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Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs 01/18/2004 08:11 AM

From the how-did-I-miss-this-book department is an utterly fabulous treat, ella minnow pea: A novel without letters. Considering all the linguists I know and how efficient Amazon is at pushing books in my direction, I am at a loss to explain how or why we all managed to escape reading this book and immediately buying a copy for everyone we know. I got lucky when the editor of the English edition of the local paper suggested I go and get a copy from Akateeminen.

The story is in a similar vein to Thurber's The Wonderful O as it is a lipogram told around the familiar pangram 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'. It is one of the most brilliantly clever books I've read in years as it combines cunning linguistics with political allegory in a epistolary novel. Language lovers must get this book. I need to go find a hardback copy so it can find a proper place next to my old, but dignified, copy of The Wonderful O. :)

nice survey of a nice market....but can
u plz tell me of which city this survey
is?

nice survey of a nice market....but can
u plz tell me of which city this survey
is? 09/08/2004 11:26 PM
TechTree Sep 9 2004 3:48AM GMT

Let's be nice...

Let's be nice... 11/19/2003 05:48 PM
Tsk, tsk, America. It seems that we may be collectively having a problem with being nice.

Am I too nice?

Am I too nice? 02/18/2004 07:33 AM
I've been "nice" my whole life, but I need to know when to draw the line.

Nice

Nice 07/27/2004 09:31 PM

Whoa, Bob Burnquist, pro skateboarder, has his own organic food company, selling herbs and reportedly refuses any and all junk food product endorsements. Pretty cool to see a pro doing something besides his own skateboard company.

Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down

Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down 04/22/2004 10:44 AM
There are many reasons I love the Internet, but the fact that weblogs like Louise Garston's exist would have to be one of them. "Nice cup of tea and a sit down" is the Internet hub for cake, tea, and biscuits. That's it. Period. Simple. It's totally sincere and sweet, and full of breaking news about which flavor of jam is most popular for discriminating toast aficionados, newly resurrected teas, and so on. Sometimes, Louise posts tea-and-biscuit related art, like a portrait of "Two little old space-alien ladies having a nice sit down." At present, Louise is pretty worked up about the fact that the "iconic" biscuit known as Tim Tams have recently become available to UK consumers, after a long and ardurous struggle. "Tescos sell them now," says Louise. "Hooray, you have to tell everyone, they're fantastic! Enjoy!"
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Nice ice

Nice ice 12/24/2004 12:49 PM
Lab-made diamonds are as dazzling as those mined by third-world labor. This bling may be easier on your conscience -- and your wallet.

nice.

nice. 12/19/2004 03:09 PM
Lots has been up lately. As mentioned not too long ago, I have taken up a volunteer job at a...

Nice uses of CC

Nice uses of CC 04/06/2005 08:45 PM
A couple quick things: I thought it was cool that blogging software company Six Apart republished an essay by Adaptive Path on the failings of Content Management Systems, all about software of the type Six Apart develops. It's all in accordance with Adaptive Path's license, which allows commercial redistribution.

Another cool thing was seeing Blogcritics.org do a "featured content of the week" type feature we've done in the past here. Phillip Winn found eight amazing photos at Flickr, and posted links to check them out, all available under Creative Commons licenses.

Wouldn't It Be Nice?

Wouldn't It Be Nice? 02/13/2004 05:21 PM
One of the things collectors are always asking about are more playsets. Friend to Rebelscum and top notch customizer Steve Ceragioli gives us a glimpse of what 'could be' with his take on the vintage Dagobah playset from The Empire Strikes Back line. Considering how nice the upcoming Dagobah wave looks, we feel it's hightime Hasbro gives serious consideration to a few of these great playsets from the past.

What a Nice Day

What a Nice Day 12/16/2002 12:12 PM
It is really snowing hard outside. But it's not quite cold enough for it to accumulate to anything significant. I only wish I had a camera to capture it, this one, specifically. With U2 playing in the background, and no real plans for today, it's really a nice morning. If you've come here from Stonefishspine, welcome. If you haven't, you're okay too. Over the weekend I spent a lot of time collaborating (coblogerating?) with G.K. Nelson of Stonefishspine on a new kind of commenting system to integrate with pMachine, a blogging (Content Management) system. I'm very happy with the end result. If you'd like to see it, head over to Stonefishspine and click on one of the "Comments" link under any entry. The system uses one part PHP, and two parts DOM-compatible Javascript. The whole thing only required about four lines of additional code added to pMachine, on top of its own files, which aren't too large. If it doesn't work for you, its likely because your web browser has lack-luster (I've never actually typed that phrase before) support for the Javascript DOM. So far, GK and I have confirmed that IE6/Win, Mozilla Win/Mac, and Opera 7 handle the system just fine. IE/Mac doesn't seem to like it, though; I'm working on it. From my coding perspective, two things were crucial in designing the sytem. One, if the user's browser didn't support the Javascript DOM, they would still be able to comment, via a popup window. For example, try to comment in Opera 6 and you'll get the standard commenting popup window which can see the same comments the dynamic version does. This brings me to the second important point, pMachine compatibility. I determined early on that if I was going to make the system work fluidly with pMachine, I would a.) have to do a lot of coding, or b.) figure out a way to make it work with pMachines existing infrastructure. In the case of the former, compatibility may have been lost in the next pMachine release. However, because of how pMachine is designed, I was able to use the latter approach. Because of this we were able to complete the project in just over a day and a half, instead of a week I think it would of taken if I had to make it interact is pMachines database system, which would of involved talking to three different tables. Because of this simple interaction with pMachine, the whole system would be easily ported to other people's installations of pMachine. Likely, at some point in the future when all the bugs are worked out, the entire system will be available to anyone who wants it. I may even have to enable commenting on my installation of pMachine to take advantage of the system. :)

nice fonts

nice fonts 09/15/2004 09:22 AM
nice fonts in a simple yet exceedingly well designed wrapper. via newstoday

Be nice! That car has feelings too.

Be nice! That car has feelings too. 07/26/2004 08:53 PM

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Wouldn’t be great if you could make your car frown when someone cuts you off on the freeway? Well if Toyota’s inventors have their way, you will be able to express your feelings through your car without the risk of road rage. A car that can smile? It almost seems reminiscent of the “Love Bug” or KIT from “Knight Rider” doesn’t it?…

Nice knight for it, anyway.

Nice knight for it, anyway. 01/07/2004 05:40 PM
Sir Tim Berners-Lee. We really don't say it often enough, and with all due respects to everyone who has contributed to everything to actually make it work, but, well, thanks, Tim. UPDATE. An outbreak of puns over at Slashdot's coverage....

Hi, Nice To Meet You (Again)

Hi, Nice To Meet You (Again) 12/25/2004 05:18 PM

With Joel out experiencing the Great American Christmas Road Trip, the news posting responsibility has fallen on me for the day, with our friend Brian from Kotaku pitching in when he can. I was supposed to be able to check Joel's email for whatever juicy bits might come to us through that avenue, but unfortunately it seems I can't, so if you have any hot news that we need to be aware of (or you just want to engage in hot man-cyber) please hit me up at ryan [at] this website. Thanks!

Nice Ad Tailoring

Nice Ad Tailoring 05/21/2004 04:14 AM
Saw this on a Russian site and thought it is pretty funny. Picture below is a poster ad in the...

Beyond3D - Which was nice.

Beyond3D - Which was nice. 05/05/2004 01:09 AM
Beyond 3D .. Beyond3D

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The queen of nice

The queen of nice 02/10/2004 06:47 AM
What's not to like about Norah Jones' new "Feels Like Home"? Nothing. Then again, what's there to like?

The joy of a nice knife

The joy of a nice knife 12/19/2004 03:21 PM
One of the things I realized while working at the restaurant on Nantucket was how dull my knives were at home. At Fifty-Six everyone's knives were razor sharp, and it made slicing and dicing nearly effortless, albeit dangerous. When I got home I got a stone and spent about an hour sharpening my two knives: an 8" chef's and a 4" paring, both from Henckels. (I have a few other knives, but I find I never use them. These two do the trick for all my home cooking needs.) Today's New York Times looks at knives and the trend for Japanese knives in, When a Knife Is the Gleam in a Cook's Eye. There's a whole world of useless kitchen gadgetry out there, junk that will clutter your cabinets and ultimately make little difference in the quality of food you cook. But knives are an exception (another exception: pots/pans). Quality knives make all the prep jobs easier because they provide more control and cleaner cuts, and they're a pleasure to use. While they are expensive, they last forever and are a worthwhile investment. I bought my 8" in 1995 and have used it nearly every day since. My 4" was purchased in 1998. As the gentleman says at the end of the Times article, "You know you've got the right knife when you're getting as much joy from preparing dinner as you are from eating it."

Senator Has a Nice Ass

Senator Has a Nice Ass 05/20/2004 02:18 PM
When the office of Sen. Mike DeWine read Washingtonienne , a weblog by one of their entry-level staffers, I bet they totally reamed her.

Hey, Ya... Nice Ringtone!

Hey, Ya... Nice Ringtone! 02/18/2004 02:52 PM
Long a hot item overseas, mobile ringtones are becoming a moneymaker in the States.

Nice Spread You Got There

Nice Spread You Got There 03/14/2003 02:13 PM
J, a painter recently banned from selling work on eBay, is one of the only artists whose technique includes this step: "I lift my legs up and spread them open as wide as I can." (03-14)

Gump is nice

Gump is nice 03/16/2003 11:07 AM

Steven Noels: Welcome Gump

LOL!  What Steven doesn't mention is that gump is nice.

bittorrent is nice, but...

bittorrent is nice, but... 01/08/2004 08:18 PM

...there's always a 'but' isn't there?

I had attempted to use BitTorrent a couple of times before, but never spent more than a few minutes with it, not enough to understand what was going on. Yesterday night though, I gave it a little more time and some tips from Russ and Matt I could get it going. I had to adjust some settings, such as the bandwidth allocated for uploads, which defaulted at 12 KB/sec and immediately started to suck up my entire upload capability (I set it at 7 KB/sec). I chose a couple of files (three actually) and let it download overnight. This morning, things were well on their way, two files done, the remaining one halfway through. But then it hit me: my transfers are limited!

I have a 4GB transfer limit (as it's common here in Ireland) on my DSL connection. So now I have downloaded, in one day, over 1.5 GB of data, and still have 1 GB to go. Then, there's the uploaded data, which also counts. EEk! By the time the second transfer is finished I will have spent over 75% of my monthly bandwidth allotment. With 60% of the month still to go!

Damn. I want to go back to my good old days of DSL in the Bay Area, where I had a symmetric 768 KB/sec DSL connection, with no transfer limits, at $40 a month. Okay, that's not realistic. :) But on the other hand, until transfer limits are removed (or at least raised) here, I won't be able to do much with BitTorrent. Too bad.

And, btw, this clearly has to have an impact on broadband usage. Forget about BitTorrent specifically, other types of media transfers are also quite heavy, and having that sword hanging over your neck (the sword being whatever they charge per megabyte after you cross the transfer limit) users will be more likely to treat broadband as a kind of always-on modem, rather than as true broadband. Ireland is great, for technology in particular, but it definitely needs some serious improvements to both infrastructure and access to that infrastructure (see my post on mobile handset costs yesterday) to be truly competitive. There's a qualitative jump (both on the supplier and the consumer side of a market) that happens when connectivity is pervasive, always-on, fast, and relatively inexpensive, and Ireland isn't there yet. Here's hoping we won't have to wait much longer.

No one can have nice things!

No one can have nice things! 02/05/2005 09:50 PM

I was looking at an old blog entry here when I was surprised to find my first trackback spam. Free asian rape beastiality being offered directly from an old post! Then I dug around and sure enough, there were over 200 spammy trackbacks sent from January 5th through the 20th.

What's funny about it is that I can see how someone built and tweaked their spam cannon. On Jan 5, a person started at (probably using it as an open proxy) 24.247.37.201.up.mi.chartermi.net and sent a couple test pings of gibberish, then when they realized it worked, they waited eight hours for me to delete them. When I didn't delete anything the onslaught began, and over the course of three attacks, hundreds of old entries advertised all sorts of crap sites.

I read the recent interview with a link spammer and it sucks that people stoop to doing anything for a buck. So, instead of worrying about this any longer or having to check off 200+ delete boxes again, I turned off trackbacks. See you in hell, mr. jackass seo spammer who will never read this nor care.

Nice shoes

Nice shoes 01/03/2004 02:06 PM

Medium Footwear's collection of new shoe designs look pretty cool. They seem right about midway between skate shoe and hipster shoe to me (tending towards hip for the sake of being hip), which is what I'm currently liking in my shoes.

I'd point to my favorite shoe designs, but their assy flash interface doesn't let me link directly to them.

"nice post and an even better round-up"

"nice post and an even better round-up" 08/13/2004 03:27 AM

Trapped in a nice house

Trapped in a nice house 02/11/2004 07:35 AM
I've told him I want out because of our constant power struggles, but he keeps persuading me to stay.

nice exploration of faith at the DNC

nice exploration of faith at the DNC 08/06/2004 11:34 AM
i'm glad the left isn't willing to cede the entire real to the right

Nice things that have been sent to me
today

Nice things that have been sent to me
today 01/30/2004 02:04 AM
The Daily Mail-o-matic. Instant Headlines for Britain's most liberal and sophisticated newspaper. When I grow up I want to be Warren Ellis. From the latest Bad Signal: For those of us who want the net to effect cultural leverage, I...

Goodyear, Nice Quarter

Goodyear, Nice Quarter 08/05/2004 04:12 PM
The company delivers a record quarter amid accounting woes.

nice history of MS Entourage

nice history of MS Entourage 06/02/2004 02:40 AM
still one of the few mac apps that i really like using

Janus Plays Nice

Janus Plays Nice 04/28/2004 08:56 AM
The mutual fund company takes a financial hit to make amends with its investors.

Splice mice? Nice

Splice mice? Nice 07/07/2004 09:50 AM
USA Today Jul 7 2004 2:18PM GMT

nice interview on mozillazine

nice interview on mozillazine 07/12/2004 09:04 AM
the advocacy site has advanced as much as the mozilla app has

Play nice with iPod

Play nice with iPod 07/12/2004 05:35 PM
Sympatico Jul 12 2004 9:35PM GMT

Macworld: Nice And Cozy

Macworld: Nice And Cozy 07/12/2004 09:12 PM
There are three giant show floors in Boston's new Convention and Exhibition Center, and Macworld occupies about half the floor space of the smallest one. By Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac (via MyAppleMenu)

HP DVD writers aim to play nice

HP DVD writers aim to play nice 07/20/2004 09:23 PM
The company says its new double-layer burners are largely free of compatibility problems.

nice interview with ben and mena

nice interview with ben and mena 05/15/2004 07:09 AM
i like the part at 12:00 where mena gets genuinely choked up talking about how kind our users are
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