First colour transmission in Danish television (41).
Charles Darwin (201).
Abraham Lincoln (201).
streetkids.dk (10).
seistrup.dk (11).
I really liked my revision 1 TV-B-Gone. Enough to get one of the newer ones (improvements included ability to restart the sequence (very, very nice) and a discrete LED blinking to indicate activity).
TV-B-Gone has also gone Open Source, which is great.
The latest TV-B-Gone Professional Super High Power looked mighty alluring when announced.
Mine arrived today, and I just went for an evening walk.
It. Is. Great.
As your attorney, I advise you to get one. Immediately. ⊗
The Math Guy writes:
"The one other thing you need to make a science news story work is to be able to answer the question "What is this good for?" Why this is an important question, has always baffled me. After all, the news media are full of reports about sports, music, movies, entertainment, and the arts, none of which are "good for anything" in the sense that science stories are supposed to live up to. "People enjoy it" or "Entertainment is a good thing in itself" or even "People are just naturally curious and want to know stuff" [...] are generally regarded as sufficient justification for most things the news media report on. Still, my colleagues in the media tell me that a science story won't work unless it gives an indication of a possible "application". And I know from many years of experience that, as in any other profession, the professionals in this case do know what they are talking about."
The Amish sound like they have some interesting rules, and ways to work around them.
"Amish electricity" is pneumatic and genetically modified plants are great (easier to harvest with non-modern methods), it is okay to be driven to work in a van when it owned by an outsider, but tractors and forklifts must have metal-wheels so people aren't inclined to run them on roads.
To me it seems a consistent logical thing to default to saying "No" to new things and consider the consequences to the society and its values before accepting new things, but all the workarounds makes me wonder if the rules aren't wrong to begin with. ⊗
Advertisement in operating system.
Way to go. ⊗
Heavily inspired by Romain Francoise's emacs-snapshot packages of GNU Emacs, I decided to do something similar for XEmacs 21.5.
I have created xemacs.koldfront.dk, which is a tiny Debian package repository updated daily with xemacs-snapshot packages built from the code in the XEmacs Mercurial repository.
I only build Debian unstable packages for the amd64 architecture with mule and xft enabled.
Makes for some kind of fun drawings: ZIPScribble Maps. ⊗
I'm almost through "Dreaming in Code" - about programming largish things in general, and the Chandler project in particular - by Scott Rosenberg; here is a little nugget, after briefly explaining what Donald Knuths literate programming is about and discussing comments in code, Rosenberg continues:
In 2004, as viruses with names like MyDoom, Bagle, and Netsky began to spread across he Internet to infect Windows computers, researchers discovered that the authors of the viruses were crudely slagging each other in their code's comments: "Don't ruine our bussiness, wanna start a war?" "Skynet AntiVirus-Bagle-you are a looser!!!" This is about as far from Don Knuth as you can get; call it illiterate programming.