Monthly Archives: September 2004

Film Performance Licensing

September 30, 2004 – 5:51 pm

In case the notion strikes me again, I’m putting these links here so I can find them in case the notion strikes me again. The aforementioned notion is one of wanting to do public performances of movies, who know why. This would be easy, except for copyright, so these links are for information about getting [...]

By Casey | Posted in Books, Movies, Music | Comments (2)



Cultural Revolution-Era Clip Art Book

September 30, 2004 – 2:50 am

Oldtasty has posted a collection of pictures scanned from the pages of a clip art book of the Cultural Revolution. I’ve always enjoyed look of Communist art, and I’m particularly pleased with this showing.

By Casey | Posted in Photoblog | Comments (0)

Things You Can Do With ISBNs

September 29, 2004 – 12:46 pm

Jon Udell has been working on LibraryLookup and other mechanisms for finding library content on the web. In the meantime, LibraryTechtonics, Library Stuff, and The Shifted Librarian have picked up on it.
Part of it is about OCLC making their records available to search engines. Now both Yahoo! and
Google in the game. So what you do [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information | Comments (0)

A Day In The Life Of Joe

September 29, 2004 – 3:04 am

I’m not sure of the origins of the following text. There’s nothing patently false in it, so I’m posting it here for all to ponder.
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality [...]

By Casey | Posted in Politics & Controversy | Comments (0)

Korean Thanksgiving

September 28, 2004 – 7:23 am

Jong-Yoon Kim emailed to tell me today is Chusok, the traditional Korean thanksgiving day, when families gather and give thanks to their forebears.
According to the lunar calendar, today, sep 28th, is Aug 15th, the Korean thanksgiving day.
Tonight, we will have the biggest and the brightest moon of the year.
Traditionally, we pray to the moon for [...]

By Casey | Posted in Style, Fashion and Food | Comments (1)



Google News Gamed?

September 27, 2004 – 9:38 am

What happens when machines edit our news? What happens when news sources game Google News to raise their ranking? Online Journalism Review is asking that question, and has some interesting answers to report.
It seems conservatives and conservative-biased news or quasi-news organizations use people’s full names, while mainstream sources and those with a liberal bent often [...]

By Casey | Posted in Politics & Controversy | Comments (3)

Ultra Portable

September 27, 2004 – 7:33 am

I’ve been interested in ultra-portable computers for some time. My first such computer was a Newton Message Pad 2000, which remains useful despite its age. The Newton was replaced by a Palm m125 that cost less and did less. No more email, web browsing, no writing or word processing. In short, nothing more than addresses, [...]

By Casey | Posted in Technology | Comments (3)

Home-Made Arcade

September 26, 2004 – 6:18 pm

I found Retro Gamer magazine on the rack last week and couldn’t hep but pick it up. It’s issue six with a feature story on building both stand-up and cocktail arcade cabinets with PCs running MAME (which isn’t to say you couldn’t use a Mac instead).
For now, I want to keep track of these related [...]

By Casey | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

Throwing Google A Bone For Cliff

September 23, 2004 – 8:54 am

Cliff worries that his website, Spiralbound.net, doesn’t get indexed by Google often enough. He’s a good guy, so I figure I’ll prime the pump for him. Here, Google Google.
Solaris Docs: Migrating Veritas Volume Manager disk groups between servers
Solaris Docs: Solaris Disk Partition Layout
Solaris Docs: Copying A Boot Drive Between Disks With Different Partion Layouts
If you’re [...]

By Casey | Posted in Questionable...funny. Pointless. | Comments (0)

Techlinks

September 23, 2004 – 5:28 am

Dartmouth College in the WiFi limelight, again as they replace their 1500 802.11b APs with A+B+G APs. WiFi Net News wonders how WiMax will change Dartmouth’s plans next time around.
 
Foof makes some snazzy looking iPod and laptop cases.
 
Michelle has set up an example of the worst designed web page ever. It’s a counter-example thing.
 
Brad Templeton [...]

By Casey | Posted in Technology | Comments (1)

It’s Automotive Week In The Blogs

September 22, 2004 – 7:13 pm

First Gizmodo published a feature on in-car computers. ArsTechnica got into the automotive theme by reporting the International CXT story. Not to be outdone by Gizmodo, Engadget reported on the ultimate car computer install: a Tatra with a Mac in it. For some reason, I went looking at the Tatra car-mod and found Tatra trucks [...]

By Casey | Posted in Planes, Trains, & Automobiles | Comments (2)

Roderick’s Sites

September 22, 2004 – 7:01 pm

Roderick has been sending me links and I’ve been lax about posting them. Some of these links are NSFW, and one of them is a present back to Roderick. I’m not going to comment, because I’m lazy because I don’t want to prejudice you.

Corporate MoFo 
A Fundraiser 
Billionaires for Bush 
Hello Laziness: Management tips from the executive slow [...]

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Kite Aerial Photography

September 22, 2004 – 6:45 pm

I got sort of excited about kite aerial photography a couple of weeks ago in a post about photoblogging. I was amazed with Scott Haefner’s work and especially impressed with his VR picture of Slain’s Castle in Scotland. Scott is pretty serious about KAP, and it shows in his description of his rig, but what’s [...]

By Casey | Posted in Technology | Comments (3)

Scenes from the Museum of Bad Art

September 21, 2004 – 9:22 pm

The Museum of Bad Art (MoBA) in the Dedham Community Theater. It’s in the basement outside the men’s bathroom, illuminated by a single fluorescent light hanging from the ceiling
The MOBA slideshow. More photos from MaisonBisson.

By Casey | Posted in Photoblog, Travel | Comments (4)

Sandee’s Clothing Donations

September 21, 2004 – 9:15 pm

  It’s 132 photos, but I think there’s actually only 128 items. No, I’m not sure why I photo’d each one.
More photos from MaisonBisson

By Casey | Posted in Photoblog | Comments (1)