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The CEO's Call: Mine, Mine, Mine
The CEO's Call: Mine, Mine, Mine
02/11/2004 05:44 AMAltnet claims eight P2P companies are illegally using its technology,
but critics deride its tech as ancient and generic. Wired magazine
asked Altnet's CEO about the company's materialistic ways.
om's essay on crediting bl0ggers
om's essay on crediting bl0ggers
08/16/2004 10:39 AMlooks like it's started a good conversation, but ignore the trolling
comments
The PS3 Must Be Mine
The PS3 Must Be Mine
06/06/2005 12:15 AM For this alone, I must get a PS3 when it
comes out.
Vis
ion Gran Turismo Media Index for PlayStation 3 at GameSpot
In other news, I'm working on several Core Data-based programs in
my spare time and it's a dream. You can make a basic data-storage
application with absolutely no coding what-so-ever, and the coding you
do do, should you need to, is trivial. I love this stuff.
Notae is not dead, it just got siblings, that's all. I'll be done
someday.
OS 9, Mine, All Mine
OS 9, Mine, All Mine
07/23/2004 11:03 PMLots of people are using old systems and old software. Some are quite
happy with their existing setup; others have made a deliberate effort
not to follow the upgrade path. By Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network
(via MyAppleMenu)
I think there's a frisbee of mine out
there, too...
I think there's a frisbee of mine out
there, too...
10/28/2003 11:08 PM Shipwrecks of Lake Superior- Some are
famous, others are obscure but
amazing.
eBay, Be Mine
eBay, Be Mine
07/19/2004 08:01 AMWill eBay once again deserve your attention this week?
Indonesia arrests over US mine
Indonesia arrests over US mine
09/23/2004 02:20 AMFour employees of US mining company Newmont are detained in Indonesia
over a controversial pollution case.
Using XPath to mine XHTML
Using XPath to mine XHTML
10/28/2003 11:06 PMSimon
Willison:
This morning, I finally decided to
install
libxml2 and see what
all the
fuss was about, in particular with respect to XPath. What
followed is best described as an enlightening experience.
Mine The Moon For Helium-3
Mine The Moon For Helium-3
01/22/2004 02:10 AMSlashdot Jan 22 2004 2:52AM GMT
Wieliczka Salt Mine
Wieliczka Salt Mine
04/04/2005 06:25 PMDavid Pescovitz:
My earlier post about Detroit's salt mine reminded underground
explorer
Julia Solis of the magnificent and massive Wieliczka Salt Mine in
Poland. From the Salt Mine Tourist site:
Hidden below the town, situated on 9 levels, reaching 327 m deep
Wieliczka underground is nearly 300 km of galleries and 3000 chambers.
3,5 km route 64-135 m below ground level is available for tourists.
Magnificent chapels, captivating underground lakes, original tools and
equipment, traces of mining works give the comprehension about
people's fight against the elements, their work, passion and beliefs.
Wieliczka miners left lots of salt carvings and murals. After the
sightseeing, tourists can rest in the chamber complex 125 m
underground where they can find souvenir shops, restaurant and a post
office.
Link
(Thanks, Julia!)
Mine gave me the Jruns
Mine gave me the Jruns
09/21/2004 10:25 PM
Let your children play with
the common cold... introducing giant microbe plush toys.
[link via die puny
humans] Detroit's salt mine
Detroit's salt mine
04/04/2005 01:18 PMDavid Pescovitz:
There's a 1,400 acre working salt mine a quarter-mile underneath the
city of Detroit. (Some citizens are complaining that blasting in the
mine is damaging their homes.
Link<
/a>) The mining began at the start of the 20th century. Public tours
were available in the 1980s but the Detroit Salt Company current "Public Tour
Policy" is simply that they don't offer them. From a Detroit News
article:
Mules, lowered by rope down the narrow shaft into the mine, were used
in the early mining operations. Once down in the mines, they stayed
there until they died.
Workers decended in a two-level elevator in which six men pressed
face-to-face during the long ride down.
Getting equipment down into the massive cavern provided many problems.
Pickup trucks, jeeps and large trucks had to be cut up or disassembled
and lowered down the shaft piece by piece, to be reassembled in shop
areas below. Large dump truck tires too big for the shaft had to be
compressed and bound before they would fit down the opening.
In a 1925 Detroit News article, miner Joel Payton told about his salt
mine job. "The only dirty part of this job is going down to work," Mr.
Payton explained.
Link (via MetaFilter)
Your Guess Is As Good As Mine
Your Guess Is As Good As Mine
01/03/2004 07:06 AMAll Your RSS
jcwinnie.us/MT/archives/000335.html
track this
site | 3 links
Cool. PHP Everywhere Liked an Article
of Mine
Cool. PHP Everywhere Liked an Article
of Mine
11/14/2002 09:24 AMCool. PHP Everywhere Liked an Article of Mine
I know that some of you php folk reading this probably saw it already
on PHP Everywhere but "Picking a Real World Release Date" is not just
PHP specific. [ Go ]
Life........ I'll take mine with issues
please
Life........ I'll take mine with issues
please
12/08/2003 06:05 PMI still have no car and they are saying maybe Wednesday. I hate not
having a car although this weekend...
Gold Mine Cave-In?
Gold Mine Cave-In?
07/19/2004 02:56 PMWill recalls involving the Taxus stent mar the future earnings of
Boston Scientific?
Mine Safety in Numbers
Mine Safety in Numbers
06/24/2004 01:05 PMHere's how this little stock helps workers and shareholders.
Canaries In A Data Mine
Canaries In A Data Mine
06/15/2004 03:19 PMOne of the toughest things to deal with in science is that sometimes
experiments don't work out the way they're supposed to. (And it
usually happens around the 3rd year of grad school.) But short of
faking
results, scientists have to make the best of the data that is
collected. Though there are plenty of PhD theses that are filled with
experiments that didn't quite work out, drug companies are under a bit
more pressure to produce products that work. So when their drug
trials fail, they need to
sque
eze anything they can out of the research -- which is turning into
analyzing the data for correlations and correlated correlations. But
that's not the interesting part: science is
supposed to look
for these sort of clues to new discoveries. The interesting part is
that data is being collected in ways that make it easier to do data
mining for unexpected trends. (Perhaps some of the data mining could
even be
opened
up to the public?) Some might suggest that scientists are "giving
up" and submitting to combinatorial discovery, but whatever works,
right?
Smegma, Your Friend and Mine
Smegma, Your Friend and Mine
03/24/2005 11:03 PM
Smegma (so
NSFW it isn't funny at all, most links are not safe either)
'The animal kingdom would probably cease to exist without
smegma.' - Thomas
Ritter, MD.
Smegma's a widely misunderstood substance, rather than being a noxious
waste product it moisturizes the glans and keeps it smooth, soft, and
supple. Its antibacterial and antiviral properties keep the penis
clean and healthy though a build up can result in
balanitis. Here's an
article on
how
to collect it for experimentation as an extracted bacterium from
smegma has been successfully used to treat
bladder
cancer as well as a strange experiment on the potential
carcinogenic effects of smegma on
mice (hint, there were none found, if anything, the smegma'ed mice
outlived the control mice). Smegma is also related to
vernix, the
cheese-like substance on a newborn's skin.
Lots of
humor
to
be had, including
the
Devil's
Dictionary definition as well as a band called, yeah,
Smegma and even a
cocktail recipe for something called a
Smegma Delight (vodka, bourbon and parmesan cheese, umm,
pass).
Mine Safety Digs Itself
Mine Safety Digs Itself
01/05/2005 01:36 PMAnd recent history repeats itself.
This Blog is mine and my employeer can't
have it!
This Blog is mine and my employeer can't
have it!
04/18/2005 04:45 AMImagine having to take a stance like that. It is sad that some
people in a sense almost have to ask permission to blog or worse yet
have them try to stifle a current one. Check out the stance that Niall
Kennedy takes. [www.niallkennedy.com]
New story of mine online
New story of mine online
12/08/2003 11:38 AMMy short story, "Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar)" (which wasn't
included in the
collection,
but is still a personal favorite of mine) was originally published in
the print magazine Black Gate last winter. Now, thanks to the good
graces of Fortean Bureau, an excellent webzine, the story is online
for free in its entirety. This story is my tribute to Wyndham's
post-apocalyptic literature. Here's a taste:
We were the Eight-Bar Band: there was me and my bugle; and Timson,
whose piano had no top and got rained on from time to time; and Steve,
the front-man and singer. And then there was blissed-out, autistic
Hambone, our "percussionist" who whacked things together, more-or-less
on the beat. Sometimes, it seemed like he was playing another song,
but then he'd come back to the rhythm and bam, you'd realise that he'd
been subtly keeping time all along, in the mess of clangs and crashes
he'd been generating.
I think he may be a genius.
Why the Eight-Bar Band? Thank the military. Against all odds, they
managed to build automated bombers that still fly, roaring overhead
every minute or so, bomb-bay doors open, dry firing on our little band
of survivors. The War had been over for ten years, but still, they
flew.
So. The Eight-Bar Band. Everything had a rest every eight bars,
punctuated by the white-noise roar of the most expensive rhythm
section ever imagined by the military-industrial complex.
We were playing through "Basin Street Blues," arranged for bugle,
half-piano, tin cans, vocals, and bombers. Steve, the front-man, was
always after me to sing backup on this, crooning a call-and-response.
I blew a bugle because I didn't like singing. Bugle's almost like
singing, anyway, and I did the backup vocals through it, so when Steve
sang, "Come along wi-ith me," I blew, "Wah wah wah wah-wah wah," which
sounded dynamite. Steve hated it. Like most front-men, he had an ego
that could swallow the battered planet, and didn't want any lip from
the troops. That was us. The troops. Wah-wah.
Link
Explosion Kills 25 at Ukrainian Mine
(AP)
Explosion Kills 25 at Ukrainian Mine
(AP)
07/20/2004 02:50 AMAP - A methane gas explosion at an eastern Ukrainian coal mine has
killed at least 25 miners and left another 11 missing, the Ministry
for Emergencies said Tuesday.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | I'll show you
mine...
BBC NEWS | Magazine | I'll show you
mine...
03/24/2005 08:42 AMPhil Gyford writes about Flickr for BBC News (and talks to Timo and me
as well) .. BBC NEWS Magazine I'll show you
mine
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4374971.stm
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Russian Mine Blast Kills at Least Eight
(AP)
Russian Mine Blast Kills at Least Eight
(AP)
04/10/2004 07:45 AMAP - An apparent methane blast ripped through a coal mine in Siberia
early Saturday, killing at least eight miners and trapping dozens more
underground, Russian officials said.
Russian Mine Blast Kills Up to 30
Russian Mine Blast Kills Up to 30
04/10/2004 03:28 PMReuters via Wired News Apr 10 2004 7:45PM GMT
France closes its last coal mine
France closes its last coal mine
04/23/2004 11:11 PMFrance shuts down its last working coal mine, ending a 300-year-old
industry with proud traditions.
A friend of mine from Apple tipped me
off to a che ...
A friend of mine from Apple tipped me
off to a che ...
10/31/2003 07:24 PM
A friend of mine from Apple tipped me off to a
cheap-and-easy way of improving the performance of Mail.app, the
mailer built into OS X. I've found that every time I send a message,
Mail freezes up and the statusbar says, "Adding recipients to Address
Book." Turns out that you can really cut down on this delay by forcing
your Address Book to compress itself:
- Open Address Book
- Create 10 or more entries
- Delete your new entries
- Quit Address Book
For extra speedy goodness, try deleting the ~/Library/Application
Support/Address Book/ABPerson.index" file, then opening Address Book
and searching for an entry. This will force a rebuild of the Address
Book index, too.
I've tried it, and it worked beautifully for me. What's more, it seems
to have improved the performance of iSync for synching with PalmOS and
iPod.
Discuss
12:39 PM
| Cory
Doctorow
Female Mine Exploration Robot
Female Mine Exploration Robot
12/19/2004 03:41 PMRoland
Piquepaille writes,
"The grandmother of an engineering student at
the University of Arizona has an old mine on her property. What could
be
inside? Would it be safe to explore it? She -- the student, not the
grandmother -- decided it was better to send a robot
inside and she teamed with another robotic enthusiast to build a
radio-controlled rover to explore the mysteries of the old mine. The
18-inch-long and 7-inch-high robot can communicate with them via a 900
MHz radio modem and send them videos from inside the mine.
Theoretically,
the robot has a seven-mile range line-of-sight, but the team is not so
sure. So the robot is also tied with a rope to pull it out of the mine
if necessary, especially if it falls into a big hole. And did I
mention
this robot is a 'she'? They decided the machine was female "because
the
rover is independent, sometimes unpredictable and able to do the
seemingly impossible" and they
called her 'Green Meanie.'" You'll find more technical details and
photos in Roland
Piquepaille's blog. Jessica Dooley and Keith Brock, who built
the robot, are both members of the UA Aerial
Robotics Club.
Trained Rats for Mine Detection
Trained Rats for Mine Detection
05/18/2004 01:33 PMDR Congo uranium mine collapses
DR Congo uranium mine collapses
07/12/2004 10:38 AMAt least nine people are killed working illicitly in the mine which
supplied raw materials for the Hiroshima bomb.
wanna always feel like part of this was
mine
wanna always feel like part of this was
mine
08/20/2004 02:26 PMRecap of my reading at Borders in Hollywood on Sunday, plus a
fantastic review of Just A Geek!
Read the full entry @ WWdN!What is standard? Mine memes on the Web
to find out
What is standard? Mine memes on the Web
to find out
06/05/2005 11:21 PMMalcolm Davis: "Taking meme a step further is Memegraph, which
attempts to create a histogram based on keywords appearing on Internet
sites. By mining the web to determine the popularity of a technology
and then graphing the technology to determine...
Hackers now mine Internet for dollars
Hackers now mine Internet for dollars
01/04/2005 08:44 AMPe.com - Tue Jan 4, 08:27 am GMT
The New G5 iMac... Make Mine Wireless!
The New G5 iMac... Make Mine Wireless!
09/01/2004 04:13 AMOne thing that seems like a glaring miscue is that AirPort cards and
Bluetooth continue to be options. Why? By Chuck Toporek, O'Reilly
Network (via MyAppleMenu)
38 Killed in Russian Coal Mine Blast
(AP)
38 Killed in Russian Coal Mine Blast
(AP)
04/11/2004 01:35 AMAP - An explosion rocked a Russian coal mine on Saturday, sealing a
shaft with rubble and killing at least 38 workers. Rescuers were
trying to free eight others missing underground.
Time Running Out for Russia Mine
Survivors (AP)
Time Running Out for Russia Mine
Survivors (AP)
04/11/2004 07:45 PMAP - The coal-blackened faces of exhausted rescuers and the red-rimmed
eyes of anxious relatives told a grim story of disappearing hope
Sunday, a day after a methane blast tore through a Siberian mine,
killing at least 42 miners.
Indie Labels Mine Internet Distribution
(AP)
Indie Labels Mine Internet Distribution
(AP)
03/24/2005 04:26 PMAP - Recording industry executive Andy Gershon sees opportunity in the
online file-sharing networks that most of his rivals decry as havens
for music pirates.
Internet a gold mine of investment
information
Internet a gold mine of investment
information
01/04/2005 08:53 AMglobetechnology.com Jan 4 2005 1:24PM GMT
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