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November 30, 2003

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today

by @ 8:02 pm. Filed under political perspective

Following Bill’s you might be a liberal if, here’s the Things you have to believe to be a Republican.

November 28, 2003

later that night

by @ 7:27 pm. Filed under Art

Now you can Build Your Own Meat

November 26, 2003

BND

by @ 11:20 am. Filed under Uncategorized

Buy Nothing Day

The key to Genius - musical savants.

by @ 12:16 am. Filed under Music

Matt Savage launched his jazz career by attempting to improve a Schubert sonata. His piano teacher told him that the G-sharp he just played was supposed to be a G-natural. “It sounds better my way,” he protested. She replied that only when he wrote his own music could he take liberties with a score. Keen on taking liberties, he became a jazz composer. He released his fifth album this year, making guest appearances on the Today show, 20/20, and NPR. Recently, his trio booked two shows at the Blue Note in New York City.

In May, he will celebrate his 12th birthday.

Wired

November 25, 2003

Orson Scott Card on the war on Terrorism

by @ 11:53 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

” … What finally ended Anarchism as a source of terrorism?

World War I. Bloody revolutions in Russia and elsewhere. Fascism.

Nothing like having a million men die in the trenches, or having the population oppressed by state terrorism far worse than the feeble efforts of Anarchists, or suffering through the chaos of genuine, bloody anarchy.

All the ideas of the Anarchists were disproven or shown to be trivial.

My fear is that the only way to end the wave of terrorism that is finding recruits among impoverished and frustrated and extremist Muslims in so many nations of the world will be similar.

The best answer to extremist Muslim views is to live in a country ruled by extremist Muslims. Citizens of Iran under the ayatollahs and Afghanistan under the Taliban are far less likely a recruiting ground for anti-western terrorism.

But the fanatical Taliban and the fascist Ba’ath parties were not brought down by internal revolution — they were brought down by outside invasion (with much cooperation from the people who hated the fanatic regimes).

And I fear that the only thing that will cure the Muslim people of their current love affair with terrorism (for even though the terrorists are few, those who openly sympathize with their barbarities are many and their critics are virtually silent) is the savagery of total war.”

Read the full text on OSC’s site.

ZINA

by @ 3:00 pm. Filed under Music

Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer. It can run on its own, embeded into an existing website, or as a Postnuke/PHPNuke module. It is similar to Andromeda, but released under the GNU General Public License.

November 24, 2003

Bill Gates on Spam

by @ 10:21 pm. Filed under Misc

We are making progress with new software derived from advanced work in the field of machine learning — the design of systems that learn from data and grow smarter over time. The software learns from a vast and continually growing archive of e-mail provided by nearly 200,000 of our e-mail customers who have volunteered to classify millions of messages as legitimate or not. This feedback enables us to identify spam with unprecedented precision based on key words, message structure, even the time it was sent — more than 500,000 characteristics in all. Early reports have indicated that this Microsoft SmartScreen technology is blocking as much as 95 percent of spam, and we expect it to get even smarter as it learns from a continuing flow of feedback. Many other e-mail providers also are making great strides in creating technology that better protects people from spam.

Washington Post link

mmmmmm

by @ 3:43 pm. Filed under Misc

Cajun DeepFried Turkey!

Give the gift that keeps on giving

by @ 2:20 pm. Filed under Art

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Stupid Quiz - what is your digital IQ?

by @ 12:34 pm. Filed under Stupid Quiz's

where 110 is geek, I scored 205.

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