Remembering π

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Remembering the BBS Scene

Remembering the BBS Scene 04/02/2005 04:07 PM
Ah, those were the days. As now, it was a healthy mix of academics, techies, conspiracy theorists and trolls. Jason Scott has a great website chock full of old BBS textfiles, with no advertising. What does his collection include? Well, it's a lot like K5 if you ask me, but maybe a little more naive. There are some ugly things down in these archives; there are narcissistic ravings from pre-adolescent social misfits. There are calls for anarchy. There's satanism, there's racism, there's all the -isms in the book lurking in the words. But there's hope, too. There's excitement, there's joy, there's every manner of feeling being crammed down into ASCII and posted for the world to find. It's a spectrum of humanity, and this is what I hope you'll find, buried there, among the text. Enjoy. Jason Scott Proprietor, TEXTFILES.COM

Remembering gopher

Remembering gopher 04/12/2004 06:17 AM
Lore "Brunching Shuttlecocks" Sjöberg has turned in a lyrical reminiscence about the glory days of gopher, the Web's predecessor. My first net-job (after the CDROM crash in the early 90s) was as a commerical gopher developer, and it turns out that were are lots of gopher sites still online:

Despite its relative obscurity, gopherspace is accessible to many more Web users than people realize. Gopher support is built into Mozilla-based browsers including Firefox, most versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer up to version 5, although the degree of support varies. People who want to stick with the familiarity of http can use the public gopher proxy at Floodgap.com, which translates gopher pages into HTML.

Visitors to gopherspace will find a piece of the Internet's history, some of which, Goerzen says, isn't available anywhere else. They will also find The Gopher Manifesto, a document praising gopher's simplicity and elegance.

The Gopher Manifesto describes gopher as "a hypertext Eden" that existed before the clutter and commercialization of the Web. "Is it time for a new Renaissance on the Internet, to bring back the promise of the early years?" it asks.

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Remembering the voxel

Remembering the voxel 03/14/2005 04:52 PM

Remember the voxel? In the days before polygons, the voxel (volume pixel) was touted as the solution for rendering complex gaming environments. In this week's Game.Ars, Carl pays tribute to the late, lamented voxel.

NovaLogic’s Delta Force and Comanche were terrific voxel-based games with sprawling terrain models, but the voxel came around at a juncture when 3D gaming environments were transitioning to the polygon. And so, Game.Ars remembers the voxel (heck, I had to think of something to intro the column), a forgotten graphics gremlin that appeared in some memorable games but just couldn’t stand up to the mighty polygon.

Along with the trip down nostalgia lane is a look at the week's top gaming news, including the probable demise of one gaming studio. There's also news of upcoming releases, with a "definite" release date for the Matrix Online. Dig in!

Remembering Pioneer 10

Remembering Pioneer 10 06/13/2004 08:10 PM

Remembering Non-Registered Visitors

Remembering Non-Registered Visitors 06/26/2002 01:00 PM
You have a couple of forms on your site that require the same user information or a single form that is frequently resubmitted by visitors. You don't have the time to implement user registration and don't want to spend hours or days learning somebody else's code. You are not sure if people will sign-up at all. What you need is to "remember" non-registered visitors.

Remembering the BBS Scene ||
kuro5hin.org

Remembering the BBS Scene ||
kuro5hin.org 04/07/2005 03:22 AM
Remembering the BBS Scene .. I remember it well .. Article on kuro5hin

kuro5hin.org/story/2005/4/1/51917/44859
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Remembering the French Laundry

Remembering the French Laundry 03/28/2005 10:23 AM
Ages ago, I began the process of moving all my megnut.com entries into a new version of Movable Type, a process I never completed. There are still about seven months of entries from 2002 that never made the transition, and sit only on my hard drive. One of those entries was my tale of eating dinner at the French Laundry, and many people have emailed asking why they can't find it on my site. Well I'm happy to say I've reposted it: It's All About Finesse. All the rest of the stuff is still missing, but for all those who've asked for it, and for myself too, I've gotten it back online. I think it's one of my favorite megnut posts of all time. Every time I re-read it, it brings that magical evening rushing back. Hard to believe it was almost three years ago! Has my Keller devotion waned in that time, you ask? Hardly! I got the Bouchon cookbook for Christmas and have already tried several of the recipes. And not only that, but I've been practicing for a return to one of Mr. Keller's kitchens by eating as much yummy food as possible, including a recent superb outing to Gramercy Tavern in New York City. My hope is to visit Per Se, Thomas' New York City outpost, later this year. Belly -- and wallet -- beware!

Photos: Remembering the pope

Photos: Remembering the pope 04/08/2005 03:06 PM
Tens of thousands of mourners converge on Vatican City to honor Pope John Paul II, bid farewell.

Windows XP: Remembering More than 400
Folder Settings

Windows XP: Remembering More than 400
Folder Settings 06/17/2004 06:16 PM

Remembering Spuddy: Memorial Details

Remembering Spuddy: Memorial Details 04/10/2004 03:39 AM
As I have already mentioned previously, there will be a memorial celebration of dear, dead Spalding Gray next Tuesday, April 13. This will take place in The Vivian Beaumont Theater at New York's Lincoln Center at 4:30 pm. (The address is 150 West 65th Street. Directions are available here.) This event will feature excerpts of his performances as well as other vignettes captured from his remarkable life. In addition, there will be performances and remembrances by Judy Collins, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Eric Bigosian, Barbara Kopple, Lee Grant, Bob Holman, and myself, among others. The Vivian Beaumont is an entirely appropriate venue for this event, since Spalding probably performed there more often than in any other theater save The Performing Garage on Wooster Street, (which would hardly accommodate the many who will likely want to gather in his memory). Indeed, as some of you have noted, there is some question as to whether The Vivian Beaumont will suffice, since it only has 1100 seats, and I have received more than 1100 e-mail messages and postings to my blog from people who feel bereft of him. Furthermore, the seating will be first come, first served. There are no tickets. When the theater has filled, it will be full. There will be a guest list, however, for people who actually knew him or who feel particularly compelled to honor his coming and going. I know there are many among you BarlowFriendz who fall into one of those categories. If you are one of these, and are either in New York or can make it there, please e-mail me before mid-day on Tuesday and I will try to see to it that you are added to the list. I can't promise that I'll be able to help everyone who asks, but I'll do what I can....

Creating (and remembering) crazy hard
passwords

Creating (and remembering) crazy hard
passwords 02/05/2005 09:50 PM

I've got several levels of passwords I use, high security, medium, and low, depending on what I need it for (amazon? high. gmail? medium. a random bulletin board? low.). So I'm constantly having to make new ones up and make them good.

Lifehacker has a simple tip to making a good password that involves intertwining two words into one, but the best tip I ever got was from Rusty at kuro5hin.

Think of a classic song. Now write down the first letter of each word in the chorus. At one time, I had a super high security password that was something like "1itlntyed2cbaba1." That stood for

"One is the lonliest number that you'll ever do. Two...can be as bad as one..."

I replaced numbers mentioned in the song with number signs in my password for extra l33t-ness. It was super easy to remember this nearly impossible thing, because I could just sing it and write it down.

Junk hauler lets computer do his
remembering

Junk hauler lets computer do his
remembering 06/05/2004 07:21 AM
Chicago Tribune Jun 5 2004 10:26AM GMT

Remembering Neil Postman, 1931-2003

Remembering Neil Postman, 1931-2003 04/09/2004 04:12 PM
"There aren’t any teachers until there are learners, and there aren’t any learners until something is disturbed in the student’s world." These were my remarks yesterday at NYU's memorial service for Neil Postman, who passed away on October 5th, 2003. He was my teacher.

Flash memory takes a licking and keeps
on remembering

Flash memory takes a licking and keeps
on remembering 08/02/2004 03:02 AM
Flash memory cards (CompactFlash, Secure Digital, xD, Memory Stick and Smartmedia) are nigh-indestructible (I once put a brand-new Exilim digital camera through the laundry: the camera was toast, but the SD memory survived and is still in use today!).

The one question I have is how these things fare against time itself, given that CDs and DVDs tend to delaminate, tapes crumble, and HDDs' bearings seize up -- it'd be great to have media that you could bury in a time-capsule for a couple decades with confidence.

They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy.

Perhaps surprisingly, all the cards survived these six tests.

Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests - being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree.

Link (via Engadget)

National Geographic: Remembering Pearl
Harbor-history, maps

National Geographic: Remembering Pearl
Harbor-history, maps 12/08/2003 08:02 AM
National Geographic's Remembering Pearl Harbor Day .. NationalGeographic has a good resource on line .. section devoted to the Pearl Harbor attack .. 62 years ago today .. a hideous event

plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor
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