welcome to the cold

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Why cant I free your doubtful mind and
melt your cold, cold heart

Why cant I free your doubtful mind and
melt your cold, cold heart 01/01/2005 02:58 AM
goodbye joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh. 01/01/53 the true gran-daddy of white rock and roll is found dead in the back seat of a caddy.

Art of being cold

Art of being cold 05/28/2004 10:58 AM
Amateur digital photographer R. Todd King has posted a set of startlingly gorgeous photos of the snow and ice festival in Harbin, China.

"The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both farenheit and centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year.  The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter?  Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the cold, the residents of Harbin celebrate it, with an annual festival of snow and ice sculptures and competitions. The festival officially runs from January 5 through February 15, but often opens a week early and runs into March, since it's usually still cold enough. This is the amazing sculpture made of snow greeting visitors to the snow festival in 2003." Link (Thanks, Michael-Anne!)

Cold IM

Cold IM 06/18/2004 06:59 PM
This is insane, but perhaps a sign of things to come. I got my first cold call via IM today. They got my handle off of a mailing list archive. Now I get a lot of cold calls. That's what...

Cold Winter

Cold Winter 06/22/2005 01:56 AM

I got another free product in the mail the other day to review — a PS2 game called Cold Winter.

It was rated M (for Mature), but I'm not much of a gamer so I enlisted my 10-year-old son to play it with me.

It's something of an espionage adventure that starts in a Chinese prison. You are Andrew Sterling, disavowed secret agent of some kind, and you have to fight your way out. I gather there's a lot more after that, but we never found out (keep reading).

Cold Winter earned its M rating: in one of the first cut scenes, Sterling gets tortured and has his finger bent back until it breaks (yes, it's as bad as it sounds). Thoughout the rest of the game, when he's holding a pistol so you can see his hands on the screen, he flexes his left hand as if it's still stiff from the break however many months ago. And when you get shot, there's a lot blood. And...chunks. And then there's the guy who gets killed sitting on the toilet, and just kind of slumps there. It's not elegant.

Anyway, the storyline didn't hold our interest so much, so we quit that and just went to two-player mode — you know, Capture the Flag and all that. It turns out that Cold Winter is a pretty good first person shooter.

It tends toward the realistic side of combat, rather than the cinematic. There are a lot of weapons to pick from, and they have realistic touches: you run really slow while carrying the rocket launcher (tough to do much but camp), and if you fire anything more than a short burst from the MP5, the recoil kicks it up so you're shooting at nothing but air. The controls are good and, before long, we were running around blowing each other to smithereens for a couple of hours.

The gas grenades are the best part. You can lob one and seal off an area with poison gas. Your opponent can only wait until it dissipates enough to make a run through it (though I'm willing to bet there's a gas mask in the game somewhere — we were two busy killing each other to bother looking).

If you get exposed to gas, your vision starts getting blurry and you may go down for the count, which makes you pretty picky as to whether you should risk making a run for it. (In fact, you can get shot in this game, but not die right away — you limp away from a fire fight only to lose too much blood and go down around the corner or something.)

There's a poetic joy to trapping your opponent in some alley with a cloud of poisonous gas, then just firing rocket after rocket blindly into the cloud until he comes stumbling out.

Later, as we were cycling through the game options to play, we found an interesting one called "Headmatch." It's like the flag-based games where you get a point for every second or so you're holding the flag. Except there's no flag. It's the "decapitated head of an unknown man." Seriously.

When you start a headmatch, first you have to find the head, which could be anywhere. So me and the boy are running around the rooftops of some Morrocan town, looking for a decapitated head, which was pretty funny, actually.

He finds it first and yells, "I've got the head! I've got the head!" I tell him to wait so I can come over to look at it. Then I tell him to turn around so my guy can crouch down and look under it while he holds it aloft by its hair.

Then, suddenly, it hit me: I'm the worst parent ever.

Et Cetera: uh, it is way too cold.

Et Cetera: uh, it is way too cold. 01/16/2004 01:00 PM
Round up featuring Playboy (what!), news on Dothan problems, good news for AMD, and more legal mojo centered on Microsoft. And more!

O'Reilly and the Cold War

O'Reilly and the Cold War 12/19/2004 03:40 PM
Thanks for the amazingly thoughtful and interesting comments on the O'Reilly show. I want to answer one questions about that because several people raised it: Why would any sensible person agree to be a guest on that show? Truth be told, I've always in the past declined to be on the Factor and other shows like it. I agreed this time because the issue "Is dissent disloyal?" is important, I've thought a lot about it, and I thought I might be able to contribute something useful. And I would have, had he not changed the issue! But, since the main thrust of my guest stint on this blog is learning lessons from past mistakes, I won't do it again! (The reason, by the way, is not because it's unpleasant, but because no one should allow himself to be used by a demagogue.) Speaking of which, let's return to our history. We left off with the Japanese internment. As several comments noted, the Supreme Court in 1944 upheld the internment in the case of Korematsu v. United States. In effect, the Court held that, in wartime, we all have to make sacrifices, and it couldn't say that the decision to internment these people was not a rational military decision at the time it was made. Korematsu has gone down as one of the most profoundly embarrassing decisions in the history of the Supreme Court, and the nation has in many ways confessed the unconstitutionality of the internment in the sixty years since the decision. (As an interesting aside, by the way, I sumbitted a friend of the Court brief on behalf of Fred Korematsu --he is still alive and flourishing -- in the Guanatamo Bay, Hamdi, and Padilla cases in the Supreme Court last spring.) At the end of World War II, Americans were optimistic. We had the strongest military in the world, we had just won a "great" war and we had clearly been on the side of the angels. The world was at peace. Within a short time, however, everything changed. Although the Soviet Union had been our ally during the war, relations collapsed beween the U.S. and the Soviet Union as the need for that alliance disappeared. Within a stunningly short period of time, the American economy took a nosedive, there were revelations of Soviet espionage, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb, China fell to the Communists, Americans began to build bomb shelters as they prepared by nuclear bombs to rain down upon our cities, and the Korean War burst upon the scene. Who was to blame? How did the Soviets get the bomb? Why had China fallen to the Communists? A group of anti-New Deal Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats had the answer -- it was American Communists who had sold us out and were working to further the Soviet cause. Men like Richard Nixon in California and Joseph McCarthy in Wisconsin began to play the Red Card in order to get elected, and they did. In the 1946 elections, the Republicans, who now portrayed the choice as one between Communism and Republicanism, picked up 54 seats in the House. After being out of power for 16 long years, the Republicans had found a strategy that could propel them back into power. Democrats, who were overwhelmed by the growing anti-Communist hysteria, jumped on the bandwagon, afraid to resist. Within a few short years the United States had a new federal loyalty program for over four million government employees, the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated thousands of individuals to determine if they were secret Communists, state and federal governments adopted their own loyalty programs, investigations, blacklists, and anti-Communist laws. Tens of thousands of people were threatened, intimidated, fired, humiliated, and even prosecuted. Who were these people? Were they spies and sabotuers? No doubt, there were Soviet agents in the United States. But they were almost never the target of these actions. They were too well-hidden for that. Rather, these actions were cynical efforts to make political hay by taking advantage of, and exacerbating, the fear that was already upon the land. So, who were these people? After the Depression, many Americans began to search for answers to what had happened to the nation. Many toyed with communism. At this time, the Communist Part of the United States was a lawful political party that ran candidates for public office throughout the nation. It stood for such causes as women's rights, the rights of labor, and public housing; it opposed the rise of fascism in Europe and racism at home. As many as 250,000 Americans joined the CPUSA in this period. Moreover, many millions more participated in CPUSA events or joined other organization that shared some of the goals and programs of the CPUSA. During World War II, we fought side-by-side with the Soviet Union, and FDR encouraged Americans to see the Soviets as our allies and friends. After the war, though, all this fell apart. And suddenly the most dangerous question in America was: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party or a member of any organization that is or was affiliated with the Commnist Party or have you ever attended an event sponored by the Communist Party, or signed a Communist Party petition, or attended a Communist Party rally, or read a Communist book?" An affirmative answer to any of these questions would immediately cast doubt on the patriotism and loyalty of the individual. After all, how do we know you're not still a Commie who is secretly working to subvert the government of the United States. This was the heart of McCarthyism.

Cold Hard Fax

Cold Hard Fax 12/19/2004 03:44 PM
Today, Ev Williams said Faxing Sucks. But if you look back on the web archive, there's clearly a record, on my sidebar, of me having said faxing sucks on April 11, 2000. That was four and a half years ago! Despite the fact that it took some time for the...

A Cold Place

A Cold Place 08/12/2004 02:31 AM
Henry Kaiser visited Antarctica in 2001 and kept a photojournal. He brought back some amazing photos of ice towers, strange and gross creatures, ice caves, ice dives, and a South Pole exorcism, as well as videoclips. And if you liked those, there are more photos of the icy continent here.

Navini comes in from the cold

Navini comes in from the cold 04/16/2004 06:27 AM
Renegade broadband outfit joins WiMax

Stone Cold IPO

Stone Cold IPO 09/20/2004 01:18 PM
StoneMor Partners debuts on the Nasdaq.

MTV gets cold feet, or does it?

MTV gets cold feet, or does it? 05/27/2004 06:12 AM
This turns into one of those cases where researching a story gets weirder. The documentary Supe r Size Me centers on a documentary filmmaker's 30 day experience eating nothing but McDonalds. The film is doing amazingly well as a limited release documentary grossing more per screen than high-budget Troy. Here is the weird part, Reuters has picked up on a distributor press release claiming that MTV is refusing to air advertising for Super Size Me because the film is "disparaging to fast-food restaurants". The Reuters short seems to have quite a bit of legs. However a Hollywood Reporter article details MTVs side of the story placing the blame on the film's distributor. Is this really a case of a network getting cold feet? Or is it a case of distributor trying to pull the "too edgy for MTV" moneymaking ploy? And what is with the continually morphing Reuters clip that is just now being tossed onto doorsteps and stuffed into newsboxes across North America? (The film was previously discussed on metafilter back in January.

cold fish

cold fish 05/04/2004 12:58 AM
Frozen seas. A brief but kind of amazing collection of photos of the deck of a fishing trauler in fridgid conditions, where every exposed surface has layers of frozen saltwater accumulated. This condition can cause the boat to become topheavy and capsize, as well as just plain making life more miserable for those that work on the deck.

"Cold Turkey "

"Cold Turkey " 05/13/2004 03:37 AM

Thawing out the CIO-CFO cold war

Thawing out the CIO-CFO cold war 02/16/2004 07:21 AM
Bo Hofstead says it's time to start chipping away at a dangerous corporate wall of mistrust--or else send out an SOS for Henry Kissinger.

No More Cold Feet

No More Cold Feet 04/12/2005 02:48 PM
Rebelscum reader magic26 writes in: Today at my Wal-Mart, I found this great display...Only bad part there only kids size shoes....

Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey 05/26/2004 01:02 AM

"Cold Fury"

"Cold Fury" 08/05/2004 03:56 PM

Viruses nip Russia after the Cold War

Viruses nip Russia after the Cold War 05/25/2004 10:25 AM
For all its disadvantages, the former Soviet Union had one hugely overlooked advantage: it kept hackers, crackers and virus writers confined inside the country by restricting their access to the Internet.

Have We Written Off Cold Fusion Too
Soon?

Have We Written Off Cold Fusion Too
Soon? 04/23/2004 01:32 PM
Fusion research is generally considered something of a pseudo-science in some circles as almost every major announcement in the field is later disproven or made highly questionable when the results weren't reproducible. However, some researchers won't give up, and some are saying that, while it may still be early, some of the experiments are showing reproducible results, suggesting that there may actually be something to the theories. After so many people have been burned by cold fusion claims, it makes sense to remain skeptical for now, but maybe the science isn't as pseudo as some believed.

Heating up a cold theory

Heating up a cold theory 08/05/2004 02:30 PM

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Cold War check point

Cold War check point 02/10/2004 02:44 AM

One main reason I detest 100% Flash-based sites so much is because they don't promote sharing and linking which are two big things to do on the Web. See a cool new game screenshot that you want to show your friend? Sorry, no can do with that 100% Flash-based site because everything is contained under one URL which is like a Cold War check point for the entire site.

Nollind Whachell in a discussion on Asterisk*.

TiVo Leaves Mac Out In The Cold

TiVo Leaves Mac Out In The Cold 04/15/2005 05:14 AM

The Raging "SE vs Affiliate" Cold War

The Raging "SE vs Affiliate" Cold War 02/01/2005 09:16 PM
In the escalating struggle between Engine and Optimizer it is all about tactics, not methods.

Cold, tired, hungry...

Cold, tired, hungry... 12/02/2003 01:25 AM
I'm thankful for the PA Day on Friday. Gives me time to catch up on a ton of work. Hey,...

Some WiFi and a Cold Beer only in the UK

Some WiFi and a Cold Beer only in the UK 11/14/2003 04:38 AM
God Bless the Brits for being so damn smart or maybe not Seems you can go down to the pub...

Much of U.S. Celebrates Cold Christmas
(AP)

Much of U.S. Celebrates Cold Christmas
(AP) 12/25/2004 10:56 PM
AP - Mother Nature delivered a bone-chilling Christmas to much of the nation Saturday, but holiday travelers made it out in droves despite record snow that shut down highways two days earlier in the central states.

Shark Tank: How we won the Cold War

Shark Tank: How we won the Cold War 09/15/2004 12:27 AM
It's the middle 1960s, and this pilot fish in the U.S. Army Signal Corps is tapped for the job of installing top-secret encryption equipment in a brand-new comm center as soon as it arrives.

Cold Fusion versus PHP

Cold Fusion versus PHP 02/17/2003 08:07 AM
Cold Fusion versus PHP I just picked up some work (Pro Bono; sigh but for a good cause) doing Cold Fusion work and this resource (albeit quite dated) helped me wrap my head around it. It is also STILL the top resource for "PHP versus Cold Fusion" via Google which is quite impressive for a 2 12 year old technology article on web development. Testament to Google's ranking of weblogged content. [_Go_]

Internet Cold War Heats Up

Internet Cold War Heats Up 12/14/2002 03:04 PM
"The ruling from Australia's highest court on Tuesday, that content created in one country can be subject to the laws of another country..."

Of Cold Fusion And Perfect DRM

Of Cold Fusion And Perfect DRM 04/19/2005 11:06 AM
It's funny how every year or so, some company comes out with a claim that it has created the absolute perfect copy protection system that works perfectly every time, preventing unauthorized copying, but allowing authorized playback. The latest such claim comes along with amusing boasts such as its ability to "wipe out" file sharing. Beyond the fact that most content companies (despite their claims) don't want to wipe out file sharing, there simply is no way to make a perfect copy protection system. If the content needs to be seen, listened to or read, then there will be a way to make a copy and get it on a file sharing system. It's that simple. Of course, we're dealing with industries that seem to have no problems whatsoever in exaggerating claims -- so perhaps it's normal. Next thing you know, we'll find out that these firms are working on cold fusion and perpetual motion machines.

Cold Fury » Someday, some way

Cold Fury » Someday, some way 08/05/2004 03:49 PM
How Tom Ridge should answer dumb-ass press questions! .. here

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Target to Clamp Down on Cold Medicines
(AP)

Target to Clamp Down on Cold Medicines
(AP) 04/18/2005 11:19 AM
AP - Target Corp. will no longer allow unfettered access to cold medicines that are used to make the illegal stimulant methamphetamine.

Cold Computing Turns Hot(spot)

Cold Computing Turns Hot(spot) 04/17/2005 01:26 AM
PC World Online Apr 17 2005 5:57AM GMT

Phone alerts set on hot, cold days

Phone alerts set on hot, cold days 05/26/2004 06:16 AM
Chicago Tribune May 26 2004 10:55AM GMT

Heart Attacks More Likely in Cold
Weather (AP)

Heart Attacks More Likely in Cold
Weather (AP) 08/30/2004 05:37 PM
AP - People with high blood pressure seem to be more vulnerable to heart attacks when the temperature drops, new research shows.

Thieves Take $40K in Cold-Blooded
Animals (AP)

Thieves Take $40K in Cold-Blooded
Animals (AP) 07/27/2004 04:12 PM
AP - Thieves broke into the Lowcountry Reptile and Amphibian Expo in Ladson over the weekend and got away with loads of slithering and shelled creatures.

the branding of Cold Stone Creamery

the branding of Cold Stone Creamery 07/21/2004 02:44 PM
because "heart-stopping yummy fatness" wasn't as good a brand name

Domino's Arrived Cold and Stale

Domino's Arrived Cold and Stale 07/14/2004 03:12 PM
Fatty, flabby Domino's Pizza's IPO was little more than an opportunity for insiders to cash out.

Campbell's Cold Earnings Soup

Campbell's Cold Earnings Soup 06/30/2004 12:42 PM
The company scales back the growth rate it announced three years ago. That's not a good sign.
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