Month: August 2003

  • Blackout!

    Okay, so maybe it doesn’t hold a candle to the Great Northeast Blackout of Ought-Three, but we lost power somewhere around five o’clock last evening during the hurricane force gusts of wind and driving rain, and didn’t get it back until tonight around eight-thirty or so.

    The weird thing is, we didn’t lose all of […]

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  • BUSINESS PROPOSAL AND INVESTMENT

    I certainly am. Who the hell are you?

    The most popular black farmer in Zimbabwe? Goodness. You must be very proud.

    Ah, would that be from the List O’ Suckers that Once Might Have Clicked on a Link in a Piece of Spam™?

    Isn’t that in South Africa? Is that anywhere near Zimbabwe? Does […]

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  • Arrrrgh!

    Another quiz this time it’s "What’s my Pirate Name?" Mine’s apparently "Mad Jack Kidd" (I always thought it was "the Dread Pirate Bob")— what’s yours?

  • Diamonds are a Geek’s Best Friend

    I saw the cover of the latest issue of wired, and had to pick it up. Turns out there’s a very interesting article on the emergence of synthetic diamonds— that is, diamonds that are grown in a lab, but are physically and chemically indistinguishable from diamonds that are mined. This is not your father’s cubic […]

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  • Meatspace

    Found two cool ways of linking your website to others in "meatspace":

    • GeoURL will instuct you on how to add meta tags to your web page to place it geographically. If you click on this button: [geourl.org is offline —Ed. 2015-08-22], you can see websites that have registered near me.
    • D.C. Metro Blog Map is "the incredibly spiffy map where you can find bloggers in the D.C. metro area, arranged by metro station." I’m near Shady Grove, myself.

Mark Boszko

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