Saturday, March 01, 2003


Playing with Jabber


Jabber is really neat technology — calling it “instant messaging” drastically oversimplifies the richness of the protocol, but it’s a nasty nightmare to set up. I have a Jabber identity now, marmoset@jabber.freeke.org. Add me to your “roster.”


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I don’t know whether to be delighted or terrified


The Sci Fi network is bringing back that cheeseball sci-fi nugget of my youth, Battlestar Galactica. As an uncritical 12-year-old, I eagerly watched every new episode when they first aired. When the original episodes started airing in reruns a few years ago, I marveled at the cheap sets, recycled special effects, costumes, and laugh-out-loud plotlines. I wonder if they’re going to play it straight?


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Drive-By #5


  • Stinking Badges Home Page
    “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”—Gold Hat, as played by Alfonso Bedoya “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948)
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    This site aims to be the primary Internet resource for any and all references to the aforementioned quote. But we need your help! [Stinking Badges Home Page]

  • Meanwhile, back in Japan…
    So, apparently, in Japan, the hot new thing is a ”hug pillow” or “daki-makura.” i guess if you are a lonely Japanese man tucked away in a sleeping drawer in some towering high-rise, these might seem like good company. [the reverse cowgirl’s blog]

  • The Horror of Blimps
    On this occasion I awoke to the sense that there was a large menacing presence approaching me silently out of the gloom, so I opened my eyes, and there it was! A LARGE SILENT MENACING PRESENCE WAS APPROACHING ME OUT OF THE GLOOM, AND IT COULD FLY!!! [Teemings]

  • The Nike Valdez
    Thousands of pairs of Nike basketball shoes are washing up on beaches from Washington state to Alaska after spilling from a container ship in Northern California. [Yahoo News]

  • The mystery of Stalin’s death
    Did he die of natural causes following a brain haemorrhage or was Stalin killed because he was about to plunge the Soviet Union into a war its people were in no position to fight? [BBC NEWS | Europe]


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Fortune's Law of the Week (this week, from Kentucky): No female shall appear in a bathing suit at any airport in this State unless she is escorted by two officers or unless she is armed with a club. The provisions of this statute shall not apply to females weighing less than 90 pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds, nor shall it apply to female horses.