five users using OurTunes and no one new can listen to music from all 4.7.1 hosts)

Quite a good article, I've been meaning to read her for a long time (besides Anthem) and this gives me some more basis for understanding her and why Libertarians are often held as the antithesis of many Liberals, especially those on Western. She is quite vitrolic at times. I found it interesting reading this with the fact in mind that she accompanied Richard Feynman (IIRC) to the first Atom Bomb test.

At one point, before I got here, I arrived at conclusions which I feel that I can no longer fully justify, strangely. I had decided that I was most approximately somewhere between Liberal and Anarcho-syndicalist. I'm not sure if I ever had significant enough evidence beyond the political classification K5 article which I pondered over or not but I was sure concerned about it when I first got confronted when I put forward the suggestion of Libertarianism-basis here, hah! J. Harnish drew my long-buried, never tested tatters of a philosophical basis into an unsteady knot which I'm not sure I have totally worked out yet. I do recall being interested in Libertarian Socialism and I must have read some other things to convince me. What were they? Ayn Rand certainly wasn't a Primary Source. Who knows, but right now I seem to be classifying myself pretty liberally with a grain of criticism so as not to get too entrenched.

"The pressure causes verbal worries, like 'Oh no, I can't screw up,'" said Sian Beilock, assistant professor of psychology at Miami University of Ohio. "These thoughts reside in the working memory." And that takes up space that would otherwise be pondering the task at hand.

I believe that they did this in UC Berkeley. Instead of building sidewalks, they put some sod on the quad and let the students "create" the trails across the grass. Once the paths were established by thousands of students walking on the grass every day, the school built sidewalks on top of the paths and that is how the sidewalks on the quad at Berkeley were built. No one uses those sidewalks anymore, though, because the grass is so much nicer to walk on than concrete.

A third attendee wrote a favorable review of my talk and posted it to the broadly disseminated memestreams system (www.memestreams.net). Traffic to my research Web site jumped dramatically. During a related discussion, a fourth clearly explained a novel application of Fourier transforms to my work. I am indebted to these people for the help they freely provided. I would argue that engaging the community in this bidirectional manner would deliver similar rewards.

The music of Frank Zappa and Lou Reed inspired Havel and other dissidents during their struggle against Soviet rule...

" The cover of "Code Reading" does indeed contain elements from code. Specifically, it lists comments from open [source] code containing the XXX string sequence. Comments are part of the source code."

As a drop strikes a surface, liquid begins to spread sideways at supersonic speed, creating a shockwave. The shockwave pushes back on the liquid, and if that force is greater than the internal forces holding the drop together, the shockwave will lift the liquid off the surface and create a splash. Reducing the pressure reduces the force exerted by the shock wave.

"That's not my job, to make people like my movies."

Most web applications have a lot in common. Marmot is an attempt to integrate all of these common pieces into a framework that simplifies the process of creating a web application. Such common tasks as LDAP authentication/authorization, database access, "themes" for page layout, and form validation are included. Instead of starting from scratch for each application, the developer needs only to write the business logic that makes the application unique.

So, now we have discussed how saturated fats do not cause directly or indirectly heart disease, cholesterol is not an indicator or risk factor of heart disease, polyunsaturated fats should be reduced in the diet, and trans fats are to be avoided completely. (Pretty much the opposite of what the media and food oil producing companies tell us.)

• Jabber IM protocol support in iChat! Companies can use this internally or you can avoid AOL and their IM snooping with it.
• Applescript dictionary viewer so you can tell what to script.
• Smooth scrolling, I wonder what they mean by this? Will they do it right?
• MS Word's new but proprietary XML format imports to Text Edit with formatting.
• Secure WebDAV! It was terrible that there was no way to do secure transfers between a web server or .Mac
• Play DVD live in the Dock when minimized. Wow, thats gonna be strange.
• New desktop pictures

• "Burnable Folders"
• Save and Email Web Page - Does this imply that the mac will now support *.mht (Mime HTML) files that only IE supports right now? That would be nice, we need that standard, I'm tired of blah.html and blah.html_files pair and the quirky connected file manipulation that always entails.
• "Automatic Projector Mirroring"