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"Ask Dr. LJ"
Does anyone know how to produce a local on-disk copy of a song that can be streamed, but not downloaded, from the Myspace music player? Besides some kind of external analog coupling, I mean.
It's almost New Years and I'm thinking about the two years I celebrated it at Toad in Cambridge where Guitarzan was playing. And I'd like to carry a couple of ( Read more... ) -
Duhh
I just got email from someone in a working group I'm on saying that the weekly conference call this Thursday is being canceled.
To me this is just cluttering my inbox.
Merry Christmas though!
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Hawaiian
I tried to learn a little Hawaiian while in Kauai. The most interesting thing I've discovered so far about the language is that nouns are the same in both singular and plural. Instead, there are different forms of articles that convey the quantity of the associated noun.
- Ke Honu - the sea turtle
- Nā Honu - the sea turtles
- Ke Pali - the cliff
- Nā Pali ( Read more... )
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Sold
I got a gratifyingly fast response from my Craigslist ad to sell the big fish tank. I think I probably underpriced it since I was including the pretty expensive canister filter, but oh well. I had an appointment with two grad students just after work yesterday, so I went home a little early to get things ready ( Read more... ) -
A small victory over spam
Giant "evil" hosting organization McColo was disconnected by both its network service providers yesterday. It's almost horrifying to imagine a hosting company that actively marketed itself as a safe haven for spammers, botnet command-and-control, malware distribution, and child pornography.
McColo used Hurricane Electric and Global Crossing as ( Read more... ) -
"World's first personal winery"
This is the most hilarious thing I've seen in the domain of "expensive toys you can buy when you have too much money ( Read more... ) -
Fire!
There was a minor disaster in downtown Champaign Friday morning. An historic, 130-year-old building that was being renovated into lofts burned to the ground. Apparently it collapsed into the street just moments after the firefighters arrived, and then the massed pile of wood burned like a giant bonfire for an hour before they got it under control ( Read more... ) -
Wait, what?
Michael Crichton died? I guess I missed that news among the din of the election results.
This makes me really sad. While his later stuff was kind of formulaic and crappy, much of his earlier medical fiction was quite relevant and gripping, including one of my very favorite cautionary tales of biology, The Andromeda Strain.
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"Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much, and tonight, I remain her servant," McCain said.
That, I have to say, is pretty classy.
