The Birth of GNU, 20 Years Ago Today
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Woman Gives Birth Exactly 4 Years Apart
(AP)
Woman Gives Birth Exactly 4 Years Apart
(AP)
06/30/2004 09:25 AMAP - Giving birth is like clockwork for Cheryl Stelljes. The Cohasset
woman gave birth to a son, Adam, on Sunday at 10:12 p.m. That was four
years to the minute after the birth of her daughter, Lindsay, on June
27, 2000.
eight years ago, the birth of
cost-per-click
eight years ago, the birth of
cost-per-click
04/28/2004 04:30 AMand apparently $80 CPMs were common once upon a time
OKC: Ten years ago today
OKC: Ten years ago today
04/19/2005 08:35 AM
9:02 AM CST
4/19 1995.
Ten years
ago today. Do you remember where you were when the federal
building in Oklahoma City was bombed? It was then the biggest act of
mass murder in U.S. history. Shocking to a people
una
ccustomed to domestic terrorism. What followed was an outpouring
of
volunteer
support and
grief
for the victims, a
manhunt for
suspects
presumed
to be Arabic, and calls for a
'war against terrorism'.
Timothy McVeigh and
Terry Nichols were eventually
arrested for, and convicted of the crime, but since McVeigh
was put to death in 2001, a
steady stream of new evidence has called into question both
the government's
handling of the investigation and the
official
version of events. Survivors and victims' family members gather
today to
remembe
r and to
reaffirm demands for truth.
It was 10 Years Ago Today. . .
It was 10 Years Ago Today. . .
02/17/2004 11:55 AM The San Francisco Chronical has an
observance on the 10th anniversary of the death of Randy
Shilts. His second book,
And the Band Played On
opened my eyes to the AIDS epidemic, as I am sure it did to a lot of
straight people. I was amazed to see him pilloried in the gay press
as being a traitor to his "kind." My understanding is that
this disfavor arose from his assertion that aspects of the hard-won
sexual freedom enjoyed by many gay men were also killing them. Anyone
want to weigh in on this?
Acidman is two years old today!
Acidman is two years old today!
12/30/2003 06:12 AMRob "Acidman" Smith ..
Blogiversary
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Forty years ago today
Forty years ago today
02/15/2004 02:33 PM
Actually, it was in 1960, four years before the Beatles showed up on
Ed Sullivan, that
Doug
McIlroy published
Macro instruction extensions of compiler languages, which
appears to be a seminal paper in the literature of metaprogramming. I
mention this because a number of folks have responded to last week's
item,
Programs
that write programs, pointing out that Lisp programmers have been
there, done that:
"your note about code generation, and the referenced discussions -
bits of which i'd already read elsewhere, left me with a really eerie
feeling, that i might not be living in the same dimension with you
folks. you see, there's a practice of code generation which extends
back decades: lisp. code generations is a lisp programmer's bread and
butter."
"In the lisp world, they call these macros. The idea is pretty widely
known, though not too many languages implement them. Perl 6, and by
extension the Parrot interpreter, will include macros, and they will
thus be available to any language that gets implemented on top of
Parrot (which currently includes Ruby, Python, (maybe) PHP, and, of
course, Perl)."
...Last Solar Eclipse For Years Today
Last Solar Eclipse For Years Today
04/08/2005 12:34 PMCBS News Apr 8 2005 4:55PM GMT
FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today
FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today
06/28/2004 07:53 PMMars Attacked, 65 Years Ago Today
Mars Attacked, 65 Years Ago Today
10/30/2003 08:15 PMMajor Flare Today: Sun Kicks Up Biggest
Storm in Years
Major Flare Today: Sun Kicks Up Biggest
Storm in Years
10/29/2003 12:30 PMreports that the current solar flare might stir up auroral activity ..
the Sun fired a level X17 solar flare directly at the Earth .. Expect
some aurora the coming days .. Flames of
Heaven
space.com/scienceastronomy/solar_flare_031028.html
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The birth of a new app
The birth of a new app
04/04/2005 11:03 AMGiles Turnbull: "Enter Sam DeVore, full-time dad and part-time
programmer. He saw the need for something new, and suspected he could
create it very rapidly. He posted to the list, announcing his plan,
and set to work."
Software That Lasts For Years And Years
Software That Lasts For Years And Years
07/14/2004 06:51 PMWe were just talking about the
rise of
quick and dirty programs as a way for individuals (not necessarily
programmers) to solve specific needs. However, as was mentioned at
the time, that would be a different "tier" of software programming,
and there would still be a need for programmers to do higher level
"big" projects. In the past, we've also discussed
the
problem of data extinction, where old computer systems and formats
die out, leaving content and applications virtually useless on ancient
media. This is a big problem for many applications, and Dan Bricklin
is now suggesting that people need to start
designing "Societal
Infrastructure Software" that can last for centuries, not just a
few years. The idea is that this type of software shouldn't have to
worry about new computers or new formats or new anything... but will
be able to just keep on working. In order to build this, though,
Bricklin believes it will require embracing open source programming,
though not necessarily the way people view open source programming
today. It's a fascinating concept, but getting people to think
long-term is so difficult these days, that you wonder if such ideas
will actually catch on.
Birth of the iPod
Birth of the iPod
07/21/2004 11:21 AMThe Birth of the Semantic Web
The Birth of the Semantic Web
12/17/2004 06:37 PMwater birth
water birth
12/22/2003 03:04 PM Water birth is an
alternative to standard hospital labor where the woman gives birth in
a pool of water. Many hospitals/birth centers now offer the option of
a water birth, or the mother-to-be can choose from a
wide variety of
birthing pools for labor at home,
usually assisted by a
midwife/nurse with experience
in waterbirth. There are
many benefits of a
gentle introduction to the world by being born in water, and the
testimonials make
it sound like a great option. Note: some links may be NSFW. [more
inside]
The Birth of the Notebook
The Birth of the Notebook
03/22/2005 04:59 PMMark Frauenfelder:
Chris Null has written a great article about the early history of
portable PCs for Mobile PC magazine.
Inspired by the IBM 5100 and Xerox's Notetaker -- a 48-pound
machine with a keyboard that folded over the display -- Osborne's
eponymous computer was cobbled together from the cheapest parts he
could find. The Osborne 1 hit the market at $1,795, with dual floppy
drives and a 5-inch CRT. Flip the keyboard over the front, latch it
on, and your 24.5-pound computer was ready to go wherever you needed
it. Osborne had amazing success with the product, but it was fatally
crushed by the birth of Compaq in 1983, which copied the Osborne
carefully while adding one killer feature: IBM
compatibility.
Link
UPDATE: Stefan says: "I actually worked on
an Osborne in the early '80s. The college SF club
had one. We used it to lay out the schedule and generate individually
numbered tickets for our SF convention. I recall using the included
BASIC to create a program that would generate a Superbowl betting
grid.
"One of the big selling points for the Osborne was the software.
The
company pioneered the concept of bundling. In addition to the CP/M
operating system, you got WordStar, a spreadsheet, a flat-file
database
program and so on. It even had a nice app for reading and writing
PC-format disks.
"The computer itself was, frankly, a piece of shit. The monitor was
52
columns wide; when your typing reached the end of a line the display
shifted left. It was terribly susceptible to static shock. You learned
to save your work every few minutes in dry weather, because resets and
lockups were a regular occurrence."
Pick your birth month
Pick your birth month
08/17/2004 03:30 AMCopy the text .. La Mancha ..
source
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Birth of the Bluetooth Bots
Birth of the Bluetooth Bots
09/02/2004 06:44 AMThe Feature Sep 2 2004 9:49AM GMT
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine
02/18/2004 02:25 AMSearch Engine Report Feb 18 2004 6:14AM GMT
Other News: Birth of the iPod
Other News: Birth of the iPod
07/21/2004 11:08 AMWired tells the story of the iPod's birth, interviewing key player Ben
Knauss....
Inside Look at Birth of the IPod
Inside Look at Birth of the IPod
07/21/2004 06:13 AMA former manager of the company tasked with making the hit device
tells of the glitches that almost killed it, how Apple strained to
keep it secret and how Steve Jobs molded it to his liking. By Leander
Kahney.
birth of a stealth campaign
birth of a stealth campaign
07/19/2004 01:03 PMa bra maker is using blogs to create buzz in advance of a new ad push
Susie the Cow Gives Birth to Triplets
(AP)
Susie the Cow Gives Birth to Triplets
(AP)
06/09/2004 07:10 PMAP - Her first year of breeding, Susie the cow gave birth to one calf.
Her second year, she gave birth to twins. This year, her third year of
breeding, Susie gave birth to triplets — something that occurs in
less than 100,000 births, a veterinary specialist said.
£3.5m award for birth damage
£3.5m award for birth damage
01/23/2004 04:16 PMAn 11-year-old boy left disabled after complications during his birth
is awarded £3.5m in damages.
Compensation for birth errors boy
Compensation for birth errors boy
05/25/2004 10:13 AMThe mother of a seven-year-old boy wins compensation after mistakes
made at his birth left him brain damaged.
Ovarian Transplant: First Birth
Ovarian Transplant: First Birth
09/24/2004 06:02 AMIn a breakthrough that doctors say gives hope to many women who've
become infertile after cancer treatments, a woman who received an
ovarian tissue transplant gives birth to a healthy baby girl.
Denver Zoo has another gorilla birth
Denver Zoo has another gorilla birth
06/02/2004 01:05 AMAP via New Jersey Online Jun 2 2004 4:50AM GMT
The birth of a [sign] language
The birth of a [sign] language
09/18/2004 06:57 PM
Experts
Study New Sign Language System A new system of sign
language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua may hold clues about
the evolution of languages. When the country's first school for the
deaf was established in 1977, children were not taught sign language
but developed a system of signs to communicate.
Childhood learning may determine linguistic rules ...They
found that older students used hand signals resembling the gestures
employed by hearing people, mimicking the entire event physically. But
younger pupils - who had interacted with other deaf children from an
early age - used a more complex series of signs. They split the scene
into component parts and arranged these sequentially to convey the
incident. The constructions resemble the way words and sentences are
built in verbal languages, using segments structured in a linear
fashion. This indicates that way the younger children learnt the sign
language helped reshape it according to these linguistic
rules. ...............
Fascinating... /Mr. Spock
Birth control by kiosk
Birth control by kiosk
08/16/2004 08:18 AMglobetechnology.com Aug 16 2004 12:42PM GMT
"The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad"
"The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad"
08/21/2004 02:53 AMMobile Phone Birth Control
Mobile Phone Birth Control
03/06/2004 02:05 AMMissed this one when it first came out, but thanks to Charles W. for
submitting this bit of satire, poking fun at the trend these days to
build all sorts of extra add-ons to mobile phones. While the writer
comes up with a bunch, the main focus of the article is
mobile phone
birth control, which is described as working by projecting "a
high-intensity ultra-sonic electromagnetic "sound cone" that is
inaudible to the human ear but fatal to any sperm cell within a range
of six meters." Even better, the user doesn't have to do anything, as
it will work automatically at the necessary moment: "You don't need to
even turn it on. It's voice-activated. You place it near the bed, or
any other site of amorous activity. You can even hang the mobile phone
around one partner's neck. Then, as soon as someone yells, 'Oh, God!
Oh, God!' — or anything like it — the Nippit sound cone activates,
sending out deadly waves of spermicidal ultra-sonic electromagnetism.
Any sperm that shows its little head is a goner before he can finish
his first wiggle." Of course, like all contraceptives, it's not
foolproof: "if an incoming phone call arrives at the "moment of
truth," diverting the handset's attention, a pregnancy could result."
A bit of Friday evening satire to send you off into the weekend...
MC to computerise birth, death
registration
MC to computerise birth, death
registration
01/03/2004 05:38 PMThe Tribune Jan 3 2004 4:44PM ET
Birth rise 'highest for 20 years'
Birth rise 'highest for 20 years'
05/14/2004 06:18 AMEngland and Wales has seen the highest annual rise in births for two
decades, official figures show.
Jail Inmate Unexpectedly Gives Birth
(AP)
Jail Inmate Unexpectedly Gives Birth
(AP)
01/09/2004 09:55 PMAP - The Snohomish County Jail got a new inmate unexpectedly —
and very briefly — when a prisoner gave birth to a boy,
authorities said.
Pa. Woman Gives Birth to 2 Sets of Twins
(AP)
Pa. Woman Gives Birth to 2 Sets of Twins
(AP)
08/16/2004 08:41 AMAP - A woman gave birth to two sets of identical twins — two boys
and two girls — a rare occurrence even among quadruplets.
Wired: Inside look at birth of the iPod
Wired: Inside look at birth of the iPod
07/21/2004 11:18 AMWired's Leander Kahney offers an inside look at the development of the
original iPod through an interview with Ben Knauss, a former senior
manager at PortalPlayer, the company Apple approached to help develop
the device...
"The birth of the Boombox: 1976-1981"
"The birth of the Boombox: 1976-1981"
04/28/2004 03:02 AMBirth and death certificates
computerised
Birth and death certificates
computerised
09/01/2004 08:37 PMDaily Times Sep 2 2004 0:08AM GMT
CDA to computerise birth and death
records
CDA to computerise birth and death
records
11/19/2003 08:06 PMDaily Times Nov 19 2003 6:49PM ET
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