Flutterby™! From 2000-01-01 to 2000-01-31

From danlyke@flutterby.com Fri Dec 31 16:33:27 1999 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:33:27 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:20:06 -0800 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:20:06 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Forwarded mail.... Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.9912311520010.755-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII a new Need To Know

Paul Victor Novarese has a 'blog called Gammatron, and he asked about publicizing it. I told him I'd give him a credit link if he sent me something interesting, and he proposed the Mersenne prime numbers project. My spare distributed computing cycles are going towards the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms project, but the attempt was worth a link.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Fri Dec 31 16:48:14 1999 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:48:14 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:34:51 -0800 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:34:51 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-urlotd@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.9912311534000.755-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Whoops, just to get the glossary entries right, that's Paul Victor Novarese.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Fri Dec 31 16:48:55 1999 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:48:55 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:35:34 -0800 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:35:34 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.9912311534540.755-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Just noticing, while poking around the stats on the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms project that the rollover has happened in France. Ho, hum.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Sat Jan 1 20:12:51 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 20:12:51 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 18:59:07 -0800 Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 18:59:07 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001011858250.755-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I hope it stays up there for a few days, One Swell Foop offers a take on Y2k.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Sun Jan 2 12:46:48 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 12:46:48 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 11:32:51 -0800 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 11:32:51 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001021131020.755-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ya know what pisses me off most about the whole Y2K thing is that even though there were no problems, the paranoid whiners and Ed Yourdon's of the world are gonna take credit for saving everyone, and people are gonna believe them. Bastards.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Sun Jan 2 16:12:24 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:12:24 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 14:58:24 -0800 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 14:58:24 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001021457500.755-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sorry about the various busted links, part of the unexpected fallout from the XML conversion. The programs responsible have been... fixed.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sun Jan 2 19:34:23 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 19:34:23 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 18:20:21 -0800 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 18:20:21 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001021820030.10170-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII New RISKS Digest contains some amusing Y2K failures...

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The world's fastest MTA: chuckmail. Looks like a real mailer, but discards everything sent to it... ...the latest version has some basic 'teergrube' functionality, and lately I've been contemplating a version that while it's slowly throwing away the spam, takes the source address and submits it to the ORBS relay checker, runs NMAP, then launches the appropriate DOS attacks.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Mon Jan 3 15:37:22 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 15:37:22 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:23:04 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:23:04 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001031420130.277-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Via Davenetics, maybe I shouldn't be so hasty in my retraction of <link url="/archives/1999_Jan/05_Danlooksahead.html">last-year's predictions that e-commerce would peak quickly</link>, per-capita spending on the web is down.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Mon Jan 3 15:40:35 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 15:40:35 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:26:16 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:26:16 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001031424170.277-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I expected a lot of Perl 19100 bugs, but on all of the mailing lists and newsgroups I've been reading, the biggest Y2K bug has been with JavaScript, which handles dates between 1900 and 1999 inclusive as 0-99, but handles dates outside that range as their AD year. What drooling idiot thought that up?

Scary Devil Monastery QOTD, from Crack Monkey: More wonderful micros~1 statistics: WINDOWS POWERS 52 PERCENT OF TOP SHOPPING SITES

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/dailynews2/121799.htm "One in Four Online Purchases Thwarted"

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/reuters/REU19991220S0007 I was skeptical of the first statistic before I associated it with the second.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Mon Jan 3 18:23:35 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:23:35 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:09:14 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:09:14 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001031708560.546-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I missed a Clean Sheets update!

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Mon Jan 3 18:41:20 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:41:20 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:26:59 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:26:59 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001031722010.546-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII and mouthorgan is back, new format, more blog-like, although the comments are longer, in some cases article length, than most blogs. Don't know yet how I'm going to handle some of these sites that are going to be updating almost continuously, but I expect that my new color scheme system and database backing will help with some of this.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 4 05:47:14 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 05:47:14 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 04:32:44 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 04:32:44 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001040430150.2794-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Via FactoVision, an Village Voice article about making dildoes from potatoes and the site of the artist, Hot Potato Sex.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 4 06:18:46 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 06:18:46 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 05:04:15 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 05:04:15 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001040500010.2794-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Interesting Salon article on Giuliani's approach to the homeless problem in New York. So much of the homeless advocacy is about the contradiction of "these are people just like you and me who got a bad break" coupled with the "Reagan was so awful for tossing these people out of the institutions onto the street", it's good to see that the author of this article, at least, is questioning the basis of many of the arguments on the discussion. Not that I'm any fan of Giuliani on civil liberties or other such issues.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 4 10:09:36 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 10:09:36 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:55:03 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:55:03 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001040854040.2794-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The Effects of Black Powder On Aluminum Disk Drive Platters Two identical disk drive platters, 170 mm radius x 1.5 mm thick aluminum, were shot at with a variety of black powder and modern arms at 3-10 m. The black powder arms used spherical lead bullets; the modern arms used either copper jacketed or lead bullets.

The History of Contraception

From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 4 14:50:41 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:50:41 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:36:04 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:36:04 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001041334450.6328-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cover of the January 18 PC Magazine: "Instant messaging: The new way to talk business". [raised eyebrow] I'm not sure what business they're talking about, but it sounds like something I want in on...

From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 4 14:53:02 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:53:02 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:38:25 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:38:25 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001041336050.6328-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Unclear on the concept: So I was watching the news either last night or before, they were talking about people who'd stocked up and didn't regret it, and some mouthbreather from South Carolina was displaying her fully stocked garage, and I noticed pallet of washing machine detergent.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Wed Jan 5 09:27:56 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:27:55 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 08:13:02 -0800 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 08:13:02 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001050810480.7276-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Frank passes along this note: Sherriff handcuffs and knocks down 9 year old. Helmets may be a good idea, but when the legal structure gets too oppressive those charged with enforcing the laws often forget why they're enforcing the laws.

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From danlyke@pixar.com Wed Jan 5 11:17:44 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:17:43 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com> (multi-drop); Wed, 05 Jan 2000 11:17:44 PST Received: from pixar.com (pixar.pixar.com [138.72.10.20]) by s20.highertech.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA21451 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:20:06 -0500 Received: from buzzcut.pixar.com (buzzcut.pixar.com [138.72.30.70]) by pixar.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA29975 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:20:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m125ttL-01ogLoC; Wed, 5 Jan 100 09:06 PST Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:06:35 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@pixar.com> X-Sender: danlyke@buzzcut To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: bad, bad Pikachu! (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.SGI.3.96.1000105090619.1371802L-100000@buzzcut> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-UIDL: 4b5f450999d4de6e597c583e1866f676 Foul mouthed Pikachu. "However, Jim, a Livingston County assistant medical examiner, discovered that by touching the two circuits at a more rapid rate, the Pokemon turns the word Pikachu into an obscene phrase with the "F" word."

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From danlyke@pixar.com Wed Jan 5 11:18:11 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:18:11 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com> (multi-drop); Wed, 05 Jan 2000 11:18:11 PST Received: from pixar.com (pixar.pixar.com [138.72.10.20]) by s20.highertech.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA22236 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:33:09 -0500 Received: from buzzcut.pixar.com (buzzcut.pixar.com [138.72.30.70]) by pixar.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA00611 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:33:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m125uJ8-01ogLgC; Wed, 5 Jan 100 09:33 PST Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:33:14 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@pixar.com> X-Sender: danlyke@buzzcut To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Feynman stamp campaign (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.SGI.3.96.1000105093255.1371802S-100000@buzzcut> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-UIDL: 5ecf645e76679dbfa3b653dc93aeb2bf Help put Feynman on a stamp.

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For all that the "ease of use" weenies whine about the lack of a GUI interface for Linux, anyone else notice that web sites are starting to go command line? The local media conglomerates are heavily advertising "jump-to" keywords on the SFGate(http://www.sfgate.com/)...

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Toy Story 2 has breezed past $200M with an upswing over the past two weekends. Too early to let irrational exhuberance reign, but this puts it back into "Lion King" territory, and for a winter release, no less. Pixar stock is only 33 1/2 as of 14:12 EST.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Wed Jan 5 15:19:38 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:19:38 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com> (multi-drop); Wed, 05 Jan 2000 15:19:38 PST Received: from pixar.com (pixar.pixar.com [138.72.10.20]) by s20.highertech.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA32736 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:48:39 -0500 Received: from buzzcut.pixar.com (buzzcut.pixar.com [138.72.30.70]) by pixar.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA11601 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:48:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from flutterby.com by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m125xMH-01ogLgC; Wed, 5 Jan 100 12:48 PST Sender: danlyke@pixar.com Message-ID: <3873AE29.CE675D6D@flutterby.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 12:48:41 -0800 From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 66ff9e24fa903751df81a0b5ebaf35c4 Status: U According to Salon, the promise of teledildonics has not yet been fulfilled. Who would have thought that the future of sex was a tacky little piece of plastic suction-cupped to your computer monitor?

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From danlyke@pixar.com Wed Jan 5 15:19:41 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:19:40 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com> (multi-drop); Wed, 05 Jan 2000 15:19:40 PST Received: from pixar.com (pixar.pixar.com [138.72.10.20]) by s20.highertech.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA00555 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:59:17 -0500 Received: from buzzcut.pixar.com (buzzcut.pixar.com [138.72.30.70]) by pixar.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA12033 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:59:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m125xWd-01ogLgC; Wed, 5 Jan 100 12:59 PST Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:59:23 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@pixar.com> X-Sender: danlyke@buzzcut To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Steve Jobs drops 'interim' from his Apple title (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.SGI.3.96.1000105125831.1637617G-100000@buzzcut> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-UIDL: 76aab290eaa208b2f9b2abe544b57f17 Status: U Anti-news: Steve Jobs drops 'interim' from his Apple title SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Steve Jobs Wednesday gave Apple loyalists exactly what they wanted as a post-holiday present: He's erasing the "interim" from his Apple business card and will stay on as chief executive.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Wed Jan 5 15:19:43 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:19:42 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com> (multi-drop); Wed, 05 Jan 2000 15:19:42 PST Received: from pixar.com (pixar.pixar.com [138.72.10.20]) by s20.highertech.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA00840 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:03:02 -0500 Received: from buzzcut.pixar.com (buzzcut.pixar.com [138.72.30.70]) by pixar.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA12167 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:03:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from flutterby.com by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m125xaD-01ogLgC; Wed, 5 Jan 100 13:03 PST Sender: danlyke@pixar.com Message-ID: <3873B188.29C7944F@flutterby.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:03:04 -0800 From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 4b507bebfd2af3579b9eadfb7624ff0c Status: U Okay, I'd missed this one on Genehack the first time around, but it's so alarming it bears repeating. On the "police state" subject alluded to further down, US Customs agents raid Ramsey electronics for devices available at any Radio Shack (or Target, for that matter). Technocrat's take on the matter. What's frightens me most about this is that the end result of these sorts of maneuvers, criminalizing things rather than actions, almost seems a deliberate attempt to dumb down the populace.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Wed Jan 5 18:18:14 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:18:14 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com> (multi-drop); Wed, 05 Jan 2000 18:18:14 PST Received: from pixar.com (pixar.pixar.com [138.72.10.20]) by s20.highertech.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA08525 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:19:16 -0500 Received: from buzzcut.pixar.com (buzzcut.pixar.com [138.72.30.70]) by pixar.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id PAA18598 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:19:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from flutterby.com by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m125zi6-01ogLgC; Wed, 5 Jan 100 15:19 PST Sender: danlyke@pixar.com Message-ID: <3873D17A.8460C764@flutterby.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 15:19:22 -0800 From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 398e4818c909fed1e2831753da79bb3e Status: U Keith Knight on weapons safety.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Wed Jan 5 18:18:17 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:18:16 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com> (multi-drop); Wed, 05 Jan 2000 18:18:16 PST Received: from pixar.com (pixar.pixar.com [138.72.10.20]) by s20.highertech.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA08784 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 18:23:53 -0500 Received: from buzzcut.pixar.com (buzzcut.pixar.com [138.72.30.70]) by pixar.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id PAA18778 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:24:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from flutterby.com by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m125zmW-01ogLgC; Wed, 5 Jan 100 15:23 PST Sender: danlyke@pixar.com Message-ID: <3873D28C.6A15F989@flutterby.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 15:23:56 -0800 From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 204f77628ad0533414e602386e223a2f Status: U Aaaaand, a new Clean Sheets

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Aaargh! A 2 gig disk went from 20% to 100% sometime between yesterday and today. I've lost several updates. I'll hack on this later, I've gotta get-together this evening and I'm picking up Cam at midnight-thirty.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sat Jan 8 20:45:00 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 20:44:59 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 19:29:00 -0800 Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 19:29:00 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: New Site Posted - Evolving Beauty 6.0 is now online (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001081927310.9943-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Haven't checked it out yet, but Eric Boutilier-Brown promises lots of updates to his Evolving Beauty publication. Nude and nature photography that I've found compelling and interesting.

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Just dropped Cam off at the airport shuttle, we'd spent a few hours day wandering around MacWorld Expo (Don't bother following it, it gives an error, which says something...) and did some Marin siteseeing. I miss the days when trade shows were exciting, when new interesting products showed up, rather than last year's technology packaged in new and different plastic.

We also wandered through the Metreon, my first trip there. The open architecture breaking down some of the barriers between foyer and store was kinda cool. The arcade was interesting in how totally plastic and bad it was, so over the top that it could only appeal to the 8 to 13 year old set.

All in all I was happier wandering through Muir Woods and dining at Salute.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Mon Jan 10 10:57:24 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 10:57:24 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:40:53 -0800 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:40:53 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001100940160.23211-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Marylaine once again does major damage to my book budget with My Word's Worth this week, a list of her recent favorites.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Mon Jan 10 13:40:00 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:40:00 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:23:27 -0800 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:23:26 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001101220120.24179-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A new RISKS digest has a few more Y2K bugs, but the real recent computer security news seems to be the reminder that secure links are only between computers, not within them. I know of at least one moderately high profile bay area consulting company that had an e-commerce server they were running for a customer that was completely compromised due to admin stupidity, apparently they're not alone.

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While I've been busy blistingering and bruising my fingers building hardware, the rest of the world's been reacting to the AOL/Time-Warner merger, so I suppose I should toss out some commentary. In another forum Jesse James Garrett asked how two media companies managed to keep this quient. Quite simple, really: journalism is dead. News has been manufactured for a while. I didn't post anything on it on Flutterby because this shouldn't surprise anyone. AOL's been trying to advertise themselves as synonymous with the Internet ever since they got a browser. Those of us toiling outside the city need to make sure that we keep enough of interest out here in the fields that they need to keep the gates open, if we let that go we lose that small foothold we've managed for ourselves, and once again we no longer own the presses.

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Via <link url="http://www.slashdot.org/">/.</link>, the release of Broadcast 2000, the first video editing suite for Linux. Guess it's time to go get a BT848 or BT878 card...

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 11 09:27:57 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:27:57 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:11:08 -0800 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:11:08 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: good code software presents... RamenTimer (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001110810120.25890-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001110810122.25890@francon.flutterby.com> Frank passes along some refreshing honesty from good code software, makers of RamenTimer: "Since the product is currently too crappy and far too useless to be any good to anyone, we are offering it to our customers in a free, downloadable package-- A 'Thanks for sticking with us' to all our fans. "

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Larry said: "If this gets published on Flutterby then there is a very good friend of mine that needs to close up a security hole." Yep, Larry, I've got a regular expression that, for some reason, is puking regularly. I need about a week to revamp my content management stuff to handle the new SQL and XML backing correctly.

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Microsoft pays $275M to settle Caldera lawsuit.

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<link url="http://greenspun.com/ct/baylink/FROM-FLUTTER?send_to=http://baylink.pitas.com">Jay Ashworth</link> pointed to this rant on trademarking commonly used phrases which is yet another reminder that we need a revamp of the intellectual property system in this country (and, if truth be told, worldwide). Rather than protecting the interests of those who create, it's serving the leeches.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Wed Jan 12 10:40:06 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:40:06 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:22:57 -0800 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:22:57 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001120919260.26135-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Keith Knight reveals the secrest of the magician's assistant, and there's a new Clean Sheets.

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Sometimes I forget what it's like to live elsewhere: Krogers is covering up Cosmo covers because they're "too racy" for the supermarket customers. (Update: <link url="http://www.mouthorgan.com/200001/thread022.htm">mouthorgan has a thread on this</link>)

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 13 10:45:38 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:45:38 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:28:10 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:28:10 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Returned mail: User unknown (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001130928050.26135-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII As if you needed another reason to not watch TV, the US government pays millions to have messages inserted into shows.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 13 10:45:48 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:45:48 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:28:20 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:28:20 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Returned mail: User unknown (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001130928130.26135-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Frank passes along two triumphs of modern technology, FuckU-FuckMe, and the FunPhone, which might be good to keep the more credulous of your colleagues going for quite a while. The FunPhone technology explanation promises: Do I really just talk to my screen? Yes, thanks to the principles of acoustiphotoelectromagnetic resonance. In other words, your monitor screen has certain acoustical properties that vary depending on the hue and intensity of the colors it displays. The variations in resonance in response to your voice is what makes FunPhone possible.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 13 10:59:43 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:59:42 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:42:14 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:42:14 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001130941380.26135-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Via Robot Wisdom, a great article on tracking the origin of "nachos" for the OED.

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Female perversion not uncommon. Or so says a study in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality that indicates that it's not just men who are horny. Surprise, surprise.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 13 13:18:57 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:18:56 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for

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; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:36:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from flutterby.com by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m128q2Q-01ogLgC; Thu, 13 Jan 100 11:36 PST Sender: danlyke@pixar.com Message-ID: <387E2926.FE50C7E6@flutterby.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:36:06 -0800 From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: e9a0f43ea71ce9463a38ce1ad1a86a57 More fudging the news: If you were watching the "CBS Evening News" broadcast live from Times Square on New Year's Eve, you might have seen a billboard advertising CBS News out in the square behind Dan Rather. You might have looked at the well-placed billboard and wondered just exactly how it was that CBS was able to place its ad so fortuitously. The truth is, it didn't. The billboard and the advertisement for CBS did not exist. The image was digitally imported onto the live CBS broadcast and used to obliterate real objects, the NBC Astrovision underneath the New Year's ball and a Budweiser ad.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 13 13:19:00 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:18:59 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for

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; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:39:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from flutterby.com by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m128q5a-01ogLgC; Thu, 13 Jan 100 11:39 PST Sender: danlyke@pixar.com Message-ID: <387E29EA.F94570FD@flutterby.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:39:22 -0800 From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 1a93a98bd54496b8bab52e0f1c0d6256 The end of the galaxy is at hand. Or... well... might be when our galaxy has traveled two million light years to collide with the Andromeda galaxy. The results will be catastrophic for our galaxy and could spell the end of our planet. "It will be a major car wreck, and we're the Yugo in this one," said Ohio astrophysicist Chris Mihos. As a result of the collision the solar system, at present safely located out on a quiet galactic arm, could end up at the hotbed centre of the new coagulated galaxy.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 13 13:19:02 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:19:02 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for

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; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:41:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from flutterby.com by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m128q7V-01ogLgC; Thu, 13 Jan 100 11:41 PST Sender: danlyke@pixar.com Message-ID: <387E2A61.25BFACAF@flutterby.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:41:21 -0800 From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 73a9f3b20845c397c3199064cfda9cc8 Total Lunar Eclipse, January 21.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 13 15:18:32 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:18:32 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for

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; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:43:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from flutterby.com by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m128r54-01ogLgC; Thu, 13 Jan 100 12:42 PST Sender: danlyke@pixar.com Message-ID: <387E38CE.77764A5B@flutterby.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:42:54 -0800 From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: ac0f6a5d5ac804aab3fafdda8016e703 Status: U In echoes of the occasional recurring "niggardly" thing, the English Working Group on Racism in Children's Resources declares Baa Baa Black Sheep racist, ignoring that whole 1275 wool tax thing. Isn't it great that we've been freed from the shackles of interpreting history in our own contexts?

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Fri Jan 14 11:21:50 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:21:49 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:04:01 -0800 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:04:01 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Returned mail: User unknown (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001141003550.9673-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A new Need To Know.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Fri Jan 14 14:22:45 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:22:45 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:04:54 -0800 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:04:54 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Re: New weblog In-Reply-To: <14463.34725.101108.290317@cmpu.net> Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001141304080.9673-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Niel Bornstein and Kendall Clark, whom I've crossed paths with occasionally, have started a new weblog at http://www.monkeyfist.com

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If I were going to drive an SUV, I think I'd want a Volvo Terrain Truck. Great Swedish engineering without all those superfluous aesthetics that Volvo is known for. Pictures starting on page 3 of the english version.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sat Jan 15 11:44:48 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:44:48 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:26:41 -0800 Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:26:41 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-urlotd@flutterby.com Subject: Rainbow Query-Search The Queer Internet (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001151024390.10307-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Stolen from the Society for Human Sexuality mailing list: Rainbow Query - Search the Queer Internet. (Freudian slip: I first typed that in as "rainboy"...)

From danlyke@flutterby.com Sat Jan 15 11:55:29 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:55:29 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:37:21 -0800 Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:37:21 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001151036400.10307-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII What we have here is a failure to communicate: man calls phone sex line, ends up talking to wife.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sat Jan 15 12:25:57 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 12:25:57 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:07:48 -0800 Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:07:48 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001151106330.10307-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Scary Devil Monastery Meme OTD, after discussion about Sun being the "dot com people", and all the other .com advertising: Just don't .com in my mouth.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Mon Jan 17 13:28:12 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 13:28:12 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:09:24 -0800 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:09:24 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-urlotd@flutterby.com Subject: Forwarded mail.... Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001171209190.25555-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Canadian World Domination.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Mon Jan 17 13:28:18 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 13:28:18 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:09:31 -0800 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:09:31 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-urlotd@flutterby.com Subject: Forwarded mail.... Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001171209260.25555-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Marylaine takes on the case of Elian Gonzales in My Word's Worth. That vocal minority that thinks he should be kept here sure is loud.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Mon Jan 17 13:29:58 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 13:29:58 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:11:10 -0800 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:11:10 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Forwarded mail.... Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001171209330.25555-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Aggressive violent boys more popular. No real surprise there. It's funny that this should come up at the same time that Frank forwarded on this note about using saliva tests to identify violent children. Wonder what the correlation between cortisol levels and business success is?

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I have a dream.

So my sister is getting married in Las Vegas (I don't know either, when queried on the matter she said "well, it's better than Toledo", which is true, but...). I never thought I'd get near Vegas in my life, but it appears that that's gonna happen, so if anybody has suggestions on cool things to do and see in the area in late April, I'm interested. I don't know what the desert is like around there, or what's worth checking out, or even how the bloom is in that part of the season in that area. And who knows there may even be some stuff worth seeing in Vegas itself. While poking around to find prices on cheap flights to Vegas I discovered that Alaska Airlines runs on Microsoft products. Amazing what those crashes and error messages tell ya, huh? Sigh.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 18 12:03:49 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:03:49 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:44:43 -0800 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:44:43 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001181030230.25971-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've been talking with Charlene a lot about placebos and homeopathy and whatnot, and then yesterday had an interesting discussion: A friend, who shall remain nameless, was in another part of the country, and on the recommendation of an acquaintance went to an alternative healer to talk about some muscle and joint aches he's been having. The healer diagnosed him however that particular healer does, and recommended some expensive concoction made from some obscure root, which "is very popular in Chinese medicine". Looking at the ingredients list, and being familiar with procuring fresh Chinese ingredients for food, the friend decided that he could purchase said concoction more cheaply back in the bay area, so paid the healer, got a small bottle from which to work as a reference, and returned. Back in the bay area, he went from shop to shop, finding variants, until he walked into that one shop with the incense smoke and the ancient man sorting bottles behind the counter, and sure enough, the man had both the root, and tinctures made from the root. Figuring that he wouldn't get closer to the source of authentic information, my friend asked, with the aid of an interpreter, what the function of this root was. Apparently he's been drinking hair tonic for his joint problems. Beware Chinese medicine as dispensed by Caucasians.

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On the topic of things to do around Las Vegas, John passes along Cathedral Canyon. Given some of the other closer recommendations I've gotten, and that I'm planning on spending some serious time down nearer Death Valley, I'm not sure if this is going to happen this trip, but it looks like a must see. That page is part of After You've Stripped, a page of stuff in the Las Vegas area that goes beyond the strip. Looks quite useful.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 18 16:05:26 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:05:25 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:46:16 -0800 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:46:16 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001181441190.27188-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A new RISKS digest, in which Bruce Sterling points out that you can make messages invisible to Microsoft Outlook readers by putting "begin" and two following spaces on a line by itself (actually, I think this may affect more than just Outhouse).

[ related topics: Web development Microsoft ]

From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 18 16:08:14 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:08:14 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:49:05 -0800 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:49:05 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001181447370.27188-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Aaaaigh! Someone just forwarded me the NPR funding spam again, not only that this was after we'd had the discussion about the very same letter on the very same mailing list forwarded by the very same person a year ago. I don't mean to be like, cruel, or anything, but... well... never mind.

Incompetent people have no clue that they are, but perhaps more interestingly, extremely competent people tend to believe that more people are competent than really are. This would explain both Microsoft and Un*x.

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A new Clean Sheets includes some things you can do to prepare your kids for sex. Train your daughter until she is able to swiftly roll a pre-lubricated condom onto a 4 inch firehose under full pressure. She will thus be well prepared to handle most anything else she is likely to encounter.

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You've gotta take seriously those aeronautical engineers who publish their work on GeoCities: Via AVWeb, the Rotopter (in his defense, it's more a teaching project and intellectual exercise): "the initial idea of the Rotopter was simple: to replace the progressive motion of a flapping wing with rotation of the one around vertical axis. Designing a link mechanism that drive the wing (blade) in flapping movement and enable free rotation around vertical axis was not difficult. Much more challenging turn out to be creating a device that will allow variation of the wing incidence angle."

[ related topics: Cool Science ]

From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 20 09:07:50 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:07:50 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 07:48:08 -0800 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 07:48:08 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001200747380.29459-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Transmeta announced product yesterday: A couple of extremely low power X86 chips.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 20 09:11:37 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:11:37 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 07:51:55 -0800 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 07:51:55 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: [Controv-l] Anti-smoking campaign {01} (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001200750180.29459-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Canadian cigarette packs to show diseased body parts. The whole anti-smoking thing goes against my call for more evolution in our society, but do they really think that this is going to slow down the teenagers? "Oooooh, cool, a diseased lung." I anticipate people collecting whole sets.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 20 12:06:14 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:06:14 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:46:30 -0800 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:46:29 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001201045210.29727-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A new Topping the News, snippets of sex news from around the world. Also in the Spectator, a slightly interesting interview of Albert Ellis by Anthony Petkovich: Can you give me an example of one of your shame-attacking exercises? Sure -- read Screw magazine in the subway, that's a good shame -- attacking exercise.

[ related topics: Web development Erotic Sexual Culture ]

From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 20 12:25:45 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:25:45 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:06:00 -0800 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:05:59 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001201104550.29749-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Oh, and Todd has been working on content syndication and aggregation bots for the Coyote Grits site. Good if you want a quick overview of the tech news without having to wade through a gazillion slow to load index pages. One of the things it revealed to me was this Wired note about Motorola fuel cell technology, methanol based fuel cells for your cell phone and laptop, ETA 3-5 years. Goodbye, batteries?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Web development Wireless Cool Science ]

From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 20 13:02:48 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:02:48 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:43:03 -0800 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:43:02 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Specialists and generalists Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001200728080.29459-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Had a great get-together with Carl Coryell-Martin of Civilution yesterday, lots of thought provoking stuff. If you're a non-profit (or even a for-profit) looking to revamp your decision making processes, he's got some ideas which sound really fun.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 20 14:00:32 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:00:32 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:40:46 -0800 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:40:46 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001201240000.29749-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From a couple days ago in Nerve, an interesting side to Charles Gatewood's photograph.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Fri Jan 21 09:55:07 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:55:07 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:35:05 -0800 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:35:05 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Returned mail: User unknown (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001210834590.29749-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Man takes out ad in newspaper to apologize for New Year's behavior. After a hard night of partying, Howard Potter's ad in the Western Mail read, in part: "All these people, and doubtless many more, were at some time during a long night castigated, vilified, embarrassed or, worst, bored, for which he most humbly and respectfully apologizes,"

From danlyke@flutterby.com Fri Jan 21 10:49:44 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:49:44 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:29:41 -0800 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:29:41 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001210926170.29749-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Thought: There are two types of web publishing, the dribblers and the chunkers. The dribblers update as they have material, the chunkers queue up a bunch of stuff and put it out regularly. The two that came to mind were Nerve and Scarlet Letters, respectively. Actually, both of these have direct analogs in print, and it's because one is a pull medium and one is a push. Monthly magazines are push, once you subscribe, you keep getting it. Newspapers are pull, some people subscribe, but many buy on the street or in the coffee shops, so there has to be something new with the frequency that they're looking for it otherwise the customers will forget that it's there, or lose the brand loyalty. We should not forget that the web is a pull medium.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Fri Jan 21 20:40:01 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 20:40:00 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:19:51 -0800 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:19:51 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001211918370.451-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Forget all those wussie distributed computing projects, and the various benchmarks, the only benchmark that really counts is how fast a Un*x box can copy data to /dev/null. You might want to run the benchmark on various of your machines to help the man out.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sat Jan 22 13:21:16 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:21:16 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:00:54 -0800 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:00:54 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: FLASH: apologetic account canned (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001221158000.451-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Jay Ashworth forwarded along this follow-up to the guy who apologized for New Year's Eve, he got canned for bringing attention to his behavior. A pity. Jay attributed his finding the note to Jerry Pournelle's mail.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sat Jan 22 16:36:40 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:36:40 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:16:15 -0800 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:16:15 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001221512410.1277-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Help: I know of 2 ventures that need a modem that connects quickly and reliably at 1200 or 300 baud. Connect time is key, we need to get in, transfer a few bytes of information, and get out. Both groups have a large stack of surplus Boca 14.4 modems that we can't use 'cause we can't get them to not try to do the 9600 sync and the MNP negotiation, which causes big latencies. Suggestions are appreciated.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Sat Jan 22 17:28:46 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:28:45 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:08:19 -0800 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:08:19 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001221606220.1435-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Via More Like This, the introduction to XML Elements of Style. Recently I've been rambling about how programming has become a social skill more than a technical one. One of my difficulties with XML has been that it'd be nice to see some of the attitudes that influenced the design philosophies so that I don't make newbie mistakes. It looks like this book might address some of that.

[ related topics: Web development Books Content Management ]

From danlyke@flutterby.com Sat Jan 22 17:46:44 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:46:44 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:26:17 -0800 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:26:17 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001221623510.1467-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Local Rant: <link url="/archives/2000_Jan/22_WebCritiqueInformationdesign.html">Web Critique & Information Design</link> is some musings on what I want to do with a general redesign for the whole site I'm considering, including notes about some sites that have things I admire and a few that made some stupid mistakes. Finding schedule and fare information on the Golden Gate Ferry web site is one to put under "stupid mistakes".

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MarkV has some pictures of the eclipse.

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A new RISKS digest including the "real" story behind the missile toting kangaroos

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I've ragged on XML a lot, and I've expressed my complaints with the philosophy underlying XML-RPC before in this forum, but the XML-RPC interface for Manila spec coupled with some things Lindsay Marshall has talked about (throwing together lots of cross platform apps in Tcl/Tk), and some stuff I discussed with Carl Coryell-Martin, and whether or not I like the underlying technologies it's clear that desktop apps that communicate with the web are coming fast and hard. It also seems clear that your average user doesn't want the mental abstraction that I'm thinking about when I preach "no new user interfaces", that new extremely limited applications that force a structure and way of thinking (Microsoft calls them "wizards") are going to be popular.

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Semi-Meta: The web logging community has mixed feelings over Bloat (those who can't do weblog; those who can't weblog snipe at the 'bloggers), but I'd like to do a public "thank you" to Alex/Sally/T.Radhuis for kicking my butt out of a rut occasionally. Yes, sometimes it comes across as cruel, but part of the reason things strike nerves is that sometimes they're dead-on.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Mon Jan 24 18:03:16 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:03:16 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:42:10 -0800 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:42:10 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001241641290.14847-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Oh yeah, Genehack and a few others have pointed to Scud's note on coding standards, the best thing I've seen on the topic in quite a while.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 25 10:51:47 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:51:47 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:30:28 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:30:28 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001250929350.15837-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Okay, some of those open source guys have way too much time on their hands, as shown by this picture of a swapper error in a boot log.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 25 11:22:45 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:22:44 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:01:25 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:01:25 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001250958470.15880-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Life changes: Yesterday I finally handed in my card key at Pixar, I'm completely out. Four and a half years of great experiences, working with incredibly talented and intelligent people, but it's time to move on and do other stuff.

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I spent some time yesterday evening talking with an anthropologist acquaintance. 20 years ago she spent time in Peru, working with 100 kids about their hopes and dreams, photographing them and their art. Recently, she went back, and in 17 days found 50 of her students. One is a lawyer, one works in a laundry, one is in jail for sympathizing with the guerillas, one in the army. She's got all this fantastic content, and the promise of finding out where these went, and she's looking for a way to pay for going back for more follow-up interviews, and ways to publish. Since my recent pleas for help (Las Vegas and modems) have been so succesfful, surely someone out there would like to sponsor a large web site on Peru over the past 20 years, and how it's affected the hopes and dreams of the children? With the right publicity this is the sort of thing that could make an educational resource in schools, or just great reading that would target the Discovery Channel/National Geographic kind of audience. And for a .com company looking for publicity it's a hell of a lot cheaper than a Super Bowl ad!

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Speaking of Las Vegas, I've had a couple of people tell me that Valley of Fire state park is a must-see.

[ related topics: Nature and environment Las Vegas ]

From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 25 14:36:26 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:36:26 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:15:04 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:15:04 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001251313100.16039-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Word OTD: misomusist - one who feels anger and humiliation at not understanding art.

--- Milan Kundera, the Art of the Novel, p.141

From danlyke@flutterby.com Tue Jan 25 15:15:33 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:15:33 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:54:10 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:54:10 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001251352560.16066-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII David Steinberg's Comes Naturally #92 is up, talks about the Erie Pennsylvania attempt to distinguish between types of nudity.

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Ran into this first in the diary of Mary Anne Mohanraj, Who Wants to be a Millionaire acknowledging gay relationships. Heartwarming story.

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Television ]

From danlyke@flutterby.com Wed Jan 26 10:20:38 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:20:38 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 08:59:00 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 08:59:00 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001260856320.16921-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I wish I had this much charisma when I was 12 years old (Heck, I'd settle for it now...). A page collecting the exploits of the 12 year old twins leading "God's Army" against Burma.

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Via the XPLANE|xblog, focused on visual design issues, an article about user perceptions of security: "We noticed that people's perception of security when doing on-line transactions depends on the simplicity of the site and on the availability of user support."

From danlyke@flutterby.com Wed Jan 26 12:08:08 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:08:08 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:46:29 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:46:29 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001261046190.17061-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A new Clean Sheets

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Wed Jan 26 13:45:16 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:45:16 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:23:36 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:23:35 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001261222320.17344-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Keith Knight tackles California politics. It's amazing that California's legislature is so removed from the people that we need to keep amending the constitution to do anything, and it's sad that this has become so commonplace that we're getting some really stupid amendments proposed.

[ related topics: Politics Humor Web development ]

From danlyke@flutterby.com Wed Jan 26 15:57:37 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:57:37 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:35:54 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:35:54 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001261434220.17344-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Via Strange Brew, proof that any non-sequiter you can think of not only brings up valid search results, but has a web page, too: Apes with Hanggliders.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 27 16:49:28 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:49:28 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:27:26 -0800 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:27:26 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Returned mail: User unknown (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001271527200.17344-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Just when I thought it was gonna be an update-free day (I'm actually trying to get useful stuff done), Alex Bischoff forwards on a screenshot of the next killer app.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 27 16:59:06 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:59:05 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:37:03 -0800 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:37:03 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001271534050.17344-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII And I thought Jerry Springer was racy: A German talk show episode where a man was to offer a night with his wife for $500k was canceled.. Said the wife: "It's only one night. Perhaps it would be a nice change".

From danlyke@flutterby.com Thu Jan 27 17:03:07 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:03:07 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:41:05 -0800 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:41:05 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001271539070.17344-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Well, let's see. GW has never really been a viable candidate, but for a moment there I thought it might actually be possible to vote for McCain. Then he corrected his take on abortion. Won't anybody field a candidate? Speaking of competence, what the hell has happened to journalism? The article also quotes McCain as saying "It's a little painful when you're family is brought up." I doubt he said it quite that way, but can't AP find authors who passed 3rd grade, or is this just the fallout of that whole work-for-hire debacle of a year or two ago?

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Fri Jan 28 10:32:01 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:32:01 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:09:45 -0800 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:09:45 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001280906020.17344-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A couple of reasons to wank to a porn film rather than watch the State of the Union address:

• either way you're gonna see a whole bunch of people get screwed, at least in the porn film they get kissed first
• while nothing lasting comes from either, it's easier to clean up from the former
• the stories are more beleivable
• Bill Clinton
• the Republican response

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sat Jan 29 17:09:56 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:09:56 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 15:47:15 -0800 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 15:47:14 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: Terrence hi! (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001291546150.17344-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001291546152.17344@francon.flutterby.com> Game programmer? Terrence Masson is eagerly looking for people at Ronin Games.

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John Hoffman forwards on a couple more eclipse photos: http://www.shambala.net/photos towards the bottom of the page http://www.shambala.net/photos/eclipse5.jpg

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sat Jan 29 18:36:44 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 18:36:44 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:14:02 -0800 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:14:02 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: You Know You Live in Silicon Valley When.. (fwd) Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001291713160.17344-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001291713162.17344@francon.flutterby.com> It's amazing how these things manage to stay updated. Frank passes along You Know You Live in Silicon Valley When.

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Frank also passes along another instance of the USPTO out of control. email is trademarked.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sun Jan 30 11:34:37 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:34:37 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:11:41 -0800 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:11:41 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001301006020.17344-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Well, Frank doesn't send me enough links to make his own 'blog, but some days it sure seems like it: A Reason magazine article about Burning Man, mainly from the perspective of looking at government intervention. Good read.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sun Jan 30 11:38:18 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:38:18 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:15:21 -0800 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:15:21 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001301015050.17344-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Oh yeah, a new Need To Know happened on Friday.

From danlyke@flutterby.com Sun Jan 30 11:56:14 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:56:14 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:33:18 -0800 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:33:18 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001301031130.449-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII And User Friendly isn't even all that funny with its take on why people watch the Super Bowl because commercials are the only reason anyone I know wastes an afternoon. It always seemed to me that if you really had the urge to watch the actual game you could at least come out of the closet and go rent "Sweaty Bathhouse Gangbangs" or something.

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On the topic of the email trademark, Scott McIntyre points out:

"email" is not trademarked. Click through your link. Click on check status. Notice that the current status is:

"A non-final action has been mailed. This is a letter from the examining attorney requesting additional information and/or making an initial refusal. However, no final determination as to the registrability of the mark has been made." ergo, not trademarked.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sun Jan 30 12:37:46 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 12:37:45 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:14:49 -0800 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:14:48 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001301113320.449-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A new RISKS digest has some interesting notes about credit card and identity theft, points out that some web filtering software is hampering searches for "Super Bowl XXXIV" because of that "XXX", and has other interesting notes.

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From danlyke@flutterby.com Sun Jan 30 12:41:39 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 12:41:39 -0800 Received: by francon.flutterby.com; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:18:42 -0800 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:18:42 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> To: dl-quickies@flutterby.com Message-ID: <pine.LNX.4.10.10001301115450.449-100000@francon.flutterby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII With my peripheral involvement with this Peru project I've had some discussions recently about social change, what does the American answer to the questions of those living in the slums about how they get out, when what the American paid for dinner is a month's wages to the others in the discussion? Interesting Salon article on providing money for medicine in Africa and how that changes relationships.

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Aaargh! Women. Y'all don't wanna read this, and I really should just start a separate journal page for my personal ramblings, but I feel a need to vent. Since the breakup with Catherine I've been endeavoring to be as up-front (abrasive, even) about my attitudes in matters of the heart as possible. So I just got a call canceling this evening's festivities because a friend is "in a mood" and she's afraid that if I see her too much in said mood she'll "lose me". Criminy Jicket. Feeling like not going out is one thing, but... I am not a friggin' "catch", I'm a human being, looking for other human beings to associate with. Above all, I don't want someone to not "lose me" at the expense of their self. ...Sigh.... At least maybe I'll have time to fix a bit of my content management system so I no longer have to artificially tweak files to get stuff to post.

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A Salon article about photo labs turning parents as child pornographers doesn't seem to raise any issues I haven't been exposed to before, but it's yet another example of the "if it gives some mouth-breathing prosecutor an erection, it must be pornography, and therefore bad" attitude that runs so much in this country.

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Okay, I'm not generally a fan, but Tom Tomorrow's take on Elian nails it: "--- but now that he's tasted sophistication, can we really condemn him to a life in Arkansas?"

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