A high school student decides to go undercover to see how far army recruiters will go to meet their quotas.
How far will the Army Go?
The premise was simple: McSwane would try to join the Army as a high school dropout with an insatiable fondness for marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms. No matter how stoned […]
Microsoft finally gave the world a look at its next generation video game system the Xbox 360 on a special MTV broadcast hosted by Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood.
The new console features a 20-gigabyte hard drive and three 3.2-gigahertz PowerPC microprocessors that will enable high-definition graphics and six-channel surround sound.
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It is interesting to […]
From eWeek:
America Online is moving into the Web-based e-mail market on Wednesday by tying e-mail into its popular AOL Instant Messenger service.
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The free service will feature 2GB of storage, spam and anti-virus protection, and an interface that lets users drag and drop messages to organize and save them in folders, AOL is announcing.
AIM Mail will […]
IT Conversations has a very interesting session posted with Malcolm Gladwell. I’m currently reading his book Blink, but this recording is a great way to see if you’d be interested in the book. Blink deals with the ways we make snap decisions and points out the ways we can be right and the […]
Motorized Couch
I think this is a great idea. You just drive your couch across campus picking up friends on the way. Of course if it rained you might have a problem, so I guess you’d need some sort of moble couch-port to cover it up. Maybe you could put a roof […]
Interesting article about a police officer who sued the police department because to people were promoted based on bogus degrees. He is getting a retroactive raise, his legal expenses covered, and will be retiring effective March 11th.
Kolakowski applied in 2003 for a promotion to the newly created position of deputy chief. The borough ultimately […]
I’ve put up a listing of Linksys equipment that was pulled from Amazon’s web api. It is interesting to see how much information they are opening up to the world. Feel free to buy large expensive items from them through this link. :)
Tiger Updated
I just finished installing 10.4, XCode 2, WO (5.2, 5.2.2, and 5.2.3), and Subversion. Checked out the APOLLO/Pachyderm source tree, and build and ran Pachyderm2.woa.
Sounds like WebObjects works find under Tiger. I haven’t had a chance to test it myself yet, but this sounds promising.
The Time Traveler Convention - May 7, 2005
We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that future time travelers will know about the convention and attend. This web page is insufficient; in less than a year it will be taken down when I graduate, and futhermore, the World Wide Web is unlikely to remain […]