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Remember the forgotten hero who saved the world
Anyway, at 40 minutes past midnight on the 26th Petrov looked up and saw a missile launch from a United States silo had been detected by one of his satellites. Now you might expect panic at this point but missile command tends to attract the serious, sobeTue Sep 26 21:17:49 2006 - permalink -- http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/categories/security/589/remember-the-forgotten-hero-who-saved-the-world.thtml
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A textbook definition of cowardice
The Bush Administration did not try to get Osama bin Laden before 9/11. The Bush Administration ignored all the evidence gathered by its predecessors. The Bush Administration did not understand the Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined To Strike iTue Sep 26 12:00:58 2006 - permalink -- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15004160/
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Startup key combinations for Intel-based Macs
These are the startup key combinations you can use on Intel-based MacsMon Sep 25 13:30:53 2006 - permalink -- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303124
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Vitaly Friedman's Notebook: 25 Best Free Quality Fonts
Sun Sep 24 22:27:24 2006 - permalink -- http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts
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Racer Free Car Simulation
Open source driving game. No Volvos.Sat Sep 23 23:22:43 2006 - permalink -- http://www.racer.nl/
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Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.Sat Sep 23 14:17:29 2006 - permalink -- http://lipsum.com/
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The Indy Experience.com - The Ultimate Guide to Indiana Jones!
Indian Jones 4 scriptsThu Sep 21 14:43:53 2006 - permalink -- http://theindyexperience.com/news_archives/december_2005.php
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French and German remakes of the BBC's Office. By Liesl Schillinger - Slate Magazine
We may still talk of "working like a dog," but the Russians lately have coined the expression, "to work like an American," reflecting our 24/7 on-call mentality. These days, for Americans, "home office" is not just a place, it's a state of mind.Wed Sep 20 21:30:35 2006 - permalink -- http://www.slate.com/id/2150015/
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iCal Exchange
The iCal Exchange was created to give the Internet community an easy way to publish their calendars using the built-in "Publish to a web server" mechanism.Wed Sep 20 17:13:39 2006 - permalink -- http://icalx.com/
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Old Yeller
The illustrious history of the yellow legal pad.Wed Sep 20 08:24:06 2006 - permalink -- http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/May-June-2005/scene_snider_mayjun05.msp
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Can We Please Bring Our Damned Coffee On the Plane Again, Idiots? - Wonkette
If there was a conspiracy, he added, “it did not involve manufacturing the explosives in the loo,” as this simply “could not have worked.” The process would be quickly and easily detected.Tue Sep 19 22:19:27 2006 - permalink -- http://www.wonkette.com/politics/dancing-with-the-stars/can-we-please-bring-our-damned-coffee-on-the-plane-again-idiots-201784.php
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Alachua Astronomy Club: Solar Walk
Fri Sep 15 16:59:18 2006 - permalink -- http://www.floridastars.org/solarwalk/ssmodels.html
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TickleBooth
The biggest surprise was finding the entire version of When the Levees Collapsed, a 4 hour documentary on Katrina and New Orleans. This film is Lee’s best non-fiction work and the best Katrina related film I have seen. The film goes to the very roots ofThu Sep 14 16:10:47 2006 - permalink -- http://ticklebooth.com/2006/09/spike-lee-joints-on-youtube/
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Derek's Virtual Slide Rule Gallery
A gallery of clickable simulated slide rulesThu Sep 14 14:50:37 2006 - permalink -- http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/
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Salon.com Technology | Why Johnny can't code
For three years -- ever since my son Ben was in fifth grade -- he and I have engaged in a quixotic but determined quest: We've searched for a simple and straightforward way to get the introductory programming language BASIC to run on either my Mac or my PThu Sep 14 14:08:34 2006 - permalink -- http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/09/14/basic/print.html
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O'Reilly Open Books Project
O'Reilly has published a number of Open Books--books with various forms of "open" copyright--over the years. The reasons for "opening" copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors.Tue Sep 12 14:17:55 2006 - permalink -- http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
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svicc: Small VI Clone for the Commodore (64)
svicc is a small-scale clone of the (in)famous vi text editor, in the style of the popular nvi/nex variant. It is written for the Commodore 64, with support for other Commodore systems planned in the future.Tue Sep 12 12:40:40 2006 - permalink -- http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/cbm/svicc/
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The VICE Emulator
Multi-Platform open source Commodore 64 emulatorTue Sep 12 12:38:01 2006 - permalink -- http://www.viceteam.org/