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By Dave, June 24, 2005 7:16 am

LancasterOnline.com: Calif. Prankster Changing Traffic Lights
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Now that’s a prank!

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By Dave, June 24, 2005 7:08 am

Cool Hunting: How to Disappear Completely

This is plain weird. And I would love to have several. And may make some. Of some kind anyway. Interesting concept. Kinda like a hunting blind but for citys.

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By Dave, June 24, 2005 7:04 am

Hanson Robotics : Project > Phillip K. Dick Resurrected
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Totally AWSOME!

Wish I could go just to see this if nothing else.

From the site:

“IIS will create the artificial intelligence personality of the robot by mathematically deriving it from Dick’s life and works in a manner very similar to that described by Dick himself in his book We Can Build You (published in 1964). ARRI will supply mechanical and manufacturability engineering support. Their eloquent CAD models will provide a solid foundation.”

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By Dave, June 24, 2005 4:53 am

LED Grow Lights.com Home Page

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Not impressed with the site but the products look interesting. Low power per square foot and a long lifespan cuts the cost down to pennys per day or less. Need to run the figures on this. The initial cost is a bit much but with the long life I guess it’s not that bad. Hope they figure out soon that the red and blue can be intergraded into a single unit with switching to select between them as needed.

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By Dave, June 24, 2005 4:48 am

Zimbabwe bans crop growing in urban areas – Wikinews

The world has gotten to be a very scary place…

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By Dave, June 24, 2005 2:53 am

The Huffington Post | Latest News
Last week ABC canceled a story about a dangerous chemical in child inoculations. Last night, the network broadcast a recut version of its original story that had been edited into a piece of industry propaganda.
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I am so glad I don’t watch tv any more. I only have to sort the truth from the lies on line and have a bit of help there. With tv there is no direct feedback to prevent this kind of thing.

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By Dave, June 24, 2005 2:42 am

The Huffington Post | Latest News
A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth often is at war with individual property rights.
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And another strike by big government for big business against the people of this formerly fair land.
There was more but I am a bit too mad right now to be coherent so best to delete before publishing.

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By Dave, June 23, 2005 11:29 pm

Techdirt:Microsoft Says: Our Way Or The Spam Folder
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Yet another reason to NEVER use a Microsoft product. But if you’ve got to use it (work or s.o. or whatever reason) then get a gmail or yahoo or other online account to allow you to get all of your mail! AOHell tried that and may be still doing it but I try to have nothing to do with that most obtrusive service. I only know 2 folks that still use it and both now have gmail accounts.

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By Dave, June 23, 2005 10:55 pm

Harmless virus kills some cancers
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Interesting read.

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By Dave, June 23, 2005 9:44 am

NewsForge | OpenOffice.org Writer vs. Microsoft Word
Several years ago I concluded “Opening Up to OpenOffice.org” by saying, “OOo Writer outperforms Microsoft Word in almost every way.” With the release of the version 2.0 beta, that statement is truer than ever. At its worst, OOo Writer is an adequate alternative for Microsoft Word. Most of the time, it is a superior one. And the greater your need for page design features or long document handling, the greater that superiority becomes.
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After using OO on 3 different platforms and several more OS’s over several years I have to agree. The styles take a bit of getting use to but in the long run are much easier to use in OO. And importing works much better in later versions. NeoOfficeJis branch for the Mac and what I use most. Just got the latest update yesterday. Nice!

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By Steve, June 22, 2005 6:43 pm

50 KW Petabyte Storage solution.

The Internet Archive has received delivery of a 600 system, 2500 drive storage system based on Via mini-ITX motherboards running Debian or Fedora Linux.

Now, if they can only port Searchlight to this thing so they can FIND what I’m looking for on it…….

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By Dave, June 21, 2005 12:02 pm

Ravenous
Ravenous is full featured web server written in Java. It allows you to write dynamic pages in Java without the need to read stacks of books before you get started… pure javalicous programming for your web projects!
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This is interesting! I watched the tutorials and would have to say if it scales at all well it could be a winner! The ease with which a data base is built and controlled is amazing. Gonna have to try it out. Will find out if it will work on one of the pclinux machines.

got 2 up and going right now. One for serving music and the other for a webserver. 2 20 gig hds in each. one for os one for data. may try to set up as raid instead with mirror images on each.

more in a later post.

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By Dave, June 21, 2005 11:57 am

BOFH and the Chemistry Lesson | The Register

😉

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By Dave, June 21, 2005 2:47 am

Underground Urban Farm | Lifestyle | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
UNDERGROUND URBAN FARM
Fruit and Vegetables Grown Under Office Building

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By Dave, June 20, 2005 10:21 pm

UserFriendly — Free Software Hurts

Now I get it!

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By Dave, June 20, 2005 9:42 am

Glass from Space

Interesting!

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By Dave, June 20, 2005 8:56 am

mini-itx.com – projects – bender case

Totally cool case mod! Thanks to Steve who can never remember his login when he finds this stuff. 😉

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By Dave, June 20, 2005 8:53 am

Photron – High-Speed Cameras and Primatte

This is some really cool photography. The rattlesnake striking the boot and the xacto knife dropped on the water balloon are fantastic!

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By Dave, June 18, 2005 7:13 am

Ananova – Scientists develop artificial eye

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By Dave, June 18, 2005 2:30 am

Lexington Herald-Leader | 06/17/2005 | Garage floor collapses, taking new SUV with it
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There has got to be something more to this. I just can’t believe that a contractor poured that thin a layer of cement with no rebar or rewire in it as a garage floor without filling the cistern in first.