Released snapshots of a few Scheme packages I haven't changed in
awhile: Httper 0.2, UriFrame 0.4, and my temporary SRFI-19 for PLT 0.3. Note that the module name for the SRFI-19 has changed, due
to the unitsigization.
Patrick Healy, "College Rivalry," Boston Globe, 29-Jun-2003
Released sigbegone.el version 0.6.
Killing time before a wisdom tooth procedure, I parlayed my media skills into a fabulous career as a signature fashion designer.
Daphne Eviatar, "The Press and Private Lynch," The Nation, 19-Jun-2002
More criticism for NYT's Judith Miller: Howard Kurtz, "Embedded Reporter's Role In Army Unit's Actions Questioned by Military," Washington Post, 25-Jun-2003
Leander Kahney, "Design According to Ive," Wired, 25-Jun-2003
The larger problem on the left is a culture of snobbery from people whose goals are not on behalf of elites but whose style is elitist and therefore unsuccessful.
—Danny Goldberg in interview: Barbara Spindel, "Can Danny Goldberg Save The Left?," Newsweek, MSNBC, 22-May-2003
Brand placement of the day: FedEx
"The professor didn't say very much. He knew [Philip] Foner. In fact, he was very fond of Foner, but I think he knew very well what we were going to find," says Mr. Haynes. "This was, in part, an object lesson. He was telling us, 'Here's a big name. But just because he's a big name, don't assume that he does things right. And you'd better learn from this example, unless you want to have a classroom full of graduate students make the same kind of discovery about you someday.'"
—Scott McLemee, "Seeing Red," Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 49, no. 42, 27-Jun-2003
Regarding lefties with elitist style, at least we have Texan Molly Ivins.
A few of us were talking recently about '80s D&D, and I mentioned an NPC generator I'd written back then. A Finn in the group seemed to recall it from BBSs there. Even if my $12 shareware app made it as far as Finland, I never received a single registration. Later the year I wrote the NPC generator, I got a job at a company that sold software for five figures a seat.
Quote of the day:
A third of the American public believes U.S. forces have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a recent poll. [...] [Steve Kull] added: "Given the intensive news coverage and high levels of public attention, this level of misinformation suggests some Americans may be avoiding having an experience of cognitive dissonance."
—Frank Davies, "War poll uncovers fact gap," Philadelphia Inquirer, 14-Jun-2003
The following appears based on a 13-Jun-2003 Agence France-Presse article; I didn't see any other coverage in Google News:
A musician in France's Strasbourg Philharmonic refuses to play works of Wagner because of the composer's anti-Semitism, Agence France-Presse reports. [...] The conductor said he would try to help the cellist "understand the need to distance himself" from the music he performs.
—Ben Mattison, "Strasbourg Philharmonic Musician Refuses to Play Wagner," Andante, 17-Jun-2003
"Hold on—does Chomsky know about this? Because, man, oh, man, is he ever gonna hit the roof."
—"FCC Media Deregulation," The Onion, 18-Jun-2003
As the US regresses socially, Canada is becoming the new Land Of Freedom. Witness same-sex marriages, marijuana decriminalization, and stubborn refusal to shred civil liberties in the name of "homeland security." Too bad about the weather.
Craigslist illicit job posting: "Staff Augmentation Partner Needed (Boston) <<software/QA/DBA/etc"
Coincidentally, I weblogged liquidationuniverse's suspicious Ebay feedback on 14-May-2003:
Police in South Salt Lake, Utah, are working with eBay to determine just how many people were victimized by what authorities say was one of the biggest frauds in the auction site's history. Police arrested 31-year-old Russell Dana Smith last weekend after hundreds of auction winners complained that they sent $1,000 or more to a company named Liquidation Universe for laptop computers they never received. Police say the firm appears to have raked in $1 million from about 1,000 victims in just a few weeks.
—Bob Sullivan, "Man arrested in huge eBay fraud," MSBNC.com, 12-Jun-2003
Quote of the day:
Fringe thinking? Hardly. Sober PhDs are behind these thoughts.
—Gregg Easterbrook, "We're All Gonna Die!," Wired, July 2003
I still think flowers.com should have a premium service
whereby they will deliver goods and pretend to the recipient that you'd ordered
them delivered at some prior date. Say, for $200 they'll FedEx a dozen roses,
a written apology absolving the sender of all blame for the delay, and a
'complimentary' assortment of chocolates. For an extra $50, a follow-up phone
call just after delivery, in which a purported Vice President of Operations
apologizes personally, and mentions as an aside what a nice young man/woman
(specify which on order form) the sender seemed like.
While walking with laptop bag to Central Square at 3am Saturday night, some guy who looked like Spike Lee (glasses and everything) pulled over and, after I offered directions or help, propositioned me in no uncertain terms. His diction was excellent, but I had to tell him to get lost. Perhaps, had it been a French actress...
Question: What types of degrees are offered through Stanton University?
Answer: Stanton University offers Traditional, Business, Military Related and Religious Degrees and Doctorate/Professorship Titles. Stanton University respects the higher study of the law and medicine and therefore does not issue Medical or Law related degrees of any kind to any prospective graduate in any country —whatsoever.
My 1963 paperback edition of Dora's case history complements this daftly confident wrongheadedness with an introduction by Philip Rieff, a sociologist and an editor of Freud's papers, who writes admiringly of "the precise truth of Freud's multiple analytic thrusts into her unconscious," which "overwhelmed Dora with interpretations, pounding away at her argument," for all the world as if he were not himself a Freudian attuned to unconscious phallic references.
—Laura Miller, "Scheherazade in the Consulting Room," New York Times, Sunday Book Review, 15-Jun-2003 issue
"Surely you don't suspect me..."
The best the Globe could do for a critical viewpoint on the new gun-slinging presence at Logan:
But Peggy Lucas-Taylor, 72, of Lehigh Acres, Fla., wasn't so sure. "They should have something, but not necessarily a machine gun," she said. "I think a machine gun would do more harm than good. It's such a big weapon. Maybe some of that pepper spray? Or a stun gun? I don't know."
—Mac Daniel, "Logan getting weapons upgrade," Boston Globe, 13-Jun-2003
Most of this Saturday has been spent going through files recovered
from 5.25in floppies and QIC tapes, and checking them into CVS. More than once
today I found three different versions of the source code trees for a given
package, and even with diff -r could only guess at the temporal
ordering. One file I can't find a place for, so I'll put it on the Web, is a Brown University XPilot map. And who said you couldn't do Web CGI in Emacs.
Have you seen US TV news lately? We need to quickly find a way to educate vast numbers of citizens to be critical thinkers.
Bush Visits USS Truman For Dramatic Veterans'-Benefits-Cutting Ceremony
Turbo10 demonstrates the wrong way to preview a search engine.
Updated Privoxy actions file. In addition to new rules, the file now contains more documentation.
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