Friday, November 08, 2002

matutinal: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. matutinal [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] "Relating to or occurring in the morning; early." 10:08:56 AM

Which Founding Father Are You? 2:16:28 AM

Monster Garage I wonder what they do with those cars after they finish them?  Do they sell them?  If so, I want the Swamp Buggy. 2:09:01 AM

X-Faces: email icons. X-Faces are highly compressed 48x48 icons that you can put in your mail and Usenet posting headers to be displayed in mail-clients, sorta like the favicons in Mozilla. Here's one that Greg made for Boing Boing -- run it through the decoder on the link below to see it. X-Face: 5/(/y+5u8;d]xJj4e%F+dUag"AX1!7", =< l'ZHToFj*zW'~F]^_6~m#:=nu3[WJ]joxvt,pw+`. ?^0?L^wNi>t~/,YZDNP*[>X>`,p^];_cPNbn ?=9mG!cjtkOucg.bj():KBma56tWP>s)=T3usYL4 f1Qyw&^Ome[g&19#/m9SJIA(";FdB0h9]g!`G, FH&tJ$)n Link Discuss (Thanks, Greg!) [Boing Boing Blog] I seem to recall something similar to this in the proto-web days, relating to customizing the .plan file.  Do you remember "finger"?  For those who don't: In the days before www, in lue of a home page, you could create a .plan file (also a .project file) in your *nix home directory.  These files would be displayed (text only, with the occasional ascii art.  No markup.)  when someone "fingered" your account.  I remember some guy had the latest Melrose Place updated available via his .plan file each week.  Other folks posted similar, semi-dynamic content. Theoretically, this all still works (Win2k still supports the finger command), but I think most sites have secured the finger daemon these days due to security concerns.  If you are reading this, and know of any interesting services currently available via finger, please let me know. 2:02:51 AM