Monthly Archives: April 2002

Clones Reported in Italy

Space Daily: Attack of the Clones (no, not the darn movie).

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Mmm, Floyd

Was it love, or was it the idea of being in love?Or was it the hand of fateThat seemed to fit just like a glove?The moment slipped byAnd soon the seeds were sownThe year grew late and neither oneWanted to … Continue reading

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The Gujarat Riots Blame Game Continues

ToI: US Rights Group blames Sangh for Gujarat Riots. A good thing to ask at this time, I think, is: Cui Bono? The only person I see benefiting from this is the Gujarat Chief Minister, because (alas) there’ll be many … Continue reading

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RSS Enclosures in Radio

While Dave talks about streaming movie trailers to Radio users, one (don’t know which one) of my subscriptions (I use Radio 7.0.1) has been quietly doing that — streaming high quality Quicktime trailers to me. Right now it’s downloading http://samby01.jamby.net/movies/collateralDamage.mov. … Continue reading

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Kashmir – Is Compromise Possible?

Looking for information on some bank addresses, I came upon this picture of Kashmir. Noble sentiment, yes. But I have this gut feeling that most Indians would be happy to accept the LoC as an international border provided there is … Continue reading

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Great DMCA Banner

This banner has a good way of making its point. Funnily enough, the site is the #1 hit for DMCA on Google, even ahead of the loc.gov site.

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Book on the Pre-Industrial Night

How do you think about nights? Chances are, you don’t. Nighttime is time to spend time at home, at pubs and restaurants and cinemas and concerts. Or maybe escape it all and spend a few moments under the stars with … Continue reading

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Pay Sites

Disney might suck, but there’s still a lot the dot-com brigade (rather, the newly desperate cash-seeking dot-com brigade) can learn from old bricks-n-mortar operators like them. Like Disneyland’s ticketing options, for example. Consider: today, Yahoo insists you pay separately for … Continue reading

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Another Blogger Outage

Blogger’s SQL Server database was suffering through a overstuffed transaction log today. Oh well.

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If Darth Vader had a Supercomputer

(Via Rob) If Darth Vader had a supercomputer, this would be it: The CM-2. Drool drool drool. This so beats the NeXT in coolness.

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