Monday reading material
Jan. 23rd, 2006 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
harmlessincYes, I'm still making up for a multiple week absence from posting, enjoy your Monday morning coffee break reading.
The White House wants to sell you a secret surveillance program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/politics/23spy.html
Mr. Rove's speech on Friday to the Republican National Committee was a classic example. "Let me be as clear as I can be: President Bush believes if Al Qaeda is calling somebody in America, it is in our national security interest to know who they're calling and why," Mr. Rove said. "Some important Democrats clearly disagree."
... love the false dichotomy, either you want us to ignore US laws to spy on you or you stab babies with tractors.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett warned...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1310AP_Warren_Buffett.html
"Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion more of us than we own of them," Buffett told business students and faculty Tuesday at the University of Nevada, Reno. "In my view, it will create political turmoil at some point. ... Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment," he said without elaborating.
Aliens Motion Tracker
http://techabsorbed.com/Reviews/Geek-Toys/MasterReplicas-Aliens-Motion-Tracker.html
This is the Aliens Motion Tracker from MasterReplicas, known best for their Star Wars FX Light Sabers,but they make replicas from many other movies as well. Today we take a detailed look at their Aliens prop that many people don't know about. (especially the functioning screen with movie sound effects)
Lots of picutes on the review site... plus...
Video of the motion tracker video screen... very cool.
Public Defenders, last chance or no chance?
http://sptimes.com/2006/01/22/Floridian/In_his_own_defense.shtml
"After passing the Bar exam on his fourth try, Charley Demosthenous wasn't exactly a hot property. Even his father thought he should go sell screwdrivers. Representing the poor and miserable was his last chance to be somebody."
Longest page on the net?
http://worm.bluesfear.com/
This is a cool collaboration that is putting together a very large combined graphic... have a look, I'm not doing it justice.
Let's see if anyone actually reads this far into the links, and then reads all of the text at the link
Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists
http://www.applefritter.com/bannedbooks
There is a reason I don't publish a wishlist like many of my readers do...
"Using a simple 6-line shell script and the popular wget command line tool, I configured two computers on two different DSL connections to begin downloading all 260,000 wishlists in increments of 25,000. Each group of 25,000 wishlists took about four hours to download, for a total download time of less than one day."
Read on for what he does with the data.
Remember all those zealots who were casting the new Pope as some kind of Sith Lord?
Vatican 'cashes in' by putting price on the Pope's copyright
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2005615,00.html
"For the first time all papal documents, including encyclicals, will be governed by copyright invested in the official Vatican publishing house, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana."
That's right, to publish the Pope's words, you have to pay them for the pleasure. Oh yeah, this is retroactive for the last 3 Popes as well.
The White House wants to sell you a secret surveillance program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/politics/23spy.html
Mr. Rove's speech on Friday to the Republican National Committee was a classic example. "Let me be as clear as I can be: President Bush believes if Al Qaeda is calling somebody in America, it is in our national security interest to know who they're calling and why," Mr. Rove said. "Some important Democrats clearly disagree."
... love the false dichotomy, either you want us to ignore US laws to spy on you or you stab babies with tractors.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett warned...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1310AP_Warren_Buffett.html
"Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion more of us than we own of them," Buffett told business students and faculty Tuesday at the University of Nevada, Reno. "In my view, it will create political turmoil at some point. ... Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment," he said without elaborating.
Aliens Motion Tracker
http://techabsorbed.com/Reviews/Geek-Toys/MasterReplicas-Aliens-Motion-Tracker.html
This is the Aliens Motion Tracker from MasterReplicas, known best for their Star Wars FX Light Sabers,but they make replicas from many other movies as well. Today we take a detailed look at their Aliens prop that many people don't know about. (especially the functioning screen with movie sound effects)
Lots of picutes on the review site... plus...
Video of the motion tracker video screen... very cool.
Public Defenders, last chance or no chance?
http://sptimes.com/2006/01/22/Floridian/In_his_own_defense.shtml
"After passing the Bar exam on his fourth try, Charley Demosthenous wasn't exactly a hot property. Even his father thought he should go sell screwdrivers. Representing the poor and miserable was his last chance to be somebody."
Longest page on the net?
http://worm.bluesfear.com/
This is a cool collaboration that is putting together a very large combined graphic... have a look, I'm not doing it justice.
Let's see if anyone actually reads this far into the links, and then reads all of the text at the link
Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists
http://www.applefritter.com/bannedbooks
There is a reason I don't publish a wishlist like many of my readers do...
"Using a simple 6-line shell script and the popular wget command line tool, I configured two computers on two different DSL connections to begin downloading all 260,000 wishlists in increments of 25,000. Each group of 25,000 wishlists took about four hours to download, for a total download time of less than one day."
Read on for what he does with the data.
Remember all those zealots who were casting the new Pope as some kind of Sith Lord?
Vatican 'cashes in' by putting price on the Pope's copyright
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2005615,00.html
"For the first time all papal documents, including encyclicals, will be governed by copyright invested in the official Vatican publishing house, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana."
That's right, to publish the Pope's words, you have to pay them for the pleasure. Oh yeah, this is retroactive for the last 3 Popes as well.
