Whoops, just to get the glossary entries right, that's Paul Victor Novarese.
Paul Victor Novarese has a 'blog called Gammatron, and he asked about publicizing it. I told him I'd give him a credit link if he sent me something interesting, and he proposed the Mersenne prime numbers project. My spare distributed computing cycles are going towards the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms project, but the attempt was worth a link.
When I was a kid I had a book that must have filtered down from my Dad's childhood, called "The Boy Mechanic". It came from a different era, when people built stuff, and had articles on everything from manufacturing your own O gauge model railroad track to building go-carts from scratch and on.
Sometimes I lose faith in humanity, I think that in this age of ridiculous software and "business system" patents (I was gonna provide a list, but it got too long) and grandiose government boondoggles we've lost that individual tinkering with real hardware that's given us so much neat stuff. The Roton is one such, The Carter Copter is another. There's also an unofficial Carter Copter fan site .
The eye in the hand and the 'i'/'ai'/owie in the hand .
The Esselen were one of the least numerous groups in California, and are often cited, incorrectly, as the first California Indian group to become culturally extinct. This picture of Esselen extinction, although pervasive in the literature, is wrong.
Treading on all sorts of trademark issues, it's Microsoft Monopoly .
IF fans rejoice! The New Zork Times is now available on-line in PDF.
I'm not sure I believe everything in it, but Knowledge is Power points to Pantone's All About Color article.
The National Association of Chewing Gum Manufacturers web site includes tips on getting unstuck from chewing gum .
The Foreign Exchange Protocol is a simple way to do currencyh conversions. There's a specification .
On the Remembrance Day theme: Photos suggest mini-sub involved in Perl Harbor sinkings
D'oh! Mike points out that I meant Remember Pearl Harbor . Don't say anything, we don't want to give those Python folks any ideas...
Some people whose writing and attitudes I admire have started a company to do erotic movies and pornography (I hate the term "adult movies", can we just call a spade a shovel?) that they claim is a cut above the usual wam-bam and/or Andrew Blake style blowing chiffon, real people and real emotion, allegedly. MWI
Via LemonYellow comes you are where you live . Enter a ZIP code, get a couple of demographic profiles.
Dirty Tricks and voting , an interesting exchange on how the Demoplicans and the Republocrats tweak election law to keep third parties off the ballots.
You should be seeing this message first on December 1st, 1999, commemorated by some as World AIDS Day, a Day Without Art and A Day Without Weblogs .
But as I wrote back in October, I don't get into those sorts of memorials , mainly because they lose track of what we've really lost. In a quick search for artists dead of AIDS I saw a bunch of Day Without Art links celebrating the institutions that participate in it or the well known personalities who'd be reading names of the dead, but little information about the actual artists that it's supposed to celebrate.
So today's entries have two purposes. To celebrate a few artists who died of AIDS, and to educate people on the risks of sex, since that seems to be the transmission method for HIV, the cause of AIDS, about which people are still ignorant.
The Coalition for Positive Sexuality is targeted towards teenagers, but has a lot of helpful advice for anyone interested in safe sex. The Sex Education Web Circle hosted by the Society for Human Sexuality is also a good resource.
But the first steps are actually pretty easy: Get people to use additional lube with condoms. That one simple instruction removes most of the problems and issues people have with latex in general and condoms specifically.
It was amazingly difficult to come up with a list of memorials, but here's a short number of celebrations of artists:
Visual AIDS Web Gallery provides exhibits of artists either living with or dead of AIDS.
Rob Farber , visual artist.
Lawrence Steger , performance artist, dead at 37
Debbi passed along a memorial to Steve Abbot by his daugther.
Archives of neat sites posted to Flutterby , notes to webmaster@flutterby.com