Month: May 2006

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BlogTalk

So that’s what turned off LJ

Jason Levine on how a DDoS on Blue Security brought down Livejournal. Blue Security allegedly espouse flooding spammers with unsubscribe anti-spam-spam; Spammers attacked their site two days ago; in response, they apparently switched their main address to point to a typepad site. Levine: he best analogy I can think of is that it’d be like you dealing with a water main break in your basement by hooking a big hose up to the leaking joint and redirecting the water into your neighbor’s basement instead.

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Oddities Software and Programming

Hard for people to accept AI coded in JavaScript

Bruce Sterling found this timeline to the Singularity written by someone promoting open source AI. Sterling: The awesomest part of this cosmic prediction is the notion that open-source guys can deliver on time.. That timeline page has the line Contra-Singularity aspects : Hard for people to accept AI coded in JavaScript, which I found funny. They also have a link to this open source AI model thing. The whole web site / net looks like spamblogger mimicking a mentally-defective AI with English as a second language (first one must be Forth). I guess that’s appropriate.

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Oddities short

lol

(From an ad): There’s a dating site for Deaf people. It’s called Deaf-Match.

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Blather

Walk around in great Pity of yourself

I should read a book, I said to myself. It’s been far too long (Nir’s book doesn’t count). I had a couple of those cheap editions of out-of-copyright works they sell at Steimatzki, and I picked up Frankenstein. I didn’t get far:

But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my thoughts to paper blog, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.

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Comics short

Superman Returns Trailer

Superman Returns Trailer.