Command-Line Email. 27 May 2003: O'Reilly tells us about the history ofemail.”Email's mode of transmission is based on 7-bit ASCII. In other words, early Internet communication was only 128 characters – specifically numbers and letters – that we use in English. Hence no Icelandic, Chinese, Hebrew or Greek, to name a few languages. Also, there […]

We don't need no stinkin' Geneva Convention. We don't need no stinkin' Geneva Convention – US plans death camp – plans to turn Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray into a death camp are in the works. [MetaFilter] umm, no, this should not happen. They should be brought to the U.S. for the regular round of criminal […]

BOFH cops a virus. Episode 10 Bring the tranquiliser gun [The Register] new bofh, woo hooo!

Gaming as a Solution for Computer Science Woes. The New York Times ran an article this past week that discussed the changing times for computer majors. The boom of the 90's ended in a bust, and further layoffs and dim forecasts by the technology industry have caused many students to reconsider the profitability of a […]

behind the razzle dazzle. That the debate over the higher education institutions in Australia is conducted in very utilitarian terms should come as no suprise, since Australia's public philosophy is utilitarian one. Currently, the key issue in the debate is the private/public funding of the university. The funding issue mostly ignores any consideration of the […]

Red vs. Blue: kickass short movies made with video-games. Sez Cory: The two most astonishing things about the Red vs. Blue shorts are: How convulsively funny they are How emotive, expressive and inherently comedic game-avatars can be Check 'em out yourself at Red Versus Blue. [A blog doesn't need a clever name] the appropriation of […]

The Revolution will be telestreamed. Here are the Adbusters Epiphany finalists. My fave: Human branding. These are great! more anti-commercials more of the time…. [The Doc Searls Weblog]

Fedora – Digitial object repository management system. Quote: “The Fedora project was established under the auspices of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build a digital object repository management system based on the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora). The new system, designed to be a foundation upon which interoperable web-based digital libraries, […]

LYNCH A.A.R.. Donald Sensing links a WaTi report that the Army's CID is investigating the circumstances of the ambush in which PFC Jessica Lynch was initially captured…. [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY] watch that 'wag the dog' action, isn't it pretty.

EINSTEIN SYNDROME. Thomas Sowell has an interesting column on a syndrome with which I had been largely unfamiliar: geniuses who are labeled autistic or mentally retarded because… [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY] This is an interesting phenomena, but i wonder how many of those who develop language later are geniuses….