A grim and fascinating irony.

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Irony

Irony 01/22/2004 03:21 AM
RSS Winterfest

"RSS Winterfest is happenin' today and tomorrow and lots of good feeds are being tossed around and captured, of course, via RSS Resources Blog with a feed of its own." [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]

My aggregator: "Can't subscribe to the channel. The most likely cure is to check the URL in a web browser and see if you can get it to read the feed. The following message probably won't help you figure out what went wrong, but we include it here because it might. "Poorly formed XML text, we were expecting a tag. (At character #359.)" "

Sigh.

Bad sex or good irony?

Bad sex or good irony? 12/22/2004 01:34 AM
Tom Wolfe beats some stiff competition to win a prize from the Brits for the year's worst lovemaking in fiction.

Department of Irony

Department of Irony 05/11/2004 06:08 PM

Microsoft is holding a "S ecurity Summit" next month.

Gentoo - Now with More Irony

Gentoo - Now with More Irony 06/17/2005 03:45 PM

Daniel Robbins, the founder of my beloved Gentoo Linux, bowed out of the Gentoo community last year, setting up a non-profit organization to responsibly manage Gentoo and all of the intellectual property that surrounds it. He, along with others, created a very popular Linux distribution that provides unique benefits over the other offerings that are available. Unfortunately, open-source alone wasn't paying the bills, and Daniel had to find other work.

Mr. Robbins began his new job late last month. With Microsoft:

Gentoo founder and former Gentoo Chief Architect Daniel Robbins began a new position at Microsoft on 23 May 2005. According to drobbins: "I'm helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects." While in the midst of hastily packing to move to Redmond, [Robbins] nonetheless managed to find the time to finalize the transfer of Gentoo's intellectual property (essentially copyrights on ebuilds and other software as well as soon-to-be trademarked Gentoo logos) to the not-for-profit Gentoo Foundation, Inc.

Best of luck to him, but it strikes me that without Gentoo, I might not have gotten rid of most of the Microsoft products that I owned. I just hope that "helping Microsoft understand open source" doesn't mean "unwittingly helping Microsoft understand how to get rid of the 'open source problem'".

Fascinating Referral Log

Fascinating Referral Log 12/23/2003 05:45 PM
They say curiosity killed the cat, well when I look thru my referral logs to see where this website readership...

The Irony of JavaScript's Success

The Irony of JavaScript's Success 08/20/2004 06:21 AM
JavaScript has had a roller coaster ride of early phenomenal success, then some bruisings and now renewed success as a macro language, but this recent success may be the highpoint for JavaScript. By Jacques Surveyer. 0820

An irony to start the week

An irony to start the week 07/19/2004 09:53 AM
Eric Eldred of NH parked his Internet Bookmobile in the parking lot at Walden Pond (an irony in itself when you think about it) and started giving out free copies of Thoreau's Walden. He was told to leave or face arrest. Jonathan Zittrain of Da Berkman is supplying legal advise. And, yes, this is the same Eldred who asked the Supreme Court to get Sonny Bono spinning in his grave. Damn troublemaker! (I noticed the article first because of the picture of Eldred wearing his Creative Commons t-shirt, the very one I happen to have on today. Too cosmic! Oh,...

Who says americans can't do Irony? (Part
2)

Who says americans can't do Irony? (Part
2) 02/12/2004 08:03 AM
Leading the charge to alter the state constitution to restrict marriage in Massachusetts to one man and one woman is none other than the Governor, Mitt Romney. Mitt's a Mormon (one of the many splinter sects of christianity). You remember the Mormons, right? They're the group that triggered the passage of the original federal (and many state) marriage laws in the first place because of that whole polygamy thing... This could just be ~150 years of payback, I suppose. (I'm not sure that getting the support of gay groups in the 1800s would've done much for their cause)...

Who says Americans don't understand
Irony?

Who says Americans don't understand
Irony? 03/13/2003 10:14 AM
Though maybe one of his speechwriters is British. Last week, Bush made a speech chiding the world community for not...

Microsoft Irony and Credibility

Microsoft Irony and Credibility 01/28/2003 03:40 PM
While Microsoft ramped up their "trustworthy computing" initiative, there is the slight problem of credibility. Once again, Microsofts own servers were infected with the lastest virus.

fascinating SEC filing today

fascinating SEC filing today 04/29/2004 04:23 PM
Google's S-1 .. IPO Form .. more

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fascinating, interactive overview

fascinating, interactive overview 11/13/2003 05:26 AM
The making of a Lego brick .. How Lego Bricks are made

popandco.com/archive/moab
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"fascinating SEC filing today"

"fascinating SEC filing today" 04/30/2004 11:54 AM

Fascinating Landsburgh piece

Fascinating Landsburgh piece 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
Steven E. Landsburg .. The Sin of Wages

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Americans do understand irony
(part 2)

Americans do understand irony
(part 2) 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
The US, as part of our "blow the heck out of Iraq" policy, is pumping billions of dollars into the...

fascinating backgrounder on the grey
album

fascinating backgrounder on the grey
album 01/19/2004 06:13 AM
jay-z and the beatles, together again for the very first time

Fascinating state of the Blogsphere
Report

Fascinating state of the Blogsphere
Report 03/14/2005 04:34 PM

Fighting the flu today so I feel like I got hit by a truck. Lot's of work to do and not a good time to get sick. But I saw this report on the state of the Blogspehere and wanted to make sure everyone got a chance to look at it. [David Sifry]

and cam's fascinating first-person
account

and cam's fascinating first-person
account 06/01/2004 04:18 AM
watchblog was a major venue for the story's start

Concerning Naked Lunch: Part 2 - Nausea
and Irony

Concerning Naked Lunch: Part 2 - Nausea
and Irony 06/05/2005 10:54 PM
 This is the second in a series of essays about the book Naked Lunch, designed to introduce the book properly to new readers. Generally, people hear about the life of William Burroughs before they read any of his work. The goal of these essays is to point out the more important aspects of the work, rather than the man. This essay will deal with the use of irony and satire in Burroughs' work, and the way he uses them to highlight the hypocrisy of his time.

Gaming Hacks, comprehensive, fascinating
and eclectic

Gaming Hacks, comprehensive, fascinating
and eclectic 12/31/2004 08:23 AM
Cory Doctorow: I just finished reading Simon Carless's Gaming Hacks, one of the latest O'Reilly Hacks books, and I can't remember when I've had more engrossing fun with a technical book.

Like all the hacks books, Gaming Hacks is arranged around 100 "hacks" -- tricks you can use to get more from gaming. They proceed from the simple to the hellishly complex, so there's something here for everyone.

That's even more true than is usual in the Hacks series, though, because of Carless's incredible, comprehensive, eclectic view of the kinds of hacks that might interest a gamer. Here are some of my favorites:

• How to hack an old Atari 2600 controller: rehabilitate your old paddles without WD40, then splice them into a modern PC (also: how to download, play and write "homebrew" games for the 2600 and other boat-anchor platforms that are produced by console aficionados who enjoy the challenge of programming for 8-bit, minimal-RAM game environments)
• Roll your own "machinima" -- movies made by recording the action taking place in a game environment, then dubbing in studio-recorded voices
• Learn to read enough Japanese to play grey-market games imported from Japan
• Create your own scripts for automating repetitive "grinding" tasks in massively multiplayer games
• Etiquette for joining adventuring parties in MMOs
• Detect and foil cheaters in networked first-person shooter games
• Build a killer home theatre audio setup to maximize your game platform's 3D sound
• Build a portable device out of an old console, like the NES
• Overclock your console
  

This gives you a flavor for the book's subject-matter, but it doesn't convey wonderful prose style: Carless writes like a great, fetishistic geek, like the Car Talk guys or the folks on The Screensavers, like someone who's really, really enthusiastic about his subject matter and wants to wise you up to all the truly awesome wonders awaiting you.

Combine that with a stupendous introduction by sf-writer-turned-game-writer Marc Laidlaw, who wrote the Half-Life series for Valve, and a slew of highly knowledgeable co-authors who contributed various tips, and you've got the perfect mix of informative, enjoyable and fascinating. This book is staying on my shelf. Link

America's 25 Most Fascinating
Entrepreneurs: Steve Jobs

America's 25 Most Fascinating
Entrepreneurs: Steve Jobs 04/16/2004 09:09 PM
I've spent 27 years talking to, writing about, and watching Steve Jobs. And I have to say he has the best taste in product design, the best abaility as a one-on-one technical manager, and the greatest skill at making the rest of us want to buy stuff we don't strictly need of any American industralist, ever. By Robert X. Cringely, Inc.com (via MyAppleMenu)

Fascinating interview with Steve Jobs
about iTMS

Fascinating interview with Steve Jobs
about iTMS 12/09/2003 07:21 AM
future of the music industry .. compete

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A fascinating and broad-ranging piece by
Christopher Caldwell

A fascinating and broad-ranging piece by
Christopher Caldwell 02/16/2004 05:35 AM
Christopher Caldwell On: With Friends Like These In Europe .. in-depth, must-read article .. SURVEY OF ANTI-AMERICANISM

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Fascinating interview with Jonathan
Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones

Fascinating interview with Jonathan
Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones 03/27/2005 02:51 AM
Forensic types

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Grim Numbers

Grim Numbers 06/16/2004 07:11 AM
Winning hearts and minds in Iraq (or anywhere else, for that matter)? Not really. Check this U.S.-sponsored poll, then pray and hope for the best.

The Grim Glory of War

The Grim Glory of War 09/09/2004 02:33 PM
The grim glory of war. Hundreds of pictures from the front lines in Iraq. I was very skeptical about posting this link, but I thought it'd be useful to all our sofa warriors here at MeFi, so they'll have some images to relate to whenever they equate "support our troops" with "keep them there for as long as it takes".

""Therein lies another exquisite irony:
the costs of anti-Americanism will be
borne not by Americans, but by others.""

""Therein lies another exquisite irony:
the costs of anti-Americanism will be
borne not by Americans, but by others."" 04/11/2004 03:00 AM

Inside Google Documents offer
fascinating insight into the search
engine

Inside Google Documents offer
fascinating insight into the search
engine 04/30/2004 01:34 PM
BBC Apr 30 2004 4:39PM GMT

Grim times for Iraq

Grim times for Iraq 09/21/2004 10:19 AM
The militant group responsible for the latest beheading of an American is one of the most brutal and sophisticated in Iraq -- and its targets extend beyond Westerners.

George Will: Irony And Steel - Democrats
may demand Bush ignore international law
and buck the WTO

George Will: Irony And Steel - Democrats
may demand Bush ignore international law
and buck the WTO 11/17/2003 09:14 AM
Sunday WaPo column

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43081-2003Nov14.html
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Old Soldiers, Fading Away at a Grim Pace

Old Soldiers, Fading Away at a Grim Pace 05/29/2004 12:10 PM
As Memorial Day approaches, veterans from World War II are dying at the rate of about 1,200 a day, and veterans' cemeteries are running out of room to bury them.

Iraq suffers day of grim violence

Iraq suffers day of grim violence 09/14/2004 06:43 PM
Dozens die in attacks across Iraq, dominated by a devastating car bomb which kills 47 in Baghdad.

After the Wall of Water, Only Grim
Discoveries

After the Wall of Water, Only Grim
Discoveries 12/27/2004 11:15 PM
In Cuddalore, India, a wiry gravedigger had no time to waste, no sentiment to spare: just a mass grave for victims, and mass grief.

Grim Grinning Ghosts Come Out To
Socialize...

Grim Grinning Ghosts Come Out To
Socialize... 10/31/2003 06:07 AM
"Actually, we have 999 happy haunts here, but there's room for a thousand... Any volunteers? Well, if you should decide to join us, final arrangements may be made at the end of the tour. A charming 'ghost'ess will be on hand to take your application."

Grim times for hard drives

Grim times for hard drives 05/28/2004 06:14 AM
ZDNet UK May 28 2004 9:49AM GMT

Looking for Political Reform? See the
Grim Reaper

Looking for Political Reform? See the
Grim Reaper 08/11/2004 05:01 AM
Any political reform in Egypt will almost certainly be confined to the margins as long as Hosni Mubarak remains president.

You Can't Hide from the Laptop Grim
Reaper

You Can't Hide from the Laptop Grim
Reaper 06/02/2004 09:42 PM
Internet.com Jun 3 2004 1:35AM GMT

Grim Reaper Visits EasyLink

Grim Reaper Visits EasyLink 07/06/2004 11:26 AM
By all appearances, EasyLink is being hit for a minor offense. Not according to the SEC.

By a Back Door to the U.S.: A Migrant's
Grim Sea Voyage

By a Back Door to the U.S.: A Migrant's
Grim Sea Voyage 06/12/2004 01:56 PM
A reporter's journey as a client of smugglers provides a rare look inside one small part of the vast pipeline that carries untold numbers of migrants to the United States each year.
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