Bloggers Unite the states
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Bloggers unite to fight
Bloggers unite to fight
12/11/2003 10:57 AMBBC Dec 11 2003 10:42AM ET
Non-Conformists Unite!
Non-Conformists Unite!
10/29/2003 12:12 AMAt long last, just what I've been looking for: C'mon, kids, let's all
sign up! In case you're wondering, this comes from my new Epson Stylus
CX5200 printer/copier/scanner. My old one has been making clunking
noise, like a car running over a tool chest, so I figured it was time
to replace it. The CX5200 prints 22/ppm of black, does 15
copies/minute, and doesn't need to go through the computer to make a
copy. It cost $99 after rebates at MicroCenter. Anyone need a black
cartridge and a color cartridge for an Epsson Stylus 900, a model so
old that...
VB6 Lovers, Unite!
VB6 Lovers, Unite!
03/14/2005 06:07 PM
Microsoft MVPs revolt: I wish them luck, but there ain't a chance
Microsoft is ever going to do anything that backs away or compromises
.Net in any way.
Over 100 Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) have signed
an online petition that demands Redmond resume development and support
of "classic" Visual Basic, a-k-a VB6. [...]
It's "basically" impossible to migrate programs written in earlier
versions of Visual Basic to the .NET version. [...]
Microsoft's product managers will likely say this is not the case,
and will point to migration tools and strategies the company offers.
But those product managers aren't the poor bastards faced with
rewriting millions of lines of source code to reinvent crucial
applications, nor do the Microsofties have to swallow hard while they
lose dependable business logic refined over decades.
I could see Microsoft resuming support of VB6, but
development of it? No.
Unite and conquer
Unite and conquer
04/14/2004 09:15 AMA recent commentary by Robin Miller regarding squabbling within the
free software and open source communities was a useful wake-up call.
This bickering is having a detrimental effect on our ability to
confront those who are trying to convince policy and opinion makers
against the use of free and open source software (FOSS). These
challenges are neither severe nor insurmountable, but they do require
the parties understand the differences between internal and external
debate.
Big six unite to can spam
Big six unite to can spam
06/23/2004 09:06 AMThe Register Jun 23 2004 1:23PM GMT
Social Capitalists, Unite!
Social Capitalists, Unite!
06/30/2004 06:11 AMFollowing our report on the top 20 social capitalists (January),
several groups in the Company of Friends connected with social
entrepreneurs to gauge the state of social capitalism in their own
communities.
Consumers of the world, unite!
Consumers of the world, unite!
02/05/2005 09:02 PM
Boycott City.
This interesting
Askme
thread and this
informative post
inspired me to post this. There are many of the
usual suspects
here, and boy, do these folks hate
Jiffy-Lube<
/a>. Also boycott
news and
personal essays.
You can even oppose a boycott, thereby boycotting a boycott.
requires registration, but it is free and fun Wi-Fi chipmakers of the World unite!
Wi-Fi chipmakers of the World unite!
11/11/2003 05:48 AMChoose me, Cisco, please, please, please
New England CLECs unite
New England CLECs unite
03/26/2005 05:41 AMCTC Communications of Waltham, Mass., and Lightship Telecom of
Bedford, N.H., this week announced they are merging. Financial terms
of the deal were not disclosed.
Crafting hipsters unite
Crafting hipsters unite
11/19/2003 02:16 PM
At Craftster (a community for crafting hipsters), the motto is, "No
tea cozies without irony." Get in touch with your kitsch-fetish and
your urbanity, all at once.
Link
(
Thanks, Leah!)
Blog Crawlers unite!
Blog Crawlers unite!
03/06/2004 01:50 AMEven YOU can have your own Technorati web service!
The Internet Archive has an open source spider (and there are others
- as well.)
Just imagine all the cool stuff you can 'harvest'?
Proliferation of Blog
Crawlers.
The traffic to my blog has doubled in the past two months.
While some of that is due to new readers and subscribers, good part of
that traffic is due to blog crawlers. With the smell of money in
the air, I am afraid we'll be seeing an explosion of blog crawlers in
the near future.
How long before only a tiny fraction of the traffic is actually
read by a person? How long before the blogosphere is swamped by
convenience-driven waste and greed-driven abuse?
[
Don Park's Daily
Habit]
Mozilla, Gnome unite against Longhorn?
Mozilla, Gnome unite against Longhorn?
04/28/2004 07:15 AMZDNet Apr 28 2004 11:22AM GMT
Internet firms unite against spam
Internet firms unite against spam
06/23/2004 06:11 AMPresstelegram.com - Wed Jun 23, 08:37 am GMT
Stars unite for poverty campaign
Stars unite for poverty campaign
12/31/2004 08:32 PMStars including Bono, Travis and Jamelia are supporting the year-long
Make Poverty History campaign.
Cell, home numbers may unite
Cell, home numbers may unite
11/03/2003 10:05 AMUSA Today Nov 3 2003 8:56AM ET
Microsoft, Intel and HP unite for small
biz
Microsoft, Intel and HP unite for small
biz
03/30/2005 02:13 PMThe Register Mar 30 2005 3:52PM GMT
Pop stars unite for wave victims
Pop stars unite for wave victims
01/01/2005 02:55 PMSome of the biggest stars in the music world are uniting to record a
charity single for tsunami victims.
Stars unite for Charles funeral
Stars unite for Charles funeral
06/15/2004 03:54 AMMusicians including Stevie Wonder and BB King will unite for a Ray
Charles tribute at the singer's funeral on Friday.
Leaders Unite to Honor D-Day
(washingtonpost.com)
Leaders Unite to Honor D-Day
(washingtonpost.com)
06/07/2004 06:11 AMwashingtonpost.com - CAEN, France, June 6 -- Under a pristine blue
sky, more than 20 world leaders gathered Sunday to commemorate the
60th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, the world's
largest amphibious military expedition, which cost tens of thousands
of lives and eventually wrested control of mainland Europe from Nazi
Germany.
In First, Allies and Axis Unite to
Remember D-Day
In First, Allies and Axis Unite to
Remember D-Day
06/07/2004 02:57 AMThe victors and the vanquished came together on the Norman coast to
commemorate the landing exactly 60 years ago that led to Europe's
liberation.
TelstraClear, Telecom may unite on 3G
network
TelstraClear, Telecom may unite on 3G
network
12/02/2003 12:37 AMThe New Zealand Herald Dec 1 2003 11:14AM ET
TelstraClear and Telecom may unite on 3G
network
TelstraClear and Telecom may unite on 3G
network
12/02/2003 12:37 AMThe New Zealand Herald Dec 1 2003 5:55PM ET
Perens: Unite behind Debian, UserLinux
Perens: Unite behind Debian, UserLinux
11/11/2003 10:26 AMAn anonymous readers writes "Infoworld is running a report on the
Desktop Linux Conference, at which Bruce Perens suggested that in
order to get Linux to the ...
Telstraclear, Telecom may unite on 3G
network
Telstraclear, Telecom may unite on 3G
network
12/02/2003 12:37 AMstuff.co.nz Dec 1 2003 6:57PM ET
5 technology giants unite against piracy
5 technology giants unite against piracy
01/05/2004 12:26 PMMessage to Online Publishers: Unite or
Die
Message to Online Publishers: Unite or
Die
07/02/2002 11:59 AM"Online publishing has returned to its original question: How do we
make money doing this?"
Governors Unite in Medicaid Fight
Governors Unite in Medicaid Fight
12/25/2004 05:17 PMThe nation's governors are fearful that President Bush plans to shift
more Medicaid costs to the states.
Search Engine Spammers...Unite?
Search Engine Spammers...Unite?
06/22/2005 02:33 AMMozilla, Opera Unite to Standardize Web
Mozilla, Opera Unite to Standardize Web
06/30/2004 05:53 PMInternet News Jun 30 2004 9:37PM GMT
Movie and tech industries unite!
Movie and tech industries unite!
07/14/2004 08:03 AMHollywood and tech companies ally for an advance content system. This
new system may allow consumers to make back up copies of movies while
allowing the flexibility of viewing on multiple devices.
Thought for the day:Unite to beat the
bad guys
Thought for the day:Unite to beat the
bad guys
09/01/2004 04:21 AMComputer Weekly Sep 1 2004 8:33AM GMT
Socialites unite dolphin groups
Socialites unite dolphin groups
08/12/2004 09:48 AMDolphin groups, or "pods", rely on socialites to keep them from
collapsing, scientists claim.
Troops' families unite in anger
Troops' families unite in anger
08/18/2004 08:19 AMFamilies of soldiers who died at Deepcut and in Iraq unite to call for
changes in how the army handles deaths.
Server vendors unite for the common good
Server vendors unite for the common good
12/17/2003 01:28 AMInterface orgy
Five Giants in Technology Unite to Deter
FileSharing
Five Giants in Technology Unite to Deter
FileSharing
01/06/2004 05:36 AMnytimes.com/2004/01/05/business/05share.html
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East and West Unite at Historic EU
Summit (AP)
East and West Unite at Historic EU
Summit (AP)
05/01/2004 02:11 AMAP - Leaders from across Europe set aside their concerns about the
EU's growing pains Saturday to seal the entry of 10 nations into the
European Union and mark the end of the continent's Cold War divide.
Mobile industry must unite to beat WAP
scam
Mobile industry must unite to beat WAP
scam
06/03/2004 06:42 PMNew Media Age Jun 3 2004 9:48PM GMT
Bush Urges World to Unite With Iraq (AP)
Bush Urges World to Unite With Iraq (AP)
09/21/2004 05:00 PMAP - President Bush, defending his decision to invade Iraq, urged a
vast assembly of world leaders Tuesday to stand united with the
country's struggling government and said the proper response to
spreading violence "is not to retreat, it is to prevail."
Cyber Community Where Humans and AI
Chatbots Unite
Cyber Community Where Humans and AI
Chatbots Unite
05/31/2004 02:13 PMThe P2B (Person 2 Bot) Consortium has released www.chatbot.us, a cyber
community where humans and chatbots unite. This new technology allows
users to bring a TANU (Transplantable Artificial Neurological Units)
AI chatbot with them when they chat [PRWEB Dec 14, 2003]
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I have purple flying monkeys on my pj's
I have purple flying monkeys on my pj's
03/06/2004 01:55 AMCrazy day today. Twice we had to evacuate the school. Once during my
history test, which was not cool whatsoever,...
Dispatch the Flying Monkeys
Dispatch the Flying Monkeys
12/02/2003 12:40 AM And here's the extra special edition wherein it's annnounced that for
a limited time only, I am on the job market! Yes, that's right, the
holidays are fast approaching, and what better way to cope with a
killer Visa...
Purple and Green
Purple and Green
03/19/2005 03:24 AM
« Finns enjoying a walk out on the grasshopper-free ice in -20C
weather thanks to St. Urho. »
Today is St. Patrick's Day but yesterday, yesterday was St. Urho's
Day, both of which are goofy folklore that have metamorphosed into
back-to-back drinking holidays. The only Urho people think of in
Finland is the former president, Urho Kekkonen, not the guy who
apparently drove the grasshoppers out of Finland in mid-winter and
saved the grape harvest. I asked a bunch of people about St. Urho and
every one said, "Kekkonen?". There's a statue of Urho in Minnesota
where the dedication plate reads:
THE LEGEND OF ST. URHO
One of the lesser known, but extraordinary legends of ages past is
the legend of St. Urho-Patron Saint of the Finnish vinyard workers.
Before the last glacial period wild grapes grew with abundance in
the area now known as Finland. Archeologists have uncovered evidence
of this scratched on the thigh bones of the gieant bears that once
roamed northern Europe. The wild grapes were threatened by a plague of
grasshoppers until St. Urho banished the lot of them with a few
selected Finnish words.
In memory of this impressive demonstration of the Finnish language,
Finnish people celebrate on March 16, the day before St. Patrick's
day. It tends to serve as a reminder that St. Pat's day is just around
the corner and is thus celebrated by squares at sunrise on March 16.
Finnish women and children dressed in royal purple and nile green
gather around the shores of the many lakes in Finland and chant what
St. Urho chanted many years ago.
"HEINASIRKKA, HEINASIRKKA, MENETAALTA HIITEEN."
(Translated: "GRASSHOPPER, GRASSHOPPER, GO AWAY!")
Adult male, (people, not grasshoppers) dressed in green costumes
gather on the hills overlooking the lakes, listen to the chant and
then kicking out like grasshoppers, they slowly disappear to change
costumes from green to purple. The celebration ends with singing and
dancing polkas and schottisches and drinking grape juice, though these
activities may occur in varying sequences. Color for the day is royal
purple and nile green.
SULO HAVUMAKI
The only thing that's green and purple around this time of year is
the vomit on the sidewalks. Honest. I found a paper online Ethnic Symbols: Their Role in Maintaining and Constructing
Finnish American where the Finnish author tries in earnest
to figure out what the American Finns are on about but fails.
Lastly, I will point out that the item St. Urho was ranked as the
most controversial item on this list. St. Urho is the fictional Saint
of the Finnish Americans who supposedly stopped an invasion of
grasshoppers. It seems that there is great debate as to whether St.
Urho should be considered a true symbol of Finnishness.
Finnishness? The only Urho these people think of is Kekkonen and he
has a fountain. Not to mention where are the vinyards in Finland? In
March? This has Hallmark Drinking Holiday written all over it. It is
Finnish only in the 'hey, it's cold out, let's go drinking' aspect. :)
Another Finn in the US critques the whole
St. Urho's thing which is pretty funny. There are also St.
Urho's kitsch for those who really embrace the holiday. I nearly
wet my pants reading the Ode to St. Urho which sounds more like some
Irish brogue gone wrong more than Finnglish...
Ooksi kooksi coolama vee
Santia Urho is ta poy for me!
He sase out ta hoppers as pig as pirds.
Neffer peefor haff I hurd tose words!
He reely tolt tose pugs of kreen
Braffest Finn I effer seen
Some celebrate for St. Pat unt hiss nakes
He kot tall and trong from feelia sour
Unt ate kala moyakka effery hour.
Tat's why tat kuy could sase toes peetles
What krew as thick as chack bine neetles.
So let's give a cheer in hower pest vay
On Sixteenth of March, St. Urho's Tay.
And then, and then, and then...then there is the Urho carol which is
tragic at best....
Urho Boy
(To the tune of Jingle Bells)
Dashing ‘cross the yard
With a pitchfork in one hand,
Urho sees his foe
Munching all his land.
Grapes both green and red
Falling from the vine,
Urho has to get those hoppers
Or there will be no wine.
Oh, Urho boy, Urho boy,
The bravest that we’ve seen
Use the sisu that you’ve got
To get those bugs of green.
Hey!
Urho boy, Urho boy,
Our future’s in your hands.
Stop those hoppers in their tracks
And save our mother land!
So, no, St. Urho's isn't Finnish, not in the least, but drinking
holidays are always welcome around here so in that respect it might be
adopted someday. And, for those Americans with their pictures taken in
front of St. Urho's pub, I regret to inform you that it was named for
Kekkonen. :)
Happy St. Patrick's Day :)
The Color Purple
The Color Purple
04/21/2004 02:03 AMTonight, as the U.S. election year news-churn moves to the question of
whether Senator John Kerry deserved his several Purple Heart
citations, it's time to explain military conventions to those who've
never served.
Blood pumping out from the human heart through arteries is oxygenated
and bright red. On return (through veins) and having done its work,
blood is bluer, plurplish. Harvesting the lungs' largess, the heart
enriches and reddens it again, and sends it back out. You'll...
Purple Pilcrows
Purple Pilcrows
06/01/2004 04:17 AMWhen everyone from Lauren to Aaron Swartz is whining at me to make the
#-marks go away, I have to listen. I’ve
adapted Simon Willison’s brilliant hack, and a couple of remarks are
worth making...
Seared without, purple within.
Seared without, purple within.
08/15/2004 08:02 AMThere are few disadvantages to living in Florence. Those that there
are tend to be balanced out by the good stuff: a lack of real ale
versus 80¢ espressos; the shops shutting for four hours at lunch
against the saintly...
Purple Or Blue?
Purple Or Blue?
04/04/2005 03:20 PMWe're getting a lot of email from fans commenting on the two shades of
ROTS card-backs.
Dreaded Purple Master
Dreaded Purple Master
02/19/2004 08:49 AMpurple rain movieoke
purple rain movieoke
07/12/2004 02:25 PMit helps that i know all the dialogue
Purple Number Signs
Purple Number Signs
05/30/2004 12:09 AMUntil this weekend I’d never heard of “Purple Numbers” but
they’ve been across the radar twice in the last day, first in some
commentary by Chris Dent on the Atom-Identifier issue, then
again over at
Jonas
Luster’s place. First I thought, why not? Then, why numbers?...
ongoing · Purple Number Signs
ongoing · Purple Number Signs
05/30/2004 11:36 PMTim Bray is trying out .. Purple Number Signs .. Tim's
entry
tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/29/PurpleNumbers
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Glacial Erratics: Big Day for Purple
Numbers
Glacial Erratics: Big Day for Purple
Numbers
05/31/2004 07:10 AMBig Day for Purple Numbers .. described by Chris
Dent
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Cadbury Trademarks The Color Purple, and
they're not alone
Cadbury Trademarks The Color Purple, and
they're not alone
03/25/2005 11:52 PMXeni Jardin:
Boing Boing reader Rob says,
Because it's Easter, I find myself in the possession of a Cadbury chocolate product. What
do I find on the back?
"Cadbury, ellipse device, dairy milk, the glass and a half device
and THE COLOUR PURPLE are Cadbury Limited trademarks used under
licence in New Zealand by Cadbury Confectionery Ltd."
All our purple are belong to Cadbury Confectionery Ltd.!
Link
Update: Kevin
Fox sez
In regards to Cadbury trademarking the color purple, four years ago I
was working as a boom operator on an independent film and noticed that
the boom manufacturer, Mr.LongArm, had trademarked the color yellow. I
thought it was funny enough to document. blog post (tangential), and
photo.
MartinS in Germany says,
Check my compatriots: been there, done that. German Telecom also
thinks they own the letter "T". Link
one, Link
two.
Thomas J. Brown says:
In addition to Cadbury trademarking the colour purple and Mr. LongArm
trademarking the colour yellow, my mum used to work for an ad agency
that held an account with McDonalds. They have specific shades of red
and yellow that are trademarked. I've also heard tell that Mattel
owns green (G.I. Joe) and pink (Barbie).
plinks - a purple numbers variant
plinks - a purple numbers variant
05/30/2004 02:54 AMVia Tim Bray, I came across the concept of
Purple Numbers. In a nutshell these are
permalinks attached to every paragraph on a page which, to paraphrase
Tim, make every paragraph on a page a first-class Web citizen.
That's a very worthy concept, but the implementations I've
seen have so far failed to inspire me. First of all, while the ability
to link to any paragraph on a page is useful, the links themselves are
either ugly, distracting or both. While reading Tim's entry I found myself mentally
pausing after each paragraph: probably because I'm used to the purple
# marks on Scripting News and
other such sites designating the end of an entry. They're also extra
cruft in my markup.
So, my ideal purple numbers implementation would minimise
markup pollution and visual clutter.
Another issue with purple numbers is permanency: they're
absolutely no good if they don't stay as true permalinks. This rules
out naively generating them on the fly when a page is outputted as
future edits to an article could result in links targetting different
paragraphs entirely. Instead, the links (in the form of id attributes
on paragraph tags) need to be assigned when the content is created. If
additional paragraphs are later added to the content they should be
numbered in such a way as not to intefere with the original paragraph
links, which I shall call plinks for the sake of brevity.
We'll ignore the issue of visual clutter for the moment:
let's look instead at how plinks can be introduced without polluting
the markup of my pages. While the IDs that form the target of the
links are a critical part of the structure of the page, the actual
links are something of a convenience for people who don't want to dig
through my source code looking for IDs and are unaware of the various
bookmarklets that can reveal them (such as Jesse Ruderman's named anchors). As such, I don't see the links as a critical
part of the page content, so I have no qualms whatsoever about
appending them to the page using JavaScript after the page has loaded.
Here's the function I'm using:
function addpLinks() {
var paras = document.getElementsByTagName('p');
for (var i = 0; i < paras.length; i++) {
var current = paras[i];
if (/^p-/.test(current.id)) {
// It's a purple link paragraph
var plink = document.createElement('a');
plink.href = document.location.href.split('#')[0] +
'#' + current.id;
plink.className = 'plink';
plink.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' #'));
current.appendChild(plink);
}
}
}
The function iterates over every paragraph on the page
looking for paragraphs with an id that starts with "p-", my chosen
format for plink IDs. When it finds one, it creates a new link using
the DOM and assigns
it an href attribute which is the base URL of the current page (not including any
existing fragment identifier) with a # and the paragraph's ID appended
on the end.
My plinks all have a class of "plink", which allows me to
style them. This is where I can reduce the visual clutter on the page
as much as possible. Consider the following:
p a.plink {
text-decoration: none;
color: #c8a8ff;
display: none;
}
p:hover a.plink {
display: inline;
}
In an ideal world this would make the links invisible
until the mouse cursor was positioned over the containing paragraph.
Unfortunately, IE for
Windows only honors the :hover pseudo-selector when it is applied to
links. I'd like IE users
to have at least a chance of discovering my plinks, so I came up with
this:
p a.plink {
text-decoration: none;
color: #fff; /* the page background colour */
}
p:hover a.plink, p a:hover.plink {
color: #c8a8ff;
}
The plinks are initially invisible by virtue of having the
same colour as the page background. In browsers that support :hover on
paragraphs, they become visible (by changing colour) when the mouse
hovers over the paragraph. In browsers that only support :hover on
links, they become visible when the mouse hovers over the links. Sure,
they're a lot harder to find but I see it as an easter egg for
IE users. Another example
of MOSe in action.
There are a couple of more pieces to the puzzle. Firstly,
adding all of those IDs to those paragraph tags is the kind of task
that humans avoid and computers thrive on. Now I could automate this
in my CMS, but
I'm not in the mood for PHP at the moment so I've automated it in a
bookmarklet instead: Add plink IDs (drag
to your bookmarks). The bookmarklet will look inside any textareas on
the current page and add an ID to every paragraph, provided it's a
simple <p>. It's something of a quick
hack but it does the job. Here's the bookmarklet code expanded to show
how it works:
javascript:(function() {
var tas = document.getElementsByTagName('textarea');
for (var i = 0; i < tas.length; i++) {
var ta = tas[i];
var text = ta.value.replace('<p>', function() {
if (typeof arguments.callee.counter == 'undefined') {
arguments.callee.counter = 0;
}
return '<p id="p-'+arguments.callee.counter++ +'">';
});
ta.value = text;
}
})();
Incidentally, the above uses a technique I picked up
today while flicking through David Flanagan's eternally useful
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide. Inside a JavaScript
function a special object called arguments is available.
The object has a property called callee which refers to
the function itself, even if as above it's an anonymous function.
Since functions are objects they can have properties: in this case, I
create a counter property and use it to keep track of the
IDs as I assign them. The whole lot is contained within a function
argument to a replace call, where the function is called every time a
<p> is found to determine what to
replace it with.
At this point I had everything I needed, but then
inspiration struck: how about a method of highlighting a paragraph if
a user should visit a page using a link that targetted it? Suporting
this meant adding yet another function to be executed once the page
had loaded:
function plinkHighlight() {
if (/#p-/.test(document.location)) {
// The user arrived via a plink
var plink_id = document.location.split('#')[1];
var para = document.getElementById(plink_id);
para.className = para.className + ' plinkHighlight';
}
}
A custom style for the highlighted paragraph can now be
defined using the plinkHighlight class hook.
I've now implemented all of the above on this site
(mostly in the file plinks.js) although
currently this is the only entry that contains plink IDs. Best of all,
I didn't have to touch a single line of my CMS! This JavaScript thing could really
catch on some day.
Milk it, Baby: Godin's Reflections on
Purple Cow
Milk it, Baby: Godin's Reflections on
Purple Cow
02/26/2003 03:48 AMGoogle runs the risk of being just a very good utility unless they
start aggressively developing flankers. Google news was an example of
that. ...
Man in Purple Robe Leads Police on Chase
(AP)
Man in Purple Robe Leads Police on Chase
(AP)
04/05/2005 11:52 PMAP - A man sporting a purple robe led police on a bizarre, 1 1/2-hour
pursuit through two counties before he was arrested Tuesday,
authorities said.
amy sedaris hosting Purple Rain on Trio
amy sedaris hosting Purple Rain on Trio
04/28/2004 10:04 AMalong with some other cult classic movies like Heathers
Even monkeys wouldn't use a Mac
Even monkeys wouldn't use a Mac
03/31/2005 10:56 PMWe're just monkeys
We're just monkeys
04/01/2005 03:18 PM
Jim Downing @ Smart Mobs
like a monkey driving a car
This article in Businessweek says that "the study of neuroeconomics
may topple the notion of rational decision-making. According to the
new science of neuroeconomics, the explanation might lie inside the
brains of the negotiators. Not in the prefrontal cortex, where people
rationally weigh pros and cons, but deep inside, where powerful
emotions arise. Brain scans show that when people feel they're being
treated unfairly, a small area called the anterior insula lights up,
engendering the same disgust that people get from, say, smelling a
skunk. That overwhelms the deliberations of the prefrontal cortex.
With primitive brain functions so powerful, it's no wonder that
economic transactions often go awry. "In some ways, modern economic
life for humans is like a monkey driving a car," says Colin F.
Camerer, an economist at California Institute of Technology".
Why Logic Often Takes A Backseat
I generally
don't like the idea of trying to turn everything into economics. It
often reminds me of trying to make music with math. This idea that we
act irrationally is obvious to most people and if neurologists can
help explain it to the economists, good. But I don't think it's just
our economy that's being run by monkeys.
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The JSP Files -- Part 1: Purple Pigs in
a Fruit Basket
The JSP Files -- Part 1: Purple Pigs in
a Fruit Basket
06/06/2002 06:00 AMWebmasterBase Jun 6 2002 0:50AM ET
Simon Willison: plinks - a purple
numbers variant
Simon Willison: plinks - a purple
numbers variant
05/31/2004 05:19 AMSimon Willison made the technique dynamic .. plinks - a purple numbers
variant .. already with the variants .. JavaScript
implementation
simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/05/30/plinks
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Lime green + Lilac purple = Colorlicious
dreams
Lime green + Lilac purple = Colorlicious
dreams
05/18/2004 04:34 PMLast year I had a season with orange but as I typically am prone to do
I've suddenly become wildly...
The Coding Monkeys
The Coding Monkeys
05/18/2004 07:35 AMyou can read all about it & download it from here .. the application
formerly known as Hydra .. SubEthaEdit: Introducing version 2.0 ..
SubEthaEdit; .. SubEthaEdit .. Rock on !! .. More
>
codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit
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The best thing ever, now with monkeys
The best thing ever, now with monkeys
12/22/2003 04:12 PMMy favorite song from Johnny Cash's last cover songs disc was
definitely Desperado. And now, a flash artist/fan has made a video for it that is loaded with monkeys. I didn't think there
was any way to improve on the song, but throwing a few chimps on
horses just proved me wrong. This is even better than the song alone.
[via vidiot]
Bali Monkeys
Bali Monkeys
07/16/2004 01:34 PM
Is it a
g
argoyle? No, it is the
hear
twarming,
sly,
naughty
long-tailed
Macaque
monkey of Bali, creature of
myth and of the
Sacred
Forest. It may
t
hink it's a gargoyle, or perhaps it's only dreaming of
N
otre Dame Monkeys Wear Out Their Welcome
Monkeys Wear Out Their Welcome
11/03/2003 11:13 AMTechfocus Nov 3 2003 10:13AM ET
"John Kerry's Own Biography Claims He
Had Seen No Combat Even After He Won His
First Purple Heart"
"John Kerry's Own Biography Claims He
Had Seen No Combat Even After He Won His
First Purple Heart"
08/19/2004 02:32 AMInd. Woman Fights to Keep 12 Pet Monkeys
(AP)
Ind. Woman Fights to Keep 12 Pet Monkeys
(AP)
04/14/2004 07:46 PMAP - A woman who keeps 12 monkeys as pets in her home must ask county
officials for a kennel permit so she can continue to live in her
subdivision.
PocketPC for Grease-monkeys
PocketPC for Grease-monkeys
08/15/2004 06:02 AMI Hate Stock Monkeys
I Hate Stock Monkeys
03/14/2005 05:10 PM So, okay, Carly Fiorina of HP and Lucent fame gets ousted from
HP. News happens around an hour ago. Same
time, AAPL drops like two bucks. Why? HP
re-sells iPods. Because HP re-sells iPods and because HP's leader was ousted, ass-munches on Wall St.
devalue AAPL.
What. The. Hell?
I hate stock monkeys.
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