Zeesy Powers, Online!
Posted by Benny P on 2005-04-05 [edit | view only]

This girl is nuts. go check out her site, she'll love it!

The Art and Sound of Bennyp
Posted by Benny P on 2005-03-14 [edit | view only]

This site showcases the work of Ben Powers, aka bennyp stop by to got some free culture (cc by-nc-sa 2.0)

Webcam Jigsaw Solver in 200 Lines of Python
Posted by David Wole on 2005-03-02 [edit | view only]

A Glyphsaw Puzzle is a computer assisted jigsaw puzzle game using real cardboard pieces. At any time, one may hold a puzzle piece up to a camera, and the computer will show exactly where in the puzzle the piece belongs.
All this, done in only two hundred (thats right, two hundred) lines of Python!

The Graphing Calculator Story
Posted by David Wole on 2005-02-08 [edit | view only]

I used to be a contractor for Apple, working on a secret project. Unfortunately, the computer we were building never saw the light of day. The project was so plagued by politics and ego that when the engineers requested technical oversight, our manager hired a psychologist instead. In August 1993, the project was canceled. A year of my work evaporated, my contract ended, and I was unemployed. There is also a video of Ron telling the story at Google Video.

SF Writers Sting Supposedly Traditional Publisher
Posted by David Wole on 2005-02-06 [edit | view only]

A group of SF writers all submitted purposely awful stories to a publisher that purported to publish only selected high quality works. They created the worst story they could come up with, and it was accepted for publication.
See also: Atlanta Nights - The Worst Book Ever Written
The full text of the book can be found here ftp://ftp.sff.net/pub/people/doylemacdonald/Sting/ (the file is StingManuscript.rtf)
NOTE: Chapter 34 is written by a computer

Gizoogle
Posted by David Wole on 2005-02-06 [edit | view only]

Gizoogle is a "Gangsta" search engine, not unlike Google but using street slang... take a look at the results for your own name.

Squirt Gun Offenses
Posted by David Wole on 2005-02-03 [edit | view only]

While attending a not-so-recent computer conference I stayed at a rather interesting hotel in San Francisco's tenderloin district. The hotel provided an adequate coffee and donut breakfast each morning. I came into the eating room one morning, grabbed a jelly-filled, a cup of coffee and had a seat. Across from me was a well-dressed man munching happily. Before we could start a conversation, the hotel manager walked up to him and stated "Sir.. these donuts are for guests only."

Curse Words in the Windows 2000 Source Code
Posted by David Wole on 2005-02-01 [edit | view only]

In the struggle to meet deadlines, I think pretty much all programmers have put in comments they might later regret, including swearwords and acerbic comments about other code or requirements. Also, any conscientious coder will put in prominent comments warning others about the trickier parts of the code... WARNING - Lots of bad words!
(see also: The Linux Kernel Swear Count)

Running Windows viruses under Linux
Posted by David Wole on 2005-01-30 [edit | view only]

Linux just isn't user-friendly when it comes to viruses. You have to work to find and run them. It doesn't happen automatically as it does with Windows. The GNU/Linux folks really should improve this glaring discrepancy.

Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms
Posted by David Wole on 2005-01-29 [edit | view only]

A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey's bottoms. The way the experiment was set up, the act is akin to paying for the images, the researchers say.

Sex in High School Involves Long Chains of Relationships
Posted by David Wole on 2005-01-29 [edit | view only]

A study of sexual and romantic relations at a high school found students connected by long chains, rather than in a tight network with a core group of a promiscuous few.