Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Gmail 4 Troops
Gmail 4 Troops is an interesting service. They are helping gmail users who want to donate accounts to service members. On their site, they say:
Gmail is the new email service from Google (www.Gmail.com) They are offering 1 GigaBybe (1000 megabytes) of free space for their users (compared to 100 megabytes for Yahoo, and 5 megabytes for Hotmail) The Interface is also VERY speedy compared to whats out there. Right now it's in beta testing and is invite only. People are swapping invites for silly things. Troops abroad have a real use for these accounts. Loved ones can send them movies or photos from home and they don't have to worry about having to delete things. If you are a troop and would like a Gmail Invite, or you have invites to offer, post!
So, I'm donating a couple of invitations (which means that I only have two left of the 5 I offered earlier...).
If you have a gmail account and a spare invitation, why don't you consider doing this, too?
Gmail is the new email service from Google (www.Gmail.com) They are offering 1 GigaBybe (1000 megabytes) of free space for their users (compared to 100 megabytes for Yahoo, and 5 megabytes for Hotmail) The Interface is also VERY speedy compared to whats out there. Right now it's in beta testing and is invite only. People are swapping invites for silly things. Troops abroad have a real use for these accounts. Loved ones can send them movies or photos from home and they don't have to worry about having to delete things. If you are a troop and would like a Gmail Invite, or you have invites to offer, post!
So, I'm donating a couple of invitations (which means that I only have two left of the 5 I offered earlier...).
If you have a gmail account and a spare invitation, why don't you consider doing this, too?
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Mt. Washington Observatory Photos ...wow
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Today's Fortune
Absurdity, n.:
A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
-=- Ambrose Bierce, 'The Devil's Dictionary'
A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
-=- Ambrose Bierce, 'The Devil's Dictionary'
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Sunday, June 27, 2004
I've got a new batch of Gmail invites...
First six people who send me their addresses at "m dot j dot lavin at gmail dot com" will get invitations to gmail... come on, family and friends... prove to me that you're reading this stuff...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
The MegaPenny Project
by kokogiak media
Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a 'billion' really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: 'What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?'
All the following pages have tables at the bottom, listing things such as the value of the pennies, size of the pile, weight, and area (if laid flat). All weights and measurements are U.S. standards, not metric.
I found this site oddly absorbing. We talk about large numbers at work a lot... but when we say that one of our competitors has assests worth almost a trillion dollars, that number really isn't very... real. The MegaPenny project is trying to help.
Read more...
Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a 'billion' really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: 'What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?'
All the following pages have tables at the bottom, listing things such as the value of the pennies, size of the pile, weight, and area (if laid flat). All weights and measurements are U.S. standards, not metric.
I found this site oddly absorbing. We talk about large numbers at work a lot... but when we say that one of our competitors has assests worth almost a trillion dollars, that number really isn't very... real. The MegaPenny project is trying to help.
Read more...
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some arsenic
A woman walks into a pharmacy and asks the pharmacist for some arsenic.
He asks "What for?"
She says "I want to kill my husband."
He says "Sorry, I can't do that."
She then reaches into her purse and pulls out a photo of her husband in bed
with the pharmacist's wife and hands it to him.
He says, "You didn't tell me you had a prescription..."
He asks "What for?"
She says "I want to kill my husband."
He says "Sorry, I can't do that."
She then reaches into her purse and pulls out a photo of her husband in bed
with the pharmacist's wife and hands it to him.
He says, "You didn't tell me you had a prescription..."
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Monday, June 21, 2004
Bonzer Site of the Week
This is from a newsletter I get once a week, called This is True. I
tried two questions out on this thing, and it guessed the first one
right in 22 questions, the second it got in 19... (gun was the first item,
velociraptor was the second)
If you try it out, let me know.
BONZER WEB SITE OF THE WEEK: http://www.20q.net - Twenty Questions, updated for the computer age.
In this experiment in artificial intelligence, the computer tries to guess what you're thinking of by asking simple questions. Think of an object and give it a go; you could be surprised by what it can guess. (It correctly guessed I was thinking
"unicorn" after 12 questions.) Everything 20q knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing the game; the more it's played, the smarter it gets. At the end it lists contradictions to what it "knows", which can be quite interesting.
For a BWSotW archive see
http://www.thisistrue.com/bonzer.html
tried two questions out on this thing, and it guessed the first one
right in 22 questions, the second it got in 19... (gun was the first item,
velociraptor was the second)
If you try it out, let me know.
BONZER WEB SITE OF THE WEEK: http://www.20q.net - Twenty Questions, updated for the computer age.
In this experiment in artificial intelligence, the computer tries to guess what you're thinking of by asking simple questions. Think of an object and give it a go; you could be surprised by what it can guess. (It correctly guessed I was thinking
"unicorn" after 12 questions.) Everything 20q knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing the game; the more it's played, the smarter it gets. At the end it lists contradictions to what it "knows", which can be quite interesting.
For a BWSotW archive see
http://www.thisistrue.com/bonzer.html
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Sunday, June 20, 2004
The technology behind Google's great results
Google Technology
As a Google user, you're familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank(tm), a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.
Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of our service on a daily basis, PigeonRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools. Read more...
As a Google user, you're familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank(tm), a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.
Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of our service on a daily basis, PigeonRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools. Read more...
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Sunday, June 13, 2004
R.A.D.A.R.! Where the Heck are You?
The Cognitive Personal Assistant - Computerworld
Future Watch by Thomas Hoffman
Cognitive Personal Assistant
AI-based systems could handle routine administrative tasks.
JUNE 07, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing a computer-based administrative assistant that draws upon artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to perform routine tasks such as scheduling meetings for busy managers and filtering and prioritizing their e-mail.
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Future Watch by Thomas Hoffman
Cognitive Personal Assistant
AI-based systems could handle routine administrative tasks.
JUNE 07, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing a computer-based administrative assistant that draws upon artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to perform routine tasks such as scheduling meetings for busy managers and filtering and prioritizing their e-mail.
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Saturday, June 12, 2004
(too funny) Greetings From The Fluffy Bunny Coven!
Greetings From The Fluffy Bunny Coven!:
The Mystical Wiccan Coven Grove of the Glittery Butterfly Unicorn of Magical Healing and Holy White Light of Divine Spiritual Spiffiness and Enchanted Smiling Faerie Goddess of the Brilliant Light of Wonderfulness is currently accepting applications.
Hi! On behalf of the MWCGGBUMHHWDSSESFGBLW group, I'd just like to say...Hi! We're a loving, accepting group of Eclectic Wiccans who worship the LIGHT! We believe that you can't hurt anything, because the rede says so! So we don't eat animals, because animals are people TOO! You know those meanies say that plants are alive too but they're just huffy because they're carnivorous and angry and not enlightened like us. But you look like a really NEAT person! You just might be PERFECT to join our group!
The Mystical Wiccan Coven Grove of the Glittery Butterfly Unicorn of Magical Healing and Holy White Light of Divine Spiritual Spiffiness and Enchanted Smiling Faerie Goddess of the Brilliant Light of Wonderfulness is currently accepting applications.
Hi! On behalf of the MWCGGBUMHHWDSSESFGBLW group, I'd just like to say...Hi! We're a loving, accepting group of Eclectic Wiccans who worship the LIGHT! We believe that you can't hurt anything, because the rede says so! So we don't eat animals, because animals are people TOO! You know those meanies say that plants are alive too but they're just huffy because they're carnivorous and angry and not enlightened like us. But you look like a really NEAT person! You just might be PERFECT to join our group!
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Friday, June 11, 2004
NBC5.com - Rare Kittens Born In Germany
Manul Cats Have Longest, Thickest Fur Of SpeciesFour Manul kittens made their first public appearance at a zoo in Berlin, Germany.
Manul cats are from the mountains between Afghanistan and Mongolia.
They have longest and thickest fur of the cat species and can weigh up to 8 pounds.
The kittens will stay at the zoo with their parents until they get older, when they'll be sent to other zoos to be bred.
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Sunday, June 06, 2004
DenverPost.com - Shattered town grapples with uncertain future
Of the 13 buildings Heemeyer attacked with his Mad-Max machine, three-fourths of them were destroyed. Now owners of this mountain town's central businesses are left wondering how to proceed. Damaged or destroyed businesses worry that insurance won't cover costs of rebuilding.
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Man Behind Rampage Found Dead (washingtonpost.com)
GRANBY, Colo., June 5 -- An angry citizen with a grudge against City Hall and the local newspaper was found dead Saturday morning in his home-made armored tank after a destructive rampage that turned parts of downtown Granby into rubble heaps Friday -- but injured no one except the perpetrator.
Read More...(free subscription) washingtonpost.com
Read More...(free subscription) washingtonpost.com
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Mac and Cheese... the EASY way!
I like mac and cheese, but I don't like the drudgery of making it myself, and I don't like most packaged products... besides, I know how cheap it should be, and hate paying more for it than I have to. A few months ago, I tried a new method, and now I have M&C for work or lunch whenever I want. I just cook 3/4 of a pound of macaroni (any kind) and while it is cooking I heat the oven to 375. I drain the macaroni, mix in a jar of Classico Alfredo sauce, crumble some crackers on top, and bake it for 30 minutes in a covered casserole. It makes three fairly large portions. If you need to stretch the recipe, just cook the full pound of pasta. If you like your M&C really "saucy," just reduce the amount of pasta a little. Oh, one thing I do; after I pour the sauce into the pasta, I fill the jar half way with warm water and slosh it around to get the rest of the sauce out, then add it to the mix. Make sure you stir everything well. Let me know if you try this! It is really simple. I tried the Bertolini (sp?) sauce, but didn't like it as well.
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Thursday, June 03, 2004
You SURE We're Only Going 50?
Oddly Enough - Reuters
DETROIT (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co. (news - web sites) Ltd. is recalling
nearly 8,200 model year 2004 motorcycles because of a computer glitch that
could prompt their drivers to go too fast, federal safety regulators said
on Tuesday.
The program error causes the digital speedometer on some of the
motorcycles to understate actual vehicle speed by about 25 percent, the
U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (news - web sites)
said.
"This condition can result in the vehicle being driven at an illegal or
unsafe speed," NHTSA said in an advisory on its Web site.
It did not elaborate, but state police may already have noticed a
disproportionate number of people breaking speed limits lately on
late-model Honda motorcycles.
DETROIT (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co. (news - web sites) Ltd. is recalling
nearly 8,200 model year 2004 motorcycles because of a computer glitch that
could prompt their drivers to go too fast, federal safety regulators said
on Tuesday.
The program error causes the digital speedometer on some of the
motorcycles to understate actual vehicle speed by about 25 percent, the
U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (news - web sites)
said.
"This condition can result in the vehicle being driven at an illegal or
unsafe speed," NHTSA said in an advisory on its Web site.
It did not elaborate, but state police may already have noticed a
disproportionate number of people breaking speed limits lately on
late-model Honda motorcycles.
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004
FBI issues alert for stolen propane tankers
FBI issues alert for stolen propane tankers: "FBI issues alert for stolen propane tankers
SAN ANTONIO, June 1 - FBI agents in Texas issued a nationwide alert Tuesday for two stolen propane tanker trucks, laden with thousands of gallons of the volatile liquefied gas."
SAN ANTONIO, June 1 - FBI agents in Texas issued a nationwide alert Tuesday for two stolen propane tanker trucks, laden with thousands of gallons of the volatile liquefied gas."
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COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS
COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS: "'Blumfermal you polytheistic snermalfalistics. Glameldoc in the brammeltudes of egyptylogical curmondfugery. Syvindallimet ricly' "
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blogdex - the weblog diffusion index
I'm so "out of it" most of the time. With school and work and reading news and technology tutorials and just plain living, I don't really read many blogs. But now that I've found Blogdex, that might change.
blogdex - the weblog diffusion index
blogdex - the weblog diffusion index
