Appreciating Happy Gilmore

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Appreciating the Sonnet

Appreciating the Sonnet 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Some simple forms of poetry are popular and in common use today, like the haiku and the limerick. But the classic European form--the sonnet, a fourteen-line poem traditionally written in iambic pentameter and in various forms--seems to have fallen out of favor. Perhaps this ignominy is due to the relative complexity and variety of the sonnet form, although realizing that it is divided up (into an octet and a sestet, or perhaps three quatrains followed by a doublet), that's scarcely more than two (or, well, three) limericks! Or perhaps it's the iambic pentameter (plus or minus one) that throws people off. Or the rhyme scheme. But since the sonnet evolved with its writers, of course some liberties can be taken with its form.

Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job?

Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job? 04/24/2004 08:50 AM

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Gilmore v. Ashcroft

Gilmore v. Ashcroft 09/15/2004 09:25 AM
John Gilmore's battle to force the government to explain the basis upon which it demands that airlines verify an ID before permitting someone on a plane got a small victory last week. The government had asked to file its brief, defending a rule that is itself secret, in secret. The 9th Circuit said no.

Gilmore on Gmail's terms-of-service

Gilmore on Gmail's terms-of-service 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
John Gilmore has given me permission ot publish his very sharp analysis of Google's Gmail draft terms-of-service. As it stands, the ToS have some really objectionable elements. Google has a notation to the effect that this is a draft document and they are soliciting feedback on it to gmail-feedback@google.com. If these terms bother you, you could send polite feedback to Google about the parts that you find worrisome.

If they allege a "technical issue", including spam filtering, then they can access, read, preserve, and disclose anything in your mailbox. Since they probably do spam filtering for everybody (both for incoming and outgoing mail), then they have the right to read and disclose the contents of your email at any time.

Many spam-filtering services send copies of alleged spams to some central location. If they get N copies of similar messages, they declare it spam and publish the offending messages on the web. Google's right to send your spam to such services gives them the right to send ANY of your email to ANYONE -- for publication.

Link (Thanks, John!)

John Gilmore interviewed by Greplaw

John Gilmore interviewed by Greplaw 08/19/2004 08:28 PM

John Gilmore vs. Ashcroft begins today

John Gilmore vs. Ashcroft begins today 08/16/2004 02:15 PM
Bill sez: "On the 16th of August 2004, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals begins work on the Gilmore vs. Ashcroft case. At stake is nothing less than the right of Americans to travel freely in their own country -- and the exposure of 'secret law' for what it is: an abomination.

"The man who is fighting the good fight is named John Gilmore. John made his fortune as a programmer and entrepreneur in the software industry. Whereas most people in his position would have moved to a tropical island and lived a life of luxury, John chose to use his wealth to protect and defend the US Constitution.

"On the 4th of July 2002, John Gilmore, American citizen, decided to take a trip from one part of the United States of America to another. At the airport, he was told he had to produce his ID if he wanted to travel. He asked to see the law demanding he show his 'papers' and was told after a time that the law was secret and no, he wouldn't be allowed to read it.

"He hasn't flown in his own country since."

Another program which depends on showing ID is the Watch List and No-Fly List.  Airlines are issued these lists by the federal government and are required to request ID from their passengers in order to check them against the lists.  This has resulted in countless citizens with names similar to bad people being harrassed, arrested, or prevented from travelling by air—including every person named 'David Nelson'.

Link

Gilmore v. Ashcroft "Papers Please" case
update

Gilmore v. Ashcroft "Papers Please" case
update 09/07/2004 11:47 PM
Xeni Jardin: Bill Scannell says,

Lawyers for John Gilmore filed their opposition to a Department of Justice attempt to file a secret brief in a case that involves secret law. The case, Gilmore vs. Ashcroft, is now before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. DOJ filed a motion last Friday asking the Court's permission to file their arguments in secret, allowing only the judges to read their full brief.

DOJ is trying to distract the Court and the public from the real issue in the case, which is whether or not American citizens can travel in their own country without official government paperwork. Their method of distraction: secret law.

In a sharply-worded objection to the government's motion, Gilmore's lawyers stated that the government's "extreme cry for secrecy, preventing even plaintiff's counsel from being privy to their legal arguments because plaintiff's counsel does not meet defendants self defined 'covered persons who have a need to know' criteria, is disturbing and illustrates the dangers of secret law."

DOJ motion and Mr. Gilmore's opposition: Link. Previous BoingBoing posts on this story include: Reason Magazine on Gilmore v. Ashcroft; and Gilmore v. Ashcroft begins today

(Gilmore vs. Ashcroft) 9th Circuit to
DOJ: No Secret Justice

(Gilmore vs. Ashcroft) 9th Circuit to
DOJ: No Secret Justice 09/13/2004 08:10 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Score one for John Gilmore, who is suing the Justice Department because it has secret laws requiring people to show ID when flying on a commercial domestic plane. Ashcroft tried to file a secret brief to keep the secret law a secret, but the court said no secrets allowed.

Bill sez: "The 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals rejected a Department of Justice attempt to file a secret brief in Gilmore vs. Ashcroft, a case that involves secret law.

"In a one page order, the Court denied DOJ's motion asking the Court's permission to file their arguments in secret, allowing only the judges to read their full brief. A DOJ motion to suspend the briefing schedule was similarly denied." Link (Here are previous BB posts on the subject)

"Gilmore v. Ashcroft, a story of
security, indentification, and secret
laws"

"Gilmore v. Ashcroft, a story of
security, indentification, and secret
laws" 08/18/2004 11:09 AM

"John Gilmore on inflight activism, spam
and sarongs (GrepLaw interview)"

"John Gilmore on inflight activism, spam
and sarongs (GrepLaw interview)" 08/20/2004 02:46 PM

Very Very Happy

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If You're Happy and You Know It...

If You're Happy and You Know It... 08/11/2004 01:58 PM
Cisco's warning casts a pall over the entire technology industry. What took 'em so long?

Happy

Happy 02/01/2005 09:44 PM
It’s like this: you get a slightly-scary physical symptom and you go and tell your doctor and she frowns and says “well, we better run some tests and make a date with a specialist”, and you go to the specialist and he works you over and looks at the tests and says “yeah, that’s a weird one, it happens sometimes, we don’t know why, it might happen again, it won’t hurt you, don’t worry about it.”

Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? 02/01/2005 10:10 PM

Lorcan Dempsey posted some astounding numbers to his blog yesterday. Emphasis below is mine. Prepare to be amazed.

WorldCat in Your Pocket

“WorldCat is our union catalogue of about 56 million bibliographic records, which represent approximately a billion holdings. It is about 50 gigabytes in MARC Communications (100+ gigabytes in XML) format and about 23 gigabytes compressed.

OCLC Research recently acquired a 24-node (48-cpu) Beowulf cluster with 96 Gigabytes of memory. According to my colleague Thom Hickey, whose team has been working on the machine, the cluster speeds up most bibliographic processing by about a factor of 30. This means that what might have taken a minute now takes two seconds, what might have taken an hour takes two minutes, what might have taken a month takes a day. For jobs that will fit entirely in memory (e.g. a `grep' of WorldCat) avoiding disk i/o gives another factor of about 20, reducing 1-hour jobs down to 6 seconds. We can 'frbrize< /a>' WorldCat on the cluster in about an hour.

WorldCat is also now more mobile. Thom has a 40 gig iPod which can accommodate WorldCat on its disk with room left for 5,000 song tracks. Now, you can't do much with the data on the iPod, but you can certainly carry it around. Again, it takes about an hour to get it on and off the iPod.” [Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog, via It&rs quo;s All Good]

They’re all amazing numbers, but think about that iPod statement for a moment. What does it mean when a patron can carry around the whole, freaking WorldCat database? We’re not that far off from the introduction of the personal, mobile server in your pocket.

Happy Pi Day!

Happy Pi Day! 03/14/2003 01:09 PM
Happy Pi Day! At 1:59 PST, the San Francisco Exploratorium kicks off its Pi Day festivities. If you can't make it, here are more activities or you can just sing a song to ?.

Are you happy now?

Are you happy now? 03/13/2003 03:27 PM
A 100-ton mech is the ultimate fishing machine. With upcoming titles like Steelhead Battalion and Cthulhu Karts, it's possible that Schadenfreude Interactive might be the next game industry juggernaut. Or they may be an April Fool's prank spotted in the pages of the April issue of Computer Games.

.HAPPY

.HAPPY 02/10/2004 03:00 AM

The issue was a misnamed Form variable. :)~ Saw it in the first 5 mintues this morning. A fresh head always helps.

.NET's code behind feature is great. I getting used to using it properly. One pet peeve. I learned VB purely from the Microsoft Documentation and a couple of books. The code samples are too complex in .Net's documentation. They need to provide smaller pieces of functionality. For example, to describe creating a web component, they try and take you through an entire application. Not very XPish of them. too much clutter. All I need for an example, is an example of the component and the component being embedded in the page. All the rest confuses the issue.

One happy, one sad

One happy, one sad 01/30/2004 02:04 AM
Two things before breakfast, one happy, one sad. Happy: Downloadable MP3s from The Paris Review - including a great story by George Plimpton, read by himself. Sad: Weblog DDoS attacks, happening in the wild. not only there but here, and...

Happy PFD!...?

Happy PFD!...? 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
Anyone in the mood for a celebration!? Today is Personal Firewall Day! Who's bringing drinks?

Happy mutants?

Happy mutants? 09/03/2004 04:34 AM
David Pescovitz: Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body is a book about the genetics behind human oddities. It's the companion to a Channel 4 documentary of the same title that aired this summer. The author, Armand Marie Leroi, is a biologist and lecturer at Imperial College London. From a review in The Guardian a few months back:

"There are three things that lift this book above mere exploitation: the seriousness of Leroi's scientific investigations; the humane concern he manifests for the suffering other; and the sensitivity of his aesthetic appreciation of the wonders of nature. "Beautiful" is a term frequently used to describe some bottled monster. This aesthetic appreciation extends to previous writers on the subject. He describes an account of the progress of a deer embryo by the 17th-century natural philosopher William Harvey (more famous for his discovery of the circulation of the blood) as "one of the loveliest descriptions of a mammalian foetus ever written".

I'll be in the UK next week and I'm definitely going to pick up a copy! Link

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! 12/31/2003 04:59 PM

Happy B-Day Gary!

Happy B-Day Gary! 08/07/2004 07:21 PM

I didn't find out about Gary Turner's b-day through Ryze, some classmates knock-off or even an email. I found out about it through RSS, which (I assume) he posted initially at Flickr and which then ricocheted into his blog.

So first of all - congrats to Gary (hopefully I'll get to meet him Sept. 13th), and congrats to Stewart and the team at Ludicorp for evolving Flickr into what it is today.

At first glance I thought of Flickr a predominanly an IM your photo kind of RIA. But it's much more than that.

The Calendaring, the PhotoRSS, the Fotonotes, a more coming - I'm sure.

Happy Holiday

Happy Holiday 12/25/2003 12:51 PM
For those of us with ass jobs have a good day off until getting back to the grindstone tomorrow.

"Browse Happy"

"Browse Happy" 08/23/2004 02:43 AM

Happy Reading.

Happy Reading. 12/28/2004 01:51 AM
eSchol arship Editions. Like ebooks? Want something free, nonfiction,"scholarly", publicly accessible, and more recent than Gutenberg ? (Lately I'm on an Ancient History kick.) My problem with this "eScholarship" site is they try to make it hard to download a whole ebook to read offline. For one of those, for people who are interested in 20th-century political history-cum-theory that's never had much to do with any U.S. election, today I'm recommending the Platform.

Happy Father's Day, Dad!

Happy Father's Day, Dad! 06/22/2005 02:37 AM
I'd like to take a moment on this beautiful Sunday morning to wish my dad a Happy Father's Day. I...

Happy Holidays.............

Happy Holidays............. 12/24/2003 02:29 PM
Happy Holidays from me to you! (yes that's me many many christmas's ago) funky huh? :)...

Happy Commodores

Happy Commodores 08/20/2004 08:16 PM
USA Today Aug 21 2004 0:52AM GMT

Happy Birthday, D&D

Happy Birthday, D&D 08/19/2004 11:42 AM
BoingBoing reader Ateo says:

Dungeons & Dragons turns 30 this year and tonight is the start of GenCon too. NPR did a story, and Gamespy is doing tons of articles on the history of the game this week as well.

Link to the official D&D site

FC Now: Happy Labor Day!

FC Now: Happy Labor Day! 09/04/2004 06:30 AM
Monday is Labor Day in the US, a holiday set aside to celebrate and recognize working people. I was going to offer a roundup of...

Happy New Year to all

Happy New Year to all 12/31/2003 07:20 PM
InternetRetailer.com Dec 31 2003 6:12PM ET

An IT director's lot is not a happy one

An IT director's lot is not a happy one 07/06/2004 01:18 PM
Tense, nervous headache

"Happy Independence Day"

"Happy Independence Day" 07/05/2004 02:40 PM

Happy 4th.. err... 5th of July

Happy 4th.. err... 5th of July 07/05/2004 12:58 AM
Even though yesterday was the "real" July 4th, today is a legal holiday for U.S. residents so most NewsForge staff people are taking the day off. We're updating NewsVacs, but that's about it. See you tomorrow!

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July 07/04/2004 06:29 PM

I'm proud to be an American - Stop the War!

Happy House

Happy House 01/12/2004 03:02 AM
good geek girlfriends give good geeky presents.

*does the happy kid dance*

*does the happy kid dance* 06/30/2004 11:31 AM
One phone call, can make your day....

happy talkin'

happy talkin' 06/24/2004 01:22 AM
Comments are back. Hooray!
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