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The new server has arrived It is totally freakin' cool. Too bad I'm going to be in the kitchen for the rest of the day getting ready for tonight. Tomorrow I am going to buy a keyboard first thing in the morning and then dig in. Pictures to follow.
From genehack.org:
"As you go through your day today, stop occasionally, and remember that you're a member of a species that took a hunk of metal and plastic and heaved it up into the dark night, just so we could get a better look at a pebble that spins around our home. Realize that once we had our look, once we'd gotten what we came for, our monkey curiosity still wasn't satisfied, and so we banged our hunk of metal and plastic onto the pebble, just on the off chance that we'd get another glance or two.And as if that wasn't enough, now they are going to attempt to fire the thrusters again and lift off (today at 2:00 pm EST.) Good luck. Here's a nice diagram of the hunk of metal and plastic in question.
And it worked."
Just another quick reminder: your email client should not process or create or have any sort of truck with HTML. Clear? The idea that a program might go beyond this, and also process javascript and VBscript is either negligent or criminally insane. As for people who use such products, well, I'll just go with them being "uneducated". Now the question is, do you want to broadcast your uneducated-ness every time you send an email? No you don't. Use plaintext. Now go back to your business, forget I or anyone else ever said these things, and... hey! check out all these pictures of Anna Kournikova....
Here's some detailed explanations of Google's new usenet archives. You absolutely must read this page and familiarize yourself with the new system. This is perhaps the single most important resource on the web. There will be a test on Monday. (If you're wondering what the heck usenet is then you might want to take a look at this page first.)
Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing and Electronic Commerce. Good stuff. And lots of it. The link is from a very complete rant called "what's wrong with content protection" by John Gilmore. [update: Here's a more permanent link to the Gilmore paper. Worth a read.]
Salon picks the 10 most paranoid books of all time. What? No Illuminatus? This must be some sort of plot...
The largest natural crystals on earth.