Friday, February 24, 2006
Yahoo is cool. (Apart from that whole jailing political activists thing.)
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Louis Wain drew lots of cats, and eventually became schizophrenic.
The article on Charles Ponzi is listed in three categories: Pyramid and Ponzi schemes, Fraudsters, and Italian criminals.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Signpost interview with Jimbo. Plenty of new information.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Interesting project for making Wikipedia more machine-readable. (PDF, abstract in HTML)
A $100 Hamburger is aviation slang for a private general aviation flight for the sole purpose of dining at a non-local airport.
(Speaking of which, I'm hungry.)
Monday, February 20, 2006
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Free classical music
Spoken Articles (Wikipedia audiobooks, as it were)
It's in Ogg Vorbis format, which can be annoying if you use iTunes or have an iPod. If the former, get thee to Xiph and install the quicktime components: you'll be able to play Ogg files in iTunes, but not yet on your iPod. For that, you'll have use iTunes's converter to make the Oggs into mp3s or AACs, which is a shame because converting lossy to lossy really cuts down the sound quality. (Sign the petition to Apple.)
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