Sunday, December 05, 2004

Nerdlings with way too much energy

Antartica, clubbing (as in seals, not saturday night), and so much more from down under.


slush.

Be all you can be :: be your own weatherman...

...without needing to throw bombs, kidnap heiresses, etc.
I had no idea Bob Dylan had such a head start on XML.

Wired News: Weather Data for the Masses

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Flash Linux

Not flash as in Macromedia...
flash as in a 256 usb key.

Based on gentoo, flash linux lets you boot from a chip.

Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Gmail: ads for Croquet

Here is the text of today's summary from the croquet-users listserver:
Subject: croquet-user digest: November 30, 2004From: "croquet-user digest" <croquet-user@lists.services.wisc.edu>Reply-To: "croquet-user" <croquet-user@lists.services.wisc.edu>Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:05 -0600CROQUET-USER Digest for Tuesday, November 30, 2004.1. Creating planets. The time-step loop - Lesson 5 of B2DP
Subject: Creating planets. The time-step loop - Lesson 5 of B2DPFrom: "Americo Fraga Damasceno Junior" <
americo@dmu.com>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:32:56 -0600An sphere is a nice piece because you can scale it and change its texturecreating many derivated new pieces. But the important subject of thislesson is the "time-step loop", an important resource for 3D animation.The address of this new lesson is:http://www.dmu.com/croquet2/ncr5.html

Since I read the listserver message with gmail, ads were generated. Here they are:
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A couple things strike me:
  • cut and paste does not work very well between gmal in foxfire and blogger in ie.
  • a croquet user would probably not be interested in the ads.
  • i'm surprised that given the content of the email ad gmail was able to attach ads from companies in the right business.
  • i wonder if google allows people offering ads to have any custom extensions to the engine which finds appropriate ads.