Holy crap – this almost makes up for all of Xeni’s interminable SARS art posts
Category: Legacy
ZapWizard’s LAN PC -Taking AMMO PCs to a whole new level:NEW HighRes images -Aug 29th – Winner of best modified computer at QuakeCon 2003
for the search engines: pics from Rakesh Puvvada’s wedding
Lisa Rein has links/info on the recent Nightline broadcast on the Patriot and Victory Acts.
The men who drafted our constitution, who framed our civil rights and protected our various freedoms under the law would, I suspect, retch at some of the bone headed, self-serving, misinterpretations of their intentions that they so often use these days to undermine the very freedoms they pretend to safeguard. The miracle of American Law is not that it protects popular speech, or the privacy of the powerful, or the homes of the priviledged, but rather, that the least among us, those with the fewest defenses thoses suspected of the worst crimes — the most despised in our midst, are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
That remains as revolutionary a concept now as it was in the 1780s. It makes protecting the country against terrorism excruciatingly difficult, but we cannot arbitrarily suspend the rights of one catagory of suspects without endangering all the others.
A recent /. post quite artfully expresses:
… The Bush administration is not comprised of conservatives.
They are statist reactionaries. They want a very powerful state, a huge state in fact, a violent state and one that enforces obedience on the population. There is a kind of quasi-fascist spirit there, in the background, and they have been attempting to undermine civil rights in many ways.
- Chapter 5. Graph structure for Pages: Pagelinks
- Graph structure in the web
- The Link Database: Fast Access to Graphs of the Web
- Citations: An Extension of SQL for Querying Graph Relations – Biskup, Rasch, Stiefeling (ResearchIndex)
- SQL Graph Algorithms (see also, earlier Tree structure in SQL links)
- Threads:
iproute2/QoS for network service prioritizing – setting up QoS (wonder shaper like functionality) for Gentoo. This thread has lots of info on getting this up and running.
- e_con – a vanilla-like bliki
- WebSeitz/wikilog – Bill Seitz has been keeping a wikilog 2001
- Why white paper popularity is rising – Pt 1 of 4
- Half Life 2D, Codename: Gordon – HL2 inspired side-scroller, coming soon
- Haystack – new version released the other week
- G5 photos – Bill Noll takes some great shots of a G5. The rest of his site is quite nice as well. It’s all Flash… Images are on separate pages, but there’s no metadata attached. I’ve had a problems finding good-looking photographer’s sites through Google for precisely this reason
- Fox Loses Bid to Stop Sale of Franken Book – they did manage to help propel it to #1 on the bestseller’s list however
- Global Rich List – a sobering perspective; see also: The L-Curve, Inequality.org
- Exifer – hasn’t been updated in a year, a bit on the slow side, but still quite awesome
- Transcript ( Neo & Architect Talk) – I still think the Abridged Script sums up the Architect scene much better (we could not write a coherent screenplay, ergo the interminably long exposition scene)
- Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea; see also: TCP over TCP is fine when payloads are unpacked
URIs and Wikis – just one of the great essays by Sean Palmer @ infomesh.net