links for 2008-04-01
Posted on April 2, 2008
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In leaves and wood
The deep glow of time
Fades to a twilight
Of water and shade.
—Kogure-san, 1936
I have always believed one should date a poem by the year it is started, not the lifespan of the poet. This is the ko-sakka-sensu
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links for 2008-03-24
Posted on March 25, 2008
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“Tweel, I think I’ve spied an unrecorded world! Come take a look,” Mallowell said.
I was watching the engineers install the sluices for Cyan’s new waterway system. Soon we wouldn’t have to empty piss buckets any more, and fresh water would come up to my
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Found on slashdot: statistics and miniskirts
Posted on March 19, 2008
Statistics are like mini skirts; they show a lot but hide the most important facts.
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links for 2008-03-17
Posted on March 18, 2008
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The world we were linked to was named Cyan, because of its color, blue-green with specks of yellow at the equator. It blotted out almost 60 percent of the blue and yellow sky. It looked like a gigantic curved wall, and it scared me because when I looked s
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links for 2008-03-14
Posted on March 15, 2008
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Ever wondered what it’d be like to ride the polls?
I present to you the ALP two party preferred vote from January 2000 through to the 2007 election – in a whole new perspective.
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BERLIN, March 13 — Americans with PhDs beware: Telling people in Germany that you’re a doctor could land you in jail.
At least seven U.S. citizens working as researchers in Germany have faced criminal probes in recent months for using the title “Dr.” on
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links for 2008-03-11
Posted on March 12, 2008
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The runners are lithe and young. None are older than sixteen. Nothing about their hair or clothing dangles in excess, though they ornament themselves in other ways: hair cut in patterns like ornamental lawns, tint cascading through the patterns like adver
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links for 2008-03-03
Posted on March 4, 2008
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“Fourteen million and 15% of the gross? For Michelle Beck? You’re out of your fucking mind, Tom.”
Headsets are a godsend; they allow you to speak on the phone while leaving your hands free for the truly important things. My hands were currently occupied
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From her chair on the Café Potomac’s sidewalk veranda, Valerie points to a middle-aged gentleman crossing the street. She swallows her sip of cappuccino and closes her eyes.
The man leans toward a woman in a burgundy business suit, clasping her arm. “Yo
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links for 2008-02-25
Posted on February 26, 2008
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t was only after the letter arrived that Susan began to get nervous.
She’d coolly walked past the police station on her way to the post office hundreds of times since it happened, even stopping once to speak with Detective Clark, who was coming on shift.
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links for 2008-02-18
Posted on February 19, 2008
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In the schoolhouse, my father continued to teach the important yet useless stuff of a “liberal education.” Our secular madrassa, he called it. This was a service, one he would have provided free of charge, but we accepted donations (and indirectly demande
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links for 2008-02-14
Posted on February 15, 2008
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it’s possible to have Fetchmail retrieve email from a particular folder in an email account and forward these emails to another email address
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It’s really simple to install an SMTP server for personal or business use on Linux (Ubuntu).
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