As melancholy as a Lincolnshire blogpipe
29 May 2002
Headliners
11:18 Sex videos cause cuts surge. Well, did you understand that headline without reading the article?
28 May 2002
Klez shmez
12:28 Are there any morons out there still using Outlook? I guess so.
28 May 2002
Rollers
11:30 I'd heard this story about a Bentley. Shame it's a UL. But you've got to admire the mindset at RR: If it isn't true, it should be and if we could afford it, it would be.
28 May 2002
mmmmmmmmmbeermmmmmmmm
11:28 We like old pubs.
28 May 2002
Scam spam
09:12 You've probably received - or at least heard of - the Nigerian scam spam. This is where some guy sells a sob story and asks for help in the transfer of US$BIGNUM or diamonds or somesuch. Some people have started writing back. The Kizombe character entered into a particularly gruesome correspondence that had me chuckling all the way through.
27 May 2002
Haaallooo folks
12:18 Oooh shiny. Scans of an original Goon Show script.
27 May 2002
Go Tigers!
11:35 Yay! Tigers retain the Heineken Cup for a place in rugby history. Even if there was a bit of fiddling in that final scrum, two tries to nil deserves to win anyway. And Rob, I hate you.
27 May 2002
Total Recall
11:18 Wow. Water on Mars. Wow. . . . if [the ice] were to melt it could cover the planet in an ocean at least 500 metres deep. That's a lot of ice.
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A lean and hungry blog
22 May 2002
Game boy
14:11 Well, here's a thing. Ambrosia have done something we never dreamed possible, and cut a deal to bring EV Nova to lesser platforms. Will wonders never cease?
22 May 2002
Hot type
10:29 Charles reminds me that Windows TrueType fonts work in OS X without conversion. He says There's loads of (free) TT fonts for winders only out there, and as TT is an Apple technology you're not selling out! I think the word we're looking for here is w00t.
22 May 2002
Hot stuff
10:25 The company Kate joined early this year is in Time's top 50 European companies. Let's hope that translates into nice, fat bonuses. RiboTargets, incidentally, is a spin-off formed in 1997 from the LMB (my workplace; yesh, I work for the British Government, Mish Moneypenny).
20 May 2002
Adequate enough
16:56 So why couldn't we bat like this first time around? Still, the BBC should shoot its headline writers More solid England batting ensures the Test against Sri Lanka at Lord's looks certain to end in a draw.
20 May 2002
Free, at last
11:40 Go Peru! The letter is worth reading in full, not just for the cogent argument therein (shall we hope that our government might take notice?) but for gems such as Now, it is impossible to ignore the fact that marketing does not play a neutral role when the product is offered on the market (since accepting the opposite would lead one to suppose that firms' expenses in marketing lack any sense) and . . . the condemnation by the Commercial Court of Nanterre, France, on 27th September 2001 of Microsoft Corp. to a penalty of 3 million francs in damages and interest, for violation of intellectual property (piracy, to use the unfortunate term that your firm commonly uses in its publicity). Cracking stuff.
Oh, oh - Tony, take note: Given that a democratic State must support these principles, it has no other choice than to use software with publicly available source code, and to exchange information only in standard formats (my emphasis).
20 May 2002
Jagwire
10:50 W00t! OS 10.2 on my bike!
15 May 2002
Clocking on
15:20 From the Because we can department: Digital sundials. Note these are not powered in anyway, they are sundials with a digital display; and yeah, I want one. There's some interesting technical details on the site too.
14 May 2002
Fly me to the moon
12:20 Ooh shiny. Solar wind-powered spaceships are the thing. Still going to take a long, long time to get anywhere though.
14 May 2002
Nollidge
12:14 While googling for something reasonably obscure, I came across the 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. Well cool.
13 May 2002
Bon mot
16:57 Fungible. Thanks Charles.
13 May 2002
Virtual me
11:52 Virtual models. Fun. Work-friendly, but weird browser-detection and giving 500s right now.
13 May 2002
It's raining, men
09:08 Pet hate #1: people who complain about the weather. Pet hate #2: people who whinge about the rain when April was the sunniest, hottest April, ever! Sheesh.
13 May 2002
Jagwire
09:04 Jaguar (OS 10.2) is coming. The preview screenshots promise goodies, lots of goodies.
13 May 2002
Meta
09:04 Sorry. Disk crashes, negative time equity, the usual thing. Should be back to nermal soon.
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You'd better blog, you'd better take cover
02 May 2002
He said 'erect', huh uhuh
16:20 On a lighter note, Roland Hübner pointed (ooer) this one out to me. Well, I learned something:
Hobday AJ "Where is the human baculum?"
MANKIND QUARTERLY 41: (1) 43-58 FAL 2000
Humans are unique among the primates in many characteristics, especially the
primary and secondary sexual characters. One of these characteristics is that
human males are the only member of the old world simian group (apes and old
world monkeys) without a baculum. The loss of this bone in Homo sapiens is
considered with respect to its function and appearance in other hominids. It
is hypothesized that its loss in humans is related to upright posture,
mating systems, and sperm competition. I predict that as more fossils are
discovered or bones associated with current collections reexamined, all
hominids before, and possibly including Homo erectus will be found to
possess a baculum.
02 May 2002
State terrorism
16:09 I'm having second thoughts about moving to the Antipodes, quite apart from the state of science funding. If this kind of madness is made law, then the perpetrators of the attacks on the WTC will have won.
Attorney-General Daryl Williams acknowledged in December that so far there was no evidence of a single terrorist threat to Australia, a view his office repeated this week.