Here's the most movie-like picture I've seen, though the foreground shadows are bad cinematography. Were it really only a movie.
Here's a Wired News article, Blame Game Dominates Chat Rooms. I don't agree, since I found SPR and FurryMUCK to be pretty good sources of breaking news and level heads, especially when searching for URLs to smaller news sites that weren't being slashdotted. A bit biased though.
Disenchanted for this week: A great morning to be retired . Guess what it's about.
Speaking of Slashdot, someone did point at them for their articles. Later I read the third one--third one--with comments on Newest First, and gawked that the comment numbers were up in the two millions. Now I think it's just some new Slashcode feature where the first post is no longer #1, but maybe they were getting that many posts. I noted when I told someone this, still believing they must've had 2M+ comments, most of the comments were about one line long.
It's certainly nice to see the events covered by Google, smaller sites like Slashdot and Kuro5hin, and sites that typically don't cover general news--eg, Flayrah and the rest of the weblog/syndication community. Especially after thinking how nice it'd be to have things Akamaied automatically in a P2P webwork. (If you hadn't heard, Akamai's CTO and cofounder Daniel Lewin was on one of the jets that hit the Trade Center.) If I'm a real newsfiend and manage to get BBC News' page in my browser cache, I should have a program that notices, pops up with, Hey, lots of people are asking for this site all of a sudden. Would you like to share it?
and helps not drown the Internet. Theoretically that's what OpenCola Folders is about.
I would link to some of the excellent weblog coverage around, but you can basically go to weblogs.com or Dave Winer's Scripting News and pitch a dart. You can't throw a hissyfit without hitting someblogger with something blogged about it.
Surely you noticed or heard by now, but the first moment I felt dread was when I was reading an early article and realized today is 11 September (that is, 9 11). but there's nothing like numerology to grab one by the brain stem.
Kind of like the apocryphal claims of Nostradamus' continued correctness. Is someone keeping a list of to which events Nostradaman predictions are attributed? I hope so, since then we'll run out eventually and not have to deal with him any more. That or he'll become a poor man's I Ching.
After an hour plus watching CBS News in the Casino (the engineering student lounge), I worked for a while on the flight sim stuff, but couldn't really concentrate. Not the least of which because I still have a relatively vague task at hand, and had a metabolic issue I couldn't parse because that'd require leaving the 208 closet empty. The irony didn't even come to mind.
In 420 Computer Graphics, Dr Stephanie showed a demo that gave a torus more sides, to make it more toroidal. Now it's kind of a triangle, now it's a rectangle, now it's a hexagon...
Only wonder if it was intentional or not.
Later, we had a 440 Wide Area Networks exam. It wasn't 'til 5:30 so it's not like people were still shaking or anything. It was reported (by someone on Kuro5hin, I think) that U of Georgia, in Athens, had some chaos: government buildings were closed, and a car left next to one of the buildings was identified as stolen, so they called in the bomb squad.
Anyone who knows me in realspace would know I was rereading Cryptonomicon for the past week--so I'm particularly muddled in the head, as well as open to paranoia. I downloaded GNU Privacy Guard, the free software OpenPGP program; I think I'll generate a mobile key in addition to my home key (heh, home key), so I can revoke them separately if the mobile one were to be compromised. I keep thinking of Avi's HEAP gun when I think of the terrorists in airports, like the potentially apocryphal one who, I heard, was approached in an airport for being violently nervous, and was discovered to have weapons on him.
Hopefully I'm not quite as far off the edge as the guy who called Talk 102.3 to explain his son in the military said sergeants were hinting at martial law within six days, but if you want extra attention from me, send me some signed and encrypted mail. Wonder if Art Bell would be worth staying up for.
