`I write computer programs to create graphic images.
With an algorithmic goal in mind, I manipulate the work by finely crafting the semantics of each program. Specific results are pursued, although occasionally surprising discoveries are made.
I believe all code is dead unless executing within the computer. For this reason I distribute the source code of my programs in modifiable form to encourage life and spread love. Opening one’s code is a beneficial practice for both the programmer and the community. I appreciate modifications and extensions of these algorithms. Please send me your experiences.’
There’s some nice looking images here. The tree garden is pretty cool for something spat out of an algorithm.
`13 Good Reasons To Switch From Internet Explorer To Firefox’
Includes:
- You’ll only see porn when you want to.
`Sick of seeing pornographic pop-ups all over your computer while you’re helping your daughter with a research project? Since Firefox blocks pop-ups, you won’t get tons of porn in your face when you’re least expecting it. On the flip side, since Firefox stops spyware from taking over your computer, there will be nothing to slow you down when you go and look for porn.’
- Your kids will only see porn when they want to.
`Sorry, buddy… the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.’
`Apacer has released a high-capacity DDR333 4GB ECC Registered DIMM memory module specially designed for AMD Socket 940 high-end servers and workstations. [..]
Grace Lo, Senior Director of Apacer’s DRAM Department, mentions that this DDR333 4GB ECC Registered DIMM uses chip stacking technology, which gives each module a 4GB size for the high-capacity memory needs of servers and workstations.’
This is a _big_ stick of RAM, both capacity-wise and physically.
`So legendary are the load-carrying abilities of the Nepalese that the word Sherpa, a term for one of the country’s ethnic groups, has become synonymous with “porter.”
A typical Nepalese porter carries a load nearly as heavy as he is. When he does, the porter burns less energy per pound than a backpacker would need to shoulder about half the same weight, Heglund and his colleagues found. [..]
Around the world, many people use their heads to bear burdens, said Rodger Kram, an expert on human and animal locomotion at the University of Colorado in Boulder. “It’s amazing how universal carrying loads on the head is—except in Western Europe and North America,” he said.
But their “enormous loads” set the Nepalese apart, Kram added. “It’s a good scientific puzzle, how they [conserve] energy when walking.”‘
A quick tour of an old, abandoned missile lauch site. With pictures.
`A team of doctors in South Florida are prepared to help a young girl who has a rare 16-pound tumor growing on her face if enough money is raised to help the child, according to a Local 6 News report. [..]
The painful tumor now engulfs her face and is endangering her life, according to the report.
A team of doctors in Miami are ready to help the 14-year-old girl but they have to wait until enough money is raised to pay for her hospital stay.
The family is asking people to donate to Marlie’s cause by donating to the International Kids Fund.’
With pictures of the girl/tumor. What sorta fucked up health system makes a girl suffering like this have to wait until she can raise the money to have surgery?
`With so many fantastically stupid hairstyles floating around MySpace, I’ve found myself adding the best of the worst to my favorites list over the past few months, compiling a sort of “Hall Of Shame” which I knew, one day, needed to be presented to the masses.
So now I bring you the super heroes of bad style. The hipsters, the goths, the just-plain-confused… They are:
The MySpace Legion Of Extraordinary Stupid Hair Super Heroes!’
`Serving The Paranoid Since 1997′
With many useful articles, including:
You can buy shirts and stickers and things aswell. I’m actually tempted to get a shirt that says “The Belgian… He thinks he is superior to you.” on it. :)
I’m still trying to figure out if this site is serious or an extremely elabortate joke. Are people really this crazy? Really?
`US President George W Bush has said too much is at stake in Iraq for politicians to make “false charges” about the reasons for going to war. [..]
Mr Bush said he was open to criticism for his policies but it was “deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how the war began”.
“Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war,” he said.
“The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges.”
[Also..] Mr Bush had strong words for Syria, saying it should “stop exporting violence and start importing democracy”.
He called on Damascus to “stop trying to intimidate and destabilise” Lebanon, and to co-operate fully with the UN inquiry into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.’
`RAMCO Productions proudly presents “Pornomedy” – our own wacky marriage of COMEDY and PORN.
Let us take you on a journey through the strange and funny sex life of Clowns! It’s hot, it’s zany – it’s like a train wreck that you just can’t pry your eyes away from…
But What the Hell is it?’
`On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.
No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.
The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.’
(35meg Quicktime)
This is a pretty cool illusion..
(7.4meg Windows Media)
`The color-matching scale is graduated from yellow to green to dark blue. Unless you’re an alien, every subject’s natural urine will move the marker past green, which is a positive result in and of itself, and right on to dark blue, which is the “WARNING ZONE” indicating such a strong positive that other anomalies may also be present. When the subject’s pee turns the marker dark blue, the instructions advise to freeze the specimen in the freezer (a freezer-acceptable container is provided), then consult a doctor ASAP for further testing. It’s up to you to stop them before they make a rush appointment, then spend $75 at the doctor. Or not. Either way, you’ll laugh yourself into a gut-ache, watching them jump through the hoops.’
`A mythical monster, believed by some to have lived for hundreds of years in the murky depths of a Swedish lake, is now fair game for hunters if they can find it. Authorities have agreed to lift its endangered species protection.
Hundreds of people claim to have spotted a large serpent-like creature in Lake Storsjon in the northwestern province of Jamtland, and in 1986 the regional council put it on a list of endangered animals. [..]
“It exists, inasmuch as it lives in the minds of people,” the council’s chief legal adviser Peter Lif said about the purported beast. “But I guess we’ll have to agree that it cannot be proved scientifically, and then it should not be listed as an endangered species.”‘
`On 11/7/05 at approximately 3:28AM in northeastern Michigan, a fellow police officer and I witnessed a large meteor entering the atmosphere, initially exploding, lighting up the night sky then trailing some distance before it disintegrated.
Although I witnessed the spectacle at the same time but at a different location as a fellow officer, the other officer caught it on his in car video camera.’
`Federal scientists say they will consider requests to ship the recently recreated 1918 killer flu virus to select U.S. research labs.
There are 300 non-government research labs registered to work with deadly germs like the Spanish flu, which killed millions of people worldwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will consider requests for samples from those labs “on a case-by-case basis,” CDC spokesman Von Roebuck said Wednesday. [..]
“Obviously, that contradicts what most people were led to believe when the results of the 1918 experiments were published,” said Edward Hammond, director of the Sunshine Project, an Austin, Texas-based organization that advocates more control of biological weapons and biotechnology.’
`The Hard Drive Coffee Table top is an original 26″ diameter hard drive platter from an early storage device (circa 1970). The center hub of the platter is solid aluminum. The custom-created pedestal is also solid aluminum; a cylinder measuring 5.9″ in diameter and 18.5″ in length. It has a machined top and bottom to fit into the hard drive hub and base, respectively. The base is a solid aluminum 12″ diameter, 1.75″ high round obtained from a now-defunct government laboratory. Four bolts are screwed into tapped holes in the pedestal in order to secure the hard drive platter and the pedestal is press-fit into the base. It is covered with standard 1/4″ table glass. The completed design measures 19.5″ high and weighs 64 pounds.’
`NASA scientists have come up with a surprisingly simple yet effective way to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid – park a large spacecraft close by and let gravity do the work.
Previous suggestions have focused on deflecting an incoming asteroid with nuclear explosions. But NASA experts believe a “gravity tractor” should be able to perform the same feat by creating an invisible towline to tug the rock off its deadly course.
“Most people think of the Hollywood treatment – throw a nuclear weapon at it,” says Edward Lu, a NASA scientist and astronaut who developed the idea. But this would produce shattered pieces, some of which might still head towards Earth. “That’s the blast-and-hope strategy,” Lu adds.’
`Police say a man who previously handled the toes of a sleeping burglary victim reverted to his old ways Sunday night, allegedly sneaking into a Greenwood apartment and stealing money before touching a slumbering resident’s feet.
William Russell was arrested at a hotel not long after he allegedly entered a Greenwood apartment without invitation and stole $52 while its occupants were sleeping, police said.
Police said that after Russell took the money, he entered a bedroom where a man and woman were asleep. Russell touched the man’s feet, Greenwood police Detective Matt Fillenwarth said.
The man who was sleeping “woke up and felt someone rubbing his leg and fondling his toes, and finally … he realized it was not his girlfriend,” Fillenwarth said.’
`Convicted rapist Stephen Terry Bolden told a Russell County judge he was being “real rude” during a sentencing hearing, which prompted the judge to add extra days to Bolden’s already lengthy sentence. [..]
While reading aloud Bolden’s sentences Wednesday, Greene said Bolden was a “menace to society.” Bolden laughed and shook his head before shouting “you’re real rude” to the judge, the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer reported Thursday.
“You treated your victims like garbage and put them through trial,” Greene said to Bolden as officers escorted him from the courtroom. “You’re lucky you didn’t get the death penalty today.”‘
`Katazukue is a table which ensures it is always clear. The table has a powerful pair of integrated conveyor belts which periodically move anything on the table onto the floor.’
`Robert Petrick searched for the words “neck,” “snap,” “break” and “hold” on an Internet search engine before his wife died, according to prosecutors Wednesday.
More than two years after Janine Sutphen’s body was discovered floating in a Raleigh lake, investigators continue to find new evidence on computers seized from Robert Petrick’s home that prosecutors say support their arguments that Petrick killed his wife.
The Google search was the latest in recently discovered evidence found in the 100 million pages of content removed from computers.
Last week, a forensic investigator discovered that Petrick allegedly researched lake levels, water currents, boat ramps and access about Falls Lake just four days before he reported Sutphen missing on Jan. 22, 2003.’
`Typically that means big-ticket items. One thinks of dazzling intellectual breakthroughs: the telescope, the steam engine, the airplane, the wheel…. Those were all tremendous, of course.
But often it’s some mundane little nothing of a device that changes history. It might be no more than a slight improvement on some earlier invention. If it intersects with a historic moment, it can become a pivot. Then, like the lever that lifts the elephant, it produces consequences far out of proportion to the ingenuity of the thing itself.’
`This was bound to happen.
Anti-virus maker Sophos is reporting that it has spotted an e-mail going around that tries to exploit the controversial file-hiding abilities of anti-piracy software embedded on some of Sony BMG’s music CDs. [..]
Sophos, which is based in the United Kingdom, said it would issue a tool later today to detect the existence of Sony’s DRM copy-protection on Windows computers, disable it, and prevent it from re-installing.
Sony could be in big trouble soon. The emergence of this virus should provide ample fodder to the class action suit that was recently filed in California against Sony.’
‘New Yorkers go about unaware of what is happening just beneath their feet: Power pulses, information flies, and steam flows. The city’s infrastructure starts just below street level, but it doesn’t stop there.’
`These are real personal ads found in cyberspace. Some have been edited because of excessive length, but a majority are simply cut and pasted as is. All of the ads you read on PP are from actual people who could potentially make babies.’
Contains gems such as:
`I don’t have a lazy eye as it appears in my photo. That bugs me because the original is not like that. Anyway, I am single and intelligent ready to commit to the man of my dreams. I have a zest for life and all that it has to offer. Don’t like alot of negativity; plenty of that on my job. I am a 100 percenter who knows what it takes to be in a relationship. [..]
well letssee im a white male im 63,220lbs brown hair and eyes.Im a milk truck driver real exciting not!! [..]
I am an inventor of a machine that turns waste thngs into “energy products” – my new machine- process has ZERO emissions– only energy out…. I need a woman in my life. I perfur a non-fat woman who loves to be hugged and has a good sense of humor. I like all the normal boy and girl stuff.. I like to cook…. and have sex too! ( not at the same time?)’
`I met Tyler Hall last week. He was friendly and all, but I’m sorry, he was clearly told my name at least four times. It’s not like it’s hard. “Hannah.” HA-nah. Not “Ha-Ha.” What’s so funny? Somebody tell you a stupid knock-knock joke? Please.
I mean, sure, he’s only 15 months, and yeah, I know he can barely walk, but am I supposed to just nod and smile like a fool while this brat BUTCHERS my name – right to my face no less? I think not. When it comes to my name, I’m like the French, OK? You say it wrong, and I’m gonna get majorly pissy until you say it right. Which is why if I had it to do all over again, yeah, I would still pinch his ear until he cried.’
..abandon hope all ye who enter here.
It’s funny because it’s an accurate representation. :)
(12meg Quicktime)
Take a tour of a new creationist museum they’re building.
People are stupid. :)
`Hello! My name is Eli Lapp and I’d like to welcome thee to the first Amish Homepage, made by the American Amish for the American Amish. Now that we’ve hit the 21st Century, our church elders have decided that we will try to not be so “technologically impaired”. We are discovering electricity, computers, and other modern wonders. I’m especially enjoying this thing called Internet!’
with handy buggy safety tips.
