Wednesday, August 28, 2002|
From Piet Hein: Little fleas have littler fleas Upon their backs to bite them; And bigger fleas have bigger fleas And so ad infinitum. Smaller and smaller and smaller.Tiny bugs in mealybugs have smaller bugs inside them [EurekAlert!] 8:28:01 PM 
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The Force is with them."More than 70,000 fans of the "Star Wars" movies have upset Australia's statistics agency by identifying their religion as "Jedi" during last year's national census. " [Daypop Top 40] Well, maybe Australian Volvos will be shipped with light sabre holders? |
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Just discovered (through referers) A Man with a Ph.D.—Richard Gayle's Weblog. He has categories for Biology, Computing and Knowledge Management—oh, wait, that's “Tacit Knowledge Publishing” or “Knowledge Sharing” or the like. He is intent on world domination, so make your plans accordingly. 7:40:50 PM
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Did someone mention HIPAA? Windows 2000 Catch 22?. Is Win2k SP3 HIPAA Compliant? This is the question posed on /. by an individual working with medical records... [Heal Your Church Web Site] 3:03:06 PM
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Unintellectual Property: A Modest Proposal. This is both funny and sad. [Roland Tanglao's Weblog] 2:51:03 PM
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Martin Schray has set up Radio to ping you via IM when the news aggregator has run. Cool. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 9:23:25 AM
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I really didn't expect weblogs to change the way I met with people. This was a surprise. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]I totally agree! I did meet in person a few people I knew from their weblogs, and it's kind of weird. What I find amazing is that somehow you already know these people, to the point that I almost interrupt them saying "oh, you have already told me that" when what really happened is that I read that sometime on their weblogs. I have just got off the phone with Jean-Yves (alson known as the first JY of google ;-) after about one hour discussing Radio, Frontier, IdeaTools, markets and life in general. Hopefully we'll meet some time, but even this conversation was very very interesting. Weblogs not only changed the way I meet with people, they also improved the quality of the people I meet! Yes, if I travel to Austin, TX, for a wedding sometime this fall, I hope to meet blogger Stephen Dulaney [Blogging Alone] at some point. There would probably be a sense of continuing an ongoing conversation, I should think. |
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Very cool, yes, but it misses the VAX Flight Simulator, which allowed you to "dogfight" in a virtual world. VAX FLIGHT had a world editor, in case you needed a new world to conquer. There were WWI and WWII worlds, a Boston-to-Maynard world (for strafing the Hancock Building or taking out the DEC Mill), and several others. The planes (or vehicles: there were tanks, destroyers, PT boats, and a Starship Enterprise) were multi-user, as well: you could fly a B-25 or B-17 with a pilot, copilot, bombardier, and a ball-turret gunner. Everything from a Spad to a F-18, all faithfully reproduced (apparently), with little quirks specific to the craft: I believe in one jet, you would kill the engines by rolling upside down. We would play it with one of the field-test servers downstairs (at a certain customer) driving the simulation, with other servers (or a commandeered VAXstation) running the individual plane simulators, and use our own VAXstations solely as X-displays (in order to load test the network, you see). In theory, you could have maybe 10 planes going, with 4 players per plane; we usually went one-on-one. My co-worker favored the P-38; I used a P-51 Mustang when possible (had a nice rear-view mirror in the P-51D or whatever the hangar held). We were routinely blown away by our client's project leader, who flew radio-controlled planes in real-life. Oh, by the way, these were all wire-frame 3D models on-screen. We are talking about 10 years ago, when all the computers were wind-up toys by comparison with today's PDA. Very, Very Cool: Online Gaming Timeline. 8:57:36 AM
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