Saturday, September 07, 2002

[Russ Lipton Documents Radio] QUOTE It's time to push Radio past the Star Techie crew that so ably helps Captain Dave navigate, and colonize a few of the Federation's planets. UNQUOTE [Russ Lipton Documents Radio] I think Radio Open Source is like the Ferengi, with many dreamers trying to figure out if there is a way to make money off of this stuff, when the answer is to make Radio work for the masses of the people on all the Federation planets, so that then the Star Techie crew can make money providing Radio services to all those end users. There will be documentation services, like Russ is writing about. There will be people doing consulting to help corporate intranets setup radio behind firewalls. There will be tools to enhance Radio, that people will download for trials, and while Radio Userland gets $40.00 a year from the end users, the tool users get $4.00 a tool sale, but multiply both by millions of customers. Various ISPs make money selling additional disk space to categories beyond what Radio Userland now offers. Perhaps one of my game designs can be played through Radio.  I would declare a game universe session able to handle X number of players, and here is url of the rules to that game. People sign up at a form where they give their credit card number, and are assigned a slot in the game. They post their moves to a private category, protected by Rick's code, whose name is assigned in combination with what game being played, and some accounting number associated with which cluster of X players, which the game moderator subscribes to, so that their moves are populated into the total game universe, whose results go out to the players via RSS. Some games would allow non players to subscribe via RSS so they can see the flavor of the thing to help them decide which next game openings to sign up for. 8:06:30 PM

In any search engine, check out Crypto Zoology.  Weird creatures that different people believe in.  I can accept that perhaps one or two of these are real, but not all. There's mad science that some people believe in but other people consider them crazy in the head for being so enthusiastic about.  Pyramid Power, UFOs, X-Files, Time Travel, Illumninati.  Often valid science has its start in crazy theories.  Today it is widely accepted that the Dinosaurs were wiped out thanks to Giant Meteor Impact upon planet Earth.  Creationists argue how many years ago that was, because Carbon Dating makes planet Earth older than Bible says it can be.  But the idea that Giant Meteors hit planet Earth and do various chaos, that was mad science for many many years before it became generally accepted theory. Now here comes the Atlantic with an interview of Rick Cook, a respected defense and aerospace reporter for Jane's Defence Weekly, whose new book, The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Anti-Gravity technology, documents his ten year search for a mythical technology.  This Atlantic connection is worth reading.  There's a lot of interesting stuff here, but I will treat it as Science Fiction for a while.  I enjoyed Chariots of the Gods, but as fiction, not taking it seriously.  Thanks to V of TYR for e-mailing this link to Al. If this stuff is for real, in which some researchers can really do it on a shoe string, then America had better win the War against Terrorism before the cat is let out of this black bag.   5:12:13 PM

Radio Lesson Understanding the 3 buttons ... I do not know if this is correct or not, but it was the clearest explanation I have heard so far, within the Craig Burton Tutorial I recently mentioned, as compared to other explanations I have previously seen in other people Radio Documentation. Post This saves on your desk top PC your work, that was just in your Home Editing Box.. I do this a lot when working on a post, just in case my browser connection fails. Publish Send to the public site ALL your work that you might have posted but not published. There could be several pieces you been working on and not yet published. Your Home Editing Box could be empty when you do this. Post and Publish This does both. Anything in your Home Editing Box is saved to your desk top PC. Anything in your Home Editing Box is also published on the public site. Anything else you been working on but not yet published, it now gets published to the public site. 2:43:29 PM

[Boing Boing Blog] QUOTE Archive of answering machine greetings. There are some funny ones in here. "Hi. I am probably home, I'm just avoiding someone I don't like. Leave me a message, and if I don't call back, it's you." Link Discuss (Thanks, Kevin!) UNQUOTE [Boing Boing Blog] I also have some favorites. The Answer Machine is Broke.  This is the Refrigerator speaking.  If you talk very slowly (the voice does so by example) I will write down what you say and stick it to myself and hopefully someone will see the message.     1:18:28 PM

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