Signs that the Apocalypse is Nigh

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Microsoft leaked confirmed, signs of
apocalypse still missing

Microsoft leaked confirmed, signs of
apocalypse still missing 02/14/2004 01:32 PM
Microsoft has confirmed the leak of portions of the Windows code, which stemmed Mainsoft, who develops portability tools for UNIX.

The End is Nigh!!

The End is Nigh!! 12/17/2004 06:42 PM
Millenar ianism (or millennialism :) A brief history of the end of the world. Why do end -of-time beliefs endure? [also s ee, oh and (OT) :]

Is a Moog Renaissance Nigh?

Is a Moog Renaissance Nigh? 05/20/2004 05:35 AM
Fans gather at a Moogfest to celebrate the 40th birthday of the Moog synthesizer. Surprisingly, the analog Moog sound -- created by a tub of knobs and wires -- is making a comeback. Noah Shachtman reports from New York.

Email Marketing - The End Is Nigh!

Email Marketing - The End Is Nigh! 07/08/2004 11:45 PM
WebDevInfo Jul 9 2004 3:49AM GMT

Apocalypse 12

Apocalypse 12 04/16/2004 06:27 PM
Larry Wall explains how objects and classes are to work in Perl 6.

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now 06/15/2004 04:52 PM
Dan Sugalski: If anyone sees a bunch of guys on horses, don't forget to offer 'em some carrots.

Apocalypse 6 is Out

Apocalypse 6 is Out 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Dan writes "This one's about subroutines and is rather extensive. Read it over at perl.com." Yay! It's been a long time coming, it should be extensive. :-)

Apocalypse 6

Apocalypse 6 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
Larry continues his unfolding of the design of Perl 6 with his latest Apocalypse - this time, how subroutines are defined and called in Perl 6.

Apocalypse away!

Apocalypse away! 03/13/2003 04:56 PM
Well, Apocalypse 6 is out. I'd link to it, but I'm off-line and don't have the URL handy. It's on...

From Genesis to Apocalypse

From Genesis to Apocalypse 09/08/2004 12:36 PM
From Genesis to Apocalypse: one more threat to NASA's pure research funding.

Netscape, Apocalypse, and Pho

Netscape, Apocalypse, and Pho 03/19/2003 10:26 PM

Others have commented on Charles Cooper's speculations about "What if Netscape had Won?"In my opinion, this was never a zero-sum game, where one person has to lose for the other to win.A zero-sum mentality is a huge waste of resources and diverts energy away from productive innovation toward "attacking the other guy's base".  Ever since the software industry fell victim to the politics of polarization, and assumptions like Cooper's go unchallenged, I am afraid that we are all falling incredibly short of our full potential.  If, as he implies (and many youngsters seem to think), the best opportunities left in software are to build yet another operating system to replace Microsoft, then it's time to take up gardening.  Luckily that mentality is a lie, and the real question is "How fantastic would things be if we could all stop griping about the past and write cool programs?"

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Some bloggers have been calling today "war's eve".  But this morning I got a spam e-mail explaining that the world is about to end, with half of earth's population to burn in a lake of fire.  The e-mail directed me to this web site.  I spent a lot of time reading through the material; it's pretty cool.  It is interesting to note how obsessed are the children of Abraham's three religions with apocalypse.

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Thanks to Doug Purdy, my wife is now reading "Quantum Psychology".  It's not a bad book, but I wonder if I really want her to know the secrets of the global conspiracy.

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Today I ate at Pho Saigon in Redmond for the first time.  It just opened at the northeast intersection of Leary Way and Cleveland across from Redmond Town Center, and seems to have not shown up in CitySearch yet.  It wasn't breathtaking, but it was fine and I'm sure I'll go back often.  The place is very clean, the menu has all of the standard soup meats, and the price is good ($4.95 for small, $5.95 for large).  The bowls of soup were all pretty liberal in the amount of meat, and the meat was good quality (no gristle, no grease).  We'll see if they keep up the quality and quantity once business picks up more.  The spring rolls were fine, too, and the tea was great.

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Orlowski must be distracted lately by something, because he's definitely not paying attention to his journalism.  First he printed a flawed technical analysis of on-line voting, and today he is playing fast-and-loose with the facts apparently in an attempt to smear Microsoft.  Orlowski doesn't care that Microsoft has no editorial control over MSNBC (which any journo with integrity will tell you is a good thing).  He's obviously very upset, because he's unleashing the sarcasm with full force, but I'm having a hard time understanding what he thinks should happen.

Is he suggesting that MSFT should censor MSNBC news so that it only reflects Microsoft corporate vision?  Besides the fact that MSFT can't, and the obvious first ammendment questions raised, it seems that any such actions would set a precedent affirming that MSFT viewed MSNBC as an official PR channel.  In other words, everything said on MSNBC might carry the same legal weight as official PR statements do.  Some might have thought it nice to shut up the MSNBC anchors who ripped on MSFT during the antitrust trials, but MSFT doesn't have that sort of influence.

Or maybe Orlowski is suggesting that MSFT should censor MSNBC news whenever he finds it offensive?  But getting rid of shows that people don't like is the job of MSNBC, and a job that MSNBC gets graded on directly based on revenue.  Quite simply, if people hate the show, MSNBC loses money.  The loss of revenue due to people hating the show would be certainly orders of magnitude greater than the loss of revenue due to Chinese government mistakenly thinking that Michael Savage speaks on behalf of MSFT. 

Orlowski has more than enough room to criticize MSNBC's editorial decisions without trying to falsely link one host's opinions to MSFT corporate policy, and he certainly should be able to disagree with MSNBC without degenerating into personal attacks on MSFT executives.

More than 90% of earth's creatures are invertabrates.

On The Eve Of A Patent Apocalypse?

On The Eve Of A Patent Apocalypse? 09/21/2004 02:41 AM
theodp writes "The IHT reports on BTG's use of purchased patents to sue Amazon and Barnes & Noble over technology that tracks consumer purchases, raising the question of whether we're one step closer to an all-out patent war in which every patentholder seeks to exercise its rights, bringing the software industry to a standstill and leaving lawyers as the only winners." We wrote about this patent lawsuit last week, but it's good that others are finally realizing that the current patent situation is a disaster waiting to happen for the tech industry.

E-mail apocalypse: now

E-mail apocalypse: now 02/05/2005 09:11 PM
ZDNet Feb 4 2005 6:47PM GMT

washingtonpost.com: Apocalypse Soon?

washingtonpost.com: Apocalypse Soon? 05/17/2004 03:10 AM
an article debunking the movie and discussing its possible policy impact .. Patrick Michaels writes in The Washington Post .. Debunking The Day After Tomorrow

washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28338-2004May14?language=pri nter
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Perl 6 Apocalypse 12 released

Perl 6 Apocalypse 12 released 04/21/2004 07:24 AM
ajs writes "The 12th Apocalypse for Perl 6 has been released. This is a skip forward in the ordering, as the last Apocalypse was number 6 and 7 was deferred to "Exegesis 7: Formats" by Damian Conway. Why the skip? Because objects (the subject of A12) are ...

Lieutenant Torvalds in Apocalypse .Net

Lieutenant Torvalds in Apocalypse .Net 10/31/2003 08:16 AM
Vietnam embracing open-source products .. eliminate Microsoft .. Silicon Valley

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Welcome to the Apocalypse! Please enjoy
your stay

Welcome to the Apocalypse! Please enjoy
your stay 06/15/2004 01:32 PM
Yesterday, I officially stopped failing to embrace Unicode. Today I'm defining basic features of Parrot that are required to be OO. Who knows, maybe tomorrow I'll enjoy programming in C. If anyone sees a bunch of guys on horses, don't forget to offer 'em some carrots. (And watch out for guys all in black and white smoking cigarettes...)...

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
Following the news from Mars, people might think it was the story of scientists who cried "Water!" over and over.

Zombie apocalypse novels serialized

Zombie apocalypse novels serialized 09/21/2004 06:31 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Wireless Ink is offering two serialized science fiction novels called Monster Island and "Monster Nation".

Monster Island is a 60 chapter serial novel published to mobile phones under Creative Commons license by David Wellington (an indie author) about a Zombie Apocalypse in New York City. Monster Nation, the second novel in the trilogy, will be available in September 2004.

Mobile Link (Also available at winksite.com under "Featured Sites.")

"Kerry confuses Apocalypse Now with his
life"

"Kerry confuses Apocalypse Now with his
life" 08/12/2004 02:13 AM

Asteroid apocalypse: the online guide

Asteroid apocalypse: the online guide 04/13/2004 11:13 AM
Boffins deploy Armageddon analyser

The New Republic Online: Apocalypse
Kerry

The New Republic Online: Apocalypse
Kerry 08/01/2004 03:33 AM
an absolutely devastating attack .. Lawrence Kaplan's New Republic .. last night's theatrics

tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=kaplan073004
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Interoperable apocalypse: sf story about
devices that come to life

Interoperable apocalypse: sf story about
devices that come to life 02/05/2005 09:25 PM
Cory Doctorow: SF writer Paul DiFilippo has a wonderful story on SciFi.com called And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon that's funny, dirty, and technologically prescient. It concerns itself with "blebs" -- composite gadget made byt he spontaneous merging of smart household objects that are a little too interoperable.

The Volition Bug was launched anonymously from a site somewhere in a Central Asian republic. It propagated wirelessly among all the WiFi-communicating chipped objects, installing new directives in their tiny brains, directives that ran covertly in parallel with their normal factory-specified functions. Infected objects now sought to link their processing power with their nearest peers, often achieving surprising levels of Turingosity, and then to embark on a kind of independent communal life. Of course, once the Volition Bug was identified, antiviral defenses—both hardware and software—were attempted against it. But VB mutated ferociously, aided and abetted by subsequent hackers.

If this "Consciousness Wavefront" had occurred in the olden days of dumb materials, blebs would hardly have been an issue. What could antique manufactured goods achieve, anchored in place as they were? But things were different today.

Most devices nowadays were made with MEMS skins. Their surfaces were interactive, practically alive, formed of zillions of invisible actuators, the better to sample the environment and accommodate their shapes and textures to their owners' needs and desires, and to provide haptic feedback. Like the paws of geckos, these MEMS surfaces could bind to dumb materials and to other MEMS skins via the Van der Waals force, just as a gecko could skitter across the ceiling.

Link (Thanks, Steve!)

Homeland Security blows $16m prepping
for apocalypse

Homeland Security blows $16m prepping
for apocalypse 04/06/2005 12:24 PM
Duct tape and sheet plastic writ large

Coming cellphone apocalypse presents
challenges to the environment

Coming cellphone apocalypse presents
challenges to the environment 11/01/2003 12:54 PM

Bhs signs up again with CSC

Bhs signs up again with CSC 02/12/2004 09:57 AM
Shovels £80m supplier's way

Signs

Signs 02/10/2004 02:48 AM

Beautiful and useful signage.

Thomson Signs On For New MSN TV

Thomson Signs On For New MSN TV 08/03/2004 02:27 PM
Thomson will continue to manuufacture the Mcirosoft MSN TV platform, the two companies said in a deal that was announced on Monday.

100 freeway signs

100 freeway signs 09/07/2004 03:51 PM
to be a big day .. website

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EDS signs MoD contract

EDS signs MoD contract 03/23/2005 07:33 AM
Head for the hills

Signs of Stupidity

Signs of Stupidity 03/14/2005 05:02 PM
In the Baltimore area Comcast is going to launch an "ads-on-demand" service. Baltimore will be just the second market to receive the offer, after...

ICANN signs in .eu

ICANN signs in .eu 03/24/2005 04:50 PM
ZDNet UK Mar 24 2005 8:35PM GMT

Two signs that SCO is desperate

Two signs that SCO is desperate 12/24/2003 12:16 PM
As SCO widens its arguments, the whiff of desperation is becoming a full-fledged stank. So, now the Gnu Public License itself violates copyright law? According to CEO Darl McBride, the GPL removes the profit motive from software development and the profit motive "underpins the constitutionality of the (U.S.) Copyright Act." Here's Linus' reply: "I'm a big believer in copyrights," Torvalds wrote in an e-mail interview. "Of all the intellectual property (laws), copyright ... is the only one that is expressly designed so that individual people can (and do) get them without having scads of lawyers on their side." "If...

Signs of life

Signs of life 12/17/2004 06:28 PM

Hah!

At least there's some evidence that Brian Dear's company - EVDB - has a logo.

Lots of folks are talking about it - but Brian's zipped lipped.

But they're apparently part of the 'Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium' - so now they're public. :-)

Hmm - why isn't WhizSpark part of this consortium? I wonder if they wanna help put up shared XML servers of Events - scraped from throughout the web? That's what OpenEvents is all about. Open APIs into shared Events.

Signs of Trouble

Signs of Trouble 06/23/2004 09:09 AM
Inventory buildup can point to deteriorating fundamentals.

Signs Your Company May Be Too Big

Signs Your Company May Be Too Big 04/28/2004 08:15 PM
This is by no means complete. But I figured I ought to write down those that have occurred to me recently. it takes at least one month to get new test hardware there's a constant parking shortage everything has a form that must be filled out, such as "I want to ship a package to someone" when you're in the shipping room the fact that you have a loading dock upon which you can fill out that form and a...

ICANN Signs MoU with NRO

ICANN Signs MoU with NRO 06/05/2005 11:43 PM
Money Plans Jun 4 2005 9:29PM GMT

Signs and wonders

Signs and wonders 05/06/2004 08:35 AM
A journalist's investigation of holy Christian visions turns into a tortured spiritual quest.

Signs you are busy

Signs you are busy 11/12/2003 03:19 PM

Paris Hilton must a very busy person. Personally, I'd let voicemail pickup.

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