Remembering Spuddy: Memorial Details
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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 Pioneer 10
Remembering Pioneer 10
06/13/2004 08:10 PMRemembering the BBS Scene
Remembering the BBS Scene
04/02/2005 04:07 PMAh, 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 AMLore "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 PMRemember 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 ||
kuro5hin.org
Remembering the BBS Scene ||
kuro5hin.org
04/07/2005 03:22 AMRemembering the BBS Scene .. I remember it well .. Article on
kuro5hin
kuro5hin.org/story/2005/4/1/51917/44859
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Remembering Non-Registered Visitors
Remembering Non-Registered Visitors
06/26/2002 01:00 PMYou 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 French Laundry
Remembering the French Laundry
03/28/2005 10:23 AMAges 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 PMTens 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 PMCreating (and remembering) crazy hard
passwords
Creating (and remembering) crazy hard
passwords
02/05/2005 09:50 PMI'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.
Flash memory takes a licking and keeps
on remembering
Flash memory takes a licking and keeps
on remembering
08/02/2004 03:02 AMFlash 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 AMChicago 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.
National Geographic: Remembering Pearl
Harbor-history, maps
National Geographic: Remembering Pearl
Harbor-history, maps
12/08/2003 08:02 AMNational 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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Shark Tank: Details, details
Shark Tank: Details, details
01/09/2004 09:51 PMWhen this IT director installs a new application, he agrees to have it
hosted at the corporate data center, three miles from his location --
but only after he asks a few questions about backup power.
Shark Tank: Details, details ...
Shark Tank: Details, details ...
03/19/2005 03:15 AMIt's time to bring up a new server, and because it's replacing one
that crashed, the big boss suggests naming it after a mythical bird
that lives for 500 years and then rises from the ashes.
Memorial Day
Memorial Day
05/31/2004 12:34 PMTake a moment and remember those who
answer the call.
Thank you to all who have served our great country.
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Happy Memorial Day
Happy Memorial Day
05/31/2004 07:03 AMToday is a legal holiday in the U.S., so except for updating NewsVac,
we're taking the day off to be with our families. See you tomorrow!
"Alphecca: Memorial Day"
"Alphecca: Memorial Day"
05/31/2004 09:53 PMMemorial Day holiday in the US
Memorial Day holiday in the US
05/31/2004 08:40 AMToday is the Memorial Day holiday in the United States, and as such,
there will be no official site update today. Have a great day, and if
you're a citizen of the US, please take some time to remember and
thank those who've d...
Alphecca: Memorial Day
Alphecca: Memorial Day
05/31/2004 02:21 PMThis is all you need to read today .. Memorial Day photo essay ..
photos you should see ..
Alphecca
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War Gives Memorial Day a New Meaning
(AP)
War Gives Memorial Day a New Meaning
(AP)
05/31/2004 02:18 AMAP - Deb Granahan never gave much thought to Memorial Day. It was a
day off from work, an excuse to find some great buys at the mall and a
chance to crack open the grill for a family barbecue.
Whiskey Bar: Memorial Day
Whiskey Bar: Memorial Day
06/01/2004 05:06 PMupcoming holiday .. post
billmon.org/archives/001494.html
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What do you think of Diana memorial?
What do you think of Diana memorial?
07/06/2004 06:54 AMThe Queen has opened a memorial fountain to commemorate Diana,
Princess of Wales in Hyde Park, London. What is your opinion of the
tribute?
"Memorial Day Tributes"
"Memorial Day Tributes"
06/05/2004 04:19 AMEt Cetera: happy Memorial Day!
Et Cetera: happy Memorial Day!
05/31/2004 07:07 PMRound up: it's Memorial Day in the US. Check in for a round up of the
latest morsels bubbling around the 'net.
"National WWII Memorial"
"National WWII Memorial"
05/31/2004 09:53 PMThe AIDS Memorial Quilt
The AIDS Memorial Quilt
12/02/2003 05:25 AMThe NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt .. peaceful activists .. lest we
forget .. remembrances .. quilt .. those
aidsquilt.org
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"AIDS Memorial Quilt"
"AIDS Memorial Quilt"
12/02/2003 09:59 AMBell System Memorial
Bell System Memorial
07/25/2004 07:06 PM
Bell System
Memorial.
National WWII Memorial
National WWII Memorial
05/30/2004 11:36 PMNational World War II Memorial .. What a travesty .. new eyesore ..
website .. war
wwiimemorial.com
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Massacre memorial vandalised
Massacre memorial vandalised
08/29/2004 09:09 AMA memorial to victims of an IRA bomb attack in County Down has been
vandalised, just two days after it was officially unveiled.
Memorial dedicated to Harvester
Memorial dedicated to Harvester
01/17/2004 10:55 PMThe families of the seven fishermen who died when their fishing vessel
sank four years ago will dedicate a memorial.
The 9/11 Memorial: How Pluribus Became
Unum
The 9/11 Memorial: How Pluribus Became
Unum
01/19/2004 01:44 AMThirteen jurors deliberated for six months on 5,201 World Trade Center
memorial submissions ranging from the sublime to something else.
National D-Day Memorial Foundation
National D-Day Memorial Foundation
06/07/2004 06:03 AMSixty years ago today, a great blow for Liberty & Freedom was struck
.. tribute to those that served for you and I .. The National D-Day
Memorial
dday.org
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WTC Memorial Design Finalists
WTC Memorial Design Finalists
11/19/2003 11:43 AM The eight finalists for the design of the World Trade Center
Memorial were annouced today. Follow the link to see the proposals.
Downtown Washington, DC and the new WWII
Memorial
Downtown Washington, DC and the new WWII
Memorial
06/06/2004 11:12 AMTook the airplane down to my hometown of Washington, DC for a bit
of exercise this weekend. The city was built to awe the citizens
with an inhuman scale. Plazas are vast and the Mall itself is a
forbidding barrier if you're trying to walk from place to place on a
hot or cold day (the architects who wrote A
Pattern Language concluded that no public square would be
effective unless it was small enough that people could recognize each
other from opposite ends). The government buildings are huge and
discourage casual entry by being set back from the street and not
having any retail shops on the ground floor as a commercial office
building might.
The D.C. of my childhood is vastly different from the D.C. of
today. Those imposing buildings that symbolize the government's
power are now wrapped in concrete highway barriers that broadcast the
government's fear of a lone terrorist driving a truck filled with a
fertilizer bomb. Around the Federal Reserve building, for
example, the barriers cover part of the sidewalk so as a pedestrian
you're separated from the street by a wall of concrete. The
effect is certainly ugly and it will be interesting to see what
happens if a beautiful Old World city such as Paris needs to be
secured against lone terrorists in trucks. But in a way the
cowering of the government marks the triumph of the individual in
American society. "God created men; Colonel Colt made them
equal" wasn't quite right after all. It was the terrorists who
blew up the Marine compound in Beirut and those who blew up the World
Trade garage in 1993 who actually made individual men the equals of
government.
There is one new building in Washington, D.C. that harks back to an
era when governments were all-powerful and individual men and women
subordinate: the World
War II Memorial. This is at the east end of the Reflecting
Pool and adjacent to the Washington Monument (now wrapped in an ugly
high security fence). The new monument looks as though it was
built by Soviet architects and indeed looks a lot like the WWII memorial in East
Berlin. The thing is huge and it makes one pause and
reflect... "We'd better not start any more wars or we're going to run
out of space on the Mall."
[My visit to the Memorial coincided with protests in Europe against
American power in the form of George W. Bush, visiting to celebrate
the American victory over the Germans in Italy. Picking up on
the theme of an earlier
entry, I suppose it would not have been very politic of him to
respond by saying "We're sincerely sorry for being so bellicose and
we're going to show it by giving Italy back to the Germans..."]
Overall I still love Washington, D.C. Where else can you
drive on a riverside parkway, 100-percent paid for with Federal tax
dollars, and pass adjacent signs reading "The George Bush Center for
Intelligence" and "Turkey Run"?
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