Archive for August, 2004

PHP WikiWord

Here, take a WikiWord. Wait, what is a WikiWord? Well, the WikiWikiWeb describes a WikiWord as “an amalgamation of two or more words composed of at least two letters each, without intervening white spaces, where the first letter of each component word is capitalized and the remaining letters are lower cased.” The code below is written [...]

Outrageous Gun

Wow, can you believe they sell something like this? This gun is 19.7″ long, 2.2″ wide, 8.3″ high and weighs 6.6 lbs. The website totes it as “the ultimate system for operating in urban and other close-quarter battle scenarios.” This would be wonderful, but who is ever in an urban or close-quarter battle scenario? (and [...]

The “Cartel”

The cartel has killed off 321 Studios, which sold software letting people back up their DVDs. This story is pretty sad, but it is pretty cool how it is not referred to as the MPAA of the Motion Picture Industry but as “The Cartel”.

Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!

This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet to see how a meme represented by a blog posting spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs [...]

Feedster

No Need to Click Here - I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster

Gnome 2.8

A preview of new features in Gnome 2.8 has been published. One, proposed, feature is Evolution. I love Evolution! Well, maybe not love it, but it is probably the best mail-groupware client for linux and having it incuded with Gnome 2.8 will be nice. There is also a keychain type daemon called Keyring Manager, a new [...]

Somebody enjoys their rights…

The Associated Press is reporting that 9 out of 10 eligible Afghanis turned out to register to vote. First tallies since the eight-month registration drive began winding down on Saturday show that 8.7 million of an estimated 9.8 million eligible voters have collected ID cards for the Oct. 9 election. Forty-one percent of those [...]