College Republicans Sponsor White-Pride Scholarship

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Comment: Republicans and Lawyers, my gawd---

I caught an AP story linked from a blog today that I just knew had to be a hoax; even after I saw the website for my own eyes, I couldn't believe how far conservative ideas have degenerated.   [Kuro5hin.org]

Darpa Offers No Food for Thought

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Comment: Hey I think I saw this Twilight Zone, or was it the Outer Limits or the Terminator... ---

Pentagon scientists are trying to find a way for GIs to live without food for up to five days. The effort is part of larger initiative to develop soldiers who are immune to everyday human concerns. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]

iPod Cocoons

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Describing how iPods insulate their owners — including many New Yorkers — from their environment, Warren St. John writes in the New York Times, “There is no rewinding or CD-changing to permit the outside world to leak inside the cocoon. With a jukebox in your pocket, a suitable tune is always at the ready, no matter your mood. And if you have little white ear buds rammed in your ears, there is always an excuse not to acknowledge fellow humans. ’I’m busy right now,’ iPod users seem to say. ’I’ll get back to you in 10,000 songs.’” [Feb 16] [Apple Hot News]

Is Ulysses Overrated?

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With the centenary of the first Bloomsday coming later this year, the scene for a showdown between Joyceans, literary critics and generic whiners of all sorts has been set. The perennial debate regarding the worth of James Joyce's Ulysses has been sparked off yet again by a dude called Roddy Doyle. [Kuro5hin.org]

George Sand

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"It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Sir Winston Churchill

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"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Hubble telescope catches glimpse of an unknown galaxy

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AFP via Yahoo! Feb 16 2004 4:38AM GMT... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Earn $25 for each junk fax you send in.

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The Demirali Law Firm says it will pay you $25 for each junk fax you send it (if a collection is made). You need to send in at least ten faxes at a time.Consumer rights advocate Tom Martino is behind this. Link (Thanks, Travis!) [Boing Boing]

Freud/Jung slash

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Short (but high-larious) Sigmund Freud/Carl Jung slash fiction:

'I had a dream last night, Siggy.'

'Ja?'

'It was you and me together skipping in a field. Und then this great serpent appeared and slithered into a cave.'

'Du lieber gott! Do you know what you are saying to me? Do you know what zis serpent means?'

'Ja, it is some manifestation of the World-Spirit.'

NSFW Link

(Thanks, Quinn!) [Boing Boing]

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Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Wonder no more, the nursery rhyme has been proven correct. [Kuro5hin.org]

Web Zen: Love Zen

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(1) the things we do for love

(2)
we love cards

(3)
i love egg

(4)
love calculator

(5)
candy heart maker


(6)
and the classic...

chaoskitty hearts you

web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank).
[Boing Boing]

Great Star Wars photo remix

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I'm greatly amused by this remixed, Star Wars-themed photo of an iced-over freezer.

160k JPEG Link

(Thanks, Neils!)

[Boing Boing]

Journal of a Schizophrenic

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Schizophrenia is one of the most widely spread psychological disorders around, and its sufferers show a wide assortment of symptoms, sometimes easily coped with, sometimes not. Studies have shown that in any given hospital as many as 1 in 5 patients suffer from some form of schizophrenia. Nationwide, approximately 1% of the US population is schizophrenic. [Kuro5hin.org]

INSULTINGLY STUPID MOVIE PHYSICS

For example, James Bond can't really jump from an
airplane without a parachute and zoom through the
air to catch up with the bad guy to wrestle his
parachute away. Apparently the producers pulled
that trick out of their ass.
http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/
Phasers can't really be set to stun

Trippi: Net Politics Here to Stay

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Howard Dean's presidential bid may have flopped, but don't blame the Internet, says former campaign manager Joe Trippi. He sees the 2004 campaign as the beginning of an online revolution in politics. Noah Shachtman reports from San Diego, California. [Wired News]

 

Use apachetop to monitor web server process

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 Mon, Feb 9 '04 at 09:39AM • from: Anonymous
 

If you are administering an Apache web server and want to see what your Apache server is doing in real time, take time to look at apachetop [112KB download]. It is essentially the same as the UNIX top command, but instead of the top system processes, it displays the top Apache requests in a concise and helpful display. Building the file is simple:
% cd apachetop-0.10
% ./configure
% make
% sudo make install

Once the file is run, you can then see what your server's up to and tweak away to your hearts content. One note: because of the non-standard location of the OS X Apache log file, you'll need to tell it where to look when you run it:
% apachetop -f /var/log/httpd/access_log

[robg adds: This compiled and ran successfully on my machine, despite a couple warnings in the configure section...]

Mark Twain

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"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Notes From Antarctica, Part 1

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I was fortunate to spend 10 days in Antarctica recently. It was an experience that I haven’t quite shaken, and probably never will. Frankly, I still can’t quite believe I was there. The trip opened my eyes to a few... [Globalization Blog]

Wi-Fi Enters the Space Race

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If people do land on Mars, NASA wants to make sure they can get a decent wireless connection. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]

Win a leather-bound "insanely detailed" Necronomicon

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The HP Lovecraft society is holding a contest to write the best "spell, drawing, chapter, or passage of mad Mythos rambling." The grand prize is a "handmade, leather-bound, super authentic copy of the finished work, done up in full 17th-century style at the insane level of detail the HPLHS is known for!"

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(Thanks, Alan!)

[Boing Boing]