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Drive very, very carefully in Wyoming, if at all. Apparently exceeding the speed limit by more than 5 (!) MPH can bring up to 20 (!!!!!) days in prison. And this isn’t a technicality or an obsolete law on the books. I found this out after an Ask MetaFilter question by someone whose friend was [...]
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8 Jun 2008Last night we were unloading a shopping cart. When done, the place to put it away was pretty far away. But there were about ten other shopping carts littering the parking lot nearby, so I said, “Meh, what’s one more?” As we got in the car, I proclaimed, “Broken Windows in action!” I think people [...]
You know those times when you decide to let yourself surf aimlessly? And an hour later, you have absolutely no idea how you got to where you did? I found the K0S Strange Antenna Contest page from 2003, where some ham radio operators started using, well, strange things as antennas. Who’d think that a ladder [...]
I don’t know why, but I find these absolutely hilarious. Since I haven’t given it out in a while, this guy gets HERO OF THE DAY.
In: 2008|Cool Links|Funny|Humanitarianism|Insanity|Politics|Rants & Raves
17 May 2008Can you guess the state? Recently had about 100 students arrested, and several fraternties banned, after a massive drug dealing operation was busted at a state university. Recently became the second state in the nation to give homosexuals equal rights. Recently had 2 arrested at another school for selling body parts on the black market. [...]
This falls into the category of things very few people would notice, but…. Microsoft provides time.windows.com, a public NTP server, operating in stratum 2. I just came across NTPmonitor, a novel Windows app to monitor a handful of NTP servers. (Sadly, it doesn’t offer the option to sync to any of them, probably because most [...]
I keep coming across things like this eBay listing. Sun Enterprise 4500, 12 SPARC processors (400 MHz, 4MB cache) and 12 GB of RAM. This one looks to have a couple Gigabit fiber NICs, too. (Although it’s fiber, so you’d need a pricier switch to use it on a “normal” copper home LAN.) Even if [...]
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9 May 2008The Web Developer toolbar, which is (1) the #1 hit on Google for “Web Developer,” and (2) now compatible with Firefox 3 beta, is totally awesome. You may recall that, in the past, if you had text after a bulleted list or similar on this page, the text would suddenly be mashed together. I never [...]
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8 May 2008I’ve alluded before to using gzip compression on webserver. HTML is very compressible, so servers moving tremendous amounts of text/HTML would see a major reduction in bandwidth. (Images and such would not see much of a benefit, as they’re already compressed.) As an example, I downloaded the main page of Wikipedia, retrieving only the HTML [...]
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4 May 2008I came across Ken Rockwell’s site the other day, and, as I perused a lot, I came across his interesting mention of the Casio EX-F1. I’ve “graduated” from integrated point-and-shoots to digital SLRs, although this camera costs more than my digital SLR and three lenses put together. Photographically, it’s mediocre. 6 megapixels. Except you don’t [...]