Archive for July, 2006

Those Crazy Japanese

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Over at TV-In-Japan, aside from a crappy web layout, they have a clip from youtube that is an example of everything that is right and wrong with Japanese TV and culture. According to the comments, the user kazuhima has several more of the same available on his youtube account.

Drive Through Lube

Monday, July 10th, 2006

A delightfully suggestive advertisement by a lubricant company. Hell, it’s more than suggestive, it’s downright dirty.

California Republic Palomino

Monday, July 10th, 2006

I like a person who takes their pencils as seriously as ninthwave does.
In my search for a replacement of what I consider the best pencil ever manufactured, I needed to find a pencil that had at least these qualities established by the Blackwing 602:
1. Dark smooth graphite with a slightly waxy feel [...]

Impure Mathematics

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Found, unfortunately un-attributed, on the internet.

To prove once and for all that math can be fun, we present: Wherein it is related how that paragon of womanly virtue, young Polly Nomial (our heroine) is accosted by that notorious villain Curly Pi, and factored (oh horror!!!)
Once [...]

Shuttle Launches Live in Linux

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

Today the shuttle launched the shuttle Discovery on STS-121. The cool thing, though, was that I was able to easily watch it live, streaming under Linux.
All that I needed to do was go to the NASA TV streaming video page and view the windows media player stream. The stream uses the WMV9 codec [...]

Git, an alternative to CVS

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Git is the Linus Torvalds implemented alternative to configuration management. IBM has a nice article introducing users to git based software development. The context is git’s current major usage which is as the revision control system for the Linux Kernel. Worth a look.
The current iteration of Git is intended primarily for use [...]

Did somebody sell a Yahoo email database?

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

A few years ago, around 2000, maybe 2001, I signed up with a yahoo account. This was so I could gain access to the yahoo games system and try out word racer. When I signed up I had to give yahoo an email address to confirm the account with. I use custom [...]