Mmmm, Open Source Beer
(via Musings of a Philosophical Scrivener….) Danish students launch open source and shareware beer: A group of IT-students fra the IT-University in Copenhagen has launched a new “open-source” beer, writes the technical journal Ingeni�ren. It is described by the students as “a great tasting energetic beer and it’s the world’s first open source beer! It [...]
2004: Yet Another Year in Review
January This web log gets the MovableType treatment. We learn that this web log is one of the top results when searching for “waffle irons” on Google. February I offer some alternatives to an inexplicably popular movie. I show where I’ve been. I suggest that more nudity would have actually improved the Super Bowl halftime [...]
WordPress
As some of you know, in addition to this web log, I also maintain the Drum and Bugle Corps (which has been around in one form or another since 1995!) and the Maritime Simulation News web pages. Last year, I was using a majorly hacked up version of Blosxom to manage the content of these [...]
Newtonian Swag
(from the I just thought up a name for the band dept.) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction – the writers of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart Pearls Before Swine : BLTs Taste So Darn Good – Stephan Pastis Images & Words – Dream Theater [...]
Correction?
(via The Talent Show) Horoscope: The Star ran the incorrect horoscope in some editions of today’s FYI section. If your paper has a repeat of the Tuesday horoscope today, turn to Page A-6 for the correct one for July 29. The FYI section is printed in advance. This correction actually appeared in The Kansas City [...]
temptation on the porn elf
(from the there’s some awfully strange people out there dept.) While browsing my web access logs, I discovered that someone came to this web site because this page is among Google’s top results for the search string, temptation on the porn elf. Up until now, I thought “nude pictures of Hugh Beaumont” was the strangest [...]
Merry CHRISTMS
(from the not sure this is what the holidays are supposed to about dept.) DoD News: Contracts for October 4, 2004: CUBIC Defense Applications Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $7,765,298 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of one Combined Hungarian Range Instrumentation and Simulation Training Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (CHRISTMS) for the [...]
