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People

On dealing with griefers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Griefer. It’s a new word. A griefer is a person like Jason Fortuny, who posed as a woman and put out an extremely suggestive sex wanted ad at Craigslist and then published all the results–including actual names, emails, photos, and other contact information of the men who responded. I’ve always thought the […]

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Weblogging

Science blogs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I can strongly recommend subscribing to the Science Blogs. I have never seen such an interesting mix of material come out of one place before. From today’s reading: Monkeys are not Mozart Fans from Mixing Memory. Nerd Music from PZ. (The juxtaposition of both of the above was purely by accident.) The Top Ten […]

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Stuff

Gojira

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I recently received two new DVDs: This Island Earth and the original Godzilla, Gojira as it was released to a Japanese audience in 1954. Gojira comes in a two DVD set with the original Japanese film and the Americanized Godzilla with Raymand Burr. There’s also a small booklet with background information, all in a […]

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Graphics/CSS

Fluid Elastic Static

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am a good bread and butter CSS designer, and can create designs that look relatively decent in browsers and validate, but I’ve never taken my design to the higher levels. When I re-make my sites over into the new layout, I want to change the design to allow for […]

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Insects

Wine for Joe

This one is for Joseph Duemer: having problems with tent catepillars? Make something useful from them: make wine. From a review of the wine (which also includes more details in how to make it): Some lucky folks will get a bonus. Reigstad saved and froze 30 large army worms to put in bottles, similar to the worms put in some […]