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Set the Wayback machine

I've been hearing about this, or variants on it, for a while, but it's only just been made available to...

Jed

October 30, 2001
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Big dare

November, it seems, is National Novel Writing Month. The folks at NaNoWriMo (as they call it) encourage people to sign...

Jed

October 30, 2001
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Auctioning services

Cute fake eBay auction of one (1) ass-kicking. Seller will visit buyer's house and kick their ass. Good to know...

Jed

October 30, 2001
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Wil Wheaton lives

Like, omigod! Wil Wheaton (yes, as in Wesley Crusher from ST:TNG) not only has a journal/Weblog (at that site—sample: "something...

Jed

October 30, 2001
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Next-gen display technology

Samsung SDI is working on OLED displays—Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. I know nothing about OLEDs besides what it says in this...

Jed

October 29, 2001
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Etymology answer

The OED reveals, as far as we can tell, that Islam is cognate with salaam but not actually derived from...

Jed

October 29, 2001
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Etymology of “Islam”

At least two sources in the past few days have indicated that the word Islam derives from the word salaam,...

Jed

October 28, 2001
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Suicide bombers

Long but fascinating New York Times article describing the thoughts and opinions of various Muslims in Gaza, Cairo, and Hamburg...

Jed

October 28, 2001
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Interface

I keep meaning to note that I will be cleaning up the interface for this at some point. The show-all-entries-for-a-given-day...

Jed

October 28, 2001
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Fall Back

My computer clock was heading toward 2 a.m., and then suddenly it was 1 again. So it's not that late...

Jed

October 28, 2001
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Roswell

I suppose all true UFOlogists already know about this, but I either didn't know or had forgotten: under the Freedom...

Jed

October 28, 2001
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Cat Stevens on Islam

Interesting opinion piece by Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, in the Independent. He makes some curiously roundabout statements—for...

Jed

October 27, 2001
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