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| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | (sigh) I suppose it was only a matter of time... to Humor by succa |
| Loglan
and its non-owned offshot
Lojban
are
constructed languages,
like Volapuk and Esperanto (ick) and Quenya and
Klingon, only much more sophisticated. So much
more sophisticated that they may not even be
speakable... judge for yourself. The division
between the two languages seems to revolve around
intellectual property issues. to Linguistics by arkuat |
| If sorting through the opinions of the unwashed masses wasn't fun enough on
Consumer Review and Deja (the "News" is silent),
epinions hopes you'll enjoy wading through their information space. Oooh! A recommendation for Bose speakers!
They must be good!
to Web by akk |
| It's true. They have a dictionary for everything. to Reference by imploded |
| Back when I was a punk kid, I learned a lot of what I knew about telephony, UNIX, and social engineering from text files
distributed on online BBS's. Many of the classic files are available from the original sources
like Ripco and cDc.
Now I can finally get around to baking a Mauve box.
to Culture by akk |
| Like Frontier, Cold Fusion,
and the other cruftilicious web application servers (like the ultra expensive
Vignette StoryServer),
Zope is a web server, content management system, and
portal toolkit. It's free, built with Python and does the whole
open-source-save-the-whales-thang. Download it today and change the world. to Computing by akk |
| While mining through US Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain's site, I found this tidbit - which left me on the floor laughing. It still proves that 90% of all US politicians are dumb. to Politics by imploded |
| Hitler, Stalin, and Senator Joseph McCarthy were all opponents of Esperanto. This alone does not however explain why Esperanto is the language of freedom. Well,
SAT, whose page the previous link is, shouldn't actually be taken too seriously. They're a break-off faction of esperantists whose founder saw the abolition of national language as a neccessary step in the triumph of global socialism. For more about the history of Esperanto and world politics, read this. And to learn about how communist China has used Esperanto to its advantage, read this. to Linguistics by keith |
| UNIX sysadmins may find some utility in a new easy-to-use graphical administrator tool: DOOM to Computing by faisal |
| It was only a matter of time before someone put a dictionary out for Esperanto's earliest competitor, Volapuk. to Linguistics by mpc |
| The TRGPro is a modified PalmIIIx with added enhancements: WAV-capable audio and a CompactFlash slot that is compatible with inexpensive flashRAM, modems and other devices. to Gadgets by joshua |
| APBnews: News for cops. Stuff that matters. to Reference by pjammer |
| Ever heard the expression Jesus Christ on a Pogo stick? Ever wonder what that would actually look like? Now you know. to Religion by pjammer |
| Incubus is a low-budget horror film from the sixities which features William Shatner and is in Esperanto, with English subtitles. It's also the entirety of the Esperanto film library. to Movies by keith |
| There are network protocols which are less completely documented and have more exceptions than Esperanto. Here is the complete grammar to which there are no exceptions whatsoever. Show me one natural language which can do that. to Linguistics by keith |
| The Hello World
Page, like the
I Can Eat Glass Project
and the
Ate My Balls webring,
shows that anything not worth doing will be done anyway, in lots and lots of
different ways.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Sumea is a native Java, fully 3D, polygon
engine that supports depth-of-field, particle systems, alpha blending and
texture mapping.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 19, 1999 | Science, pets, or food?
There are two commercial sealed ecosystems on
the market, the
Bio-Sphere and the
EcoSphere, or you can try to
build your own.
Tempura,
Sushi,
and Sashimi,
the deziens of EcoSphere #110984, don't realize how lucky they are. to Food by petey |
| So I was looking for a place with ski conditions at Whistler's ski resort, and I typed in www.skireports.com. Guess where I ended up? to Culture by stimpy |
| Encyclopedia
Britannica Online is changing revenue models.
Henceforth, they will be free (or, really, funded
by advertising banners). Too bad their server
wasn't up to the load generated on the day of
the announcment. What's next? Banner ads on the
OED? to Reference by arkuat |
| Ever wonder what those strings your GPS receiver
outputs mean? Here's a
complete list of the NMEA sentences and their syntax, including
lots that you're not likely to ever see on your
consumer unit! (Actually, that's ok, because
typical software can't use them all anyhow. to Reference by shadow |
| Always hated how your bookmarks reside on one particular computer? Blink! is here to help. to Web by djinn |
| UPC codes
are ubiquitous -- some would say
diabolically so -- so shouldn't you know how to
read them
yourself?
to Commerce by riotnrrd |
| Learn how to swear in Finnish ("Suksi vittuun!") and just about any
other language at
Scritch's Multilingual
Swear List.
to Linguistics by riotnrrd |
| The Gallery of Misused Quotation Marks chronicles the daily abuse of that particular punctuation mark.
to Humor by keith |
| Some of us own Amigas, so we know who Eric Schwartz is outside of his Comic Strip (some of us know that he obssesses about Amigas in his strip). Now you can
see everything he's done, including his animations and other artwork,
especially his Amiga
Propaganda and Linux swipes.
to Web by mpc |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | Ever wonder how long you'll live? If you're the quiet, boring type, you might just live to 100.
On the other hand, if you're like any of us here at memepool, you should be dead already. Want
to find out when you'll croak? Satisfy your morbid curiosity and take the Death
Test. Bonus for sick bastards: If you know something about the unhealthy habits of rich relatives, it's also useful for
calculating the timetables of inheritence windfalls. to Reference by pjammer |
| Funmail is an English mail service that allows you to have up to 20 e-mail addresses at any one time, and change them as often as you like (with 3,500 possible names after the @, and infinite possibilities before the @)! Take that Yahoo/Rocket/Hotmail/Hushmail/etc.
to Internet by gen |
| I had access to cable television for five days last week. Every time I surfed past one of the Christian-identitified stations, it seemed I had a 50-50 chance of running into an ad, or preview (RealVideo), or behind-the-scenes promo for The Omega Code. With that kind of media blitz from its producers at the Trinity Broadcast Network, perhaps it's not too suprising that the Revelations- and Bible Code-based sci-fi flick had a #10 weekend opening on Variety's list. (Boffo BO in Oklahoma; the flick's only on 305 screens in the Bible Belt, Midwest, and southern California.)
However, doesn't having an Omega Code website at www.microsoftstore.com qualify as yet another sign of the Apocolypse?
to Movies by penth |
| Want DSL? DSLreports
has an agent which will query all the DSL prequalification
engines they know about if you provide the area code and
prefix and your street address. The results will not
only tell you if you can get DSL, they'll also offer
prices, speed estimates, and the estimated line distance.
to Internet by shadow |
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