All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

now apparently advertising without cause is a patriot act violation …. they will use whatever tools to get you that they can, this is the truth.

j3r3mi ruls. World famous carmiudgen Jeremy helped me with a mysterious problem. All the sudden my 60 gig harddrive was full. Even though I had 15 gigs free a day or two ago. We tired everything… deleting /.Trashes stuff, clearing journaling, etc… du didn't turn anything up… until Jeremy suggested the following line: du -k | sort -n | tail -150 > /tmp/top50 which dumped the top 150 biggest directories into a file. I'd missed a hidded VOLUME “./Volumes/untitled CD” that was full of junk. Seems it got started when something crashed while burning a cd. Nuked that volume, and got all my space back. Scary.

Thanks Jeremy [Team Polysynchronous - Just Differently Intelligent - - Just Differently Intelligent -]

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i am not a carmudgeon. i am a curmudgeon.

FactCheck.org: Holding
politicians accountable [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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interesting little tool.

i drank a glass of bath water…..

it was natural history, it was the pitt rivers, and it was the scientific instruments.

from oxford, here they are

isn't he, certainly. it is.

Yet Another Killer Drone: We'll Defeat the Children with Robots.

The call to meet the challenge of the relentless Defenseless Baby Scourge is addressed once again as Northrop Grumman joins Boeing in unveiling a new automated flying drone. The X-47B robotic fighter jet was presented in full-scale mockup this week, but won't be ready to fly the friendly skies until sometime in 2006 (no matter what the photoshopped picture might imply). That means for now flesh-and-blood pilots will still have to risk loss of life to bomb back the laconic hordes of adorably drooling infants that currently terrorize the world's most dangerous orphanages.
Read – MORE KILLER DRONES ON THE RUNWAY [DefenseTech]

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Killer Drones: Not Just For the Scottish Anymore

[Gizmodo]

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good, nifty, yummy, deadly….. wrong.

Serious Games Summit DC. Serious Games Summit DC October 18-19 Washington DC http://www.seriousgamessummit.com Serious Games are applications of interactive technology that extend far beyond the traditional videogame, including: training, policy exploration, analytics, visualization, simulation, education and health and therapy. These applications are allowing immersive… [miscellany is the largest category]

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i find this fascinating…….

Why doesn't Academia understand Industrial Work?. 20 Jul 2004: “If we want to, in Bryan's words, close the gap between academic and industrial work, such that a better understanding for industrial problem is the result (which could lead to improved paper acceptance rates, among other things), than industry will need to be more pro-active in making researchers aware of what the problems are that they need to solve, on short as well as long term. Industry has a chance to drive the research agenda as long as it is willing to open up and show what the real [RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix]

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“The gap between industry and academic work has grown to be large.”

not sure that i agree.