Monthly Archives: February 2004

The Pixies website is live with tour dates. It’s amazingly usable for a band website. No Boston date? Only five US dates total? I guess it’s a frenzy building tour.

The best Linux help site, LinuxQuestions.org, has launched a Linux Wiki. I added an entry for something I find myself looking up every time I do a new Linux install, how to swap the Caps Lock and Control keys.

Boston Globe on Linux gaming.

The EFF has proposed a solution to the file-sharing problem: have file sharers pay a monthly fee, say $5, in exchange for the right to share freely. The money would be divvied up among artists according to popularity by a … Continue reading →

Microsoft is pushing its own email Caller ID system. The idea is to prevent email address forgery, and hence reduce spam, by verifying that an SMTP server that is trying to send email for a domain (like plasticboy.com) has permission … Continue reading →

Linux Journal: Making sense of startup.

Jon’s Radio: Program’s that write programs.

Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text.

A Conversation with Nir Barzilai, longevity researcher. If you have this genetic characteristic, your chance of getting from age 70 to 100 increases by over threefold. Among the 70-year-old control group we studied, 8 percent have this mutation. Among the … Continue reading →

We’ve gone grey for Grey Tuesday.

For future reference: CLI for noobies: import, display, mogrify.

Howard Dean rings in on Ralph Nader’s candidacy on Blog for America. I watched Nader on Meet the Press and I agree with him on a couple of thing. Nader is correct that the “liberal intelligentsia”, as he calls them, … Continue reading →

A new study finds that pain or displeasure is the most accurate indicator that a person has crossed the threshold into too vigorous excersise. “As astonishingly simple as it sounds, perhaps the most appropriate level of exercise intensity for health-oriented … Continue reading →

On Wednesday, the Massachusetts state legislature convenes a constitutional convention to consider an amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Massachusetts residents, contact your representatives now and tell them you support equal rights for all.

Astonishingly enough, a government report finds that Americans are getting fatter because they are eating more. In the year 2000, women ate the equivalent of one more large chocolate chip cookie every day – 335 more calories – compared to … Continue reading →