November 30, 2001

Rant?
I'm not that big on ranting. I have ideas, but I am very jealous of them — even though I know practically no one reads this site, I am shy about putting my ideas online, especially on artificial intelligence or complexity. I think I have some good ones. I did put my one theory online, but that was because all it is is a different way of looking at things we already have, not new things. The new things, I don't know if I'll tell you. If I am sure they can't be stolen by anyone, then I would post them, but I am not sure. I look online when I come up with something to see if someone's already done something like it, and more often than not, it's there. This doesn't discourage me, though — it means that perhaps I am on the right track, discovering on my own ideas which have already panned out.

Sometimes, I can't find anything like what I am thinking when I look on Google. Probably the best source of stuff, huh? I try different search terms, all relating to what I think is new, and I can't find anything like it. Maybe it really is new. Maybe I have something. I am working on an idea now — though slowly — when it comes to me, and I don't think anyone's done it before. You know, there is nothing new under the sun. That's from the Bible, if you weren't aware, from the Book of Ecclesiastes. But what I think I have found might be new enough. Original enough. Time will tell.
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November 29, 2001

Error in Windows
What would you do if your Windows machine told you this?

Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords

Personally, I don't know if I'd laugh or cry.
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Christmas urban legends
Here is a site which debunks many Christmas urban legends. For example:

• The modern image of Santa Claus was created by Coca-Cola. (false)


• The suicide rate increases significantly during the winter holiday season. (false)


• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created for Montgomery Ward department stores. (true)


• The day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year in America. (false)

Interesting....
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November 28, 2001

Pink Floyd
The official site of Echoes, the best of Pink Floyd. Oh, man. It has streaming MP3s from all the albums. Get some nice headphones on and enjoy the music!
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Atmosphere at distant planet
New York Times:

"Astronomers have made the first measurement of a chemical in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star, using a technique that could help them find Earth-like bodies around other suns.

"Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers analyzed light shining through a planet's atmosphere as it orbited a star 150 light-years away. The changes in the color of the light proved the planet's atmosphere contained sodium."

Awesome. What do you think? Are they out there?
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November 27, 2001

I knew it
I don't know how old this is, but apparently, there really is no such thing as MetaFilter. Yes. It's all a big lie, or rather, a research experiment gone completely awry... or is that a research experiment which was completely successful? You be the judge.
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Dominique Appia
Swiss surrealist. Go to his site here. May be most famous for the following painting:

Bigger version is on the site, but you will have to take a snapshot of the screen to get it.
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November 26, 2001

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 - e. e. cummings

This is one of my favorite poems, from one of my favorite poets. Really, the only happy poet I know of that was any good (well, maybe Emily Dickinson was happy at times, too...). Notice on the chopped up phrase "a leaf falls", how your eye actually follows a path like a real leaf falling. Love it. Here's a link of e. e. reading a couple of poems. Enjoy.
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November 25, 2001

Neuromancer for real?
From Wired:

"RAM and human memory have always inhabited entirely separate worlds, but the boundary between them is now blurring. Hardware and wetware may have more in common than you think.

"The latest issue of the British journal Advanced Materials offers a case in point: Picture grafting a microelectronic circuit directly onto a human brain cell. Do this successfully, and you've opened the floodgates for bioelectronic devices from brain implants, therapies and prosthetics to neural computers."

Oh, man. I can't wait to jack in!
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November 24, 2001

Skeptic on complexity
The Skeptic has an article called "A Quick & Dirty Guide To Chaos And Complexity Theory — Three Race Horses & Four Hobby Horses". It ends with,

"Chaos and complexity are important concepts in mathematics and physics, but we should look skeptically at their introduction into other fields, especially in books with titles that sound like a cross between a drive-in movie from the 1950s and a self-help seminar: Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos; The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World; Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World."

I think I read one of those books....
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Atomic airbrush
Article from New Scientist where

"A fire-damaged painting by Claude Monet could be restored to its former glory, thanks to a technology designed to simulate the ravages of low-Earth orbit on spacecraft.

...

"The painting, one in the French impressionist's celebrated Water-lilies series, suffered severe smoke damage in a blaze at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1958. In 1961, MOMA gave the soot-covered artwork to the Center for Conservation at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, where it has been used as a valuable teaching tool.

"But conservators at the institute are talking to space chemists at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, after hearing of their success in removing an overzealous art lover's lipstick from an Andy Warhol painting. Their trick? They vapourise contaminants by blasting them with oxygen."

Neat, huh?
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November 23, 2001

Two inventions
Looking at Time magazine's best inventions of 2001, two of them jumped out at me:

• The Gateshead Millenium Bridge consists of two arches, one perpendicular to the ground, and one parallel to the ground, and the cool thing about it is that, instead of the normal drawbridge opening up, the whole tilts so that the two arches form a v, if seen head-on, so that boats can go under both arches. Go there, check it out if you're not quite sure what I'm talking about.


• Hop-on's fully disposable cell phone. Not only is it disposable, it is recyclable. An invention whose time has definitely come, in this growing wireless age.

Some of the other inventions seemed not so exciting to me. What did you think?
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Java Arcade Emulator
Hey, check this out: the Java Arcade Emulator! Those games, the actual arcade ones from way back, playable with nothing but a Java-enabled browser! He has Tetris, Carnival, Berserk, Tempest, Arkanoid, Lode Runner, Mario Bros., Donkey Kong 3, Phoenix, Pleiades, Traverse USA, Pooyan, Kung-Fu Master, Super Bagman, Donkey Kong Junior, Bagman, Omega Race, Nibbler, Vantris, Space Invagers, Pengo, Amidar, Ms. Pacman, Scramble, Galaxian, Centipede, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Pacman, Asteroids, Night Driver, Astro Fighter, Space Duel, Black Widow, Dominos, Asteroids Deluxe, and Gravitar.

Whew. I'm all out of breath now.

Does anyone remember going to your neighborhood arcade after school, and cashing in your week's worth of lunch money to play these games? Memories. Sigh.
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November 22, 2001

Serious
Have you ever been put in a position where someone told you they were thinking of killing themselves? If you have, or, God forbid, someone you knew were to tell you that they were considering suicide, there's a link here which may prove invaluable. It has advice for anyone in such dire straits, as well as numbers they can call to get some professional help to make it out of that plight.

Save this link. Just in case. You never know, after all, and it's better to be prepared for such a thing than try to tackle such a critical situation not knowing what really to do.
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A Haiku
untitled

earth breathing out smoke
gutted and standing glassy
alone and crowded
_____________________

I take this from my creative writing website, ..dreamsdreams.
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Couple or skull?

A neat little thing I found in my travels.
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November 21, 2001

2 Cool Things
Here are two real neat places to go on the net:

• The Artchive: this place (click on the Mona Lisa for a framed list) has just about every major painter who has ever lived, with their most famous works (it even has cave paintings). My favorites on the site include a nice big copy of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night as well as the three panels of Hieronymous Bosch's Garden of Delights. Real great if you want to find a nice image for your desktop.


• View from Satellite: I forget where I got this from, but it's real interesting, in any case. There's a list of satellites which orbit the Earth, and when you select one of them, you click on the button which says, "View Earth from Satellite", and yup, there's our blue marble from way up on high. There's advanced features at the bottom, but I don't know what to do to fiddle with them.

Hope I've kept your attention for two minutes. Cheers.
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November 20, 2001

I NEED A JOB!!!!
I'm going stir crazy here. There's just so much I can read about complex adaptive systems and not feel I'm a productive member of society before I run out and apply to the local Starbucks. Hm. Maybe I should do that anyway.

I'll be okay. Just had to express what's inside. That's what these things are for, aren't they?

(Here's my resume, if you're interested. I got about three years experience in Java. Not that that does me any good these days, living in the San Francisco Bay Area.)
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Tourist Guy Found For Real!
Look here for an email from a guy whose name is Peter something (he doesn't want to reveal his true identity). This guy's the real deal, I mean he has other photos of him on that same trip, the one where he was snapped atop the World Trade Center, into world-wide notoriety (and many desktop Photoshops). This, of course, means that this guy is just your average flim-flam man, and it answers this question.

I'm almost numb with excitement. (via MetaFilter)
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November 19, 2001

More Christianity
Another one from CQOD:

"It is ironic that, although fundamentalists are implacably opposed to liberalism, their extreme reaction shows the same weakness. They, too, stress the leap of faith and make irrationality almost a principle, dismissing the serious questions of seeking modern men as intellectual smoke-screens or diversions to conceal deeper personal problems. All this masks a desperate intellectual insecurity, barely disguised by the surrounding hedge of taboos to preserve purity. The strident intolerance of much guilt-driven evangelism betrays the same insecurity. In these circles, much that is taught has to be unlearned in the wider school of life, and it is not surprising that universities are littered with dropouts from such groups. Their non-rational, subjective faith is cruelly punctured by varsity-level questions, and many manage to survive only by resorting to a severely schizophrenic faith which they hold to be true religiously but not intellectually, historically, or scientifically."
 - Os Guinness

In other words, we're not all nuts.
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Hilarious
I mean, bust your gut funny: Pong... It's Not Just A Game has the guys who live in the paddles come out and bash each other (and his dog) as well as ride the paddles in a car chase, ending in a sort of cosmic commentary on life itself. And man, did I laugh when I see this. Take a look for yourself. Flash animation at its highest form.
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November 18, 2001

Star Wars
Hey, if you haven't seen this already, here's the new Star Wars: Episode II trailer. Pity that you have to have QuickTime Pro to see the large version, but at least the medium-sized one is working.

To commemorate this, I have two (kinda old) links for you. If you haven't seen these, they're really fun and cool:

1. Troops: in the fashion of that (defunct?) TV show, Cops, which follows cops around as they bust people, Troops follows imperial Stormtroopers as they fill in a couple blanks from Episode 4 (the original Star Wars). Warning: large downloads.


2. Star Wars Gangsta Rap: you got the Evil Emperor rapping with Darth Vader, and Luke rapping with his uncle, and then Luke rapping with Darth Vader. Classic.

I hope you find them as amusing as I did.
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November 17, 2001

Seen it

It was good. Thumbs up, as they say.
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The Simpsons Archive
"The Simpsons Archive is the Internet's clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news and information, voluntarily maintained by members of alt.tv.simpsons. You are invited to contribute your FAQs, news items, capsule submissions, lists, guides and other paraphernalia for inclusion in the archive. Please refer to the about section for submission guidelines and further details."

You know, it's scary. I think, besides the last season, I've seen every Simpsons episode ever created. Twice. Maybe not. I hope not.

For more breadth, as far as cartoons go, and including The Simpsons, visit The Big Cartoon Database, which is a searchable index of more cartoons than you ever thought there could be. Not the actual cartoons themselves, though. Pity.
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November 16, 2001

NY Times Tolkien Archive
This can be construed as one big advertisement (in fact, that's what it says it is), but I still think it's pretty cool. It's the New York Times Tolkien Archives, in preparation for the release of the first of the Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies. It has archives from the NY Times of book reviews from way, way back — The Hobbit as well as all of LOTR. There's also articles about the TV animated Hobbit, which I remember I really enjoyed as a child.

I have to fess up here — I never read LOTR. I just couldn't get past the first couple chapters of the Fellowship, but as we generation x'ers have become used to saying, I'm waiting for the movie. I know, I know, people will all tell me that the books are better (that's usually my line), but hey. It will be nice to get all (or most of) those references which fly over my head because I never read the darn things.
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November 15, 2001

Pittsburghese
Having gone to college in Pittsburgh, PA (go CMU!), I can attest that Pittsburghese is not just something to beware, but something to be feared in its own right. "So, yinz want to go dahntahn?" and "That car needs worsht." Ah, memories. I remember the first (and I hope the only) time I found myself say something in a Pittsburgh accent. I still shudder at the thought. And by the way, it's pronounced "Car-nay-gie Mellon", according to those who live in Pitt's burg. Never quite got used to that.
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Oh, man
Take a look at this. It's a bird's eye view of the World Trade Center site, the ruins of what was. You're looking straight down at it, and man, it brings it all back. Brings that whole day back again, when you look at this. The devastation. The tragedy. Click on the picture and you get a huge version of the picture, and man, it's almost too much for words.
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November 14, 2001

More nostalgia
Old advertisements for video games. Included are Pitfall March 17th 1983, Pole Position November 10th 1983, Dig Dug January 19th 1984, Moon Patrol February 2nd 1984, Battlezone February 16th 1984, Pitfall 2 April 26th 1984, and there's also Pac-man, Haunted House, Joust, Mario Bros, Frogger and Masters of the Universe. Plus 12 more if you click on the link underneath. Was it just me or did you ever just love your Atari 2600? Kids today. They're just spoiled.
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Sometimes...

I feel like I could walk forever.
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November 13, 2001

Physics flawed?
Article from MSNBC, last Friday:

"An experiment that involved smashing together certain subatomic particles at great speeds produced an unexpected result, prompting physicists yesterday to announce that they might be on the verge of finding a new form of matter or energy."

Also,

"Peter Meyers, a professor of physics at Princeton University who was not part of the research team, said ... 'the Standard Model started falling into place in the ¹70s. People figured it wouldn¹t be the last word, but it¹s been 20-30 years without finding discrepancies that have lasted very long.'"

And further,

"Kevin McFarland, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester in New York who helped conduct the research [said], 'there is a high probability that something is wrong with the [Standard Model].'"

Cool. I love this theoretical physics stuff. Were you as excited as I was when they discovered evidence that neutrinos have mass?
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November 12, 2001

This is so neat!
This wireframe dude is just the bomb! (Is that terminology still good? I feel so awkward sometimes trying to use proper vernacular.) A skeletal outline of a human body with points on its limbs you can drag around, thus becoming a puppetmaster to a digital person. The thing about it which I think is so cool is that the motions of the body seem quite realistic — they (whoever created this) made this guy connected and stressed at just the right places, capturing just the right motions.
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Tech no longer cool
From an article I found at SF Gate:

"It's finally happened: Tech is no longer cool.

"'Face it,' said Elliott Rogers, managing director of Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, 'it's all about PCs, and PCs today are no better than glorified microwaves or refrigerators.'"

Yeah. It was nice while it lasted, though. Maybe I'll become a monk or something....
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November 11, 2001

Shakespeare Programming Language
I thought this was kinda cool, though I don't know how useful it is. It's the Shakespeare Programming Language. Here's part of "Hello World" in SPL:

The Infamous Hello World Program.

Romeo, a young man with a remarkable patience.
Juliet, a likewise young woman of remarkable grace.
Ophelia, a remarkable woman much in dispute with Hamlet.
Hamlet, the flatterer of Andersen Insulting A/S.


      Act I: Hamlet's insults and flattery.

            Scene I: The insulting of Romeo.

[Enter Hamlet and Romeo]

Hamlet:

You lying stupid fatherless big smelly half-witted coward! You are as stupid as the difference between a handsome rich brave hero and thyself! Speak your mind!

You are as brave as the sum of your fat little stuffed misused dusty old rotten codpiece and a beautiful fair warm peaceful sunny summer's day. You are as healthy as the difference between the sum of the sweetest reddest rose and my father and yourself! Speak your mind!

You are as cowardly as the sum of yourself and the difference between a big mighty proud kingdom and a horse. Speak your mind.

Speak your mind!

[Exit Romeo]

Anyway, I think you get what I mean. Like why there's only part of this program listed here. Interesting, though.
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November 10, 2001

Tourist of death found!
This Wired article says that our Tourist of Death may be "José Roberto Penteado, a 41-year-old businessman from Campinas, Brazil". Further,

"Posters at [Tourist Guy's] message boards are split on the legitimacy of Penteado's claim to fame. Some cite Penteado's striking resemblance to the tourist guy, and note the lack of competing claims. Doubters say they won't be convinced until they see an original, undoctored photo of Penteado in a black hat and glasses.

"Authentic or not, Penteado is a real celebrity now. He has been interviewed on Brazilian TV and written up in newspapers and magazines. Volkswagen has just offered him a part in a television commercial."

Which just may answer this question. Ha!
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FindSounds
The website at FindSounds.com is a search engine created just for sounds. All over the web, there are sounds of animals, birds, households, insects, mayhem, musical instruments, nature, noisemakers, offices, people, sports, tools, TV and movies, vehicles, and miscellaneous. And each of those has subcategories. Really cool. Check out this neat sound of an eagle I found.

You know, you never know what you can find for free on the internet until someone tells you it's out there. Well, let me tell you: it's out there.

Hey, also, there's an alternative to BlogDex — it's called Daypop and I don't know why. Check out their Top 40 list.
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November 9, 2001

Thought
Thought my dreams could all be bought,
Thought the stars could all be caught,
Thought that love would wait for me
Down at sunshine's favorite tree,
And less I thought 'twould ever fade,
The more progressed of Spring's parade.

Thought that time was just a dream,
Thought them genius all my schemes,
Thought it wouldn't ever be
The world would ever disagree,
And more I took and not looked back,
So none redeem my mindless tracks.

Thought my wrongs would all prove right,
Thought my past would never bite,
Thought I'd always get my say
If ever there were light of day,
And then it crashed and I was lost,
I learned of every penny's cost.

Thought I'd never find my way,
Thought my songs would all decay,
Thought to walk but just to fall
Every time into a wall —
Yes, one day I did revive,
But oh what long and pained goodbye.

Thought that you were Heaven's light?
Thought your day would not turn night?
Thought that you could let it slide
Until your angles' all been tried?
Then even if I lay the key,
You read my words but won't hear me.
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Molecular transistor
From Yahoo! News:

"When two Bell Labs scientists invented the transistor in 1947, it was as tall as the face of a wristwatch. Now, another Bell team has made a transistor from a single molecule — small enough to fit about 10 million on the head of a pin."

Nanotechnology, baby. Have you heard of K. Eric Drexler and the Foresight Institute?
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November 8, 2001

Borges quotes
"To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality."

Was this guy the man or what? To tell the truth, I haven't read too many of his short stories, but what I did read left me intrigued at the depth of character this man exuded. Some collected quotations (the reason to be for this post) are here, his biography is here. A good link to one of his works, "The Library of Babel" (with an accompanying image), is here.
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Complex Adaptive Systems
I have been reading the book Complexity of late. It's kinda old ('92), but it has a lot of the history of people associated with the Santa Fe Institute. I was reading about this guy Holland, and a description of complex adaptive systems, and man! It was just the kind of stuff that I was thinking about, trying develop on my own. What is a complex adaptive system? Here is part of a definition I found:

"A CAS behaves/evolves according to three key principles: order is emergent as opposed to predetermined, the system's history is irreversible, and the system's future is often unpredictable. The basic building blocks of the CAS are agents. Agents are semi-autonomous units that seek to maximize some measure of goodness, or fitness, by evolving over time. Agents scan their environment and develop schema representing interpretive and action rules. These schema are often evolved from smaller, more basic schema. These schema are rational bounded: they are potentially indeterminate because of incomplete and/or biased information; they are observer dependent because it is often difficult to separate a phenomenon from its context, thereby identifying contingencies; and they can be contradictory. Schema exist in multitudes and compete for survival. ..."

(You can get the rest of the definition from here.)

Anyway. This leads me to believe I am on the right track, as far as my own research is concerned. As the French say, "Bon chance."
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November 7, 2001

Close to me
Now, this one is near and dear to me: Am I in Pi? searches through the digits of pi to find any sequence of digits. This is an example output:

I found 72269 starting at this location in PI: 53653

7/22/69 is my birthday, but that's not why this is endearing. I have memorized up the following digits of pi: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197. And yep, I just did a search for that on Google, and it's right. I started with 20 digits back in, I think, 7th grade, and worked my way up to what you see there. I have also memorized the velocity of light: 186,282.397 miles/second or 2.997924 x 10⁸ meters/second. Why? I have no idea why.
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The STUFF
This is the kind of stuff that has me spellbound: Self-Organizing Systems: A Tutorial in Complexity. Yep. That's the kind of stuff that makes my heart beat faster: an overview of one of the kinds of complex adaptive systems. This is your last warning! This is the kind of stuff that I'll be posting.

Well, alright, I found this too: Pixar Short Films.

And this: the diary of an ex-priest — this one just started a little while back.

Enjoy.
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November 5, 2001

Exploring Emergence
The page here is a series of little applets along with accompanying text to explore a phenomenon called emergence. It does so by way of cellular automata, basically a grid and a rule or set of rules which determines if a particular cell in that grid will be turned on or off in the next iteration of the grid in time.

I'm very interested right now in emergence. I think there is a secret there, something strange and mysterious which may in fact be simple and plain when revealed. Perhaps all mysteries are. This, I think, may be the key to a true artificial intelligence. I must do more research....
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November 4, 2001

Excel flight simulator
Supposedly, there is a flight simulator hidden in Microsoft Excel 97. This page tells you how to get it going, step by step. I am on my Macintosh, so I was not able to do it, but I have heard from others who were successful in bringing it up. Just an interesting little curiosity.
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Camus quotes
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"One cannot be a part time nihilist."

More cool stuff like this on my site, Quetzlcoatl.
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November 3, 2001

Watchmen screenplay
This is a site which has within it which should be of solace to all those old readers of the Watchmen comic book series: "Here is the full text of the unproduced screenplay adaptation of WATCHMEN, the award-winning 1987 comic-book miniseries written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons, and published by DC Comics. A multi-layered tale of 'real-life' superheroes in New York City, WATCHMEN garnered industry praise and helped convince the mainstream that comics could be great literature."

Man, a movie would have been great. Oh, well.
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Is this Shakespeare?

(From an old story, but I still would like to know.)
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November 2, 2001

Talk about nostalgia
MAME! / I'm gonna live forever / I'm gonna learn how to fly / High! Man oh man, I'm starting to show my age. Blast from the past, as it were — screenshots of all those old 80's games to the tune of Irene Cara's "Fame". For those who were kids the time that the first video game revolution occurred, this link's for you.
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November 1, 2001

An Ether
Last night I dined with afterimages
of angels, in whose minds
I was the quotient of their imaginations.
We were served emotions by maids
whose faces were mirrors, and we
ate until only distance remained.
The flavor of despair was akin
to blood, like iron ground into nothing,
only a tingle that something once was.
Solitude tasted of a star grown cold,
reminded me of the air of Autumn
where the leaves had all fallen,
complete, yet yearning. Anger
was the strongest rum pressure
could distill, it churned in my belly
like a violent wave disbelieving its
confinement. And our dessert was joy,
yellow sprouts of light which had
the savor of a tickle, and was gone
before the tongue had finished
tasting. Afterwards, the Book of Life
was opened, and every name
written therein danced ethereally
above the pages and then rained
into my soul to give me new breath.
The air, now heavy with promises,
folded, again and again and again and
again, until finally, being nothing,
everything was as the moment
before creation, empty and perfect.
______________________

This is the only poem I have ever gotten published. If you want, you can find more of my writing at ..dreamsdreams.
11:16pm
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God Speaks
Several years ago, I remember on the news about some billboards which had certain things on them, attributed to God. My favorite one was this:

What part of "thou shalt not" didn't you understand?
                                                        - God

I did a search for these things, years later, and (of course) they have a website. The neat thing I found here was a flash banner you can put on your own site which shuffles through these sayings. An example is one here (one site of mine under construction). Cool stuff.
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Lester Gaba, Soap Sculptor
The link here has the history Lester Gaba, soap sculptor, and some images of some of the stuff he created: "An inexpensive and easily malleable medium, soap was the ideal visual substitute for ivory. It was cheap, fast to carve, and detail could be accurately rendered." These things he did are incredible. Take a look.
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