Sunday, December 15, 2002

A cool thing Jon Udell: "If your local public (or college) library is one of the nearly 900 Innovative Interfaces' Web-enabled libraries listed below, drag its link to your browser's link toolbar." [Scripting News] 5:30:35 PM    comment []  trackback []

And in case we haven't pissed you off enough yet... 50 Most Loathsome People. Don't miss the Beast's 50 Most Loathsome People in America --it's funny, provacative and just mean enough without being ugly.... [Steve's No Direction Home Page] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 12:39:04 PM    comment []  trackback []

Finally! The mystery unravelled: Google Glossary: "In old England, anyone caught in illegal cohabitation was charged with 'unlawful carnal knowledge'---that was the technical term. It was a very common offense and, on the blotter, instead of writing out that so-and-so was being held 'for unlawful carnal knowledge' they would just write, 'F.U.C.K.' No idea on when it became a 'dirty' word. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] No idea whether true or not, either.... [Several hours later: At 4:54 PM -0800 12/15/02, Gautam wrote: not true http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/fuck.htm Sigh. And me the inveterate Snopes checker... Oh, fuck.] 10:14:53 AM    comment []  trackback []

A First Step to Cutting Reliance on Oil. Fuel cells could ease the threat of global warming without taking away freedom and mobility. By Tom Redburn. [New York Times: Science] 9:44:08 AM    comment []  trackback []

Keeping Track of John Poindexter John Poindexter wants to know everything about you. So people are starting to reurn the favor. "Why, for example, is their $269,700 Rockville, Md., house covered with artificial siding, according to Maryland tax records? Shouldn't a Reagan conspirator be able to afford repainting every seven years? Is the Donald Douglas Poindexter listed in Maryland sex-offender records any relation to the good admiral? What do Tom Maxwell, at 8 Barrington Fare, and James Galvin, at 12 Barrington Fare, think of their spooky neighbor?" [Wired] 9:21:26 AM    comment []  trackback []