Remembering Neil Postman, 1931-2003

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Postman Gephardt

Postman Gephardt 11/19/2003 10:34 AM
This is the friendly Postimies on the back of the card they leave in the mail slot if a...

The postman ate my bucky balls

The postman ate my bucky balls 07/12/2004 04:04 PM
Today is the 50th anniversary of the geodesic dome, designed by Buckminster Fuller. The US Postal Service launched a new stamp today, to commemorate the date and honor the creator.

Postman Is Barred From Helping Retirees
(AP)

Postman Is Barred From Helping Retirees
(AP) 07/06/2004 08:28 AM
AP - For years, postman Paul Kierby has delivered groceries and newspapers with the mail to older residents unable to make it to the village store in Singleton, northwest England.

The postman always texts twice: shag
phones

The postman always texts twice: shag
phones 06/13/2004 12:56 AM
Disposable mobiles purchased specifically for the purpose of illicit sexual liasons. A Boingboing pal in the UK says reports of this odd social trend are legit -- throwaway phones allow sekrit lovers to communicate by SMS or voice, on the downlow. Snip from the blog where I first read the phrase "shag phone":

I heard someone (honest) talking about their "shag phone" the other day. He was a married man having an affair with a lady who was also married. It seems that one of the first heady rituals of the affair was to purchase a "his and her" pair of Pre-pay shag phones.

Only they knew each other's number, so when the phone rang, they could answer in an appropriately passionate way. While much the same effect could be achieved with caller recognition (assuming they were mobile literate), there was more than just a romantic gesture involved with this behavior. Technology still can't hide your phone bill from a suspicious spouse. And it can't hide your amour's frequently dialed number from prying eyes. Better to get a pair pre-pay phones with no incriminating phone bills or records. A small example of how the mobile is impacting on 21st century life.

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Postman charged with letter theft

Postman charged with letter theft 07/18/2004 05:15 AM
A postman is charged with stealing 130,000 letters and leaflets after they are discovered at a house.

Postman Kept 21,000 Letters Undelivered
(Reuters)

Postman Kept 21,000 Letters Undelivered
(Reuters) 08/05/2004 06:57 AM
Reuters - A Malaysian postman kept 21,000 letters undelivered for up to four years in a room of his house, newspapers said Thursday. Police were now searching for the missing man.

Remembering π

Remembering π 09/17/2004 06:13 AM
David Pescovitz: In March, a savant in England recited π from memory to more than 22,000 decimal places. Still, he wasn't even halfway to the world record set by a Japanese man in 1995. This article in Plus magazine describes how these amazing memory feats are accomplished and how to improve your own remembrance of numbers past.

"Like most people, you have probably had the odd experience of smelling, say, an old piece of furniture and being reminded of something that happened to you in the distant past. Smell has a particularly strong connection with memory, perhaps because the part of the brain that deals with smell is close to the hippocampus, which is where it is believed long term memories are formed. If you deliberately surround yourself with a particular smell when trying to memorise something, that smell is likely to help trigger the memory later when you need to recall it."

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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 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 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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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.

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!

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....

Windows XP: Remembering More than 400
Folder Settings

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

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.

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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

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.

Guru Neil

Guru Neil 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
Wired is running a short interview with Neil Young which I read because I’m fond of his music; and if you’ve never seen Neil perform live you ought to make the effort, there are ups and downs but the ups are way up. Anyhow, I think this is a must-read for anyone who cares about Media and Radio and Music and The Net and all those other capitalized words. Mr. Young obviously Gets It, big time. I’m now off to spend some time at his new multimedia project, Greendale.

Ask Neil Gaiman

Ask Neil Gaiman 10/30/2003 11:48 PM

Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman 02/17/2004 11:48 AM
Closed-caption censorship .. Neil Gaiman is right

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Congrats to Zack and Neil

Congrats to Zack and Neil 06/30/2004 02:25 PM

Howard Rheingold on CivicSpace....

I was thrilled to meet a young man by the name of Zack Rosen at SXSW this year, and more thrilled when he told me that his reading of Smart Mobs was a key inspiration behind his effort to create the infrastructure for Deanspace. He's been working on a toolkit for community organizing of the kind that drove the Dean campaign. Based on Drupal, the civic organizing toolkit was designed to be easy to use and cost less than $50/month. It's called CivicSpace. Check it out. It should be available soon.

CivicSpace is being built with the needs of distributed organizations in mind. It will give you and the supporters within your community a solid framework for organizing and engaging those around you in action. But it also will allow you to plug your community into a network of other communities where you can share your ideas, knowledge, relationships, and organizational information. Here are some things it will enable you to do:

• Create a customizable community driven website with Blogs, Photo Galleries, User Profiles, Friend / Buddy Tracking, Polls, and File Storage more…
  
• Send targeted email more…


• Import and aggregate remote content, share users, and sync calendars with any other CivicSpace site more…
• Manage your groups membership and contacts more…


• Organize events, ride sharing, and RSVP more…
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• Collaboratively create, edit, and publish documents more…


• Easily create discussion forum / mailing lists more…
• Allow you to create forms and surveys for data collection more…
• VoterID/GOTV more…

Posted by Howard at 10:21 AM

"Neil Armstrong entry"

"Neil Armstrong entry" 06/12/2004 09:26 AM

Neil Gaiman Responds

Neil Gaiman Responds 11/03/2003 10:00 AM

"Rememberances from Neil Gaiman"

"Rememberances from Neil Gaiman" 01/06/2005 11:45 AM

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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Vince Neil sued by former prostitute

Vince Neil sued by former prostitute 04/19/2004 12:36 PM

Slashdot | Neil Gaiman Responds

Slashdot | Neil Gaiman Responds 11/04/2003 05:18 AM
Slashdot Neil Gaiman Responds .. interviewed .. Slashdot

interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/03/11/03/1349252.shtml?t id=188&tid=192&tid=97
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[etech] Day 2 Morning - Neil Gershenfeld

[etech] Day 2 Morning - Neil Gershenfeld 03/17/2005 03:00 AM
Neil heads MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. He teaches a course called "How to make (almost) anything." As an example, he shows Kelly Dobson's class project, a scream body. You scream into it in public spaces. It muffles the scream entirely, and then you can release it at a more appropriate space. Very funny. Another made an alarm clock you have to wrestle with to prove that you are awake. He says the liberal arts originally were about learning to control the means of expression; the Trivium consisted of grammar, rhetoric and logic. The "illiberal" arts had to do...

Neil Young treated for aneurysm

Neil Young treated for aneurysm 04/02/2005 11:30 AM
Guitarist and singer-songwriter Neil Young is treated for a brain aneurysm in hospital in New York.

Neil Young Recovering From Brain
Aneurysm (AP)

Neil Young Recovering From Brain
Aneurysm (AP) 04/01/2005 08:17 PM
AP - Neil Young was treated for a brain aneurysm this week and remains hospitalized, although doctors expect a full recovery, his publicist said Friday.

Blogjam presents: Neil Armstrong - The
Truth

Blogjam presents: Neil Armstrong - The
Truth 10/31/2003 05:00 AM
So here, for the first time, is the unedited NASA film from the triumphant Apollo 11 mission .. really said when he landed on the moon .. One small f'in .. The Awful Truth .. unedited .. faked

blogjam.com/neil_armstrong
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TV star Neil buys Dylan's local

TV star Neil buys Dylan's local 04/21/2004 03:34 PM
The pub that helped inspire poet Dylan Thomas is bought at auction by Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey in Laugharne, west Wales.

washingtonpost.com: The Relatively
Charmed Life Of Neil Bush

washingtonpost.com: The Relatively
Charmed Life Of Neil Bush 12/29/2003 09:13 PM

Open Source Myths - by Neil Gunton

Open Source Myths - by Neil Gunton 07/26/2004 12:23 PM

neilgunton.com/open_source_myths
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"Blogjam presents: Neil Armstrong - The
Truth"

"Blogjam presents: Neil Armstrong - The
Truth" 10/31/2003 11:45 AM

HoustonChronicle.com - Bush brother Neil
marries in Houston

HoustonChronicle.com - Bush brother Neil
marries in Houston 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
"Silverado," Adulterer, Asian Prostitute Client Neil Bush Marries, Again. His NEW Bride Used to Work for Barbara Bush, Who Attended the Nuptials with the First King George. How Touching. 3/8 .. his brother's wedding?

chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2437551
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Remembering Neil Postman, 1931-2003