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While looking at the ETech 2008 website, I see that they link to this Slashdot story as an example of something cool that they'd welcome a presentation on. Really, you shouldn't do that. Link to the story that Slashdot is linking to, instead. Otherwise the page you link to looks like this:

Headline (literallly) MILITARY RUNNING A PARALLEL EARTH SIMULATOR

Story (on theregister.com, my summary): The US military is looking into a proposal to predict domestic and political reactions to various speculative events through by a sophisticated computer program that would be able to work with various kinds of gathered intelligence data. It is currently just a concept paper and is not "running", by the military or anyone else, and the scope of its simulation doesn't go beyond the political. (The Register's tone is pretty over-the-top ZOMG YOU ARE BEING SIMULATED as well, but it's not hard to read past.)

Comments (taking up 99 percent of the page's vertical space): Booger-flinging fight about the Iraq War, mixed with +5 Funnys involving iPhones, beowulf clusters, and assorted sexist leering.

Dude, no.

Someone mentioned it was Bloomsday yesteday, so I looked up the WP article on it, and ended up reading a chapter-by-chapter summary of Ulysses. And not a moment too soon; one of the books I got yesterday, Raph Koster's A Theory of Fun for Game Design, features a cartoon depicting one teenage boy telling another, "I beat the last level of Ulysses last night, I had to use god mode for the end boss. Molly is really tough!"

(I am enjoying this book a great deal, by the way, and am reading it cover to cover (not very difficult) before trying to tackle that textbook. Its core ideas are intriguing and surely controversial as well. I bet there's already been a Slashdot post about it where half the comments are THIS GUY IS AN IDIOT BUH BUH GUH ETC.)

I just managed to throw away my Harvard ID with my lunch. I deserve to be mocked by my internalized Slashdot for this. Go ahead, guys.

You are too stupid to work there. (+5, Funny)
by slashdotter (1337) on 01:46 PM January 12th, 2004 (#19364824)

Pack up your things and go home. You are obviously too dumb to work at Harvard.

Debian GNU/Linux: All your Tux are belong to RMS

Thanks.

I am too stupid to locate the actual animated content on Purple Pussy, except for the music video, and it implies there's more than that, but, again, I am dumb, so.

The comic is sometimes very funny. ("And that is how I defeated the sea.") Even today, where I haven't drawn what you could legally call a cartoon in two years or so, seeing a regular webcomic of any quality makes a long-forgotten part of me seethe with jealousy. I trust myself that if I'm meant to get back into that field someday, I will do so, and I will do so to conquer. Neener.

It has occurred to me that I might like to commission an artist to fashion an icon for "BrainDump". I have a good idea for an icon: a book or notebook that's lying open and looks horrible, with dog-eared pages, text underlined and highlighted, margins scrawled and doodled in, and bookmarks of all colors and materials sticking out every which way.

The thing about Mac OS X is that little, cartoony icons look out of place, now; you're expected to have big ol' things that look like real objects. I can't do this by myself. Googling for Mac OS X icon artists who take commissions gave me only one solid hit (which I can't find now and apparently didn't bookmark... foo.) Then again, any Photoshop-savvy arteest should be able to produce an attractive icon image, once said arteest knows what other Mac OS X icons look like. So maybe my search is too narrow.

There's also things like The Icon Factory, which I haven't browsed through yet. I like the idea of hiring an artist, though; I'd feel all self-important n stuff. I'M A PATRON

Cute Slashdot quote OTD (from an article noting that some cheapo hard drives now sell for one dollar per gigabyte):

1957, the first hard drive was introduced as a component of IBM's RAMAC 350. It required 50 24-inch disks to store five megabytes (million bytes, abbreviated MB) of data and cost roughly $35,000 a year to lease - or $7,000 per megabyte per year.

Man, I knew I should have waited a little while longer before buying one of these.

It always happens. You buy the hottest/fastest toy out, and just 46 years later they're releasing something seven million times better.

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A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

That's awful high, Jason. That's awful high.

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