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India to swear in first Sikh PM
India to swear in first Sikh PM
05/21/2004 06:58 PMManmohan Singh will be sworn in on Saturday, after Sonia Gandhi
refused to lead the new Congress government.
Georgia to swear in new president
Georgia to swear in new president
01/24/2004 08:20 PMMikhail Saakashvili, who led a peaceful revolt last year, is due to
become Europe's youngest head of state.
Mozilla Source Code Swear Count
Mozilla Source Code Swear Count
04/09/2004 04:06 PMHenrik Gemal: "Inspired by the Linux kernel swear counts I did a quick
search of the words in the Mozilla source code"
fuck in 23 files
shit in 45 files
crap in 259 files
bastard in 10 files
Some of the search results are dictionary references, and others are
legit, as in the case of bitch:
#define morkCh_IsSevenBitChar(c)
Bono promises not to swear again at
awards (Reuters)
Bono promises not to swear again at
awards (Reuters)
01/23/2004 01:27 AMReuters - The U.S. government can relax. Irish rock star Bono promises
he will not
swear again on live television if he wins a Golden Globe Award on
Sunday.
Swear word song hits number one
Swear word song hits number one
04/18/2004 05:33 PMA song with 33 expletives, Eamon's I Don't Want You Back, enters the
UK singles chart at number one.
Vandal Edits Swear Words in Library
Books (AP)
Vandal Edits Swear Words in Library
Books (AP)
07/20/2004 07:47 PMAP - A self-appointed editor of library books has given new meaning to
"purple prose." The do-it-yourself censor is turning swear words into
"darns" and "hecks" — in purple ink.
Explicit Content Only, NWA's Straight
Outta Compton edited to contain only the
swear words
Explicit Content Only, NWA's Straight
Outta Compton edited to contain only the
swear words
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Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era
Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era
03/13/2003 10:25 AM Chalmers
Johnson is an provocative proponent of the
American Empire
theory, indeed. Here are excerpts from his
Blow Back: The Cost
And Consequences of American EmpireI heard Johnson
interviewed on Episode II,
War And Conflict In The Post-Cold War,
Post-9/11 Era of
The Whole Wide World
The Cold War and its central conflict - the physical and
ideological battles between the United States, the Soviet Union and
their proxy states - imposed a certain logic and consistency on the
world. Take that away and add the bloody wars in the Balkans, Africa
and the Middle East in the ‘90s as well as the terror attacks and
warnings of more recent times and you get a very confused picture of a
world at war. Is this breaking storm in Iraq about oil, democracy,
freedom, empire, culture, water, diamonds, modernizing Islam or nation
building in the Middle East? Some, one or all of these
things?It was an excellent program and well worth your
listen, either by RA now or mp3 later.
(From listening to the
radio) Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices
Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices
04/09/2005 05:19 AMDMeurope.com Apr 9 2005 9:28AM GMT
By accessing, browsing and/or using this
post, you acknowledge that you
understand and agree not to complain
about the content of this post or the
character of its author and his
intellect.
By accessing, browsing and/or using this
post, you acknowledge that you
understand and agree not to complain
about the content of this post or the
character of its author and his
intellect.
09/01/2004 11:08 PM
Fruity Just a Bunch of Links, but They’re
Good Links, I Swear
Just a Bunch of Links, but They’re
Good Links, I Swear
05/01/2004 11:03 PMLinks to interviews with Rich Siegel and John Calhoun, BBEdit 7.1.4
release notes, and an excellent story from Andy Hertzfeld on the
development of Switcher.
It's like a wedding. I swear to God,
it's a wedding for all of Iraq
It's like a wedding. I swear to God,
it's a wedding for all of Iraq
02/01/2005 09:11 PMelection
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this post at Command Post
12/14/2003 01:41 PMexcellent news roundup .. Saddam ..
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"the post"
"the post"
05/12/2004 04:03 AM"this post"
"this post"
02/10/2004 09:26 PMFirst Post!
First Post!
12/29/2003 11:55 PM"We’re just getting started here and we’ve got a few
things happening:
What the heck is this?
WiFiCharlottetown.org (this website) is all setup and should provide a
central resource for WiFiCharlottetown info and discussion.
Hardware is on the way! We have ordered a few Sputnik..." (100 words -
posted by steven) 7 replies
Post It!
Post It!
08/28/2004 04:25 AMSitting up late, chatting with Sifry about his DNC stories and
conventions and how to cover them and wondering if the real RNC story
might be
outside
the building, and reading the latest on war videography from a
moonlight
ing Salam Pax. My personal bet is that New York will be noisy but
nonviolent, both the demonstrators and the cops have too much to lose
by being scary on TV. Still, I bet there’s some first-rate theater
in the streets. So, here’s an idea. Go to Manhattan. Get yourself
a high-end PowerBook laptop with a bunch of batteries and a FireWire
and USB ports and enough WiFi service provider accounts that you’re
always online... then, print up a sandwich board that says
Your
Pictures And Movies... On The Web Now! and walk around, and then,
if something happens, it won’t be film at eleven, it’ll be right
now.
Can't add? Can't post.
Can't add? Can't post.
12/17/2004 06:28 PM
I've been taking a few pokes at attempting to fend off some of the
comment spam on my blog.
The first is obviously to turn off comments altogether, but I very
much enjoy the conversation some of my posts garner and find making
the channel one-way unacceptable.
The second is to go through occasionally and clean things up. I must
say that this option is getting rather tiresome rather quickly.
I know there are typekeys, logins, email confirmations, image
recognition, and other such methods, but I'm not overly fond of any of
them.
So, here I am noodling.
And I couldn't help coming back to something I've always been fond of:
maths. What if I were to raise the barrier to posting just ever so
slightly to ward off at least the dumber of the bots using a simple
addition problem? If you you're on the individual page for this post
or click the permalink (that's the
# if you're reading
this on my site proper), you'll notice I've added a simple
x + y
= to the bottom of my writeback form. The numbers are chosen at
random between 0 and 9 and "hidden" in variables x and y. Get the
addition problem wrong, and your post is rejected. The logic (such as
it is) is handled by a minor adjustment to my
Blosxom
writeback plugin.
I know this probably isn't some new idea (people have been talking
about this with respect to sending email, adding a calculation tax to
the sender's client and computer). But I put it out there as a first
prod and look forward to any feedback you might have.
Of course there are a couple of known issues right off the bat:
- This doesn't extend to trackbacks and thus I'm still wide open to
trackback spam. The only solution, should something useful be found
for comments, would be to build this into a trackback spec, but I
leave this as an exercise for further down the road.
- If this were to be baked into every Blosxom site or, indeed, every
blog, spammers would soon figure it out (it's not hard and they're not
as stupid as you'd hope they'd be), and the bots would learn a little
math. A couple of thoughts popped into my head around this:
- Use hashed variable names for x and y, the hash generated based
upon a site-/blog-specific key and some other bit of algorithmic
sugar, limited time use, and so forth.
- Employ a one-off to embed the two numbers in your page, post, or
URL. If in the post itself, call it out somehow that's obvious to
human readers.
But, as I said, this was more a pop than a proper noodle.
Again, this might have been thought of before, might simply be a
stupid idea, or might be sheer brilliance ;-) ... we shall see.
Post #4,000
Post #4,000
06/22/2005 01:56 AMWell, here we are at #4,000. This puts us just 1,000 posts away
from our stated goal of 5,000. Along with the 4,000 posts, we have
6,050 comments as of this writing, and that's very cool. We
appreciate all the interaction everyone has with the site.
Interestingly, we hit 2,500 posts exactly one year
ago today. That means our daily post count is about 4.1 (almost 6
without weekends). This means we'll hit 5,000 posts early next
spring, which is always what I figured. We'll have some contest or
something when that happens and hopefully give some stuff away.
So as long as we're celebrating a blog posting, here's a list of
some of the best and more interesting posts of the last 4,000:
Most Commented Posts
Both posts have had their comments shut down since. The Bill Gates
post was the first post I ever did this on — in fact, I had to
go look up the exact template tags to do it.
When this site was deanebarker.net, there was actually a post about
politics that got over 300 comments. (Although that's cool, about
every post at Rosie O'Donnell's
site gets over 300 comments — this one got
almost 2,000 comments, in fact. You see, that's the trick to getting
a lot of comments — become a famous lesbian.)
Longest Posts
- The Josh Clark interview, at over 5,000 words, is the longest. But
that doesn't really count, since I didn't write most of it.
- This article on Web usability that I wrote back in 2000 (and
published in 2003) is the next longest (read it with a grain of salt,
remembering it was written five years ago, which is 100 years ago in
Net time).
- Third place is the The Building of Basecamp Review.
Shortest Posts
Posts With the Most Prominent Links
Any one of those links mentioned is worth 5,000 page views,
easily.
My Favorite Posts
Most Glaring Example That The World Is Ending
Some of the comments on this post, easily. I mean, come on people — do I have to
spoon feed the sarcasm?
The Post Most Likely To Get Me Sued
I've been watching the comments on the Geek Squad
post pretty carefully. Nothing has gotten out of hand, and there's
a lot of good discussion going on, so I'm keeping my hands off for
now. However, it still makes me a little nervous.
Only Post I've Ever Been Threatened About
There were some comments on this post
about Convea that I was asked to take down under threat of "legal
action." I'm still bitter about it, but I wussed out and folded.
(Some long-time readers will remember that this site came down for
six weeks in early 2003 when I was threatened over another post, but
it was a completely different site back then, so that doesn't really
count. And I deserved that one.)
Posts That Bummed Me Out The Most
Two of them, actually — both pretty recent.
- The comments of th
is one about the new design
- The comments on thi
s one that accused me of tricking people into clicking on AdSense
links.
Both sucked, but they are what they are. People have every right
to express their opinions.
Most Pissed Off I've Been While Writing A Post
This one, about the comment spammer. That's also the
closest we've come to getting taken offline.
Post Containing the Most Hyperlinks
This one. There's 40 of them in here. Markdown
rules.
So, what's next? Some ideas for the future:
Ask Gadgetopia
I'd like to provide a place for readers to ask questions of the
community that's built-up around this site. Not specific "debug my
code" questions, but general questions about the best way to do
something. There's a lot of knowledge out there I know some people
would like to tap.
Reader Survey
We did a survey a long time ago. I'd like to do another one to find
out who's reading. Total vanity, but still.
Let's Give Stuff Away...
I'm getting an increasing number of people offering me review copies
of stuff (software, games, books...) in exchange for some publicity.
I've started asking for two copies: one for me to review, and one for
me to give away to someone. However, I can't figure out a good way to
give the stuff away.
Let's Go Somewhere...
I'd like to send Dave or Rob to MacWorld, or me or Joe on this PHP cruise. I'd need
to know, however, that we can provide some unique value. A lot of
sites send people to these things — can we provide something
different enough to make it worthwhile?
So, that's it. I'm sure I'll forget about post #4,500, so I'll see
you number 5,000. I'll be here — I hope you will too.
First XML-RPC Post
First XML-RPC Post
12/01/2002 11:58 AMThis is my first post using my XML-RPC server. I hope it works because
if it does it'll be quite good for expansion.
I first post, therefore I am
I first post, therefore I am
01/16/2004 11:05 AMePhilosopher. Slashdot got drunk with Sartre, and this is what
happened. I have a cold. I am not happy today....
This post has been ignored
This post has been ignored
06/05/2005 11:10 PMWith her new Aggregator 2.0, Jeneane is able to ignore up to 1,500
blog posts an hour......
the one where i post about E3
the one where i post about E3
06/05/2005 10:54 PMThat sinus thing I had last week is trying very hard to move into my
chest. Im exhausted after being...
"wash post "
"wash post "
06/23/2004 03:00 AMA Ghost, This Post
A Ghost, This Post
04/09/2004 04:03 PM
This post is a ghost.
It will shimmer and fade; literary wraith.
It's posted by the new version of Blogger, not yet seen.
Fleeting? I'm not sad, its passing is purposeful.
It will, I imagine (and fear), be replaced by others.
"entire post"
"entire post"
06/18/2004 11:21 AM"Washington Post "
"Washington Post "
12/16/2003 08:48 PMPortugal PM set for top EU post
Portugal PM set for top EU post
06/27/2004 09:47 AMIrish PM Bertie Ahern says he will propose Jose Manuel Durao Barroso
as European Commission president.
Last Post in Radio
Last Post in Radio
06/28/2004 10:08 AMIt's getting too frustrating trying to get Radio to publish what
I'm writing, so this will probably be the last post until a new
solution is in place. Hopefully nothing too important will come up
during that time. Thanks for your patience.
Usenet post
Usenet post
12/08/2003 09:29 PMAccording to a
Usenet post,
Octigabay is using Infiniband
as their cluster interconnect with a custom HCA that attaches directly
to the HyperTransport port on the Opteron. This allows them to get
under 2us MPI latency when
sto
ck IB HCAs get 6us.
"follow up post "
"follow up post "
07/25/2004 02:34 AMThis is not a fetish post
This is not a fetish post
08/19/2004 02:38 PM
To appease to the handful of BoingBoing readers who protested
yesterday's overabundance of marginally worksafe gadget/girl fetish
photo posts, I offer -- here it comes, folks -- a Japanese collector's
huge, obsessively-organized gallery of backpacker cooking stoves.
Guaranteed 100% babe-free. But it's a big internet; chances are that
someone, somewhere is super-turned-on by this.
Link (
Thanks, jared).
"very concise post"
"very concise post"
08/09/2004 02:41 AMxss in moodle (post.php)
xss in moodle (post.php)
08/06/2004 06:52 PMJavier Ubilla Brenni (Aug 06 2004)
AMR: IT now in the post-technology era
AMR: IT now in the post-technology era
11/19/2003 05:48 PMCompanies are more focused than ever on business processes and saving
money, rather than on technology, according to AMR Research.
From the Washington Post
From the Washington Post
07/12/2004 01:03 AMnterview
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Scarlett to take up new MI6 post
Scarlett to take up new MI6 post
07/31/2004 02:10 AMJohn Scarlett is set to become the new MI6 chief over the weekend
despite calls for his resignation.
Post Your Notes
Post Your Notes
02/11/2004 09:41 PMDo everyone a favor and post your Etech session notes on this wiki
page. Its starting to become a great resource....
Need A Few Post-Its Around The Office?
Need A Few Post-Its Around The Office?
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