The fafbloggers?

Ten minutes of lazy googling investigative reporting might bring you the fafbloggers:

Chris Mastrangelo, Mike Fried and John Leen

Chris is/was a member of "Tech House" at Brown.

Then again, I could be wrong.

Michael Moore abandoned independent movie theaters -- the only ones to give him a chance in the beginning. It's like when Metallica sued bootleggers -- the same people who made them famous. On the other hand, I don't really care and if I were Michael Moore I'd be raking in the cash too (ya know...like a guy who makes money pointing out the failures of others.....) Regardless, check out this 3-minute documentary by a buddy of mine, Finding Fahrenheit 9/11, and make up your own mind.


When: 7/1/2004

Company: Michael Moore

Severity: 5

Points: 105
[Newcum's FuckedCompany Feed]

I'm willing to give Moore a lot of leeway. But nobody is immune from criticism.

Jurisprudent Fusion, or Throwing Laffer a Curve

The presumption of innocence is a hallmark of the American court system.

What would happen if this were reversed in the particular case of American tax law?

Would tax evasion go down?

gmail bindings in browsers

I hadn't realized how hooked to gmail I was until I was reading the NYT site and I hit "u". I think we need to have a firefox extension that allows gmail key bindings. The most useful would be a "g+i" combination to go up to the root url, say if I was reading a NYT story, I could go up to nytimes.com.

The other key that would be useful is "u" - which would just take me up in the hierarchy by going up one in the URL. So if I was in nytimes/news/candybars, "u" would take me up to nytimes/news/.

There already exists an extension for firefox that handles going up in the hierarchy. I want a combined plugin.

And one more thing. It should autodetect that we're at gmail.com and disable itself.

mmmm.

satMac meet kryptonite

The satMac needs a new titanium case. Apparently, it cracks very easily.

:(

set WWDC2004 = Crap;

The Apple WorldWide Developers Conference was the most dissapointing Apple Event in years.

No new systems, a preview of an OS that won't come out until 1st Half 2005 (read as late as June 2005), and a score of "advancements" that have been available independently of Apple.

• Metadata file system like the one BeOS had working, on Apple hardware, six years ago


• System wide searching similar to that already implemented in Quiksilver


• Desktop Widgets a dead ringer for those of Konfabulator


• RSS Feeds in Safari Repeat after me: The browser is not the place for added non browsing functionality. Rather than go the route of a suite in the manner of the netscape suite, have the dignity to buy out NetNewsWire or PulpFiction in the same way you bought out SoundJam to make iTunes.

There were other announcements, but they are barely worth mentioning.

• An updated SMB file system driver. To keep up with "Everybody Else"


• BSD utilities that handle resource forks out of the box. This in a .4 point release?


• New Displays - in Aluminum! yawn.

I'm leaning stronger and stronger towards believing that we need a GPLed Carbon environment.

Give me a linux system running on Apple Hardware, running apps meant for Apple's operating system, but better.

What is it they used to say?

Think Different.

Dale a Flaming Liberal?

The Full Monty was on this afternoon as I hooked up my TV to the cable (with the new splitter I bought today at Lowes.)

Not realizing the movie had ended and Fox had segued to NASCAR, you gllorious reader will understand my surprise as I heard the words "Fahrenheit 9/11" come out of the speakers.

It seems that the NASCAR commentators were referring to Dale Earnheardt talking about going to see Michael Moore's new movie as a potential bonding experience.

Dale!

The Fog of War

brilliant

mcnamara comes off as a tragic figure, despite the millions of lives that he was instrumental in eliminating

i have also discovered

that all with dubious places in history

should come with a philip glass soundtrack

bunnies

my cable modem arrived today

it is pretty

i will call it george

I miss STNG.

Riker: How did you like command?
Worf: Comfortable chair.

Bush or Death?

I think I've caught on to the signature of the 2004 Bush/Cheney campaign.

gmail explosion

Three invites last night, and now five more today

Sounds good, I think, aside from the capacity problems gmail seems to be having today.

Ever heard an indie-rock band with a classical violin do Pachelbel's Canon? Me neither. Zox can hook you up. [die puny humans]

That's one cool song.

Great Reagan Memory

Scroll to the bottom.

Impeach Bush

If even a small part of what Seymour Hersh says is true, then we are truly truly fucked.

I think it is about time we started seriously, seriously discussing impeachment.

umm

The Jobs Grunt giving presentations at the Apple Store Soho just waxed poetic about the new 2.5 gigabyte G5s....

oops.

yet another post about gmail first impressions

Now that I've made the plunge and switched entirely to gmail, I am googling daily for external interfaces to gmail.

http://www.email2pop.com now offers a pop3/smtp interface to gmail. This sounds useful, but I would really like to see something that will work on unix. I envision a nice imap interface proxy that could run as a daemon on my system. The biggest irritant so far is the lack of notifications when I get a new email.

Gtray is a windows program that at least notifies you when you've received new mail.

Another reason for imap support is offline archiving. There are many clients that can cache an imap server's mailboxes. Offline storage and searching are a powerful feature that gmail doesn't have yet. There must be a way...

Jon Postel, a remembrance of sorts

On Farber's IP list today:

From:   dave_@_farber.net

Subject: [IP] [spam] letter from Jon Postel

Date: June 10, 2004 8:56:39 AM EDT

To:   ip_@_v2.listbox.com

Reply-To:   dave_@_farber.net







Begin forwarded message:



From: Peter Bachman 

Date: June 10, 2004 3:00:56 AM EDT

To: dave_@_farber.net

Subject: [spam] letter from Jon Postel





Dave,



Got an email addressed from Jon Postel today. Of course it was an infected

W32.Netsky.D Worm that had scanned through someone's hard drive for email

addresses, and not an message from the great beyond being channeled through

a DSL connection.



Still it's a self-generated ironic comment by the network, on the sad state of

email within the network. The great computational expense generated by

sending spam out into the network is obviously wasted on trying to sell

Viagra; that much bandwidth and computing power is evolving into something

else; perhaps a very primitive early form of network intelligence that's

linking up bits of information in odd, but somewhat predictable ways.



Now if the "random spam monkeys" can type up and send me an unpublished mss

from William_Shakespeare@stratford-upon-avon.co.uk I can make money fast.

I'll be waiting near the trash bin of my bayseian filters looking for

submissions.



Cheers,



Peter Bachman



peterb_@_cequs.com



Can a machine think?



"You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me

precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a

machine which will do just that"  J. von Neumann 1948 Princeton, NJ





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Jon Postel, in the parental sense, truly the father of the internet, died in 1998. I'm not quite sure what to make of this event. Suffice it to say that it is strangely moving.

Missed Marketing Opportunities

BUT WHERE ARE THE FREMEN MOTIFS?

Fuckers

I had finally gotten to the point where my disgust at Apple had reached the point that I told myself I wasn't going to buy any more Apple Products.

And then they introduce this. As somebody who just bought a mini wireless router, that has an external power supply for $70, the question is, "Is device worth $129?"

Had I not already spent the money, yes.

Fuckers.